Elitists…gamers…

Alot of gamers are elitists.  Alot of gamers WERE elitists. It is only natural.

It’s hard to say what exactly I mean by a gamer nowadays, so I’ll go by this simple defination: People who plays games seriously.  Min-maxers automatically fall into this category.

I met up with this gamer dude in my platoon back in BMT.  He’s plays board games, DND as well as various console/PC games.  I’m not talking DOTA and CS of course.  I’m talking about great games like Baldur’s Gate and Fallout…and new games like Mass Effect etc etc, you know the works.

He is damn elitist.

He shuns away ‘ah beng’-type characters and looks down on ‘typical’ singaporean characters. I mean, he only talks to a couple of guys in my platoon. He knows I play tons of stuff more than him so he quickly associates himself to me. In front of me, he’s nice and okay sort of guy, but then since I mix around alot with my platoonmates, I found an ugly side of him.  He’s apparently selfish, conceited and proud.  He refuses to mix around with people who aren’t gamers, people who clubs and plays soccer etc.

God, how is such a person going to survive at all?

Regarding about my previous post about no life, I believe that there is no life without people around you.  The concept about making friends is so simple.  You make a friend, you help him, he help you and possibly help each other in the future.  If you make up with a cb ljpal, too bad, suck it up and continue being friends, if not mere acquaintances.  Who knows that ljpal will change for the better in the future (or become a living joke for your entertainment if you are bastard like me).

Maybe because I’m too nice though.  I love dissing people alot but I don’t like to like literally tell them to fuck off.  I only do it when someone is a real fucker.

I guess elitists can survive in the society after all, since there seems to be quite a number around the world and they haven’t suicided or anything.

And congrats to all former elitists for quitting being one.

No-lifer

I haven’t had a chance to post anything other than gaming due to 1) lack of time, 2) lazy to blog or 3) nothing else to blog about. So now I shall randomly post something because I have nothing better to do.  Most of my gaming time (via handhelds) are done in my bunk since we have ample free time, so when I get home, I prevent myself from touching them (why waste time playing PSP during book out when you can actually do it like 5-6hours a day in camp?).

So let’s throw all these gaming topics aside for awhile.

Sometimes, I wonder what do people do at home, especially during their book out.  Book outs are precious and in turn causes people to plan and do their most enjoyable/favorite things. I’ll leave people with girlfriends aside cause they will usually spend 90% of their bookouts with them.  Either that or they spent alot on them the previous week thus causing them to go into hiding for the next upcoming weeks to recuperate.

I’m more interested in what girlfriend-less non-gamer people do during their free time.

For me it’s rather simple.  Whenever people ask me “What are you going to do during my bookout?”, I’ll just give a slight smile and go, “Bugis, maybe some DnD and I dunno, play some PC games.” which would be followed by “Why Bugis? What is DND? What games…DOTA? CS?”.

Most people in my camp know that I am, soul and heart, a gamer and a bit weeaboo and otaku (I just don’t watch enough animes and even less now).  I spend most of my life playing games since primary school, holding my Game Boy wherever I go, and whenever, even playing in the dark with the light screen attachment thing while being car-sick (I get motion sickness while playing games in vehicles).  When I return home when I was only kindergarden, I would just turn on my SNES and play some mario and stuff.  When I go my uncle’s house I would play on my 16-bit Sega all day.  Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever spent a day without playing games until NS started.

A lot of people consider me a ‘no-lifer’.  Most people classify people without a girlfriend or not actively searching for one a ‘no-lifer’.  It’s not that I do not want one.  It’s just that having a girlfriend takes up a lot of sacrifice which I’m not willing to make yet, and also I have very high expectations of a girl.  I’d rather concentrate on my fucked up future first.

So anyway.  When I ask most people what do they do during their book outs, most would just reply either “Girlfriend” or “Club”. Some would randomly jio a few friends to go eat some random food or play soccer. Others would just go, “erm…nothing much lor, just slack around at home.”

