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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Hello. Today is Christmas Eve man. It's Christmas season. Season of friendship, love and forgiveness. I already got the friendship and the forgiveness. And I've been getting excessive love, but it's about time I return the favour.

Also season of giving, but people are too cheap nowadays. You want to give something that's free, the only thing you can give is the finger. Or you can give sex for free, then you're worse than a whore.

Today I woke up at like 1pm. The latest I have ever woken up before. So instead of waking up to breakfast, I woke up to lunch. Of course I didn't have any appetite to eat after I just woke up, so I went to play Xbox first.

For some damn reason, Crackdown doesn't load anymore. When I put the disc in, everything is fine, then when the game starts loading a save file, my entire Xbox just freezes. Every other game works fine I dunno why it's just this one. I can play it fine while connected to Xbox Live though.

So since there was no Crackdown, I played Far Cry 2. And let me tell you this: Far Cry 2 is seriously the hardest ****ing shooter game I have ever played. You did after taking about 4 hits, but your enemies are practically bullet sponges, taking forever to go down.

The fact that everything in the game has an animation to it doesn't help either. In most games, when you switch from the driver to the gunner seat, you do it immediately, and you don't take damage while you do it. In FC2, you have to watch a long animation of your character pulling himself up to the turret, and you can still take damage while he is doing that. What the ****.

And what's the matter with everyone in the country. They just fire at you as soon as they notice you. Even when you're just driving a car through the jungle, minding your own business, they will suddenly drive by you and start firing. No wonder the tourism in Africa isn't too good.

I'm not done yet. As if having to watch out for enemies all the time isn't enough, you have to watch out for other ridiculous things as well. For example, you cannot sprint too much, or you might collapse from exhaustion. Also you can get malaria in the game, and once you get it, you are constantly, and by constant I mean every five minutes, prompted to take malaria pills. Seriously. I agree, these add to realism, but there are times where realism just sucks.

After Far Cry 2 and Resident Evil 5, I don't think any game should be set in Africa anymore. The game is so damn difficult partially because you can't even see you're enemies most of the time. I'm not being racist of anything, but here's a fact: Africans mostly have dark skin. In the game, I can't even see them because most of the time, their camouflaged with the shadows. And don't even get me started about trying to find them when it's night time in the game.

Ok, I'm done ranting. I'm not saying Far Cry 2 is a bad game or anything, because at times it is downright awesome, but it is one of the most frustrating and difficult games I have ever played.

In the evening, we all went to my uncle's house for a Christmas dinner. There was so much food, and more importantly, so much meat. Another one of my uncles came, the one who plays guitar on youtube, and he is damn funny. He recently bought a PS3, so now I have a chance to play God of War 3 now.

We all exchanged presents. I got some wallet. I doesn't look nice, but it's made out of leather. But then again, my Billabong wallet is also made of leather, so I'll just stick to that one for now. We also did that cracker thing, the thing that looks like a giant sweet and you have to pull both ends and then it'll break. When it does break, some thing will fall out of it. I got this bracelet thing.

After dinner, we all came home, and I cleared things up with Yiling. Instead of talking, for once I just listened. At first I thought that it was just about her charity thing, but I found out that there was much more to it. And now I feel guilty. I'm not going to be that way anymore. I'm going to return her what she as done for me.

A new Angry Video Game Nerd episode just came out a few hours ago. Of course, this episode is Christmas related. To be exact, it's bible games part 2. The Nerd already made one bible games video a while ago, so this is the second one. Since this episode is about religious stuff, I'm not going to embed it, in case some one gets offended. If you want to watch it, click here.

Some news:
-Tony Hawk's Adrenaline, which will be out Fall 2009, is set to take a more realistic approach to skateboarding, obviously to counter ultra-realistic Skate 2.
-Passage is now available for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
-Kojima is now working on two NON METAL GEAR related games, and even more surprisingly, these games are targeted at the Western market.
-Guitar Hero World Tour getting two FREE Bruce Springsteen tracks.
-PSP game LocoRoco 2 is coming to North America on Febuary 10 2009.
-Analysts predict that there will be a new Zelda game next year. Analysts also predicted that 2008 would be the year the PS3 outsold the 360, so it is safe to say that they suck. We'll just have to see if they're right this time.
-Castle Crashers title update is finally available.
-It is rumoured that PS3 exclusive zombie shooter Redwood Falls has been cancelled.
-Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which is exclusive to the Nintendo DS, will be far bigger than the GTA PSP games.

