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Posted on Jan 16, 2009 under Games Review, PC Games, Video Games |
With 2008 coming to a close, what blog would be complete without a post talking about 2009? Therefore, I’ve created this list half-jokingly to hopefully spark a little interest in really stepping up your game in 2009. Getting good at Street Fighter 4 in 2009 should benefit you for years because as we all know, Capcom is bound to at least make SF4: Champion Edition and SF4: Hyper Fighting and you know you’re going to be playing all of them!
So here we go:
1. Quit whiffing throws
This is probably the number one thing most players can do to improve in Street Fighter 4. Even though whiffing throws doesn’t usually lead to death as it does in 3rd Strike, characters like Balrog can still do a huge chunk of damage for whiffing throws if you’re not careful. Instead, learn to Option Select Throw, which means to input LK + LP while blocking. If they throw, you’ll tech, if they don’t throw, you get a jab. Either way, you’re not going to get whiff, so you’ll save yourself a lot of life over the course of 2009.
2. Learn an alternate character
Simply put, learning an alternate character will not only help you understand the matchup between your main and your alternate better, it will give you a semi-secret weapon to use in a tournament to catch someone by surprise and steal a win or two. Or you can use your alternate character to counter-pick someone else, such as using Vega against Sagat or Dhalsim against Balrog.
3. Do your part to strengthen your local community
What good is being the best at Street Fighter 4 if you’re sitting at home by yourself in training mode? Get out there and help run tournaments, make friends with more people, become better friends with the guys you already play with. By strengthening the community, more people will be playing more frequently which will make everyone level up.
4. Start double-tapping
This might be a new one for most people. For those not familiar, double-tapping is where you hit buttons twice very quickly instead of once. This doubles your chances of the game accepting the input, as well as makes timing links and chains easier. The most common way of doing this is to do a scraping motion with your index and middle finger, then scrape so that your middle finger is a split second ahead of your index finger.
5. Start taking notes
I’m pretty positive that doing this has been one of the best improvements I’ve made to my game in a long time. I feel like I was able to learn the game a lot easier because I wrote down moves I had trouble with, outcomes of situations I hadn’t seen before and what worked/didn’t work against difficult opponents. I started off using a small $.99 pocket-sized notepad, but now I use my iPod Touch because it’s easier to find stuff. Whatever works for you, just try it out!
6. Break bad habits
This ties into the whole “not whiffing throws” thing. You should recognize your bad habits by analyzing why you are losing. Are you doing wakeup uppercuts too much? Whiffing throws? Jumping in and getting anti-aired? Make it a point to go a whole round without doing one of your bad habits and see how your game changes, even if you lose.
7. Improve your weaknesses
Analyze your game and see what your tendencies are. Maybe you primarily play rushdown style or you’re content to turtle out most matches. Make a real effort to learn how to play the opposite style. You never know when you’ll benefit in an important match by being a more versatile player.
8. Stop taking it so seriously/Start taking it more seriously
Remember, it’s just Street Fighter! Or, consider that it’s NOT just Street Fighter. Many players could benefit from taking it less seriously (myself included) because after all, it’s just Street Fighter and it’s supposed to be fun. No sense getting all worked up over nothing.
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Posted on Dec 05, 2008 under Games Review, PC Games |
The Mystery Case Files series is back yet again for another compelling hidden object game that sets another level for this genre. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst lets you again play as the famous agent as you travel back into Ravenhearst Manor trying to unravel deeper secrets after freeing Emma Ravenhearst in the previous game. But this time around, it will be more dangerous, more mysterious and even creepier than ever before experienced by your agent alter-ego.
After freeing Emma’s soul from the manor and failing your last case in the circus, it seems that you have a lot of trouble in your hands since you had also freed Charles Dalimar’s killing soul. Charles killed Emma from the previous game, but after Emma’s death, you are never certain on whether more restless souls were trapped inside this haunted mansion. But worse than all of these is that you’re life is now in danger too, and that’s why you have to solve this case fast before Charles’ soul comes back to haunt you.
Just as expected, Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst is really full of surprises from what we were used to play on its previous installments. This time around, you are free to explore the whole of Ravenhearst Manor as you like while playing puzzles, making scene interactions and finding hidden objects as you go. And what’s more convenient is the absence of a time limit, enabling you to explore the whole game as much as you like and penalizing your click spam by just making you lose control of the cursor for a brief period of time.
