Helping a Friend

Me and my brother were playing Borderlands 2 earlier this evening, and a Xbox notification popped up saying a friend of mine was playing BL2, as well. I wanted to check what level they were. and they were a level 15 Siren.

What a cute little newcomer, am I right??

So me and my brother joined my friend's game and helped them out. We....were a higher level than my friend, of course. We were both around level 50......so me and my brother had to tone it down a bit. At first, it was one bullet per minute, but then it went to "If my friend is overwhelmed with enemies, kill the tough looking ones," or "Boss Fight!! We'll take out the minions, you take care of the big guy!!"

Turned out pretty well, too! We also babied our little newcomer by giving them a lot of purple rated items like both of Moxxi's guns and Love Thumper (Shield), and whenever we fought a Goliath(?) with a slot machine, we would let my friend take the loot. I mean, come on, what are level 50s+ going to do with level 15-17 items?

A: Sell it for 25 dollars, perhaps d:

It was really fun, though. They thanked us, and I told them if they ever wanted to play again, just ask and we'll join. [:

Oh, and I FINALLY got the Cute Loot achievement in that game (kill a Chubby)!! I didn't even know I killed one, but when that achievement popped up, I was squealing like a fangirl at a rock show!

Cosplay

Unrelated to video games, but I thought I should share. Since AX begins today, this is my version of cosplaying.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Skyrim Bug?

It's been a long time since I've played Skyrim! I think the last time I played it was....some time around last year, I believe. I've been roaming around in Solstheim for a couple of days, though. Found a lot of neat stuff like the Ancient Nordic Pickaxe, and other neat items. After one mission, I found myself carrying too many items which prevented me from running.

My challenge then was to sail from Raven Rock to Windhelm, and then take a carriage to Solitude. First, I tried to take a ship from Raven Rock to Windhelm; however, when I paid the ship captain to bring me to Windhelm, the loading screen appeared for a second and then brought me back to the Raven Rock docks. I attempted this a couple of more times until the ship captain started walking away. I proceeded to follow him, and he walked to other docks. He then proceeded to walk backwards down the stairs and into the water...It really looked like he drowned himself!

When I went halfway into the water and crouched, I found him swimming back to the dock he was first on. He then teleported next to his ship... and it was really strange. In the end, I finally gave up and threw away some items, and I teleported back to Solitude.

What The Fluff! 2!

Mogwai and other Fluffs waiting for another DDR game to start. Us owners are a quiet bunch, especially Batman. d:

After dancing and walking around, Mogwai and I took a little break on a small island. :3

Sleeping at my house at night.

Sleeping at my house in the morning...Oh my god, my Fluff sleeps a lot! D:

Overall, I think this little event is pretty neat. A lot of people have been complaining about the lags and bugs; although, it doesn't affect me as much. I'm hoping to raise this little Fluff and send it back to Blaze, afterwards. Hopefully I can do so before the event ends! D:

What The Fluff!

On Gaia, they have this new event called "What The Fluff." What you do is raise this little Fluff ball by walking with it, feeding it, and playing games with it; so, I thought, this sounds like fun! Gaia transferred me to the updated towns, Towns 2, to talk to this lady name Blaze. When I arrived, a whole bunch of Gaians were flocking around her! @.@ I mean, it doesn't mean a thing because you can hover your mouse to Blaze and click her, but it's the thought that a bunch of Gaians are participating in this event!

Anyways, I clicked on Blaze and she kept telling me that I needed a house before I could care for a Fluff. I thought to myself that I already had a house. For a couple of minutes, I've been roaming around trying to figure out why I can't use my house. A couple of Gaians had been chatting about the docks, or asking where the docks were. Beforehand, I had no idea why they were asking this, but after stalling for some time, two Gaians were having a conversation about the docks. Apparently, you have to move your house/create a house in the Towns 2 server, and to do that you must head to the docks and talk to an NPC there.

