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Friday, July 25, 2014

Gonna do some serious news farming and come up with some nice loot soon

As the title states, I am gonna farm every nook and carny of the city and of the internet for stuff that would interest gamers and even more so my precious and gyani desi gamers. So imagine me next to a dumpster
thats just piece he got...we gonna get you guys 1000 such gaming news loots
with a shotgun about to fire and news/loot as good as eridium, rocket ammo, legendary ammo.. Or as the courier in the Mojave coming across a cave that is full of goodies (not that farming for loot/gaming news in real life is gonna be that easy but I am sure as hell going to give it a shot....






p.s   BTW I have always loved the fallout games the TES Elder Scroll series? meh not so much but when I saw it on steam for $4.99, I couldn't resist because $4.99 (around 300rs for an AAA game {at least production wise} is pretty OK) so if it turns out nice maybe I'll post my reviews and some lets play vids on skyrim) I know they been done to death but I am thinking of hindi lets plays








Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Another mundane humble Bundle comes out which wants you to pay for games in bundles of increasing price. Once again, there's games I haven't ever heard of and it has some games in the average collection you might want if your a hipster and show your steam/real friends that you play different sort of games and therefore are above them and another fixed tier with some more games which can be called nice at best....Here's the bundle and here endth the sarcasm

Because once again Humble Bundle manages to bring forth games that are a steal at the the prices they are being sold at and as a PC gamer I just find its Fckn AWESOME!!!

So here are the bundles almost exactly as they appear on the Humble Bundle website...
               
1. First up are games that you can pay for whatever you want even just a single dollar. (not below that misers) and here are the games Thief (E), Diakatana(N/A..looking Forward to), Mini Ninjas.(E)
 Anachronox (N/A..looking Forward to), Hitman: Code name 47 (half played..looking forward to finishing the job) & Hitman 2 Silent Assasin (N/P but know its an EEE..so looking forward to this one which has been on my play list for years...wow)

                                                                                                                                                          



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     Nosgoth Veteran Pack* (a F2P game but this game seriously is the real thing, like TF2 or Dota2, based on the Kanes Legacy Series Oh I so love it and the pc Raziel) a veteran pack in this amazing game is nothing I repeat nothing to scoff at... Battlestations Midway(N/P but heard good things about it) + more games to come as it clearly says. Sometimes those new games are garbage but sometime you hit the lottery with them. Trust me ;-)

                                                                                                                             
     Pay more than the average of $7.71 to unlock!



                                                                                                                          




        
    3. The Fixed price bundle - $14.99 which will get you access to the above games. Alll Cult (doesnt mean old per se) games I dont think they require any introductions, still if you haven't heard of them google or metacritic them)
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     Pay $14.99 or more to unlock!
                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                          
    PLUS THESE AMAZING TUTKES... NOW IF WERE YOU AND I DIDNT OWN AT LEAST 70&% of The Average pride bundle + the basic, I would have been off on http://humblebundle.com buying this bundle. The 14.99 bundle? Ah well its nothing ti tempt me to take out 15$ from my account  and pay to square and charitues but you know what my gf in newly into gaming, I just got this idea that I am gonna purchase the average price bundle for her. See you guys, I'm off to buy a bundle and so should YOU!!


    Edit:- boght just the humble Bundle a I already have quite a huge gaming backlog and I wanna finish thema or at least most of theml if noyradyu fomosj ,psu pf ou

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    *Nosgoth is a free to play pvp and other online modes of games based on the legacy of kain series. The Series is Ultra Brilliant and this Multiplayer is also brililliant. Getting a Veteran pack for this game is ABSOLUTELY nothing to scoff at                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                      























                                                                                                                                                

    Monday, July 21, 2014

    Skyrim 75% off for 4.99$ while legendary edition going for 13.59 meaning I'm finally getting Skyrim for PC as well

    All thanks to Quakecon which I talked about yesterday in my rant about Bethesda and Microsoft not releasing fallout3 and Fallout-New Vegas here in India, I failed to notice that among the plethora of great game bundles in Quakecon there was Skyrim too which has so far has gone on sale only once before on steam - during the recent summer sale I believe. Anyways, if you haven;t grabbed skyrim till now and want a legit steam version (if you know what I mean) with much easier mod-ability, go grab it now. As I am doing.
    This does it Steam is officially stealing from me



    Now, I know that the gaming community is all gaga over this game but to be honest I personally have had a lot of problem 'getting into' Skyrim in the past which is surprising considering how much time I spent in FONV(500 hrs at least) and FO3. I guess hacking blades and drangons + magic casting isn't really really my thing. At least not the first couple of times around. so I guess I will endeavor no try no not even that...force myself to go through the beauty filled world of skyrim, (who knows maybe I will start liking it like y'all gamers out there.


