Endless frustrations of online gaming

Well the couple of games I've been playing the most recently are the Warcraft 3 mod, DotA (Defence of the Ancients) and Team Fortress 2. Since it's online and being only half good (or half bad, depends on how you'd look at it), sometimes they frustrates the hell out of me.

DotA has one of the worst online community I've ever encountered. If I get a dollar everytime someone talk trash on about how godlike/uber pwnage/'IM SO PRO' they are, I'd be pretty damn rich. Sure with anonymity of internet, people say whatever they like without any consequences, so they just keep talking shit until the game is over. It pisses the hell out of me on how lack of any sportsmanship people playing this game has, they just can't stfu and play the god damn game. So when I get fed up with DotA, I moved onto Team Fortress 2.

Since Team Fortress 2 is relatively new, there are alot of noobs in the game. People who doesn't know what the objective of the map is, constantly calling for medics when there isn't a single one in the team or even know what key to press to built a damn sentry gun. When you die, you wait around til you respawn again, while you're dead, you can observe what you team mates are doing. It gets frustrating watching noobs, makes you kinda feel like pulling your hair out. When I get to that stage, I usually go back to DotA, thus the endless cycle of repetitiveness.

But afterall, they're only games, you're meant to have fun, just make the most of it when you are having it.

A routine Saturday

My Saturday usually look like this - sleep deprived while waiting the latest Stargate Atlantis episode to air and then to download, and generally following that, video games and more video games.


This week is no different of course, 'Travelers' is the new episode aired today. I quite enjoyed it, Larrin (played by Jill Wagner) is the leader of this new advanced human race who call themselves 'Travelers' introduced in season 4. They live on space ships that's capable of hyper space travel to avoid the Wraith. Larrin is sexy, beautiful and smart, did I mentioned sexy? She has great chemistry with Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and it seems like there is quite a bit of sexual tension between them. I look forward seeing her again in the near future.


Clive Barker's Jericho is a squad based FPS with horror elements. Visually the game is average, the colour in this game is so dull, the whole game's texture has a very grey element to it. Even the blood is not bright red, just a dull maroon colour. Graphics isn't bad, but not the best either, it gets the job done. The atmosphere of the game feels quite good, at times it is a bit scary, like you're in a dark room and monsters jumps out from beneath trying to grab you. The music is quite good, help creates the horror themed atmosphere, but the voice acting is a bit average at times. It seems like I'm about 1/3 into the game since I heard the game is quite short.

PS: GOD DAMN TINY MOTHS, one just flew right across my notebook screen while I was typing this, almost scare the shit out of me, I had to grab this PSP case near by and squash it. There are so many of them lately...

SGA RENEWED!!

FUCK YES! I'm glad I was wrong! 100 episodes, WOOT!!

Frets on Fire

Bascially it's a Guitar Hero clone on PC, it's a freeware and comes with 3 songs. I've downloaded it from its offical site http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net. Somethings to get me by til Guitar Hero 3 comes out on Wii. I'm downloading the one with more songs off Blackcats. Man I'm rusty, haven't play like this since I played Guitar Hero at Jason's house in Burnaby, Canada. On the side note, I feel a bit silly holding the wireless bluetooth keyboard upright and use it like a guitar =/

Stargate Atlantis

My gut feeling is telling me that SGA will likely meet the fate of SG-1. The ratings hasn't been good since there are these things call TiVO in this country call USA, apparently it's quite popular there. Instead the network trying find a solution take advantage of TiVO or trying to establish a reason why their network rating is in decline, they just try to find the cheapest cost cutting method, which is to cancel a show. Now I haven't seen many shows on SCI-FI, but I'm presuming that many of SCI-FI's original production aren't much better, in ratings or qualities. The Stargate franchise has one thing for it thought, a huge international fanbase. Sure I download the show since Australia is so much further behind, but I do buy the DVDs when they come out. SCI-FI really shouldn't ever had locked SG1 up for the 11th season so the producers couldn't make the show with another network. This deal probably has extended to SGA, so if it does get cancel, this would be it. Let's hope the new series that's currently in development find its way to another network that is more supportive other than SCI-FI.

Xbox 360

Mostly likely get a Xbox 360 sometime in November or December the latest. List of games which will likely get: Halo 3, Forza 2, Skate, Mass Effect and Assasin's Creed. Looks like it'll be around $1000 if I get the Elite version. The wireless network adapter is ONE HUNDERED AND SEVENTY FUCKING dollar, WTF is it so expensive. Good thing I can connect it to my notebook next to the plasma and get wireless via ICS.

The next gen consoles

The way I see it, Playstation 3 is by far the weakest system thanks to lack of good games available right now, and the bunch of shitty lies Sony is feeding to consumers. For examples, from a promised worldwide launch to a 'worldwide' launch of North America and Japan; 'OMGWTFBBQ rumble is so last gen, motion is the next gen!!!!111' to releasing Dual Shock 3 which is pretty much a wireless Dual Shock 2; 'PS2 backwards compatibility is a core value of our believes' to no backwards compatibility in the 40gb PS3 (not that I personally care much about BC), so one year later all the 'core value' just goes out the window. Sad fact is, they expect people to continue to believe their lies. Sure I want a PS3, and I'll probably buy one in the future, but they are alienating their potential customers by doing this kind of shit. I do however, wants to get a Xbox 360 probably by the end of the year. There are enough interesting games on the console right now and in the future. I think Wii is awsome, but there are just too many casual games aim at mass market and those games are pretty crap as well. Developers needs to use their creativitiy to produce games that doesn't make the wiimote feature feels tack-on to their games, create games with enough depth to keep playing, and Nintendo needs to make their online feature better.

First entry

Woot.

Bleh, not like anyone gonna read this anyway.

Portal - fantastic, intriguing and mind twisting. (The cake is a lie...)
Half Life 2 - talk about twisitng, the damn game made my stomach twist in more than just one way. I hardly had any problem with motion sickness in all the games I'd play, but this game is one of them. Saddly I cannot even enjoy it without feeling like crap after 5 mins, maybe I should turn the graphics settings down so it looks less realistic.
Team Fortress 2 - Awsome multiplayer game, reminds me of good old Enemy Territory days. I remembered I used to play it alot and very much enjoy every moment of it.

I can't believe I gave in and made a Facebook account, what the hell was I thinking.