tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28674000599308241392024-03-13T10:33:52.593-07:00Video Games and MoreRandom posts about video games, and other stuff too...TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-88166939614754265802012-08-17T23:00:00.000-07:002012-08-17T23:00:07.447-07:00Free 2GB USB from USBMemoryDirect.com<a href="http://www.usbmemorydirect.com/giveaways/back_to_school_2012.htm">http://www.usbmemorydirect.com/giveaways/back_to_school_2012.htm</a>
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I found this awesome deal on the internet. Check it out if you want a bit more storage!TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-2216462399548205532012-01-31T16:28:00.000-08:002012-01-31T17:56:35.425-08:00Short Graphics Card ReviewWhat's up guys? I recently got my new graphics card, a Sapphire Radeon HD 6850. I am very pleased with this card.<br />
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The drivers were easy to setup, and using the Sapphire TRIXX utility, I overclocked it to 850MHz core clock and 1100MHz memory clock from 775/1000.</div>
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I am getting very good frames with this card, here are some benchmarks I did.</div>
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Skryim: 1920x1080 Maxed out 45-60FPS</div>
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Battlefield 3: 1920x1080 High-Ultra 2xAA 30-45 FPS</div>
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Fallout 3: 1920x1080 Maxed out 60FPS steady</div>
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Bastion: Maxed out 60FPS steady</div>
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Minecraft: 130-150 FPS</div>
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This is a very good card, I have not gotten any crashes or any major lag spikes, everything has been great, I am running games like a dream.<br />
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I highly recommend this card as it beats out anything in the $150 range, but if you can afford the 6870 I'd go for that. </div>TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-88363313161033697072012-01-11T14:36:00.000-08:002012-01-11T14:36:10.069-08:00Modern Warfare 3 ThoughtsI played Modern Warfare 3 a few days ago.<br />
I really wanted to play and enjoy it, but unfortunately that was not the case.<br />
I don't want to go on a rant about how bad it was, because it was not horrible, but frankly I did not enjoy it. All the predictions about how it would be exactly like Modern Warfare 2 were true. Of course, I did not get hit by a noobtube even once, but the guns for the most part were overpowered.<br />
It played very similarly to MW2, yet I had less fun than I did with Modern Warfare 2.<br />
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It just seemed plain and uninteresting to me, even the survival wasn't very fun or exciting.<br />
I played the campaign as well, which was nowhere near the epicness of MW1 or 2. It just kind of bored me. At least we killed Makarov!<br />
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Unlike Modern Warfare 2, the Spec Ops missions were pretty much EXACTLY like a part of the campaign, where in MW2 the specs op missions were mostly a lot different than the campaign missions.<br />
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I just don't see how anyone would have fun with this game for more than a few hours even if they are a CoD fanboy.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-54085976586688852762011-12-26T13:50:00.000-08:002011-12-26T13:58:35.435-08:00The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim ReviewWhat's up guys? I recently finished the main story of Skyrim, killed Alduin etc. I wanted to write a bit of what I thought about the game.<br />
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I haven't played many RPG's before Skyrim, so I don't really have anything to compare it with, but I think Skyrim is pretty good. Not excellent, but it was still really fun. I have about 30 hours on the game and not one of those were wasted doing boring stuff.<br />
My character is a Breton female who is an assassin/thief. I started doing The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild quests to supplement my skills in those areas.<br />
While the main story is pretty short (I was actually surprised at how short it was) it was fun and interesting. One thing is that it was a bit too easy. I did have some trouble killing Alduin, but after learning the Dragonrend shout, dragons are extremely easy.<br />
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But Skyrim's specialty is not the main story, it's the huge amount of side stories and quests the player can accomplish. As I said before, I am currently doing the Dark Brotherhood and Thieve's Guild stories, and many little quests here and there to fill my time.<br />
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One thing I don't like is adventuring. What I mean about that is like in GTA games, you can steal a car and travel through the world killing people and running from cops, never getting bored. However in Skyrim, taking your horse and galloping through the countryside is not very exciting unless you find a cave or a dragon, giant, etc. I guess this is the difference between GTA and Skyrim (besides the obvious, of course): GTA has more fun in the freedom of roaming around the world and shooting up some gangbangers, but less actual quests, and Skyrim is the opposite. But don't get me wrong, I still enjoy jumping on a horse and traveling through the world instead of fast traveling, but in GTA it is just so much better.<br />
