Sunday 31 October 2010

Fallout: New Vegas...Glitches Encountered...

A week ago, I mentioned in one of the posts about some F:NV glitches I came across..I took screenshots to post later but I couldn't find them on my computer anywhere XD But thanks to Sophie, I've managed to find them! Here are a few of them!! :D

Just a quick post, thanks again guys! :D

Daz-Noob, happy gaming!



Ceiling wants NOM NOMS!
You alright up there? :D


Nice Mac you have there...

Wait a second...

















Friday 29 October 2010

Zombie Story Intro... [Non-Game Related]

Heya guys, just thought I'd post something fresh up on here and a little bit different to expectations. A little while ago I started writing a little zombie story, only got as far as writing the intro (Took the intro of Outnumbered for it as well :P), but I thought I might as well post it on here, so if anything was to ever happen to my computer, I've got it safe here! So if your bored and fancy a little read, here you are! :) 

Daz-Noob, happy gaming!

P.S more gaming posts coming up soon, going to be covering Red Dead Redemption as I've recently finished the main quest, so gonna write about that for a bit :D 

It was midnight. I had just arrived back home from a night out in town with the usual lot. Nothing really special happened, had a few beers, and cracked out a few jokes, nothing new or special. Barely even got any laughs, let alone giggles due to my jokes. Ah well, none the less eh? Anyway, this is a story around about how I and six other strangers managed to survive through hell or what they like to call a “government testing gone wrong”, well read on and decide for yourself what you believe it is.

Just your average Saturday night with the girlfriend, I had just arrived back from the shop with the bread and milk for the morning; I can’t miss toast and a strong coffee any morning. Once I had put everything away, hung up my coat, I could finally sit down with my girlfriend and put my feet up. We had decided to have a night in together rather than going out into town or having friends over, so we ordered a take away pizza and got some beers in, oh and also the latest horror film on pirate DVD, cheap and cheesy I know, but who cares eh?  We put the film on and started munching down our pizzas. Things between me and her went smoothly, there was some talking, some kissing and some cuddles away from the scary bits. It was a very nice night in, and one of which was one of my favourite nights with her, but not to my knowledge at the time, my last night with her.

After the film was over, it was coming close to eleven and we both had to be up early or else the dog would end up tearing our bedroom up and shitting everywhere. This was an incident that had occurred one too many times due to oversleeping.  I went into the kitchen to put the beers back in the fridge when I heard some yelling and screams. I peered through the kitchen window curtains to see what all the commotion was about. Typically it was our next door neighbours arguing with each other again. The wife’s shrieks were so unbearable and were hard to even understand what the woman was trying to say. I thought it would be a good idea to crack the radio on, to avoid even hearing the screams. I now know why the radio was so hard to get working now, but at the time, I couldn’t receive any radio signal at all. I was convinced it was broken and suggested to get a new one to the girlfriend, but her being her had to prove to me as well as herself it was not broken at all. She fiddled around for around thirty minutes, even taking it apart at one point until we finally got a signal, but what we were about to hear was the start of things to come. It was a very weak signal and we could barely understand what was being said. We finally managed to get a perfect signal where we could understand what was being said.

“The virus has completely devastated over one hundred and fifty of the world’s major regions, and it is spreading rapidly. At this point in time we know of only one way of killing the creatures, destroying the brain. Be on the guard of any loved ones who may have recently been under any contact with the infected and if you find yourself in a threatening position, please, do not hesitate to act. Again, this is not a test, this is not a joke. We, as a species, are over-whelmed. We are outnumbered”

I looked at my girlfriend and she looked back over at me. The message played itself again and again and again. It wasn’t stopping. We were confused about what we had just heard and whether or not we had picked up a prankster’s radio station trying to be a smart arse. It was coming up to half twelve now, and we knew we had to get some sleep. We shut off the radio, the TV and the lights and went to bed. We spoke a little more about the message; she was confused and scared about what it could have meant. I just kept reassuring her that what she had heard was a complete fake and a joke. I told her everything would be fine and that we will report it to the police in the morning. She was clearly upset but agreed to leave it until the morning. She closed her eyes and I watched her sleep for the very last time. 

Tuesday 26 October 2010

New Vegas General... Bit of Minecraft...Future posts...

