Lil poll thing

I added a poll (on the sidebar on the right) about having a Oekaki or not associated to the blog.

Please vote and thanks for your time.

Borderlands stat font fix, PC only

I was looking for the font of the stats from borderlands, which i haven't been able to find, when i found out about a "bug" the game has.

Because of the size of the font in the stats part of a weapon, you can only see 4 lines when you can have more lines (Turns out i have like 8 items with 5 lines). PC players can fix this by editing 1 file to make the font size a lil smaller. Here's how:

• Go to the folder where Borderlands is installed
• Then go into the folders: WillowGame → Localization → INT
• Find the gd_globals.INT file and MAKE A BACKUP.
• Open the gd_globals.INT file with notepad.

Replace:
AttributePresentationTranslation="$NUMBER$ $CONSTRAINT$ $DESCRIPTION$"

With:
AttributePresentationTranslation="<font size="10">$NUMBER$ $CONSTRAINT$ $DESCRIPTION$</font>"

Save, and done.

What i got with size 12

That's the instructions i found, however, where it says 10, i went with 12, and i think i could push it up a lil more. I think that if there was a 6th line it'd show, hard to tell and I don't know if any item ever has a 6th line.

A swedish hero

Fun stuff, you can make your own.

Game review: Borderlands

Yea i know, it's been out for a while now. Initially i had trouble to decide which game to play first, Borderlands or Dragon Age. Anyway i beat Borderlands 3 days ago and i got a few thoughts on it.



Plot

On the Australian like planet of Pandora, there is a legend of a Vault which supposedly hold tons of alien tech, thus exist vault hunters who seek it out. You play the role of one of these vault hunter as you arrive on Pandora.

Simple plot, You don't have to save rescue anyone or anything like that, it's pretty much a treasure hunt. And you know what, i like that because greed is such an easily understood motivation. "Save the world" plots that start out as such always seem lacking, flawed, unrealistic or just cliche.

Gameplay

Well it's a shooter, but almost all guns are randomly generated on the go. but I'm getting ahead of myself here...

When u start, you have to pick one of 4 characters, I've tried out all classes but used a Berserker to beat the game, The only real difference between classes is their special skills and stat bonuses.

There isn't anything bad about the basic character movement, in fact, I quite enjoyed the jumping physics. very high and slow jumps, which were quite fun to use and the game does have a bit of platforming, you're also given an amazing ability: fucking running! doesn't sound like a big deal, but god damn I'm sick of slowly strolling in all these FPS games.

There's also vehicle action in the game, and although the control of it feels weird to anyone who played half life 2, once u get used to the vehicle controls they're actually pretty darn good. It's the half life 2 ones that don't make fucking sense and ruin u for life.

Characters

As characters, they're pretty much blank slates i guess, not really developed whatsoever, they act more like classes. As i mentioned i tried out 2 characters, although one was brief. So i'll just babble on about the Berserker.

The Berserker, called by default Brick, has the ability to punch stuff. It sounds lame, but i think that he might actually be over-fucking-powered. To use his fists, he goes into a rage where his life regens at an incredibly high rate, his punching dmg is ridiculously high, even for just jabs (he can perform slower but more damaging uppercuts), the rate he jabs is really fast and honestly he makes ALL fights a joke, rarely enemies will survive 4 secs of punching, over 50% die in 2 hits and 20% die in 1 hit (assuming u used the uppercut).

Mordecai the hunter - Lilith the siren - Brick the berserker - Roland the soldier

Now granted each character has 3 skill-trees and he may pick skills from each or focus on one, i went with brawler which enables him to go berserk often, for longer, to regen on kills during berserk, etc. punching the shit out of stuff was really the quickest and easiest way to deal with anything. even used it to just heal myself.

I encountered far more difficulty when i played with the hunter seeing as he had little health and just pretty much relied on sniping shit before it got to him. seeing as even sniper weaps don't have perfect accuracy, it was troublesome.

