Ch1cken Sniper's Blog

Neglecting?

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:19:17 -0500

I feel like I’ve been neglecting my website/blog. School is quite the time-thief and to be honest I don’t know what I would write about even if I had the time. I guess I’m gonna start taking some notes while playing Skyrim and possibly write some sort of story based on one of my character’s progress through the world. If I have enough time, I’ll start getting a Lets Play /w Live Commentary started. Well, lets hope I have time.

Rainbow Six Patriots - Concept Gameplay

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:16:19 -0400

Battlefield 3 is at the Front Line!

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:31:30 -0400

For any of you whom don’t have your head under a rock, you already know Battlefield 3 comes out tomorrow, October 25th. Personally, I can’t wait to get my hands on it and risk failing this week’s tests because I’m too busy fighting my way through Arab skies and infrastructure. For those of you whom pre-ordered the game, remember that we will be getting the “Back to Karkand” expansion pack which includes some maps from past Battlefield games, like Karkand from BF2. Though if you got it at Best Buy, like myself, you’ll be recieving the “SPECACT Kit Upgrade” as well. Don’t work Gamestop fan-boys, you have one too, I just don’t remember what it was.

Torchlight 2 Coming Holiday 11'

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:24:54 -0400

Torchlight 2 is scheduled to hit the scene this holiday season, November or December, “Unless someone on the team dies.” says Runic Games, developers of Torchlight. From the looks of it, we have a VERY nice game to sit well-fed with until Diablo III comes out. Obviously, in the remote case that Diablo III isn’t that good, we have Torchlight II to fall back on.

Official Launch Stream of Ch1cken Vidya!

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:11:44 -0400

Tonight is the official launch stream of Ch1cken Vidya! I must truly say that I have enjoyed coding and designing the site and I am quite proud of the work I have done. I decided to go with the Minecraft theme because the idea had been floating around in my head and it would work best so I decided to just throw it in there and it works perfectly so “Hell why not?”.

Last night, I had an official pre-launch stream to test out the site and make sure everything was working nicely. The stream was a complete flop! The only people whom showed up where my family and a friend of mine. Everyone wanted to watch videos and so forth, which basically implies that people don’t know what the f*** a vidya stream is. My hopes for today are that I can get the word out to the right people and the stream goes well. The stream will be tonight, Sunday, from about 7PM to about 9PM. Why two hours? New episode of Dexter obviously!

http://ch1ckensniper.com/live

Battlefield 3 Launch Trailer

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:00:10 -0400

New Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Gameplay!

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:21:04 -0400

Even though the guy in the beginning was calling a Dragon Shout a spell, this gameplay is orgasmic.

New Streaming Site

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:24:04 -0400

Well guys and gals, it’s time for another little blog post. I’m in a hurry so this won’t be too stretched out like my other posts. Recently I have noticed that all of the vidya streams are upgrading their sites and making them look all fancy and shit so I’ve decided that I’m going to remake mine. For those whom don’t know what a vidya stream is, it’s a live stream that streams video games. Expect the new stream up by around Monday or next Saturday in the latest.

The Last Stand: Union City - A Good Flashgame?!

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:58:05 -0400

Hey guys and gals, it’s been a while since my last blog post. I’ve been caught up with school and studying for the PERT (Post-Secondary Education Readiness Test), the entrance exam to SAS (School for Advanced Studies) at Miami-Dade College. With a moment to breathe and enjoy some good old games, I stumbled upon something which I hadn’t seen in a very long while, dare I even say… Ever.

I can say that the way The Last Stand has progressed is worthy of saying that I’d pay to play it. In the first game, your basic goal was to survive x-number of nights. In between nights you could look for survivors, whom would help you during the night, or search for better guns. In the second game, you were able to explore around predefined maps, looking for weapons and such which used up an energy style system, and then during the night you would try and survive. The major point of the first two games was that you were tied to a barricade, which you had to try and protect from the oncoming zombies. In the third game, you play in a side-scrolling style, carrying weapons and using them like in the old games. But that isn’t the best part my friends, the best part is the RPG system which is in this game.

The RPG system in “The Last Stand: Union City” is the BEST one I have ever witnessed in a flash game. The depth and fluidity is just phenomenal, containing no room for argument what-so-ever. All I can honestly say is to go check it out for yourselves. Do not worry though, the three games don’t really have to do with each other so there is no tie-in story to worry about. Enjoy the game and let Con-Artists know that they have made a great game. Thank you for reading and enjoy the game.

Minecraft - Realistic Water?! Is that even possible?

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:50:00 -0400

Have you ever wanted your water to look so realistic that it made you ask yourself if you were actually playing Minecraft or was that Acid you took making you see the world all cubed and stuff? Well this mod is what you need my friends. Water Shader is a mod which basically makes water in Minecraft look like it does in the screenshot above. I must thank Yogscast for informing me of the presence of this mod. I’ll include the link to the mod and a link to MCPatcher.

