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Tomb Raider was the latest game I've been playing. I was enjoying the game a lot and I do mean A LOT! I haven't enjoyed a third person action game like this in a long time...then all of a sudden bam! I was hit with a f*cking game breaking glitch almost to the end of the game. The glitch hit me at the Chasm Stronghold, where the enemies refused to spawn and I cannot progress. I did quite a bit of searching for a solution and nothing is possible (unless a patch is released). It seemed to affect all console and PC versions of the game. After cursing very loud today and getting in a rage. I am calmly going to toss this game aside and start Crysis 3!...shame this game could have been a firm contender for GOTY 2013 for me

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Dead Space 3 came out in early February and thankfully it is pretty good. It's not quite the atmospheric, tense and well paced experience that both its predecessors managed. But its still an enjoyable game with more action, longer campaign, excellent weapon crafting and co-op. I played the game entirely through with co-op after single player. It introduces some minor changes here and there. Like Carver having visions, or short cut scenes with Clarke and carver. It's very easy to play in co-op and I replayed a some of the chapters many times.

My review of Dead Space 3 (external link)

Awakened just came out, not a bad little DLC although does reuse areas of the main game and doesnt introduce much new. The cult leader fight and last puzzle are fairly good though. It continues the story of Clarke and Carver with quite a bit of dialogue, sadly no Ellie. It's only just over an hour long but good quality. It ends on a big cliffhanger.

Aliens Colonial Marines is a game I wasn't going to buy. My love for the movie series, especially Aliens, forced my hand. Luckily I got it fairly cheap, because Aliens CM is one of the worst games I've played in a long time. About the only thing I liked about it were the constant references to the movie, Bishop perhaps the standout. Everything else was so below par it would have me shaking my head. Even the shooting is quite poor. It's so disappointing to see an awful game come from an intriguing universe.

Just to give you an example of how bad the game is. One sequence has you unlatching three fuel nozzles from a drop ship on the planet surface. The area is fairly open and of course Aliens come. Once you enter the nozzle animation (press E to unlatch) the aliens will run up behind you and slash at you multiple times. Because you are in the animation you cannot be damaged or killed. So rather than watching your surrounds for aliens and picking a moment to unlatch, you just run to the nozzle and press a button. After you remove each nozzle, you can turn around and see 3 aliens lined up behind you who have been slashing at you.

Crysis 3 also released in Feb, it took the graphics crown pretty easily. It is simply stunning in places and looks as good in multiplayer. C3 is my least favourite of the series. It's still a decent sci fi shooter, just nothing great or spectacular. I had a lot more problems with AI than before, spawning enemies annoyed me esp with the visor. The bow seems overpowered and other weapons felt imbalanced. There really isnt a good sandbox vehicle experience either. Story wasnt that interesting and it just felt quite underwhelming by the end (aside from graphics). The multiplayer is great fun, as in C2, although I havent played much because I feel like Ive done it all before. Cevat may call it gamer fatigue. I think Crytek could try harder.

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Tomb Raider is a reboot to a franchise I have enjoyed in the past. It changes a lot of things, most notably the combat. It also reduces puzzle and platforming so it's just a fun game to play. There are problems with the survival stuff they introduce early on. More puzzles would have been nice too. Once I ignored the pointless attempts at survival realism, I enjoyed the rest of the game very much. Actually I've been playing more and trying to find all items and having great fun. Love how the game repopulates the area with a few enemies so I can stealth them or just play with the combat. It has certainly brought a fresh new spin to the series while leaving room for improvement.

My review of Tomb Raider on gamespot

Bioshock Infinite in 10 days, looking forward to that! Keep watching the skies!

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I use Simple Mobile service on this phone, not At&t.. btw

- Thankyou for reading.. Have a great day!!!..

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Nah, not really. Just wanted to chime in, to see if people were still around and brag about the fact that I'm going to college. I'll probably take english (both language and literature) as a major and japanese as my 2nd language (starting from scratch, could turn out to be a bad choice), subjects which will lead me down the path of either being a teacher or a translator, those being two jobs I am not fit for, but hey, life's supposed to be crap, most of the time.

I've said to myself that since, I'm still gaming, I'll try to keep this bi-weekly or monthly or something like that. But then again, I might fail to do so.

So, in case you've stopped by , here's something worth your time.

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hellow hellow, it has been ages... again... but I need to vent... again (a)

Let's talk guys first:

Last summer I had a fling with a guy who went to Finland on erasmus and it was really intense the two weeks before he left, but then when he was there we kinda grew apart and when I went to visit him we broke up...

Then there was nothing for a while but in February I met Tim, I found him really cute and we hit it off pretty well, he even loved Buffy! But after a month he kissed another guy and soon thereafter he asked for more freedom, in general (ie seeing other people) because he felt we were just having fun and nothing more... Which I accepted for a while since I really liked him and hoped he would start to like more too... Though after 2 or 3 more months of that I became harder and harder to see him kissing other guys until the last drop: we went to the poolparty of a friend and we had a hug dramatic drunk fight but it ended with him saying that he did have feelings for me but was afraid because he felt he could never completely trust me... And then we talked (read: screamed) about for a while and he said he would try or a while to trust me and not see other people... We had a great night, but the next morning I wake up and the first thing he says: "I don't remember anything that happened last night" and I tried to remind him subtly (because I didn't want to repeat the whole fight) but that didn't work... Then, when I saw him that night, he flinched back when I wanted to kiss him hello and simply said: "hey, jeanke (some guy) is here so don't get upset if I kiss him tonight" and then I just left half and hour later cause I couldn't stand them together...

