Monday, November 21, 2011

more halo anniversary

I just beat halo combat evolved anniversary on legendary. And I have all the skulls and I found all the terminals. My favorite skull is the bandanna skull. It is awesome because it gives you infinite grenades and ammo in the campaign. It made playing on legendary much easier. I played through almost every level with the grunt funeral, grunt birthday party, piñata, boom, and bandanna skulls on. It was awesome. All I had to do was hide behind a wall and toss double strength grenades and just wait for the chain reaction. The grenades would kill the grunts then they would explode killing grunts and elites around them. Then the elites would drop grenades and the other grunts exploding would make the grenades explode, and before too long the entire room was empty. (evil laugh) I consider it payback for all the times I died playing legendary on all the other halo games. The only problem I had was on the keys level when you have to go through the coolant and there are popcorn flood carriers everywhere. So one would explode and send one or two flying away which would hit another one and send them flying and because they infinite spawn there it was like a perpetual motion machine I died about ten times before there was a lull in the cycle and I was able to get through. I am hoping I can get the last few achievements I need to get a perfect over the thanksgiving break or not, whatever it is just nice to have a break every once in a while.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary

Guess who bought Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary. Me! Wow what a great game. The gameplay is almost the same as the original game released back in 2001 with the only differences being the edges of objects and things, because they all have new texture skins on them and sometimes you can see a hiding enemy when there should be a wall. But that is the only bad part. I played through the first time on normal difficulty and I suggest against it. The only difficulties I like to play on are easy and legendary. In easy you are and unstoppable force making your way through a handful of weak enemies this is the best mode for finding the newly added skulls and terminals and for looking at all the pretty visual additions that they made to the game. Legendary difficulty great because it is a challenge and there is a whole lot more time in game spent playing. There are a few additions to this game that make legendary even more fun that it usually is and those are the skulls, particularly the grunt funeral skull and the piñata skull. The grunt funeral skull was available to all of the people who preordered the game and causes the grunts to explode like plasma grenades when they die. The piñata skull makes the enemies drop grenades when they get hit it is especially awesome on levels with the flood. All you have to do is shoot off their arms so they can’t attack and they will just run up to you. As anyone that has played halo knows flood combat forms can take quite a beating with the butt of a weapon before going down so just wail on those suckers till you are standing in a pile of grenades. 343 industries did a really good job with this game the visuals are amazing and the gameplay is the same classic fun many people experienced back in 2001. The game comes with a map pack for halo reach including a few of the original maps from first game, the second game and the pc version of the game. All in all this game rocks I am currently working on my legendary play through. Cant wait for halo 4.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

More Puns

If a small grassy hill has a drop off. Is that a Knoll Edge?
Is the script for a horror movie called a screamplay?
Did you hear about the jogger who got hit by a hit-man's car? They say he was run-down and tired.
That's all for now I post these as I come up with them.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine

I finally bought Warhammer 40k space marine. It‘s awesome. The game starts with an introduction of communications about a forge world that is being attacked by the orks and the fact that there are titans, the imperium of man’s ultimate combat vehicles, there and that they must be secured from the orkish hoard. To accomplish that goal they send in a vanguard of the ultramarines including Captain Titus who is the player controlled character. So Captain Titus controlled by the player lays waste to the ork waaagh until he finds a message from an imperial inquisitor from the ordo xenos telling of an experimental weapon that also cannot fall into orkish hands. Captain Titus immediately adds rescuing the trapped inquisitor to his list of things to do. He fights his way to the inquisitor and follows the inquisitor to the generator room of the manufactorum where he retrieves an unshielded warp power source. Upon reuniting with the inquisitor and his strike team they take the power source to a supposedly anti- xenos experimental weapon developed by the inquisitor to power it and destroy the ork invasion. The whole thing turns out to be a ruse and as the inquisitor is actually possessed by a chaos warp entity and the weapon opens a warp portal and allows the ruinous powers of chaos to invade the world lead by Nemeroth. Titus once again retrieves the unshielded warp power source and he and his comrades minus the hectic inquisitor escape and formulate a plan to destroy the warp portal using the titan that they had secured earlier in the game. The next part of the game has Titus fighting his way to the titan through hordes of the foul servants of chaos and the barbaric orks. On his way he is confronted by the warboss leader of the orkish hoard Grimskull who Titus dispatches after a difficult confrontation. Titus finally makes it to the titan and uses the warp power source to destroy the orbital spire that is maintaining the warp portal. Titus determines that the warp power source is too dangerous to be used ever again or to be destroyed and must be protected by his chapter’s Liberians. But on the way to a transport for extraction Nemeroth shows up and kills one of the space marines and takes the power source boasting of his impending transformation into an immortal daemon prince . Knowing that Nemeroth’s power will be too great top defeat if that happens, Titus resolves that he alone, having shown a resistance to the corrupting power of the warp must destroy him. Titus then proceeds to destroy Nemeroth and saves the planet in the process. Upon returning to base Titus is taken into the custody of the inquisition because they believe that his resistance to the warp influence is evidence of chaos taint.

