Why I won’t be buying Shattered Horizon
by ZombieSkittles on February 20, 2010
in Gaming
Shattered Horizon is supposed to be a first person shooter set in space. Zero gravity, space stations, and all that amazing stuff we dream of blowing up. I was given a guest pass to it by a friend on Twitter, and decided to give it a go a while ago. Then I got to attempt to play it again today, as the game is currently having a free weekend. After loading it today, I can say that I’m not interested in the slightest in ever purchasing this game.
I borrowed this screenshot from the main site. I’d take my own, but I can’t get into a game.
During the guest pass period, I logged on twice, and out of those two times, the busiest was when there was a whole seven people playing, spread out over five servers. I’ve never been interested in playing small games, least of all when I’m new to it, so I let it go.
This weekend, since the free weekend is on and the game is already preloaded on my computer, I logged in half an hour ago to give it another go. This time, most servers were full. However, not only were there no servers under 200 ping for me, but whenever I connected to a server, I was disconnected before I was actually able to play, with no reason supplied. How can I try a game when they won’t let me play?
This experience has killed any desire I have to play it.
Out of Office
by ZombieSkittles on February 13, 2010
in Internet, Random
As part of a post on NotGamers, I sent a question to Robin Walker at Valve Software, only to receive an out of office email saying to contact Gabe Newell about anything TF2 related. I sent the same email to him, to get this reply:
I am out of the office starting Feb. 12th (but on email). For general issues, e-mail scott@valvesoftware.com. For marketing or press issues, e-mail lombardi@valvesoftware.com. To complain about HL-2 Ep 3 taking too long, email laidlaw@valvesoftware.com. To complain about L4D2 not taking long enough, email toml@valvesoftware.com. To complain about the crafting/lack of crafting in TF2, email robin@valvesoftware.com To compliment the writers of Valve for creating funny out of office replies, email lazygadabouts@valvesoftware.com. I’ll be back in Seattle Feb. 21st.
I couldn’t help but laugh. Seems they have their fan base pretty much covered.
This is where I insert the equivalent of crickets chirping, but in text format. I don’t really know how to do that, so here’s a post instead.
by ZombieSkittles on January 27, 2010
in Gaming, Internet, Random
So, for those who haven’t been following me talking endlessly about it, I’ve bought a new website specifically to talk about gaming. Presenting with no further…whatever the word that comes after that is (adieu? A Jew?).
Big text for big news right? My problem is I’m getting that into gaming that if I let myself write about it on here, the majority of posts on here would be that of Team Fortress 2 talk, or the fact that I bought Left 4 Dead 2 today. Hey, I bought Left 4 Dead 2 today! Anyway..
On NotGamers, it’s basically just anyone who wants to writing posts about whatever games they want to. So far I have sections mainly for Valve games because lets face it, at the moment I am a complete Valve fanboy, but as time goes on more sections will be added as needed.
So basically most of my time online has been for gaming, NotGamers, and answering questions on Tumblr. This is where I’ve been and why I haven’t been writing much. That and I’m lazy.
Healthy competition in TF2
by ZombieSkittles on December 11, 2009
in Gaming
Team Fortress 2 has released a teaser update prior to the it’s next set of class upgrades. Only three classes haven’t had an update complete with unlockables yet, and now Valve are rolling out two of them; Soldier and Demoman.
To do this, they’ve set up a story about the RED team’s demoman and the BLU soldier forming a strong bond of friendship, and the admin behind the scenes of the war don’t like it. To separate them, some healthy competition is unveiled.
The storyline directly impacts gameplay, as how soldiers and demomen perform in game will decide how the update pans out. As a soldier, the more demomen you kill, the more likely the soldier update will be better (and vice versa). There’ll be more achievements, weapons and sounds for both classes, but in the end the one with the most kills will get an extra weapons.
Now, I’ve never played much of either class, if any (seriously, only about 5 minutes for the demoman, but hours and hours on other classes), but I’d been thinking that I should try getting better at either of them and this update gives me that final shove.
I can’t wait until the final update comes out; I’d love to see what comes of this.
Update: Ok I just gave the game an hour of my time, and well, it is interesting. As I should of realized, now that this is out; everyone is spamming as these classes. Going onto my usual servers, teams were made up almost completely of soldiers and demomen, with maybe one or two medics. The gameplay is a flurry of grenade and rocket spam, and no-one cares about the actual objectives. “Get the briefcase? FUCK OFF, throwing random grenades over this wall in hopes of killing a soldier is much more invigorating.”
Kind of sucks, but it’s a little funny at the same time. If you play Team Fortress 2, what do YOU think of the new updates that are rolling out? Good or bad?
Evil gnome is evil.
by ZombieSkittles on December 10, 2009
in Gaming
This bastard of a gnome is making Half Life 2 so hard. All this for a goddamn achievement.
Because he’s just SO LETHAL
by ZombieSkittles on November 12, 2009
in Gaming, Images
It proves just how bad I am at Team Fortress 2 when I am apparently killed by a bloody decapitated head.
GENTLEPEOPLE
by ZombieSkittles on November 11, 2009
in Gaming, Images
Lunchtime on the Team Fortress 2.
I’m addicted
by ZombieSkittles on October 30, 2009
in Internet
Being the whore I am, I’m going to start posting random achievements on the blog. I’ve really fallen in love with Team Fortress 2 thanks to Brittany, so this is a logical thing for me. It basically serves as something fun for me to throw into it.
In game screenshot from Brittany’s view. We did it for the lulz (Check the kill notification)
Team Fortress 2 has done nothing short of reignite my love for class based gaming. I used to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but over time that game lost it’s appeal, since there was only one mode of play (Axis vs. Allies, completing missions), and only so much you could do. In TF2 though, there’s various game types, lots of servers (many Australian ones too, which is a plus), and plenty of reasons to keep playing. Like on Xbox, you can win achievements for doing certain things, and win new weapons and items to use IN the game.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and in fact many other FPS games take themselves too seriously. Team Fortress 2 is designed to be about fun. Lots of little jokes and giggles fill the game, giving it an awesome bright feel.
And you know, I’d keep talking about it, but doing so has made me really want to just play. So, into the game I go. I promise to give this a better go around next time. Just…the urge is too great.
Also, I’ll be throwing said achievements into a page accessible via the sidebar, strictly because I can.
Time Remaining: ETERNITY
by ZombieSkittles on October 13, 2009
in Gaming
Today, the world’s best thing ever happened to me. This thing surpasses all subsequent amazing thing
by ZombieSkittles on October 12, 2009 Of course, I have no friends on there yet. Look at that screenshot; surprisingly bare. EMBARASSINGLY bare. So, if you have Xfire, you should totally add me. Especially if you play such amazing games as STALKER, Quake 4, or Wolf: ET. Also, I’m a nerd.Xfire
in Gaming, Internet
So, I got Xfire again. Xfire is, as you can see from the screenshot, an Instant Messaging program for gamers. While it’s probably not as great as Steam, I used to use it all the time back when I’d spend hours and hours a day playing Star Wars: Jedi Academy and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I figured since I suddenly want to play ET again (and am downloading it as we speak), I may as well reinstall this lovely program.
The program tracks the games you’re playing, counts hours, displays stats, allows for in game messaging (I hate having to exit my game to answer MSN chats), and bookmarks servers you’ve been playing on. It also displays what game your friend is playing as well, and allows you to jump straight into the server they’re playing on.