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<li>Pick up food, while potions are good, they are hard to make and expensive. I usually pick up steaks and meat and the like, and when I am out of potions, I eat all of my food to regain all of my health, then I repeat. While fighting Alduin I actually ate about 20 potatoes, and when I did kill him I was around 10% health, so those potatoes saved me</li>
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Overall, I give this game a 9/10</div>
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Best thing about this game is replayability, as I finished the main quest at around 20 hours and have played half of those hours and 10 more afterwards on side quests.<br />
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Here is a mammoth frozen into a glacier stuck with arrows... for your enjoyment</div>
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Ryder is smoking a big blunt right in front of this police officer, no problem though, Ryder is too OG to get caught.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-35802645371689217232011-12-12T15:47:00.000-08:002011-12-12T15:47:51.832-08:00LG Flatron E2341 23" 1080pWhat's up guys, I recently picked up this amazing monitor from Fry's for $170. It was a gigantic difference from the old crappy 17" HP monitor I used to have. Here is a comparison of the two<br />
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Yes that's a Breaking Bad wallpaper.<br />
This monitor makes everything look spectacular, and the buttons on it are very strong and not flimsly like some buttons on other monitors. Though if you don't turn off the monitor and turn off your PC, it goes into sleep mode, where the On/Off button flashes Blue every few seconds, which becomes annoying if you have it in your bedroom. But that can easily be remedied with turning it off.<br />
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Well I've been playing Skyrim lately, and I did not get my Graphics Card yet, I was thinking maybe with some extra money on Christmas I could buy something even better than a 6850, which would be awesome.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-13537186467435188972011-11-27T12:42:00.001-08:002011-11-27T12:43:47.667-08:00AMD Phenom II x2 555 Unboxing Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is another unboxing video, this time of my amazing CPU. This CPU is awesome if you are on a budget and you can survive with a dual core, unless you unlock it of course.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-25741040110675940042011-11-25T10:48:00.001-08:002011-11-25T10:49:24.161-08:00RAM unboxing video up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got these for really cheap at Newegg and they have been working wonders. I'll soon get another 4gb to have a total of 8gb.<br />
Sorry for the crappy quality didn't think it would turn out this bad.<br />
Enjoy!TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-76442583579202311892011-11-21T19:58:00.001-08:002011-11-21T20:44:27.731-08:00PC InfoOk guys, I've been playing Skyrim all day today, and even though I only get about 25 FPS on the lowest settings and 800x600, I've been having a blast. Now it's time to stop procrastinating and write a post about my long awaited computer.<br />
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Elite 430 Case</div>
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AMD Phenom II and GSkill Badges</div>
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No cable management whatsoever, I'll try to fix it when I get my GPU.</div>
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OK so that's pretty much how it looks, now let's take a look at the performance, which I value way over looks.</div>
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So the CPU came stock at a dual core 3.2GHz, but I easily unlocked the disabled cores and overclocked to 4.2 GHz. However temps were reaching 56C Idle, so I brought it down to 3.6GHz, for now. At the end of this month I'll be getting my Cooler Master Hyper 212+, so I will probably go around 4GHz at most, just to be safe. </div>
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The voltage seemed a bit high, but everything is stable so far.</div>
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<b>Why you should buy a Black Edition Phenom II</b></div>
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It is so easy to overclock! Just by changing the multiplier in AMD overdrive, increasing the voltage slightly and messing around a bit, I overclocked in a heartbeat.</div>
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That's it, I just increased that Multiplier Slider, and bam, 3600 MHz</div>
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Now, what I absolutely despised about building my computer.</div>
