Not to sound dramatic with the title of this post, especially since I hate Internet drama, this is more so about what direction that my Halo "career" could go. Along with some other things as well.As I'm sure you all can tell (even if you just found this blog today) I am a huge Grifball nut. The past few days I have been looking at GrifballHub's website and reading over the new stuff relating to the new season of the GGL (Good Games League); in that time I have also been thinking of how cool it would be to play in at least one season of the GGL. I also discovered that they have a list that people can sign up to be what they call "Guest Players". I've noticed that they mostly consist of current league players but they mention that since the GGL is a recreational league anyone can throw their name on that list so long as they can abide by league rules. When I saw that list I thought about signing up for that list, but then I had a dose of reality that made me realize my schedule would not permit it right now. Then a couple days later I was back to doing the same thing. After doing some extra reading and finding a topic in their forum that was for people looking for a team and for teams looking for players, I came to the decision that next season I will throw my name in the hat and see if I can land a spot on a team. I know I had said that my schedule will be busy, but by the time the next season of the GGL kicks off with sign-ups I will be finishing up what is tying me down now.
So there you have it, during the Spring or Summer (I don't remember exactly when the next GGL season is) I will at least try out for a team. Whether or not I make it onto any team is a completely different story.
Speaking of Grifball, I have a few games that I recently played in Reach of it.
We lost a person from the start, but we had control of the game pretty much.
Dibs on Defender! I totally called it!
Good game blue team....ouch.
Bomb meet face, face meet bomb.
And just for kicks, my very first game of Grifball in Reach.
I'll close out this short post (Hey! It's late here) with some clips from Grifball that I have taken recently. They are rendered so if you have Silverlight (I think that's what it is) installed and up-to-date you can watch it right on Bungie's site. If you don't you can either download it to watch next time you boot up Reach or I am hoping to have them uploaded to YouTube in the near future.
I'll first start off with my most recent favorite.
"Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting Gwif."
Hehe, I love doing that. I also kind of did it once before in Reach and once in Halo 3.
Nothing too special honestly, but I really don't think that I was supposed to get the bomb...
Yeah so that's what I believe (at least they used to call it that) a Grifumble (might be two "f's" not sure) recovered by the opposing team. What I believe was supposed to happen was the guy I killed was actually the one supposed to get the bomb while the guy that dropped it was supposed to come after me and kill me. It seems that something went wrong...somewhere.
"I got a clear path to plate, all I gotta do is kill this dude that spawned."
"No you don't."
Yeah, so that was me coming off the spawn. Nothing too impressive again but I at least saved us from getting scored against.
Planting Fail!
Yep, I failed at planting the bomb. I would have been fine if I didn't jump. I always jump though, it's like a force of habit...or nature whichever. Either way it didn't work too well.
Haha! I lied! A quick update on my quest for 20k Gamerscore. I am currently sitting at 19,571 which if you do some simple math (20,000 - 19,571 = 429) well would you look at that! Only 429 away from my personal goal. I still need to finish the Gears 2 campaign and do some clean up on some easy achievements, plus finish both Dead Island and Bulletstorm (still...) which all should net me some extra points. I am also still going to try to earn all the achievements for Halo Anniversary with Storm; though it looks like some of them might give us some troubles.
There you have it everyone, I will try to get a full fledged post out sometime soon. No promises but I have been trying to keep this place updated on a regular basis.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Oh Internet, You Amaze Me
This first paragraph is most certainly a rant so you can probably skip to the second paragraph if you don't want to read my ramblings. I cannot bring myself to the understanding of how someone can think a game that has a bug or glitch that erases your story progress completely game of the year material. Recently there was a thread in a group I am in on Bungie.net that was in regards to I believe IGN's GOTY article, which they deemed Portal 2 as theirs. One person in that thread seems intent on trying to convince me that I am wrong in my ways of agreeing with their decision and not jumping on the "Skyrim is teh best gaem evar!!1!" bandwagon. Okay, so that may not be their main goal but it sounds like it based on the way their posts read. I guess I just can't grasp my mind around the fact that someone can think a game is GOTY material when it has a serious bug that erases your story progress.I know in the past I have said the no game is perfect, and I still stand behind that. I can understand it, if it is something on a little smaller scale such as a character disappearing randomly. But take and ask this question to yourself:
Do you really want to spend 100+ hours playing a game only to save and quit one night then come back the following day to find everything, all your leveled up skills, weapons etc. gone? While you ponder that, I shall move onto the next topic.
