Firstly I was not very active and didnt post a blog for quite some time my exams where going on so I didnt had time. Well finally I have completed all my papers of Btech and now I am leaving for my job on 26th to a place just near Mumbai so I might not be around for say for a month I will get a new PC over there leaving the current one for my parents and my 360 I will give it to my brother I have bought another PS2 which is all mine.

Yeah part of the reason for being inactive was my Pc, it was broken so I upgraded it. I bought a AMD athlon 4800+ (X2 series) with 2 GB Ram now I was going for 7800 GTX as GPU it was for 4600 Rs last time I checked its really cheap. But now hen I checked in Rashi perhiperals (the leading computer distributor of India) dropped the Geforce 7 seires and their slaes man was fooling me saying that 8400 Gs is near abt 2-3 time stronger than 7800 GTX and he said there is no reason to get a Geforce 7 thats really bad. I was settling for 8600 GT but its price is 6000Rs+ tax and I defintely know that its still not better than 7800 GTX when we get in DX 9. IMO it has bad value for money. I really dont know why Rashi dropped Geforce 7 series it was a good series and after price drop a lot of people were gonna purchase it. Know i have gone out of PC gaming once more. I mean how much can I play with my onboard 6150, and my laptop has 8600 but its being a laptop the performance is not very good.

Now the good part is that the prices have come down, so did get the whole upgrade for only 8600 INR I swapped it for my old PC. But still the GPU part was frustrating searching the market and there were a lot of stupid dealer pushing crappy products to me.

I have been through few games in my free time after exams I have been through DMC4, GTA4 and Mass Effect. Among them I have completed Mass Effect and it was really a great experience there were technical glitches and they were more in the end wer there were huge areas and a lot of enimies came by but still the game looked excellent and it was not that much frustrating but still even with glitches the game is great and I think the PC version will be better since Unreal Engine performs well on it and Bioware is also making improvements to the game. But in my view the game deserves something higher than 8.5 its easily 9 even after glitches. The best part of the game was the story line and I think it probalby has the best story in any of the 360 titles. It truly epic and second comes the graphics since they are really great, the frames issues is in the heavy fight sequences other than that the exploration part, a lot of which you will do is great it doesnt has frames issue even texture issues are less prominent there.

Also I been through Dark Sector this game is really good. I was not expecting it too be this much entertaining it doesnt deserves 7.5 it should be 8.0 easily. The puzzles are said to be bad by gamepsot but they are really good. The puzzles of the game are much better than what i had in Tomb raider. They are not Half Life 2 quality but still they are good. The graphics in particular are awesome and by awesome I mean they are one of the best of the 360 you can keep this game as graphical showcase like Assassin, Gears, COD4 and DMC4. Textures are better than Bioshock and COD4. The games lacks aesthetics but it really comes near to its concept art. Yeah but Bioshock looks better than Dark Sector since the environment is same and Bioshocks world is full of beautiful things. But still Dark Sector looks great and runs hassle free. So far I have loved the game. The score is also great. The boss battles come without any message or anything but they really awesome. The down point is some wired cutscenes like you drop from some place and get to the next level of the game are making this game like a last gen game but they are few.

Anyways I think the blog has been to long so I am cutting it out here.

1.) I am 24 years, I live in a town Raipur which has mixed urban and village localities, its capital of State Chattigarh of India.

2.) I was a body building aspirant eariler during my Diploma days when I was just 19 my specs where ( weight:72kg, Arms:14", Waist:31" and Chest:41"), now when I am co0mpleting my gradution I am like a gaint who eats a lot and does moderate excercise, Muscular but little Chubby specs now ( weight:91 kg, Arms:17.5", Waist: 36", and Chest: 46.5")

3.) I have failed once during my Diploma where I lossed intrest in studies and got bad marks and completed the diploma in more than regular time. Failing badly in diploma was the main reason to give up body building. But from then I worked as hard as I could for studies.