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1. Installing Windows 7 was hard to do, I had to connect the IDE cable from my old desktop and power them both on, and put the old one on top of my new one, because the IDE cable wa a bit short. I can't really blame that on anything besides my not wanting to buy a CD drive. </div>
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2. The Windows 7 disk I burned, did not work, I had to change down the burn speed to 1x, reburn it, and it finally worked, although it took a while to burn it at that speed</div>
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3a. Could not connect to internet at all; had to download LAN drivers from my motherboard's website from another computer and bring it to the desktop, but even then, only wired works, gotta figure that out before I move my computer away from the router.</div>
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3b. I had to install the AMD Graphics drivers 3 times before they finally worked. But they were easy to use, and I had no games to play while using it, Skyrim was downloading, so it didn't even really matter.</div>
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3c. The mouse suddenly stopped working, had to connect it to my laptop, and reinstall the drivers to get it functioning again, but not without 3 restarts</div>
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4. Headset didn't work, when I plugged it into the headphone jack, only the headphones worked, and only the microphone worked when I plugged it into the mic jack. Might be something wrong with the headset, but I have a spare webcam I used for a mic</div>
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Other than that, I'm loving my computer! I can play Team Fortress 2 without any lag, and on lowest settings I'm playing Skyrim at 20-30 FPS. Boot times are faster than what I would expect of a 5400RPM drive, but then I guess it will be dramatically improved when I get an SSD. </div>
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One thing is that, it's <b>sometimes</b> loud. Just at random some of my fans start picking up more speed and get louder. There was one 10 second period where every fan was going faster than intended, and it sounded like a jet engine, but that never happened again, and these random speed increases seem to have stopped for now.</div>
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<b>What's left to buy:</b></div>
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<li>GPU, 99% going to be Sapphire 6850</li>
<li>Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Heatsink/Fan</li>
<li>Coby 2.1 Speakers</li>
<li>23" 1080p monitor</li>
<li>Crucial M4 64GB SSD</li>
<li>Either 500 or 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD once prices drop</li>
<li>Another stick of 4GB GSkill RAM, if it seems like I need it</li>
<li>Better Keyboard and Mouse, I can survive with the mouse, but this keyboard's going to give me carpal tunnel soon because of its shape</li>
<li>More games!</li>
<li>A Lamborghini</li>
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Alright hope you guys enjoyed this long post, gonna be writing a lot more long posts like this soon.</div>TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-54726724479402197652011-11-21T09:29:00.001-08:002011-11-21T09:34:45.089-08:00PC is working!Well, I went to Fry's yesterday with my dad to buy my case, and when we went, he lent me $50 to buy a power supply. It was the same brand, Antec, so I was kind of reluctant at first, but it all worked out in the end. Well we got home, I plug in the power supply, nothing. Right before I suited up to go bomb Antec for their second defunct PSU, my dad, an electrician, wanted to try something. He said just flipping on the switch for the PSU won't open it, you need a motherboard connection to switch it on. Well that's exactly what we did, and it worked. My old one was probably not DOA either, I was just stupid enough to think that it would turn on completely just by flipping the switch. Well now after a good night's rest, we're installing Windows 7. I'll get some more pics and info later.<br />
I also successfully unlocked the 2 dormant cores, so now I have a quad core CPU, but I didn't check if it's 100% stable yet, but once I get into my OS, that's the first thing I'll do.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-81157535547821854572011-11-15T18:50:00.001-08:002011-11-15T19:08:23.655-08:00Got my Computer Stuff... but....I am almost to the point of crying right now. So I got home and found my box on my doorstep. Excited, I ran inside and unboxed everything (videos of unboxing coming soon) and was so confident I didn't even open a guide on how to build a PC because I remembered everything I needed. I opened my motherboard and set it on its box. Then I took out my CPU and installed it and the heatsink/fan. Then I took out my RAM and easily installed that. Then came the enemy of this story, the Antec 550w Power Supply. I happily took the little demon out of it's box and started installing all the power cables. I brought my whole setup to the TV and attached it to the motherboard via HDMI cable. I decided to try to connect my HDD to the computer and succeeded, which means I won't need that adapter. I was happy, and I connected the PSU to the wall. Extremely excited, I slowly pushed my hand towards the on/off button. I closed my eyes and flipped it open. <div>
