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Console Gamers are so Judgmental

Sometimes I wonder if people think before they speak. It’s okay to be a console only gamer but to be judgmental towards PC gamers with no prior knowledge is pretty insulting to me. It’s always the ones that never owned a gaming PC a day in their lives — never saw one either that always have something to say. “PC gaming is dying”, I rather use a controller than a mouse and keyboard”, blah, blah, blah! One, PC gaming isn’t dying, and two, you can use a controller on any and every game; you can even use a controller to browse your computer. I didn’t want to end this year blogging about this subject again but enough is enough. Yea, I know I’m wasting my time but ‘my time’ are the operative words. I would like to see beautiful graphics and processing speeds on a console of 2012 on a 2005-2006 consoles — without upgrading that is. People think you have to upgrade your computer specs every time something new comes out. That’s not true, if you do it right the first time, you shouldn’t have to upgrade your computer for the next 3-4 years. The money people wasted on a Blu-ray player that just so happens to play video games I can buy the parts to make a cheaper gaming rig. I’d prefer to sit down and relax to play video games than flailing my arms, risking punching someone else or myself in the throat with my hand. Let’s not get on the accidents people have caused from playing the Wii. Low and played out blows to consoles I know but they are very valid. After awhile there’s only so much kicking someone in the shins or watching over-priced DVD‘s you can do before you’re no better than playing them on a PC.

I believe “PC gaming is dying” is a cop-out; scapegoat for those who are naïve on the subject. The foolishness needs to stop. Knowledge is power and once you get in the know, then you can have an opinion on PC gaming. A lot of games which at first were PC exclusives were influenced for consoles, yes that’s where most gamers are at the moment, that because people think you have to use a mouse and keyboard (which is in fact the worst way to play a video game besides Minecraft) for all the games, or the fact that what’s on the console is more enticing than what’s on the PC.

If it wasn’t for PC’s, you wouldn’t have console games. Which brings me to my next part of my rant. These console ported pieces of crap these developers is doing; let me just say, I’m not happy about that. Make the damn PC game first and THEN the console game, why do things ass-backwards?

Anyway, if you’re going to be a PC gamer bashing console fan-boy/fan-girl, at least be educated and bring the facts to the table and not some biased opinion because you’re too lazy to think outside of the box for once in your life. Give PC gaming a try before bash PC gaming, otherwise, you’ll look stupid.

Also, before I close…Alieware and the like does not count as far as “expensive gaming” goes. Only a dummy would buy them pieces of over-priced crap — especially now that Dell took over.

What NOT to Do When Playing Left 4 Dead 1 & 2

I’ve watched a lot of people playing Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 and they seem to make a lot of damn mistakes, n00b to advanced gamers alike. Some of the things I’ve seen would piss me off if I was playing with them.