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Posted on Nov 28, 2008 under General Gaming Tips, PC Games |
Do you feel at times you are losing your mind. How is your memory? Do you walk in a room and wonder why you are there? Read on.
I love to play Solitaire on the computer. There are three games I love to play. Regular solitaire, Spider and Free Cell. These are free in the game section of your computer. These games keep your brain pumping. The more you use your brain, hopefully, you will not lose it.
Another game on the computer that really takes brain power is the puzzle express. This is timed and it comes at you fast and if you want to make points and go on to the next level you have to be fast.
I have never liked to play board games until recently. I played Rummikub with tiles. I sat down at this game and I thought it would be a no brainer. Was I surprised. If you want to win there are lots of twists into how the tiles are played. The idea of the game is to go out fast. I really had to rev up my brain in order to play this game. I even won a game. Beginners luck.
Under the solitaire games Spider solitaire is by far the hardest. I have only won a few of this game over the past couple of years. But I went home and applied the Rummikub technique to playing this game and I won 4 times in one day. Brain power.
I find it very scary to live in this world where there are various forms of dementia. I do not know about you but losing my mind and not being able to take care of myself scares me to death. I really believe playing board games, working cross word puzzles, computer games, card games, reading and talking with people will help keep your brain healthy.
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Posted on Nov 01, 2008 under Games Review, PC Games |
Fallout 3 is an action game which is being developed by Bethesda Game studios. This game is due to release in North America October 28th, 2008 and Europe October 31st, 2008. Japan gets it December 4th, 2008. It is available for Xbox 360, PC, Playstation 3 versions also. The game has been under development since 2004, the developers are taking special care in designing all the new features and levels which is gonna make fallout 3 look more unique than its other two previous versions.
Game Play:
The set up for this game is in year 2277, 30 years ahead of its previous version fallout 2.
It is set up in Vault 101 a fallout shelter in Washington DC. The main character development starts when the mother of the character dies and the baby is being taken care of the father. In the vault the character is given a book which is used to set all the primary preferences to the character.
In the vault the character is given various kinds of machinery to train with, the outcome of the training decides the future attributions of the character. The relationship of the character with his/ her father is determined by various quests that are available for the character to complete in the vault.
The maximum level a person can reach is 20. The perks and bonuses are available in the same way as it was in its previous versions. They will be added after each level.
Along the game ammunition the character carries wares out, so in order to be ready for combat the character can combine various things at possession and use it to fire. The character also gets to choose various types of armor and hats. By choosing a particular armor the character attributes all the skills of the armor.
Inventory is another feature available for the player, but it comes with a weight limit. This weight limit is taken in a whole for ammunition, armor and other things the player wants to carry along. Player is assigned three things the character him/her self, dogmeat and an NPC. Dogmeat can be used to sniff out ammunition or armors or health hidden anywhere in the place. Usage of dogmeat is limited, it can’t be used in dangerous places and if the dogmeat dies it will not be replaced. Only one NPC is allowed to go along with the character, in order to use a different NPC the former has to be disposed.
Karma is the respect that the character gains in the game. Karma is awarded based on the combat choices and conversations. Better karma will allow the character to negotiate easily with NPCs, if the character has bad karma the opposite happens.
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Posted on Oct 11, 2008 under Online Games, PC Games |
With all the advancements in technology, video games and video gaming systems have changed over the past couple of decades. In fact, if children today were given the very first video gaming system that hit the market they would most definitely think that it was a dinosaur.
The graphics of these new video games are so intense that gamers have a very hard time pulling themselves away their video gaming system when they begin playing a new video game. These video gaming systems available today are the best that have ever been on the market, which explains why they are so popular around the entire world as well as the video games that go with them. Being able to keep up with the technological advancements does mean being able to have the money to do so, especially since about every two years a new video gaming system will hit the market. However, this does not seem to bother those intense video gamers.
