#when will gta 5 let’s plays come back from the war

[teamahwol]

Missing her today (achievement hunter’s gta 5 videos)

#when will gta 5 let’s plays come back from the war #(I know why they stopped making content in that game but I’m still sad) #lp gta v #ahrt #shit.jpg

[levi-supreme]

Happy New Year sunshine! I wish you and your loved ones a holiday full of happiness and rest. Thank you for sharing with us a bit of your culture! I'm really interested in Asian countries' cultures ❤️

Oh yes, I saw it! I'm sure that would be a nice way to celebrate your birthday haha! Same here, I'm really excited for the new season and to see Levi again 👀

I'm always so happy and in awe to hear you're glad to have me on your blog and that you consider me a dear friend of yours. My heart feels so warm right now and that's all thanks to you. I know I'm repetitive haha, but thank you from the bottom of my heart. You're playing a big role in my road back to recovery and for that I'm eternally grateful. Remember the same goes for you! Whatever problem you're facing, I'm here to help you and give you the love you deserve so much 💖

Omg you make progress really fast haha. So glad to hear you keep enjoying the game and that you're almost done with the first part of the experience. Haha yes, those hybrid flowers seem easy to breed, but actually it's quite hard at the beginning. I still remember my failed attempts haha. Congratulations for your first hybrid flower dear! I'm sure it'll be followed by many others. Oh I've never heard that game before and I wasn't aware it existed a mobile version of animal crossing. If you didn't like it you did a good thing deleting it. I have some games on my phone I don't really play anymore, but I don't want to delete theme because I feel like maybe I could have a change of heart. However, that never happens and then I end up with my phone's memory clogged! I wish you good luck with your progress! But with the rapidity with which you proceed, you probably don't need it 💕

Oh god! I've always wanted to play God of War Ragnarok!! Unfortunately I have a Xbox and the game isn't avaible there, only on ps4/5. I hope your bf likes it and that he's having a good time. When I was younger I used to play Cooking Mama with my brother and we loved it so much! It may seem childish but it's actually a good game. Glad to hear you were able to convince him to buy it and that everything worked out in the end. Once or twice I played GTA with my cousin, I never learned how to drive properly there and I always broke the car by crashing into something. Omg same! I have those Pokémon toys that used to come with McDonald's Happy Meal too. Unfortunately, I don't know anymore where I put them haha 💙

I'm glad to hear you came to a decision regarding Levi's birthday this year. Keeping mind of your creativity, I'm sure it'll be a great event! I'm excited for it and I can't wait to se what you have in mind 💗

Talking about shyness, I feel like I'm ready to reveal myself to you! But I remember you saying once that you enjoy not knowing who I am. So I want to let you decide! I'm happy with being one of your emoji anons so please don't feel pressured! 😊

Yes, you're right. We've come a long way together and likewise, I'm thankful to have you as one of my dearest friends! 🥰🥹

No need to thank me! I read your shipping fics in the past and I was in awe! Like you said, you and Levi are perfect for each other. I feel like with you Levi would be so happy and content with life. I'm so glad to hear you've overcome your insecurities and that you're enjoying this experience!

Thank you so much for the message! You saying that I make you happy makes my heart melt! I'm the one who should thank you for your support, for chatting with me and for letting me become one of your emoji anons! Never apologize for taking your time to reply! I understand you perfectly. Enjoy your holiday sunshine, I love you 💞 ~[🧸]

Hi there my dearest 🧸 anon!!! Good day to you! Thank you so much for the well wishes! It's been raining the entire day and even though I'm not complaining... it's too cold XD I'm glad that I can show you bits and parts of East Asian and Southeast Asian culture over here!!! I'm so happy to hear that you're interested in learning about my culture too. There's probably only a few people here who understands my culture, and I'm really touched to hear these from you hehe. Other than spreading my love for Levi, my blog will also be here to spread the love for East and Southeast Asian culture too!!

Hahha for SNK to air on my birthday is either the best or worse way to celebrate tbh... But yes!! I can't wait to see Levi again 🥺💖 I'm sure everyone misses him terribly and we can't wait for him to appear on the big screen again <3

Hehe. I think I'm also very repetitive, because I'm always talking about how grateful I am to have such a supportive friend like you too! There may be lots of bad things happening on the internet all the time, but I'm glad to have found you! ^^ let's continue to support each other for a long long time ☺️

Hehe, yesterday (21/01) my new Residence Services opened and now I have Isabelle on my island!!! Yay!!!! And Tom Nook just started talking to me about building that campsite to invite K.K. Slider over 😂 and urgh I have to farm for iron nuggets again................ :/ I'm making friends with my island's residents and I'm having so much fun!! I love it when I gift them something and they give me clothes in return haha, it's so cool!!

Talking about hybrid flowers, I got a second pink windflower again! And I got an orange pansy too, and a second one is blooming ^^ I'm trying to manifest for my other flowers to have hybrids too... other than windflowers and pansies, I have hyacinths, cosmos, and mums!! My tulip seeds are still in my storage because I have too many flowers outside my house XD

Pocket camp is actually quite fun!! It's similar to acnh, but you're at a campsite instead of an island. I kinda liked it, but it was hard earning money and I wanted to get those spring-limited kimonos and sakura decorations etc, but then I didn't want to spend money on those lol... so I gave up pocket camp XD but I'm the same!! Sometimes I keep games on my phone because of nostalgia, and I think I'll go back to playing them one day. In the end, I don't and it's just there wasting space.... hahaha.

Well my bf finished God of War Ragnarok already!!! He was complaining about how ridiculously hard it was to get the platinum trophy for the game on the PS achievements, so he stopped playing and he's going to uninstall it haha. I don't follow the God of War series, so it was interesting to watch him playthrough Ragnarok too! Aww cooking mama is really fun!! I used to play it on my cousin's PSP and that's how I got to know cooking mama lol. He loves playing cooking mama now XD

Don't worry, I'm terrible at GTA too. I tried playing it and I failed my first mission miserably???? I keep banging my car and killing people too, so I gave up on the game HAHA. I think my pokemon toys are still somewhere in my room though... I hope I can find them some day hehe.

Since Levi's birthday falls on Christmas, my idea for Happy Birthday Levi this year somehow coincides with the theme of gifting hehe. I'll leave it as it is so that I don't drop anymore spoilers~

Awwww!! 🥺💖 haha, tbh I'm okay with either too! I would love to know who you are, but at the same time, I love the anonymity about you too! I love seeing you as my emoji anon! It feels like I am talking to a secret admirer XD don't feel pressurised to let me know your identity as well, I actually really do enjoy this 'mysterious' factor about not knowing who you are hehe.

Haha I'm glad I overcame that insecurity too! Ultimately, I started writing Levi fics because it makes me happy to show my love for my favourite character is this way, and I started selfshipping because it makes me happy too. I realised I shouldn't be embarrassed for being such a huge selfshipper, and as long as it makes me happy, why not! Even though not many people read my Reivi stuff, I know that there will always be people out there who do read them and that's good enough for me 🥰

Thank you so much for this very thoughtful message too my dearest 🧸!! I appreciate you a lot and I am always keeping you in my thoughts 💚 also, not sure if you saw, but I made a discord server for my followers here!! There's not many of us yet, and I'm still trying to make it a nice cosy place just like my blog too hehe. If you have discord, feel free to join my server!! But same thing: please don't feel pressurised to do so as well ☺️ take care of yourself, and I'm looking forward to hear from you again!!! (*^^*)

#🧸 anon.asks #rei.answers #🧸 anon #this pleasantly surprised me hehe <3 #thank you so much my dearest!!

[enigmaticjblake]

Best Video Games of the last decade

The last decade was sensational, a lot of stuff happened, there were dramatic changes all across, especially in videogames. Technological advancements in computer hardware pushed graphical limits and the visual fidelity in gaming kept evolving. Games got more immersive and believable.

The videogame industry saw major changes like the rise of digital gaming platforms such as Steam, Origin, Epic Games Store and so on.

Even the Consoles saw dramatic changes. The PS4 was a major player in the market but Steam on the other hand dominated the PC landscape. Epic Games Store also got a lot of attention.

Even VR stepped out of the shadows and major companies like Microsoft, Google, HTC, Samsung, Facebook and many others discovered the potential of the medium and embarked on the ultimate quest of making the best VR headset in the market. Even Sony made a VR headset for the PS4.

Technological advancements are fine but it is important for us to understand that Videogames cannot just solely depend on technology to be an immersive and unforgettable experience.

They have to have an engaging story, solid and balanced game play mechanics, immersive sound design, perfect balance between narrative and pacing and a few other major factors are what determine a good game and a great game. Ultimately they have to deliver an unforgettable experience.

So after all the trials and tribulations, a few games have emerged to show the world how powerful the medium can be.

So without any further ado, lets jump into the list of best games of the last decade.

  Read Dead Redemption 2

The critically acclaimed open world wild west adventure game comes straight from Rockstar Games, the same team that has made the GTA Series. RDR2 is considered as one of the most successful titles of the last decade as it gives you a vast sprawling open world with staggering amount of detail. This is one of the most detailed games of the decade, coming somewhere close the end of the current generation of consoles; it utilizes the fullest potential of modern day hardware and delivers a stunning dynamic open world experience like never before.

 CS:GO

Yes, you might be wondering why is CS:GO on this list, well it is there for a good reason. Not only this online classic tactical shooter still among the largest and most played games of all time, it is fun to play even in this age and day. CS:GO manages to bring back an old formula and still keeps it relevant at this age. Countless events and tournaments are centered around CS:GO. Back in the day CS was mod out of another legendary game which we will definitely discuss some day. CS single handedly showed the world what mods are capable of achieving and gave birth to the mod culture. There are quite many games which were mods of the past and apart from that, the game is still fun as hell and me and my friends still play it.

 Fortnite

Fortine has a very strange history, it was originally a defense game like minecraft where you build during the day and protect during the night but it wasn’t that successful. People had already seen the idea before, so when Battle Royale was gaining popularity, Fortnite decided to mix its defense formula with BR. The ratings for Fortnite just went off the charts and many people played it as it was released as a free to play title. It had a cosmetic market though which got Epic tons of revenue and that’s how Epic Games Store came into picture. So if a game can do so much for a company, you can definitely process the impact it had on the industry overall.

DOTA 2

Talk about mods again, DOTA was originally a genre defining mod of War Craft 3 but someone else saw its potential. DOTA was more of an underground thing, it was never so popular in the mainstream and very few knew a genre like MOBA even existed. It was around 2009 when I first saw DOTA in a cyber café where some young kids were playing it on LAN. At first, it looked like War Craft 3 but the mechanics were totally different. Soon I learnt it had a cult underground following and Valve made the smart move of acquiring the talent behind this mod and decided to make this thing into a fully blown sequel. DOTA 2 which pushed MOBA into the mainstream. Obviously there were others who joined the bandwagon of MOBA and tried to distinguish themselves. League of Legends is also another MOBA game which is popular but DOTA 2 is still considered as the king and despite of its age is still among the top played games on steam world wide. There are people who have played the game for a staggering 10000 hours and still find new and interesting things. It’s a game which is easy to learn but difficult to master.

Batman Arkham City

Batman needs no introduction, for those who do not know, Batman is a fully ripped grown man who wears Egyptian cotton underwear over a grey suit and is passionate about jumping from building to building during the night and saves the city from bad peeps. He is THE Superhero.

If you haven’t played any of the Batman games of the Arkham trilogy, stop reading this list right away and immediately go and play it! Its really good.

It is debatable which one of the trilogy is the best and its very difficult to make that choice. I personally like all the games but Arkham City is amazing for several reasons as it is an ultimate battle between Batman and Joker, the game goes open world and Gotham City is such well crafted. The Unreal Engine does a marvelous job of putting it all together and the game runs so well AND this is why I could not chose Arkham Knight over Arkham City. Arkham Knight is miles ahead of Arkham City but I made the ultimate mistake of playing it on the PC which was a bad experience. Infact the game was such a mess, Steam had to pull it off and give out refunds to the buyers. It was a great experience on consoles but this misstep was the sole reason why I did not chose it for this list.

BUT now the game has been patched extensively and is in good shape. So if you are a PC gamer and want to be like Batman, this has to be the Ultimate Batman Experience.

Bloodborne

Ever heard of souls like titles? These are considered to be difficult as combat in them is of a different nature. These are not your ordinary action games where you go in front of your enemy and start spamming attacks on them. Souls like titles have be played tactically, timing and accuracy are the name of the game. When to strike, when to dodge and parry are crucial for every encounter and even the most basic enemy can strike you down if you are not paying attention.

Bloodborne is an Action RPG title developed by From Software exclusively for the PS4, set in a dark Victorian world we are tasked to hunt down to take down perils of an odd strange world. Blood Bourne stands out for its unique art style, game play mechanics and an engaging narrative, atmospheric and immersive world design and ruthless difficulty. This game has a deep and interesting lore so a lot of content awaits.

Be warned, this game can crush your soul.

Neir Automata

Set in a dystopian cyberpunk future where sprawling urban scapes are retaken my mother nature, humanity is wiped out by what was considered as their best creation.

Take role of an enhanced cybernetic warrior who is deadly and beautiful at the same time and hack N slash your way through hoards of deadly AI constructs as you make your way to the answers of all the questions that surround the collapse of civilization.

The stunning art style, the graphics, the immersive world and level design blended with fast paced combat makes Neir Automata an unforgettable experience.

