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Lets close this year up with games I’ve actually finished. O_o

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I figured I would do something different as an end of the year blog post. I’m going to talk about games that I’ve finished this year. Yes! Out of all the games I have there are actually some titles I can honestly say that I’ve finished!

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This was up there in terms of games that I could not put down at all. Every night when I got home I HAD to get further into this game. I was captivated by not only the beautiful graphics and the extremely pancake thin french fries. But also the characters and their roles in how everything played out. I kept wanting to find out more about Elizabeth, Booker and those creepy twins that followed me around.

twins

Seriously I almost expected them to appear in some random hallway, saying “Come play with us Booker, forever and ever and ever and ev…”. Yeah… That game was one hell of a circle jerk. But I loved every moment of it. I still need to play the rest of Burial At Sea Part 2 though… and finish the other BioShock games. 😛

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I finished this game as a siren, and now I’m replaying it as a mechromancer. I had a hard time getting into Borderlands 1, but that might have been because I had no one to really play with. Plus gamespy always pissed me off (but with it being steamworks now I’ll have to reconsider). I loved the writing behind Borderlands 2, all the characters were amazing and there were even moments that had me busting my gut from laughter. I think Handsome Jack has to be one of the best villains ever created! And the whole storyline was an absolute pleasure to get wrapped up in, and even more fun to play with friends and family. I intend to play all the other classes too. Still need to tackle the DLC for those, but now that the steam sale has arrived, and I’ve been passing around DLC left and right. I think I’ll be able to get around to that. I imagine by the time I play through all the classes AND finish Borderlands GOTY, Borderlands the PreSequel will be cheap enough to snatch up. 😛

Jazzpunk

I don’t have much to say about Jazzpunk because really, it speaks for itself. I’d say it’s really up there with The Stanley Parable in terms of uniqueness. It’s so abstract, nonsensical and filled with the kind of humor that you would expect from Get Smart or The Naked Gun Movies. You never really know what you’re going to encounter next in Jazzpunk. One minute you’re standing in the middle of a beach, the next you’re playing Wedding Qake, or fighting some honda.

And last but not least…

MGR

When I first saw this appear on Steam back in the winter of 2013 for pre-order I was surprised that a Metal Gear title of any kind graced the PC master race. I was aware of the fact that this release had no Snake or Big Boss… But that didn’t stop me from getting it. At the time I didn’t really know who Raiden was or where he fit into the Metal Gear universe since I never played MGS2, so I was willing to give the game a fair shake. In all honesty I liked the game a lot more than expected. Don’t get me wrong, at first it was hard for me to really get into. Not because of the lack of it being a Metal Gear Solid game, but because it was a bit hard to learn for me even on easy. But after a few bad days of work and wanting to slash through the world in anger I got a nice taste for the game as well as properly practicing the controls. Plus when this video was shared with me I suddenly had the desire to continue playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JA5uw4d-Y4

It was fun. I look forward to seeing more Metal Gear titles appear on PC, and I wouldn’t mind seeing all the older ones ported over as well, and maybe even a sequel to this one. 😛

Well, that’s it for 2014. Lets see what the new year has for us, regarding gaming, technology, and real life matters. I look forward a happy, better, newer year.

Off for the Holidays

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For the first time in never I actually have Christmas eve off! So I’ll be spending time with the people I care about, play games and sip holiday teas and of course maybe do some holiday trolling (depending on how many trolls I encounter obviously).

Already got my TF2 Presents! I got a cool outfit for the spy, a name tag, description tag, gifta-pult etc etc. If you haven’t opened TF2 in awhile and wants some Holiday Swag you might want to go check it out. 😀

Oh, and as an off topic piece I decided to test a 1080p stream with some friends. My choice was Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. We were laughing at the fact that I could knock people out if they were climbing up or down a ladder, just by being on the ladder… The guards don’t even know what hit them! Literally. One guy got back up and was like “what was that?” then he climbed up the ladder again, he hit my butt when he got to the top, then he fell down again and knocked himself out from the fall. I’m almost tempted to alert all the guards, climb up into one of those little forts, then have them all try to climb up there to get me. Only to be met by Big Boss’ deadly arse.

Another Gaming Open Thread

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Last night I went out of my way to make sure all my games were up to date for lunch. Only to find Steam had an update waiting for me when I connected to the wifi at work… Didn’t even get anywhere near completion. -_-

On a brighter note I fixed my TF2 servers. Not only can people wear their Halloween cosmetics all the time again, they can also show off the awesome spells they collected! Made sure to enable it for Quickplay and MvM too. Oh, and the bots have special weapons again on the custom server. Hooray for diversity!

Speaking of servers it appears my main group has been getting some more members. Most of the traffic seems to come from the Elevator Source server. Who knew that giving people a place to stand around and do nothing would be such a hit?