Still, there are those individuals that are simply stuck in their ways and do not mind sticking with their old video gaming systems. Most individuals, however, prefer to purchase the new video gaming system, especially if they have children, which normally will hit the market right before the end of the year so that it will be available to be on the Christmas list of every child in the world. The advancements that have been made in the video gaming industry have been truly incredible, especially if you take into consideration what video games looked like less than ten years ago.
Individuals have been known to stand in extremely long lines to get their hands on one on the new video gaming systems when they hit the market. Then when an extremely popular video game is suppose to hit the market, gamers will pay in advance for an opportunity to one of the first ones to get their hands on one. With the release of each new video gaming system comes along with it brand new astounding features that gamers know they can not go wrong.
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Posted on Oct 06, 2008 under Games Cheat, General Gaming Tips, PC Games |
On virtually every server, primals are the primary method of farming. When people level from 60 to 70, they save their primals to sell for their flying mounts. When people need that few thousand gold for their epic crafted items or epic mount, primal farming they go.
If you are like many World of Warcraft players, you don’t necessarily know of the best spots to farm primals. Some think they know, but don’t realize where the hot spots are at. Here is a quick summary of where and how to farm each primal the quickest.
Primal Earth – Hands down, these are most easily farmed from mining. However, if you are not a miner and are in need of these, the second best place would be the earth elementals on the southwestern region of Nagrand. They are the Shattered Rumblers and are level 66-67. They have nearly a 20% chance at dropping Motes of Earth and you should be able to get 3 to 4 Primal Earths per hour.
Primal Fire – There are a few hot spots for these, but in my opinion, one area is incredibly more profitable than the others. With the release of patch 2.4, there are now a whole army of fire elementals in the Throne of Kil’jaeden in the northeastern region of Hellfire Peninsula. Not only are there lots of fire elementals present here, but they are also on a forced respawn. This means that if there are too low of a number of these mobs up, the game will force spawn more in order to keep a minimum amount always up. If you find yourself farming on non-peak times, it is easy to farm 4 or 5 Primal Fires per hour.
Primal Water – There are two good spots to farm these. The first is Silmyr Lake in northern Terokkar Forest. In the lake, there are Shimmerscale Eels that tend to have a decent drop rate of Motes of Water. The only negatives are that you have to kill them underwater and sometimes there is lots of competition. The second spot to farm Primal Waters is fishing in Nagrand. If you can reach at least 380 fishing skill and have a flying mount, then you can fly around the waterways of Nagrand, searching for ‘Pure Water’ nodes. Fishing in these will grant Motes of Water. Both methods, depending on competition, will result in about 3 to 4 primals per hour.
Primal Air – There is really only one place to farm these and sadly it results in lots of competition. However, they are on a forced respawn! But they are spread out over a large portion of southeastern Shadowmoon Valley, thus making the forced respawn only barely beneficial. I tend to only average 2 to 3 Primal Airs per hour. Hopefully, you do not need many of these!
Primal Mana – Once again, just like the Primal Fires, you can thank 2.4 if you find yourself needing to farm these. Simply accept the quest “Maintaining the Sunwell Portal” from Exarch Nasuun in Shattrath City and then head to Bash’ir Landing in northern Blades Edge Mountain. Kill the ethereal until you get a Bash’ir Phasing Device. Use this and you will be able to see Phase Wyrms. Farm these for very quick Primal Manas. You should be able to get over 5 Primal Manas per hour.
Primal Shadow – These are the worst to farm. If you find yourself needing to farm these, it is easier to farm a different primal, sell them on the auction house, and buy Primal Shadows. But if you insist on farming, head to the Spirit Fields in southwestern Nagrand. Around the enormous crystal mountain are voids. Simply kill them for the Motes of Shadow. You will be lucky to get 2 Primal Shadows per hour. I have killed over 30 of them for not a single mote before.
Primal Life – These are fairly easy to obtain. If you have a character who can herb, simply fly around farming herbs and you are bound to get a decent amount of Primal Lifes. If you do not have an herbalist, then head to Zangarmarsh. The best mobs for these are any bogs in the zone. Some can be found in the northeast of the zone in the Dead Mire, others can be found in Funggor Cavern in the south region of the zone, and more can be found in the southwestern region of the zone by Quagg Ridge. All of these seem to have equal droprates. You should be able to obtain 4 or 5 Primal Lifes per hour. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Oct 05, 2008 under General Gaming Tips, PC Games |
Online games, specifically video games have been inevitably invading the worldwide web as time passes by. Such games have been very helpful to us especially when we are feeling lonely and bored about our monotonous life. Furthermore, we tend to look for some enjoyment activities just to feel relax and at ease. That is why sometimes, it is good for us to play driving games.
