Slice of Kris

End of Bad

2013-09-29T23:15:00.002-07:00

This blog thing of mine is just sitting around so might as well use it.

Breaking Bad ended today with the second best episode of the series first best being the one just before it, with no ambiguous endings like Lost or a let down like the Sopranos, Breaking Bad ended perfectly tie up all the loose ends like a final episode should. In all previous Heisenberg moments Walter had his hat on and made simple mistakes because he lost control to his emotions, but in his final moment instead of an alter ego taking over to do the stunts he preformed them himself to perfection with a calm mind and voice to the last moment of life with no more regrets(pity it did not have a half-faced man walking out adjusting his tie and falling over dead).
Cheers Breaking Bad for a great five and a half years time to queue the tons of spoiler casts from nerds around the globe.

Dota 2 International GRAND FINAL

2013-08-11T21:22:00.002-07:00

Here we are the final day the final match between Navi and Alliance 2 for 2 the series is whomever win here takes it all, there is no telling who will win this final match between such evenly matched teams. In the series prior Orange V Navi Orange got the first game over Navi but Navi came back to win the next two games and that series, yet in this grand final series Navi held the lead for the majority of the series wining the 2nd and 3rd game but Alliance kept their cool winning the first and the 4th game for a winner take all final show down in the 5th match.

Navi's lineup
Enigma Puppey
Alchemist XboCT
Templar Assassin Dendi
Batrider Funnk1e
Alliance's Lineup
Puck S4
Crystal maiden Akke
Chaos Knight Loda
Wisp EGM
Nature Prophet Admiral Bulldog

The game was definitely worth watching I stopped what i was doing after watching 3 min i could tear my eyes away back to back to back action from the word go, it all came down to the cheap nature's prophet with the sneaky "BackDoor" plays. S4 gets MVP for suicides 3 times to get stuns to stop tps more than once giving Alliance the win distracting the entire enemy team while AdmiralBulldog killed their entire base.

Was a great tournament congrats to the winner Alliance and goodwork Navi for trying your best the king of the North Alliance will reign until next year.

DotA 2 International Preliminary Round Up Results

2013-08-06T21:07:00.000-07:00

Before I get to results here is the two brackets winners and losers, when u lose in winner you go to loser bracket if you lose in loser you are out the International then the winner of winner's Bracket verse the winner of loser's Bracket in the Grand final. In brackets after the teams is who I think will win and how the the tournament will advance.

Winner bracket

Navi V ORANGE (Navi)
TongFu V Fnatic (TongFu) TongFu V Navi (Navi)
Alliance V LGD gaming (Alliance) Alliance V DK (Alliance) Alliance V TongFu (Alliance
DK V iG (DK)

Loser bracket

Dignatas V Rattlesnake (Dignatas) Dignatas V Orange (Ornage)
LGD.int V Mousesports (LGD.int) LGD.int V Fnatic (Fnatic) Fnatic V Orange (Fnatic) Fnatic V TongFu(Fnatic)

DK V Fnatic (DK) DK V Navi(DK)

Liquid V MUFC (Liquid) Liquid V LGD (LGD) LGD V iG (LGD) LGD V DK (DK)
Zenith V Virtus.pro (Zenith) Zenith V iG (iG)

Grand Final
DKV Alliance

Results of Preliminary each team's totals wins

Alliance 14 wins undefeated
DK 10 wins
Diginatas 8 wins(tiebreaker loser) 8
Fnatic 9 wins
LGD 8 wins(tiebreaker winner) 9
LGD.int 4 wins
Liquid 7 wins
iG 6 wins
Navi 11 wins
Mousesports 4 wins
MUFC 0 wins ( :( )
Orange 8 wins
RattleSnake 3 wins
TongFu 6 wins
Virtus.pro 2 wins
Zenith 6 wins

Will Alliance win the International undefeated or will Navi/DK dethrone them Find out on the next exciting post by SLICE OF KRIS('s coverage of dota 2 international)

ChronoBlade a Facebook Game

2013-07-30T07:35:00.002-07:00

Stieg Hedlund the lead designer of Diablo goes to work on a new game and guess what it is F2P not only that it is on FACEBOOK do not let that get you down this is a fantastic game and if it gains support and money it could become something of a legend. using 2D isometric brawler gameplay with RPG elements from Diablo including skill trees, crafting and combos, while all being a flash/java based game.

What truly makes this a game that should not be missed this year is the combat system using all the variety you would expect from a final fight game including lifters, air-combos and finishing moves which rewards for making the longest combo you can possibly imagine by giving you a huge explosion for a finishing move. Yet with every bright light must come a shadow this game suffers from an appalling amount of loading screens cutting your immersion just after killing 40 guys with a 100 combo and a sweet explosion, most notably in the crafting menu whenever you smelt an item for crafting material it lags for a good 2-3 seconds and when you are doing that for over 10-15 items it gets old fast. Then there are the combo drops, which happen from aoe clouds of damage that do not stagger your character at all yet they ruin your combo and if you wait for it to disperse you will drop the combo from taking to long to hit a enemy.