And now he's had my dvds of the gilmore girls FOREVER and despite the fact that he wanted to get together almost everyday the first month we were seeing each other it has now been impossible to see each other once (except for at a bar coincidentally) in 4 weeks...

So... that sucks! In other news, I've started watching Will&Grace, as you may have guessed from the title quote, which is really fun actually, I'm ashamed I never watched the whole series before... Bad homo!

But okay tired of typing and I got the most important things of my chest, thank you for listening you have been a wonderful audience!

Xoxo

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I cannot wait. I, as with Bad Company 2 (see blog below), feel like a kid again. I cannot wait to make a new level 1 character and, more importantly, play it with thousands of others doing the exact same thing. I can't wait to see all the old zones redone, wracked by earthquakes and fires.

This month is going by fast, no doubt, but it cant go by fast enough! Is it December 7th yet?

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The past couple of days have been, eh, interesting, to say the least. Yesterday I went over my brothers to visit. As always my 7 year old nephew would not let me out of his sights, it was cute. Anyways he got a call about 2 in the afternoon from his wife's son from another marriage. He got himself into a car accident which ended up involving 3 other cars and a B-double semi-trailer. Luckily it was not his fault and he survived with only a few scratches, but the women in the car in front of him died.

Anyways after that I spent last night at a mates place for our weekly 'alcohol+games' get-together. Basically every week random people turn up to one of my mates places to play games until all hours of the morning whilst getting wasted. Last night there was me, Dobbie, Sam and Rob. We were continuously playing Halo 3 where it was Sam and Rob as "Team Friendship" and me and Dobbie as "Team Whatever". Thus this is why my eyes are burning, I got only two hours of sleep last night and I consumed a large amount of alcohol. Plus I slept with the "ninja cat", he just curled up under my arm and slept.

So as for the rest of the day I've got to try and salvage my brothers computer without a full-on reboot. He has been running it for four years without any anti-virus software and it is now so infected that I can't even use the internet through browsers or get onto task manager. I'm going to try and get my sister to install AVG and try to fix it, otherwise I'll just format the disk so he can start over.

The joys of being the only person to know anything about computers in a family as diverse as mine.

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I haven't been here in a long time because everyone else seems to have left.

But I would be lying if I said that I didn't miss it, haven't visited it, or thought about coming back.

I'm still obsessed with making lists, and keep posting new ones at my forum City Of Angels if you're interested.

What has been going on in my life (for those who care). Well, currently in my summer vacation, enjoying life. I am a much more positive person than I was five years ago, not nearly as much of a drama queen and don't make a big deal out of little things.

Life is how you make it, and I try to enjoy the little things. I know, how ~inspirational~.

Tv-wise, not really into anything new. MadMen is almost back, so that is something that I am looking forward to. But tv has been a little bit off my radar lately.

I've been OBSESSED with films, and discovered a great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky that is slowly becoming my no.1 Idol. Look him up.

If you are interested, check out my Top 160 Films: CLICK HERE.

I am trying to keep that updated as often as possible, so please check it out now and then. I mostly make it for myself, but also for people who love movies as much as I.

Anyway, that was a long and boring blog. How is everybody?

PS: Find me at http://jdsarmiento88.blogspot.com/

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There is no doubt in anyone's mind I'm sure that Assassin's Creed 2 wins by a mile when compared in aspects of both story, gameplay and graphics. I mean, AC2 is just too brilliant, the details, lighting, characters and is overall way better than Prince Of Persia : Forgotten Sands.

And hence, my question, why is it that, story being kept aside, that there is such an immense difference in the look and feel of both games running on the same engine. It should be apparent that, PoP:FS should have better graphics, if not the same as AC2 seeing that it was released at a later date. And even the gameplay was only interesting after a huge first half, which was a total drag.. jumping from pillar to pillar is fun, but the part where it becomes irritating is when, thats all u do.. Assassin's Creed 2 had a lotta focus on using the techniques of Ezio to get from one place to the other, rather than making it a challenge.. It was stealth that mattered. However, we know the basic core of the game of PoP is, after all, the wall jumps and acrobatics.. I would've liked to see it be as challenging as it was during Warrior Within or the original Sands Of Time, however, the level of challenge is just not enticing enough to even imagine a second playthrough..

It just felt as if the developers at Ubisoft released this title, just for the heck of it.. It wasn't as well-made to the needs of the modern gamer as Assassin's Creed 2 was.

I guess, I ranted on way too long.. The frustration of not having a decent PoP since The Two Thrones is just immense!

Hope i get some more chances to be back on the blog again.. Its been tough to do so this past year, as engineering is turning out to be a **** More on that later!

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With the PS3 you get the hard drive and the wifi built in. With the 360, you got to buy those two seperatly. $100 for the hard drive and another $100 for the network adapter. OUCH! Now getting the 360, was cheaper. only set me back about $200 and ready to get started strieght out the box.

The PS3 would have set me back about $350. but taking another look at the 360, i will end up paying more if I want the adapter, xbox live and a hard drive. and you will need the hard drive later if you plan on playing a vast amount of games including, your old Xbox games and downloads etc.

Bottom line, if money ain't a issue and you want more games to play, go for the 360. but in the long run, the PS3 is the more cheaper route to travel. Unless, you are happy with a Xbox core system.

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