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THE POWER SUPPLY WAS DEAD ON ARRIVAL!</div>
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Here are the final specs:<br />
AMD Phenom ii x2 555 BE (going to unlock to 4 cores)<br />
G Skill 4GB 1333 DDR3 RAM<br />
Biostar A880G+ MotherBoard<br />
Antec BP550 Plus 550w PSU<br />
Cooler Master Elite 430 Case<br />
I'm also getting 2 80mm MASSCOOL fans and 1 120mm blue LED Rosewill fan<br />
Also, a Laptop HDD to IDE adapter so I can use my laptop Hard Drive as my main, until I get a SSD<br />
I was going to get a 500GB HDD but with that flood in Taiwan, Hard Drive prices have skyrocketed, so I will make do with 224 GB until HDD prices go down to about $50 for 500GB like they were before.<br />
I'm also going to get a Sapphire Radeon 6850 for $150 next month, but I'll still have about $100 left over, so I have two options for next month.<br />
1. I buy a 64 GB SSD and put all my OS files for ultimate boot speeds<br />
2. I hold on to it and get a monitor the next month, hopefully a 23 inch 1080p<br />
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Depending on how much money I have next month, I probably can buy the monitor later and still buy the SSD at the end of this month, so #1 is my preferred choice, but I want to know what you guys think. Please rate my system and tell me if I should do 1 or 2!<br />
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And another thing that sucks, the adapter thing for my HDD has 3 day shipping instead of the 2 day shipping everything else has, so I won't be able to use it until Monday, unless UPS has a change of heart and brings it early :)<br />
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Pics coming soon, and I will most likely be playing Minecraft, TF2, L4D, and those types of low graphics games until I get my GPU.<br />
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Expect a lot more posts next week, and happy 11/11/11!TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-31296978518521464142011-11-03T16:51:00.000-07:002011-11-03T16:51:19.968-07:00Grand Theft Auto V Announced!I know most of you have probably already heard this but I decided to write a post anyway.<br />
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Well, I'm excited for this game. I didn't really get to play GTA IV so much but I thoroughly enjoyed San Andreas and Vice City. </div>
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I began to lose hope that a new Grand Theft Auto would come out, but I've regained my faith in Rockstar again. Not much to say about the trailer, but the game looks much prettier than IV and hopefully they add more graphics mods like GTA IV.</div>
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By the way, I'm sorry for the short posts lately, I've been having some problems ordering my parts, but as soon as I get it, expect more reviews and longer posts!</div>TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-109554809662509782011-10-30T19:41:00.000-07:002011-10-30T19:42:41.875-07:00Some Video Game Art/WallpapersWhat's up guys, instead of actually taking my time to write out a post, I decided to share some artwork in the video game category that I thought was cool/interesting. Of course all of the credit goes to the original artists, I didn't draw a single one of these and I never will be able to.<br />
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First is the concept art from Infamous. Infamous is one of my favorite games and I've always been astounded by the comicbook-esque art they had in the cutscenes. Here are some pics.<br />
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Next is some Legend of Zelda art. Again, Legend of Zelda games are also one of my favorite games, and this picture makes me think people went to college to learn art for making LoZ art!<br />
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And here is some Minecraft, another one of my favorite games.<br />
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Some Team Fortress art everyone has probably already seen, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be shared!<br />
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An update for my computer<br />
I'm getting most of my computer this month, it will probably be built by at latest Friday, so I will post pics, and some Minecraft posts for the next few weeks. But unfortunately I will be rocking an IGP for a month, so the most graphics-intensive game I will be able to play is Left 4 Dead, maybe Portal 2. But next month around this time I will be getting my new graphics card, HIS 6790 (for now, might change it up soon idk), so then expect a lot more gaming reviews and maybe even videos.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-52839146957719164532011-10-29T22:08:00.000-07:002011-10-29T22:08:30.281-07:00My thoughts on Battlefield 3Sorry for not writing a post in a long time guys, haven't really got the chance or had an idea of what to write. <div>
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We played Battlefield 3 on 1080p with everything high without any lag. </div>
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I gotta say, this game is AMAZING! </div>