INSIDE

Inside is developed by Playdead, the same studio who made Limbo. Inside is a staggering achievement in the 2D side scroller category of games. You take role of an unknown kid who just appears in this strange dystopian world where society has changed. The world is hostile and humanity is engulfed into some kind of a strange social experiment where a few selected individuals of the upper echelon are on the verge of creating something far beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Inside is ruthless, deadly and hostile but the art style, presentation, pacing and its subtle yet effective gameplay pulls out the unimaginable out of a genre that is so old. It redefines the side scroller genre.

Inside manages to pull you in right from the get go and as you play further, you are just lost in it.

Its depressing, dark, bold and ambitious.

Don’t miss this one out.

Horizon Zero Dawn

A PS4 exclusive developed by Guerrilla games, HZD is an open world action RPG where civilization has moved beyond its post apocalyptic phase and mankind has once again emerged out of the darkness of this cataclysmic event and is facing a whole new world.

Civilization is rebooted but is engraved on the remnants of a past civilization. It is still unknown what cause the wiping of the earlier race.

What is known are the strange metallic beasts which roam around the waste lands of earth.

Imagine fighting a giant robotic T-Rex with a bow and arrow.

That’s HZD in one line.

Metal Gear Solid 5

You wake up in a hospital one day and the doc informs you that you were in comma for 9 years, how will you feel?

Well, Snake doesn’t feel bad at all. Only few hours after waking up you are hunted down by an unknown mercenary group who simply wants you dead for reasons unknown and weird things happen that night. You still manage to make an escape, thanks to your buddy who was undercover as a patient and was protecting you all these years. Soon you embark into a Journey into the heart of Afghanistan to find the answers.

MGS5 is developed my Konami, this is when the legendary Hideo Kojima was part of the team.

MGS5 had a rough development cycle but it turned out to be a great game.

It’s a sandbox stealth action title where you can approach your target or objective anyhow you like or find it convenient. There is a lot of freedom in this game.

You can even hide in a cardboard box and turn it into a makeshift stealth device.

There is base building, you recruit captured soldiers and make them a part of your team.

It’s a damn fine game and the story sometimes just catches you by surprise.

Portal 2

Portal 2 is a first person puzzle platformer developed by Valve. These guys are magical, whatever they touch becomes gold. Portal 2 puts you in the shoes of a test subject who is a part of a scientific experiment where they are testing teleportation technology, you get hands on a portable teleportation device or simply put, a portal gun. It shoots portals of walls.

You solve puzzles by shooting portals and make use of physics. Stuff such as gravity, momentum, reflection and so on come into the picture. Thanks to the Source engine. The story is also engaging and characters are really deep and well written.

You teleport your way out of these test chambers only to discover all is not what it seems.

Portal 2 is definitely one of the finest games of this decade.

GTA 5

Seriously? Wondering why this is on the list. Go play it!

Elders Scroll 5 Skyrim

Its not everyday that you bump into a fellow adventurer who has stopped adventuring cause one fine day he took an arrow in his knee.

Skyrim is open world action RPG that is bold, ambitious and probably the best game made by Bethesda Game Studios.

Skyrim takes place in an enigmatic fantasy world which is engulfed in a political conflict and suddenly an old prophesied threat emerges and is bent on destroying the world.

You take role of an unknown traveler who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but as events unfold. Turns out you are not an ordinary person, you are THE dragon born. The only thing that stands between the dragons and the destruction of Skyrim is you.

Skyrim has a lot of content, side quests and the story is deep. You can keep playing Skrym for hours and hours and get lost in a different dimension.

The last of Us

Naughty Dogs knows what it does. They are the masters of their craft when it comes to developing breathtaking narrative driven experiences. The sheer amount of attention to detail which was earlier observed in the Uncharted games successfully transcends into The Last Of Us.

Exclusive to the PS4, The Last Of Us puts you into the shoes of a man who has lost many things. The world has collapsed and strange mutants ravage the world. As the man of a family it is upto you to protect your loved ones from the perils of the new dangerous world.

The production quality of the game is what sets it apart. A dark and mature story backed by well choreographed cinematics, well acted characters and a blend of stealth horror action gameplay totally set this game apart from anything on this list.

You should get a PS4 only to play this game. Its that good!

Battlefield 1

This in my opinion is the best battlefield game in recent years, obviously there are other battlefield games and I was thinking of voting for BFBC2, this one won for many reasons.

BF1 is a fast paced action multiplayer experience with a solid punch of World War 1.

The originality and the attention to detail BF1 offers is insane, right from the vast deserts in the middle east to conquests in various parts of Europe, Dice has made the perfect formula for World War 1. Its frantic combat is better than ever, tweaking a few mechanics the game is now more enjoyable and fast paced. Its like the perfect spot between fast paced combat and quick general perception of reaction to things.

The game looks beautiful and environments, animations weapon and character models are so well detailed, they all scream authenticity.

64 vs 64 players never gets dull. Also EA was less greedy about this one, I still feel bad for the Star Wars Battlefront games.

Black Mesa

This one is not a game, it’s a mod but it has to be on the list because it’s a Half-Life fan remake on the source engine, if you are unaware of Half-Life, you are dead to me.

Black Mesa is a masterpiece and it totally reimagines the original Half-Life in a way just like Valve would have. Seeing new areas in Source Engine is a visual delight, its hard to believe Wwhat limits can be Source pushed to, considering its such an old engine. Valve was truly thinking long term when they made the source engine.

Basically Half-Life puts you into the shoes of the theoretical physicist who works at a the Black Mesa Research Facility. One day an experiment goes horribly wrong and you rip open a dimension into an alien world and now its upto you to fix things.

Half-Life 1 was revolutionary and helped defined the FPS genre. SO YOU HAVE TO PLAY THIS.

The Xen levels are out now and the game has left early access, so now is the perfect time to play this timeless masterpiece.

Crowbar Collective has done a neat job.

Overwatch

This one is my eyes is the true spiritual successor to Team Fortress 2. Made ground up by Blizzard, this one was a very different thing from them.

Overwatch borrows heavy inspiration from TF2 and manages to fuse it with MOBA perfectly.

On the surface I’ve seen many people complaining this is a TF2 ripoff and its rich dudes Paladin, tbh it is like Paladin but both games have different dynamics.TF2 is more of an old school class based shooter at this point and OW is more fast and streamlined.

The wide variety of characters in OW may seem unnecessary but believe me, each one of them is well made and balanced. Its like Blizzard has a secret recipe of game balance and it becomes very clear how important it is to nail that balance in this hybrid genre when you get your hands on similar titles who achieve this perfection.

The art style is spot on and meant to age well. The graphics will never go old, such is the art style.

Jump into a few games and you wont even realize how the hours pass.

Resident Evil 2

Later this decade a legendary face re-emerged from the mythical shadows of mystery. Resident Evil is Capcoms that comes into everyones mind when we speak of survival horror games, this was the title that created the genre back in the day.

The remake is very faithful to the original, it successfully captures the tense atmosphere and the struggle of managing resources while scavenging the same old corridors of Racoon City Police Station.

While graphics and other things are aligned with 2019 standards, what is more surprising is the fact that the game is so perfectly transferred from those pre rendered 3D environmental backgrounds with fixed cameras into true 3D yet it manages to retain the whole essence of the thing. Its is big achievement and the game does its own thing in a great way.

Animations, Models, Textures, Sounds, Gunplay and the Zombie AI are perfect and the all new Mr. X is totally rad!

Resident Evil 2 being a new comer in this decade has made a solid spot on this list.

Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

The game that saved Star Wars, honestly there were not that many good Star Wars titles in the recent years, both Battlefront games had their issues, while the 2nd one had a good production value, it stirred up the hive with its surprise mechanics. It was basically a Star Wars themed Casino and was brutally P2W. They have patched it now and is pretty playable but whats gone is gone.

Jedi The Fallen Order takes places after order 66 is executed. The Jedi order has fallen and the remnants are forced into exile. The empire has gripped the galaxy with its iron fist and the game puts you into the shoes of a young jedi who is accidently discovered by a high ranking Sith Inquisitor, the event propels the young Jedi into an epic journey of self discovery.

You travel across various planets in the galaxy and learn stuff about the lore which gives the series a fresh angle. It is clear that Respawn entertainment has put a lot of heart and soul into this game, it shows deep respect to the source material.  Star Wars needed that. Also, the combat is fresh. It borrows the best of all the successful mechanics introduced in various games of the generation like platforming, souls like combat give a realistic sense to saber battles. It feels like a true Star Wars game.

Overall, this one just came out at the end of the decade and took all of us by surprise.

The Legend of Zelda Breath Of The Wild

Zelda always hands over the torch to the next generation of Nintendo Consoles. BOTW is a fresh take on the long running Zelda series. The series departs from its previous gameplay styles and throws Link into an open world filled with perils. But unlike most games, Zelda is a very relaxing game, the art style is soothing and the game is fun.

You can play this one at your own pace and follow your objectives the way you like. The game looks simple on the surface but whatever goes down the hood is very complex as the game takes interactivity to a whole new level. Climb huge rock faces, cut trees, cook food, find rare loot, craft rare stuff and do all this at your own pace.

DOOM

Rip and Tear baby! Doom 2016 is simply awesome, its fast, brutal, frantic and fluid. Story is classic as ever, where the UAC accidentally opens a portal to hell and now all the demons are pouring in from everywhere. The key difference between the previous Doom games and this one is, earlier you were stuck in a room with demons, now the demons are stuck in a room with you.

Doom gives you a huge arsenal of weapons at your disposal and heaps of demons to kill, kill them the way you see fit.

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

OOF…..Witcher 3….what can I say…..

CDPR has dethroned Valve in terms of game design, this is what has happened this decade. There was a time when Valve used to make the best games, now its these guys.

You step into the shoes of Geralt, a professional monster slayer who has embarked on a journey to find his missing daughters in a land that is engulfed in conflict.

Witcher 3 takes place on a vast open world which is stunningly detailed, every 45 seconds you bump into something fresh and exciting. The world of Witcher 3 is well crafted, every section of this world feels vivid. The main story line is engaging but even the side quests are meaningful which is not commonly seen in most games.

The game lets you make choices and the story branches out as per the choices you make which drastically alter the outcome of the game which also gives it a high replay value.

If you call yourself a gamer, you have to play this.

#gamer #gaming #technology #topgames #entertainment

[eggoreviews]

20 Dream Games for the Playstation Classic!

The PS1 Classic came out last year. Everyone got excited for a minute, but then we found out it was missing almost everything! Here’s my personal list of the 20 games I reckon should’ve been included. I’ll stick to one per franchise to keep it fair, but I might have to break that rule once. Hope you enjoy/agree!

Note: This is just my opinion. There might be some ones you don’t agree with, and I might have cut some ones from the original lineup you liked. Sorry in advance lol

Before I kick off the list, thought I’d briefly list off the games I cut from the Classic’s actual lineup:

Battle Arena Toshinden

Cool Boarders 2

Destruction Derby

Intelligent Qube

Jumping Flash

Mr. Driller

Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee

Resident Evil (you’ll see why)

Ridge Racer Type 4

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Syphon Filter

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six

Twisted Metal

Wild Arms

Aight, let’s go.

1. Final Fantasy VII

The quintessential PS1 JRPG, of course FF7 had to stick around from the original lineup. Like it or loathe it, FF7 defined its console and is still highly regarded as one of the best JRPGs of all time. Playstation wouldn’t really be Playstation without this game. This was the game that pushed Final Fantasy into 3D, and firmly into the hearts and minds of players everywhere. There’s little else to say, other than that you kind of already know how iconic this one is.

2. Grand Theft Auto

The humble beginnings of a now mammoth franchise, the first entry in the now legendary GTA series was a top down weird thing that let you explore three separate cities in whatever cars you can find. While this doesn’t hold up especially well today admittedly, GTA was an important milestone, not just for its series but for its console generation and has certainly earned its iconic status to belong on the PS Classic. This one was a good choice.

3. Metal Gear Solid

Another obvious choice, MGS is where Metal Gear really became Metal Gear. Brilliantly cheesy voice acting, awesome stealth gameplay, suitably weird story and the birth of the now iconic codex screen, MGS is like the archetypal cold war film wrapped in a supremely fun package on the PS1. If this wasn’t here, there is no PS Classic and that’s just the tea.

4. Revelations: Persona

This was one I wasn’t expecting an appearance from on the PS Classic, but I’m glad it did. In my head, the beginnings of this extremely weird spin-off JRPG series is an essential piece of kit on a classic compilation. Everyone hoping to experience the best of what PS1 had to offer should probably try this one out and while it certainly isn’t for everyone, it’s certainly unforgettable and deserves its place among the rest of this lot. But hey, maybe I’m biased because I’m obsessed with Persona 5.

5. Rayman

The first in the franchise that spawned my favourite 2D platformer of all time, Rayman made his glorious start on the PS1. While some may argue that the second entry in this colourful, creative platformer series deserves the spot, I’m with Sony in giving the spot to the first instead. Despite the cringey, cliche villain name they went for, this game was innovative for its time and had its own unique art style that still holds up remarkably well today. This limbless boy has earned his place.

6. Tekken 3

The final game from the original 20 I’m carrying over into my list, my thoughts are that this compilation was in need of a traditional fighting game and Tekken 3 perfectly fits the bill. This acts as one of the most iconic fighters on the PS1, and is pretty much superior in every way to the previous two entries, bringing with it more characters, more moves to pull off and a better, smoother combat system in general. This is the perfect fighter for fans of retro and takes its place rather nicely on the classic console.

7. Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus

Here’s the reason why I cut Abe’s Oddysee, to replace it with what is arguably its vastly superior sequel! Oddysee is still good, but for newcomers to this extremely odd platformer, the larger variety of power-ups and potential strategies is a much better pick for those unfamiliar with the franchise. To put it simply, Exoddus just holds up better today than its predecessor. Get ready for what is kind of nightmare fuel though, as the slightly unsettling imagery and character designs are bound to make you feel a little uneasy as you traverse dystopian, industrial environments as a weird amphibian thing.

8. Resident Evil 2

And, predictably, here’s why I cut the first RE, because there was no way I was leaving this franchise off my list. It was a tough one, but the second just won out. In my mind, RE2 just improved upon the first one in so many ways. While the first was a horrifying, strategic blast through an infested mansion that became one of the PS1′s defining games, RE2 took what the first one did well and built on it immeasurably. More developed characters, a fleshed out story, more unique environments to explore. Even though the map got exponentially bigger, that feeling of claustrophobia never went away and it was awesome the level of horror they could achieve with 90s graphics. As a legendary horror game, RE2′s the one I would go with.

9. Bishi Bashi Special

I know what you’re probably thinking, ‘this arsehole cut Ridge Racer but they’re making room for Uncle Bean?’ Well, hear me out. A lot of you may not have heard of Bishi Bashi Special. It’s a little known Japanese party game that is the maddest thing you will ever play. And in a classic compilation filled with iconic RPGs and the like, I felt that injecting a little chaotic madness into the mix was never gonna be a bad thing. There’s nothing on the PS1 that even comes close to the level of chaotic fun this gives you and shows the pure variety of the console’s back catalog. I’m very firm on this game’s place. Fight me about it.

10. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

A hack-and-slash game with fully rendered 3D open environments, starring a kickarse silent vampire with glowy eyes. It’s a real wonder they didn’t put this on the starting lineup. For real though, Soul Reaver was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, really testing the PS1 to the limit with its graphics and control scheme. An awesome tech demo for the time that still holds up well today, but is also a solid game in general. Very worthy of this list.

11. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

As pretty much any PS fan will tell you, this game kind of has to be here. And everyone won’t shut up about it for good reason. While Castlevania made its start on Nintendo systems with the original trilogy, it really made its mark on the industry when Symphony of the Night dropped onto the PS1 in 1997. It took what made the other games so great and built on it all, providing a sprawling platforming epic filled with collectible power-ups, hidden places to explore and a story that, at the time, defined the franchise. Many would argue that the series still hasn’t topped this entry, and as such is an essential addition that is sorely missing from the real thing.

12. Tomb Raider II

Tomb Raider is, well, iconic. I’ve used that word a lot but it’s true. Lara Croft and the franchise she belongs to are iconic, especially to the Playstation. And like Castlevania, the lack of any Tomb Raider on the Classic is almost criminal. This title encompassed everything that makes the original Tomb Raider trilogy so great, interesting puzzles and areas that require a lot of strategic thought to traverse, a decent selection of weapons and vehicles and a sense of genuine fun and adventure that runs through the whole thing. Tomb Raider is cool, and it doesn’t need much introduction. And for me, this was the most glaring omission of them all.

13. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

While we’re on the subject of glaring omissions, here’s what was basically the PS1′s answer to Mario and Sonic, Crash Bandicoot. In particular, I’ve chosen Crash 2 because I feel it’s the best experience for new players. Crash 1, while it’s the original, is full of a load of fuckery that may put newcomers off altogether if they can’t master the jolty controls and the slightly unfair life system. Not a bad game, just not great for those new to the franchise. Crash 2 just sort of lends itself better to the classic, challenging but not too much 2D platforming the series is known for. Well-designed, aesthetically pleasing levels, consistently fun mechanics and even a story you can sort of follow. This was Crash at his best, and it needed to be here.

14. Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon

Yet another PS Classic omission that made people sad, Spyro acted as the lesser known, but still suitably iconic second mascot for the PS1. Unlike his orange counterpart, Spyro’s levels felt much less linear and were more of an explorative collectathon rather than a straight platformer. And of the original trilogy, it’s pretty safe to say that number 3 consolidated everything the first two nailed and made it as perfect as it could be. Year of the Dragon defined the series at the time, and it needed to be onboard as much as Crash.

15. Crash Team Racing

Look at me go, I’ve finally broken my franchise rule. But in this one instance, considering how wildly different the 2 Crash games are, I think we can let it slide. CTR was never really meant to happen, it was mostly just a side project for the guys at Naughty Dog to do while they still had the rights. And the result was an awesome, fast-paced and crazy experience to rival Mario Kart. Unlike Nintendo’s equivalent at the time, CTR had much heavier, clunkier feels to the karts you drove, which really made you feel like you were driving this hunk of metal. You had power-ups that kept everything interesting, shortcuts to learn and even a full-on Diddy Kong Racing style adventure mode. Guess we’ll just have to wait for the remaster to relive this one.

16. MediEvil

I’ll be honest, this was the one I was most disappointed to have missing from the Classic. I absolutely adore this game. I love the story, the concept of Sir Dan as a character, the combat and the lovely gothic areas you encounter from a mausoleum to ghost pirate ship. But most of all, the cheeky, totally stupid British humour running through the whole thing, particularly through the game’s archetypal villain Zarok, makes the whole game as funny as it is epic, with a suitably rousing soundtrack following you on your journey to prove you’re not the zero everyone thinks you are. Classic game, desperately needed a place on the lineup.

17. Gran Turismo 2

I’m going to preface this by saying that I don’t care much for realistic racing games, I don’t derive a lot of joy out of them and they aren’t really my cup of tea. But in my efforts to keep this lineup as diverse as possible, I thought I’d include the game that really pushed the PS1′s graphical capabilities to its limits and almost created a game that surpassed its console generation in its looks. There’s a whole wealth of content here; a whole bunch of cars to unlock and a beefy career mode to keep you busy for a fair while. And this game differs from other racing games on the system by rewarding strategic thought and encouraging players to think through every action they take on the race track, which for me makes this the most immersive racer on the system.

18. PaRappa the Rapper

Okay, I know. I really did just put this here. But come on, PaRappa ended up in PS All Stars, so he’s gotta mean something to someone, right? It doesn’t matter how you slice it, this paper dog properly revolutionised rhythm games at the time, creating a fun and responsive, if a little short, experience that was certainly unique for the time. This is another that would definitely fall under the weird category, but it’s a bit of Playstation that doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough and it’s worth a spot on pure fun factor alone.

19. Ape Escape

As one of the first games to rely entirely on the Dualshock analog sticks, Ape Escape is another that falls into the ‘must mean something to someone’ category, as Ape Escape also ended up with a character in PS All Stars. This one is a fairly simple foray, but it was met with a lot of love from fans, as you play as a tiny, chibi version of the dude from Yu Gi Oh (tell me I’m wrong) and round up a bunch of escaped apes in varying platforming levels with a cool selection of gadgets. It’s here because it’s here, let it be.

20. Silent Hill

Silent Hill is pretty much as iconic as horror games get, and yet I somehow managed to forget about it until I got the 20th and final game on my list. It was claustrophobic, gory, full of metaphors you really don’t want to dig into and, most of all, it was terrifying. The constant fog, while it was mostly implemented to account for lack of draw distance, worked in the game’s favour and became a staple in the series. For the PS1 era, this game and the series it belongs to properly nailed the scare factor and left everyone who went near it feeling at least a bit uneasy. Saying this belongs here is an understatement.

Cool, there’s my list. My probably quite badly justified list clouded by pure fan-ness. But anyway, hope you agreed with some of my picks and let me know what games you would’ve liked to see on the otherwise questionable PS Classic lineup below. Thank for reading !

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The Highest 10 Most Insane Record Xbox Clips

You could be taking part in a recreation on Xbox if you notice your telephone vibrating and displaying that you've got a brand new message. You stop playing the sport and examine to see what sort of message is coming in. It's out of your friend, asking if you wish to play GTA V together, or possibly it is a text from another person saying they saw an ad for tickets to the subsequent live performance you need to go to? What occurs if your mother calls whereas you are taking part in a sport? This text explores what kind of crazy things can happen when we are focused on video video games.

The highest 10 Most Insane Record xbox clips

There's nothing like a very good adrenaline rush, and that is precisely what you may get with these insane Xbox clips. From racing against the clock to nail-biting stunts, these are undoubtedly some of essentially the most exciting gaming moments ever captured on video. 1. This participant beats a stage in Halo 5 in simply 19 seconds flat! 2. This gamer completes a notoriously troublesome degree in Just Cause 3 in simply 22 minutes and 59 seconds! 3. This participant takes on a complete raid of enemies in Destiny in slightly below 4 minutes! 4. This gamer races by means of the streets of Forza Horizon 4 in just under two minutes and forty five seconds! 5. And eventually, this player completes a whole marketing campaign mode of Gears of War four in simply over 9 hours! These videos are proof that there's nothing like a very good adrenaline rush relating to gaming. Whether it's beating a stage extremely fast or finishing an intense campaign mode, these clips will leave you wanting more.

Recording whereas playing games

There are a number of ways to file your gameplay while enjoying video games on your Xbox One. The best way to do that is to make use of the Xbox One’s built-in Game DVR feature. Just hit the “Record” button on your controller and you’ll be ready to go. You may as well use Microsoft’s Beam app to report sport clips and share them with pals. And lastly, you need to use third-social gathering recording applications like ScreenFlow or OBS to seize your gameplay video directly. whichever approach you select, we recommend utilizing a quality microphone to be able to produce excessive-quality recordings. Not solely will this make for better-trying movies, nevertheless it may even let you hear all of the sounds from the game, which may add an extra layer of immersion into your recordings.

Xbox One features that make file xbox clips easier

Xbox One has a brand new function called "Clip History" which helps you to simply record your last few minutes of gameplay. This is perfect for sharing your epic victories or crushing defeats with friends. To start out recording, just hit the "Menu" button on your controller and choose "Clip History." You'll then be able to decide on which sport clip you need to start out recording. Once you have started recording, all it's a must to do is hit the "Record" button in your controller and Xbox will begin buffering the video automatically. When you get disconnected from a game while it's in progress, Xbox will mechanically save the clip as nicely. Just hit the "Back" button in your controller and Xbox will take you right to the final checkpoint where you left off in the sport. If you are having bother getting Xbox to start recording, be sure your console is plugged into an electrical outlet and that your Wi-Fi is turned on. There are a couple of different issues to remember when recording Xbox One games: - You can't use Kinect for video recording (although voice management nonetheless works). - You can't use apps like Netflix or Hulu whereas gaming or recording clips. \

How to make use of the brand new

Record Xbox clips feature in your Xbox One! If you're like most avid gamers, you've got probably never used the new Record Xbox clip feature in your Xbox One. But now that it's available, there are some things it's essential to know to be able to make the most of it. Here's a quick guide on how to make use of Record Xbox clips whereas playing a recreation: First, be certain that your console is plugged into an HDTV. The very best option to do this is by connecting the HDMI cable out of your Xbox One console to your Tv. Once your console is related, go to Settings > System > Video & Audio > Output and select HDMI as your output. Now, press the Record button on the controller and choose which sport you want to report. You may as well use voice commands (like "Xbox file that") if you need. Once you've got chosen your recreation, press the start button to start recording. The recording will start robotically and will final for 30 minutes, after which it is going to stop robotically. To finish recording, simply press the Stop button on the controller after which select Save As from the menu that seems. It can save you the recording to any storage location

Conclusion

If you are trying to seize some nice footage of your favorite Xbox games, there is not any have to look any further than a very good Xbox file clip. Not only do these clips provide an amazing strategy to relive your gaming reminiscences, however they can be used to demonstrate your skills or spotlight moments throughout a recreation. On this roundup, we'll talk about one of the best ways to report Xbox clips, as well as provide some tips for maximizing their potential.

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Why the PS2’s Sales Record Will Never Be Beaten

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As the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S set incredible sales paces in the midst of strange times, and the Nintendo Switch continues to exceed all sales expectations, many fans find themselves wondering whether or not any of those consoles can eventually dethrone the best-selling video game console of all-time: the PlayStation 2. 

Well, as you probably guessed based on this article’s headline, my answer to that question is “No.” The PlayStation 2’s position atop the best-selling console chart isn’t an accident and it’s not a record meant to be taken lightly. It’s arguably the one video game sales record that will never be beaten.

Here are just some of the reasons why the PS2’s astonishing 155 million unit sales record likely isn’t in danger of falling anytime soon.

PlayStation 2’s Release Date Gave It One of the Most Notable Head Starts in Console Gaming History

By November 30, 2000, gamers in Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia were able to get their hands on a PS2. The PS2’s only real competition at the time of its global release was the struggling Dreamcast (as well as previous-gen consoles), and the Xbox and GameCube wouldn’t be available worldwide until 2002. 

By the time that the Xbox and GameCube were finally released worldwide, all-time great games like Grand Theft Auto 3, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, Gran Turismo 3, and Devil May Cry were already available on the PS2. What was already seen by industry insiders at the time as an incredible head start is now viewed as the kind of head start that will likely never happen again. 