  1. Running and shooting at a Jockey on one of the survivors back just to run up on him to melee him. I’ve seen this countless times, instead of shooting and missing because you can’t aim and you know you’re just going to go up to it and melee, just go up to it and melee the jockey instead of wasting bullets.
  2. Shooting at an already dead infected and special infected. You saw the infected or special infected go down for the count, why are you still shooting at it? Its not going to get back up. Waste those wonderful bullets on that hunter that has incapped your friend that’s mauling him/her right next to you.
  3. Splitting up because you want to find the Witch or chase down a Charger. I’ve seen this happen numerous times and it didn’t turn out well most of the time. They kill the Charger or Witch then try and high-tail it back with the other survivors just to get snatched by a Smoker or mauled by a Hunter. Now the other survivors have to come all the way back and save you. What happens then is the possibility of it being another horde because you the idiot who wanted to be Rambo was in that area for too long.
  4. Setting traps because you think its fun to make other gamers miserable. I just hope this never happens to me but I’ve seen other players open and close the safe door rapidly so the other survivors cannot get inside after that one idiotic player wanted to set off a car alarm and provoke a horde. I’ve seen people in versus push a garbage dumpster down the sewer opening so the survivors cannot get up the ladder. I’ve also seen in versus where gamers would push a generator in front of the elevator in the finale of No Mercy so when the elevator opens up and the survivors that want to evacuate the premises, they can’t. It might be fun and hilarious the first few times but leave that retarded bullshit with your friends that play the game, not random players that just want to play.
  5. Trying to help a survivor up knowing there’s a horde beating you half to death. People defeat the reason of helping someone up. I know you’re trying to help and all but just let me die or kill the horde, the smoker, the hunter, and the tank off first. You could have a full bar of health but you want to help me up while there’s a tank hot on your ass. Its call paying attention to the health bar if that person you’re trying to help up is that close to death when they’re incapped and a horde comes; kill the horde and see the outcome.
  6. Running ahead and leaving the other survivors because you’re impatient. This is not NASCAR, yes the finish line is the safe house but the point in the game is to survive. No I don’t mean stick around and wait for an ass kicking but if there’s someone trying to fight a horde off which in fact happens all of the time, don’t just say “screw this” and Speedy Gonzales your ass to the safe house. The other players will hate you forever. If you’re illiterate or dyslexic and you can’t understand “stick together to survive” then sucks for you.
  7. Looking for short cuts and glitches in the game just to end up dying anyway. First of all, looking for an easy way out in a game just means you’re an idiot and lazy. Look for easier ways to get out shit in real life, stop taking the fun out of the game because you think its cool to waste your time leaving the survivors because you found a glitch and or a short cut only you got down to a Science.
  8. Camping because you think its the right thing to do in this type of situation. People can still camp in Left 4 Dead 2 believe it or not. Others are killing zombies trying to live and here one person is off in the corner some where camping or hiding. You know he or she is not shooting anything because you can see the outline. He or she is  just waiting for it to be over. Then without warning [it never is one] a hunter incapacitates he or she and he can’t get immediate help because the others are still killing a horde or dying themselves. So now he or she is pissed and rage quits. Camping is only good in a group not solo. Even then camping isn’t good, camping is just waiting for a Chuck Norris type ass kicking to come your way.
  9. Using a health pack then taking another leaving other survivors vulnerable. There is one for everyone, no need to get greedy because 9 times out of 10 you’re going to wish you gave that guy who was on his last leg that health pack. Especially when the odds are against you; meaning two of the other survivors was killed and its only you and the guy you neglected to help. Remember, sharing is caring!
  10. Getting on the mic screaming at another player that they’re “n00bs“. Come on! If you want to play with gamers you like, find some friends or make some. People will cringe and get this feeling of wanting to falcon punch your ass when they see your gamertag or your steam name when you’re in a lobby waiting to play after a while. No one likes a dumb ass with a mic. I’m pretty sure those that’s always bitching about others being n00bs were once n00bs themselves.
  11. Seeing a tank then running all the way back to the beginning of the map. I don’t how many times I’ve seen this happen. They see a tank, then run all the way back to the safe house or a room with a door that they just so happened to find that a tank cannot open. What is the point? Just shoot the got damned thing! Oh if you haven’t noticed, throwing a Molotov Cocktail just pisses it off more and some has said that the tank moves faster once its on fire. I don’t know how much of that is true but its better than running away or into something worse.
  12. Replenishing ammo, shooting zombies then coming all the way back to get more ammo. I get sick of that, people be at times so far away from that pile of ammo the next pile would be right next to them but they go all the way back to get more ammo. If you aim right your bullets would be of good use and you wouldn’t have to worry about wasting them to the point you have low self-esteem about it.
  13. Healing someone during a crescendo. Who the hell waits til then to want to heal someone? Those few precious seconds between crescendo’s is when you’re supposed to do that. Not when there is a car being launched at your torso or when a hunter is playing finger paint with your insides.
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You don’t know me…

-Sigh-

Of course there are people out there with opinions that they try to convince others that they’re facts. Then we got fools who don’t have no facts but assume they know the deal about me for example. Going off what I have been posting in the last week or so doesn’t mean thats all I play. Just because you see the recent games that I played on my gamertag doesn’t mean thats all the hell I play. Just because you can’t even imagine what it would look like to actually sit next to a gamer let alone try and make sarcastic comments about a gamer doesn’t mean what you’re saying is true. Making assumptions about someone you will never meet or know a day in your life is pointless. Yes, I’m a gamer and I shouldn’t have to prove that to anyone but myself.

People can’t just assume shit about someone just based on what they see what the person blogs about or whats on her gamertag. If I went around doing that to people I bet I would be the farthest from the truth with most. I barely play my Xbox 360 any more, I’ve just finished building my gaming PC so excuse me if I don’t list all the games in my blog that I do play or did play or will play. My blog isn’t based on JUST video games. I can’t cover everything in under a month. People who type “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL” after a tired ass joke fail to realize that they’re the ones they’re laughing at.

People can be so lame because they use their computer as a security blanket, knowing they would never approach someone like that in real life. They would keep all of what they want to truly say in their heads. Its easier to assume what people are/aren’t online. You can’t get all of the facts and details about someone through a font on someones blog especially if you’re going by the content. So the idiot that felt they knew me based on my blog and what was in it, do you feel better? Would you like a damn cookie?

Also, people like me can have every last system that came out with working cords, remotes, and games to most of them but that does not make them a gamer. Building a gaming PC doesn’t make them a gamer either, so lets just clear the airways on that shit before someone tries to use that as a rebuttal. So Lippy or whatever name you used to make your tired ass joke, do you even KNOW what makes a gamer a gamer? You probably don’t because all you could mention was Guitar Hero and The Sims 3. How fail are you? You can, “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL” all you want but, I’m still going to be a gamer no matter how you or anyone else feel. No matter what you or anyone else assumes.

