Archive for the ‘Gaming related’ category

A complete Steam UI overhaul on its way!

February 27th, 2010

That’s right! And it’s already in a public beta. You can use the UI yourself by participating to the beta from Steam settings. I’ll give you a quick tour with screenshots.

Use this imagebrowser to see the screenshots. Click picture for a bigger one.

Games

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Bioshock 2

February 26th, 2010

Now that I have made it away from my WoW addiction, I can start focusing on other interesting games. One being the pretty new Bioshock 2. After playing the original Bioshock I was really craving for more Rapture. The underwater city that was impossible to be built anywhere else was so immerse and full of little details that it really got me hooked. The interesting way to tell the story with diaries of Raptures residents and very neat storyline kept the game interesting untill the end.

I had hardly heard anything about Bioshock 2 and didn’t even know that the main character would be a Big Daddy. After couple of minutes of gameplay you receive your first plasmid and instantly notice the fact that you can keep weapon in right hand, AND use plasmid with the left hand! This is such a big improvement from the original Bioshock and this made playing even more enjoyable. The story in this game is very interesting also, setting it’s place in a time after the original Bioshock, where Andrew Ryan is dead and someone named Sofia Lamb is in charge. This Lamb-lady has stolen your little sister so you have to go and kick some ass to get her back.

There are numerous differencies in this game and the first Bioshock. Examples of good ones being the possibility to get special things to weapons after you have upgraded them twice, a little note telling you the code to a code-lock if you have seen or heard the code before and the research camera being replaced with a video camera. One of the annoying differencies is the way collecting adam is handled. You have to find a little sister, kill its Big Daddy and take the sister for a ride. When you find a body filled with adam you lay the sister down and defend her against a endless wave of splicers untill the adam harvesting is complete. This part takes annoyingly long and is just very boring. And you will be doing it a lot. You will be needing the adam in the end when you want to get some of those new upgraded plasmids that cost damn much.

Overally this game is even better than the original Bioshock so I suggest you buy this great game and see the story for yourself. I am not going to spoil any of it!

Sold my WoW account

February 22nd, 2010

Just received the cash and gave the guy my authenticator 15 minutes ago and damn I feel fine. Now I finally might have time to start doing some of those coding projects I have wanted to do!

This is it

February 6th, 2010

No we are not talking about the movie about Michael Jackson. This is about me quitting WoW for good. Recently I have started to figure how much money and time I have put in that game and realized that I could be spending my time much better. My substriction runs out end of this month and that will be the last one I will be ever paying. Should probably sell my account to get something back of the time I have spent on that game.

Whew.. completed the biggest project I have had so far

January 12th, 2010

So I had a big website project for a competition. I had to create a website for a skating team that had index with list of the members and a video of them skating. That was the easy part. Then I had to create an admin panel where admin can add/delete/modify members and events and where members or the admin can modify whetever a member can make it to an event. Making this took a while and while doing it I learned lots of new things.

On the other news, I am back playing WoW with my warrior I leveled. Healing with my druid become quite boring after a while (year) and I decided to try on tanking. Now I have a very good geared tank warrior to go to Icecrown Citadel with. Been clearing 10man with my guild and 25man with pugs. Here is a pic of my warrior and my custom UI (made by me, idea from tankspot).

 

My tank warrior and my custom UI

 

League of Legends NDA lifted

October 25th, 2009

Well it was actually lifted some time ago, but I was in middle of changing computers then. I also lost most of the material I had taken from the game, and only a small image gallery which I had already uploaded here remains. Well it’s better than nothing.

TF2 idling made easy again!

October 20th, 2009

DispenserGUM has made TF2 idling much easier again. This time without the fear of losing your items!

In his post at sourceop.com

http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2086

He tells that this IS in-game idling. The script can easily change your video settings to launch TF2 in low-video mode or with your normal settings. It will also cycle reconnect/cycle through servers in servers.txt file if you get disconnected.

This is not VAC-bannable in any way, nor is this using an external program to gain anything in the game. This is just CMD-script that makes idling easier.

Download from http://www.mediafire.com/file/kj5qmymniqt/GUMsModeV113.rar and fire away!

World of Goo 1 year old! Get your own fast and cheap!

October 16th, 2009

Wolrd of Goo turned 1 year old and now for limited time you can buy yours with the price you decide yourself! The game is awesome and I really recommend  you buy it, even if you buy it for 0.01 $

Just remember to buy it fast!

ScribeFire and vote for Gordon Freeman!

October 8th, 2009

ScribeFire is a nice Mozilla Firefox addon that let’s you write blog entries directly from your browser. You can use it easily with different kind of blogs like I use it with my wordpress. If you write a blog, you should grab this addon!

Oh and Gamespot is having a competition about the All-time greatest game hero. Gordon Freeman has made his way pretty high, and is now facing against Link. He has a steady lead at the moment because Valve rallied some of his loyal fans to vote for him.
If you haven’t voted already, vote for gordon at: http://www.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/vote/index.html?battle_id=62

League of Legends NDA loosened

September 18th, 2009

Riot games loosened the NDA of League of Legends and now beta-testers are allowed to discuss about the game openly. Posting screenshots and videos is forbidden though.

So lets talk about the game then, shall we?

Heroes

I haven’t had a chance to try too much heroes in the game and I have mostly been playing with the beginner friendly heroes, Master Yi, Annie and Ryze. I have been playing against various heroes though and I must say that atleast at the moment the game is not completely balanced. Some heroes just own, while others do not own so much. Good example would be Ryze, who can use his ultimate to own two heroes of his same level and then normal skills to take down a third. But you have to remember the fact that the game is in closed beta and balancing is an issue that is worked on all the time.

Items

Items in this game are not too interesting. Just basic attack speed, damage and shizzle. There are some new stuff though, like ability points, which increase damage of your abilities. The shopping for items in this game is made really easy for new players though, since the shop recommends to you what items you should buy. You can also easily buy items that require multiple items to complete and see the amount of money you still need to build it.

Maps

Not too much to say about the maps. Two maps currently, both have exactly the same layout, but different themes. Layout doesn’t differ from Warcraft III dota, except there is no secret shop or Roshan.

Creeps and towers

First of all, there is no denying in this game. You can’t deny creeps nor turrets at all. Creeps do a nice amount of damage, and they won’t always target other creeps prior to you. This can and will become quite annoying. I certainly hope they will fix it. Neutral creeps are in the game too and some of them are really strong with healt points of 4000 or so.

Towers in this game always prior creeps before players. If there is even one creep in the range of the turret, the turret will start shooting it even if it wasn’t doing any damage to the turret and the player is bashing the hell out of the turret. The turrents in the beginning of the lane are more easier to destroy than the ones in the base.

Then there are the inhibitors. There are three inhibitors in each teams base, one for each lane. If enemy team destroys one of your inhibitors, they will have a super creep in every creep wave coming from that lane untill the inhibitor has restored itself. Inhibitors respawn in couple of minutes after destroyed, so if enemy team manages to destroy one then it would be wise to defend your base for a while after that. If enemy team manages to destroy all three of your inhibitors, the game will probably end in your loss rather soon.

Can’t think of what more to write right now, so I will probably write more later. You can also ask me questions and I will answer them as much as I can.