PlayStation 2’s Price Set the Industry Pace

The PlayStation 2’s U.S. launch price of $299 was reasonable enough at the time ($100 more than the Dreamcast and the GameCube and the same launch price as the Xbox), but what pretty much guaranteed the PS2’s victory was Sony’s decision to drop the price of the PS2 to $199 in May 2002. 

Microsoft and Nintendo immediately responded to that price cut by dropping the prices of the Xbox and GameCube to $199 and $149, respectively. It was bad enough (for them, at least) that those price cuts came just as those consoles were properly entering the global market, but they sent a clear message to consumers everywhere that the PS2 was setting the pace of the console race. 

PlayStation 2’s DVD Player Advantage Will Never Be Replicated

It’s no secret that the PS2’s built-in DVD player was a big part of the reason why the console was so successful in those early months and years. DVD players at that time were expensive, scarce, and, rapidly becoming the must-have accessory for anyone trying to keep up with the Joneses. The PS2 simply offered one of the best ways to get one.

Years later, I’m convinced that there will never be another multimedia accessory a future console could theoretically include at launch that would have as much of an impact as the PS2’s DVD player. The technological world is just different these days, and most people just don’t have to rely on a console to get the multimedia entertainment they’re looking for. Just look at the Nintendo Switch. It’s breaking sales records and doesn’t even officially support the Netflix app.

PlayStation 2’s Backward Compatibility Was an Early “Secret Weapon”

It’s easy enough to overlook now, but anyone who owned a PS2 at launch (or around thereof) knows that the console’s backward compatibility features were almost as big of an early selling point as its DVD player. Indeed, I don’t know if the PS2 would have gotten the full advantage out of its year-long head start that it ultimately did if it weren’t for this feature. 

You never really heard anyone talk about the PS2’s mostly dry early game lineup largely because those who owned a PS2 at that time were having more than enough fun watching DVDs and playing upscaled versions of PS1 games they hadn’t yet gotten to. Of course, it wasn’t long before those great next-gen games started rolling in…

PlayStation 2’s Game Library Was One of the Most Diverse Ever

I was originally going to write one entry for the PS2’s library of games and call it a day, but when you’re talking about one of the greatest video game libraries ever assembled, it’s worth spending a little more time on what exactly made it so special. 

So far as that goes, the word I keep coming back to when describing the PS2’s lineup is “diversity.” Yes, the PS2’s popularity among Japanese developers gave it a distinct advantage (more on that later), but the PS2’s final library includes all-time great action, open-world, RPG, and horror games from developers across the world. 

When a list of the most underrated PS2 games is more impressive than a list of the best games for many other consoles, it’s hard not to argue that the PS2’s success will never be equaled or surpassed

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The PS2 Was the Home of Numerous New Franchises

Every year, it felt like there was either an incredible new franchise launching on the PS2 (Devil May Cry, God of War, Kingdom Hearts, etc.) or a franchise that was using the platform’s power/popularity to firmly establish itself as one of the biggest in the industry (Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill). The excitement surrounding new PS2 games wasn’t always focused on sequels but rather what kind of new experiences we were going to get next from often surprising places.

I think most gamers are still open to such new experiences, but the industry has just shifted in a way that makes it incredibly difficult for any console to boast such a consistent onslaught of truly new experiences.

PlayStation 2 Quickly Established Itself As The Ideal Third-Party Console

The PS2’s true exclusives certainly put it over the top, but the thing that impresses me most all these years later is just how much popular the platform was for most of the major third-party, multiplatform titles. Obviously, timed exclusives like the GTA games were pretty much soft PS2 exclusives in the minds of many, but even franchises like Madden sold significantly more units on the PS2 than anywhere else. 

This is one element of the PS2’s success Sony has certainly tried to replicate over the years. They understand that once you get that momentum going and convince people that your console is the best place to go for games they could technically get elsewhere, then you’ve most likely got a hit on your hands. 

The PlayStation 2 Had Little True Competition

Before you go running to the comments section, let me make it clear that I actually love the Xbox, GameCube, and Dreamcast. I think that’s one of the best console generations ever from a pure software quality perspective, and, in a perfect world, you would have owned every console and a great gaming PC as well. 

Yet, the PS2’s immediate competition just couldn’t replicate (or offer a consistently viable alternative to) what Sony’s console brought to the table. Microsoft had almost no Japanese developer support, Nintendo alienated so many third-party companies, the Dreamcast died out, and PS2 owners ultimately ended up with exclusive (or early) access to many of the generation’s best games. The PS2 just offered a little bit of everything. 

The PlayStation 2’s Longevity Was Stunning

Even if you tell yourself that the PS2 “died” when the PS3 was released in November 2006, that still means that the console enjoyed an incredible run of six strong years. However, most people know the PS2 didn’t really go anywhere until much later than that. 

The PS3’s weak launch, the novelty of the Wii, and the Xbox 360’s hardware issues meant that a lot of people didn’t abandon their PS2s quite so easily. If anything, the PS2 enjoyed a second life when Sony released a new PS3 model that no longer supported native PS2 backward compatibility. To this day, the PS2 still commands a surprisingly high resale price. 

The PlayStation 2’s Biggest Flaws Never Really Caught Up With It

The PS2 was not a perfect console. Its launch lineup was relatively weak, its DVD player was quickly replaced with better options, it wasn’t especially durable (and suffered from disc read errors in the long-term), its online options were generally terrible, and the console’s initial shortages were some of the worst the industry has ever seen. 

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Yet, none of that really mattered in the end. All those little things that should have strengthened the PS2’s competition turned out to be just that. Little things. Sony never really derailed the PS2’s success, and no major console of its generation was able to capitalize on the console’s most notable flaws.

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My Top 12 Most Anticipated Games of 2018

2017 was an absolute monster of a year for video games, and it’s starting to appear that January is going to be the only time where we aren’t going to be inundated with new releases to play, and inevitably miss out on. However, there are already more than a few games coming out in 2018 that have my attention and think they should have yours, too. Now bear in mind: This is a pretty PS4 heavy list, for obvious reasons, but if you do some Googling, you’ll find a lot of these are multi-platform releases. The other thing to consider, is while I consider myself a great optimist, I have to be real with myself, so no matter what the developers and publishers tell us, you aren’t going to find games like Death Stranding, Kingdom Hearts III, or The Last of Us Part II on this list, because, let’s face it, they aren’t coming out in 2018. Perhaps, the most frightening part of this list, is most of these games have been confirmed for at least the first half of the year, leaving June through December pretty wide open for us as gamers to have a crowded schedule.

12) The Longest Five Minutes

Coming out of NIS America, The Longest Five Minutes takes a twist on the traditional RPG and starts out at the end, facing off against the game’s final boss, however, your character has lost every memory of their adventure, including their name, abilities, and even why he’s in this battle. Throughout the battle, comments made by his allies, and taunts by the Demon King will trigger flashbacks to help fill in the heroes memory gaps. It comes out in just a few weeks on both Vita and Nintendo Switch and the premise alone put this on my radar.

11) Days Gone

We finally saw what Sony’s Bend Studio has been working on at E3 2016, and while it felt more like a “Lookee how many things we can have on the screen at once” they expounded on the stealth aspects of the game at PSX, showing the game to potentially being somewhere between The Last of Us and Horizon Zero Dawn. It sits so low on my list, partly because it’s Bend’s first release since Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and their first console release since Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow, and partly because I’m not 100% sold on this coming out in 2018, but, if I’m over here spoutin’ off Last of Us Part 2 is coming in 2019, then Day’s Gone needs to be hitting shelves in 2018 as to not be cannibalized by a much more established IP. I love the idea of an open world motorcycle game, though, and hopefully, it’s something akin to much under-appreciated Mad Max.

10) The Walking Dead: A Telltale Series The Final Season

It’s pretty firmly established that I love adventure games, and I love Telltale. They hit a home run in 2012 with the first season of The Walking Dead, but while they continue to swing for the fences on various other licensed and popular properties, they haven’t quite fully captured the magic that made The Walking Dead’s first season so special. Sure, Season Two and Season Three had their high points, and Telltale has shown some of the magic in their other games like Tales from the Borderlands, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Batman, but this is their chance to give Clementine, a character we’ve spent six years growing up with, a proper send-off and story, after spending Season Three side-stepping her.

9) God of War

Yo. Real talk, I’m not a God of War guy. I don’t need that much screamy chain man in my life, and frankly, Kratos has just been a dude, to me, that has zero redeeming qualities. Yea, he’s angry because of his tragic backstory, but, like...can you not? Here’s the thing though, Sony Santa Monica has created a tamer, humbled Kratos that seems to have far more to lose. While I think we’re starting to teeter on seeing too much of the game, game director Cory Barlog keeps saying the right things about this installment that has more-than-piqued my interest. And me being interested in a God of War game speaks volumes. 

8) Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Adventure Time is the one franchise that has been itching for a quality game under its banner. We’ve had a handful of various dungeon crawler games, top-down Zelda clones, and adventure games, but they’ve either missed on the art style or totally whiffed on the gameplay. Pirates of the Enchiridion may possibly be the Adventure Time game that the series fans have been clamoring for. It’s an open-world game set in the Land of Ooo, with an original story, multiple playable characters, full-cast voiceover, and sailing. The series is wrapping up soon, and this may be one of the last Adventure Time games we see, so here’s hoping this is the one they get right.

7) Church in the Darkness

I’ve had my eye on Paranoid Productions’ Church in the Darkness for a couple of years now. It’s a top-down, procedurally-generated action/infiltration game set in the 1970s where you’re an ex-law enforcement officer tasked with checking in on your nephew, who has recently joined the Collective Justice Mission cult. Each playthrough promises to be different, down to the characters’ personalities and reactions to you being in the camp. If you want to go full-stealth Metal Gear with it, you can, or if you want to go full guns-blazing, go right ahead. The idea of uncovering more of the story based on your investigating, and the varying degree in which characters respond to you each time you play, leave a lot of opportunities for the game to have mass amounts of replay value.

6) Jurassic World Evolution

Hi. I would like to build my own Jurassic World, please. That’s at least what developer Frontier is promising. While I had no idea Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis even existed until it became too rare to justify purchasing, I did spend a lot of my summer in 2012 tapping away at Jurassic Park Builder on my iPhone. Jurassic World Evolution looks to bring that Jurassic Park-meets-Sim City hybrid back to home consoles. Hopefully “Life finds a way” and this game will be exactly what Jurassic-verse fans have been looking for this summer. Just, please, don’t Animal Crossing this and make me have to play every day or risk being infested with weeds and whatnot. That’ll be the quickest way for me to nope out of this.

5) Crossing Souls

Somewhere between the Burger King Kids Club and Stranger Things lies Fourattic’s Crossing Souls. Set in 1986 in California, Crossing Souls is an action-adventure RPG where five kids make a mysterious discovery that thrusts them into navigating two planes of life and death and begin uncovering a government conspiracy. With five playable characters, each with their own style of combat, puzzles, and 80’s arcade references, Crossing Souls is right up my alley in the indie-game realm.

4) Detroit Become Human

Heavy Rain is one of my all-time favorite games. Hell, it’s tangentially linked to where my YouTube namesake came from. While Beyond: Two Souls wasn’t entirely the follow-up a lot of fans were looking for, I have no problem putting all of Quantic Dreams eggs into the Detroit Become Human basket. Between its Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick-style of story, stunning visuals, and varying degrees of story direction, this seems to be the Quantic Dream getting back on the right track. The big question is what side of their spectrum the story is going to fall on.

3) Dreams

If you listen closely, you can hear the hype-train leaving the station for Dreams. Media Molecule has been a voice in the gaming industry that needs to be heard again. Their style and creativity has been sorely missed, but a few questions remain: Is there a major market for a curation-based platformer, will the customization be as flawlessly executed as we’ve been lead to believe, and will this even hit 2018 despite the developer’s best efforts? It’s hard for me to temper my excitement for a game that has a far more expansive Super Mario Maker feel to it. The in-game campaign may not be the reason to buy the game, so it’s going to be on those that pick up Dreams to keep it alive.

2) Red Dead Redemption 2

I totally missed on Red Dead Redemption. It was at a time where working in gaming retail and feeling that need to play everything, the last thing I wanted to do was play a massive open-world game. Red Dead Redemption 2 feels like my opportunity to atone for this mistake. I loved what I played of Grand Theft Auto V and am dying to see what Rockstar Games has learned from then to now with Red Dead being their first proper current-gen game release. Rockstar has carte-blanche with the gaming industry, so if they came out tomorrow and said, “This is delayed again, and will be delayed a third time” almost everyone would understand. They’re still Scrooge McDucking in their money from GTA-Five, so they don’t need to rush a Red Dead sequel out the door, but they are looking to be the heaviest hitter in 2018 and every developer and publisher has to be waiting for a release date so they know to stay away.

1) Marvel’s Spider-Man

I am absolutely salivating for Insomniac’s Spider-Man to just get a release date. I don’t even need it in my hands yet, I just want to know when I can have it in my hands, and based on recent tweets from the game’s dev-team, we may know sooner rather than later. Not only is this my most anticipated game of 2018, if you were to put a gun to my head and tell me I can only pick one game from this year, I would not even flinch when answering “Marvel’s Spider-Man.” Between the combat, the cinematic uses of QTE’s, to the open environments, I am absolutely sold on this game. The most exciting thing about this release is that, despite what we’ve already seen, I don’t even think we’ve seen a lot of it. Through tweets, and various interviews, I think we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg with this game. Outside of a certain popular character’s appearance in the E3 2017 trailer, we already know they play a larger role than just a cameo, leaving me to wonder if we’re getting a Sons of Liberty situation where the what we’ve seen could be a misdirection to what we’re getting. Regardless, Insomniac Games and Spider-Man are an incredible pairing and I cannot wait to get my hands on this.

