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• 5Aug 08

  1 year of GameSpot!

  It's been already a whole year! It feels like yesterday I was registering!
  • Posted Aug 5, 2008 3:45 pm GMT
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• 18Jul 08

  Crysis finished!! 3 times...

  I finished Crysis for the first time less than a week ago, and Crysis is a great game, I mean it, it's a first person shooter focused on stealthy and I love these kinds of games. I was skeptical at first, I was having some problems on running it on my PC, it wasn't being a pleasant experience, but then I found what the problem was, I turned the Anti-Aliasing on, minimum or not, the AA turned on makes Crysis rape the GPU, so after turning it off, I had the game running smoothly with rare slowdowns and decent frame rate.
  
  After finishing it for the first time, I was already in love with this great game, so it demanded a second playthrough, since the first time I played on easy, and I was already confident with my Crysis skills, I decided to go for a hard run, and I did it, it's a lot more difficult, if you get caught in a mess with lots of soldiers, chances are high that you're gonna die, but really fun anyway, I could notice that you can't use the machine gun in the cars you get in, sometimes it helps, not that necessary though.
  
  When the hard mode was completed, I was in for the last difficulty, delta! I started and went through the game rapidly, the main problem is that the crosshair is gone, good thing is that some guns still have the red laser to be activated, and the grenades which are thrown at your direction doesn't have the indicator. This time, I had to have a different approach on some of the chapters to evade imminent death.
  
  My favorite parts of the game are the part with that ship, where you need to sink it, it's cool to eliminate everyone in the place, don't leave a living soul to tell the story, and the part where you need to secure the area with lots of those weird scary nano-suited Koreans with machine guns, there you need to defeat all of them, those machine guns guys really take quite an amount of shots to fall, just after this part, where you need to get into the mine is cool too, I had trouble at this part on hard because I always arrived shooting like a mad man, on Delta I took some guys out with the sniper at the entrance of the mine to make my life easier, the camp itself went ok, and it's fun too.
  
  After the first time through, I was already addicted, so the hard and delta runs took one day each to complete.
  
  So in the end, awesome game, and looking forward for Crysis Warhead!
  • Posted Jul 18, 2008 4:16 pm GMT
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• 16Jul 08

  E3 2008 Press Conferences

  The time has come, I've watched the whole show yet and especially the press conferences which were what we all had been waiting for, here's some thoughts:
  
  And the Show Starts!
  
  Microsoft Conference
  
  It was pretty decent, they showed some really interesting games, a fantastic gameplay video of Resident Evil 5, yes it was brief, but at the same time it left us urging for more, and that's a good thing in most cases.
  There's a new feature that creates avatars, pretty much look like Nintendo's mii, but since miis are crap, this tends to be uninteresting too.
  The break of exclusivity from Final Fantasy kinda make me reminisce, about when I was a Nintendo Fanboy and first heard that Resident Evil 4 wasn't going to be exclusive to GameCube, I flipped and went overboard with flames on the Capcom message board, emailing and everything alike. But you got to do what you got to do and the faster Sony fans accept it, the better for them.
  
  6/10
  
  Nintendo Conference
  
  This is the topic I want to get deeper, even though I kinda lost too much faith on Nintendo, and humanity, after the Wii came out, I still consider myself being a huge Nintendo fan and unfortunately that's not gonna change so soon.
  What the hell was that? I mean it!
  
  It started with a woman so annoying that she defies any limit of annoyance and excel many levels in being irritating, like "I love smiling, and Nintendo makes me smile, I want to keep smiling lalala", come on, put up someone serious enough to present the conference, or at least someone who's not gonna talk like someone who's talking to 10 year old boys.
  Host aside, the conference sucked, but it sucked in so many levels!
  First, what was the deal of that drummer? Also what was the deal of that wii music concert? I felt ashamed just to look at that, it's embarrassing and plain stupid.
  