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I couldn't fly a plane for beans, but it was still fun crashing into the ground or jumping out of the plane and parachuting to the ground. I also sucked really badly, the worst of my games being 1-10. But I still had lots of fun. Tanks are slow, so my favorite vehicles were the cars/humvees/whatever. I played on the engineer class, but I was never able to destroy a single tank, which sucked. </div>
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His graphics performance also made me decide to get the same card as him and save up the extra money for something special, like an SSD or something. Also an update: I'm very close to getting my PC parts, got to wait until beginning of next week to order everything.</div>
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OK, back to the topic, we played for about 4 hours, and I have to say, not one of those minutes were wasted. This game is awesome and I don't get why people are hating on it. The graphics look amazing, my only gripe is how to handle two people coming at you that are not lined up. I've never survived one of those encounters. Next month, I will be hooked on this game. I just need mah damn GPU!!!!!!</div>
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Hey guys, this is one of my favorite games of all time! Having very little system requirements, I was able to play and finish this game on my PC a few years ago. I love this game! There is so much you can do, especially if you download mods, but you should save that for after you finish the game. "What do you mean?" you say? "A game you can keep playing by yourself after you finish the campaign?" Yes. This, like I'm pretty sure all of Rockstar's games are, is open world and non-linear, sometimes called sandbox. While Minecraft is 100% sandbox, GTA still has a lot of missions having to do with the story. So you can't just start roaming around as soon as you start the game. As you go through with the mission, more side quests and places are unlocked, and that is where the fun begins.<br />
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As you can see, the map is huge. When you begin the game, you start out at the bottom right city, and you are unable to go anywhere else, which I'll explain later. After some quests, you get to move out into the top right and bottom left and after a while, you are able to virtually go anywhere, which has wasted some of my days while playing this game. Driving quickly with a motorcycle or a Lambo (mods) through the country is amazing, especially with the fact that if you play this on PC, you can configure the radio so that your songs are the songs on the radio. I praise Rockstar for adding this neat feature.<br />
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So this is how the story goes, you are CJ, or Carl Johnson, a former gangbanger, returns to his home city of Los Santos after he hears of his mother's death. Scumbag police officers, Tenpenny and Pulaski pull hims over and drop him off far away. You begin while riding a bike back to your old house. Sean Johnson, or Sweet, Carl's brother, blames Carl for their mother's death, because he left to live in Liberty City. That is the basis of the story, and I won't go more into it because the story is just incredibly long.<br />
Most of the game is either you doing favors for someone in exchange for something, or you doing something with your friends. My favorite mission in this game was when you are robbing a casino. It reminded me of the Ocean's series.<br />
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Overall, this game is one of the most fun, exciting, painstaking, annoying, awesome and horrible games I've played. Of course the negative responses are towards the missions I just could not seem to beat. The last mission required me to use mods to get through, but don't worry, I did it without hacks in my second playthrough of this game. I think around 10 days of my life have been spent playing this game, but what can I say? It's really fun, however you probably don't want to play this game around a younger kid.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-91247192297579431002011-10-17T18:13:00.000-07:002011-10-17T18:13:53.560-07:00Breaking Bad!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What's up guys? The reason posting has been real slow is because I have been just hooked on this little show called Breaking Bad. While reading the Wikipedia plot or something from IMDB may make it seem kind of a strange show, don't worry, this show is awesome. I'm on Season 2 Episode 1 right now, so this isn't going to be a full review, but there are still a lot of good things.<br />
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In my opinion, this show is pretty amazing. It mixes normal "good person" life with the risks of drug dealing, a plot I don't think I've ever seen before. It is very well written, includes lots of clever plot sequences, and there are many scenes that will surprise you. All of the characters act very well, especially Walter, Hank, and Jesse. <div>
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You can check out my PC configuration in my page, <a href="http://awesomeschtuff.blogspot.com/p/ever-changing-computer-set-up-im.html">The everchanging computer set up I'm planning to buy</a>, and leave any recommendations.<br />
