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Prototype

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:30:54 -0500

I've finally got to play Prototype and i have to say it is an excellent game. Unlike many games of the same style it's gameplay doesnt get repetive fast like in Assassins Creed. And story ain't that bad. In fact i think it's story got a lot of inspiration from Biomega manga by Tsutomu Nihei and some Alex abilities might in fact be inspired by Abara manga also by Tsutomu Nihei. In Biomega's story a governement corporation goes rogue and releases a dangerous funguae onto Earth where it starts to grow in living organism and turns them into various kinds of zombies and there is basically one guy, an artificial human to try to stop the end of the evil plans. To do this, the other industrial corporation which made him gives him an order to find Ion Greene a little girl (sounds familiar? in Prototype one of your main enemies is a girl named Elizabeth Greene) who seems to be immune to the fungus but turns out to be the second creature created by the evil corporation but who has only ability to neutralise the growing fungus. (in Prototype Elizabeth itself the evil virus turning people into monsters [but in Biomega there is another girl, Ions sister with an odd name Reload who is the origin of the fungus, but she only appears in flashbacks from 500 years past]). In middle of Biomega all humans but few are turned into the monsters and soon after Earth is destroyed and humanity becomes almost extinct. Quite similar in Prototype but the outbreak is only in Manhattan. As i said some Alex powers are inspired from Abara like (possibly) bone armor, razor fingers and sword hand. In Abara main character can grow anything out of his own bone like armor and swords and spine whip.

Hey everybody!

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:26:24 -0500

I found that now i have too much time in my hand and so far i haven't really used it for anything. it's always like that, you enjoy such freedom for a shortwhile but then you get bored and start using that for something else... like writing a blog entry, for which you were too lazy before but now found that at the moment there is not much else to do. Besides that, around January I wanted to write about few games I played lately... well I didn't and so much time has passed, so I never will, at least that's how I decided. Now I have other things to worry about since next month my final exams results will roll in and high school graduation will be held. The thing though is that maths exam I chose to do this time around was too hard for even math teachers who decided try it along with us. The exam was in two parts, with the first part being the "easy" one. Well, excercises in it were actually just under "too hard to complete" and super long and we had only 2 hours to finish the first part. I made the easiest excericise first and when i checked how much time it had taken me I was shocked because the easiest and shortest excercise had taken me 40 minutes to complete. And we had to do 5 of these... so... yeah, i worked as fast as I could, made silly mistakes which i had to to correct or some of which i decided i didnt have enough time to correct, so rest of excercises were only half done. Even our best student managed to do only 4. So there was a little break between first and second part and during that time we were discussing about that if the first "easy" part had been so hard, then what is the second part with HARD excercises going to be? Well we soon found out. The second part consists of 3 very hard excercises and we had 2 and half hours to finish it. It was horrible. I spent whole first hour blankly staring at the excercises until I finally managed to make two of them halfly, third one was too hard to try. So, everyone are expecting low results and since univerities here accept under the basis on final exams, we think we are pretty screwed unless they decide to lower the scores needed this year. Everyone seemed to agree that the guys who chose the excercises for math's final chose the excercises that even they couldn't complete just to see if anyone can finish those.

Translation of translation of poem

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:34:03 -0600

"...I know an hour when time takes shape of human, that restless creature with soft skin touches your soul." I found it interesting, so i decided to share it with you 300 characters 300 characters 300 personalities 300 characters 300 SPARTANS!!! still not 300 dammit is it 300 now? yes it is, oh wait it isn't lets try now

List of Things I'd Love to Do In Next 5 Years

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:21:20 -0600

List of Things I'd Love to Do In Next 5 Years Not necessarily in the order of importance. 1. Learn how to play guitar... properly (I do have proper working electric guitar :P) 2. Learn to dance - seriously, right now moving myself in rythm of music only involves head 3. Learn a computer coding language 4. Practice drawing until it's good enough for me 5. Practice 3D modelling until it's good enough for me 6. Eurotrip - I live in probably the coolest area in the world and I have been only in a small part of it 7. Mod a game - well shouldn't be too hard to accomplish... just not yet. There you have it. As you see none of these are impossible to do. All it takes is a matter of will and time. I've got no time though.