Even with all this the guys at nWay games with lead designer Jordan Patz have done a fantastic job given the limitations provided by a flash based interface I look forward to more updates of this game maybe even a stand alone game not restricted by facebook with better performance give it about circle out of T-intersection on the Bruce highway.

Written by Christopher Holliman (slice of kris) @sliceofkris youtube: www.youtube.com/user/Capta1nKr1s/

Made a let's look at video to go along with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgK3WbBwXmI

update 26/03/13 Kingdom Hearts LP

2013-03-25T07:50:00.002-07:00

so bioshock is currently on break until I get technical difficulties sorted mean time new LP Kingdom hearts LP been in works for a while bioshock will return asap as well as dota videos just getting a bit back dated with work from university and part time job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_URTobXTQ

Part 1 above enjoy and leave feedback

DotA 2 Hero builds (updated regularly)

2013-02-24T06:26:00.000-08:00

I am in the process of writing a guide and DotA build for every single Hero all know as DotA god's Guide to; or DotA god's build for (Heroes name).

In no particular order

Phantom Lancer (Build written) (Guide not written)(Let's Play here)
Axe (Build written) (Guide not written)(Let's Play not done)
Brewmaster (Build not written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play here)
Bone Fletcher Clinks (Build not written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play here)
Earthshaker (Build written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play here)
Tidehunter (Build written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play is in production)
Spectre (Build written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play in production)
Naga (Build written)(Guide not written)(Let's Play in production)

Rest of heroes have yet to be designed or examined check back here regularly for more Guides, Builds and Gameplay of DotA 2 or check out my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/user/Capta1nKr1s.
To see all the builds and Guides follow me on Steam to read my guides and builds and subscribe to them so when new better builds get adapted you will get updated as well.

Thankyou,
DotA god

Black Mesa LP

2012-11-13T07:37:00.001-08:00

That's right kids not just one Lp being produced by me but two

Black mesa will air every Wednesday would love an artist for intro cards not very good as I only have paint.

so come watch on my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/Capta1nKr1s

First episode of Bioshock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEyF-siQCc&feature=g-upl
First episode of Black Mesa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOJLv6eWsY&feature=youtu.be

Bioshock LP

2012-11-11T06:26:00.001-08:00

Was up! Kids started a Bioshock Let's play check it out on my youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Capta1nKr1s

also need an intro song

have fun....

Guild Wars 2

2012-09-30T09:09:00.003-07:00

I did not play the original Guild Wars so fuck the story but apparently this is all about the story honestly I was into it for the first part of the game where it I got to choice on what story I wanted slightly then after I was told to drop my team and join one of the 3 big guilds where all my previous choices meant nothing. By the way I am reviewing Guild wars 2 in case you could not guess which the new game in the famous series Guild wars which was noted for being one of the best competing competitors when WoW originally came out boasting the same game without the monthly price tag. I played very little of Guild Wars all of it was at a friends house showing me how "cool" it was to my fourteen year old brain it certainly looked similar to WoW but for all I knew it could of been horse shit in comparison. Now many many year with WoW circling the drain and Project Titan peaking around the corner Guild War 2 comes with a very new and unique MMORPG formula all based around we are all friends here.

Guild Wars 2 unique formula is very very simple every single human player is your friend which honestly made the game so easy to pick up and enjoy as you do not mind that player kill stealing you because it honestly makes no difference or that random level 80 in your level 12 town killing all the quest giving npcs these are but things of the past. They explained this in the story from what I can understand that all the races have formed a very flimsy alliance so that they are all buddies this lead to people who disagree with theses alliances and broke away from their race to form their own factions these are the people you mainly face in the first half of the game before the cool story came with dragons. Then the dragons returned from space yes they implied heavily they came from space (they didn't well I am changing the lore so they do) from what I can understand there are several elder dragons who can spawn the dead and hate the living because they are not dead and they for some reason hate my necromancer. Next Guild Wars 2 went after having to talk to people to even get the quests because who cares why farmer noddy wants the fire flys away from his cows and just do it this was my favourite thing about the game because when I first played WoW I had so many quest that I was confused on which one I should be doing first and where I was even meant to be going this way I can just go about my business exploring and always having a quest to do right next to me.

Fear not there is PVP I mean where would any good online game be without the good sport of bashing ones head in with a mace this comes in two forms battle arena or Siege server wars, both pit teams against each other battling for capture points. Your basic PVP arena is your usual team verse team for the capture points except they instant put you at max level and same weapons so you do not have to wait until the end of the game to play and everyone is equal, although high level people do have a slight advantage as armour is yours and you have your trait points for bonuses. Next is the Siege server wars not it's real name but it is a much better one lots of the people play it call it Wv3 but it is called World vs World, where your server goes head to head with two other servers in both defence, offence and free for all Wv3 is named because it is world vs world vs world instead they decided to called it World vs power of 3 because there are three world dukeing it out(enough with explanation of the name get to what it really is). The reason why I called it Siege server wars is because your put in map with several fortresses, towns and castles which leads to a lot of sieges breach the home team's castle or the other invading teams fortresses the towns supplies resources which are used to make siege weapons or upgrade your fortress/castle these have little to no defence leading them to be captured often and very fast. The main strategy is what they like to call Zerging where a huge group forms and they just go from point to point to point this is boring and can be stopped simply by a well fortified base and alerting your team of the location of the Zerg mob I hope real war strategy gets involved and new better wars begin.