4.) I am good in organizing fight (rebels), I had orgainised 30 students and my mates from Hostel organised 90 students and we took on the house of the corrupt principal of our college who ate 200 million Rs. (6 million US$ approx) of the institute we went to his home shouted throwed stone then throwed two mortar one in his garden and one in his home and then burned the a** holes car.

Yeah he was so freakin afraid that he ran away the 2nd day. We also were not caught up by the police since college professor were on our side and we outnumbered the local police staion by 1:6.

Some say it was criminal offense but I say it was revolting against corrupt officer he asked fro it and so he got it. Mulitiplayer mayhem.

5.) I am more passonate abt arts and literature than technology, but both are equally intereting to me. Also I beleive that the young genration (we) is perfect we surf net to gain knowledge and are tecno savy i.e do stuff that our parent thought were only of experts or tecnician. We are more liberal in our view abt community, castes, Religion and other nations that the old genration was.

Also I would like to add to my 5 th point that I am firm belief in meditation like you lift dumbells and barbells for making muscles to make your body stonger, meditation in the same way makes mind stronger. I choose it I didnt realised it instantly but in ay 6 years it changed a lot I mean I had muscles but this thing gave me the balls to speak libreally in front of crowd of 100 people or a superior officer I just give what they own.

Hi,

Today may GATE( Pre PG emtrance) results were announced my result was 87.54 percentile (not percent), which is a sort of good and bad I mean its good but its the point where you start missing IIT's and some good branches of major NIT's are left out. I already have a placement at Ispat stell (M.L. Mittal group firm) as an Engineer.

So I am confused to go for job or get more qualified I can definetly get good seats in some NIT's which are still good but not like others I mentioned. So far I have quered a lot of people most of them saying me to go for higher studies saying that benifit will be in long run and others say you will start gaining money and experience from right now. I have decided to go for higher studies if it preferable yeah but promotion benifits are definetly there in long run. Lets hope for the best. IF anyone of you ( My Indian friends probably) have any ideas abt some good institute near you please tell me. My branch is Mechanical but I am free to take Mtech in any stream which is even a little relevant to my branch.

Other than this there is one samll problem I have a girl in my college whom I talk a couple of times recetnly, she was a good student so i joined her in my orkut account now whenever I see her she looks to me like I am begining to like her though I am not adn by her looks she definetely has some intentions. She is in Girls Hostel and all the girls of Hostel are whispering behind me I have seen it many times and my friends too. She most of the time keeps looking at me in the class, I am getting annoyed by this. She had not addmitted anything so I cant say anything abt this to her instantly but this is looking bad to me.

Yes I tried 2new game one is Bladestrom, and second is Guilty Gear OVertune. Not a very good choice but lets see how they do.

Bladestorm: started the game Asian Version of the game is which I used but it has improper descriptions in achivement. The description is childish and not to mention the achivements are given easily but they are used really bad in the game. The game is abt British and French War and you pick up a side and go the bad thing is that its bad then orignal Dynasty Warriors and gameplay features, sound is very dull I mean Dynasty Warroirs was quite accessible but this game which is also missing here, its really a bad chice to buy this game. 3/10

Guilty Gear Overtune ( Japanese Version): This game is reciving some high light at few places some take it in really high esteem while some say it will be absylam title but its no way bad or excellent its yet enjoyable why read out ?

NOw Guilty Gear graphics are not very good but they are much better than Blade Storm and artwork is nice most improtantly draw distances are high and the frame rate never drops a bit. Some places have really good lightning but the textures are little low res but architectural beauty of most of the place is good,

Also some gameplay mechanisms are very good, the game is fast paced and it has some races thing in it and the racing mechanism is relaly very good and the way you drift is just amazing. The fight mechanism is satisfying the only problem is that the games single player campaign has lot of ingame cutscene and they are very tidious. Yeah but the music of the game is good but some times it gets really excellent. Also the core gameplay is not fighting here its differnt you have to take controls of some tower like thing which will genrate helping force for taking further towers and also the assistant charcter that are released from conquered tower could be made stronger and the other enemy will do the same to us but we can also fight him in between to stop him and we are free to kill him also to conquering without wasting time on getting all the towers. Also some controls issues are there, mostly camera handling when we fight a opponent straight forward as games level change the levels are different with fighting, racing and basic tower conquering mechanism.