Ok, my father wants to use the computer now. Ending off, see you tomorrow.

posted @ 10:36 PM
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-Shiva
-Gamer for life
-17 years old
-15 April 1992
-Male
-1.92m, 6 ft 3 in
-msn:halo2pro117@hotmail.com
-HP no.:9******* [ask me yourself]
-Hair:Black [some white :( ]
-Eyes:Black
-Race:3/4 Indian,1/4 Chinese
-Current school:Temasek Polytechnic [Comm. and Media Management]
-Secondary School: Maris Stella High School[1B,2E,3K,4K]
-Primary School: Zhangde Primary School[1/4,2/4,3/1,4/1,5/2,6/2]
-O level L1R5: 14, L1B4: 11
-PSLE T-score:237
-CCA:NCC
-2 siblings,brother and sister
-Wants to be a game writer

LIKES

-Xbox 360
-Gaming
-Reading
-Drawing
-Writing
-Swimming
-Cycling
-Playing basketball
-Wearing my hoodie jacket
-Playing guitar
-Bullet for my Valentine
-Rise Against
-Slipknot
-Naruto
-Bleach
-One Piece
-Angry Video Game Nerd
-Gametrailers community
-Finally having a HDTV :D
-The colour black
-FOOD.[Especially Indian food =D]
-Hanging out with friends
-Listening to music
-Watching movies with twisted or sexual humour
-Headbanging
-Screaming/growling along to metal songs
-Participating in CBS
-Stoning
-Reading Wikipedia pages
-Getting raped
-Doing model kits
-Having people come over to my house
-Staying over at other houses
-Fiona Xie =X
-GIRLS!!

HATES

-Exams[damn stressful]
-Emo people [I only like HAPPY people]
-Racists [Ok so I hate the entire S'pore. Kiddin.=D]
-Crap movies [like the Epic movie, Superhero movie, Disaster movie series]
-Singapore law [so strict that everyone becomes a pu**y]
-My guitar e string snapping
-FANBOYS[Especially the PS3 breed]
-People who are taller than me
-Mean people
-Antisocial people
-Getting disconnected from an online game
-My computer [I need a new one]
-Maths and Science
-Overly crowded places
-Pimples
-Using my brain too much
-Any game that requires too much thinking
-Red Ring Of Death!!![google that]
-DC heroes [Only Batman comes close to being cool]
-Not having enough cash
-CONDOMS [get what I mean?:D]

CHATTER

LINKS

WISHLIST

-~~At least a 37" HDTV~~
-~~Hoodie jacket~~
-~~Get Good Results for O Level~~
-~~ATM Card~~
-~~Get into the Poly course I want~~
-~~New Shoes~~
-~~New jeans~~
-~~More Games [30 XB360 games]~~
-~~More Games [50 XB360 games]~~
-~~More Games [70 XB360 games]~~
-~~Laptop~~
-~~Two New Controllers~~
-~~Cannon 500D DSLR Camera~~
-~~Redecorated Room~~
-One New Controller
-More Money [no amount is enough!!]
-To Make a Video Game
-Fiona Xie [hey it is a WISHlist]
-More Games [100 XB360 games]
-New Clothes
-To be an awesome guitarist [once again, this is a WISHlist.]
-Screen Capture Card
-Les Paul Guitar
-Marshall Amplifier
-Slipknot Masks!!!
-Bean Bag Chair

GAME WISHLIST 2010

>January<
>February<
>March<
>April<
>May<
>June<
>August<
>September<
>October<
>November<
>December<

MY LIFE

-Gamertag: HoJ 117
-Gamerscore: 24100
-Gamerzone: Recreation
-Number of Consoles: 2
-Number of Xbox games: 27
-Number of Xbox 360 games: 75

MY GAME COLLECTION

>2006<
1. Dead or Alive 4
2. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
3. Gears of War
4. Fifa 07 Soccer
5. Superman Returns
6. Tony Hawk's Project 8
>2007<
7. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
8. Dead Rising
9. Crackdown
10. Rainbow Six Vegas
11. Def Jam Icon
12. Guitar Hero 2
13. Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
14. Bioshock
15. Halo 3
16. The Orange Box
17. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
18. Assassin's Creed
19. Naruto: Rise of a Ninja
>2008<
20. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
21. Devil May Cry 4
22.Army of Two
23. Guitar Hero 3
24. Grand Theft Auto 4
25. Ninja Gaiden 2
26. Battlefield: Bad Company
27. Burnout Paradise
28. Alone in the Dark
29. Unreal Tournament 3
30. GUN
31. Tomb Raider Anniversary
32. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
33. Saints Row 2
34. Fable 2
35. Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
36. Fallout 3
37. Gears of War 2
38. Far Cry 2
39. Call of Duty: World at War
40. Left 4 Dead
41. Guitar Hero World Tour
42. Naruto: The Broken Bond
>2009<
43. Mirror's Edge
44. Rock Band
45. Skate 2
46. Lord of the Rings Conquest
47. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
48. Halo Wars
49. Street Fighter IV
50. Mass Effect
51. Ninja Blade
52. Guitar Hero Metallica
53. The Godfather II
54. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
55. Bionic Commando
56. Red Faction: Guerilla
57. Prototype
58. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
59. Batman: Arkham Asylum
60. Bully Scholarship Edition
61. Guitar Hero 5
62. Halo 3: ODST
63. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
64. Brutal Legend
65. Borderlands
66. Kameo: Elements of Power
67. Armoured Core 4
68. Modern Warfare 2
69. Dragon Age Origins
70. Assassin's Creed 2
71. DJ Hero
72. The Saboteur
73. Darksiders
74. Bayonetta
75. Mass Effect 2

MY AWESOMENESS

FRIENDS