Furthermore, if anyone, thinks they’re a gamer because they play The Sims 3 and or Guitar Hero well fine okay, people have their OWN definitions but no that doesn’t define mine. So again, know the facts before assuming shit about a gamer you don’t know.

If you must know, my forte is IT if you don’t even know what the hell that is its Information Technology. I rather build gaming PCs than actually play them. I rather design video games than actually play them. I write programs more than I actually play video games. Go ahead and base what you see on what you don’t. Everyone don’t have to talk like a rocket scientist to actually be one. Who likes talking like they ate a Merriam Webster any damn way?

Being a sexist bastard will get you no where! Especially when you don’t know shit about the person.

The Sims 3: Readme

Hello fellow simmers. Asilee.com has redirected this blog to the official Sims blog.
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The Gamers Bill of Rights

Thanks James for the E-mail. You truly though need to tell me the sources of where you get these from. Anyway, moving on now these are some rights I can live by…

Created by Stardock & GPG

  1. Gamers shall have the right to return games that don’t work with their computers for a full refund.
  2. Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
  3. Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game’s release.
  4. Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
  5. Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will adequately play on that computer.
  6. Gamers shall have the right to expect that games won’t install hidden drivers or other potentially harmful software without their express consent.
  7. Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
  8. Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.
  9. Gamers shall have the right to demand that a single-player game not force them to be connected to the Internet every time they wish to play.
  10. Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play.

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Things I’ve Noticed While Playing Video Games

I’ve realized and noticed a lot of, eh…er..uh.. hmmm…shit in video games. I guess I shall list them. 9/10 this list will get longer with time. They won’t be categorized or anything crazy like that. I don’t have time to categorized a list. So…moving on.

  • Guitar Hero III – Recently I was playing my co-op career with my lovely boyfriend on Hard [don't ask why] and we got a perfect on The Story of My Life song except that I over-strummed and broke the streak. So I recall one of the achievements for this game is to get a 2000 note streak in a co-op career. So you know I was pissed so we tried to go and do it again, well…it failed. My point is, you’re better off just doing it instead of trying to do it cause you’ll realize sometimes you just can’t do the same thing twice or better.
  • Call of Duty – Seems that the guns in the Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and Call of Duty World at War games only work well in the career and not online. I know this is obvious to most but sheesh they could at least get decent servers. The lag is horrible on the game and then they try and make the games realistic. Well standing in front of someone and shooting them point blank in the head just to find out that it missed cause of the lagging ass servers is not realistic!
  • Guitar Hero World Tour – I’ve realized that its easier to get and keep a streak on that game than Guitar Hero III. I don’t know if the level of the song that is required to play that song or what but I can get a 2000-3000 note streak just fine on Guitar Hero World Tour without even trying. Doing that on Guitar Hero III is like pulling teeth. I have yet to get that 20 songs on Expert yet. I was so close and I went and bought a hard-drive, transferred it all for the hard-drive to do is delete it. I only had one song to go. Yea, that was a bitch.
  • Rock Band 2 - Hammer-on’s are harder for me to play on here than Guitar Hero. I don’t know why but they are. See I started off playing Guitar Hero games way before I started playing Rock Band games. Being that it seems the hammer-on’s on this game is harder to play because they are so close and little. I guess I get a bit intimidated when it comes to those asshole for mothers ass solo’s. I also can get streaks on this game just fine. Only time I know I get one is when the song is over. The layout by the way for this game is awful.
  • Need For Speed Undercover – Besides the fact that this game is one of the most distasteful games in the Need For Speed Saga, the cars are just as bad. The thing I noticed is they never really switch up their cars. & I also heard/saw/read that Cross was going to be in the game, well…where the hell was he on the Xbox 360 version? I know I’m not crazy because I saw him in the trailers when I watched them. I was looking foward to Cross being in there but he wasn’t. How gay is that though?
  • Assassin’s Creed - Well lets see, besides that when you get near someone you have to save and there is another one near by the people who are basically messing with the ones you need to say end up saying the same thing if not at once but seconds behind each other. They repeat themselves until you pursue your mission to stop them. Also, the cities they made me go to, well the basically all looked alike, I almost got mixed up a few times because I thought I was some where else on the map. I also noticed how the manage to squeeze the fact that its probably going to be a second Assassin’s Creed in the future at the end. Well I won’t be looking forward to that.
  • Resident Evil 5 - The fact that blacks always have something racial to say about everything or try and make it racial. I don’t understand them most of the time and I’m black [well partial anyway]. I’ve noticed this game still manage to sell a lot regardless of what was said about the game being racists. Can’t win for losing I guess. Any other time this wouldn’t of been an issue if they was running around in Manhattan, New York shooting up Caucasian zombies or thugs from Brooklyn. Its hard to be around them sometimes most of the time and not become very annoyed.
  • The Xbox 360 – Well since I can’t leave this out of the list. The fact that they get one problem under control, another one pops up. I mean I’m some what a Xbox 360 fan due to the fact A. I don’t have my gaming PC built yet. B. They have more games than the Sony PS3. & C. The console is cheap and I’m a victim of falling for the bullshit every damn time. Anyway, apparently there is something far more worse than the Red Ring of Death. Well lets just hope I don’t have to send my console in for yet a second time not counting my very first xbox which will actually make it a third.
  • Guitar Hero III – When I’m the board where you’re at a bar, I can’t think of the name of the board right now but anyway, when you are on that board I’ve noticed that they have these different silly advertisements on the wall. These only occur if you’re connected to the internet while playing. The one I’ve seen recently was “Rent Video Games on the Xbox 360 For FREE!” with a Gamefly logo below it. I don’t know if that’s a joke but it has to be cause isn’t that the whole point in renting video games? How can you rent a video game for free? You even have to pay for the free trial so they need to stop that shit like right now!
  • Grand Theft Auto IV – Seems that again with the online game-play when I’m not exactly playing online. Niko Bellic looks odd when I’m running through the city doing missions and just randomly causing havoc. Even the cars change, which is not for the best by the way but for the worst. Also the people tend to be different and do more odd ass shit than usual. I don’t know if have to do with the expansion for the game which is a lousy 20 damn bucks but its weird.

