Humble bundle 4 review: Jamestown

As you may or may not know The latest Humble bundle came out this is number four and it has several games on it so I decided to review them one by one over the course of a few weeks the games in this bundle include Jamestown, Cave Story+, Nightsky, Shank,  Bit.Trip Runner and Gratuitous Space Battles.

First off on the review tour train is Jamestown now to tell the truth when I saw the name of this game I had no idea what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised it is a classic plane shooter where you side scroll towards the boss. it 4 player co-op on one machine where you can use game pads and keyboard or mouse to control the various ships unlike the classic scrolling spaceship shooter you pick the power up you want to use at the start of the game instead of picking up random power ups as you play. There is also an incredibly small hit box on your ship so you can dodge bullets as they do tend to cover the entire screen they also have one power up you get by collecting falling part which allows you to get a small shield that destroys all bullets around you then disappears leaving you with 2X damage for a period after that. at the end of the level based how well you did and the difficulty you did it on you get point which you can spend on new challenges and new ships their is also some dlc out for this game with more maps ships and challenges.

Untill next time Peace slice of Kris out also STEAM SALE!!!.

Zelda: Skyward Sword

Zelda : Skyward Sword Review

In this review their will be minor spoilers because this entire game is a gem so if I want to share any of my experiences I will have to spoil some of the game for you, you have been warned that being said I will try my best to give you forewarning. Skyward Sword is meant to be set before the other games but I prefer too look at it as if they are all parallel universes of each other that way the continuity works better and is less confusing your home town is skyloft which is the biggest floating island in this world and you are childhood friends with Zelda who is the headmasters daughter which leads to a different relationship between Zelda and Link. Today is the day of the goddess so you the young skyknights you race for the gods to win the goddess blessing you win and get first item cloth sail which slows you decent so you do not break your ankles then you and Zelda go for a ride together which is your other reward then shit hit the plan you get given a sword and go save the world.

Graphics

Zelda Skyward Sword is the best looking game on the wii not because it is HD or the best textures but the artistic direction is perfect it is a lot more cartoonish then twilight princess but not as much as Zelda Windwaker which made it compensate for the lack of performance and look better than some HD games. Everything is smooth edges and hand drawn which makes the game seem more kid friendly but the difficulty of the game is beyond what a child can do instead I think this game is more made for someone to watch my dad was watching me play and he was enjoying and "helping me play" which with most games I hate people watching me play but this time I felt it was more natural. I believe this was because the storyline is there but the temples and the puzzles were the main goals of the game and he did not need to know the storyline so that everything made sense like other games that constantly spew storyline down your throat. One thing I did not like was when you upgrade some of your items the upgraded item artistically speaking look dreadful but a lot of the time it does make it look better which reminds me why does the technology of Zelda world never advance above bow and arrow when they have robots biggest reason why I started thinking this is (SPOILER)because you get an item then you go back in time temporally and you save robot who says the romote controlled bug robot you have is outdated and he improves it seriously guys(SPOILER END).

GAMEPLAY

This is a Zelda game so you slash your sword at right time dependent on the monster your fighting to kill them with special items to get past it has changed a lot from other Zelda game by making getting to the temple as hard/ full of puzzles as the inside this also makes the inside of the temple a whole lot less confusing compared to earlier Zelda game looking at you water temples (:P by the by had no trouble in water temple in OoT). Also like previous Zelda titles their is a multitude of sidequest to get more heart pieces and new thing called gratitude stars which you get by helping people (spoiler warning) my most favourite side quest would have to be the ghost girl trapped in the toilet very similar to the one in majora's mask and it want paper the only paper you can get though is from a love letter written by one of your classmates who explicitly tells you not to give it to the creepy toilet lady. Of course you go ahead and give it to the hand in the toilet then use the toilet the moment after you do for added comedy but the next day when you tell him he runs away crying then that night the creepy hand is in his room patting his head some how this is worthy of gratitude ohh Japan you so crazy(spoiler End). Gratitude stars can best be compared with the skulltula tokens from previous games except they are more from around town then out in random places now for what you may care more about the controls.