Another update is I've been watching The Walking Dead first season to be ready when the second comes out October 16. I've watched the first episode, and I will be going back to watch a few more when I am done writing this post. After that, I'm going to start watching Breaking Bad, I've heard that it is really good, but I've never really gotten into it until now.<br />
I'm also watching House on Mondays, Mythbusters on Wednesdays and The Office on Thursdays.<br />
Well that's pretty much it, I'll be trying to get some non-game related material out until I get my computer.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-17163392643284715422011-10-10T16:26:00.000-07:002011-10-10T16:26:21.568-07:00RAGEDoom, the biggest pioneer of FPSs was created in 1993 by a company in Texas named id Software. They have paved the way for modern FPSs like Call of Duty and Battlefield, but you've probably heard that a million times.<br />
They have recently come out with a new game named RAGE. From the gameplay I've seen I think it looks pretty cool, and a lot of people have been saying that it looks like Fallout but more focused on FPS. Just look the comments for this video.<br />
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The commentator I mentioned before, MisterFantasmo is doing a let's play of this game and I am very excited to watch because I will not be able to play this game until probably the end of next month, if I am not glued to BF3 by then.</div>
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The biggest issue with this game is that the textures load up too slow, when you look away and look back, the texture reload, making it look kind of cheesy, hopefully they fix that.</div>
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Other than that, this looks like a really awesome game and I can't wait to play it.</div>
TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-85750692905461213392011-10-06T17:23:00.000-07:002011-10-06T17:23:45.792-07:00Random Thought #1: At what age should people stop Trick or TreatingHalloween is a holiday where kids go out in silly overpriced costumes and go door to door threatening people for candy. I remember going trick or treating when I was in a kid, and enjoying the various candies I got from neighbors. In middle school I used to debate looking like an overgrown kid to go get pounds of delicious candy, but I usually contained myself and stole from my parents' stash. Last time I went trick or treating was in 7th grade, but I didn't get that much candy because my costume was a Trader Joe's bag with holes cut out for eyes.<br />
That brings me to my thought, at what age should kids stop going out trick or treating?<br />
I think around 6-7th grade should be the cutoff.<br />
It's not that I feel embarrassed to be seen from the people giving me candy, but I am embarrassed to be seen next to a bunch of 5 year olds.<br />
But candy is delicious and I always think of going trick or treating when Halloween comes around every year.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-89845790844837657162011-10-04T16:28:00.000-07:002011-10-04T16:28:42.234-07:00Mister FantasmoHey guys, I want to tell you about a Youtube commentator who is probably one of my favorites, if not the favorite. I don't really watch commentaries on Youtube for the gameplay unless it's a new game, so watching some commentators put the same game over and over again becomes annoying and tedious. MisterFantasmo mostly puts CoD videos, but he also has a let's play channel where he put up several Dead Island videos, and he's going to continue his on hiatus Amnesia, Minecraft, Terraria, and SuperMeatBoy videos.<br />
He is a college student studied for something that he has never said. He plays the PS3, so it is a nice break from all the XBox commentators. He calls his audience "nuggets" for a reason I don't know.<br />
Overall, his personality is great, he's humorous and random, and his videos turn out pretty funny, and he can continue to entertain you even if the gameplay is too short and he puts a black screen up.<br />
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Here is a video he put up a couple of days ago, portraying both his thoughts while playing games and the BS of Black Ops, it's only 2 minutes, so I suggest you watch until the end to see the truly funny part.<br />
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He also made a couple of skits with his friend KidLazer, who is also very random like him, and imo seems to have no neck.<br />
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<li>First of all, I think they did something to make the graphics look better, it looks better than how it looked when I first downloaded it. Maybe I just got used to the graphics, I don't know. </li>
<li>You die way too quickly. CoD even takes a few milliseconds before you die, in BF3, you can die while it seems like you only got hit once.</li>
<li>Operation Metro is becoming boring, they should have picked Caspian Border for the map, it looks much more fun. </li>
<li>The blowtorch is extremely glitched, sometimes it doesn't shoot, sometimes it doesn't do the pointing animation.</li>
<li>Sometimes, if you reload it won't make the reload animation, I've felt this more with the Snipers but it has happened to the AK once.</li>