    Also, getting it on steam means my friends will see me playing it so my esteem goes up LOL but seriously installing mods isn't going to be the giant hassle it was and aybe modded I will like it, But no point getting Legendary edition now cos I haven't even completed.... hell played a few quests here and there (I did go up the mountains and learned the '"'"'"Thums'"'"'"'. As for comparisions heres both their tralers...look mostly composed of the same kinda stuff to me :D


    Wish me Luck my fellow Dragonborns ;)


    p.s In case you did not know Skyrim (Elder Scrolls 5) is and 3d Sandbox RPG what that basically means is that you are given a map within which you can freely wander about but so will other cteatures and NPC's (mostly neutral sometimes friendly or unfriendly non player controlled characters)

    Ah SKYRIM HERE I COME AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

    Saturday, July 19, 2014

    Moronic that fallout3 & New Vegas weren't released here in India

    I will get to why this happy thought came to mind on a a nice Sunday morning. But first....It's a happy Sunday and I wake up at 6 30, make tea for me and the family and leave em be and then come here sit on my desktop boot it up thinking of stealing some gaming time before the hubbub of the day swallowed me into itself and I tumbled and tossed (I wear a loose seatbelt) on this day's highway. While my mind is mulling over this the windows accounts page has opened and I log into mine, open blogger and straight away steam shows me this - there's a 75% off discount on one of the games that I have played for like 500 hrs  and loved so much - Fallout New Vegas. At first excitement fills me coz owning it on steam will allow me the convenience of a marketplace for mods (It has a marketplace right?)

    By the way mods for this game deserve a special mention, if the game didn't have a super excellent community which developed fantastic mods like Project Nevada to re-balance the game and toughen up your courier a bit if he/she has to survive the harshness of the wasteland. Nevada skies for the lovely effecrs,  EVE for essential visual enhancements, NMC's_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas about which the_name_says_it_all_doesn't_it?, Weapons mods expanded (WMX...love it) and many more honorary mentions. These mods here and their makers have enhanced one of the best games of this generation so much so that they made me stick to FONV for like a couple hundred more hours after my initial say 400 hours in to the game. Salute

    Ok back to when I saw this steam update and to when my thought went to the next ugly one, DAMN You Microsoft and Bethesda for not selling it here in India!!!! You see some of the suits at Microsoft (could be from India) might have known that Brahmin (as its written in English but pronounced Brahman at least in India) is a caste of people amongst Hindu's which has what at least 25 different cast's?!?!? and the suites probably felt that releasing a game like FO3 in India might get a negative backlash because of the whole cows being holy for Indians and giving them the name brahmin might upset some Brahman Indians (who are supposed to be upper caste people compared to say a dalit but who both peddle taxis, work in factories and what not in 2008 the year when Microsoft took the decision to not launch Fallout3 in India. Anyways, two headed cows being called Brahmins did not even cause a small stir in the pot that's our world and I bet not a single suite/dev at Bethesda or MS got an email ranting about naming mutated cows as brahmins. 

    Ok Fallout1 and Fallout2 are still on sale and so are some more games that have been the definition of cool at their time of release. So you can head on over to Steam here to check the quakecon discount yourself. You can also click on the image to go there.




