A couple days ago I finished my first season in the Dynasty I had started. I finished the season at 14-0 and took the team I always use to the National title game. I bet you can take one guess as to who it is. Can't guess? It's the Fighting Illini. I found out that I evidently have the game on the lowest difficulty...which explains why I can go undefeated through the season. That does not explain however why I have troubles with Purdue, Penn State and Michigan each time I play them. At first it was only Penn State that would give me fits (you know, the magic player that would come out of nowhere and sack you or come up with an interception) but now it seems that Purdue and Michigan can be added to that list. I played Purdue at home in the (with "e" being stressed) Memorial Stadium and they managed to pick me off three times and score on twice of said three times.
I faced Michigan twice. Once in the regular season and they gave me probably the worst trouble. I thought this game was going to be whose kicker would be the best. In the first three quarters it was each team trading a field goal. It was only until the fourth quarter where we picked them off and returned it for a touchdown.
Since I did rely heavily on my running game throughout the first season I ended up getting my starting running back in the race for the Heisman Trophy. Unfortunately he kept getting injured in our last few games so his average yards per game went down plus we had a bye week. In the end the quarterback of Houston won. I'm not disappointed really, except for the fact that I lost out on a 15 point achievement.
Speaking of achievements, I'm only 599 points away from breaking into the 20K Gamerscore club. I'm hoping that with finishing up Bulletstorm and Dead Island I'll be able to snag at least another 100-150 more points. I need to go back and check to see which ones I can get easily. Plus this weekend I am going to pick up Gears of War 2 (hey, it's only ten bucks!) and from asking someone I know on Twitter what it's like they said it has easy achievements. As I told them, I'll take easy achievements any day. I've also thought about picking up CoD4 (aka the first Modern Warfare) however I'm still on the fence about that one. The only thing I would be playing would be the campaign for it as I am hearing the multiplayer is chock full of modders and hackers. I'm just not sure honestly.
I leave you with this short post, but at this time I don't have much more to add to this post. Hopefully I can finish Bulletstorm up this weekend and grab some more achievements in one of three games.
Do you really want to spend 100+ hours playing a game only to save and quit one night then come back the following day to find everything, all your leveled up skills, weapons etc. gone? While you ponder that, I shall move onto the next topic.
A couple days ago I finished my first season in the Dynasty I had started. I finished the season at 14-0 and took the team I always use to the National title game. I bet you can take one guess as to who it is. Can't guess? It's the Fighting Illini. I found out that I evidently have the game on the lowest difficulty...which explains why I can go undefeated through the season. That does not explain however why I have troubles with Purdue, Penn State and Michigan each time I play them. At first it was only Penn State that would give me fits (you know, the magic player that would come out of nowhere and sack you or come up with an interception) but now it seems that Purdue and Michigan can be added to that list. I played Purdue at home in the (with "e" being stressed) Memorial Stadium and they managed to pick me off three times and score on twice of said three times.
I faced Michigan twice. Once in the regular season and they gave me probably the worst trouble. I thought this game was going to be whose kicker would be the best. In the first three quarters it was each team trading a field goal. It was only until the fourth quarter where we picked them off and returned it for a touchdown.
Since I did rely heavily on my running game throughout the first season I ended up getting my starting running back in the race for the Heisman Trophy. Unfortunately he kept getting injured in our last few games so his average yards per game went down plus we had a bye week. In the end the quarterback of Houston won. I'm not disappointed really, except for the fact that I lost out on a 15 point achievement.
Speaking of achievements, I'm only 599 points away from breaking into the 20K Gamerscore club. I'm hoping that with finishing up Bulletstorm and Dead Island I'll be able to snag at least another 100-150 more points. I need to go back and check to see which ones I can get easily. Plus this weekend I am going to pick up Gears of War 2 (hey, it's only ten bucks!) and from asking someone I know on Twitter what it's like they said it has easy achievements. As I told them, I'll take easy achievements any day. I've also thought about picking up CoD4 (aka the first Modern Warfare) however I'm still on the fence about that one. The only thing I would be playing would be the campaign for it as I am hearing the multiplayer is chock full of modders and hackers. I'm just not sure honestly.
I leave you with this short post, but at this time I don't have much more to add to this post. Hopefully I can finish Bulletstorm up this weekend and grab some more achievements in one of three games.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Island of Paradise
My first post since I finished the "Bowl Bound" series, granted it is a tad later than the few days afterwards. But hey, why should it be any different from before right? During the time I was doing the Bowl Bound series I got a couple new games. One of which I already used for the previously mentioned series, NCAA Football 12. I haven't played a lot of it to form a solid opinion of it, from what I have played of it though I like it much better than NCAA Football 10. I like the stadium introductions for home teams, it actually feels like a Saturday morning college football game. I started the usually dynasty on it as well, so far I like how you have to be more involved in recruiting and the like. Needless to say though, I still kind of suck at doing that.