Overall the ability to easily play this game and have fun is the major selling point not the no monthly price tag it suffers from this by having a very free to play gimmick to it called gems to unlock various stuff which just make life easier but not necessaries for the enjoyment of the game. The drop in and out PVP is nice but ripe with unseasoned noobs souring the pool of players but definitely a game you should pay for if your tired of the old quest system port from mmo to mmo but lacks the polish necessary for it to be a great game as of October 1st it has more bugs than you can shake a stick at until next time.

Ads again and DotA 2/Day Z revision

2012-08-27T00:35:00.002-07:00

It has been a while hopefully not to long for the world to forget about me but after a few months of no ads because of minor errors that just require time to sort out i have ads again and i have decided to celebrate by re-reviewing DotA 2 and Day Z which i gave in-concise details of reviewing with a very slanted point of view.

Let's start with DotA 2 my main grips at the time were functionality and lack of practice at the game meaning I had no idea what I was doing in comparison to the main MOBA game I played at the time LoL after about 100 hours (note I am up to 489 hours as of writing this)these issues became mute as it became second nature to me to do. My other gripe was the camera still being far too zoomed in I still believe this is the case but I have more or less gotten used to it there has now been added a swap function just like in DotA so you can swap your hero with your team mate's hero which is great when you both random and you like each other's hero so you both get random gold and a hero you wanted more. I will say here though that neither DotA or LoL is better than the other and DotA still has no easy mode but it is purely personal reasons for picking which Moba you play now as they will both be free to play have competitive scene and both are lots of fun to play with friend in-house or otherwise.

Now for day Z when I put out my Day Z review it was more joke format than a review forum because I had no idea what the fuck I was doing after being guided how to play by friends I knew the controls and how to play. This game has no substance it literally is just a mod where you collect supplies and kill other survivors there is no direction which is good in a lot of ways but once you master how to play as in know the complex controls of Day Z and how to use the Day Z map it falls down because there is no more difficulty zombies are a no brainier to avoid and kill then all that leaves is rebuilding buses and bikes to traverse the map for better guns to kill other survivors. Do not get me wrong this mod has a lot of potential it just needs to have just a little bit of direction add some npc's and quests some backstory of the day Z world from the point of view of the initial survivors just some substance to immerse me in the game fully.

I am thinking of making another drawfag post for my drawings I have done after the previous one i even have a scanner now so they will not be pictures from a camera. Until next time Slice of Kris out!

Day fucking Z day 0&1

2012-07-27T05:24:00.001-07:00

So in case you have not heard the word is the bird! I mean in case you have not heard there is a hit mod floating around the Internets and it is called day Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it is day Z you f@$king moron as in zombies. Basically it is set in a fictional world where you are a military survivor of a zombie outbreak and you have washed up on shore of an infected island of the coast of Russia with very little starting supplies it is up to you to get equipment and defend yourself against the hordes of the Undead and survive. The mod day Z is built off a high grade military simulator game called Arma 2 and is needed to play the game creating a very realistic feel to the game although this level of complexity is also a bad thing as it creates an intense difficulty curve making it near impossible to correctly tune your key bindings so they work effectively or even how to play good thing day Z has a wiki to help us.

Now mine and my friends experience of the game has not gotten off on the right foot as for about the first twenty times we tried to play the game we got errors before we even connected and entered the game world luckily for me my computer is not sh@t and I got to play on servers while he tried to fix his game. In this time I learnt a lot of the controls how to avoid zombies how to lose zombie and extremely high luck at finding guns. Of course this took me several deaths to achieve which he had yet to get from my experience I learnt five valuable lessons!

1. Press G to open your gear and items on the ground.

2. You can only use items on the right hand side of your gear menu the left hand side is for dropping and picking stuff up.

3. If a zombie sees you run on grass and around objects there path finding skill is not the greatest and they get lost easily

4. Zombies cheat if at all possible shoot them from a far or they will teleport around you as you try to shoot them.

5. No matter how much you want to use that sexy axe in the stump it will not come out

I hope to maybe release another Day Z report as I get better and more acclimated to my environment and as my zombie survival skills improve till next time check your six there is a zombie there!

Binding of Isaac: wraith of the lamb

2012-07-09T03:11:00.003-07:00

Recently the Binding of Isaac had an expansion released where they released a whole new lot of items and new enemies and floors making it a whole new game with a whole new set of bugs rules and hours of gameplay. Ultimately though it is just the same game with more diversity like a good school so if you even slightly enjoyed the binding of Isaac check out the expansion more = better

Diablo 3

2012-07-04T07:18:00.000-07:00

Welcome back everyone pitty diablo 3 will never live up to it's reputation but none the less lets get cracking!!