Many online gamers nowadays, choose to play driving games rather than other breath taking war games. It is because driving games are more users friendly and also has some moral values. As a matter of fact, the simplest thing that you can learn in connection with the driving games is about following some traffic rules as well as to be persistent in reaching the finish line. Furthermore, driving games are not only intended for kids but also to adult gamers. Thus, it is safe to say that driving games were created for people from all walks of life.
In this day and age, more and more companies are popping out in the worldwide web to attract online gamers. Most of these companies are inclined with the driving games. Actually, one of the most favorite driving games sites today is the PlayCarRacingGames.ws. This download site in point of fact also offers free download. It has various kinds of driving games in which any one of us can choose from. Thus, there is indeed no reason for us not to try and play driving cars.
Most of the gaming consoles today make it a lot easier for us, the online gamers to play online and video games. They have actually innovated and improved the controllers, joysticks and other buttons which are necessary while playing driving games. Indeed, our tactical knowledge and motor skills are being well enhanced while we play driving games.
As a matter of fact, there are various forms of vessels as well as vehicles which we can use during our playing time. The possible vessels and vehicles are the boats, cars, Jet Skis, motorcycles and trucks. All these forms of vehicles can be modified and configured depending on our own preferences. Configuration of vessel and vehicle settings is just easy because most of the download sites actually let the gamers design their own car. Though the forms of vessels and vehicles may be different, but still the goal for all driving games is only one. That is to reach the finish line with a ranking of being the first among all other competitors. Reaching the finish line will allow us to take one level higher and can give us a somewhat sense of fulfillment.
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Posted on Oct 03, 2008 under Games Cheat, General Gaming Tips, PC Games |
1. They never run out of mana. Being a warlock myself, this is my favorite feature of the class. Whether I solo, group, or raid; I never have to sit down after a fight and drink. Between life tap and dark pact, warlocks pretty much have infinite mana.
2. Warlocks are a pet class. To some people, this is a perk. It gets lonely always being by yourself if you’re a solo player; so having a pet is a nice friend! They are also useful to tank, DPS, or help with crowd control if you’re interested in more than companionship.
3. They are one of the best classes for solo play. Warlocks are by far one of the best classes for solo play. This includes leveling up, beating elite quests, and even having fun in old world content. I have done everything from solo’ing 3-person and 5-person level 70 quests, clearing 10-man instances in old-world content, and being able to pull over 15 equal level mobs at the same time, killing them all.
4. They are also one of the best farming classes. Because of their high DPS, the use of a pet, and having infinite mana; warlocks pretty much can kill mobs nonstop. This obviously makes farming very easy, as there is little to no downtime.
5. They have three different, but useful, specializations. With most classes, there are only one or two viable specs to DPS as. With warlocks, all three trees are useful in the different aspects of the game. Affliction is useful for steady damage over long periods of time, Destruction is useful for high amounts of burst damage, and Demonology is useful for having a pet or the warlock themselves tank.
6. They bring a decent amount of utility to groups and raids. Warlocks are usually sought for in both groups and raids because they can crowd control with fear and their pet’s seduction, they are the only class to have soul stones, and they can summon free health potions for everyone in their group. They can also summon anyone in the game as long as there are two other players to help. They also can cast debuffs on mobs which will help increase the other classes’ usefulness.
7. They bring a high amount of DPS to groups and raids. On my warlock, I almost always top the damage meter in my groups and on my raids. I have done so with different specs as well. I have topped the meter as both Affliction and Destruction. This means that if played well, warlocks can be a group or raid’s best asset.
8. Warlocks are above-average PvP’ers. Once you obtain a decent amount of PvP gear, warlocks are very fun to PvP with. They can easily kill caster DPS classes and healers. Their only disadvantage is against melees, since warlocks have terrible mitigation against melees and melees have counters to almost every warlock’s escape maneuvers. However, I can almost always be on the top of the killing blow list with just a few deaths at the end of any battleground.