New Vegas General....[Spoilers Ahead]


Well well, here I am again writing about New Vegas, this just going to be a bit more general when it comes to talking about this game. Hope you guys aren't getting fed up with me chatting on with New Vegas in every post so far, but it is the main game atm :P (Look below for information about future posts!) Anyway, moving on to the game, I've finally made it to the Las Vegas strip and I've gotta say I'm quite impressed with the way the developers have done it! I was worried in case they had made it look like they'd focused most of their development time on this area...but tbf, they've made it look great! The place is destroyed, but the families which have moved in have done up some of the casinos and the surrounding areas in the Strip. Over all,I'm so far quite happy with area of the Strip! Moving on to the casino's, I'm quite disappointed with them. The trailers seem to give off the wrong impression of what they actually are in the game, you see a lot of people walking around drinking, hitting on hookers, and gambling, but upon my first arrival, there was hardly any of this going on! It just didn't look as lively and didn't really give the feeling that your in a casino! Not what I first expected, but hey it's okay I guess. Another MASSIVE disappointment I found with the casino's was the lack of gambling games. There is blackjack, roulette wheel and slot machines. That is all, I thought they'd at least have games of poker going on at least, but nothing to be found but those three games. So much for Sin city I guess...Overall..I'm not particularly impressed with the Strip and what it has to offer to me, sure there are a few nice quests to do around, you meet some interesting people, and I've heard you can get a companion from the outskirts of the Strip! I might add more later thoughts when I've done the game and done everything I can around the Strip, but first impressions aren't doing too great!

Haha, felt like I've yapped on a bit about the Strip and this was meant to be a general about Las Vegas, not a complete opinion of the strip...Ah well! Btw, I'd like to point out, that I think I've found one of the best companions in the game, they literally can take out so many NPCs in so little time, so usually I just leave all the work to them!! If you haven't found them yet, I'll give you a clue for those who are seeking them...They are an ex First Recon in NCR. They are extremely useful tbf...(God it's hard trying not to give their gender away XD)!

I'll leave it at this for now...I don't want to give too much of the game away and plus I just wanna talk about other games more now!! So I might come back to this again in future, but probably not any time this month again.

Minecraft....Pixels....Diamonds...Buxville....


When first introduced to this game, I think anyone would shove this game aside...Why? Because looking at it gives you no appeal what so ever (I mean pixels, come on, that's so 1980!!). Well that is until your hand is on the mouse and keyboard!This game is highly addictive and a hell of a lot of fun if you have the right imagination for it, because the possibilities are endless with this game! You are able to build whatever you so wish to! (I was shown last week of a cannon which fires pigs into space!!) Many people have built some hugely hard working pieces of work in Minecraft, many of which can be found on YouTube, things from as far as building their castles, to roller coasters to even the world itself. If you don't believe me, go check it out yourself!

This game also offers a chance to play offline or online multi-player where you can go on a world with your friends and get to building whatever you want. There are many current servers which are designed for role players, projects or people who just want to hang out!  Currently I've joined a server which is for all sorts of reasons, people can sometimes role-play on it or just go on to hang out with their friends. Personally, I really enjoy playing on this server, the host has done a great job with bringing in the right plug-ins for Minecraft and made this server a total enjoyable experience while playing.Why? The server has it's own currency which actually works rather well, court sessions, jobs such as Warlocks, Shopkeepers, Reclaimers, a huge city and plus a bunch of other little villages! This all builds into one huge community where players are able to make decisions for themselves or to help their city, sometimes to even destroy opposing villages! Either way, it's a really fun server to play on, and I would recommend it if you play the game! In order to play on the sever, you first have to be white listed. Search on the community forums for Buxville, send in your application and wait to be accepted! It couldn't be any simpler.

With Halloween approaching means Minecraft is getting a Halloween themed update which I am definitely looking forward to! Being able to explore the realms of "Hell" while fighting off fire ball launching monsters should be a quite eventful playing experience!! Also along with this, come 6 confirmed new blocks! It has been said as well that some of these blocks will have their own individual functions, but these have not been told to the public yet! Worries on our sever at the moment though are what is going to happen to the world with this upcoming update, is the world going to be extended for room for the new blocks? Will the world be cut into for the new blocks? Or will the world be reset for the new update? Either way, I don't really mind, this Halloween is going to be a fun one!

