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

News post 14/11/2011

I am not making a news post here by extreme choice I just have nothing else to put down here as we had a power serge and it killed my tv so I cannot play Batman and I should of beaten it by now with some challenge missions but I had study and much easier to study and play pc games like dungeon defenders, DC universe and SKYRIM! note: I do not have skyrim yet by choice so I could focus on studying.

Biggest news CoD still on top in sales over 6.5 million units shipped in UK and US on first day grossing in over 400 million$ which is the largest to date beating a lot of cinema releases at box offices, goes to show how far gaming has come and how stupid people are at picking movies and computer games. Yes I hated avatar and the CoD series in more interesting news SKYRIM! surprisingly less than 10gb install compared to bf3 with it's 14 gb install which is great news to people decide which games to fit on their small hard drives. In less main stream news Xbox and Ps3 have started remaking their dashboards and pshome has undergone a full revamp with loads of free stuff Xbox website has also gone a revamp.

Dc universe has reached 1 million players since going free to play breathing fresh life into the game and it's first dlc release of green lantern rings. To the proud people of steam users it has been hacked well only the forum server has been but it did have some user information and encrypted credit card info so if you use the steam forums they suggest to change your password to be safe and not to worry about credit card information as they were heavily encrypted and should not be able to be decoded unrelated valve has given out free copies for portal 2 and tf hats.

Assassin creed movie rights have been put up for bid except that whom ever buys them they have to be supervised by the creative team behind Assassin creed, not entirely sure if this will make it any better but never the less at least Ubisoft is trying not to repeat the mistakes of prince of persia. HD collections of various games are all coming out over the next few months including MGS, ICO&SoC, DMC, RE4 and Halo if you do not know what these abbreviations mean then gamse your looking for with HD remakes are not there for you.

People in France have armed robed a truck containing copies of MW3 this makes me sad also more controversy of violence against civilians in the MW3 single player gameplay. Some Mass Effect 3 beta has been leaked in the beta version of xbox's new dashboard which showed the 3 game modes of the game which were story, action and rpg modes this could be difficulty or something else entirely has made fans of the series worried that Bioware may just be catering more to action fans than their rpg fans.

also SKYRIM 6 more years till elderscrolls 6 who else is counting down the days :P

Until next time slice of kris news team out!

DC Universe Online (free edition)

As you should know by now DC Universe came out around this time last year as a MMO for the consoles and demonstrates the three reasons why MMORPG should never be made on consoles I will get to this soon but for now lets get some reasons why to get into this game. DC Universe is much like it's predecessor City of Heroes a MMORPG with super heroes and villains fighting each other with a greater evil looming in the background except it has been given a franchise so they do not have to set up a background and lore for why we should care about the story of your and the characters in the game. Which is a big reason why a lot of the other MMORPG's failed because we had to learn the storyline while getting used to the gameplay and the story going on at the moment but because the viewer has prior knowledge of the series they can more easily make their character fit to the setting and pick up the story of the world. Now quickly I will name some of the more popular MMORPG's of the past five years World of Warcraft (of course), Lord of the Ring online (also free to play expect you caped a lot for being non premium), Starwars Onine (very old cannot remember the actual name), Everquest 2, Tibia and Maple story out of all these you can quickly pick up that you know some of the background of the games except Tibia, Maple story and maybe Everquest this goes to show that people tend to play the game they know the story and lore over something they have never heard of like lets just say Rift.

After that long sidetrack I shall explain my first 10 levels of the game in less than 10 minute I hit my first road block MMORPG's without CDs take for ever to download a whopping 18 Gb so 8 hours latter I was ready to go and hit the second roadblock to an Australian gamer only servers available are Eu or US I mean come on guys we level directly between the two of you give us a server and they give you the stupid option of PvP or non-PvP what a waste of bandwidth to split a server just so pansies can not worried about getting killed by random's during their quest and still not give us a server. Now I am finally in character customisation which I felt was a huge amount of choice you pick your ability background like use of ice fire magic and gadgets then you pick what weapons you want you character to use from hand blasts to pole-arms to dual pistol's. Next you have your choice of metor for the side of heroes Superman, Wonder Woman or batman and for the villain's you have Lex Luthor, The Red Circle or the Joker (you got me I have no idea who this Red Circle is something to do with Wonder Woman) as well as your ability move about acrobatic's like Batman Flying like superman or Super speed of the Flash. After all these tough choices you come to everyone's favourite thing character creation that is right you get to pick what your superhero or villain looks like from cape to boots they have a lot of customisation to make you look like a superstar!.