That got me thinking for awhile.  For a person like me, slacking at home means playing computer games, some random piano or lie down read book and sleep.  For them, it means lie down and sleep? Most of them don’t play much games other than DOTA or CS. Most don’t even read books.  So if they have nothing to do, what do they do? Surf youtube.com? What do they surf on the internet? Hmm.  I’ll ask next book in.  They must be doing something at home.  I don’t believe people actually spend their book out solely on sleeping and laying down.

In the end, everyone has their own perspective.  Being the minority, I tend to get randomly bashed (verbally but it’s not so bad cause it’s just random).  Luckily it’s the era of digital media.  So people who play a bit of games come to me for random gaming talk.

Oh well, I’ve involved the subject of games again. I guess it’s rather inevitable huh? =p

[Random] Too many games, so little time.

I’ve just completed Star Wars: Force Unleashed and FFT:A2 at last.  At least the feeling of completion prevents me from feeling regretful from playing other games I’m looking forward to play.

I’m not sure what to play next on the X360.  There’s Tales of Vesperia, Fable II (which will be released tmr) and Dead Space.  On my PC I have returned to playing BG2 just last week and already completed most of the major quests on Chapter 2 with my Elf Assassin.

On to my handhelds, both which I’m spending most of my time on due to NS, I’m currently playing Yggdra Union.  The game so far seems pretty interesting enough so maybe I will type up a review once I fully understand how all the mechanics in the game works.  I also just completed Castlevania: Potrait of Ruin for my DS.  The game is pretty meh compared to Dawn of Sorrow and of course, it’s nothing compared to the legendary Symphony of the Night.

Thinking about it, I did actually complete a few games recently, hmm.  Still, most of the game I want to play are now coming up in X360 or PC =(.

Games I want now not in any order:

1) Tales of Vesperia

2) Dead Space

3) Fallout 3

4) Starcraft 2

5) Fable II

6) Red Alert 3

 

I need to play more SF4. I think I finally got the mood to play it instead of GG.

and 8 more days to Fallout 3 <3

[Game] The Force Unleashed

If you like Star Warsalot, play this game, if not, it would be a more buggy and disappointing version of the God of War series. Being the former, I am able to look past the shortcomings of this game.  Barely.

You play the secret apprentice of the Dark Lord Vadar, secret even to the Emperor himself. Together, both of you secretly plan to overrun the Empire. That is the basic gist of the game. You start off as Lord Vadar himself, slicing through hundreds of wookies (or stormtroopers if you like) and abusing his vast force energy and powers. From the very start, you begin the see two problems with the game: camera and the fact that your lightsaber is a giant glowy rubber bat. I take back my word on ’slicing wookies’…it should’ve been ‘batting wookies off the screen’. Still, despite this, batting people away is amusing, so is flinging them off platforms.
Your character is this son of a long dead Jedi killed by Darth Vadar. As you progress through the game, you will gain either yellow, red or blue points (forget the specific names, I know blue = force, red = combos and yellow = stats). So there are 3 different tables, namely yellow, red and blue, for you to spend your respectively-colored points.  Yellow points affect your total force power, regen, health, etc. Red improves your combat skills (via new combos and such) and blue is your force abilities (push, lightning, etc).  It works just like the previous Jedi Knight series.

One gripe about this game that most people find irritating is the lack of invulnerability time at certain animations like getting up from the ground.  In fact, the game has no invulnerability time for your character.  When he gets knocked down, while getting up, he will still take damage from all the enemies smacking you as well as random rockets from off the screen.  You can always try to ‘tech’ out before you fall, pushing away some enemies for a short distance, but there isn’t even invul time for that so you still can get knocked down AGAIN by some random rocket while in the teching animation.  Sometimes, a simple knockdown in the heat of the battle might just cost you the game.

Gameplay feel is pretty much the same as most of your hack and slash games.  It mostly follows the cinematic style of God of War. The game feels edgy and stiff sometimes, as if something unintended is going to happen soon but it didn’t.  I managed to get myself under the terrain once but even so, it’s hard to reproduce it.  Still, it’s fun because it’s Star Wars.

Graphics are meh.  Nothing much to comment.  Sounds…it’s Star Wars.

All in all, the main thing going for this game is its IP. Without it, it will be just another God of War wannabe clone and shelfed off one corner of the world.  Then again, in GoW, you don’t get telekinetic powers.