Controls

With the one to one ratio of using wii mote like a sword is so much better than the previous Zelda game where swinging randomly was like spamming the A button to attack this made it so you could still swing rapidly fast but with certain enemies you needed to think about how you attack before you attack otherwise you will get hurt. This has it's own share of problems as I found stabbing action to be really hard to do and when ever it needed to be done to hurt the enemy I could never get it to work the first time this is most probably because I play this game pretty much laying down on the couch other than this the wii motion plus is fantastic. Even more so with the fact you do not even have to face the tv and you can still aim perfectly with the ability to centre the wii mote cursor wherever your pointing this made the controls almost not frustration at times nunchuck is still necessary and has really bad altimeter inside so it would not react when you want it to sometime and other times react when you do not want it to. These small irregularities with the wii mote did not deter my enjoyment of this game if you have a wii get this game if it had a mini sword fighting mini game that you could verse your friend with it would be the perfect game but we can still use the fencing game from wii motion plus sports.

Problems Forewarning

There is one game ending bug in Skyward Sword it did not happen to me because I did not walk off the main quest for the side quests until I mostly beaten the game and had all the items so I could do them all in a row. The bug happens when you talk to a goron who give you a key to progress further and aparantly it the save point get corrupt and game stop if you do this.

The original sequence of events is laid out like this:

1. At the beginning of the quest, go to Lanayru Desert to retrieve the song of the Thunder Dragon.
2. In the Lanayru Mine, speak with Golo the Goron.
3. Complete the Thunder Dragon’s event, and receive his song.
4. Before heading to the forest or volcano regions, speak with Golo in the mine again.
5. At this point, the forest and volcano events will no longer occur, making it impossible to continue.

source from Zeldauniverse.net

If this does happen to you there is a fix done by Nintendo you just have to go on the Internet with your wii to get your save file fixed and a patch to fix this is being released so hopefully this should not effect you.

Endgame

Zelda: Skyward Sword is the best game out one wii if you have a wii gathering dust get this game and re-realise why Nintendo was and is a giant of gaming you will not regret it. New humble bundle is out with some really good games it is worth getting just for Shank and Jamestown but the other games on there are great too  just a little to niche target market till next time peace peps.

Written by Christopher Holliman

Duke Nukem Forever I wish it would just end

It may or may not be news to you I loved all the Duke games they were one of the first games I ever played I sucked at both the sidescroller duke and the duke 3D games but I still enjoyed the humour gameplay and sound effects so I was all for Duke Nukem Forever game when 2k finally said we are going to release it screw you all you people who thinks it will never get out. Then it released and had lost all of it's charm no hoarding guns so you can pick whichever way you want to kill this grunt in the most funny way graphics being 3 years behind the curve not bad graphics just dated for the release date of the game. I still beat it and could say I enjoyed it even if it was on the easy side and had no platforming puzzles was just get from point a to point b while killing wave after wave of enemies which stagnates the gameplay and when they do put some platforming as small Duke you feel to guided to the solution and in most cases you could skip the entire section. Being a failure we all hanged up our friend Duke to dry then went to play more promising games but what surprised me even though during the press tour leading up to release 2k said we will release more duke we all hoped after the flop of the game they would give up and just use him as a joke character in borderlands 2 or something like that instead they release single player dlc and more multiplayer maps for the Duke. Quick sidebar the multiplayer had promise but their was too much of an rpg system and lack of dedicated servers that ruined the appeal in Australia at least game devs seem to forget we need dedicated server too not just US and EU. Now as much as I do not want to criticise 2K for trying to release more content for their game I just do have the nerve to spend 20$ on dlc for a game so badly made which makes me think the dlc will be just as bad so please 2K just let duke become a joke icon stop trying to give him stuff he is just going to throw off the side of a building and let him live his old age in peace or remake duke 3d with new engine both would work but just stop! please.

I hope you enjoyed my rant by the way duke nukem forever has a new dlc chapter coming out soon called "the doctor who cloned me" which is why I wrote this they also have dlc that is already out "duke hail to the icons of parody" they are also bringing back dr proton I mean they have to kill off every last hope of remembering duke in a good light. Until next time stay classy and stay away from Duke he has gone senile.

Orcs Must Die!