Diablo 3 suffers from the curse of threes as all squeals do it does not beat the previous 2 before it because the formula is getting stale and plot has been over simplified but the plot with games is the gameplay has been over simplified. I say this because they made it just so that you are literally strongest thing out there and it makes the game too easy at least till you beat the game once and let me tell you it is hard to keep playing after beating the game once. As you have seen the whole story and every enemy, there is very little re-playability because levelling up takes longer and longer without enemies getting drastic stronger.

This game's graphics are very pretty in the foreground and the background which is the best part of the game the multi-player aspect is very limited with no consequence too personal story arc ultimately makes the easier than harder. Balancing in this game is also shocking with wizards level 30 skill making him impossibly overpowered as it improves every single one of his other skills, and the lack of choice in the game making it all meaningless and focusing everything on the gear over how you spec your character all to promote the real money market place for buying and selling items (blizzard you money whores what have they done to you).

In closing if you want a dungeon crawler you can play for a week and get it out of your system then you came to the right place but if your looking for an enjoyable rpg you can play for hours and hours on end then look elsewhere. Visuals and graphics are about 8/10 sound 9/10 will not draw you in but will make you feel like you are taking on the legions the hell by yourself gameplay sorely lacking 7/10 overall 8.5/10 you like my rating system I do not and who cares!!.

Easter Civilization

2012-04-07T04:33:00.002-07:00

So on break from university for a week so I decided to talk about the game I am currently playing which is Civilization 4 I know it is not 5 the latest in the series but I did not want to spend 80$ when this was a nice low price of 5$ in a throw out bin. Civilization 5$ is the same as the rest of the series as you are new nation just learning how walk, and you have been put in charge of your nation and it is up to you guide your people into prosperity and to come out as the leader of the Earth. If I was asked to describe what this game was most like I would say risk the board game except you go through all the ages of man from cave to present dayish more like late 1990's.

I used to play Civ 2 when I was a kid and enjoyed the shaping my people to power and become the undisputed ruler of earth then I sort of forgot about it till Civ 5 was coming out and want to play another Civ game so I got number 4 and found that very little things have changed and the things that have change did were largely unnoticed until after hours of playing. Which disappoints me as all they did was change from a lovely low resolution squares which pictures of my troops moving to slightly 3D troops moving about with the tech tree and troops all being exactly the same. With a series as old as this one with more than one year between each iteration of the series you would think they would be able to re imagine some of the mechanics besides instead of your settlement being one square it grows with how big your settlement gets which was about the only change I could notice of actual significance to the gameplay.

As I do not not own Civ 5 I cannot say if the mechanics have change anything from number 1 or even if the graphics are worth the re-imagining from civ 2 days but if you have an inkling to be the ruler of the world, look in throw out bins you might just find Civ 5 for 5$. If you do buy it and you will not be unhappy with rounds easily lasting over 8 hours of gameplay and loads of re-playability but do not be waiting on the edge of your seat for a Civilization 6 as I guarantee you that it will just be the same as Civilization 1 with shinier graphics at heart but hey do not fix what ain't broke.

DotA 2 my god

2012-03-22T08:09:00.001-07:00

DotA 2 is the HD remake of the famous Warcraft 3 mod DotA made by the current DotA up keeper, and it is a full 1:1 remake of the mod and I hate it. I hate that this is a 1:1 remake as all the bad things of DotA making no skill ranges no ability to zoom out further, the new features they added is a very confusing shop where you cannot find anything as it is set out badly even buying stuff is hard as instead of left clicking to buy you have to right click making it have a huge difficulty curve for new comers.

I would continue to talk about this but you can play HoN which is same game just even harder to see what is going on.

GDC 2012

2012-03-13T21:05:00.002-07:00

The games Developer's conference was last week and there were a lot of speculation revealed answers finally given from developers we have been asking for the past 2 months and an exclusive look into how and what games developers will be doing in the next year.

As I did not go to GDC because I live in Australia and do not have the money so enough about that I know I have not been posting a lot lately but that is because I have university and between social life and study been having trouble finding the the motivation to type this as it requires me to research. Alas GDC is a decent enough even I can give you a nice highlight of the entire thing.

EA had a lot of announcements first they had Simcity which apparently had a global warming speech then they had Bf 3 dlc reveal which got sidetracked with war talk to some "GI JOES" both made the gaming press feel uneasy. Both of these things I am looking forward to with excitement both have loose release dates June 2012 for bf3 and early 2013 for simcity. Assassin creed content got released like crazy as they have finished ezio's arc at long last it is going to be set in civil war america the one against the Brits not the south, it is said that the new protagonist is part Indian so will be nice learn more about him by Indian I mean american Indian not India Indian(how many times can I say Indian in one sentence right). Mass Effect 3 also came out on the Monday of GDC which had a shit ending I am sure I will beat Mass Effect 2 some time, they also held back content from the game for a day 1 dlc which also got fans angry having to buy the game and less than a week after release forced to spend more money on it. In more EA related news I know assassin creed did not fit here just how I write stuff as I research it there was a new Metal of Honour trailer with explosions called MoH Warfighter.