No longer annoyed with TF2, for now…

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Yesterday Scream Fortress officially launched (and it’s fixed under Linux now too w00t!), perfect way to start my next set of timeoff and on a gray rainy day no less!

This year there isn’t a Halloween boss to defeat, instead we get bumper cars! I was rather surprised when people first talked about it because as crazy as TF2 gets I never really expected bumper cars to appear in the game. But there they were all ready and rearing. Also they had to change up the drop system for gifts due to the idlers who like to take gifts for themselves. This year it’s just two cauldrons of gifts (6 gifts total) and a drop every 3 hours on the other Halloween maps. I can live with that.

I’ve still been doing a lot of pubbing to get gifts. Pissing people off with how I play because unlike most people I don’t stick with just one class. I tend to change if we need a pyro, heavy, spy etc. Been making so many kids rage that it’s been pretty funny. I’ve also been recording my adventures just in case something happens. At the end of all this I might make a Halloween collage video. 😀

I’ve been slightly annoyed with TF2 lately.

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It’s been almost a month since Valve broke TF2 for AMD GPU users under Linux, forcing me to main under Windows until this gets straightened out. Then tonight when I went to get a Halloween gift from one of the servers I didn’t get it due to some kind of bug. I guess this has been happening for other people too. You run up to the gift, the gift vanishes, and then when the round ends it tells you the gift has vanished… wtf?

I’m not going to demand Valve deliver a gift to my doorstep or anything, but things just haven’t felt right with TF2 lately. Hopefully when the main Halloween event starts things look a bit better. There are quite a few on github who have been complaining about not being able to play TF2 due to their GPU and getting annoyed that they can’t participate in the event unless they swap to the Open Source drivers, which cause quite a few people to take a huge dip in performance compared to AMD’s drivers. Someone even got sick of waiting for Valve that they sold their R9 290 and went with NVidia. You’d think if you’re wanting people to play on the Linux platform that you’d want one of the most popular free FPS games to be working on all hardware, and to make it a high priority.

The gaming is strong in this one.

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I put my elevator source server back up last night. It’s amazing how so many people will login and stay on for sometimes an hour, two hours… And all you do is just stand in an elevator going floor to floor watching things happen. I mostly see kids on their who haven’t reached puberty which is the norm for garrysmod. I guess if any parents want to find a cheap babysitter for their 12 year old child they just need to make them play elevator. They’ll stay there all day and all night…

On another note Scream Fortress is in full motion now. I’ll probably be playing that a lot to get some of that spooky swag.

Oh, and last night I finally defeated Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2. Guess it’s time to break into the DLC. 😉

Played a bit of MOULa last night. Somehow stumbled upon 26 people in the city instead of the usual 3 or 4 that I see when I can be arsed to open up the game. Turns out there was some kind of tour going on that lead to kirel. I always forget how horrible the voice chat was in that game until someone decides to open their mouth. Voice chatting sure has come a long way since then. I’m thankful for VoiP.

Also did some more Saints Row the 3rd last night. Playing the mission where you’re acting in a movie. I kept getting annoyed with that mission due to my homie the purple space princess getting stuck in certain areas. Might pick up on it in a bit if I’m up to the task. Or do another mission entirely.

The obligatory catching up thread

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There’s a lot I could have been blogging about, but I’ve just either been too tired or not in the mood.

UNTIL NOW!

Of course I haven’t been ignoring the blog. I have been updating the features, even included a nice new steam stats plugin so you can check out what I’ve mostly been playing. Still sucked into Borderlands 2. I even leveled up to 32 last night! Space Engineers has been an interesting experiment. Reminds me of Garrysmod in space with minecraft elements. Speaking of Garrysmod I’ve been running a new cinema server which is pretty cool. It lets you get together with friends to watch things on sites like YouTube, blip or whatever place you want to watch stuff in cinema maps. It’s a fun way to share crazy links, which my group of friends and I seem to enjoy doing in mumble and IRC. Been also playing a bit of Saints Row the third on and off. That game is pretty funny. And of course TF2 which goes without saying. My TF2 servers have become pretty popular, especially Mann vs Machine. In fact on a daily basis I notice people on and off of MvM, regular TF2, CS:GO and L4D2 is usually getting some healthy use. And once on awhile the two gmod servers get some traffic. Especially during the weekend. Never expected the servers to become quite that popular. Even our steam group has grown a small bit. 😀

Already put in for my next vacation. Hopefully I’ll have off during Halloween for some funtime. Also continue my job searching. No luck yet on that front yet btw. But I’m not giving up yet. I’m still determined to get out of there. It seems like everyday when I go to work they find another way to make the employees more miserable, especially with the new rules being put into place by our store manager. I like how you can get written up now if you’re caught not smiling… Yeah, that’s an actual rule. Even if no customers are around if you’re caught with no smile on your face you get into trouble. I didn’t believe it until I saw the email. I’ll save the rest of that BS for another post and another day. It’s my weekend right now and I don’t need to raise my blood pressure.