In the lovely daily steam sales I bought Orcs Must Die(OMD) on the soul fact that Machinma constantly said it was good I think they were getting paid I saw screenshots and read about game before I bought it on sale and went there is no way I am buying that when I already have Dungeon Defenders(DD) which is multi-player with better support. Then it came on sale for 75% 5$ down the drain and now I have a one player DD game which leaves me with no option but to compare the two games.

Comic book of Orcs Must Die

Biggest differenced besides one is one player other is multiplayer is that one was developed with the mind set of a full game one maybe two play throughs other was to get the players to keep coming back and enjoy minor tweaks and changes OMD being the former and DD being the later. This lead to both production teams with different mindsets and have differences of updates to the game DD while is constantly tweaking the experience and bring out new content is sometimes poorly done or lacks length/ ingenuity with constant updates over 200mb every other day. OMD is very polished stand alone game with lots of interesting towers, spells and unique combinations of play styles both of which you defend against waves upon waves of minions. The minions in each game are almost identical Orcs, kobolts, ogres, warrior and flying unit Orcs being your basic enemy kobolts being a fast enemy ogres being  tanky enemy warrior targeting you over the thing you are defending flying unit is flying lah. the tower set up in DD is based on placing a wall with turret to defend where as in OMD the enemies walk in a set path and attempt to stop them by killing them before they get to the goal.

In summary if you want TD with HD graphics buy one of these game but if you want a game to play with friends get DD but if you want a game to have some short quick fun bursts of  by yourself then get OMD. You may of noticed some of my new ads I am sorry about that but hey we all need to attempt to make some money somehow :P. Anyway until next time.

Skyrim screenshot edition

Here are the some of my many many many pictures from this game some of the better ones

http://sliceofkris.blogspot.com/2011/11/skyrim.html

^^ link to review ^^

http://sliceofkris.blogspot.com/2011/11/skyrim.html

Steam daily wish give away and more 4/12/11

In the past 6 months steam has been putting up a random game at 75% for a day but in the past 3 days steam has changed it to a mini daily wish deal where if you just go look at the store page of the item promoted you get put in the draw to win 10 games that are on your wishlist.  This is obviously done as test to see if this will improve sales for this game compared to the sales from random daily deal so get your wishlist sorted out to the ten games you just wish you could afford and look at these store pages who knows you may just win and you may just find a cheap 75% game that you have been waiting to go down in price for a while. This could not of come at a better time seeing as November released so many stellar titles and I know we cannot all afford them all so if you plan on buying some games for the Christmas break make a wishlist first then once it ends and you did not win then buy them wouldn't it be nice.

Now youtube has recently given the option to change your channel to look very similar to a facebook page which I find strange as google who owns youtube already has google circles why could they not do a sort of merging between them and link youtube accounts to google circle accounts so that you can easily get to both youtube and circles. If you have no idea what I am talking about because your youtube has not change go to your account/channel then switch it to the new view and all this will make sense now I could not understand the new look at all because I could not find the stuff I was subscribed to all I saw was my activity not even my friends activity but this is still early days who knows what they are thinking.

Currently playing Skyward sword will be my next review but do not expect it to be reviewed for about a week as I need to play it and zelda games are always long and full of getting lost in dungeons from what I have plays so far wii motion plus kicks ass removed all my annoying troubles from twilight princess so if you are worried about wii controls being bad do not wii motion plus is fantastic move and kennect have nothing on it until next time stay classy people.

Atom Zombie Smasher and TRUST Keyboard

I am still working on Skyrim review trying to give it a full and comprehensive review should be done soon just depending on how much work I need to do for my brother's house I mean shed if the government asks I also wanted to talk about my new keyboard and mouse so I felt I should review an indie game with them and say how well they work.

Settings for the keyboard mouse test

First off my keyboard and mouse are not what you call brand name the brand name is TRUST which is incredibly ironic as you are forced to trust them I got a mouse keyboard combo for 30$ just so I could pause and play music while full screen playing computer game like I used to be able to before my old keyboard broke. The game Atom Zombie Smasher is a strategy game where you have to stop a zombie invasion by sending troops to kill zombies and collect survivors you win by gaining goal amount of points before the zombies do you gain points per round depending on how many area's are under your control and by how well you do in fighting to gain control of an area.