Tony Hawk HD contenues to chug along with maps from the first 3 game and is said that dlc will be maps from all the other Tony Hawk games (do not have a decent link for this). Valve stop speculation on everything about the steam box half life 3 and cs:go being cross platform (that's right no longer cross platform). Blizzard announces their love hate for us by removing pvp from launch of Diablo 3 so it will come out faster thank the god's!. There was also a bunch more awards called GDCA with even more words after that mostly indie games for innervation and Skyrim!.

That is about it for GDC there may of been some hardware and engine stuff i did not talk about BECAUSE I cannot talk about stuff I have no information on. Until next time which I would love to say would be soon as I have played plenty of game to completion that I could review just finding the time to do is hard plus motivation anyway cya around sport.

Tribes Ascent: Open beta

2012-02-25T00:03:00.000-08:00

I know I have not done a post in a while and who cares if you do leave a comment, let me know you exist but Tribes Ascent has been in development for little over a year now and is in open beta meaning anyone can join this is pretty much the full product of the game except their will be a few more features like profiles and cha services that have yet to be fully implemented into the game. https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/ <--- this is the link to sign up for open beta and the full game when it is released I am assuming in about three months now this came out about 4 days ago and I have only played it for 2 days so I cannot give the most comprehensive review yet but from what I have played so far this is a most unique fps with heavy influence from the unreal tournament series by EPIC games.

It is unique for 2 features one being different armour classes I know no so unique but still better than just different classes mean different type of weapons the other is skiing skiing is just how it sounds you slide around the map as if you are surfing from cs surf maps. Which leads to a fast pace game where you are constantly movie to make it easier to shot others and if you stop moving you become an easy target, every single game mode available at the moment revolves around a flag for no reason but to give the people something to aim for besides just mindlessly killing each other it also includes my favourite game mode Capture the Flag love playing this in real life love playing it in computer games.

On a side note sony's the tester season 3 started 3 weeks ago with promise of Egoraptor and he is already removed I vote we all go egg sony's front door he was the only sane person on that crappy piece of programming. Until next time spray and neuter you cats and dogs I mean enjoy this Slice of Kris.

It is my BIRTHDAY on the 16/02

2012-02-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to share my birthday is on the 16th you should all wish me a happy birthday by commenting happy birthday when you read this and clicking on an ad thank you.

I will post what i get on the 16th just for you turning 20!

I got

a 700ml bottle of grant scotch
utopia brainteaser puzzle
3 t shirts
undies
2 bags of mnms
a pack of chips and dip
2 pairs of shoes and a keyring
plus some money gift from other relatives

Comparing this to last year is a big improvement

News post 3/02/2012

2012-02-02T21:16:00.000-08:00

Recently THQ has dropped in stock price and could fall apart to rectify this situation there has been layoffs and the CEO has taken a huge pay cut if THQ does not get their stock price back above 1$ they will no longer be eligible for public stock from what I can understand. Sony has also been going into the red reporting 2.03 billion dollars of loss even with earning 29 million in revenue Sony has also had a change in management with Kazou Hirai as the new CEO maybe he can pull Sony out of this down spiral. In happier news Electronic Arts sales report for the Q3 are as following Battlefield 3 selling a 11 million copies not to be out done Fifa sold 10 million and 39 million$ of micro transactions how many we do not know were from stolen accounts. EA's WoW fighter has sold 2 million unit which is good for only being out for little over a month with 1.7 million being current subscribers pity this game has not released in Australia the jerks I do not know or even see why this is the case maybe their is some problems with the rating and the game needs to be changed to fit with out lack of R rating even though it is barely worthy of a MA rating.

Fans of Alan Wake will be getting a pc port of the entire game very soon, also releasing soon Gotham city impostors, Witcher 2 console port with Soulcalibur 5 and Final Fantasy XIII-2 already been released this month. Xbox 720 not being shown at E3 this year which is good news because the leaks of the parts the new Xbox might have were very poor, WiiU (WEOEOEO) will be releasing some time this year Sony has stated that they are focusing their efforts on the PSP Vita before making PS4 so new PS console will not be coming for at least 2-4 years not that it needs to be replaced yet. 2K may be making a new IP completely unannounced with no details or hints anyone's guess on what it may be this was found on the lead level designers resume of Bioshock.

Midweek madness on steam right now is entire Dawn of War series I recommend these games if you have not got them already greatest thing about them even the expansions for the series are stand alone. In free games news if you liked the command and conquer game's FPS renegade their is a community making a sequel too it on the unreal engine. All that is available at the moment is an un-optimised single player they want to make multiplayer and finish the game entirely at the moment people's mouths in-game do not move neither does your gun when it shoots which can be of putting at times but the lighting and the bullet shots are great their website is http://www.renegade-x.com/ keep your eye on them.

New Hellsing OVA episode is coming out on February 15th and justice league:doom movie on the 28th of February so it is an exciting month in the cartoon world. February is the month of my birth and my father's birth his is on the 2nd which was yesterday and mine is on the 16th which happens to be both our favourite numbers his the number 2 mine the number 16. So wish me a happy birthday and I will post more stuff soon just got Warhammer Spacemarine today because steam is so kind with their sales and taking my money until next time guys.

