Lazy blog by a lazy gamer

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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare lessons

I was playing Chivalry the other day and I got out of the below level 15 group and went on to the "grown ups" servers. I thought that normal servers get a bit messy with everyone trying to score so I had 5 vs 1 fights which are impossible. So I decided to go to duels mode. I am a new level 16 player and I got into a server with people above level 35 and another guy of level 19. So after fighting a match of duels, most of which I lost and died, I whined in chat that I suck. Then a dude of level 44 wrote to me that he can teach, so he challenged me next match and spent 20 minutes explaining everything to me, including the etiquette. He taught me to bow in the beginning of a duel and how to treat the fallen opponent. It reminded me a lot of my kendo training sessions: fighting and etiquette. The same guy was teaching the level 19 guy on the server, and then both of us, students, fought each other, practised and chatted discussing our moves with each other and the guy who taught us. That was quite amazing. Thank you, sensei.

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Far Cry 3 ending (spoiler)

Far Cry 3 ending is weird. Especially the one you (Jason) get killed in, because it makes no logical sense. It happens so, that Citra, who claimed undying love for the character, stabs him after the sex scene, claiming that their child will lead the Rakyat. The action is pretty stupid: she kills off a capable warrior who can lead and fight if needed, hoping that a child which may be sick, weak or may never be even born is going to be a great leader. Logic of this escapes me.

[christophur]

[the-witcher]

*heavy breathing*

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What If Next Elder Scrolls Game Multiplayer

As I mentioned already to me ESO was a disaster. However, I do believe that some form of multiplayer won't hurt in the next Elder Scrolls game. They could go along the lines of Far Cry 4 and Borderlands 2 and allow coop gameplay with friends, say, up to 4 people. It would fit Elder Scrolls series as in Skyrim there are followers so friends could act as those. That would make a nice experience exploring the fast lands of Tamriel.

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Assassin's Creed Rogue

Considering that I am mostly a PC gamer and do not currently have a console for gaming, I was quite happy to learn that AC Rogue is coming out in March on PC. However, after AC Unity fiasco I am not convinced if buying it is a good idea. I enjoyed AC Black Flag a lot and Rogue promises sea game play which is going to be more diverse. I am wary of console PC ports though, taking AC Liberation as an example. I believe AC Liberation was built for PS Vita, so I don't really think that a port from XBOX 360 of PS4 will be as bad. AC Liberation however had physics engine worse than in AC1, which was ridiculous, so the only thing upgraded for PC were graphics which were decent. I hope this will not happen to AC Rogue, as I generally like Assassin's Creed series.

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ESO vs Skyrim

I always wondered why I absolutely loved Skyrim and have more hours on there than in any other game and I keep coming back there, and when Elder Scrolls Online came out I didn't enjoy playing it at all. 

Now having thought about it I think that the reasons for that are that ESO is an MMORPG, unless I am mistaken, so even when you are doing your campaign, you do it with hundreds of other players. Skyrim made me feel special, Dragonborn, Archmage, Companion, Thane of many holds, the man who defeated Alduin, Ulfric Stormcloak, Miraak and so on. ESO tries to make you special, but it does not work because others do the exact same things. 

Another issue is that ESO killed off free exploration: in Skyrim you could go anywhere almost at any level of your character and most of your enemies will have corresponding levels. In ESO, after creating a new character and starting anew, my friend helped me get to Riften when I was level 3, so I got instantly murdered off by level 52 sabre tooth tigers, two of them. ESO is pretty but if I cannot discover pretty it is useless.

Also Skyrim and previous games are sandbox-free-roam-like games. Playing it on PC with a console for cheats and commands available made it a much richer and fun experience when you can fight 100 of bandits at once. In ESO you cannot do that even on PC. In ESO you cannot take everything from a killed enemy. Things that you cannot do in ESO make this newer game a game with incomplete experience. There are also no mods for PC version as far as I know. ESO is not really Elder Scrolls Game, it is merely a MMORPG based on Elder Scrolls.

[the-witcher]

I replay The Witcher 1 for like the 20000x time, and again I feel myself 14 years old, when the game first get into my hands. 