My keyboard had number keys so I could easily switch between the units I was using.

the mouse moved so I could select which area I wanted to go to.

I WON!

I could pause play music when I wanted I could even turn it up or down skip go back mute un-mute it does all that I want it do problems with it some of the keys are in the wrong spots and so when I press them they respond by giving me the wrong character so I have to use memory of a real qwerty keyboard to what keys do what. things I like about it is like a laptop keyboard really easy to type with as the keys are half as tall as a traditional keyboard on the mouse I can set two cursor speeds so one is over sensitive and other is not sensitive.

In conclusion Trust in TRUST.

2011 Awards season

As you should know it is award season all over the place in sport, literature, cinema and video games all giveing  out their best of blank stuff I always love this time of year as it shows what things they believe to be good this year and I then go out an buy and experience it myself. A lot of speculation is flying and nominations are rolling out preparing for their balls and event shows but I think of it as a great time to look back on the year and the accomplishments we have achieved.

In the year of 2011 Australia started it with fires and floods, deaths and stories it was stinking hot and a lot of talking to each other as we had no power then the rivers receded and we all headed back to work and school with our stories in hand. The autumn came around with the games that were not ready for Christmas now without a great holiday deadline left to finish their works with the animes of Madoka and Stein's gate with smash hit movie Paul ok ok sucker punch also here all of you would agree Game of Thrones Sean bean may of died again like he always does but he is good at it.

As the cold harsh winter fell wait I live in Brisbane our winter is an England summer as the slightly less hot winter hit so did the steam sales which breathed life into my gaming library with new Vegas with so many dlc packs and the indie game Bastion around this time I also started my reviewing of games on this blog. While discovering Archer the Adventure bros and Bob's burgers all great cartoon's with the voice acting skills of H. Jon Benjamin  also in cartoons Batman/superman: Apocalypse came out with under the red hood: batman also hear saying good bye forever Harry Potter 7 part 2 to think over 10 years ago they first hit the big screen and i was there with my scout pack good times.

Now time is catching up to us with the tv shows and video games and movies all fighting to get top dog we can only wonder who will win to say this was a big year for gaming is an understatement so many AAA games came out mid November it was INSANE!!! not to mention all cool Movembers around. I know will never for get how intense Breaking Bad was this season as well as the ending of Batman Arkham city with is fully Taboo for some reason. Comics went through a great change as well they reset all DC character back to null to reinvent themselves again this is going to stick (yer right) which brings us to Zelda and Skyrim fighting for our souls wait I am thinking of CoD MW3 and BF 3 my bad guys.

This year was great and life is great lets hope the world does not end in 2012 you crazy Mayans' all the best next for the rest of this year peace guys hope you have a good holiday break you deserve it.

SKYRIM

Just WOW umm.. so yer, Skyrim!, I am done, go home... ohh your are home ok then.

Skyrim is the fifth instalment in the Bethesda series the Elder Scrolls not to confused with Scrolls they aptly used the Roman numeral V to show this at least it fit the theme of the game unlike most game series looking at you GTA the theme of which is medieval fantasy. This is the opposite of their other series Fallout which is set in post apocalyptic future and uses numbers to name it's game pretty futuristic am I right enough of paying out the title lets talk about the game. Now where the hell do I start Skyrim boast choice more choice then you could ever want there is choice everywhere in this game to much of it even this has always been the best and worst feature of the this series depending on how you look at it. Even with all this choice only at the start of the game do you really feel like you had a choice though and that choice is what race you want to be a strong Nord or scaly Argonian this choice effect your base skills and your passive ability and race power rest of the game you can do what ever you want as these base effects mean very little as everything in this game levels up at the same rate.The rest of the no matter what you do it feels like you have done nothing for instants in my game I became the archmage of the mages' guild and one of the people I entered the guild with walks up to me and says "your new here too aren't you we should work together". This really annoys me so much as when I become the boss I want people to come up to me and go "hey man I LOVE YOU" as I work hard to be bad ass.