Again, this list will be long once I remember other things I’ve noticed. That or people can just submit what they have noticed in video games too and I can post it. Get our juices flowing just for the hell of it.

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My Xbox 360 Stories

I’ve decided to blog about my recent stories and experiences with the Xbox 360 Console. In all of the years since the console was first released I never had any problems and I think I’ve gone through 50-80 Xbox 360′s with in that time. Anyway…

I had a problem with one of my consoles which result in me buying a new one. The problem with this is was is left to be unknown. The console before the new Dashboard update, I would get the “unplayable disc” error. So I went to Youtube and found this. That worked for a good 3 days so since my warranty has expired I figured hey I build computers I used to mod Xbox’s, I used to fix my own consoles at one point, so what the hell? I bough this console used. It lasted a good 8 months before it started acting a bitch. The lens was not scratched or anything. Now with the new dashboard it says “open tray” that’s an update version of the “unplayable disc” error. I’ve tried movies and every game I had and it just would not play. So I decided to do some experimenting. I would stick a disc in and listen. You know how when the Xbox is reading a disc and shit you could tell right? Right, well it would do that and then nothing else. Like the disc drive is stalling. So that’s a mystery left unsolved and won’t be reopened cause I bought a new one.

Well this one was giving me problems too. I couldn’t play Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Left 4 Dead or any game with a loading screen. Oh but this console it would play all of my Guitar Hero games and Rock Band games just fine. So I did more research and went to a store and bought another copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, it was doing the same thing as my original copy, so I sent that back to the store and just dealt with it for a while. Until one day the console got so hot the memory cards were hot and I haven’t had it on for a solid minute. I was thinking, “I’m just having a wave of bad-luck with consoles“. So I called them up and requested a UPS shipping label. I had my other console registered online and when I saw the label to print it out, it had my old shipping address, and the number at my new residence. So I’m pissed cause these fools delayed my shit being fixed even longer. I sat there and told the man the exact address to where to shipping label should come to. So they had to cancel out that one and do it again. So I’m telling the technician on the phone what is wrong with my Xbox which is now a lady and she’s asking me all the same crap the dude had asked me and I told her that I’ve tried all of that. I was also wondering why they didn’t record this shit so I wouldn’t have to repeat myself. So then I’m pissed that on the site that I can register as many consoles as I want and when I click, “register a console” it just shows me the outdated warranty one that is sitting in a box in my living room. So I called them and tried to get them to register it and apparently they kept beating around so I hung the fuck up.

Finally January 5, 2009 comes around which is on a Monday. & I send my xbox in, I’ve been patiently, impatiently waiting on my Xbox 360 to return. It was a grueling week and 6 days before they told me that they have shipped my Xbox 360 and it is returning to you. So I go on the site, under Console Shipped it says nothing, its not complete. The E-mail says that they would email me when its being shipped. So why on the site it says it has been shipped but I need a damn email as a reminder? This was Saturday, here it is Monday. UPS is dragging their asses. I hope I get results tomorrow or I’m going to go nuts. I need my video games. I want to play Left 4 Dead.

If anyone reads this, can you tell me whats wrong with my first one if you know?

Thanks.




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