I've tried the Siren and Soldier yesterday, and i gotta say, like the Hunter, the Siren's special ability is kinda worthless and if you use her you're just making the game harder on yourself. I'm currently playing through with the soldier, and although I'm having more trouble with him early on than with the Siren, i cna see how he could become really really useful. I'm at the point where i'm deceasing the cooldown for him special skill (making a turret which auto aims and shoots stuff provided it's in front of it), when maxed that skill will have 100% cooldown decreased (which i believe means no cooldown). that could b a great help.

Weapons

The game generates weapons with all sorts of stats, elemental dmg, and sometimes weird gimmicks, you will come across tons of weird weapons in this.

I did encounter a few notable weapons in the game:

• A rare hydra shotgun, which had a weird 5-way shot. Best i could describe it would be like that multiple shot in Contra games, it was like having 5 different shotguns shooting in 5 preset different directions.
• A shotgun that shoots an inaccurate rocket. Turns shotgun ammo into a rocket, I can't imagine how that works, but it's a nice budget rocket launcher.
• A"Boom stick", a very high power shotgun that shots a single bullet with 0.0 accuracy, that's right none. has 6 bullet per clip and when u fire it will autoshoot til the clip is empty. incredibly deadly at close range, useless otherwise.
• A rocket launcher that shoots 3 rockets at once, which spiral around themselves.
• A SMG that shoots 4 bullets simultaneously each time, but low ass accuracy. think of it as a low budget shotty that does lil dmg but is really fast.
  

From my play through, shotguns tend to be the most interesting.

Besides all the regular types of weapons, you sometimes find alien-tech stuff that is just goofy.

Also, the game has 4 kinds of elemental dmg: explosive, corrosive, fire and shock. Elemental weapons have a chance to deal said elemental effect.

• corrosive is my fav by far, deals damage over time and drains armor and flesh. It's a must on late game levels when u start encountering soldiers from the crimson lance.
• explosive is self explanatory, it creates an explosion, as far as i can tell, some creatures are weaker to it and some are almost immune. generically though, seems to add a lot of dmg to attacks.
• fire sets people on fire to deal dmg overtime, works especially well on flesh, if the enemy still has his armor on it's a lil less effective.
• shock is great to drain shields, you probably should have a revolver with it around just to one shot enemy's armors, and then switch to something else, cause it's not that great on flesh. I find that a lot of stuff takes less dmg from it.

Conclusion

This game is pretty awesome, all RPGs should b like this because it's not that boring to play through and I've actually been replaying it this with other classes and using different strategies. It's mostly optional if u wanna pay attention to the story or not.

I want to try this on multiplayer, but i don't know if i can. I heard u get really nice loots when u do so though. The thing about each class is that you either embrace the character's special ability, or you seem to b fucked. You are allowed to respec your skills for a large sum of money though so your character is never ruined.

I do know that i really enjoyed this game as it is even if it was just single player, always getting new guns, shields, grenade and class mods, trying out lots of really weird and different gear, so many missions and it didn't always feel like a fetch quest, which even when they did, didn't feel all that bad. Boss fights were cool too, not that hard, but memorable for the most part.

I fucking recommend this, totally "Do want!"

Drawing HAX

Lemme tell you a story about this picture. Turns out I've been drawing the horn on the wrong side of Hellina's head as of late. Did I go back and fix it? Nah, I just wrote my "signature" backwards.

It doesn't say much for me being lazy, but it does say a lot about how far I'm willing to go to avoid doing the real work. It also helps a bit when you have a really tiny mistake to fix, but are afraid of screwing up an otherwise satisfactory drawing.

Of course...now her lapels are overlapping the wrong way (I think)...

I need some doggone help!

Here's the deal, me and Zach have been making a new TF2 spray, and now that we're almost done, we need a funny line to write on it.

Now, I asked around, and the best suggestion (with tweaking from 3 people) we got so far was to write "Whack it off" at the top, and "And i mean the sapper btw" at the bottom.

So i thought: I gots a blog, not many people read it, but they might have a brain cell between all of them. So I'm taking suggestions for the text on this.

No there's no prize, none of us have a job so we're poor. All you get is the satisfaction of being clever, IF you are funnier that is.

"I am the world's 2nd best pillow fighter!"