ME stuck in the ground shows the UI though! and some costumes of my in the ground friends

Now for a quick story setting Lex has killed superman in the not to distant future in the hugest fight between villains and heroes as soon as the battle is over if superman dead Brainiac (The reason for superman's home planet's destruction) comes over and conquers the planet after many years of oppression future Lex invents time travel and warns the justice league of what is going to happen. Lex then release Brainiac's nanobots into the Earth's atmosphere which has all of the powers from meta humans that Brainiac has harvested over the past years and the future that then infect normal humans giving them superpowers and that means you!. Here is a link to the trailer which pretty much is what I have just said above expect cooler with good CGI graphicshttp://www.g4tv.com/videos/47678/dc-universe-online-cinematic-trailer/. You wake up in a large open room of what seems to be a spaceship a stranger's voice contacts you saying ohh you have woken up what I have must of worked they then tell you that you are on a Brainiac invasion ship and you have to escape by using your powers taking out your guard the stranger introduces him/herself. Make a long tutorial short you learn the basics adding skill points, how to use your movement trait and how to fight you break out and destroy the ship with the aid of a more experienced player namely Lex or Superman.

The Game has a large storyline dependant on who you chose as your mentor and which faction your on much like WoW with it's different races and horde or alliance Factions but I decided to use my two available character on a Superman mentor as a magic hand-blasting metahuman that can fly and a twisted nature controlling dual pistol weilding psychopath under the mentor Joker both were incredibly fun to play. When you beat a raid/campaign fight the person you beat give you their stake in the world on my hero route which was Gorilla Grodd and Hive Queen they explained what they want to have as their ideal future when you beat them. After beating these chumps I was invited onto the Justice League space station which is like the huge cities from WoW they then told me to go to other cities from the giant world to tackle stronger enemies and help other heroes.

In my entire experience I have found two annoying things one being not enough ability to set macro as you want in a MMORPG the other was a random bug where I Logged in and was stuck in the ground randomly which made me have to delete my character and start again the other just made me feel like I was Pigeon toed into playing a console game on the computer problem number one of console MMORPG number two is the graphic control in the game there are very limited things you can change for your computers performance it also does not save your setting after you change them after you quit (maybe this was just my computer being stupid). Number 3 general control of you character feels slightly off not saying that it is hard to play or is anyway stupid just did not especially feel 100% like having right click be ranged and left click be melee which just always makes me feel like left and right trigger from a controller at least it is not as bad as Assassin Creed on computer now that is the most annoying control system for a computer ever.

Sorry about the length maybe you like longer and more comprehensive reviews as compared to my whole part review strategy where I break up the review of a game into three parts depending on the theme of the post I am sure I will eventually go into the standard of the industry Gameplay, Story and Multi-player segregated reviews till next time and if you cannot wait for Skyrim that comes out in 24 hours! or just want a free fun well paced MMORPG with very little trouble learning how to play and have fun with it's simplistic UI and gameplay give it a shot.

Battlefield 3 The Guns part 2

The most important thing in modern fps is not gameplay or graphic it is the guns from ironsights to recoil they are the linchpin that holds the entire game together. In some games the guns are completely over the top and ridiculous but because they are they set the tone of the entire game for instance the arsenal in the Unreal franchise each having a unique feel with an incredible destructive force. The guns in Battlefield 3 do set the tone for the game with intense eye for detail biggest example when you use all the bullets in the clip and the one and the chamber before you can fire again you have manually place one in the chamber by cocking it.

The diversity of guns in battlefield is astonishing with over 50 guns to unlock from sidearm's to rpg's each with it's own range damage and effectiveness in certain environments some of these include shotgun for close quarters/indoor environments or the smg for short burst with low accuracy short to mid ranged gun fights. To add to this each weapon has an abundance of attachments to unlock from sights to extra handling with stocks depending on your needs you can even add a flashlights to blind you enemy or a laser sight so you can aim easier from the hip. Now lastly the thing you all care about the most is guns attached to vehicles this is the hardest to do as you want to have it so that a player in a vehicle can feel protected but also so that those not in vehicle do not feel completely hopeless to stop it's onslaught. They have achieved this fairly well by creating other vehicles that can counter other vehicles not force people to rely on the trusty rpg team first their is the mobile anti-air tank that can position itself on a hill out of the range of enemy tanks and rpg team to take out the pesky helicopters and aeroplanes.

This is a nice short post this time it was specific about guns though was not a lot I could talk about I could go into detail on how each gun works but even if I did I do not think  I could correctly state on the accuracy of how each gun feels compared to it's real life counter part as I have never held a gun let alone fired one enough to understand how this gun works and how it compares to this video game. Until next time do not come knocking if the boat is rocking you know what I mean!.

Batman Arkham City part 1 as the dust settles.