From Dust: god is a hyper active mouse

2012-01-29T06:55:00.000-08:00

From Dust is a very strange name and it is also a very strange game and from last years' xbox summer of arcade this game is a god game with an interesting concept as at the very start of the game you are created by the people you lead around by you changing their environment. The base story behind this game is a race of creatures that look like humans with boxes instead heads who create a guide called breath (you) from their ancestors magic so that you can help them get learn about what happened in their ancestors past where they gain new skills (not you) to help progress faster. The gameplay is very simple as the god you can pick up materials in one location and put it down somewhere else to get the people from totem to totem then to the exit, it plays much like a puzzle game for the most of it and not very much a god simulator like 'sim' series which was a little bit of a let down to me as I felt I had too little control over any thing even moving the earth. The control system on the Pc is the worst so I had to get out my ps3 controller to even play the game with getting annoyed at controls once I done this it was quite easy showing how much of port it was to pc ignoring the fact it came out 3 months after the console version. Above I also mentioned how little control I had over moving stuff mainly with the water mechanic I wanted to make a deep lake so that water "stores" the water and make rivers more easily, this is because of they way that when you place the material down it spreads out very quickly dispersing making more than half of the materials wasted.

I know I have not made multi paragraphs but this is because I could not make it into concise paragraphs as it is such a short game with very easy to understand controls and story. I have got a few new games to review that are FREE GAMES as we all like free games until next time Slice of Kris out.

Heroes Might and Magic VI; Dead or alive we are all gullible

2012-01-22T06:03:00.000-08:00

History of Heroes of Might and Magic

Origin

Heroes of Might and Magic VI is the latest in the series that has had a lot of changes since it's origin with the might and magic role playing game, who's lore then lead into the Heroes series which is mix of strategy and rpg which is gives it extremely long game time. The IP it's self has been past from developer to developer keeping the same formula yet sometimes missing what made the series really great first was The new world company which was owned by 3DO which was what THQ is today makes pretty much anything until the forth title. These were very unique games each progressively improving on gameplay and the formula until heroes and Might and Magic 3 which is the best Heroes game made being both balanced and expansive with choice. Then the entire series went into decline with the 4th game with a bankrupting company disappointing the cult of fans. Ubisoft then bought the IP for 1.5 million dollars comparing that to the worth of Call of Duty is chump change.

Under new management

Ubisoft's first crack at the series showed how much trouble this series is to make as it is hard to balance and keep the game enjoyable the game still managed to get 2 expansions showing that the love for the game was still there but still had not reached the same caliber as Heroes 3. Now Heroes 6 is out by a new developer under Ubisoft's Black Hole Studio a dreadful name for a studio cause it seems like where thing go to end but this Heroes game seems to be able to compete with Heroes 3 with the improvements out weighing the things that are missing from the game. I know that this history was a little long winded and I have left out all the backstory's and other similar games inspired by this game might make a full history of post when I have more time to research.

yes this is not my picture but it is a really good one of all the Griffin kids and their dead dad

Gameplay

Heroes and Might and Magic 6 is set in a world with orcs, elves, demons, and the undead like you would expect a fantasy game to have with heroes leading and army against other nations in all out war, with as the general controlling your economics, armies and alliances (although alliances can only be made at the start of the match if play against humans alliances can easily be made if only temporarily). The army verse army battles can show intense skill from not losing any men to winning a battle against the odds, are incredibly rewarding picking the precise spell combination to shatter your opponents strengths and turn them to a weakness. As above I have said this is a Strategy RPG this is because as your hero improves so does the army he wields with unique skill tree giving numerous options for your unique taste the strategy comes in with the combat and even manoeuvring your armies so that you can catch your enemies off guard or to fight on your terms and management of unit production and construction so that you benefit the most.

Dead dragons cannot wait for alive ones

Story

The story in this game is hard to review as each campaign is 4 parts and each part take about 4-8 hours to beat I am 50 hours of gameplay in still have no gotten halfway through all the campaigns. I recommend that you beat the tutorial campaign as it gives you all the backstory for the entire game I have beaten the Undead campaign and am halfway through the Haven campaign which are the humans and after beating the Undead campaign first it spoiled some of the story of the haven when they intertwined. The base gist of story is the duke of Griffin had four children then his wife left to find her brother, then the bind twins predicted the return of the demons in the great eclipse the emperor ordered the duke of Griffin and the duke of Wolves to stop fighting ordering a wife for the other then 3 years later 3 months before the great eclipse the dukes fight again. Then the duke of Griffin's daughter kills him which sets off the entire plot about who is the true mastermind behind the return of demons and manipulation of minds to kill people I will explain the in deep the story line with lots of spoiler because I have a good feeling none of you will play this game.

Graphics

The graphics in this game are not super awesome graphics but they will not make your vomit that is about nice short segment right.

This what the battles looks like

Final Words

This is not a game many people will like but if you like Risk and Dungeons and Dragons mixed together you might like this game but if you do buy it do not get it for the campaign or single player get it so you a and a group of friend can sit down one night and play 8 hours or more on one map trying to beat each other to a pulp. If you do get together to do this make sure you also have other games to play as some people may get eliminated very quickly and people tend to take 20 minutes to do their move times that by 6 people you get the drift. Have not found a new game to review but when I do I will but I do have some smaller games I bought over the Christmas break to fill this gap until my next bigger game buy until next time Slice of Kris out.