So u think slow motion sequences are cool uh? Maybe this will change your mind.



No hacks, no cheats, just Ken's huge ego.

I couldn't believe it was gonna take the entire video.

Lol boycott irony

If you check the L4D2 Boycott steam group, you'll see something like this:


Could b just me, but it's just ironically funny. Some people are such hypocrites.

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I really do not have time to be watching anime series as it is just a distraction to me. Having said that, I found myself getting into a fairly new series called Nyan Koi! (You can just read what it is about here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Koi!)



It's a pretty funny series except one thing bothers me so damn much with this series and many others like it. All these girls keep getting attracted to the main character. It's only funny if it's a small amount of no more than 2, but after that it just becomes stupid. Not only that, every stereotype of girl is into this guy. You got your typical gendered girl, your childhood friend who is violent but has big boobies, a mail lady who is clutzy, underaged twins, a lesbian male looking one, etc.

They only time I think this would be acceptable would be a hentai game or show because that's pretty much the point of the show.



Maybe that is how it is in Japan, but whatever the case the showhas a lot of pussy...cats in it.

Dragon RIP

Having promised to Zach that i wouldn't play The new Mario game, I've had enough time to play and beat Dragon Age.

Although it's easy to tell this game has a LOT of multiple paths, I'd say this is one of the best written games I've ever experienced. the final battle was nothing short of epic.

Oh and the [SPOILER] result of the "get Alister laid with Morrigan" quest near the end was quite... hot... [/SPOILER]

The Killing blow on the archdemon.

So yea, was it a good game? well, i guess so. Although i LOVED the story and the character were a LOT of fun, and i got my character laid, yea, pretty fucking sweet. I didn't think it was hard, and some people might think the battles are annoying, also, damn this game is long. I would had gladly skipped the battles and the dungeons and all that crap, cause, fighting isn't hard, but u have to kill hordes and hordes of assholes and it can take for fucking EVER.

Also, what's the deal with gear? do you ever get "great" gear in this game? as far as i can tell, the stuff u get depends on your level, and although u can get stuff slightly better than some other, it's all more or less the same crap, i seriously grew sick of looting and it was just pointless at one point. Just ran my way into dungeons sick of it wanting to see the next cut scenes cause that's all i was playing for.

I kind of wanna replay it, but i don't like anything except dwarven chicks, and the only alternative I'd have in that is make a high social classed one, not much point.

A Wii leak

So The New Super Mario Bros Wii game apparently leaked, and i believe the game hasn't officially come out yet.



I gave the game a try, but i'm not playing more of it until Zach gets the game (he pre-ordered it i think) to not make him jealous. So this is pretty much my first impressions without really spoiling anything.

The game gives out a heavy feel of SMB3 to me, i didn't play the recent DS game, but i'm told they're supposed to b similar. there's a multitude of non traditional platforming such as round rotating platforms, regular blocks or other elements that wing back and forth in a pendulum motion.

I enjoyed that there's elements from SMB3, SMW and Yoshi's island, and even a specific element from SMB1 most people don't even remember about. The gameplay is pretty decent, probably not as easy to control as SMB3 or SMW though, but nearly as good.

I'd like to note that i have a huge fucking problem with the Wii gimmick once again though, to use the helicopter hat special skill (no idea what's the actual name of that hat), you have to lift up your Wii mote fast, or shake, i still can't tell. you also have to do that to pick up blocks, and it's extremely non intuitive especially on the later case. There so is no need for that fucking gimmick here since it's only replacing a button really, I'd much rather use B myself if i could.

Still, that unpleasant control thing aside, there's tons of familiar and new elements to the Mario series in this game. i got up to world 6, and i noticed since world 1 that each world has a canon in them, that i couldn't unlock a path to, so dunno what's that' about. also each level has 3 star coins in them, so I'm getting that nagging felling this game is gonna force me to collect all of those.

I am looking forward to play it again, but I'm gonna wait til Zach gets it. I can't really recommend it cause i haven't beaten it yet, but what i seen so far, i like it, difficulty seems just right, it's really not dead easy which is good. Lives are way too easy to get, but i had 67 lives before world 5, and I'm down to 54 at the beginning of world 6, so you might actually need those lives for the last world.