Psychedelic Mushroom Head FTW!! 
All in all, if you haven't bought this game yet, I advise you buy it, it's still in Alpha, the offer is 50% off the full price, so it's down to £8.90 something, this is also a one time payment and all future content is free! A big well done to Notch for his success on this game and a shout out to Dan for introducing me to the game !! :)











Future Posts

First off, I'd like to give a big, massive thank you to everyone who has given me support so far! My blog has reached over 130 views which I am really chuffed with! I've had many positive responses through Facebook and comments IRL! Tbf, I never thought I'd stick to this, but the responses were too great to be lazy and not bother! All I ask is for your continued support and if you see something you don't like, let me know or just throw water melons at me! Thank you again everyone <3

Regarding future posts and where I am aiming to go with this blog, a lot of it has been about Fallout so far, I'm going to take a short break from writing about Fallout and move on to other games, I've already got a few more in mind which I want to write about, but I won't reveal which ones yet. In due time, I will be writing a review about Fallout: New Vegas, hopefully might be my first out of many! I am aiming to do a lot with this blog, hopefully might expand some day so it's not just about games I've been playing but maybe more things :) We'll see someday I guess! Until then, I hope you have enjoyed reading the blog, sorry it was so long this time! Next one shall be up hopefully either Thursday or Friday!! Happy gaming!!

Daz-Noob 


Saturday 23 October 2010

New Vegas, Atmospheric Music, Factions, Glitches....[MILD SPOILERS]

Heya guys. Just a post telling you all, just how far I've got with New Vegas since I got the game...which isn't very far at all after 10 hours of game play so far :P

Well picking up from where I left off last time which was the starting town, I've managed to complete a few quests around there and moved on to some newer places to see what the rest of the game offers...It didn't take too long to encounter the one of the two main factions, the NCR (New California Republic)!! They seem to have a few outposts around the wasteland so far, not encountered a main base or any high end leaders but from what I've seen so far they seem pretty alright..Nothing spectacular about them. Their outposts especially in on part does have a nice something something, it's nothing MASSIVE but it does look pretty cool, I'll let you guys find out yourself's :) Given some quests by them, done them, one of which introduced me to the opposing faction, Caesar's Legion...

First impressions upon seeing these guys... HOLY SHIT, don't let the name fool you, these guys are a bunch of bondage fags dressed as Romans, these guys are serious business. Seeing one of their "arts" of work while being introduced will leave you with a nice touchy feeling, if you've got a dark side to you. There isn't much I can really talk about with these guys apart from that, they seem to do whatever it takes to get the job done, and they will definitely leave their mark one way or another in ways you can't imagine. One thing I would love to express is the music being played while meeting these guys, it is probably one of the greatest atmospheric sounds I've heard in a game in a while, it leaves you so tense and in ways scared at what is going on. Proper demonic, dramatic tension and willy tingling atmosphere!! I'm super serial people, you will love this small but yet great piece of part of the game which will definitely leave you wanting to come back for more, even if it is just for more exploration!

Quick mention also, I've managed to acquire my first companion in the game, not going to say where or how you get this companion! Also got the achievement for getting first companion (Whoo!). The companion interface is also one of the new implemented features to the game which seems to be really useful for when I get into action with the companion ( ;) ). No, not that way, but I do wish for some. You are able to change tactics, give/take items, heal, walking distance, wait or follow. They've definitely improved a hell of a lot on the way companions work in the game which I am happy to see :)

Last thing I'll talk about is my first encounter with a few glitches, first one was one of main dudes had is head stuck in the ceiling and was running in mid-air (I assume the ceiling had epic nom nom moment), but it was wacky!! No idea if this had been fixed yet, but was quite funny to see tbf... Second glitches I have seen is NPCs walking into object while they walking, such as barrels and rocks, and just getting no where!! They are just walking into them with no intention of going around it, "BLOODY ROCKS! HOW DO THEY WORK?" they must be thinking?! Another funny glitch was quite amusing, was while visiting a lovely NCR post, drinking some coffee and having a cigarette, I looked over and noticed a man typing on THIN AIR!! I looked around and he had got a trend going, everyone was typing on thin air! There were no computers but these guys must've loved computers so much, they'd have to imagine a computer so hard for it to actually be thee, but to no avail for them, it wasn't happening! Either way, I assume these glitches will get patched soon, so these guys can get their way around these rocks and the NCR can finally get their computers for interwebbing!