9. They can also be useful tanks for certain encounters. There have been numerous situations where I have tanked certain events. With the Demonology spec, warlocks can have a 20% damage reduction and as many hit points as a normal tank. The combination of the two makes them favorites when tanking mobs that deal elemental damage, as their weak armor is not an issue. If you enjoy playing different aspects of WoW, this can be a nice bonus.
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Posted on Oct 02, 2008 under PC Games, Play Station |
A video game based on the Star Wars movie was released back in April 2005. It had some few changes when it was rendered into a video game, the most apparent of them being that it was made of the ever-popular building block toy—Lego. The game was made to be child-friendly but is still somehow enjoyable for adults to play.
And now, its developers have come up with the sequel to this game. This is an action/adventure game that is reminiscent of the movie from which it was based on. The action is a full combination of foot levels and opportunities to ride vehicles such as Millenium Falcon, AT-ST walkers, and speederbikes.
There are two main modes of play for this game: Story and Free Play. In the Story mode, one or two players can play through the entire gaming adventure as characters from the movie. Meanwhile, any levels you have competed in can be saved automatically so you can come back to them during Free Play. If you are in the middle of the game, and someone wants to join in, it is possible. All you have to do is plug in a controller and push the start button, and you and your friend can enjoy the game together.
You start the game in Mos Eisley Cantina, which also serves as the central hub for all the levels. There are also three lounges labeled IV, V and VI, where you access the levels. You start off with the first level of episode IV available, and once you have completed that more levels will be opened.
If there is something lacking in this particular title it is that it does not allow online play. It would be interesting to see an online match of Lego-ized characters, but this game promises so much action that this is not really seen as liability. Meanwhile, the shorter loading times for the game is a really good thing as you do not waste so much of your time waiting between levels.
As characters have infinite lives, the difficulty level is pretty much gone in this game. If your character gets killed, it will eventually reappear later on and you would only have earned some penalty in the process.
The controls for this game is simple, requiring only single buttons to make different moves such as attack, to unlock special abilities, switching between characters and jumping. However, other times you need a specific control for your character to do certain things. If you want to switch into a particular character in the middle of a game, simply face that character and press the triangle button.
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Posted on Oct 02, 2008 under Games Cheat, PC Games |
You know, nobody likes a cheater. But when it comes to discovering video game cheats, “cheating” isn’t what you’re doing. I prefer to think of it as “discovering shortcuts, tips and tricks,” or video game hints.
Video games have gotten so complex, since the days of Rubix Cubix and Donkey Kong, that the game authors have purposely thrown in some back doors and other shortcuts to aid the exhausted players. However there is a problem, most of these back doors are so well hidden that these same authors have to leak the game cheats or no one would ever find them on their own.
Video game cheat sheets, codes and game hints are sort of useless if you don’t own any video games. Well I’m sure if you have games you probably beat them fast with the aid of cheat sheets, but with online video game stores you can beat more and pay less!
Any web site worth visiting will not only have video game reviews and cheats for you to peruse, but they will also have game walkthroughs. Video game walkthroughs differ from cheats in that they actually “walk you through” the process of achieving some goal. Video game cheats, on the other hand, are often cryptic one or two liners like “Enter xx892 in the password field.”
There are different types of video game reviews. Each have their good and bad points. The other most common writer of video game reviews are the actual end users. While an end user will generally have spent a great deal more time actually playing the various video games on the most popular video game systems, you’ll often find that they are men and women of little words. It’s not unusual to see a review that says “Wow! Kick A** man. I love it!” Now, that’s probably actually saying quite a bit about a particular video game, but — your opinion may vary.
You should remember that you don’t want to invest in a video game until at least a couple of people have taken the time to write a review of the game. Of course, if everyone took this advice then there wouldn’t be any video game review on any game web sites, because everyone would be waiting for someone else to write the review.
Right up there with video game reviews are video game previews. A video game preview is a lot like a movie trailer. They bundle all of the really thrilling parts together and give you a quick peek hoping that you’ll believe that the entire video game is actually as cool as the 90 seconds of video game previews that they let you get a view at. Read the rest of this entry »