Reviews

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:13:59 -0600

Now I figured since I'm into games anyways and at least active in forums at ModDB but don't do anything mod related myself (bit of a lie there, I actually do something really really small from time to time) I figured I should write smalls reviews on what I play lately be it mods or games. I think I start with 3 games and one mod I have played lately: Prince of Persia 08, Dead Space, Tomb Raider Underworld and Smashball. I start with Prince of Persia 08 and I think I'll be brief. Prince of Persia (2008) Starting with showing off the cocky attitude of a new prince it actually takes longer to plunge you straight into action of running on walls and slaying horde of enemies (main reason you never fight a horde but one bad guy at a time). The story starts with nicely long introduction/tutorial part which is nicely melded with the rest of the story. A guy is lost in the sandstorm in middle of a desert and looking for his donkey, falls into a crack in earth. A girl chased by some anonymous guards who all look the same but sound different from each other (each guard had its own voice actor) plunges right into the arms of our protagonist. After a short chase scene where a guy runs after a girl (hey, it's probably same in every universe :D) and you learn how to wallrun correctly prince discovers that the girl has magical powers and is de facto a princess. And wears a name Elika. Also she has a papa who cuts a hole into the dimenions and releases a dark god who was trapped in a tree. That god, called Ahriman, takes awfully lot of time to get out, so Elika decides she goes to stop the god from escaping and our prince who never says he's a prince nor mentions his name decides to help her. Starting with bitching about how rich he would be if he only could find his donkey and talking about carpets THIS thick prince shows his true nature: a joker. And that makes the game fun to play since he has a joke for every occasion. About gameplay: wallrunning is still mostly the same only you can now do impossibly long wallruns and all this climbing is much easier than in previous versions. And Elika is always there to save you whether you fall down if actually manage to fail at climbing or when some bad guy is about to cut you a bit shorter. Yes that's right, you cannot lose in this game. While it makes game extremely easy it also makes it more smooth to play, you never have to load the game again after deaths. I really enjoyed the new Prince of Persia, I never got bored with it. And the ending was suprising and damn good but also made me bit sad because now I have to wait for another PoP to see what happens next. I just hope it won't be trilogy again, it get's boring over time. So that's it, I really didn't know what I was going to say about it but at least I got it out. Also did you notice that I said "I'll be brief"? Looks like I wasn't brief... well in the spirit of that I say next review comes briefly. So don't expect it in a while. Also about my last blog entry. I've almost gotten my driving license. I failed at the final driving exam but I feel quite positive about the next try which is next week. Wish me luck. EDIT: Ooh, I see reviews tab up there where i can post reviews... oh the hell with that I won't publish these too publically. <- that word is red so I wrote it wrong somehow. Oh well, if I write my thoughts about Smashball I also will post it into Reviews.

Cars!

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:33:01 -0500

I have only touched this blog feature once and that was months ago... well I actually don't have much to say either. Anyway, now I'm last year in high-school and then finally comes university. But first i have to survive this year! And it's getting hard already. Writing one essay every week is killing me. Not only that, but I also stepped into driving school. I would have had enough free time before, but now driving school steals the rest of my time. Oh well, last year in high-school is 2 months shorter than normal, but those 2 months will be spent on exams. And driving school last only for a few months. I will survive! Hopefully...

Re-enactors

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:10:47 -0600

Yesterday I went to re-enactors club for an ancient estonians life lecture. Re-enactors are people, who recreate and relive the ancestors lifestyle, by doing everything like they did, from making clothes (yes, they shave sheeps and all that to make those), to making weapons (they have real swords and war bows... I was in heaven...). The lecture was fun and all and after the lecture they started to discuss about the viking ship, they were building. Apparently our ancestors were part of vikings at some time.. actually even better as all vikings trips here ended in heavy losses from dead viking king to counter-trip from estonians, who along with few other nations, destroyed ancient capital of sweden vikings. And just right before I left they tried to sell me an self-made warbow. I concidered it for an moment, but then I found out the price. 300$? Thank you, but no.

Exploration

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:03:16 -0600

I'm exploring this new funky feature called blog. I can say, that it looks quite positive. I think I should even start to blog myself here, because I get attacked by new mod ideas every few weeks. And yet I have to start even one. Few weeks ago I got hit with quite big one actually. It even involves new gameplay mechanics and stuff and is not impossible at all. But I can tell, that this idea could make quite an hit. Only thing is that I'm quite lazy and secretive. Maybe one day I will tell you more about it. Just you'll wait.