I am a huge dick when it comes to exploiting games as it is just like cheating except it is not by manipulating the source code (incidental a great movie) I decided to be a wood elf archer mage that is right no melee and with sneak being bugged to the point you can shoot an arrow 2 feet away from the enemy and they will say "did you hear something?". When they do eventually find me I just burn them away with hellfire with the skill when you dual cast a spell it knocks them back there is also a skill in archery that does the same thing so I have two knock back abilities depending on how far away my target is this allows me to run away and create some distance to heal and regain mana. Now to compare and contrast some of Bethesda's other products to Skyrim and how the improved or devolved the franchise the most notable change between Skyrim and Oblivion is the writing and the voice acting has drastically improved making it a more engaging experience. Only change I dislike is the fact that when ever I walk near a npc that no longer has even one answer dialogue box will spout their lifestory to me when ever I go near them for instance a sea captain constantly says "they call me captain because I used to be the captain for the east trading company so now they call me the captain anyway even though I retired."

There are some bugs in the game that may get fixed on patch coming out on the 31/11/2011 in Australia 30/11/2011 in america these bugs include when you try to fast travel Skyrim crashes and you return to desktop without so much of a warning. Lastly is when you try to sell item it sometime exit's the sell window for no reason this also happen sometime when you read a book you cannot select another item by the use of a mouse you have to instead exit then re-enter these are the two most annoying bugs there are some others but they are more funny than annoying like dead companions falling from the sky at your wedding. Speaking of weddings there are many optional side-missions in each town from getting married to hunting down a serial killer which is just a most interesting find do not tell the media they will flip out :P.

Now for what people care about the most the gameplay This game can be played in wither 3rd person or 1st person depending on your preference and can easily be switched between the two the combat system is a lot more diverse than it's predecessor with the use of dual wielding one handed weapons and spell it would be nice though if you could combine spells together for new spells like a fire ice ball but i can understand why this has not happened as they are polar opposites. Depending on what you are using the skill will be leveled up allowing the player to train strongly in one skill set or even evenly train all his skills both work just as well from what I have been told from my friends they tend to drift towards dual one hand weapons and spells. They also mostly removed the seven statistics to stamina, health and magicka each of these are just as important as each other for how ever you want to play except magicka as if you want to not use spells you can just not improve this. Stamina improves the amount to capacity you have and the amount you can run or use power attacks, Health is self explanatory increases your maximum health and regeneration outside of battle, Magicka like health increase maximum amount and regeneration both in and outside of battle. Also when you level up you gain a skill point that can be used in your skill trees except they need to have the correct skill level in that tree and the proceeding point before it these points upgrade yourself in the use of that skill and give bonus passive abilities. Lastly their is the headlining feature of this game the fact that you are dragon born which means you can speak the dragon language which results in giving you the ability to shout to either improve yourself or effect your surroundings. To gain these abilities you have to first gain dragon souls by killing dragons and stealing their souls then you have to learn the dragon word on walls all through Skyrim then you use the dragon souls you have collected to unlock the dragon shout or improve it then SHOUT at the world as you are DRAGONBORN.

That about covers the gameplay there is also smithing and enchanting of items to improve stats but they are a little complicated to explain in a review already way over limit they are also great for speed levelling if you have the money to spend on iron bars and leather straps. Now to talk about something else how does that sound, sound you say ok I will talk about that Skyrim has a great original score with the coding to back it up so that it plays the correct music in the correct spots. For example when you’re about to fight a group of enemies or a dragon it picks up to enhance the mood to fit what you’re feeling or when your sneaking around there is only the sound of your footsteps ringing in your ears and the creaking of the wood under the heel of your iron boots. The score also nicely melds to just exploring the land to a seeing an idol or a new town. Which brings me to the engine the new graphic’s engine of Skyrim has fantastic lighting and smoke effects in only downfall is like most MMORPG’s they have to reuse the same textures a lot to flesh out the entire world which makes it look disjointed in some places even though everything has been placed by hand and none have been randomly generated like in previous Elder Scroll games. There are plenty of mods out their which are fan made textures to make places look less disjointed and more natural these are only done with replacing files at the moment once the mod tools come out expect a lot more retexturing and even new area’s to explore which is one of the best things about Bethesda’s games they have a great mod community.

