Confessions of a gamer

After seeing the latest trailer of Assassin´s Creed Unity I saw an assassin coming to the aid of a templar, at least this woman was wearing a necklace with the symbol of the templars around her neck so I take it that means she´s in league with this faction. But that didn´t change the fact that the assassin rescued her from being executed. So what does that mean? It´s a deal? The most logic answer would be that it´s a deal, you made a deal with the templars or at least someone to rescue her so they´re going to help you with something else. Maybe it´s even a favor or to repay a debt, that would also make sense to me. But still the other assassins might not be too happy with this decision, because the templars are the enemy and to rescue one of them could be considered as an act of betrayal! The assassin (Arno) doesn´t know? It could be that Arno doesn´t know that he rescued a templar, until he sees the necklace. There was this moment when you see it and he could be just as much surpr...

After the story trailer I saw this awesome short teaser trailer of CoD AW multiplayer and it looks awesome! It´s fast and looks like a lot of fun, because movement is greatly motivated in this multiplayer. Thanks to the boost you can strafe left or right with ease and dodge bullets while returning the favor to the agressor. Which means people can actually learn to dodge bullets with grace and then quickly return fire for a nice kill. So no more campers? Hah there will always be campers in games like CoD, some people have just no skill at all or are so fucking lazy that they would rather spend hours sitting in a corner than to actually go out there and get some kills. Well it´s their loss, because I think my seek and destroy type of gaming in first person shooters will definately find a good spot in this multiplayer. It´s fast and it´s deadly, so anyone with slow reflexes might want to avoid this...unless you´re a camper. So just boosts or is there more news? Well...

I think a lot of CoD gamers on the Playstation 3 and/or 4 are familiar with the unfair advantage that Xbox 360 and Xbox One players have when it comes to dlc. Because they get it a month earlier and that´s not really fair, but it´s business as Microsoft made a deal (in other words gave a lot of money to make certain that this would happen) about this dlc advantage. But with these deals don´t help anyone, they actually hurt players as it´s less fun when you have to wait longer for the same stuff that others can already play. Does this happen a lot? More often than you think, just think of the deal between Bungie and Sony. This means exclusives for Playstation 3 and 4 players in the game Destiny, it might seem that this doesn´t matter but it can have some serious nasty side effects for Microsoft if Destiny becomes very popular and that these exclusives make people prefer to play on the Playstation 3 and 4! Once again one side (Xbox 360 and Xbox One players) get screwed and the other si...

This was my first game for the Xbox 360, I still don´t know why I picked this game with the console because it would make more sense that I picked a game that also had a nice multiplayer so if friends would come over we could still play together. But somehow I picked a single player game that was a mystery to me, I only heard some things about this this game and nothing that really made me want to buy it. Still I picked this game because it looks interesting and I like that you can play the game the way you want to. You can pick your own gender, race and class. So I was curious how this would work out on a console because usually you see these type of games (rpg) on the pc. Well I can say that I wasn´t disappointed! So what do you do in this game? First of all you´re in prison, but you manage to escape when the emperor and his guards need to make use of the secret escape route hidden in your cell. You take a different route but end up meeting them again, somehow the emperor trusts yo...

I think the main reason to play games is to have fun, but how we have fun depends on the person. Some people have fun playing games solo, others have fun with friends and then there are people that have fun making the lives of others miserable. Which means that your fun comes at the expense of others, often strangers you don´t know. I don´t mind a bit of teasing myself but there is a point where you´re crossing a line or when you´re just being pathetic with attempts to annoy others. Annoying other people is an art? If you want to do it right and be unique then yes it´s an art, if you just want to do what many others do and just be blunt then no it´s not an art. When I see comments under a youtube video then at least 25% of those comments are people trying to annoy others, often with asking dumb questions or saying things that will most likely get you a negative response. I think a lot of people are familiar with the first comment, then there are people that just copy something someon...

I´m not talking about movie that is based upon a game, no I´m talking about games with cutscenes and graphics that make it feel as if you´re watching a movie. It might seem silly but have you seen the cinematic trailer of the Master Chief collection? Amazing! Of course this is just a trailer, there is absolutely no guarantee that this is what the game will give us, but it´s nice to see that it´s possible! Are graphics important? For me it´s important that I can see what´s going on, if I have to stare to be able to play the game then that´s not a good thing, but I personally don´t really care about fancy graphics. But that doesn´t mean that I don´t appreciate it, I mean if a game looks awesome then that´s a nice bonus! I just don´t want the game to suffer because of that, when developers spend so much time on making a game look pretty and then the gameplay and story are absolutely crap. That´s just not worth it! I´m glad that this doesn´t happen a lot, so I think most developers under...

It´s probably the worst news for a gamer, well maybe not the worst because a game that is cancelled and you were looking forward to playing that game might be even worse. But that doesn´t make it less bad, you were hoping to play the game in just a couple of months and now you have to wait another month or sometimes even a year! It´s not a surprise that this makes people upset, so maybe we can calm things down by figuring out why are games delayed. But seriously, why are games delayed? A release date isn´t something you can depend on? I think a release date is more of an idea when the game might come out, oh sure some developers will promise you things but a release date isn´t always set in stone! But some developers go out of their way to get the game ready before the release date, it seems simple but that´s far from the truth! Some developers are even known for pushing the release date, sometimes several times. It´s frustrating that this happens and I wish that there ...