Yeahhhh... umm hi?

Welp looks like I'm out of excuses, honestly I'm just gonna casually write here every time I feel like it for now, I get this sudden mood changes that make me think this time I'll be inspired and keep writing but now I understand that's just bullshit. So hey now that I'm here might as well jump into it.

What have I done all this time? What have I been up to? Well, lot's of stuff really but mainly:

Yep, Dota 2, this new valve game caught my eye about 6 months ago, I only played it because a friend of mine had an extra invite so I decided might as well give it a try, "I'm sure it's gonna bore me anyway" boy was I wrong.

Being my first dota-like I came into this game knowing absolutely nothing and started to make my way up the trench, lot's of flaming and retarded teammates later I was 622 hours in approaching fast to my many hours in 4 years of TF2 and in just about 6 months.

Well the fact that you're tied with every game and every game takes about an hour is pretty easy to log in lots of hours on this.

This game is the very definition of huge learning curve, every game you keep learning no matter how much time you've put into it.

These days I put less time into it, but those long vacation days with nothing to do sure went by really fast, if anyone is interested in getting in I might still have an invite or two laying around so contact me fast.

I recommend this game to everyone but I also warn you that you must enter prepared to suck really bad and to get flamed, with time you grow a tougher skin and realize why it can be so frustrating having bad teammates

Anyway I'll probably talk about a movie or a special series you probably watched by now, but for now I might even go play some Dota.

Half-Life 2, message to valve

I normally try to keep the games I review or talk about fairly new, or if they are not new at least not so well-known , so I can still give a somehow new opinion, but with games like half-life what can I say that hasn't been said already?

There is really no point on going through every detail of the game like thousand others already did over the years, but yesterday something different happened.

Steam users from everywhere united yesterday at 11Am PST to play Half-Life 2, calling the event "A red letter day". And this was done as a message to valve to remember them that the hype is still there and even more so than ever, with last year fake teases for Ep. 3 a lot of people started speculating again, and there's a rumor going around that we are finally gonna see some action this E3.


So with this red letter day I decided to talk a little about how I feel towards the series, but not so much a full review, since as I said, I can't really add much because almost everything has been said.

Personally my favorite game was the first one, the pacing, enemies and overall feel of the game was just perfect, and being one of the first games that tells you the story by actually playing through it and no cut scenes, was really something new back then, after that the HL2 series, which includes HL2, Ep. 1 and Ep. 2, supposedly there was supposed to be Ep. 3 next, but after so many years in development, people think it migh as well just be HL3, anyway the games fell revolutionizing again and I admuit there are about one or two sections that the game could be without, the game is still a perfect example of how shooters should be done, and of course with HL2 was introduced Source engine, which was and still is a milestone of gaming.

Basically, one of the few series I can pick up any day and start playing it all over again, a great addition to video-game history and hopefully HL3 won't be any less good.

With that I say good day, and enjoy the Super Bowl.

Portal 2 Review

So far I'm liking this movie/game review so I think I'll be alternating between the two making a review once every 2 or 3 days, anyway today's review:

So, in case I've been too subtle about it, I fucking love TF2, in fact I pretty much love most games by Valve, so since the only problem I had with portal 1 was it's shortness, when this was announced I was pretty excited, unfortunately I couldn't buy the game on release, but I just had to wait a couple of months for portal 2 to get new DLC and be on sale, note that valve is the only company I can think of that not only gives free DLC but actually makes the game cheaper.


So I'll just start off with the things I don't like, a lot of reviews said "this game was too easy compared to the first one" and I don't agree, because while it was not hard, sometimes you could be stuck the longest time over the most stupid thing, that feel when you have been trying to do something for 15 minutes just to realize the answer was right in your face doesn't compare to anything, so no it's not too easy, but it's too linear rather. And I'm not saying going chamber to chamber linear because that's what I expected when I bought the game, I'm saying that the non-portable surfaces in this game are ridiculous sometimes the puzzle is just finding the white wall to make the portal, the first time I played portal 1, specially in the last chambers I actually feel like there are a lot of ways to do the same puzzle, in portal 2 it may take you a while to do it, but once you do you realize that was the only way to go.
With that being said, the last chambers, right about the time you get the white gel, starts getting a lot better, since you can actually make more portable surfaces so you feel more freedom, and with that I move on to the next thing.

Characters, portal 1 had Chell and Glados and.... that's it, Glados was really funny and I certainly didn't expect the part where she tries to kill you the first time, but you can't really say any character is brilliantly written in portal 1, in 2 however we start off with Wheatley, and god I can't help but to laugh at most things he says. He is just so well written and has a brilliant VA, some goes for Glados and Cave Johnson and that makes it so that at almost every part of the game you are hearing an awesome character, the story felt much more immersive and well written.

I've also heard a lot of people complain about the lenght of portal 2 saying it was still too short, and personally while would love more content, I really don't see how valve could make the game any longer without it feeling tedious and repetitive.

About the Multiplayer Co-op I only had the chance to play the first 7-10 levels with a friend, and I just haven't have time since then but it's really fun, you can just play with a random stranger but playing with a friend and screwing up together just had me laughing the whole time. 

And overall the game just feels good, even if you think some random chamber was too easy you still enjoy the game, or at least I know I did, definite well earned spot in GOTY and I would recommend buying it if you still haven't, the game went $7 on this Christmas sale so maybe you can trade a game with a friend for it.

I give it a 9.1/10