There are many reasons to enjoy this game but it is an extremely involving RPG so it will suck a minimum of 40 hours of your life be prepared for this when you get it, also there is no multiplayer as much as it would be nice to have a co-op partner in some dungeons or quests except that multiplayer can easily ruin the experience of this game as you are very much the strongest person in this world and having two of you would imbalance the game. If you are looking for a fantasy game with great co-op I would suggest Lord of the Rings: War in the North the gameplay in that game is much like Balders gate games like Dark alliance. Also spoiler and forewarning there are some very controversial things in Skyrim that I am ashamed to have in it one being a serial killer’s house with severed heads on bodies lying around the other is once you beat the Dark Brotherhood missions you can train your skills on living torture victims chained up in the dungeons torture in games is the one thing I cannot stand I hate any games that force this on a player as they do effect people and you should not be forced to participate. I did not like this being in amnesia and I hate it being in Skyrim but at least you’re not forced to do this. Until next time I hope you do not get killed by the Dark Brotherhood, also I forgot to mention people hold grudges in this game and will send people after you to kill you this is a nice feature PEACE. Got skyward Sword played a little bit of it already miss the sweet sweet Skyrim graphics HD to SD never a nice change sword play is great far to much talking at start like usual in Zelda games but looking forward to it expect a lot  of Skyrim screenshots to come very soon I have heaps of them will make a post full or them.

Limbo (cause of steam sale)

If you have not played or purchased Limbo it was on sale on steam on 27/11/2011 so get it if you can if not just watch a lets play of it you will understand it and feel same satisfaction of playing it.

Limbo is a game by independent developer Playdead I think they are French if I can remember correctly now before I played this game I had heard that it was an interesting take on a platformer style game and was meant to be hard and frustrating at some points. This did not happen to me only thing that frustrated me was occasionally  the controls would be annoying like he would do a 2 jumps instead of one big one or vice versa other than that I beat they game very fast and without little hiccups.

Now on to the good stuff although it was a short game it was compelling and made me want to keep playing from luring a spider onto a trap to deceiving kids to traps without as much as the kid looking back just kept heading right, RIGHT TO THE END. How I solved every puzzle was deliberately do the wrong thing to understand how the trap works then on next life do it so you do not die only on a few of the puzzles I died more than once and on those ones it was because it required timing which has never been my strong suit which I why I suck at all Mario games even the easy ones. The sound in the game correctly matches what is happening in the environment the control even though annoying still work perfectly with simple button to use button to jump and left and right. The artistic theme of using black and white with some shades of Gray this hides some of the trap to get a cheep jump and to make sure you keep an eye on your surroundings without needing a bright YELLOW dodge this or go here hint system.

There are three sections to each area first is the explore and puzzle solving next is the escape the area requiring you to be constantly moving and being extremely aware of your surrounding then finally killing something that is trying to stop your progress or your boss fight. Although you can only notice this if your paying attention and constantly review the game as you play like I do or notice it in hindsight like most people most do, and yes this is the same thing all games do it is also the same in movies it is called the three part system in it's base form it is setting, problem and solution they usually then follow it up with a small resolution but not everything has this.

I do recommend you play this game if you want something different from just blindly shooting guys or stabbing people or bashing in zombie brains but if you have the extra 15$ get portal 2 much better puzzle game but it has more humour in it and PORTALS and LASORS what more could you want a jet-pack well to bad!.

desert bus for hope (Loading Ready Run)

http://desertbus.org/

The desert bus for hope is a charity event held by the loading ready run crew for a charity this year it is Child's Play in this they play the game desertbus which is where you drive a bus through the desert for 8 hours to get 1 point then drive back to get another point they will be doing marathon of this game and they will increase the amount they play it from the amount we donate. If you do plan to donate, donate a minimum of 5$ otherwise paypal charges will eat up donation making it mute.

Throughout the stream they will be giving away prizes to people who donate holding competitions which I have entered http://sliceofkris.blogspot.com/2011/11/monkey-wrench-and-robo-duck.html. So if you have some money to spare and you want some entertainment this is the place to go the website is at the top of my page and will be at the bottom of the page as well give generously it is for a good cause.

http://desertbus.org/

monkey wrench and robo duck

http://sliceofkris.blogspot.com/2011/11/drawfag-fun-post-14112011.html
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League of Legends: Spectator mode; new masteries

As a lot of you will either know or not know LoL (league of legends) have gone through their "season start" update they do every year where they either revamp old features that are not working correctly and add new features last year they re-vamped summoner profiles and introduced Ranked play. This year they revamped summoner spells and masteries and added spectator mode by summoner revamp they edited duration and effects of lots of spells plus re-adding promote removing rally and replacing it with serge.