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

As I wait for Shibamura Prime to approve of me posting a higher resolution picture here is one with an ugly watermark and not so high resolution preview for ya folks.


Oh how I love Carmen so much. She's managed to steal a lot of rare stuff all over the world and through time. There's no satisfying that woman! On top of that she always manages to escapes everytime. Not only that she laugh at you while you feebly attempt to solve her clues and puzzles, and when you think you have her you realize she's still ten spaces ahead of you. :/

Kinda big gaming post

Since the Killing Floor free weekend, both Zach and me bought the game. I have to admit, it's weird I've gotten to enjoy it and weirder i played this game so intensively.



The game is visually kinda crappy, I'll admit that right away. However, visuals alone never made a game fun. Before trying it on the free weekend, i thought it was like L4D, but actually, it's nothing like L4d at all.

Zach compared the game to Hero survival maps on Warcraft 3, which is very accurate in my opinion. For me it felt like Counter strike mixed with House of the Dead in a odd odd way. But anyway, here's how the game plays:

You and your team are a squad that's send to an area to clear it up of "specimens" (mutants really), which come in waves (10 if you're playing standard long games). Killing these specimens or healing teammates grants u money, and at the end of each wave, players get 1min to buy weaps and armor at a trader who randomly changes location on the map (it's very well indicated where the trader will b though, no worries about it). And that's it, survive all the waves, get geared up, and at the end of the final wave, you fight the patriarch who's pretty much the boss which is by no means easy.

If I must compare it to the L4D games, it may b a lil dull that you don't really "go" anywhere, in the sense that all the areas you're sent in are closed (similar to L4D survival maps but much much larger), Which i didn't like at first, but the maps are big enough so that it's not that much of a big deal. There are more types and more diverse enemies in Killing Floor than the original L4D, and possibly than L4D2. The choice of weapons is really great in Killing Floor compared to L4D, L4D2 has some more weapons than it's predecessor, but i think KF still has it beat.

But what got my atention in KF is that players can play specific roles instead of all being the same, and they can do that using "perks":


Perks will sound similar to classes from TF2, But it's not quite what they do. Perks provide a bonus stats to a certain area of expertise, such as for example, Firebugs Gains resistance to fire dmg, more range, dmg and ammo on the flamethrower and fire grenades eventually. That does not mean u're restricted to use the flamethrower however, you can still use any weapon you like.

Perks can be leveled up as well, which increases their stats and eventually allows u to start with a weapon (usually something relevant to your perk). You can switch perks once between waves as well, some people say that switching a lot allows you to build up your items and cash better.

This is a strangely fun game, on harder difficulties Zach and me get REALLY into it, it's a lot of fun and can be intense.



Played the demo with Zach 1 hour after it was made available on Steam, and was surprised on how god dammed right i was about it. But also how they managed to screw up stuff that was good.

Ok ok, they didn't only fuck up, there's good things in this, like a lot of new weaps of which i tried all the ones i could, and it's all very standard. Saw and tried all the new items, aside from the adrenaline shot they were all "meh". the 2 maps in the demo were boring and linear, even more than in the original. The fact that it's fucking broad daylight doesn't help the game in the least, everything is way way easier to spot and shoot and i couldn't even figure out why u even start with the flashlight on, it's virtually useless. "oh god, it's so bright out here, i think i need a flashlight so i won't even notice it's on".

The continuous crescendo event isn't that impressive, it's like being in survival for a bit and then it stops. They added a couple of special infected, that, really, couldn't care less. I mean they're so stupid in the sense that they're such minor inconveniences. the charger is a problem though, I'll give u that, that fucker will tear u apart if no one's near u, but it's a L4D game, you're ALWAYS supposed to move as a team anyway.

All the characters are heavily uninteresting to me, i can never pick who i wanted to use cause i dislike all of them. i can't relate to ANY of them and some i just can't even stand. The voice acting seems like it took a fall from the first game, even though they supposedly hired professionals this time. The music in this game SUCKS! IT'S FUCKING HORRIBLE! STOP IT! it's like when recording, half of the people were playing the music and the other half were throwing their instruments across the room.