Fucking priceless. :D

[and sad to think about that, that The Witcher 3 will be the last part of the games. T.T ]

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I don't think it is sad that Witcher 3 will be the last of series. Sometimes it is better to leave as a hero, than become a villain like Assassin's Creed had. You know how the saying goes.

I think CD Project Red understand it and they will make an awesome game to end the series.

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive thoughts

I saw a review the other day on metacritic user review section of CSGO. There are a lot of people who review it negatively, and some of them make sense and I can agree with some of those comments. However, there are some that complain about things in this game that make it unique: Hit recognition, no iron sights, no bending left and right, being dead and spectating etc. Every other game has that these days they say so why are those things not in CSGO? In my opinion this is a game that is made to have none of those things as they are in other games and they all sort of look and play the same. For a new player CSGO is very hard as learning curve is very steep and you cannot land hits unless you know how the guns work, and leaving takes time. I have started playing CS series in 2007 in CS1.6 and at start it was impossible to kill anyone at all. For instance AK has such high bullet spread after a few shots that even pretty close up I couldn't score hits, unlike COD games where if you can aim you are good, guns there have very little recoil. I am still, after 8 years, not very good at it, but I enjoy it still. CS series retained its uniqueness and I love it.

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Game publishing choices

When CD Project RED who make Witcher 1, 2 and now are developing Witcher 3 decide to postpone the release date for Witcher 3 for months for a number of times, Ubisoft decided to release buggy games. It has been over a month now and Assassin's Creed Unity is still buggy and 4th patch didn't solve problems for all users. I am a fan of both Witcher and Assassin's Creed series but I am with CD Project RED on this one. I would much rather wait for a polished product than get frustrated with unfinished crap that still tries to tell you it is finished and perfect somehow. Sorry if I got some names wrong.

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Pondering on news

So I read on PC Gamer today that some Microsoft dude says that: we need to talk about gaming on Windows, or something like that. Considering the shut down of Games For Windows Live (I hated the platform, but still) and their apparent focus on X Bone I think that the news is not going to be too good. Having said that, Windows is just a platform and people will still build things for it so gaming on Windows probably won't die. I also saw someone comment and say that Microsoft should leave PC gaming attempts and not mess with it, I do agree, kind of. Windows is a nice platform but GFWL was atrocious, I am glad it is now off. In case the news for Windows PC gaming are not good I think that it is very dumb to poop on a huge chunk of market with some unique feature like modding, and say that there won't be any Windows PC gaming anymore. But you now those are just ponderings aloud, there was only a short tweet and everything else until January is just guessing and rumours.

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ACU FPS Issues on my PC

I got Assassin's Creed Unity playing at 15fps on high and low settings. Surely it should be higher for lower settings. And it has higher FPS if I am fighting in crowd than when jumping on roofs. Also resolution changes don't do anything at all. Wtf? I am not sure but it seems that graphics are not the most taxing thing in the game that affects FPS.

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TESV: Skyrim.

Best game in my opinion 360+ hours and still discovering new things like this mammoth stuck in a glacier. It is pierced with a few arrows, two huge arrows from dwarven ballistas and a battle axe. I tried investigating where the shots came from but in that direction there were no ballistas anywhere. It is worth mentioning that above this mammoth which still has wool on it, there are a lot of skeletons of mammoths just some two meters away, and a dwarven ruin behind this one. 

I love such things in games. It is attention to details and makes you wonder what happened and what can happen.

[vallaslin]

"Lesser, greater, middling… it makes no difference."

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Skyrim and Google

Google needs to make google map for Nirn, with street view and 3D places of interest. Then GeoGuessr will make a game for it: are you in Karthwasten or Ivarstead. 

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I wonder if any one tried to learn to fly in Call of Duty Black Ops 2 like I did. You run towards an open building or a cliff with sprint on, then hit the prone button and you fly away. I always hope I grow wings and not fall to my doom, that never happens though.

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Quick thoughts about a game

Stronghold Legends:

I hate ice giants, and ice witches and growing apples on ice. 

[v-is-a-cyberpunk]

Hey now

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Shrek is love. Shrek is life.