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Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source

Yesterday was an eventful day; I finally bought Counter-Strike: Source, and I found out it was the free weekend for Day of Defeat: Source! So these last two days has been chalk full of CSS and DoDS.

The best thing about this, you may ask? Now I'll have all the DoD: S and CS: S weapons, models, and maps in Garry's Mod! Even though the 'weekend' (17 hours counting sleep) of DoD: S is now over for me, the entire game remains on my hard-drive, so all the files are still there!

Counter-Strike: Source also shows a lot of promise, though I wish there was less "Protect the hostages! Defuse the bomb!" and more "Kill everyone else!!"

Although the free weekend is done, I'm almost certainly going to buy Day of Defeat: Source, since it's only $5 until the 10th.

U.S. ARMY AND COUNTER-TERRORISTS FTW!!!

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jul 6, 2008 1:15 pm GMT   1 Comment
Level 27: Sheng Long!

Today I finally turned level 27! I can feel my HP and MP rising!

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jul 3, 2008 2:22 pm GMT   5 Comments
Crysis Troubles, Shaders Comparison and my Keyboard is Done For

Very smooth- a big relief from the first times I played it on the 8600GT. Crysis can now be set on all Very High with the exception of Shaders, which is on High (Very high looks ugly and halves the frame rate) - for about 25FPS of very high goodness.

Assassin's Creed gives me similar results. 35-50FPS on all maximum settings with MSAA on Max. I used to get about 13FPS... not good.

So today I finished the final level in Assassin's Creed again (really good fight... kind of out of place though), and yesterday I finished Crysis again-- which brings me to something.

In the flying level, near the end of Crysis. Me playing ONE TINY PART of that was SERIOUSLY like a BLOOPER REEL. I could spend an hour on this particular part and still get no progress except some bags under my eyes. I could take a video if you like....

What happens is, you're flying this weird helicopter-like future plane. You're following these other future planes through a thickly forested valley with high walls all around you. You come across a bridge and-- immediately lose altitude and crash into the forest below. Squeezing the GO UP FREAKIN NOW button, your ship stays on the ground as if you're a butterfly trying to push it up, and continues rolling around so dramatically you'd think it was in a mine field. Hilarity insues as you crash and roll around forever until you reload your save, but it quickly turns to frustration. Reloading your save, you raise your altitude as high as you go to counter the sudden drop. You get as high as you can go and press the forward button. NOTHING. Dipping downward to gain speed, you move slowly in your intended diireeeeeeeeection until...........................................................................................................; whhhhhhhhhhhhhhoaa. My kerrrrrrboaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard is seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeriooooooooooouslyyyyyyyyyyyyyy acting up.

Well anyways (I wonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't eedit out these weird things, just to show you how... bad my keyboard can be. Yay it's over!) you dip down at the high altitude, and wouldn't you know it, you fall STRAIGHT FREAKIN DOWN. I reloaded that save so many times. No progress. Then I finally went over to the left in apparently jjjjjust the riggggggggggggggght way and managed to clear the ground... a WIN for pilots everywhere.

Well, I've just about had it with this keyboard. Don't expect me to type anything else with it because... *SMASH*

And on that note...

UPDATE: With all my talk of how nice High looks and how ugly Very High looks in Crysis, I decided I'd show you myself. New to my images is a Crysis album with the four different shader settings on display. Low has absolutely no special lighting effects and is an eyestrain, medium has some neat lighting on objects and a much better less bland look, high has an incredible amount of detailed lighting and shadow effects - apparent with the sunrise setting, and very high goes goth and applies shadow to everything, stripping the game of many of the happy and realistic lighting effects in favor of blacking out the screen! But don't ask me-- go see for yourself!

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jul 2, 2008 9:51 pm GMT   2 Comments
Super Mario Marathon! LIVE!

Right now the Mario Marathon is going on--- three guys are playing through SMB, SMB2, SMB3, SMW, SM64, SM Sunshine, and SM Galaxy in this weekend only. The show is live right now.

And the coolest thing-- they read my comment LIVE

There are about 3,000 viewers right now and 400 people in chat.

Watch it now at http://mariomarathon.com/

UPDATE: YAY! I got my name mentioned AGAIN! (Right at the end of SMB3)

UPDATE 2: I've now had my name mentioned FIVE TIMES in a video with 3,000 viewers live. How awesome is that?

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jun 27, 2008 1:25 pm GMT   5 Comments
Mmmmm... CRAB MEAT!

I'm not talking about that "Imitation Crab" crapola... for the first time since before I can remember, I got to eat REAL crab meat... YUM.

What do you think- imitation, real, or vegetarian?

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jun 26, 2008 6:28 pm GMT   7 Comments
Better Late than Never - I got MGS 2!

So I've never played any of the Metal Gear/Solid games before. I got five dollars yesterday so I looked at GameStop's used games and found--guess what--Metal Gear Solid 2 there for--guess what-- five dollars. How perfect is that? I've really been meaning to play MGS, since it's apparantly such a 'must-play' series.

So after about three hours of cutscenes I got to play. It looks pretty promising, but I'm playing some other games for now.

Posted by DarCowAlways, Jun 22, 2008 4:04 pm GMT   7 Comments

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