I’m considering doing more of these small videos. I find they are enjoyable to make.
So my friend and I did some practice casting a little while ago for the now canceled HSMOBA tournament. You can find them all at my YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/miguy1989/videos?view=0.
Are you into MOBAs or Action RTSs? Are you a high schooler in Washington State?
Then please consider joining the first ever High School MOBA tournament! There are brackets for League of Legends and DOTA 2! If you’re into one, or both of these games, then you can assemble a team to take part in this tournament!
The goal of the competition is to raise money or Child’s Play, a Seattle Charity that provides for children’s’ hospitals worldwide. You can visit them at childsplaycharity.org Each team will be asked for a $25 entry fee, $5 for each team member.
But there are also prizes for the winners, which will be revealed later on!
If you have any questions, or want to know more details including dates and times, please visit www.hsmoba.com.
I usually don’t like posting things from other people, but I found this really interesting (and relevant considering my recent affair DOTA 2).
Competitive multiplayer is a difficult topic to give an overall evaluation on. So much depends on factors that neither the player nor the game controls. Co-operation is essential in competitive multiplayer, and it’s easy to stay quiet in competitive multiplayer and let things run their course. Well DOTA 2 says “Screw that, we’re going to make you co-operate or your all going to die horribly.”
THIS GUY
Come to think of it you will be dying horribly at some point, especially if you’re new to MOBA’s. Like I was.
DOTA 2 really is a game which truly deserves the title of “e-sport”. It’s not like hosting a Halo tournament and claiming that it deserves a comparison to football. You’ll still end up running towards the enemy and spraying bullets until one of you ends up dead. DOTA, like a “real” sport, requires cooperation, decisions on the fly, and taking advantage of ideal situations. The difference is that real sports don’t let you be undying skeletons or LITERALLY SATAN.
He’s so dreamy…
Henceforth all the satisfaction of winning a sport is emulated in winning a DOTA match, as is the pain of failure and the subsequent blaming of teammates. Not every match you play will turn out great, but there’s a satisfaction in winning a DOTA match that I haven’t felt in a long time.
So my buddy Zane and I recently did a play-through of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I think it’s a fantastic game and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for something scary. You can find the videos below.
Play by Play: Amnesia-The Dark Descent (Part 1)
Play by Play: Amnesia-The Dark Descent (Part 2)
Play by Play: Amnesia-The Dark Descent (Part 3)
The rest will be uploaded soon enough.
There’s a simple two word phrase that came to my mind when I finished playing Yager and 2K’s new game Spec Ops: The Line.
“Holy shit.”
Out of all the games that might have wowed me this year, this was the most unexpected. On the surface Spec Ops might be just another generic, modern-day, action shooter. But as I played it, the narrative sucked me into a brilliant story of survival and darkness. This game blew away my expectations and just landed itself a spot on my “Best Games Ever” list (a very prestigious position if you ask me).
Seriously, it’s an important list.
And yes the story is that good, and it carries the whole game with it. Because honestly if it weren’t for the story this could just be another generic cover based shooter. The gameplay isn’t exactly original (though it does its job), and the single player only lasts for five hours. But unlike a game like Modern Warfare 3 where the story merely exists for the gameplay, the gameplay here exists for the story. And that’s what makes it work.
Unfortunately since the story is the big reason for purchasing the game, I can’t talk about it too much. I’ll summarize some things though. You play as Captain Walker, a Delta Force operative who’s accompanied by two other dudes. One is Sergeant Lugo, a wise cracking sniper dude (who thinks he’s funny but really isn’t), and Lieutenant Adams, a dude with a shotgun. You should be able to figure out the rest of his important characteristics from the fact that he carries a shotgun.
Loud, serious, and makes a wonderful souffle.
They are tasked with going into Dubai for reconnaissance. Apparently the city was hit by a major sandstorm, and the 33rd US Battalion lead by Colonel John Konrad volunteered to evacuate the civilians. The evacuation ended in failure and everyone was stranded in the city with no means of contacting the outside world. Walker and his crew are sent in after hearing a radio message six months later. The message is from the Colonel saying that the operation was a complete failure. The Delta Force team needs to locate any survivors and radio for help.
The game draws inspiration from Joseph Conrad’s Heat of Darkness, and the term inspiration here is actually being used as it should be in this case. The game takes a series of twists that slowly degrade the sanity of Walker and his men until they become little more than animals dead set on their targets. But what causes these changes I won’t spoil. Suffice to say the multiple endings all give the story a satisfying conclusion.
Bottom line, if you like dark, disturbing, and human stories, then I fully recommend Spec Ops: The Line.
So I have a tumblr now. It is halfofabrain.tumblr.com. It’s mostly small stuff, nothing big.
Spec ops review coming soon.
I hate you. I hate you. I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you.
-Dave Chappelle as Silky Johnston in the sketch “The Player Haters Ball”.
“Yes they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!”
-Samuel Jackson in “A Time to Kill”