So I did a little roaming again for a few more minutes, and lo and behold! I found it! Moved my house, and I went to get a fluff! My fluff is cute. It's called Mogwai (pre-named) and it's a little Fluff ball that looks like a little Bumble bee :3 I played two games with it. One was the cop game where your Fluff ball races around the place and cops are surrounding the place, so you feed them doughnuts to keep them occupied. I didn't really understand that game because my Fluff went waaaaaay ahead of me, and I was lagging like crazy! Then I played tic-tac-toe with another Gaian:

I'm not abusing my Fluff!  >.<

KH3 yay!

I'm pretty excited that Kingdom Hearts 3 is in development; although, this means I have a lot of catching up to do! The only Kingdom Hearts games I've played are I and II. I vaguely remember playing Chain of Memories for the Gameboy Advance SP, but that was all in 7th grade...so I don't remember much. I hope to get RE: Chain of Memories for the PS2 though, along with Fatal Frame II and such!

But man....Kingdom Hearts. I remember me and my sister playing that 24/7. For the first KH, I remember we found all of the Dalmatians, and we defeated both hidden bosses! We both abominated the Phantom in Neverland; it was very intense, too! We ran out of potions and ethers, and both team mates were out. Sora's health bar was blinking, and the Phantom's health bar was almost depleted, as well. Also, that countdown on Sora's head? That really put the pressure on us. Thankfully, we defeated it and quickly saved our game :,D

Good times, though! I really want to play Kingdom Hearts again, hehe.

Basically

I deem this true.

'Dem Zombies

I recently used a 2 week trial code for Xbox Live, and I've been playing MP games like there's no tomorrow. I even attempted to play MP games that I usually wouldn't play, such as Resident Evil 6's MP. First, I tried to intertwine with someone else's campaign game. In Resident Evil 6, you can meet up with other players at a certain point in the story and team together to fight enemies. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone, so I went to try Agent Hunt.

It was....alright, I guess. When I first joined someone's game, I spawned a few feet away from them. The creature I was controlling felt kind of heavy, so it took some time reaching them. The other player, who played as Helena, was fighting another zombie-like creature (but it wasn't controlled by a player). She went down and killed the zombie, but with one attack I killed her. That match took about a minute and forty seconds.

The second match took a minute or so longer. The player was controlling Jake and I was some mafia looking zombie with a machete (I really forgot what they're called. J'avo, I think?) Jake was doing pretty well so far, except for the part where he pinned himself in this one room. Two zombies were already attacking him from the front, so I went around him and attempted to strike him from behind. I'm not sure if I was lagging, but swinging the machete seemed reaaaaaaaaaally slow! Gah dang! During mid-swing, Jake would shoot rounds at me!! It was until another zombie came beside him and decapitated him, and eventually killing him.

Buuuuuut yeah. Agent Hunt seemed alright. It felt like pulling a wet towel in water when you controlled the zombies, but then again, I only played twice. I'll probably play again some other time, but as of right now, I'm sticking to Happy Wars hahahaha~

DMC Shenanigans

One time when I went to Gamestop, I got three games: DMC: HD Collection, Bioshock, and Mass Effect. I thought I would endlessly play DMC, but in the end I started playing Mass Effect and Bioshock, and completely forgot about DMC...oh lawl.

I finally picked up the pace for Devil May Cry, though (woot woot!) 

To be blunt: I suck at that game. Haha! I'm terrible at keeping a chain-attack going...If you see me play, all you would see is Dante jumping around the room shooting at the enemies. Or activating the Devil Trigger, THEN jumping around and shooting enemies! You want to know something more painfully hilarious? I'm playing on the easiest difficulty, and I'm still having a difficult time fighting enemies. Hahahaha ahhhhhhh.

By now, you might be asking, "Why the hell are you still playing it then if you're terrible at the game?"