Uncharted 3 Drakes Deception

2012-01-19T06:46:00.000-08:00

This is the third game in the Naughty Dog series Uncharted and it may be the last not because it is a bad series but because it has run it's course in things to do. Uncharted 1 you versed pirates, Uncharted 2 you versed mercenary's and Uncharted 3 you verse the entire English secret service which means if they do make a forth game it will have to be drake verse the entire world.

New Features

Unlike the previous uncharted game they wanted to make the fighting more cinematic from picking up near by items to hit people with them and gave the enemies more health so that they seem more on par with Nate when you fist fight. The location changes a lot more than I would like so you never really feel in twined with the environment your about to fight in just so they could explode it sink it chase you out with pissed off giant spiders. Last new thing is no new supporting cast member ohh wait there is Charlie but they just expect you to ignore the fact that they do not introduce this character or anything about his past like they did with Nate's previous partners in crime. Now on with the review and I can tell you what a actually think about this game.

Story

Drakes Deception's plot revolves around Drakes past and all his relationships sort of deteriorating over his obsession on trying to find the treasure not caring for his own safety which puts his friends in danger and we repeat this phrase "why do you care". It starts with explaining that Nate's necklace with the ring on it is one half of some decoder to some super weapon just because it always has to be some super world ending weapon this then leads him to a really old house in France and a old castle in Norway or some place as all random castle look the same gray and lots of water. This then leads to a sick Drug trip in Arabia best scene in the game yardi yardi yarda plane a plane blows up and you end up in the desert fighting with secret tribesmen then obligatory overlord boss fight at the end. None of this story holds together though because unlike the previous games there are way to many location changes so you never get to explore an area without enemies then come back later in the dark and their are enemies everywhere or enemies everywhere when you first come there and no enemies when you come back for the clue you did not know was there at the time.

Gameplay

There is a lot more stealth combat ohh and that whole new Features raps this section up but still same cover based shooting regenerative health as this Uncharted is famous for. Oh fine I will also say unlike my least favourite game series Assasscreed(Assassin's Creed) the parkour is fantastic and realistic in most cases with the random jump that seems stupid, but also leads me to one of my most hated things the scripted climbing materials breaking behind Nate he even points this out at the very beginning "this pipe should hold my weight" come on guys we know your going to make bend or break try surprising us with it not breaking for once. The stealth scenes and gun fights are so much longer and more annoying with the bad choice of either stealth kill ten guys who will see you or fight thirty guys armed to the teeth every time a stealth section comes I cringe. Their are some great new puzzles involving the best lighting I have seen in a game to date and made me have to think for a little bit over just solving it by accident on first try my favourite one being having to line up the pieces to form a shadow man on the wall.

Graphics

As much as I did not like the location changing every thirty seconds they did a fantastic job creating these set pieces then exploding them I mean it is just like Minecraft and we all love minecraft or at least used to by that I mean making huge structures then blowing them up with TnT cause that is just how we roll. (I just noticed in the last sentence I was writing with sort and an announcers voice in my head my bad back to normality.) Every in-game graphic cut scene was done with motion capture suits this includes those mini cinematic fights that I hate so much as I am gray-scaled screen and want to get back to my safe safe cover. The environment effects are decently animated from storms meaning SAND STORMS also as I have stated above in gameplay the lighting in this game is fantastic giving it a very cinematic experience which is what this game is all about from camera angles to acting and story like most people have compared this game to a summer blockbuster by Michael Bay which is a very accurate description.

Conclusion

In the end Uncharted 3 is a great end to the series but I much preferred the pacing in the first Uncharted game, I expect big things from the new game series coming out by naughty dog also I am alive comes out very soon it is an intense survival parkour gritty post apocalyptic game I defiantly recommend this game on your to buy list this season. Going to be doing a part review with Heroes VI Might & Magic because the Campaign is so long not because the story is long just each map takes about three hours beat. Until next time Slice of Kris out cya guys.

ABOBO'S BIG ADVENTURE

2012-01-13T18:55:00.000-08:00

If ever in your life you were a fan or a hater even if you just know 1 game on the original NES this flash game by newgrounds is the game for you. It is about a boss character in double dragon that gets beaten on a conveyor belt by the main characters very easily. This game then has abobo travel through a lot of NES games to get back to the double dragon world parodying many of the most annoying features of games like the electric seaweed in ninja turtles to bloopers in Mario over all a very fun game with entertaining animation and programming.

so give it a go ABOBO'S BIG ADVENTURE until next time there are a number of game reviews in the works including some classic game reviews.

Slice of News 7/01/2012

2012-01-06T07:32:00.000-08:00

Been a while since I did a news post and a lot has happened since last one so time to get the news.