Anyway, that'll be all for now, I'll post again in a couple of days discussing hopefully some different games and  let you guys know how further I've got with the game!!

P.S I did take screenshots of these glitches, but Fallout saved them to a location I can't find, I assume this is something to do with it being a steam product, hopefully though, I'll find them soon and post em up for LOLs soon.

Til next time :) Buhbye with another Fallout post <3
Daz-Noob, happy gaming!!

Friday 22 October 2010

First post....New Vegas 394/3400...Leauge of Legends...

RAGGGA GGAGGAGA

Wowwwwwzaaaaa. First post going up, so hopefully gonna make this one a worth one of looking back on at a later date if I ever remember this :) Having this blog just to keep sort of a gaming diary going on, I mean people might be interested, they might not be, (more likely) either way, am still going to post shizzle ;D such as random events, glitches, happy moments, achievements or whatever I feel like XD!!

NEW VEGAS LADDDD


Well, yesterday I got the collectors edition of Fallout: New Vegas for the PC costing my mother £50!! Not bad for it's contents either! Graphic novel, DVD making of, platinum poker chip, 7 poker chips, each designed from the casinos featured in the game, a pack of playing cards and the shoe box thing it comes in! ( Just had a fight with Holi)...........ANYWAY, got the game delivered 21ST October, 1 day for release, all hyped and ready to play, but noooooooooo bloody Steam said "No, no, your a cock soooo wait a day until the release to play"...

¬.¬ Soo I had to wait until 1AM to finally play the game, eventually got on to it in the end after reading the graphic novel (Tells you story following up to New Vegas). First impressions, wow, the intro cinematic was really nice, bit boring with comments on war AGAIN "War...Never changes". As if the developers can't come up with any new dialogue for intros anymore.. Still, started the game, and was instantly WOW, the graphics looked sort of cartoony on the humans, and BOOM HEADSHOT. Wtf just happened? I just got shot? I start the game and I'm dead already? Nahh...You get saved by some doctor dude (Epic head spin glitch FTW), sort your appearance and attributes out and off you go into the wilderness for a little Fallout time. Instantly, you can see the LARGE similarity with Fallout 3, but don't let that put you off playing the game. Thus far through playing this game has definitely got potential to live up to the epicness that was Fallout 3. I do a few quests around the starting village until I come across some dude who introduces the card game which is made in Fallout: New Vegas called "Caravan". Thinking WTF is Caravan? So..view the rules and I was :| Wtf is this shiz? I couldn't understand the rules at all. So I thought I usually learn by just doing it ( ;) . Played a few games and was still mind blagged, couldn't grasp what the hell I had to do to win! In the end I managed to finally complete a few games and acctually win them, sometimes without even realising what I'd done. Soon though, I sort of got the idea of how to win the games and started playing a few more games for the achievements. Got them in the end, so I don't think I'll be playing much more of Caravan unless I find the time form questing! This is probably my big notable part of the game so far, amongst other features such as new monsters which I've come across which are pretty cool tbf, new weapons and ammo types (Not tried much of these) and the new reputation system (again not noticed much of this).

So last saved game,I've come across 1 main faction and a small gang of convicts, I guess I'll see where that takes me from there. For some bragging rights and little jelly production, picture of the collectors edition will be posted with this blog too :)

LOL It's LEAGUE OF LEGENDS....


Came across this game a little while ago with a few college mates, hearing a lot about it on such sites like 4chan and other game sites mentioning it, we thought we'd give it a go :D By god it was a good move, this game has been a highlight of entertainment for quite a few gaming hours !! :P We've so far got three of us playing 3v3 (Me, Jon and Sophie), but hopefully be moving on to 5v5 if we manage to meet any other good players!! I don't reeeeeeallly know what to say about LOL except that it's just a great game and really enjoyable to play with your mates!! Urmmm we're not tooooo far from ranked matches which hopefully we'll be able to destroy some other teams and get some good rankage going!!

Butttt I CBA typing anymore ehhhhh!! :)
Probably add another post later on or something when I've got something to talk about I guess...and for anyone who ever reads this if they can be arsed, leave comments please :)

SEE YAH LATR!
Daz-Noob

New Vegas Collection
And beautiful Girlfriend Holi Goli ;) hehe