The free mission segment and VS and Online segment is there which is good to increase value. Overall the game takes new turn from series but is no way getting worse its really a very differnet game but its not bad than earlier and not very good as some expect it to be AAA.

Overall its a much better experience than Balde storm, my score 7.3/10

I will now get myself a new system I already have 360 which is RROD free now. So ask you to comment wheter to get PS3 or Wii

Games I look most forward on PS3 GOW3, MGS4, FFXIII and versus.

Games I look forward on Wii SMBB, SMG, Metroid 3, Zelda games, Resident Evil zero just announced

Also I am getting a Gamecube its really cheap near abt 2500 Rs. in India, but you can only get it at Delhi, I have asked my cousin to look for it.

My PS2 is taking tis last breath now I gave it to my friend who used it roughly and now its making wiered noises while playing games and many games dont run and it cannot save any games now. Still my friend to whom I have given it uses it for 18 hours a day they are like 4 people who are playing near abt all time on the machine. Lets see I have done a lot of 360 reapair hope I can reapir this up.

Now that GDC is just over and I must say it bought up really good news for 360 and PC gamers not to mention PS also had great things to show. I was surfing the net and downloading videos to get information abt whats going on here are news I picked up in brief:

1. UE3 powered with Mova animation engine was shown by microsoft spokeperson. I saw the video it was stunning, facial animation video is available in net. They animation were as better than even good CGI's have hope they put this thing into Gears2.

2. Too Humans was displayed and this time it successfuly came over the previous criticism. Not only the graphics were very sharp but another factor was known that the world in Too Human would be seamless like GTA 4, you can jump to environment to environment and no loading is there. Also the framerate was solid even though 60-70 NPC's were onscreen and a lot of action was going on screen running at 720p with 4X AA. Also the artistic beauty of the game really shows off with well designed character, environment and accessories and weapons. Sound track was also 1st grade.

Verdict: Too Human is solid technically and artistically.

3. Fable 2 demo was really exciting, The game is seamless just like Too Humans with fantasy settings. Not to mention the graphics looked really good and more than sound technology was the sheer artistic beauty in character design, clothing and environment and out of this environment was really extraordinary. Graphics were not like Mass Effect or Too Human which are based or realistic and mature setting they were more comical and stylish.

But the graphics were the secondary attraction to Fable 2 main attraction was that you can take a job you want adventurer, buy anything in the world like house small stores to big castles or even a whole city if your wallet allows you too. Also Peter Moluynex demostrated another striking feature that was relationships he showed that his player who was a female had a family which she raised on her money and when she returned from abt 6 months of adventure with a henchman who is the 2P in coop her son rushed to her and welcomed her and near the house her husband was in a bad mood, as anyone would be if ones wife comes after 6months with a hechman and then the 2p shooted Moluynex husband which he is free to do.

Now devs also mentioned that the child will now be no more carefree and if the player doesnt gives more attention he could end up in a orphange. But if the player wants she could retrive him from orphanage later. Mr. Moluynex confirmed that the things shown are simulation and not scripted. So it is on your own to make relation and maintain them in Fable 2. He also mentioned abt the freedom in moving people have in Fable they can climb walls or take window instead of door. They are free to do whatever they want.

4. Gears of War 2: A trailer was shown in which Marcus and locust fight with chainsaws in their hands using it like sword, it was really impressive but the trailer was in total red color. So no graphics forecast could be done. Also along with that they showed UE3 enhancement. Water effects, ligitining, Draw distance were increased also Post processing, high denstiy crowd, Soft body physics features are now added and also it was shown that environments can now be fully destructible.