So there you have it! My most anticipated games of 2018. I’m sure most of the titles didn’t surprise you, but I absolutely hope I was able to turn your gaze toward some upcoming releases you may not have previously known about. Feel free to drop by and let me know what you’re most looking forward to!

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Gangster

Here we are now moving onto the genre of gangster which I haven't really looked into before. This is where I saved some of my games such as saint row and mafia as I feel like they would be a lot better researched here then in any of the other genres.

Saints Row:

Saints row is an action-adventure game where you get to play as a member of the 3rd street Saints. The 3rd street Saints are a street gang. Saints row is often compared to games such as gta where you are a criminal committing crimes and killing anyone who gets in your way.

In the games players are quite free to do as they please. They are allowed to go ahead and customise their own characters body features as well as clothing I will say that there really is no limit as to what appearance you are able to give you character. In some cases some people don't even make there characters wear clothes and let them run around naked.The game does also contain some really interesting weapons which you wouldn't find in most games. For instance the inflat-o-ray which is a gun which inflates the head of whoever you shoot.In saints row gat out of hell there is also a weapon called the armchair-a-geddon.This is basically just an armchair with 2 miniguns attached to it which you can drive around.Here is a video I have managed to find which talks about the making of saints row.

Saints row was created by Volition studios. They talk about how they didnt want the game to just be a gang simulator and they went and did a lot of research into the urban side of the game as well as the hip hop world. This includes the music as well as the clothing. They even talked to people who had been in gangs and asked them questions about what they wear,how they talked and what it was like in a gang. They then talk about how in the game they really tried to get a lot of variety in neighborhoods in the games levels and you can tell from when you've gone from a run down area to the fancy areas of the map.

They talk about how they wanted to make a game primarily about the player.This is why they made a very extensive character creation set that allows players to try and make the character they playas look like them.In the game there are 4 gangs: 3rd street saints,Vice Kings,Los Carnales and the Westside rollerz.

The gangs in the game have different style as well as are different types of gangs. Vice gang is more of a mafia and focuses on business in a stereotypical gangster way. Los Carnales are more focuses on drug trafficking.The Westside Rollerz are more of a fast and furious street racing gang. Then your gang the 3rd street saints where you aim is to try and take back saints row and get the rest of the gangs out of your neighbourhood.

Saints row has a good open world and they tried to make the game as open ended as they possibly good. They tried to let the gamer have more of a choice in what they want to do,when they want to do it and how much they want to do it.They really tried to always say yes to the player. They also try to be more realistic with things such as more gangs happening at night as well as random gang fights happening.

When it comes to the radio in the game they try to make it relate to the game as much as possible. For example if you go around stealing loads of trucks then there will be a radio broadcast warning truckers that there is someone out there stealing trucks. Another example is that on the radio if it says a store has a clothes sale then when you actually go to the store it will indeed have the clothing prices reduced.

Saints row also has multiplayer where you can either go ahead against others or play co op together. They also have multiple different game modes where people can go ahead and earn money in the online mode. They also say that people can make their own online gangs with there friends which I think is a really nice smart idea.

The Kitchen:

The Kitchen is a film based on the DC/Vertigo Comics limited series under the same name. The film basically is about 3 women whose husbands are all part of an Irish gang. However one day there husbands get busted by the FBI and are sent to prison for 3 years. Once in prison a man under the name Jackie takes over the gang and tells the women they will be well taken care off. However the money isn't enough for them to survive on. So they become their own little gang and go around collecting protection fees as well as helping out the neighborhood.Eventually they take out Jackie and start to run the neighborhood themselves.

All info taken from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kitchen_(2019_film)

The Comics:

The series contains 8 comic books and is set in new york city. The time set for the comics is the late 1970′s .The irish gang called Hell’s Kitchen have been ruling the neighborhood. The gang brings terror to the streets and are responsible for doing all the dirty work for the Italian Mafia. The comics are said to have themes of Mystery,crime,thriller as well as feminism.

I personally think that these are really cool comics. I really love the graphical design of the front covers and think they do a really good job at conveying across what the series entails. I also love the message which is basically saying that women can do anything a man can which does include being in there own gang.

Assassins creed gangs:

Although only recently brought to light in the assassins creed syndicate game where you are able to go ahead and create your own gang, Assassins creed does also contain gangs. On the Wiki the definition they have given for gang is a group of thieves,bandits and other criminals with an internal organisation which often claims control over a territory within a community. Throughout the games history gangs have been used by the Templars and Assassins as occasional allies or henchmen in their war.

However its in Assassins creed Syndicate were we really get to interact with the gangs more. In the game there are 2 gangs. Your gang called the Rooks which wear a green uniform and then the enemy gang called the Blighters which wear a red uniform.

In assassin's creed Syndicate players are able to go ahead and upgrade there gang.Here is a video which shows off the upgrades you can get for your gangs.

In the upgrades menu it is split into 3 subcategories;

Ringleader - This category is used to make your gangs stronger by leveling them up and giving them more equipment such as guns and carriages.

Insider - These upgrades include more objects around the map including hanging barrels which can be dropped on enemies as well as being able to bribe the police.

Swindler - This allows the player to gain more money as well as get items at a discount.

Real life gangsters:

Of course gangs aren't things that are just made up and put inside of films for entertainment. Gangs are a real thing in every day to day life and roam the streets of popular cities as well as urban areas. Here I have managed to find a video where they go ahead and interview 2 gang members in order to get more of an inside look as to what gangs are like and what it is like to be a member of one.

In the interview we get to see how gang members are like in person. The first one interviewed talks about how he has a cross tattoo on his head which represents that he is a murderer. Many gangs use tattoo signs like this as a sort of medal system. The more of these tattoos you have the more scared people should be of you. They then go one about when a storm hit New orleans and about how during the storm he was out stealing. Then he is asked why he thinks that gangs are so violent. He talks about how it is violent because the community is racist and wont give people of colour any jobs meaning they have to turn to crime in order to make money.

Al capone:

Al Capone also known by his nickname “Scarface” was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era. He managed to reign for 7 years as a crime boss before eventually going to prison at 33. In chicago Capone became a gang leader and due to his mutually profitable relationship with the mayor as well as the police force he seemed safe from law enforcement. However one day 7 rival gangs got massacred in broad daylight which unfortunately damaged the public image of Chicago and Capone. This lead to citizens demanding government action meaning that Capone became Public enemy number 1. Eventually he was arrested and charged with 22 counts of tax evasion but was only convicted for 5 of them.

In summary what I have learnt from the research is that gangs can be for anything,street racing,drugs,a loaning business or just for taking whatever you want. Anyone can be in a gang and anyone can be harmed by a gang. 

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How GTA Online Taught Us to Be Careful What We Wish For

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As we all continue to wait for any official information about GTA 6, news has broken that GTA 5 has surpassed the 140 million units sold mark. Perhaps more impressively, reports reveal that 2020 was the most successful sales year in GTA 5 history outside of the game’s release in 2013. While that success can be attributed to a variety of factors, there’s little doubt that the game’s stunning longevity is largely due to the popularity of GTA Online.

I don’t remember exactly when I first dreamed of an online Grand Theft Auto game, but I’m certain it wasn’t too long after I played GTA 3 in 2001. Around that time, my friends and I started asking the simple question, “What if we could play that with each other?”

That question grew more complicated as the GTA games did the same. Vice City‘s real estate mechanic inspired dreams of online wars for the control of the city, while San Andreas’ greatly expanded the scope of GTA’s sandbox from a size and activity standpoint. GTA 4 actually featured numerous online modes, but its collection of rigid multiplayer matches and simplistic free roam option often fell short of offering the full “GTA but with friends” experience that fans had wished for.

Then, it finally happened. In 2013, Rockstar confirmed that GTA 5 would feature exactly the kind of multiplayer mode that fans had dreamt of for years. Actually, with its expansive online map, progression system, various modes of play, and community options, GTA Online’s reveal suggested that it would be something greater than anyone could have ever wished for. Little did we know that the finger on a monkey’s paw curled somewhere in the world shortly after this trailer’s release:

GTA Online’s problems were evident from the very first time many of us tried to play the game. Actually, it’s very much worth emphasizing the word “tried.” GTA Online’s servers were such a mess at launch that you’ have roughly as much luck now trying to buy a PS5 against an army of bots as you would have had logging in to GTA Online when it launched in 2013. Shortly after all that happened, Rockstar issued the standard apologies, worked some server magic, and fixed a variety of bugs. It took a few weeks, but we finally got to a point when you could log on to GTA Online at will and experience a mostly stable version of the game. 

That’s when things got really interesting. As it turned out, sharing your GTA experience with others meant that you’d be playing with people who saw you as just another NPC in their sandbox. It wasn’t long before you started to hear reports of players mercilessly attacking others in the game’s open-world. It was generally amusing the first few times, but for some, these trolls essentially started to dictate the way that you had to play the game just to stay alive in the world. What’s worse is that many of them had already started relying on hacks other cheats that devastated an already uneven playing field. 

Players could theoretically turn to GTA Online’s various missions, races, and other activities to escape the open-world mayhem, but those offered little relief. Many of GTA Online’s initial activities were essentially variant’s of the campaign’s most basic missions but without any narrative stakes to elevate them. Their simplicity was made that much more apparent by the game’s underdeveloped initial progression system which left players little to do with the money they were earning and forced everyone to wonder what, exactly, “RP” was.

Don’t take my word on GTA Online’s bad old days. In a 2017 interview with IGN, Rockstar’s director of design, Imran Sarwar, admitted that GTA Online’s “launch and first eight or nine months” were not successful. To make matters worse, he says that things reached a point where the developers themselves were “not excited enough by the updates we were making.” The game was rapidly losing players and Rockstar was still devoting considerable resources to hunting bugs and keeping the servers alive. 

That’s where I left GTA Online in 2014. I knew it was possible to have fun in the game, but I was convinced that the mode would end up being a Sea of Thieves style experience that would essentially require you to play with the right group of friends in the right state of mind if you were going to get anything substantial out of it. It felt like Rockstar had ultimately created an elaborate way to kill some time while we waited for GTA 6.

Of course, that’s not what happened. GTA Online went on to earn almost $1.5 billion just four years after its release. It’s estimated that GTA Online earned nearly $600 million in revenue in 2019 alone. Suddenly, talks of GTA 6 were limited to wild online conspiracies and an endless parade of rumors of that marched on as it became increasingly clear that GTA Online was rapidly becoming the face of the GTA franchise. 

What happened to spark such an historic turnaround? It came down to a few factors. 

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First off, GTA Online did get better. Just a couple of years after its release, GTA Online’s content updates were not only more frequent but far more substantial. That’s especially true of one of the game’s 2015 updates which finally added the ability to participate in campaign-style heists with your friends. Those kinds of features contributed to the idea that the spirit of GTA 5 lived on indefinitely within GTA Online.

Not long after, GTA Online became the centerpiece of an unexpected rise in role-playing streams and YouTube videos. While the mode’s chaotic nature and expansive toolset made it an instant hit in the YouTube community, a new generation of creators were crafting characters, scenarios, and the kinds of storylines that felt painfully absent from the mode’s early days. There certainly seems to be a correlation between GTA’s increased sales over the last couple of years and the willingness of the game’s community to make their own fun and share their almost fanfic like adventures with others.

Yet, if you’re wondering how GTA has managed to become the second-highest selling game of all-time, and why it’s regularly on the best-selling games charts seven years after its release, then you have to talk about the title’s expanded progression system and the growing importance of the game’s microtransactions. 

GTA Online lets you place elaborate bets in a casino before you hop into your rocket-propelled supercar and go back to work as the CEO of a criminal enterprise. However, all of those things come at a price. GTA Online not only features one of the more extensive microtransaction systems in gaming but one of the more subtly wicked ones. Most major GTA Online content releases typically feature high-end pieces of content typically initially reserved for the game’s “whales.” For instance, buying the best office in the mode’s CEO update would have cost you 4 million in-game dollars (without any of the accessories). If you wanted to buy a microtransaction card that would instantly reward you with that much in-game cash, it would cost you about 60 real-life dollars. 

If you’re thinking “Wow, that’s about as much as GTA 5 costs,” then you’ve stumbled on the fiscal brilliance of the game’s microtransaction system. GTA Online‘s updates are free, but each typically introduces a ton of new items waiting to be purchased. While even the larger updates are not nearly the size of a proper new GTA game, it’s certainly possible to spend as much time with any of them as you would on a new GTA single-player game if you’re trying to unlock everything without spending money. Unlike GTA single-player games that sometimes leave you with a ton of cash and nothing to spend it on, GTA Online often leaves you feeling like you can never quite have enough money.

GTA Online is hardly unique in that respect, but few games come close to matching the “FOMO” feeling that it inspires. Actually, in a game all about characters, customization, and creating opportunities, you’re don’t just feel like you’re missing out by not being able to sail around on a yacht or afford the hottest new vehicle. What would be simple cosmetics in other live service games becomes much more substantial in GTA Online.

Believe it or not, though, this isn’t necessarily an indictment of GTA Online’s microtransactions nor is it a rant against the quality of the online mode itself. No, the most worrisome element of GTA Online’s success at this point is what it will do and has already done) to GTA 6 as well as those who never really got into the mode in the first place.