Well, when I was younger, I was interested in playing the Devil May Cry because: 1) The story and the setting/atmosphere seemed really appealing, and 2) Dante looked hot. Ha! But really, I was always interested in learning the story of the Devil May Cry series, and just reading it on Wiki was a drag. I thought it would be much better to actually play the game (even though I'm close to dying 80 percent of the time). I'm probably going to play through the easy difficulty setting for all three games to understand the story, and maybe afterwards I'll start again and bump up the difficulty setting [to Normal] <---Hahahaha 

Gmod Musical Collab

Hiya! Found this awesome video on Youtube and thought I should share it with you guys! It has Mass Effect, Team Fortress, Portal, and other video game characters (oh and one awesome anime character ;] ) Also, AWOLNATION!! They're awesome as well.

Enjoy!

ME3 Ending [Spoilers]

Hey everyone! I'm sorry that I haven't been updating that much. I was heavily focused on school and this debate I had last week. I was very anxious that I had three different dreams in one night about me screwing up while I was presenting my argument D:

Spoilers commence...Now.

Although, I got back to gaming on Saturday and completed Mass Effect 3 yesterday. The ending...hm. Well, it didn't leave me satisfied. My Effective Military Strength (EMS) was around 3,100, and I chose the Synthesis ending because I initially thought, "Hey, Anderson's path didn't work out so well, even the Illusive Man's path, so why not try out this path?" Great logic, right? It seemed like a somewhat fitting ending: Shepard dies and the galaxy is saved. You would think that they would talk about your team mates afterwards, see Earth being rebuilt, and maybe have a little memorial for Commander Shepard.

Nope. None of that.

Shepard died. You follow Joker and EDI who crashed the Normandy in this jungle-like planet, and another crew member walks out with them. After that, you see this stargazer telling the story about the galaxy long ago, as well as Shepard's story, to a child. The game ends, and Bioware thanks you for playing and whatnot. You see...it doesn't leave you satisfied at all. What the hell happened to your team mates, especially your romantic interest? How did they cope with Shepard's death, in my case Kaidan? They had a little talk before the big finale, and the outcome just left you nothing. 

As a player who played through the whole entire series and who connected with the characters, the Mass Effect 3 ending left an empty void in my heart. It honestly felt that more questions were brought up than answers.

I know there are 3 different endings (at the same time different depending on how high your EMS is), so I'm going to play my last save and bump up my EMS to about 4,000 and choose the Destruction ending, just so Shepard lives. Then maybe the Control one.

AND THEN MY FRIEND TOLD ME ABOUT THE EXTENDED CUT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD.
Facepalm.

Portal Proposal

I found this on Tumblr and thought I should share it with you guys. It's so pretty! I'd like someone to propose this to me [;

Xbox Live Weekend

Yesterday I stumbled upon a smidge of a financial issue which led me to sell my favorite video games...And that was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I got a decent amount of money from them, but I really believe they are worth more than that. I'll eventually get those games back, but for right now, they're on my "to-buy" shelf when I have the money.

Anyways, happier stuff, no? Like this weekend was Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend. Let me rephrase that.

FREE XBOX LIVE GOLD WEEKEND.

That was the best comfort gift I have ever gotten! Oh, besides the heartfelt note I got last night, but I was on a roll! I played on MP like craaaaaaaaazy and had an awesome time playing Online and challenging other people. Ok, maybe I hesitated a little bit at first because I haven't played in a while, but it was all fun in the end. What games did I play? Well here goes the list AND--

First off, let me say I kind of dislike playing with random players on Borderlands because: 1) When you join a game, the players are scattered EVERYWHERE. Let's say you're in the Arid Nexus -- Badlands. Player one is the main character, they're the ones who want to resume the story so they decide to complete mission objectives. Player two is the lone wolf, they're doing their own thing and they're just killing random enemies at the corners of the map. Player three is "idle" player, basically the one who does nothing and lets other players kill enemies so they (player 3) can level up. And then there's player 4, the one who doesn't know what to do and gets stuck fighting Saturn. 