Gaming

First off PSP Vita has not been doing too well since release in Japan considering how powerful this handheld is it is a little disappointing in it's second week it sold less than the original psp and Nintendo 3ds resulting in a possible price cut in less than one month. It was priced at around 400$ US which is about the same as PS3 right now so it is plane to see why so many are not buying it as it over priced for a handheld which is not a phone and having the same niche market as a touchpad. In other news Star Trek mmo has gone free to play as of Friday the 8/01/2012 which is just slightly in the future of releasing this following the trend of micro transaction mmo's showing that free to play model is the choice for mmo's yet star war is not I give it about 2 years before it changes. Speaking of Star Wars mmo it has 350,000 concurrent subscribers since it's release in December going with sales figures super meat boy from newgrounds has 1 million units sold 3ds has 4 million unit's sold since it's release some time of the middle of last year lets say June. In SOPA(stop online piracy act) news many game studios are removing their support for it big media studios are still for it though. Speaking of piracy here is some of the most pirated games of 2011 Crysis 2 (3,92mill) CoD:MW3 (3,65mill) Battlefield 3 (3.5 mill), FIFA 12 (3.3mill) and Portal 2 (3.2mill) so you can kind of see why gaming studios want SOPA just something not as drastic as SOPA.

Entertainment

A tv shows are starting back up again and the line up for spring has been set out my most noted starting in January 30 rock and Sherlock returning; March Cougar town and Archer returning; April Bob's Burger and Game of Thrones returning and not yet given a date The Avengers Earth's mightiest heroes there are more but these are the ones I care about. Movies coming out early 2012 are not many but Puncture with Chris evens (captain america), Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Daniel Craig (James Bond) The Muppets with Jason Segel (Marshal from How I Met Your Mother), and lastly Batman Dark Knight Rises with Christian Bale.

That is about all the news I care about I could try and find out more about technology coming out and new films starting production but I am not fully interested in doing that until next time I hope you enjoyed this Slice of News.

The Binding of Isaac: basement edition

2012-01-04T05:50:00.000-08:00

About the Publisher

I recently got this game on the steam sales for four dollars this game is another game in the series of games being released by newgrounds which is an online flash hosting site and they have published several HD versions of their better flash games first was Alien Homid which was a side scrolling shooter like metal slug. Next was a game called castle crashers which is a four player side scrolling beat'em up like battletoads or double dragon except it has great RPG element that round out the experience. Then they released Super Meat boy which is a intense platformer with Mario influence this is the hardest platformer and a very well made game finally they have released Binding of Isaac which is rouge; Zelda 1 dungeon type of game.

Gameplay

Binding of Isaac is a high replayability game with a twisted storyline with the gameplay telling the entire story which is a staple of how well a game can do this it has a random generator for everything in this game which is the main reason for the replayability. There is four RPG elements range, damage, attack speed , movement speed and health there are also numerous number of items that upgrade these elements or give your character a special attack there are too many of these but I can divide into a few groups. First group is bullet manipulators that change your "tears"(I will explain this soon) to different types of attacks usually that enhance your damage, next is food which upgrades your max health there are also items that reduce your max health. Most of the items though manipulate your RPG elements either positively or negatively they also change your cosmetic appearance then there are the items that give you a special power either active ability or passive abilities. Lastly their are pills or tarot cards which do any number of things both good and bad and they change each time you restart the game so do not rely on remembering what stuff does what. In Binding of Isaac there are also bombs and keys so that you can open chests and doors or advance through the area but not essential to win the level. In each level their are 5 different areas plan area with monsters to defeat before you can progress, secret area which gives you a random stuff, game area which has mini games in it either defeat monsters or gambling, 7 deadly sins boss area (just a mini boss), gold item room it is a safe room but contains a power up item in the centre lastly boss room which contains the boss you must defeat to progress to next level these are all randomly generated the difficulty of them depends on what level you are on.

Story

Now to explain how this game's gameplay tells a story as you play first is the how you defeat enemies by crying at them shows that the protagonist is in a unfriendly situation the mini bosses seven deadly sins show that he is destroying his own emotions next is the item that improve him usually cause bodily harm or make him look even more depraved for example his mother's lipstick he places it on his lips and it makes him shoot faster meaning he is crying even more than before and the food that he eats is usually dog food with caption of dinner under it. Each of these things reflect that this child's horrible living standards with as much as a cut scene next is between each level their is a tiny cut scene used to hide loading time but in each ones they show someone either neglecting him or teasing/bullying him now the last peg in the great design of this game is at the end of the intro cut scene you see a naked boy pin a peace of paper to the wall and smile which shows that none of this game is real it is an escape from his even worse life. For such a small game to have such clearly coded stuff is fantastic and I would love triple A games to do the same in their games I know that this is a lot harder to do because they do not have a single man mindset for the entire game.

Summary

I do recommend you get The Binding of Isaac it is fun and addicting game that is both hard and fulfilling a much better game than I expected I have told myself that newgrounds may be a bad site but the polished diamonds from it are great as every full port flash game to product game from them have been fantastic. I have been playing Heroes 6 a lot this will be the next game triple A game I review and if you can help it do not buy Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale it is the worst made game ever but u want to review it because it is so bad and it shows how not to make a game and allows me to vent untill next time enjoy this Slice of Kris.