The other game I got was Dead Island. Picture Left 4 Dead meeting Fallout in terms of RPG/Shooter combo. I've played Fallout so I know how the RPG elements work in that game and it is rather....slow with how quickly you rank up. I'll admit I was expecting the same thing with Dead Island when I first found out that it was going to have that element. When I started playing it I was proved wrong in my assumption (see, they're not always that great) and was leveling up rather quickly. I love how huge the game world is, I am about halfway through the game and still have yet to fully explore the island itself. And (Spoiler Alert!) since that is the case I made into the city, which might be larger than the island itself, but I still have yet to explore it completely either. Needless to say, if you enjoy exploring large maps and hunting for hidden items this game will certainly cure that itch for a while. I never really used to explore the maps until I was watching Storm do it in Bioshock and saw that he was finding all these cool things hiding away in dark little corners. I went and played later on and did the same and found all this cool stuff that Storm had previously ran across. Not that I would ever commit some of those spots to memory and go back to them when I played...nope, never.
The other game I have been playing recently is Bulletstorm. It's a fun game I like it from what I have played of it. If a sequel is ever released there is some work that should be done to the basic gameplay and I'm sure the developers would do that. They do know how games work after all. There are times where you are fighting an enemy and all of sudden you glitch through the floor and can't do anything. Or there's the time where the "sidekick" walks over a bridge and starts to float towards the sky only to get caught in a tree. Yeah so the game isn't perfectly polished, but it's still fun to play nonetheless. The leash is really sweet, I like how you can yank enemies towards you and kill them that way. Or if you want you could leash them your way and then kick them into the nearest cactus...or over the closest ledge. Or even back in the direction he came from and back into the group of enemies he was around.
On a quick closing note, I am currently sitting at 19,091 Gamerscore. If you remember a while ago I started a quest for 10,000 Gamerscore, currently my new goal is for 20,000. It might take a while, but I'm sure I'll eventually make it. There you have it, a somewhat short post but I am hoping to have posts out on a regular basis. So until next time!
The other game I got was Dead Island. Picture Left 4 Dead meeting Fallout in terms of RPG/Shooter combo. I've played Fallout so I know how the RPG elements work in that game and it is rather....slow with how quickly you rank up. I'll admit I was expecting the same thing with Dead Island when I first found out that it was going to have that element. When I started playing it I was proved wrong in my assumption (see, they're not always that great) and was leveling up rather quickly. I love how huge the game world is, I am about halfway through the game and still have yet to fully explore the island itself. And (Spoiler Alert!) since that is the case I made into the city, which might be larger than the island itself, but I still have yet to explore it completely either. Needless to say, if you enjoy exploring large maps and hunting for hidden items this game will certainly cure that itch for a while. I never really used to explore the maps until I was watching Storm do it in Bioshock and saw that he was finding all these cool things hiding away in dark little corners. I went and played later on and did the same and found all this cool stuff that Storm had previously ran across. Not that I would ever commit some of those spots to memory and go back to them when I played...nope, never.
The other game I have been playing recently is Bulletstorm. It's a fun game I like it from what I have played of it. If a sequel is ever released there is some work that should be done to the basic gameplay and I'm sure the developers would do that. They do know how games work after all. There are times where you are fighting an enemy and all of sudden you glitch through the floor and can't do anything. Or there's the time where the "sidekick" walks over a bridge and starts to float towards the sky only to get caught in a tree. Yeah so the game isn't perfectly polished, but it's still fun to play nonetheless. The leash is really sweet, I like how you can yank enemies towards you and kill them that way. Or if you want you could leash them your way and then kick them into the nearest cactus...or over the closest ledge. Or even back in the direction he came from and back into the group of enemies he was around.
On a quick closing note, I am currently sitting at 19,091 Gamerscore. If you remember a while ago I started a quest for 10,000 Gamerscore, currently my new goal is for 20,000. It might take a while, but I'm sure I'll eventually make it. There you have it, a somewhat short post but I am hoping to have posts out on a regular basis. So until next time!
Monday, January 09, 2012
Bowl Bound: BCS National Title Game
If you've been following from the beginning or just stumbled upon this recent I would like to say thank you for putting up with my, at times, rather inconsistent rambling with the "commentary" on some of these games. So quick tally update, since I didn't manage to get the sim going for the GoDaddy.com bowl last night that moves my record to 16-15-3. This game tonight will give me either a winning record or I'll split the record in half. With that said, I present to you my simulated "prediction" for the BCS National Title Game, which pits the number one ranked LSU Tigers and the second ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. Both of which also reside from the SEC.
I think this game has a liking for Alabama, both times that Achievement Hunter did a prediction on both times LSU and Alabama met, it picked the Crimson Tide to win...and the same here as you can see. By a rather large margin at that. With that said, we will find out later tonight who actually wins. I'm going to say LSU personally, but I've been wrong before.
Update: And with that, the collegiate football season is over. A whopping 21-0 shutout by Alabama to cap off the season. My final record for the season is 17-15 with three games being forfeited. Until next year!
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