<li>Barely anything is destructible, not like the Battlefield we know and love</li>
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TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-63304584329016249702011-10-01T13:10:00.000-07:002011-10-01T13:10:24.480-07:00Battlefield 3 Beta ThoughtsWhat's up guys, I've been playing the BF3 Beta all day yesterday and today, and just decided to give you guys my thoughts about it.<br />
My biggest gripe is that it's only one map and only one game mode. If it was Rush on like 3 maps, or 3 different game modes on Operation Metro, it would be awesome.<br />
I went to my friend's house to play Caspian Border on his PC only to learn that they shut down the Caspian Border servers (I think it would have made more sense to shut down the weaker map: Metro). That kind of sucked too.<br />
The first thing I noticed about this game was, the <b>sound. </b>Especially if you are wearing a headset, the noise atmosphere of this game sounds amazing. You can hear people pretty far from you, and you can hear explosions all the way across the map.<br />
Which is a good transition to my next point, the map is huge. I've been playing mostly CoD the past few years, and I'm used to small maps with a lot of action. Don't get me wrong, big maps are awesome, even better imo.<br />
I didn't even know that this part in the picture existed for the first few matches I played.<br />
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My friend who is a more professional at Battlefield told me that other maps are even bigger. That should be awesome.<br />
One thing I hate is that it's not fully destructible, you can make craters from grenades, cut down trees, destroy <b>some</b> walls, and shoot the face of some walls off. I played BC2 only a couple times, but I remember it was almost a fully destructible environment. I don't know, maybe it's because it's only a beta, or maybe it's just the map, but I'm disappointed with it.<br />
The graphics aren't nearly as good as any gameplay we've seen, but I'm pretty sure the graphics are compressed for the beta.<br />
The gameplay is awesome though. It's fun and exciting. The park outside can get a little annoying, getting sniped by LMG's and stuff, but once you go inside the subway station, it is really fun. The hitmarkers seem a little slow, bu maybe that's just my aim. One thing is that you can't cook grenades. I don't know why, you just can't. Once you get the controls down, its really fun, for a while. I got kind of bored playing the same game and map consecutively, so I played some MW2, and after I came back, I had fun again. Now I'm writing this post.<br />
Another thing I hate are the spawns, sometimes I spawn on a teammate and I get killed instantly. Sometimes I spawn in the spawn zone (can't remember the name) and I still get killed instantly. I guess they can't fix spawning on your teammates and dying, but they should fix the spawn zones.<br />
Well that's pretty much it, going to go play some more now!TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-67308714081482465412011-09-28T17:12:00.000-07:002011-09-28T17:12:58.913-07:00My new BackgroundHey guys, I just wanna let you know about my new background, my friend over at <a href="http://gamingwall.blogspot.com/">http://gamingwall.blogspot.com/</a> made this background for me and he would appreciate it if you go check out his blog.TurtleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768906005870499554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867400059930824139.post-10936820110595058522011-09-28T17:09:00.000-07:002011-09-28T17:09:13.529-07:00Little Big Planet!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello everyone, I want to tell you about one of my favorite games, Little Big Planet. While looking at the cover and playing through the campaign might make it seem like a child's game, there are so many things you can create in the create mode! While Little Big Planet's create mode didn't have much electronic and mechanical options, LBP2 brought a whole new array of mechanical tools.<br />
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I have created so much stuff in LBP's create mode that I don't even remember most of them. My best project is one that I am working on with a friend. It is a Left 4 Dead-esque zombie killer with advanced zombies, utilizing the Sackbots and Creatinator. Sackbots are, well Sackboys (or girls) with robotic programming built into them. The creatinator is a Helmet with a shooter at the end of it, which can shoot virtually anything that will fit, be it a bullet or a train. </div>
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The first part is (imo) awesome, but we have started the second part and just kind of left it on hiatus for about a month. I want to get back to working on it. When we finally publish the first part, probably this weekend or the next, I will post the name so those of you with a Playstation 3 and LBP2 can go play it if you desire. </div>
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So back to the game, there are so many things you can do with it. Don't pass it off as a kid's game. Seriously, try it, if you have an imagination and you are creative, this game will be so fun, and not as mindless as (dare I say it?) a shooter.</div>
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