Confessions of a gamer

When the season pass for games was first introduced I didn´t trust it, pay for something that you´ll get later. I was raised not to trust things like that and I wouldn´t want to spend money on that. But the season pass would often save you some money on the exact same thing you would buy otherwise (dlc) and sometimes you would even get some extra items you wouldn´t get otherwise. So the question should be, why wouldn´t you buy a season pass for a game? I think a lot of people don´t know if they´re going to buy the dlc for a game, especially if the game itself wasn´t exactly what they expected or if they would rather play other games. Dlc isn´t for everyone so it would be stupid to buy a season pass for a game if you´re not going to play the dlc you get with that. So it makes sense that not everyone would buy a season pass. People that first want to see what the dlc will be can always buy the season pass later, but once you bought some dlc without the season pass then you´re often bet...

Can you remember the first Street Fighter game? I can barely remember it because it´s been quite a long time since I last played that game. But for me at that time it was the fighting game. Just like a lot of other guys I was a fan of Blanka and I really enjoyed shocking my enemies or use the rolling ball move for a quick attack. I guess we all have our favourites but things change and more character became playable, but somehow it never feels like the first game you played in the series. To be honest I´m not much of a fighting game kind of guy, especially when you´re quickly frustrated and angry you might want to avoid fighting games as they bring out the worst in you. But if you learn the moves, know what to do and do it well then you can be an opponent to be feared! I don´t think I´ve ever gotten that far with Street Fighter but I definitely had a good time playing it, especially as Blanka but I also tried Ryu and Ken. I must admit that some character are less interesting to m...

I was going to talk about something else here when I heard some idiot talk on tv about how games make you violent, again! The thing is that this guy is supposed to be smart (their words not mine) and talk about why there is war in the world, but to blame it one people playing games puts being stupid in a whole different light. Oh sure playing games isn´t the only reason but to put it there already makes me mad, the ignorance of such a statement already shows me that this guy has never played a game in his life and yet he knows all about it because everyone that plays games is violent. Ignorance! What´s so bad about one guy talking shit about games? It´s not bad if one person talks shit about games, it´s bad when people think that he knows what he´s talking about and think that he´s right. That´s bad! Why do games always get blamed for such shit? Yes there are games with a war theme but does that make you want to kill people? No I don´t think so! People that do horrible things didn´t ...

I must admit that survival horror games have changed for me, as much as I enjoyed playing the first couple of Resident Evil and Silent Hill games that as much as the last titles from the same game series have actually scared me. Oh sure there is disturbing, but disturbing isn´t really scary. Of course what I find scary another person might find hilarious, it´s difficult to really name something that is scary for everyone. So what about this new game, the evil within? I´ve seen trailers about this game and it looks interesting, then I saw some gameplay and that looked like a lot of fun! This game is made by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, you probably recognized the mansion in the evil within trailers. I do think it looks a bit like the mansion from the first Resident Evil game, but this one looks more twisted and a lot darker than the Resident Evil version. Everything in this game is pretty disturbing, not just the environment but also the creatures you encounter. You actual...

This must have been a surprise if you expected zombies, in a way I didn´t think that there would be zombies since that´s the thing of Treyarch. So the reveal trailer showed that you now have to survive against endless waves of enemies with up to three other players with you in exo survival. What does this mean? If you´ve played Modern Warfare 3 you´re probably familiar with the survival mode, so this is kind of the same but then more action packed and of course with your exo abilities. Once again you can play solo if you want to, but you can also play splitscreen with a friend or online with three other players. So whatever your style is you can play it, which is nice because it sucks if you can´t play games with your friends. But why are some people disappointed with this? I guess they expected something ridiculous, something like zombies or the creatures from CoD Ghosts. I actually liked the idea where you would face killer robots, maybe not completely like the Terminator but...

Whenever I play games I sometimes catch myself getting mad about something that doesn´t really matter, but at that moment it seems so important to me that I get mad when it doesn´t happen or doesn´t happen fast enough. This need for succes sometimes blinds the real reasons why I play games, because I play games for fun and not to brag about my skills or achievements. I don´t care about that and I doubt that the majority cares about that either, games are meant to be fun so let´s try to have fun! But what if you want an achievement or trophy and you can´t get it? That would be frustrating and I can see how this takes away the fun in the game, I guess playing for achievements/trophies makes a game a bit less focused on fun and more on accomplishing something. This accomplishment doesn´t even really matter, because it´s not like people think you´re the best because you have more achievements/trophies than other people. I´d say it could even work against you where people make fun of you ...

Have you played the Queen´s Wrath event already in Destiny? It´s maybe not as exciting as you might think, but it´s still cool that you can unlock new armor and items. This is the type of stuff that keeps a game longer alive and I applaud Bungie for making this free and accessible to everyone (you don´t need a gold account to play this or have to pay for dlc). Why would you say that it´s not as excting as you might think? Well it´s nothing new to be honest, you play the same missions you´ve been playing but now on epic (a lot of enemies have armor and shield + they can kill you a lot faster). This also makes this event difficult for low level players (the missions are on level 24) so it´s rough if you play solo and want to unlock new stuff. Then there is the chance that you get the same armor piece when you complete one of the Queen´s kill orders, which means you kind of did it for nothing because titan armor can´t be worn by your hunter or warlock. Of course you can break it dow...