  The games, now where's the new Zelda, because all we have right now is a GameCube port, it's been two years and not even the official name yet. How about F-Zero? It can be for Wii or Ds, would be good if it was for both and with some kind of connectivity between them, it was released three F-Zero games for the GBA and none for the DS, and it's about time for the Wii to receive the franchise, since not even Wave Race we had at launch, and while I'm at it, how about Wave Race? It sure could result in some really innovative game if the new functions of the wii controller were implemented.
  
  Pikmin 3 would be good too, it's a series born in the GameCube era that had its success spread in so small amount of time. What about Kid Icarus? I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'm really looking forward to a new Ice Climbers game, they were in Melee, which was released in 2001, and since then, they only returned in Brawl, and that's a shame.
  
  And what the hell is that snowboard game? That sucks! What about 1080°? It doesn't even need to use that balance board, that thing feels too gimmicky for my taste, let that for the casuals to play Wii Fit, or any other Wii something.
  
  Kirby is needing a game too, the ones on the DS are quite nice, and something alike could be done on the Wii and its controller, it could turn out huge! How about Donkey Kong? No bongo crap, just good old platforming fun, to compete with the excellence of Banjo-Kazooie 3. How about a sequence of Donkey Kong Country for the DS? Donkey Kong Country is one of the most glorious franchises ever, you can't go wrong! Also, Star Fox is a franchise that should be brought to Wii too, and fast!
  
  One of the dumbest things of all is that Wii Speak (why does it have to be wii everything?), the sound is recognized at the whole room, with the sound of the TV along and everything that may go with it, come on Nintendo, sometimes innovation isn't better than what we already have, implement the goddamn headset and done, no need to reinvent every single thing in the universe, and worse, take steps back while doing so.
  
  And what was the deal of all that bullcrap about how much the wii is selling and how much women are now on gaming? I'll tell you something, we don't care!! Better yet, "Wii Don't Care" for your pattern.
  
  Animal Crossing was almost mandatory, and it's a very casual game too, it's not as casual as Wii Sports or Wii Fit, but still is a more or less casual game. Sure this game can turn out good and I might get it, but this was the good thing about their conference.
  
  Before the Animal Crossing announcement, Satoru Iwata came and talked, about how they want to break paradigms and all that crap, told us how games like Brain Age and the likes are selling, even though they don't have quality. After the announcement, Reggie came, and guess what, he talked, talked about how great the video game is selling, how good software are selling, and how they want to reach everyone in the industry, and how they satisfies both casual and hardcore games, he could had saved that. Then three trailers, like 30 seconds each, and the host woman is back to talk even more about sales! I thought it was a joke.
  
  Two "Wii Something" titles? That's great, Wii Music, a title where you play instruments, playing piano?! Wow that must be really "accurate". Wii Sports Resort, because no one should miss an exciting, and insanely fun, good old frisbee launching game!! It's almost surreal!!
  
  The only "wow" of the morning belongs to GTA for Nintendo DS, I don't know how this gonna be turn out, but I didn't see that one coming. The thing is, they spent like 10 seconds saying "GTA is coming to DS, now lets talk about how to use the DS at the airport!", come on, I wanna hear about the games, now how the DS is gonna teach me how to cook!
  
  1/10
  
  Sony Conference
  
  It was the best, it started bad, kinda boring, then they started talking about sales and presented them in a very interesting manner, then talked about how they, at Sony, are visionaries and how they launched a product looking forward to the future. After some time the games started to pop up and things got better, also some nice stuff for PSP.
  
  One thing interesting about Sony's conference, is that they said they would start doing business in South America! Yes that mean that I'm on Sony's map! Microsoft started business here like a year or a little more ago, and it's been great, always evolving and bringing games at the same time as USA, now Sony will too, I hope it turns out good.
  
  The end was epic, they started talking about a new game and I was like "now is the time!", and they present a trailer with a massive war and tell us that 256 players are gonna be online per match! It's MAG! Massive Action Game, and massive indeed!
  
  Some times I like to think about a good game that could be made, and I always imagined how would be like a war with like thousands of players simultaneously, and this is the closest right now.
  
  Also, the guy presenting was the best of all three, he did a good job.
  
  8.5/10
  • Posted Jul 16, 2008 4:05 pm GMT
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