The game engine seems identical to L4D, none of the changes I've seen justified Valve making a new game, in fact, it seems like a downgrade: Try looking at your feet in L4D2, unlike L4D, you can't. I always thought it was cool that L4D allowed u to see yourself then u looks around, and they removed that in L4D2. Although a definite improvement over L4D, it's still the same game with nothing intresting to add to the formula. They only added the crap that should had been in the first game to begin with.

Also I HATE the way L4D2 handle melee weapons, Killing Floor makes using melee enjoyable, L4D2 makes it fucking hard and a last resort. I wouldn't buy this game for the current price of L4D. This is easily Valve's worse handled product ever. If it wasn't for the boycott controversy this shit pack would had never sold anything.



So recently I picked up Dragon Age: Origins, and i gotta say, this shit is pretty damn good!

One of my favorite RPGs on the PC is "Arcanum", it has a decent character development, main story, side quests, theme even. It's the only game i ever played where you could talk the last boss into killing himself. To this day, i think that was epic. It also had a huge choice of character backgrounds that would influence not only your stats but the way people treated you and the story.

Dragon Age feels VERY similar to Arcanum except perhaps for the theme of the world it takes place. some of the allies u gather seem predeterminded by the plot, but a lot are quite optional. and even if u have a lot of allies, you can play by yourself if you wish (i wouldn't, but the fact that you're alowed to do so is always nice), control wise, u control your character like u would a WoW character, or a Warcraft 3 unit, in fact, u can drag and select all your character WC3 style, Both ways are enabled and it's really nice to b able to freely switch between the 2.

The story so far is ok, pretty cool actually. some of the plot depends on your race adn background, and some it common to all characters. i gotta say I'm liking it a lot so far. What i imagine is common to all is that you Become a Grey warden and fight the Blight of darkspawns. to do so, u gather allies from nations, but there isn't even a specific order u have to do it.

What's got me hooked though, is the allies u gather, and how u can talk to them and get to know them, they're very very interesting and fleshed out pretty well. Morrigan is the most interesting character so far, she is a witch that was raised in the wilds, she's not used to civilization and is very clever, sarcastic and even cruel, she contrasts a lot with other characters and always has something mean or sarcastic to add to convos.

Also like Arcanum, characters will approve of disapprove of your actions, but also of what you reply when chatting with them. In Arcanum that made the main character possibly become the love interest of one of your companions, and i think the same applies in this game. I'm trying to get hot witch on dwarf lesbian action! (ew... that sounded nasty even to me...)

If you like RPGs, this game is fucking awesome, difficulty doesn't seem unreasonable, leveling isn't even an issue, and it's a damn interesting game. Might b a lil demanding graphics wise so check if you can run it before getting it.

Late Halloween pic

Last time Bliss will agree to play along with Brooke's costume ideas.

Zach doodled and colored it, am too emo to do crap lately.

How the mighty have fallen

After typing the title of this post i realized one might think i was refering tot he blog itself, but I'm not.

I'm just amused by the marketing strategy L4D2 is doing.


Seriously? this game is so bad you're leeching on another comunity and offering a virtual hat? Seriously? Just whoa... that's low.

As expected, this made people rage on both the L4D and TF2 communities. Especially the TF2 one because after such a cool event weekend, everyone was happy, and now this shit again. Vavle is that uncle that gets drunk in your birthday parties and then vomits all over you.

Tof And Zach's Men's army - Part 2

Further instructions in the ways of signals.

New L4D campaign - Dead before dawn

I vaguely heard about this, it's been on the making for mouths.

"Dead before dawn" is a massive campaign for L4D that has been highly awaited. I'm subscribed to the L4Dmods steam group, and a few hours ago, they started posting anouncements every 20 mins about how it was done, and they were working on putting it put. They were making a huge deal about it.


Finally, they got it up on as a torrent.

I still haven't downloaded it, it's massive, the campaign is over 1gb, i can't even imagine all the details into this but rumors are this is amazing.