And dies plenty of times. And losing almost all of their money.

I am not referring myself.

Second reason why I dislike playing with random players on Borderlands is because they "boot loot" you (I completely made up that term). Say you're fighting the final boss, and after a good 15-20 minutes you finally defeat it. After all that hard work, there's bound to be good loot right? Of course! But what does the host do? They kick out all of the players and collect the loot for themselves. 

Douche D:

Then again, I shouldn't be carping. If people (and myself) really want to prevent this from happening, then it's time to mic up and communicate (and compromise)! But aside from all of those negative things, I still had a blast. In a game, I eventually teamed up with a player 2 since player 1 had some of player 2's trait (he was a pretty skilled Commando, is what I'm trying to say), so I ventured with player 2. I also got an achievement, the one where you defeat Donkey Mong, I didn't even realize it was him until the achievement popped up. Last but not least, I didn't feel like I was dead weight in the team! Since I made my Siren "the healer", I revived people with my Phaselock and, well, healed them by shooting at them. My class mod helped too since it has Health Reg.

NEXT GAME IS

Awww yis. I went there. Actually I only play that game because of AoN, and only if my friends wanted to play with me. AoN was great, none of the less, and I won a round! I won a rooooound! Woot! In the beginning my score was 250 and a guy already had 750. Miraculously I caught up with them (by now they had 950, just one more kill) and I won!! That player raged quit soon afterwards, but that victory was sweet. I had We Are The Champions playing in my head after that match ended. The game after that was pretty bad, though. I was third from last and I end up being the winning kill. Yep. Good times, though! Hahaha!

IMMEDIATELY AFTER MY HUMILIATING DEFEAT I PLAYED

Since I don't have Halo 4 anymore, I started playing Halo: Reach's Team SWAT. The games were pretty fun, and my team won all of the matches. But at first I was freaking out. Aside from MW3, this was a fast paced game where Spartan enemies appeared around the corner and shoot you (Sword Base). I had the usual freak outs when a Spartan appeared out of nowhere and I had several Yoinks (sorry guys!), but I did get a couple of killing sprees every now and then. Soooo fun, fun

Annnnnnd to end my gaming night, I played Happy Wars. [:  

Run, clerics, ruuuuuun!

Would You Kindly Read This Post?

 There was one point last year where I was very sick. I couldn't sleep at night because my head was pounding and my body was burning, I couldn't breathe as well and I couldn't cough because it hurt like hell. During that time, I played two different games until I got better. The first one was Half Life 2 (and the two episodes). To be honest, I loathed that game at first. It was probably because I couldn't compute the story in my head, and the Combine's soldiers dsjksajk (talking) was abrasive. Although, when I got better, I replayed the story and got a better understanding of it, and I appreciate the wacky (yet challenging) achievements like finding the singing vortigaunt and bringing Gnome Chompski to the space ship.

And I tell you, driving Gnome Chompski is a pain in the arse, especially with that helicopter shooting at Gnome Chompski and sending it flying how many feet away from you.

The second game I played while I was sick was Bioshock. That game was pretty amazing, even though I panicked 83% of the time -- I was afraid of using my healing and EVE hypos because I was always running short on them, haha! Speaking of which, it was brutal while playing on the hardest difficulty. I mean, sure, it wasn't that big of a deal since they had spawn points, but fighting a Big Daddy on that difficulty setting...it was frustrating. Out of all of the places to venture in, my favorite place has to be Fort Frolic. And Sander Cohen was quite a character. Everything about Fort Frolic is awesome.

Also, this is awesome.

 

Suffocating in ME3

I finally picked up the pace in Mass Effect 3 and completed Priority: The Citadel 2.....only to be bombarded with Citadel missions and messages from EVERYONE afterwards; from dating advice to simply hanging out at the Citadel.

