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Typical day of online gaming.
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I am a girl gamer. This, of course, means I'm female and I like to play video games. However, when you put those two words together... Weird stuff happens. The world of a girl gamer is very different from that of other gamers. And it tends to be really, really annoying.
So here, in no particular order (or, rather, the order in which they pop into my head as I type) are one girl gamer's pet peeves. Drumroll, please.
1. Idiotic Conversations.
"I bet your boyfriend loves you." If I have one, he better love me for more than that.
"How did you get into video games?" Same way you did, moron. It wasn't a covert operation.
"That's sexy." Not really.
2. Girl Gamers who Objectify Themselves.
Do a Google Images search for "girl gamer" and you'll find plenty of pictures of girl gamers... many of them nude and posing with their consoles/controllers covering their naughty bits. Way to strike a blow for girl gamers everywhere, girls. And WTF? In what world does "console porn" even make sense??? Call me wacky, but I prefer to use my video game controllers to control my video games - not to take the place of key...
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Now that can't be right....
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Yes, it’s that that time again when I spend ridiculous amounts of money on a console and whinge about it. Having now played and owning all three next-gen consoles, I’ll be giving a fair sum-up at the end, as last time I had to take a stab in the dark at the PS3 experience. A guided stab in the dark, mind you, having heard much about it and the game library (crickets chirping) it has in store for players. Anyway, let’s get right into it....
I’ll skip the description of set-up and online-sign-up, as I’d be reiterating what I said about the 360 with the exception of it being free. No money whatsoever for online play. Just shove the Ethernet cable into the back of your PS3 and give out your life story. Or in my case, tell it twice, the second time I claimed that I was born two months prior to my actual birth date. It seems that next-gen consoles have parental controls coating every corner of harmless fun. So much that I am still unable to play online games on the account which is aged 17 years and 10 months (my true age), rather I have to keep using the “Master Account”, an account for the head of the house or adult owner of the console to use. I have turned...
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There's been a strange amount of hype/flame-warring about inFamous and Prototype so I decided I'd have a go at doing a sort of....comparative review(?)
Both games are open-world, third-person view, (gruff voiced) super-hero (or anti-hero) games. Alex Mercer, the protagonist of Prototype uses his own body as his weapon, morphing it into whatever he needs. As well as morphing, he is virtually bullet proof and can.... run up walls? Cole McGrath, the protagonist of inFamous uses lightning and parkour abilities.
Prototype
First of, graphics of Prototype were reported to be better... BUT the whole city is very generic, the tree leaves are highly pixelated and the water looks horrendous, as if they just added a frozen texture.
The story is very mediocre, it's your typical uninspired, crude, gory, action-packed, brainless conspiracy story. You are an amnesiac super-soldier out to get revenge on whoever improved your body... even if you have to kill many innocent people by doing so. Ok, so they fell at the first hurdle with the amnesia, and then again at the super soldier bit.... and the pointless "revenge". The story is an absolute...
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