The earliest days of the GTA Online dream can be attributed to a desire to share our GTA campaign experiences with others indefinitely. In some ways, GTA Online grew to offer that experience, but it came with ironic compromises. You could play with others, but that means having to play with others. You can accomplish fantastic things not even possible in the campaign, but you’ll often essentially have to keep buying GTA games to instantly access them. You can experience infinite new stories but you are often required to write, direct, and act in them. 

GTA Online growing to be (in many ways) exactly what I dreamed it could be has led me to reexamine my wish. What I and others may not have fully appreciated at the time of GTA’s earlier days was that there was a pleasure in bouncing around a world of largely curated content that a community-driven game may never be able to replicate. It’s part of the reason why Skryim is one of the most successful and beloved games of all-time but not everyone who loved Skyrim is interested in The Elder Scrolls Online. Those kinds of online expansions aren’t simply “what you love, but more of it.” There is a beauty to the illusion of freedom in an open-world single-player game that may have felt prohibitive at a time when we wondered if a multiplayer game could ever offer such an experience but seems necessary at a time when too many games rely on the assumption that you want to be online all the time and constantly playing with others.

Over the years, Rockstar has made it very clear that our hopes for GTA 4-style single-player expansions for GTA 5 are largely in vain, despite the fact they once teased single-player DLC that was initially supposed to be released in 2014. Sometimes, the company is diplomatic about that content shift by stating that their decision to focus on GTA Online content just kind of happened organically. Other times, company representatives like Imran Sarwar throw cold water on the whole thing by suggesting that GTA 4’s brilliant expansions only happened because of a “big deal in place with Microsoft that meant we were obliged to make the expansions.”

Would we be playing GTA 6 if it wasn’t for GTA Online? Maybe not, but the success of that mode has almost certainly left us with a world where Rockstar has barely talked about a new GTA game in over seven years but has released versions of GTA 5 and GTA Online across three different generations of game consoles. 

We’re reaching a point when GTA 6’s release is just as likely to be fuelled by the hypothetical diminishing returns of GTA Online‘s revenue as it is Rockstar’s creative ambitions. While Rockstar has stated that they feel part of GTA Online’s success can be attributed to the idea that it offers a little something for everyone who likes different elements of the GTA games, GTA Online has never and will never offer an entirely new story with entirely new characters set in an entirely new world that is entirely ours to experience exactly as we see fit. No matter what new update comes out, how many great RP stories or told, or what possibilities some incredible new toy opens, GTA Online will never be GTA 6 as we imagine that game based on the precedent set by the previous releases in this incredible franchise.

And yet, there is this GTA game out there packed with fresh (and often exciting) content that you’ve never played if you stopped playing the game after finishing the GTA 5 campaign. It’s out there, but at the same time, it isn’t. Like the zombified remains of a former lover that we’ve wished back from the grave without considering exactly what we were asking for, GTA Online lingers temptingly outside the door even as we know that what we’ll find when we open it is exactly what we asked for but perhaps not what we really wanted.

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GTA Online continues to thrive thanks largely to its popularity amongst those who continue to pay for the game, but years later, it’s starting to feel like those who don’t play the mode as they wait for a proper new GTA have also been paying for too long.

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How did you learn to code?

I ramble for a while, so rather than have people scroll past a novel on their Tumblr dash, I’m hiding the full story behind a “Read More” tag.

The short answer is: I taught myself.

I took some computer science stuff toward the end of middle school where I learned TURTLE or whatever it was called, on the old Mac II’s they had. Then, I can’t remember if a computer science class in my Freshman year did some light programming or if I actually saw another kid doing it (making basically a “Hello World” equivalent) in BASIC, but I understood the rough idea of what was going on there.

From there, my Mom had taken a computer correspondence course back in 1988 or so -- she wanted to become a legal secretary. She got a computer and a bunch of software with it, this big Hyundai PC. No hard disk, not even support for color graphics. But it came with GWBASIC. Around high school I ended up getting a 33mhz Windows 3.11 machine (the first computer that was purely my own) with QBASIC, so I used my Mom’s GWBASIC manuals to goof around in QBASIC, since they were so similar. the first program I tried to write was a Pokedex, but I got stuck trying to figure out how to get it to draw graphics. Displaying text was easy, displaying simple geometric shapes (circles, etc.) was easy, but I wanted to have it draw, like, PokeBalls and stuff, but couldn’t figure it out.

High school meant we had to get graphing calculators, usually of the Texas Instruments variety, many of which come with their own programming language called TIBASIC. Most of my friends had TI-83s, I had a TI-82. So most of their games wouldn’t work on my calculator because the software was incompatible. With what I knew of GWBASIC and QBASIC, I ended up figuring out enough TIBASIC to start making simple text adventures. I called them “MovieGames” and usually it was a choose-your-own-adventure short story based on whatever I was thinking about at the time; Men in Black, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, etc. So you’d get a scene, like

A dinosaur is chasing you! Where do you go?

> Jungle> Plain

Perhaps for teachers doing tests, TIBASIC actually had a whole system built in for these kinds of multiple choice questions, so it was really as simple as making it print text, bringing up a multiple choice, and then branching the story from there. I did 4 or 5 of those.

Finally, I found another kid who had a TI-82, and had games he could share with me over the link cable, so I ended up with INDY500 and DRUGWARS. Both were my first real experiences with game logic. DRUGWARS (sometimes known as “Dope Wars”) was mostly a text-based game, and probably one of the most famous games out there, given how it’s been ported to everything under the sun. It even formed the basis of the drug minigame in GTA Chinatown Wars. The idea is that you buy drugs from one place, resell them at another, and make money by traveling around dealing to the right people and dodging the police.

The second game, INDY500, was a “real” game. It had scrolling and very basic graphics -- it used ASCII text to represent cars on a race track. So you’d drive down the course, going from left to right, avoiding cars down a straightaway as things got faster, and faster, and faster, trying to go as far as you could. Simple stuff, but a TI-82 didn’t have a lot to work with.

The TI-82 came with a massive instruction manual, most of which was a very detailed glossary for all of the TIBASIC programming functions. So basically, what I ended up doing with these two games, is go through them, line by line, looking up every single function in the instruction manual’s glossary. I’d mess with their parameters, see what they did, and basically ended up deconstructing both games and putting them back together again -- that was literally the case with INDY500, where once I understood how the game worked, I essentially re-wrote the entire game from scratch by memory.

With DRUGWARS, I ended up taking what I learned about the multiple choice selector in my “MovieGames” and turned it in to a sprawling text-based RPG based on Final Fantasy. It had a very basic story (loosely based on Final Fantasy VII), you could travel between towns, you’d get in to random battles while traveling, level up, learn spells, fight bosses, and even equip Materia for summons. It was so big and complex, if you played it for too long, the TI-82 would actually crash with an “OUT OF MEMORY” error because I’d used up all the system RAM -- with a text adventure.

At that point, I hit kind of a crossroads. I started making a real, actual, complex game on the TI-82 -- a side scrolling shooter that was based on Star Fox, but held more in common with Gradius. The TI-82 had a “graphing” mode that let you use a smaller font so if you were using ASCII graphics, you could fit more on screen, and using per-pixel precision (as opposed to per-row precision). Around this time, I also discovered Corel Click & Create, aka The Games Factory, aka Multimedia Fusion, aka Clickteam Fusion.

The problem with coding on a TI-82 is this was before the days of rechargeable batteries being in everything, so if the two AA’s inside the thing went dead, you lost all of your programs and everything else on it. Even just changing batteries, if you weren’t fast enough, the memory would eventually be erased. Three or four times over the course of a year or two, I lost everything I’d written on my TI-82, and by that point, I was learning enough about Click & Create that the TI-82 was looking less appealing by the day. CnC was simply more flexible, and faster to work with, and I had access to full-color graphics.

So I almost exclusively switched over to Click & Create from then on.

I did still keep up with programming a little bit here and there; I taught myself mIRC scripting, which at one point, I used to make an IRC-based MUD. That was, and maybe still is, the most complex thing I’ve ever programmed, and couldn’t even really be run because it’d spit out so much text it’d trip the flood protection on most servers.

Something else I started coding with mIRC scripting was a chat bot. For some reason I got it in my head that it’d be funny to prank my friends by writing a bot to detect when I’d been AFK and chat for me like I was still at the keyboard (I was a weird highschooler.) It started by spitting out pre-programmed messages, sort of like Eliza, but eventually I started to think about what would happen if I could record text from the chat, break it down in to individual parts, and then reassemble it back in to a coherent sentence. As it turns out, I had, completely by accident, stumbled upon the concept of a Markov Chain. (For the record, I also had never heard of Eliza, either).

So let’s say you’d submit a message to the chat that was like “Hello, everyone! How are you doing today?”

My mIRC script would break that down in to a bunch of separate pieces:

“Hello, everyone! How”“How are you”“you doing today?”“today?”

The script would take the last word of any given piece and try to match it to the first word of any other piece. In theory, this would correctly reassemble the sentence “Hello, everyone! How are you doing today?” -- but what it actually ended up doing was creating hilarious nonsense like

“Hello, everyone! How is it possible to be like Turtles in Time!”

The code was simple enough that many years later, I figured I could use this chat bot (which I called Gilliam, after the robot in Outlaw Star) and port it over to C++. Friends had been telling me for weeks how easy it was to make games in C++ using Allegro, so I figured it’d be a good way to get back in to “real” programming and get away from Click & Create.

Unfortunately, even just getting text to render in Allegro proved to be massively difficult for me as any given sentence longer than a certain length would cause huge memory overflow errors. I banged my head against it for a week, got nowhere, and eventually got so depressed and frustrated at my inability to grasp C++ and Allegro as easily as I did BASIC that I deleted the whole thing and have never touched “real” coding ever again. I’ve stuck to Clickteam Fusion almost exclusively, because it’s what I’m good at.

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The Careless Male's Guide To Gta 5 Mobile

How to play Telephone call of Task: Mobile using a controller

One Of The Most Popular Mobile Games Now.

Overall, the Fight of Polytopia is merely a great method to get your approach pc gaming fix on mobile. This turn-based technique video game shares some resemblances with World, yet streamlines the idea right into a fantastic mobile video game. Select from a number of different races with various staminas and weak points and then slowly take over the globe as you upgrade your modern technologies, unlock new devices, and bring your opponents to their knees. The video game includes a couple of races to pick from, yet you can obtain even more with in-app acquisitions.

Sweet Crush Saga attract attention as the only 2 apps to appear on both the leading apps by downloads as well as customer spend lists. Considering the most downloaded applications of the years, Facebook has actually dominated the mobile space standing for the 4 most downloaded apps of the years with Facebook, Facebook Carrier, WhatsApp and also Instagram. Communication and also social networks applications are consumer faves, representing 7 of the leading 10 apps by downloads this years. In terms of Consumer spend, video streaming as well as music apps were well stood for with Netflix, Pandora Music and also Tencent Video clip all appearing in the top 5.

Terraria has actually since had countless updates with numerous enhancements to the original core gameplay and also the mobile version has just the same features. If you're trying to find a deep game that you can actually obtain shed in on a tablet or iPad while vacationing or even on a lengthy trip, Terraria is an exceptional choice. Helix Jump by Voodoo is a tactile challenge video game that's extremely misleading in its simpleness. The objective is to jump a sphere down a maze by dropping strategically via the cracks on each degree without dropping on a red area. If you like the style of tower defense the Kingdom Rush series does so well, you'll certainly such as Iron Marines.

What is the best mobile game in the world?

PUBG mobile, Clash of Clans, Minecraft, Clash Royale, Fortnite, Pokémon Go, Candy Crush and Arena of Valor are some of the most popular mobile games right now.

The game additionally boasts outstanding graphics, outstanding controls, hardware controller assistance, lots of material to play via, lots of automobiles to unlock, and a selection of racing styles. The video game is a bit pricey as well as it's missing some smaller sized points competing fans have a tendency to such as, yet it's otherwise among the most effective auto racing experiences in the Play Store.

Essentially, you are pitted against 99 other gamers in a gigantic map with resources such as weapons, armor, ammunition, and so on spread in random locations which you have to collect in order to fend off your opponents. The goal of the video game is to be the last one standing, and also it is partially inspired by the Japanese dystopian horror film Battle Royale launched in 2000. In the motion picture, people are chosen as well as sent to a deserted island with food, maps, tools, etc. and need to kill each other to be the last one standing.

Nintendo Switch Over Pro Isn't Coming Along Xbox Series X and also PS5.

It was a shock hit of early 2019 and a very easy shoo-in for a checklist such as this. We do suggest preparing ahead of time if you sell your phone as well as require to backup your data. Diablo Immortal from Activision Blizzard got a great deal of backlash from followers throughout its statement last year, yet you can wager there is a substantial market around for an activity RPG mobile game from Snowstorm. The Chinese are mosting likely to love it, and it will certainly make Snowstorm tons of cash.

Train Surfers Was one of the most Downloaded Game of the Years.

Nonetheless, newer titles such as Fortnite and EA's Pinnacle Legends surpassed as well as came PUBG with different engagement strategies. Fortnite, as an example, supplies cross-platform gameplay and keeps on updating the video game on a regular basis with brand-new material. These are several of the best features of Garena Free Fire Apk which deserve to discuss.