Holy crap.

 Anywaaaaaays, laugh your heart out lovlies!

CoD Championship Finals/ Suspension

Alrighty. It's been an hour since I've been watching the Call of Duty Championship Finals, and it's pretty intense! I mean, I just started watching this whole entire shindig today, but it is very, VERY intense. So far, my highlight has to be CTF on Raid, when the Fariko team caught the flag with a winning dive. If it weren't for that team mate watching the corner, I believe Fariko wouldn't have captured the flag. The shotgun spree was also pretty epic when they were playing Hardpoint on Hijacked.

Oh! And you know how they have those live tweets on the bottom of the screen? I made a Twitter account hoping to appear on the bottom of the screen, hahaha! I composed supportive tweet messages to the team as well as discussing with people about quick scoping, and apparently, my account was suspended for tweeting "unrelated messages".

What.

I've seen users tweet a plethora of unrelated messages!

In the end, I agreed and said I wouldn't do that again, but I just deactivated my account :P Screw the bull crap and 10 second fame, right? I'll just resume watching the game!

And this S&D game is crazy!

Update: 

The final S&D match was heart pounding! They were tied in almost every round, but Fariko Impact prevailed with a score of 6-4. Congrats to them, and incredible job Envyus! They were an amazing rival team. Especially Rambo. Gah dang, Rambo. Getting all those kills for Envyus...

Contest and Such

Stepping back from video games for a second, I entered a contest. Not really a big contest, but a contest. Contest. Thing.

On Facebook, there is this Supernatural (tv show) fan page I "liked" and they were holding a Timeline Cover Contest. What you have to do is make a timeline cover photo with the fanpage's name on it, and Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have to be in there (obviously [: ). So, I thought, Why not? I made a cover photo and submitted it to the fan page.

Annnnnd here it is!

I didn't want to over do it, so I left it plain and simple.

I'm actually quite satisfied with this cover photo, so if I don't win, I would maybe use this as my cover photo ;]

Buuuuut! Going back to video games, I've been playing a lot of Mass Effect 3.

 AND THOSE KROGANS! 

I love them so much! I nearly cried for Grunt when we were in that rachni cave!

Half-Life Lawl

On Facebook, there is this page called "Videogamemes". I think they're pretty brilliant, even if there are some recycled posts from time to time. Anyways, wandered in their page a bit and stumbled on this picture....and some comments that made me laaaaawlz.

I truly believe Valve will make Half Life 3, though. They just didn't want to join the "LET'S RELEASE 3 LIEK NAO TO COMPETE WIT OUR OTHR RIVALZ!1!!1" bandwagon.

Yes, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, I'm talking about you.

3 Year Old Playing Mirror's Edge and Portal

This kid is so awesome and sooooooooo adorable

High fives to you, kiddo

Someone should give this boy a turret/companion cube trophy!

Forge Fun 2

Welp, I had an idea for the empty space behind the buildings, well, my brother conjured up the idea and I created it: he told me to create a forest where players who were traveling by foot had an advantage with players on vehicles. Even though there are numerous buildings with several blind spots, vehicles still had the upper hand.

Vehicles have difficulty maneuvering in the forest, especially with the the trees distracting the player's view. It's a temporary safe haven for some players, since I won't be adding any ammo in there so people don't camp. Perhaps I'd put a special weapon in there. Maybe.

Also, I maaaaaaybe trolled around a bit, heh. I needed to fill up more empty space on the island, so I placed a fancy looking teleporter there. Although, when players use the teleporter, they're actually teleporting to their death.

Troll. Trololololo

I won't go into much detail yet (because I'm still thinking of a creative way for players to die), but I will surely upload a picture of it in a few days. 

Oh, and I'm testing out the green screen. I'll post a picture up if I get good results.