Summoner Spells all new pictures and two new spells currently selected Surge

Also if you do not want to hear my opinions about this LoL's website has these lovly post about basic mechanic's and changes:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/how-spectate-custom-game
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-summoner-spells-and-season-two
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-masteries-season-two

I do not believe these give justice to the changes and are hard to stay interested in while reading as they are mostly a wall of text that would make next to no sense to people who have not been playing a long time.

New Masteries

The above picture shows the three reworked skill tree yes they look a lot like WoW skill trees go figure anyway basic knowledge red is offence blue is defence(used to be yellow) and green is utility(used to be blue). To put these into rpg terms red means dps unit either by spells or by basic damage, blue is tank or durability unit, green means Support or assistance traits like improved exp gain or gold gain. Major changes from previous besides new colours is that red now offers more support to spellcasters and blue allows tanks to gain increased gold as well as huge improvement to defensive stats, green has a lot more diversity which gives user more choices like weather to improve exp gain or get bonus gold. In all tree that have removed indvidual improvements to summoner spells that required you to build your masteries to allow you to improve them instead an each tree the summoner spells can be improve by the general skill that improve spells that fall into that category like red would be offensive summoner spells blue defensive etc.. With all skill trees the improved player choice so that your choices have more effect on the meta game (pre-game optimisation for best build for your character of choice) that then effect the in-game experience.

Spectator champion select

I do not know all the changes to Summoner spells but I do know they remove rally with Serge serge is a spell that is effective for both spell casters and basic damage users it helps both by improving attackspeed and ability power. Promote used to be in the game back in the beta days of LoL where you could promote any minion creep to help push a tower as a supercreep this got exploited and was removed from the game it was exploited by the entire team getting promote and 5 man pushing mid with a full creep wave of supercreeps that were almost unkillable at level 1 they then brought it back with the new game mode dominion. To stop this from happening they changed it so that the only siege units could be promoted and they only come in every third wave which stop the massing of super creeps at level one which effectively stops the exploit but will most probably be a rarely used skill.

Spectator lobby

The spectator mode in LoL has been long in the making like the clan system that has not been made yet we still wanted back from the beta days of LoL and now a beta version has come out 2 years later which lets face is ready for release but just needs a good opportunity to be released correctly most probably a tournament will be the best bet for release. I would most definitely love some extra customisation with this mode as not every game needs a three minuet delay before the spectators are allowed to join this should be left up to the host of the game's discretion as well as clearly stated in the lobby screen but that actual spectator mode is fantastic with lots of features. My favourite feature is when you double click on a hero it locks the camera on that target so that you can follow a player and look at various stats while doing so, next would be the amount to stats you can look at including in the champion selection screen you look at the player's summoner profiles while you wait for the timer to time down so you learn more about the people your about to watch. To give you a little hint of the amount of stuff that you can look up during the game you can check full current character stats items current gold and total collected gold as well as many more features that are based on the entire team not just one player. It would be nice if they had gold per minuet and experience per minuet but it is still beta they may have it in the works just not released yet.

Spectator reconnection screen

I hope you enjoyed my take on League of Legend's new spectator mode and revamped spells and masteries trees we do have a new tv so I will be reviewing Batman Arkham City challenge maps as well as Skyrim which I will be getting very soon until then peace.

Drawfag fun post 14/11/2011

WASSUP!!!

Anyway I enjoy to draw did ya know.

sorry about low quality I suck at drawing and do not own a working scanner.

VAN THE SLAYER 

My best 3d legs to date 

 Van the Slayer cough totally not based off of Van Hellsing

 Yoshi has gone through a rough patch

 really love the hair in this one

 crazy hair

Bard's Tale

  Tracing of Bard's Tale cover art

Cottontail Teemo with no arms as they are hard to draw on small scale doodles