That means that you can't run these games on low-end smartphones. PUBG Mobile as well as Fortnite is a massive let down for everyone holding a 1GB RAM Mobile Phone. Not simply RAM, but the video game additionally demands capable processor also. Although the game has been maximized well, still it needs a qualified mobile phone to run.

Which is the No 1 game in the world in mobile?

PUBG has a larger world and more players than Free Fire. It also requires more time and patience to win. It also has a substantial collection of vehicles, unlike Free Fire. But to give credit where it's due, Free Fire has smoother gameplay and actually feels like a game.

Nintendo games.

Is free fire copied from PUBG?

No, Fortnite is not shutting down in 2020. Fortnite isn't shutting down in 2020 (be it June or later) thanks to the fact it continues to make more money than any other video game due to its format and collaborations with movies such as Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker.

As you rise via the ranks, you can gather an adhering to, utilize drills to train your players and also earn aluminum foil cards of far better players to enhance your game. PUBG MOBILE is quickly among the best games for mobile currently and with all the content updates coming one after the other, it appears it will certainly stay by doing this. However, the very same can not be stated for the original PC version that debuted long prior to the mobile version hit the application shops. If you check out the variety of active players, it appears that PUBG on COMPUTER has actually shed nearly 82 percent of its gamers compared to the days when the number peaked at 15.8 lakhs. If we look back, we will certainly locate that in the previous couple of years have actually been fantastic for the mobile pc gaming market.

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There are additionally things to accumulate that can be sold for different modification options. They are simple, yet reliable and also the dark, gradient colors add an excellent ambience for the game. It's completely cost-free to play as well as download and install with some restricted advertisements. There are in-app purchases, however they recommend personalization things so it's entirely optional and it doesn't impact video game play.

There are this contact form additionally submarines that gamers are able to utilize to discover the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The Rhinocerous from previous GTA titles has returned, including a brand-new facility aiming system as well as a realistic representation of a storage tank.

Awarie GTA 5.

Grand Theft Auto V for COMPUTER is available for acquisition on Instantaneous Gaming for a portion of its retail price. You will certainly obtain a main trick as well as have the ability to play the video game in secs. The video game is embeded in the imaginary community of San Andreas which is based freely on common southern California life. While much of the game's scripted activity takes place in the city, the world is a lot bigger than previous GTA offerings, and also players can discover freely.

This game is really enjoyable, has numerous tasks along with the major tale and I suggest it to individuals that enjoy single-player games. Grand Theft Auto V also comes with Grand Theft Auto Online, the dynamic as well as ever-evolving Grand Theft Auto world with online play for approximately 30 players, including all existing gameplay upgrades and content released given that the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online. Grand Theft Auto V obtained "universal honor" reviews on Metacritic getting a metascore of 96/100 on COMPUTER and also 97/100 on PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One. On whatoplay.com, it obtains an aggregatee score (playscore) of 8.62 on COMPUTER, 9.29 on PS3, 9.64 on Xbox 360, 9.32 on PS4, and 8.99 on Xbox One.

Download Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a third-person or first-person perspective. [b] Gamers full goals-- straight scenarios with established purposes-- to advance through the story. Grand Theft Auto 5 is most likely one of the best games I have actually ever before played. The story is great as well as the online setting is very fun and also a very amazing experience.

Grand Theft Auto V increases the multiplayer feature that was present in Grand Theft Auto IV. The multiplayer is dealt with as an additional title and also is referred to as Grand Theft Auto Online. In GTA Online, multiplayer staffs from Max Payne 3 can be rollovered to GTA V. GTA V has actually multiplayer functions connected to Rockstar's Social Club. Grand Theft Auto V has more cars than in any other Grand Theft Auto video game to date, with a range of vehicles, consisting of planes, helicopters, cars, utility vehicles, emergency solution automobiles, bikes, as well as jet skis. Gamers are able to fly airplanes, which was a cut function from Grand Theft Auto IV due to the minimal dimension of the map, but the function is now offered in Grand Theft Auto V because of the much bigger, open world map.

GTA 5 raporty.

Grand Theft Auto V has the best series of incredibly cars and trucks to day, as well as the most amount of automobiles, in the whole GTA series. The Cheetah is just one of minority automobiles to appear most of GTA games. New tasks have been included, such as yoga exercise, triathlons, jet winter sports, parachuting, golf, tennis, as well as scuba diving diving. Random occasions have actually additionally been added to the video game and can appear anytime as the gamer discovers around the map. The smart phone has returned from Grand Theft Auto IV however is currently just used for calling the gamer's calls, surfing the internet, and also fast conserving.

The game Saints Row IV has a DLC pack of clothing as well as tools named GAT V, which is a referral to the initials of Grand Theft Auto V. The publisher, Deep Silver released it free of charge on PC, mocking GTA V's absence from the system at the time. Gamers can ragdoll by pressing X/Square/SPACE (Xbox/PlayStation/PC) after that B/Circle/R (Xbox/Playstation/PC). Multiplayer stands up to sixteen individuals on Xbox 360 and also PlayStation 3, and thirty players on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and also COMPUTER variations.

Playing as a militant.

Rockstar Gamings, the gaming business behind GTA V, did not promptly react to an ask for comment. The Hong Kong demonstrations are being played out on Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V online.

The tale is centred on the break-in series, and lots of goals entail shooting and also driving gameplay. A "desired" system governs the aggression of police action to players that dedicate criminal activities. Grand Theft Auto Online, the video game's online multiplayer setting, lets up to 30 gamers take part in a selection of various cooperative and affordable game settings. fantastic video game can play it like every day enjoyable to be able to have fun with buddies and be able to download and install awesome mods and also enjoy.

Download Grand Theft Auto V.

The game sold 11,210,000 duplicates and made $800,000,000 on its initial day of launch, establishing numerous records, and eventually making $1,000,000,000 within 3 days of the video game's launch. The video game is played from either a third-person or first-person point of view, as well as its world is browsed walking or by automobile. Gamers control the three lead protagonists throughout single-player and button among them, both throughout and outside goals.

The shooting mechanics are better in terms of the feel of the technicians and larger compared to the melee mechanics in the video game, that being stated, melee has actually been boosted over the previous titles as well. Instead of the old method of selecting with all the weapons sequentially, there is now a Weapon Wheel, which is similar to the one included in Red Dead Redemption, one more game made by Rockstar Gamings. Grand Theft Auto V draws inspirations from several Rockstar titles in the past, including Max Payne 3, Twelve O'clock At Night Club, Manhunt, and also Red Dead Redemption. As one of the most waited for video game titles to be released in 2013, the video game was widely anticipated before its launch. Grand Theft Auto V was released to universal acclaim, holding scores of 96 and above on MetaCritic and GameRankings, as well as obtaining ideal ratings from over 30 customers.

Reviews.

Like all previous Grand Theft Auto video games, Grand Theft Auto V has actually courted controversy, though has actually been checked out by some as dramatically more controversial than its predecessors. Players can play as pets (enhanced version), unlike in any kind of other Grand Theft Auto game.

Explore all Autos, Bikes, Helicopters, Planes, Boats, as well as all other vehicles. See what are the fastest vehicles in GTA Online, the most costly, or the general top executing vehicles in GTA V. GTA V is the first game in the collection since Grand Theft Auto Advance where the player can store all the tools in their inventory instead of replacing them. Grand Theft Auto V is the initial video game in the franchise to include in-game incidental songs (not counting cutscenes, credit histories and also pause menus, as numerous earlier games had subordinate songs for these abovementioned series).

Most definitely one of the very best games available right now and also can't wait for the launch of GTA 6. this game has a low cost for all the important things that it provides, trust me, you won ´ t regreet acquiring it and also pls tell a good friend to do it with you. In GTA 5 you can see the biggest and also one of the most detailed globe ever created by Superstar Gamings. Likewise the possibility to influence the life as well as actions of 3 main personalities. This mix of several personalities background will certainly make the game as exciting and remarkable as feasible.

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Providing individuals the center finger is another new function the player can make use of while in a car. Superstar suggested that the player do this in various locations around Los Santos to see the outcome; depending on where the gamer is at, they will get different reactions from pedestrians. Grand Theft Auto V advances virtually every technician that was in the previous Grand Theft Auto video games.

The Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and also Xbox One variations add an additional 162 tracks to the in-game radio. The first-person sight is just offered in the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 as well as Xbox One variations of the video game. Crews win multiplayer suits to gain experience factors and climb up online leaderboards.

Initial launch.

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History of the Creed - Part 2: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood; the game that is a mission packed sequel and is somehow better than its predecessor… at least that’s how I think… and many other people.

ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD (The original PC release in Europe: March 18, 2011)

PLOT

We begin our story where the last game ended up. Ezio just beat up the Pope and received a message that doesn’t understand because it’s for Desmond. So he comes back to Mushroom Ki- I mean his villa to finally take a rest from the Templars. Shame it was a bad idea, since Rodrigo’s son, manchild that he is, decided to wreck our shit with his papal army and, to add more salt to injury, kill uncle Mario. I HAVE WASTED DOZENS OF HOURS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FLORINS TO MAKE THIS TOWN NOT LOOK LIKE SHIT! CESARE!! YOU SPANISH FU-

Technical difficulties

What we basically have is a repeat of the previous game: Family member of Borgias ends up ruining Ezio’s life in some way and killing his family member(s) so it’s time to whoop some ass in the old fashioned revenge. I mean it’s not bad but it’s kinda weak to have a story that its foundations are basically the same as the AC2.

Good thing that the characters save the story. Ezio is still awesome as he was in the previous game. Almost all of the secondary protagonists are from AC2 and their characterization is extended in some way (I might also want to add up that even Rodrigo somewhat changed after our last meeting). The new characters (both protagonists and antagonists [asides from Cesare]) are on the same level as the secondary characters in the previous game: nothing great, nothing terrible, just fine. Main villain on the other hand… is basically a large ham. And I fucking love it. It’s the kind of ham that is enjoyable to watch. And the main reason why Cesare is so hilariously enjoyable to watch is his voice actor. Andreas Apergis fucking nails it! He already showed some talent in Assassin’s Creed 2 as Francesco de’ Pazzi and Checco Orsi but this game is when he showed of his talent. The fact that he ended up as a main villain in modern times and as your closest companion in the newest game proves this.

GAMEPLAY

So this game is basically the same as Assassin’s Creed 2 but with few changes. While the parkour is still the same as it was before, the combat got some new stuff. For instance there are kill streaks now. How does it work? After killing an enemy you can aim at the next target and attack them, or in other words, kill them in one shot kill. Also there is a kick. You can kick the enemy in the nuts to make them vulnerable for your attacks.

You thought combat was too easy in the previous game? Well, with this two new addons the enemies are now a complete joke. Even the toughest bastards asides from Borgia captains and bosses will die like a little bitch once you smash their balls off and/or kill streak them.

Speaking off enemies, there are two new types of them. There are Papal Guards who are the amalgamation of all previous enemies. In theory, they are very tough. In practice, kick ‘em in the nuts and they are done. There are also previously mentioned Borgia Captains who will either run away on your sight or fight you, which, in latter’s case, are immune to counters and kill streaks.

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Oh yeah, you can also hold attack button to do a special attack based on what you have in your hand. That (mostly) useless shit exists.

There is also some upgrades to your arsenal. You can fire your hidden gun much faster. You can fire poison through the shootable darts (when you buy it out from Leonardo). You can use heavy weapons like the ones used by brutes (when you buy heavy sheath). And of course, the god’s gift: The crossbow.

heavenly noises

Imagine your hidden pistol being silent and have up to over twice the ammo. That’s crossbow in the nutshell. Overpowered? Yes, but still satisfying to use. It may cost a fuck ton of florins but it’s worth a price.

Also, you have your assassin apprentices that you can summon to help you kill selected target or kill a group of soldiers with arrows when you have three, filled bars.

Are you sick of walking around the whole 16th century Rome? Well, now you can use tunnels to get faster (providing you renovated them).

There are new mechanics for horses like shooting/assassinating from a horse and stealing a horse GTA style. Oh, and you can also whistle to summon it; I forgot about that.

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Huh… I believe I said probably everything about new gameplay mechanics.

OH WAIT! That’s right! The beggars are back! Along with bards!! AND THEY MULTIPLIED!!! Thank god for the ability to throw your money to distract them for a while.

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What?

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What?

ACTIVITIES

Well it wouldn’t be an Ubisoft game without a fuck ton of side stuff to do, so I’ll try to focus on new things.

While renovations are back, you won’t be able to renovate the building unless you kill the Borgia captain in the region and then burn previously protected Borgia tower. There are also banks spread around Rome so you don’t have to go to one place to withdraw your money like in the previous game.

I mentioned earlier about the apprentices. You can recruit them by helping civilians when they are in danger just like AC1. In return they will join the brotherhood and you can then send them to different cities to level them up to level 10.

Now you can do challenges for mercenaries, courtesans, thieves and assassins. By doing them you can unlock stuff like (respectively) 50% discount for hiring guild members, 2 new abilities per guild and (and this is the only bonus from assassins) a new, powerful weapon. Personally they are fine but some of them are really annoying and tedious (10 times five people kill streak anyone?!).

Beside challenges, there are side missions, like, a fuck ton of them. We have assignments from thieves and courtesans and assassination contracts that unlock as you go further through the main plot. We have Leonardo’s war machines to destroy, which after doing all of them you will be rewarded with parachutes. We have missions focusing on Templar agents AKA characters from multiplayer. We have Christina missions that unlock every 15% of synchronization up to 75%. There are also 2 DLC packs that are free for PC users: The Da Vinci Disappearance and (since 2017 to my surprise) Copernicus Conspiracy.