Ok so here are my reactions first the game is awesome hack and slash button mashing. Next the story is fantastic especially the twist of the inquisitor being a heretic. Third the ending totally sucks but I’m sure that that was just to make it open to a sequel or a book sequel. Why does warp resistance mean he is tainted by chaos couldn’t he have the pariah gene or something. Maybe he is being protected by the emperor. Whatever, it makes for intrigue into the next game. I just like happy endings. I would give this game 4 of 5.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

PETA Is Funny

hello interweberneters I just read that PETA (the link is to theirgerman website so use Google Translate) released a statement saying that Battlefield 3 allows players to brutally kill a rat with a combat knifeSo, my first reaction was; wow these shooter games are getting really realistic, then I said to myself, wait, what? peta is criticizing a game where the main objective is to slaughter simulations of human beings and they are getting all bent out of shape about a freaking rat! sheesh, people get your priorities straight, and if you are going to be idiots then where the heck were you when Duke Nukem Forever came out? Duke slaughters pigs and lizards wholesale or he shrinks them and grinds them into a bloody paste with his boot. What about the rats in DNF doesn't peta care about them. What can Duke do with rats in DNF? stomp em put em in microwaves grab 'em and crush them in his bare hands, and lets not mention the nuclear steroids he takes that were obviously tested on animals! WTPF PETA! Anyways when I read the article about it I thought wow Peta, always good for a laugh. Although I kinda feel bad laughing at them it is like showing a kindergartener a geometry problem and laughing at the look on their face. Well I thinks that is all my brains has for now check back later for more brain matter.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

DOOM 2

Hi I’m Vince and right now I am going to tell you about my experiences with Doom 2 . I know, I know Id made the game back in 1994 but that doesn’t mean it is not awesome. Especially because I got it kinda free. So I learned that Bing gives out these point things for searches and other things on their website and they can be redeemed for cool stuff like 400 Microsoft points. So at the same time xbox live was having a deal where they were selling Doom 2 for half the regular price of 800 ms points. So subtraction and cool math stuff later I realized that I could buy Doom 2 for the 400 ms points that I had just redeemed from Bing. Hoo-yeah I think is what I said. Anyway I got the game and played it to death ha ha ha. I played all of it and it was cool I really like the super shotgun. The only thing that is lame is that the player cannot look up and down. The game has to auto-aim for the targets above and below which is stupid because it only has a certain range. So I played through all 30 plus 2 bonus plus 9 extra levels on ultra-violent which is one step below the hardest difficulty nightmare where the enemies come back to life when you kill them. It took a really long time, like two weeks, but I finally made it to the last level which is called “Icon of Sin”. Then I got stuck I can’t seem to get the stupid rocket to the bad guy. I played the level over and over and over trying (in vain so far) to get the achievement for beating all of the levels on ultra violent, but I can’t get it. I was planning on getting two achievements at once by beating the main game and doing it on ultra- oh you know, but it didn’t work out so I finally gave up and played through all 32 levels and beat the last level on easy or I’m too young to die in about 2 and a half hours (shrug). All in all the game was really fun. The end

Pun: is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings

What do you call angelic furniture polish? Cherub get it? chair-rub
Are focus groups people who work on glasses?
Did you hear about the new nation in the condensed soup aisle? They just got finished writing a re-constitution.