Release Date of GEars 2 was confirmed to be November.

5. Star wars force unleased trailer was shown the game is comin in May on near abt all the consoles including PS2. But the trailer shown was for it PC, 360 and PS3 version. The graphics in the trailer were highly detailed and characters were also peculiarly what we see in starwars. The physics simulation also was also excellent in the trailer.

Also Lucas arts confirmed that from now on their lead console will be PS3, i.e all the games from now on will be developed in PS3 first this according to them would make the game be on time on PS3 with less hardwork and also the 360 version development could be handled easily then.

6. Ninja Gaiden 2 was shown the stag showed a really huge underworld type areas filled with monster and it was a valley like area were huge waterfalls of blood were flowing from here and there and a lot of dragon like monsters were shown flying. Still the visuals were highly detailed and the fighting seemed to have been improved from earlier especially the camera which was handled properly. Another thing noticable was the soundtrack was much better than any of the previous Ninja Gaiden games. At the end of the demo a demon talks to Ryu and tells him Something abt how Human spices are gonna be destroyed by demons and gives him an alternative : 'Submit or Die'. From the demo it was very clear that the cinematics in NG2 have been heavily improved from its predecessors. Also a feature of saving gameplay videos like Halo 3 was announced.

The only pedigree was that for unknown reason Itagaki's wireless controller failed two times although for 1 or 2 seconds. But still NG2 demo was the star of the show in GDC after competion and in betwen demo there was a lot of clapping whistling going on showing the positive response. I must comment that do watch the NG2 demo if you are waiting for the game.

7. APB : APB demo was also shown in the public its an MMo made by the person who build the concept for GTA3 and Crackdown. It is also has a seamless world. The graphics of APB looked really good, especially the characters were crafted brilliantly. Also it was shown that APB would unlike it predecessors also have style and personal touch to it. Also it was mentioned they have are putting some Final Fantasy Advent children movie kind of style in the games fight sequnces. The game would be releasing by this years end or early next year on PC and xbox 360.

8. Age of Conan: Hybrodonian ages: Funcom gives the demonstration and techdemo of their highly anticipated MMORPG, Tech demo showed realife day and night life cycle, Lush and living environment and the biggest of all this was the scale at which the game runs, Devs also mentioned that on account of the scale the game has Age of Conan really is what you call an MMO.

The control schemes for the game where shown it is a little complicated but fits superbly on PC. Also it was shown how rides work in the game the player were riding huge animal which are of fantasy world of conan like 35 feet huge Mamooth or Rhino thrice the size of todays or even simple horse if you want also it was shown that each rideable character had differnt walking and attacing style than other, spell use was also shown one of the rider sitting on maooth cast some spell of curing probably and a light blue coored illumunated beam falled on his body from sky and it extende to the distance as far as one can see. The spell casting was really impressive to look at.

One thing has to be mentioned that Conan videos look way too better in HD than on SD. If you will view an HD video of conan you would really appreciate its graphics even with epic size draw distance it looks striking epecially the lightining, terrain, Grass, Rocks, mountains and tress are done in very nice manner. Especailly the ligthining and water effects were really striking.

But the same video will look pale, like a PS2 game in quality on SD.

Also Funcom devs mentioned that even thought the control scheme is complicated and designed for PC, but 360 is perfect for Age of Conna and they are very excited to get the game on 360. Lets see if they can dethrone WOW from its position but anyways from GDC its clear that they are on right track.

9. Factor 5 are patching up Lairs control they showed it on GDC it will be launched in march.

10. Secret agent clank a Psp game was shown in which Ratchet has been imprisoned and Clank is upto resue him.

11. PC gaming alliance was formed by Microsoft, Dell, Activision, Intel, AMD

Titles which missed GDC: Alan Wake and Splinter cell: convection were not shown at GDC.

There might be a lot of things I misssed out but this was just a briefing based on what I had go through surfing in last 3 days so hope you like it.

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