    Thursday, July 17, 2014

    My Favorite Game & Genre's

    lol so much going on
    And this is about my favorite ever game (series now) - Company of Heroes, back in the day I realized I was sinking too much into KW another (excellent rts) and I looked and found COH.... I had never had played the Dawn of War Series from Relic so didn't have an idea of cover system, retreats and sector capture but then I slowly understand each of these things in Company of Heroes, (those systems implemented better ofc)  for the first time I was playing an RTS that made consider the direction my units were facing, weather they were in cover and retreating (made super sense, why would a couple of soldiers who have lost 4 of their companions want to satay on the battle field) once retreated, you could reinforce your squads and if you made them survive long enough they would gain veterancy and like some other rts's, veterancy did make them better, pretty good gfx which still hold up today especially with ambient occlusion on. PLUS it had awesome real-stic combat as far as tank battles. It was so good I ended up putting more than 1600 hrs into it!!!!!!!

    As for Company of Heroes 2 its finally managed (like 8-9) montths after release has made a game whieh is if not better that coh1 then at least just as good.
    COH2 - A must play for rts/strategy fans n if
    u check metacritic know that only non russian opinions matter
    google the matter to know why

    I know its a trend for gamers (pc first and now console gamers too) to like old looking or sometimes pixelated (sword and sorcery and _____) but smartly made games. I myself have liked some of them viz imbo, hotline Miami, braid, super meat ball, SWAPPER and super meatball. But I'll admit I am a fan of good graphics + game play + story too which is why I love the Fallout series, Mass Effect games etc but still one of my favorite genre remains strategy games I dunno maybe I tried them young (after games like doom and keen but still) but first time I played Red Alert I was blown away, the over top  cut scenes, and then the actual game play. I then immediately tried command and conquer because I had heard cnc was like westwood's original rts and I really really loved it too. Sure I also played games like fallout and baldurs gate in those years too but strategy, rpg, racing and fighting games had become my favorite genres.
    Kanes Wrath


    And so after that introduction to how I developed my tastes for different genres of games. Later on I was privileged enough to play games like star craft (I was average online) and Warcraft two and three plus w3's expansion frozen throne, red alert 2 the cnc 3 and its awesome awesome expansion Kanes Wrath. Kanes wrath became an obsession with me and I did get quite a bit more than average in it online.

    And if your wondering why games like Civilization dont make my list its because I am not a great fan. Civilization5 and too some extent Xcom enemy unknown are very hyped ganes and just like other people people buy into that hype. 'A shite stad of affeirs' as Mark Renton says in transpotting and I cant change the mind of all the wankers who buy civ5 and sing praises for it

    and the classic
    Oh its so funny when gandhi declares war

    Wednesday, July 16, 2014

    Ok...long time no see huh...Lets talk Portal2 then

    Well I got busy with real life and Xcom then Civilization5 then Shogun2 then Limbo etc etc & ofc Portal2 my Favorite game of all time and a time sink for me even after all this time has passed since Portal2 released. There were other things getting in the way too and I when I decided I want to restart I wanted to do this blog/website on my domain gamergyanis.com the s in the gyanis is coz I have a couple of friends who have promised to me that they'd be very very happyy to lend some posts and other cool stuff such as videos and pics.

    So anyway when it came out I played it on my brothers account on steam and that game just blew me away. Portal 1 to me had been amazing enough to make or you could almost call it force my dad and sis to learn wsad + mouse style of gaming, (both x gamers before the era of half life2) and then show them portal, after I held their hands for a bit for the first couple of puzzles they both were addicted, couldn't stop playing about it nor could they stop raving about it.

    Then after a while portal 2 came out and anybody with a brain who's also a gamer knows what a top notch game it is. You could say it has a fantastic story, some very humorous comedy, romance [spoiler]companion cube[/spoiler], action (I'm different), plot twists just as you would say about a movie and then add to that brilliant game play based on a gun in your hand but to make portals and find ways to get to the next level [spoiler]glados[/spoiler] wants you to go through. Despite her very funny jokes I did come to love her for a while but by the end of portal 1 I hated her, Portal 2 I felt sympathy for the thing but it still wouldn't stop with her sarcastic quips LOL. Amd its here I will shamelessly I will promote my youtube by asking you to check out my portal1,2 gameplay video here.



    By the way if you are asking yourself why the talk about portal 2 now then its because I am doing another playthrough of Portal1 and Portal2 and even though I don't have a steady coop partner for the coop campaign or custom maps, its so much fun to revisit my favorite game ever.....



    Anyways if you come across this post and want to do the campaign with me  the coop I mean, do ket me know, we'll make it happen somehow......