Forewarning

Batman Arkham city is made by rocksteady games and is the sequal to the 2009 smash hit Batman Arkham Asylum. I recommend playing Batman Arkham Asylum before you play Arkham City as the plot assumes you have played it and it does not give the greatest tutorial on how to play the game. This is a major flaw of the game as it prohibits new players from being able to simple pick this game up and play it with the same enjoyment of fans of the series. Myself I have not played Arkham asylum since I beat it and the challenge maps I did not even come back when more dlc challenge maps came out as they were essentially the same fight in a different locations so without a tutorial it took me a while to get back to the feel of the game.

Setting

Much like the previous Batman title there is a a world to explore and learn about but unlike the previous game it is easy to get lost while gliding as bat around the city controlled by various factions even more so when you weaken or take out one the bosses the various factions take over that area. The riddle trophies are more mini puzzles or mini-games while also being spread among the entire city making collecting every single one seem more of a hassle over being a reward for exploring as you need to backtrack a lot because you do not have the gadget to get the trophy in the first place. The scan for clues are back but they are not explained at all in the game which pisses me off a lot as I have forgotten almost everything about the game.

I sure am lazy to not post my screenshot

Gameplay

The movement in this game in combat is incredibly fluid in most cases as you watch Batman jump from guy to guy like a pogo stick but gliding and running around does not always do what you want it to or even expect it to as the game does not allow Batman and Catwoman to climb or jump over every single object or grapnel to all ledges. Speaking of Catwoman she has her own side storyline missions not as much as the big bad Bat but has enough attention to enjoy climbing up a wall like a cat to a tree or whipping to a building further away than the whip should be able to hit as well as her personalised fight style and items to flesh out the individuality of the character. You can also play Robin, Catwoman, various Batman skins and Nightwing in the upcoming dlc in the challenge missions which I have yet to play or see but I will you be rest assured.

Graphics

Using the unreal engine like the previous batman makes it have a nice gritty vibe with nice aesthetics as you fly from turf to turf. As the game progresses the entire city changes depending on who the main villain is your chasing at the time including Batman's costume with new gear and as it gets ripped. These things create as sense as if what you do correctly effects the game world unlike other sandbox games where the game world does not change and you feel as if your actions do not mean anything.

Summary

As I am playing this game on the ps3 as it is much more enjoyable to play a 3rd person camera game on a dual analog sticks over a mouse and keyboard so I cannot post screenshot but I have gotten some from various websites on the Internet! Also do not forget to check out my other reviews (they are a lot better than this one as it was one of my first reviews) and to click on the ads to support me doing this as a hobby.

News post for 3/11/2011

Doing news post as it has been a while since last one and there is a lot to talk about

First gta 5 is back on the west coast or fake La like San Andreas from the trailer we can tell that the person wants to start a new life on the west coast because life there is meant to be better then things take a turn for the worse he probably is forced to live on the street then does small gang violence and moves his way up to the top.

Next is a new Mortal combat movie is in production based off the mini series by machinima, Felicia Day has made a Dragon age mini series for the dragon age expansion with her in it also hosted by machinima. Battlefield 3 Batman Drakes have all came out and MW3 is coming out tomorrow (do not buy just because I hate CoD series).

MMO news DC universe has gone free to play lots of people have told me this is a good game so if your over WoW or segway to other news waiting for panda's to come out in WoW back to topic give it a go but bad news is 17 GB on a only possible good MMO. While we are on the subject of WoW news you can get Diablo 3 for free if you purchase a year subscription to WoW personaly this is a great deal if your going to be playing WoW anyway but for non-fans of the series unless your going to play WoW do not get it just get the Diablo 3 collectors edition which is cheaper overall it comes with a USB!!! plus Diablo 2.

It is almost fighting season in the gaming games that are coming Kindom fighter (Number) or something like that Streetfighter X Teken and Capcom vs Marvel (Number) as you can tell I do not care for fighting games they are pretty much all the same.

In local news NOTHING because Australia does diddaly squat! Till next time i know there are better sources for news but u am the only won who types one with won.

3/11/2011

Dungeon Defenders updates updates UPDATES!

It has been a long time since the release of Dungeon Defender since then 3 things have changed and one thing still needs to be changed.

First they have nurfed the squire a lot to bring him down to the other characters levels but even this is still not enough when the other characters have to watch out for immunity of creeps where as squire can take on them all with any turret. Next they buff the apprentices turrets have increased damage over the board while increasing the life of monk's offensive auras so they do not need to be constantly repaired. The archer has not been improved and is still the hardest character to use except her second spell is very good at clearing enemies in a long row.

Halloween in dungeon defenders

A wild pirate scouts the field ready to strike

short quick expect more improvements in this game and unless your going for speed levelling do not play the Halloween event match it is so damned long to beat 1 and half hours never again and you only get special skins if you beat it on hard, till next time.