Did you liked collecting the flags from AC1? Well guess what? They are back. And this time you can buy expensive as fuck maps after collecting 25 of them.

And now… we came to the big one: Full Synchronization. Basically, most of the memories (either main ones or secondary ones) has additional, secondary objective like not doing this thing, killing someone with specific weapon, don’t kill anyone etc. Personally, I have a mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it’s cool to give the game some additional challenge. On the other hand, it feels like it restricts the players (and to be more precise, completionists) from playing how they want. Not to mention, some of these objective are very annoying/hard to get (anybody wants some no detection task?!). Don’t like them? Tough shit! We will have to withstand it for… let me see- 7 GAMES AT LEAST!

Also there are 5 hidden artifacts on modern times. Might want to point it out.

But overall, most of these activities were enjoyable to do. Then again, I think I’m some kind of masochist that enjoys doing that. At least I can say that most of them are worth the award.

THE GRAHPICS AND SOUND

The graphics might be where this game has the biggest advantage over AC2. While the buildings and the rest of environment feels like it’s on the same level as the last game, the character models doesn’t give you a feeling of being outdated anymore (at least in 50-70%): textures look sharper, facial animation looks less wonky/over the top, it all looks really nice… except there is one noticeable problem with some of the animations. Whenever you kill someone with your hidden blade, their forearms doesn’t animate, so it feels like you stabbed a dummy with the inflatable arms. Did some of the animators forgot to add the animation?

The sound effects keep the same level as the previous game AKA very good and the soundtrack is still top-notch. Jesper Kyd once again made a damn good job on the latter’s department. When you compare both soundtracks from AC2 and ACB you’ll notice that the latter one (most of the time) has more aggressive/unpleasant experience, which makes sense, you are in the lion’s den which is Italian Templars’ main base, that ain’t Florence/Venice, that’s home of our main villain. Here are some of my favorite tracks:

And here is the entire soundtrack for you to hear.

STABILITY

Note: Played on the highest setting minus anti-aliasing.

Good news – there were no crashing bugs, nor game breaking bugs.

Bad news – there were more framerate drops this time (especially when it was raining).

So still, the PC version is nicely optimized with a few hiccups. Something tells me I should say more about it but honestly, there is nothing else to add.

SUMMARY

Same foundations for the plot that makes it somewhat boring? Yes. Too much annoying stuff to do? Kind of. Being nothing more but a reheated, mission-packed sequel? Absolutely. But still, this game is the best out of all of Ezio’s trilogy and I would say that even if the boomer fan pointed a gun on my head. It basically takes AC2 but it adds so much stuff that makes the previous game pale in comparison.

And now, the only way to finish this review… is with this:

Cesare, oh Cesare,

A man of great depravity

Believed himself immortal 'til

He had a date with gravity.

intensive clapping

See you all next time.

Bye!

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Personal identity - hoardering habits

This little book of mine contains things that illustrate my own identity. They include self perspective and habits through accumulated items.

1. Burnt photograph forever slipped into an old torn oyster case. It was a gta case nobody wanted in the house and somehow fell into my lap and never left. I carried it with no real purpose but it did a job and wore out. It tore right down the middle. One half lost in the filth of the world and the other stayed with all mighty strength in the top left breast pocket of my navy jacket. Things tended to fall out from there but his one thing never drew from my armour. It contained a photograph of me that I remember vividly burning on the rooftops of aspers casino. Lonesome days smoking out, in the cold after a late shift, seeking company at the same time afraid of anyone bothering me. I sat for about six cigarettes toying with it before leaving.

2. Display of clothing tags. I am a fashionistaaaa. My most popular: urban outfitters and weekday. I’m interested in the art of consumerism. So I show this through my receipt and clothing tag collection. These demonstrate my shopping addiction and where I like to shop. They’re ultimate go to’s and I wouldn’t leave a shopping mall without seeing them both. They have the best stuff. I’d say they also mean a bad habit. As I shop over and over and may wear once or ‘not yet’ as life goes on and I add more and more, stuffing my wardrobe. I just couldn’t ever stop. To make a simple purchase ignites easy satisfaction and I do it over again as I wear the same outfits I have always worn. Though this thrill could never be tamed.

3. My beloved sudoku puzzles. They are only thrilling when completed from newspapers. No sudoku book or game on a device could suffice. I would complete them on my journey to uni everyday like I was bewitched. I would be occupied the whole duration till meeting my destination some days. It was a challenge I accepted each and everyday and fussed if a day I sat without one. I had to finish it before reaching the end of my train ride or else I’d failed. It was the best thing that coated these cold and dull months also. I would record how many stations it took for me to finish, jot it down from when and where and leave it for the spirits.

Artwork by Barbara Kruger:

4. Witness the tape down the middle. I also collect loads of tape. I love tape. Anything crafty and easy decor. Seen throughout my journal. This ones printed one of the best animes of all time: Avatar: the legend of aang. I re watched it in the past year all over since childhood. It belongs in this little book of mine because I’ve seen this show relentless amounts by now and it never ceases to entertain. I love it dearly. The storyline, and all aspects within and characters are just the greatest. I could have it on loop forever. It was a childhood memory that weaves into my adult life and if I’m honest I loved it more now than ever. It felt like watching it for the first in my life because I couldn’t forget it now and I understood it for what it was at this age. The images of the show follow me around in my house as it’s on numerously and also from the merch I see laying around me. It’s engraved boldly in my memories as it takes me back to days of being a child I couldn’t remember without it. Besides a cigarette packet. Smoking habits. You either smoke or you don’t. An effortless clarification. On the right there were just marks on the page and I connected them like join the dots as a child. At this very moment in time all I did was play with markers and hairspray for effect so that’s what that is.

5. The green pigment is random but I assigned a meaning as matches my lovely cool green sweaters I’ve been buying recently. I had been going on literal green sweater hunts for days and hours in store and online sites. It had to be this shade. Besides is a page regarding hoardering business. I collected stickers without intention and one day it became a thing. It started by sticking labels on my wardrobe off a bunch of clothes I purchased and they just never came off. The power of laze is undermined deeply.. really. So I gathered stickers of off merch and created a page to illustrate this. They show an understanding of my purchases at the time: washy tape x3, peri peri rice box I had delivered for a whole period, Apple MacBook purchase, price tag off “lady killers” novel, delivery packaging, item from China and clothing instruction label. Why should all this be deemed worthless and thrown away? Not in my book.

6. More tape and more tape. Raw paper. Smoked a lot of weed? Stopped that stuff too whilst fabricating my lil journals. It wasn’t for me anymore so I’m left with surplus paper. Chewing gum wrapper. My favourite and only flavour of gum I would ever carry. People despised it but it’s awesome. I remember years ago it used to be so strong at first and it’s just never like that anymore. My salivary glands know what’s coming. There is no war. It’s Mind over matter. They were also an accidental coil of collecting. I didn’t like to ever litter so rubbish would remain in my pockets and in all clothings i would just find them with a couple left or empty and it was just many before it became a lot and an item of collection. It was a good one because I could never change up, everything about this flavour pack was too cool.

7. You cannot say my name properly. It’s two syllables. Break it down, divide it, valve it then say it altogether. It sounds exactly as it reads. Starting Nandos I almost lost my mind because every person in the workplace couldn’t say it and I was dumbfounded. It’s anywhere I go actually. I often just say to people “it’s Naj”. I didn’t like babying anyone in teaching them how to say it fully. I was sick. Please don’t spell it wrong either. I think the letters arranged to spell my name is very fancy. It catches my eye when I see it slapped anywhere! It’s a millisecond thrill. It’s me!!! I’ve been called all sorts in my life now to think of it. My name is very unique too. I never counted so let’s.. I go by ninja, nij, bij/bidge, badger, naj, ninj, nijnaj, najin, nagini- the audacity someone called me this with sense. It belonged to Voldemort’s last horcrux, the snake. I was offended. Highly impressed I never forget a pronunciation however

8. I get overwhelmed many times a day. It’s all very sudden and as much as it happens I’m always taken by this feeling. I get this rush because I’m always so eager to do something I think of or jot a thought down really quick and I’m not, it gets cut loose and forgotten and everything is too much and disoriented. My time and mind is always averted toward my art and I don’t want to forget what I’m thinking so I rush to spill it. When I read a book I’m overwhelmed because there’s much to read and not enough time and I can’t seem to control the desires to feel every other thing I ever aspire to do with my life especially the current days in the same moment of writing or reading. When I write abkht one thing another thing comes forth and then another related to the latter and so on. By then I lose trail of all thought and I’m stuck with a bundle of heightened feelings about these critical ideas and and a static hand. Can’t keep a lid on it, I lose my shit as quick as I can gather it

9. I am both these pages. Just like no message is a message so are these plain/ destroyed pages. They induct two significant personas. Many more if I could write an essay on it

#extractsfrom myjournal #unfinished #business

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8 Best PS5 Games List in 2020

PS5 gaming is a favourite pastime activity to this decade. The device renders smooth streaming of games with amazing graphics. The secret is to choose the best games to play. In this post, we have listed all of the new and exciting titles for PS5 games 2020. All of these games are fresh new titles that are yet to be confirmed for release in 2020/2021. Some of these PS5 launch games will be sequels or spinoffs of already popular gaming themes. But its originality lies in the gameplay and storyline. The list consists of racy, adrenaline-pumping titles that will make 2020 worth it. Listed below is the awesome 8 best PS5 games list in 2020.

Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters come directly from the team that created Assassin’s Creed. Their previous works have always been inspired by history - kings and battles. However, this new project is inspired by mythology. When men need help, they turn to the gods. When gods need help, you help them out in this game. Going by trailer, the backdrops are vibrant and breathtaking. The game is expected to be released by the end of this year or January 2021 at the latest. It looks like we will play as a ruthless female warrior slaying her way through evil.

GTA 6

Just like the game title, you are going to play for legacy. GTA is all about legacy, reputation and adrenaline-pumping action. To be honest, the release date is not yet confirmed. The team is being tight-lipped about the release and other details. The lack of information makes people more curious about Grand Theft Auto 6. You can safely expect this game to come out by the end of this year. There is no way this classy game is not going to grace with its presence on PS5.

Batman: Arkham Legacy

With PS5 about to be launched, Batman cannot be missed. This game would do justice to this space. It’s the same studio that developed open-world Batman: Arkham Knight. Warner Bros. Montreal has disclosed publicly that they are working on the next Batman game. We are still unclear about the exact wording in the title as of now. Regardless, the bat will be awesome for PS5.

Gothic

The game comes from THQ Nordic and Barcelona Studio. It's the remake of the 2001 classic game of the same name. It’s a storyline that repeats itself time and again. The makers believe they can push in one more versions. However, this one is going to be different. A great wall of fire and a mysterious crown sets things into motion. This game is going to be gory. There are swords and other melee weapons involved. There is magic, fire, plenty of it, and even dinosaurs.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 5

Call of Duty is back and how! Call of Duty: Black Ops 5 is set in the backdrop of the cold war. It is speculated to be released by the end of this year. This cross-generation title will run on PS5 as well as Xbox X. since PS5 will be launched around the same period. Replicating the super-successful combination of Sega and Genesis is a real prospect. We can safely expect this to be a runaway hit this year. This free to play the game will come in two epic modes. The buy station is going to get better than ever.

Assassins Creed: Kingdom

Assassins Creed: Kingdom is set in the backdrop of Vikings era. It will make a great addition to the list of PS5 launch games. We haven’t seen a trailer of the game so far. It is expected to be released later this year. By the looks of it, Ubisoft seems to be waiting for the launch of PS5 before putting anything in the open.

Call Of Duty: Warzone

This yet another Call of Duty game has the most liked theme. It’s free to play, battle royal, where the winner takes it all. It’s already released for PS4, PC and Xbox One. Being cross-platform, it may make an appearance in PS5 too. A standalone version for next-gen consoles will be breathtaking.

Harry Potter RPG

The setting is dark and grim at Hogwarts. Bring your brooms, because we are going to fly and clean the mess. This role-playing game will be a treat for harry potter die-hards. It is rumoured that the Warner Bros are working on the project. The leaked footage surfaced all over the internet a couple of years ago. The possibility of running it on PS5 is very much on the cards. Grab your joysticks for wands. Abra Cadabra, let the magic begin.

Special mention                                                                

The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum This could turn out to be Daedalic's most prized project. As the name suggests, it's inspired by The Lord of the Rings. The game will have a take on Gollum's perspective, that's never been discussed before. The creator has promised to stay true to the original tale. It might be about Gollum's survival or some of the grim battles that centre the 'precious'. The game is predicted to be cross-generation, though not confirmed. A lot of ifs and buts prevent this game from being there on the list.

Conclusion

All of the probable PS5 games are scheduled for 2020/2021. These are all exciting titles with promising storylines. Regardless of the order in which they are listed, we are excited about every title. Moreover, PS has evolved a lot in recent years. A lot of Xbox games have shifted their allegiances towards Play station. Some of the fresh titles like The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has raised a few eyebrows. The gaming realm is stepping up big towards the new decade. More gaming titles are going to rock 2020. A lot of these refreshing themes will breathe fresh air into the arena. Even a handful of titles will make 2020 a blast. Read the full article