Video for Ron + New Games

Hey there everyone! This blog doesn't have such a big purpose other than giving Ron what he asked for and inform you all on my new acquisitions that are worth mentioning. Nothing too fancy here, nothing that warrants a huge wall of text, buuut we never know, right Sleven?

So let's begin with the video itself. In my previous blog showcasing my new Eyefinity setup, Ron said he would like to see some FPS games or open-world ones. At that moment, I decided to embark on a new video adventure. I took all the games I had installed that worked in such a resolution and recorded footage of them, as well as my monitors for a small comparison. Now, the in-game footage is beautiful, but that's only because my video camera is cheap, old and isn't worth a dime, which means that as with last time, the part with my monitors doesn't serve much purpose other than show what it looks like.. kind of.

That isn't to say I didn't ran into any problems, because I did. The way I proceeded was to record in-game footage, which I would later play the video in fullscreen for my video camera. That way I didn't have to worry about being in the way of the camera. However, some games didn't like this, or rather Windows Media Player didn't like this. I had footage for Aquaria, an independent title which is based on adventure and exploring in an underwater world. The video plain wouldn't play and would constantly freeze, therefore I had to remove it from the small compilation. Then comes The Void, which is entirely out of sync for whatever reason. I honestly have no idea why or how it happened, but the beginning of The Void is not timed for like 5 seconds, but then it's fine throughout the rest of the video. What happened? No idea.

So here we go, some of these games I haven't even started playing, which means that the video shown is only from the beginning and does not show anything pleasant or any action (I'm thinking mostly about Call of Pripyat and The Void here), they were merely included because they are games that worked fine. The video lasts a beautiful 8 minutes 45 seconds, the games change approximatively every 1 minute apart from the last one, which probably lasts around 2 minutes. Anyway, here you go. This is for @RON :


Eyefinity Compilation

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Now we can move on to the new acquisitions I have made in video gaming. I will show 4 of them in total, so this will prove to be quite lengthy, so I will try to skip the descriptions as much as possible.





One of my most prized acquisitions at the moment are WipEout and WipEout 3, both for PS1. Not long ago, I remembered these games from back in the days, along with the fury that had invaded me of playing WipEout HD. I then decided it was time for me to own the entire collection once more. Without further waiting, I bought 2 of the 3 PS1 games and received them not long ago.

This is a dream for any anti-gravity racing fans, of course, especially considering that WipEout is one of the few racing games I even enjoy. I now own two classics in the series and am looking forward to purchasing the remaining ones, namely WipEout XL (or 2097 depending on where you live), WipEout Fusion and WipEout Pulse. While I could get WipEout 64 just for the sakes of it, I do not own a N64 and wouldn't even be able to play it, so I doubt I'll get it. The best in all of this? WipEout isn't big enough of a classic for the industry, meaning I paid $5 for each of these two games and will probably pay around the same price for the remaining ones, put apart WipEout Pulse since I can still buy a new copy at retailers.


WipEout and WipEout 3



The Worms are back in a new adventure for PC! I have always liked Worms, despite really hating on the newest titles or people's favorite titles (such as Armageddon). I despised them for one single reason: The explosions were bad. I'm not sure if I am the only one to have noticed, but ever since the first Worms title, the explosions did nothing but get smaller and smaller, affecting a lesser area than before. I remember back in the first game where a Dynamite meant you would get exploded along with your enemy, while in nowadays titles, a Dynamite is nothing to worry about which I greatly dislike. This was fixed with Worms for PS3, where the explosions were back to being huge, such as that dynamite, since we are on the subject.. Place a dynamite in Worms PS3 and run for your life! Because that little boom stick sure packs quite the explosion. I haven't played enough of Reloaded to judge the explosions so far, but they seem decent.

Nonetheless, as usual with Worms, I decided to try it out and so far I'm enjoying it. I haven't played Worms on PC in several years, but still, I'm getting the hang of it, although I'm no star player.


Worms Reloaded - Trailer 2



I played this game like my life was on the line. 3D Dot Game Heroes brought back the classic gaming that I have always loved and it did so in such a magnificent way that I will never understand people who didn't like it. Perhaps these people just didn't game back in the NES days, and such is why they wouldn't like this game, or at least wouldn't take the game for what it is. Played it entirely in a week, which is pretty rare for me to beat a game under a week, but this one was just too much greatness.

As I was playing through a 2nd time on FROM mode (a higher difficulty level), the game pissed me off. Why? Because I had been playing for nearly 1 hour and a half when it decided to freeze.. and I hadn't saved my game. I went to see all of the signs in order to acquire the Super key, traced back my steps to get the treasures requiring colored keys in the 3 temples I did, and that's when it decided to freeze. Upon that specific thing, I ejected the disc from my PS3 and started up Devil May Cry 4 to unleash some fury and also catch up to David who is now at the 5th mission.

Nonetheless, it definitely is a great game and I plan on getting the Platinum for it, but for now, with that very bad timing of things, I'll let it rest a little bit.


3D Dot Game Heroes Trailer

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Well that's all my friends. I have nothing else to say, nor to show. Have fun and enjoy :]