[:

Forge Fun

ERMERGERD Forge is painful! I admire the players who have the time and patience to make such incredible maps. I've been making my own map for, how many hours now? It looks pretty bad, though hahaha! I'm in the process of meshing building together and connecting them. Scenery, weapon placement, and more misc hootenannies will be placed after I get the buildings in place.

Here are some pictures:

Banshee docking bay. Might add more stuff to it later.

 Gravity Hammer arena with buildings behind it. Gravity wall placed around arena.

 Bird's Eye view of map. See all that empty space??

There's a lot of empty space behind the map, so I'll think of something to put behind it later. Maybe more buildings, and perhaps vehicles and weapon stashes. I knew I should have made some blue print before I initiated this project! It would have been muuuuuch easier, but it's alright: I think I can manage.

Garrus.

Garrus friggin' Vakarian

Total badass, total hottie.

Lawl

Always liked him since the first Mass Effect. When Mass Effect 2 rolled around, though...oh my god hahaha! I would have totally left Kaidan for Garrus!! Although, I wanted my FemShep to be a saint of some sort and be the most faithful person in the world, so I let her remain faithful to Kaidan in ME2 and resumed her relationship with him in Mass Effect 3 .

But I'm definitely going to play Mass Effect 2 again and start a relationship with Garrus after finishing Mass Effect 3. [;

Also, I told myself I wouldn't watch any footage from the Citadel DLC, but I couldn't resist.

And oh. dear. god. Hahaha!

Stahp, Garrus. Just stahp.
<3

Happy Wars Sadness

Ironic title, right?

Earlier today I was playing an XBLA game called Happy Wars. The enemy bots pinned us good at our castle. We couldn't do much but defend the castle gate and the main tower from the upcoming waves. The mages enhanced our team's powers and used their special skills to tackle down the horde. The warriors took low ground while us clerics took high ground, building machines to obliterate the bots as well as healing/resurrecting team mates. After seven long minutes, time ran out and the game ended. You heard people cheering from their mics, saying it was a good game....

...That was until a text appeared, showing us how many spawn towers each team had acquired.

Our team: 0. Enemy team: 2.

Since the enemy team had more spawn towers than us, the enemy team won by default.

Wait wut.

Black Ops II Shindig

Recently I got back into Black Ops II's campaign. I started playing the campaign last year around December, but I stopped because I got Resident Evil 6, Assassins Creed 3, and Mass Effect 2 for Christmas. I completed both RE6 and ME2, but I would like to get other achievements in those games, and I still have Assassins Creed 3 to complete. But to digress, I completely got lost in Black Ops II's story since I haven't played it for so long, hehe. Although, I am getting the gist of it again.

I find it interesting how the player switches from the 1980s and then to present day (2025-30, I believe.) You get a back story of what happens to Mason and the other characters from the first Black Ops as well as playing in present day as Mason's son. I have to admit: I love the present day gadgets like the gliding gadget and the spider-like spy cam that can zap things.

If only multiplayer had that.

Well, maybe not the gliding material and the spider cam, but the other gadgets they had. During several missions in the present, you could pick up electrical brass knuckles and melee the crap out of enemies. It would be an amazing secondary weapon or substitution for the melee knife. Another great gadget/vehicle would be the CLAW:

I think it would be a neat scorestreak, the player could control it by holding down a directional button from the control pad or they could let it roam on its own and rack kills for you. Then again the maps are kind of cluttered, so it would be difficult to maneuver something like that.

Sigh. If you only could use land vehicles...

Aside from that, I'm thinking about "rewinding" and replaying several missions again. I had no idea that you could get achievements by doing "this" and "that" and alter the storyline. I honestly thought that you just have to kill through a bunch of enemies and complete the story (like every CoD game, right?), but your decisions can alter several parts of the story...which is fairly interesting in a game like CoD. So after completing this, I'm going to do a lot "rewinding" to snag achievements and see different outcomes from other decisions.

As well as bump the difficulty to Recruit. Tee Hee.