Water Shader Alpha v3
MCPatcher v2.1.0_02

A Thing of Beauty #3 - RubeVidz

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:21:00 -0400

This man is an artist of the gaming world and his technique, in my opinion, would be Leonardo da’ Vinci in editing. RubeVidz takes a very quick game-play clip and extends it into a full-feature video with panning shots of the environment, the player, the opponents, the action moments, and everything but the kitchen sink. I truly must give him props, his videos have made me realize once more that videos aren’t always about the fast-paced “awesome” content. Here is the third video in his series “A Thing of Beauty”. This time, he takes to Call of Duty 4 to make us feel nostalgic. Damn did it work.

Training Magic and Farming Big Bones (RS)

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:52:24 -0400

Hello everyone! I’ve decided to approach this blog in a much different light than I had before. My philosophy for blogging involved releasing lots of extended content in writing terms but after trying to work that out for a while, I came to realize that isn’t as easy as it sounds when you’re a full time student and blogging isn’t your occupation. I’ve decided to release lots of shorter, but yet exquisite, content in order to keep the blog running at a much faster pace at which I can actually release content because it won’t require me to change my schedule one bit. The theory is “I upload as I go along in my life as a gamer.” This means the content will be released as things happen to me, as things are said in the gaming world, and so forth. No onwards to the actual purpose of this post.

So I’ve picked up Runescape completely now. I had picked it up earlier but then left it for a month or so since I was having a self discovery month during July. Now that I’m back in, my “Road to Swan Song” continues. Most of the time in game is being spent on the little island full of ogres to the east of Castle Wars, killing Ogres and collecting their bones. I’ve come to calculate that if I carry my chaos and air runes, and two lobsters, I can carry 24 big bones back to castle wars. 1k big bones will net me almost 350k in gold and the ropes that I need to get onto the island are cheap as can be at only 85 gp each, meaning that the relative 45ish trips it takes to get 1k will only take 45 ropes and the math is just dork work. Onwards! To grinding!

Moving forward in life

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:39:16 -0400

It’s one in the morning on August the thirteenth and I can’t seem to go to sleep. I tossed and turned in bed for the last two hours and honestly can’t get into that trance-like state you feel before you knock out for the night. Later today, or tomorrow depending on how you look at days, I have my first driving class.

On Monday I got my Learner’s Permit and opened my bank account. The same day I scheduled my first lesson with the same guy who taught my mom when she was pregnant with me, it almost feels like taking the same lessons twice. I find the most funny thing to be how my peers insist that driving before you have your permit is the way to go and “I already know how to drive.” I must object though, I’m not trying to oppose on freedom of parenting but I am insisting that letting your child drive before he’s been granted the permission to learn by law is just a bit crazy. I might as well not even get started about the whole bank account thing too.

After opening my bank account, I was told that my debit card and PIN would have to be sent through mail since I am under eighteen and blah blah blah. So after about a weeks wait, the debit card arrives. I understand that the PIN and card must be sent separately for safety reasons but why not send the freaking PIN first so when you get your damn card you can actually activate the damn thing and not have it sitting around in your wallet gathering dust. So I await the arrival of my PIN so I can call in and activate my freaking card. Anyways, thank you for reading and I’m going to see if I can catch some fucking ZzZs now.

CoD MW3 - Spec Ops Surivival Trailer

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:19:05 -0400

Officially my interest has been sparked for Modern Warfare 3. For one, if air strikes are used like in the trailer in multi-player then that means that you must be near the area where you wish the air strike to land thus making it sort of impossible to call something in somewhere either too far away or not in line-of-sight. Infinity Ward, keep throwing trailers like this my way and I’ll consider adding you to my Christmas list.

TF2: Sentry Sabotage (Video)

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:34:41 -0400

Corridor Digital has done it again with another amazing short. This video is the tale of a Sniper and Spy on the red team who are trying to get rid of an annoying and pesky Blue Team Engineer and his Sentry Gun. Why is it on here? It has to do with gaming and it does a very good job in doing so.

Fuck You Planking

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:14:19 -0400

This has nothing to do with gaming but it’s so funny I just had to let you people see it if you hadn’t already.

Minecraft - 1.7 Pistons Update Trailer

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:12:46 -0400

Fallout: New Vegas Lets Play?

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:31:00 -0400

I’m downloading a long extended list of mods for Fallout: New Vegas right now. I’m wondering if anyone would be interested in a Fallout: New Vegas Heavily Modded Lets Play. Let me know what you want/think!

Reblog: Back in the office, and some words on 1.7 and 1.8!

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:37:00 -0400

Reblog: Back in the office, and some words on 1.7 and 1.8!:

notch updated his blog with an entry about 1.7 and 1.8, and the concerning their relativity to the final release of the game in November of this year, 2011. Click here for the full entry on his blog.

After a few weeks out of the office (E3, then Italy, then F.3.A.R this weekend (great game!)), I’m finally back in the office. The chair is a lot more comfortable than I remember, and the office is overflowing with irony. While I was gone, we’ve hired another graphics artist to help out with…

TES V: Skryim - Gameplay - E3 2011

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:22:00 -0400