Blog update

Tiny update of things:

Bloodborne- I didn't get a PS4 until a few months ago so I had to dreadfully sit by and avoid all things about the game so that I could enjoy the game fresh. Once I finally got my PS4 I looked into the game and it was still going for $70 and I just couldn't do it, so I kept an eye out for sales as much as possible. Eventually I found it down for $30 and picked it up instantly and played the hell out of it. What a great game. I would write down my impressions of the game but seeing as the DLC should be out in a month I figured I would wait for that and then give my final thoughts since chances are that will be the only piece of DLC to come for the game.

Overwatch- I hoped, as did many others, to get into the first beta wave but sadly doesn't seem like I did. Hopefully I will soon though, would be nice to change it up and get into a shooter since it's been quite a long time.

Battleborn- I am however in the Technically Test of Battleborn which is on the 29th, not sure if I got lucky or if a lot of people did but hey, it looks fun. Can't really do much with it because of the NDA but I'm looking forward to this game because it offers couch co-op and that seems to be a bit of a lost art these days.

Heroes of the Storm- Still playing this mostly, god I wish I could stream or make content but my computer is pretty old and don't know when I'll be able to update it but hopefully one day. It sucks that I have this huge write-up for Sgt. Hammer on matchups and hero tips but since I put it off for so long a lot has changed because of talent buffs/nerfs and new heroes and just feeling more experienced now than before. Maybe one day it'll get published lol

Heroes of the Storm: Rank 1!

This is a pretty useless post but I'm just excited

So I started playing this game about 5 months ago now.. Well actually I got into the alpha/beta fairly late and played the tutorial and wasn't feeling it so I didn't play anymore until the game officially released.

I came into this game with a I somewhat small MOBA experience. The only other one I had played was League of Legends and I played probably less than 50 rank/normal games there and only did bot games and ARAM.

I've really been enjoying this game for the 5 months I've been playing, it's just a lot of fun and much more easy going to play and the community for the most part is much more tolerable compared to what I see with most other games. I definitely recommend everyone to check this game out just because it's really fun and different.

I actually played just over 600 games of quick-match before even trying ranked play just because I wanted to make sure I had an acceptable amount of knowledge and experience so that I would fell prepared for the more competitive environment. I personally feel like this really helped me get to rank 1 as based off of Hotslogs I've been playing around a 3,500 MMR in quickmatch which I believe is mid-level rank 1. I also played 200 quickmatch games on the EU servers for no particular reason, playing 95% Sgt. Hammer and got to 4,000 MMR. I decided to try ranked out on the EU server and did decently, getting played at rank 7 I believe but after playing another 7 games I gave up because the matchmaking just felt awful and got frustrated, thus quitting the server.

Undertale Mini Review

I saw this game getting a little bit of buzz over the last couple weeks so I decided to check it out since from what I'd heard, it was a very good and unique game. The game started off good right from the start, thinking I was in for a bit of a dark and twisted RPG game but quickly took a turn for the.. better? I think my overall disappointment was in the fact that the game just didn't turn out like I was expecting, being much more cheerful and a lot less dark. The character humor started off fine as well but by halfway through the game I was kind of sick of all the humor and awkwardness they seemed to bring and by the time I met the robot and Lisa Simpson dinosaur, I couldn't mash the 'A' button fast enough. I'd say these were my only gripes with the game though. I really enjoyed the battle-system as it was nothing I'd seen or played before so it was fresh and had a nice variety to it and also rewarded people for their abilities in the mini-game. Tied in with the battle-system is the way of playing the game differently with the lethal and non-lethal playthrough which is also nice. I also liked the bit of a twist of you being the bad guy in a way, something else I can't recall experiencing in a game before. The fact that I actually felt guilty for some of my actions in this game was impressive and does make me want to go through the game again with a cleaner playthrough. Aside from the unique gameplay aspects I will also applaud the soundtrack for being really nice and sets a good atmosphere for the game.

Overall it was a good game but felt a little underwhelming to all the hype I had been hearing about it, but I do think there is great potential. With a unique and fun battle-system, character choices, great soundtrack and interesting story, I think the creator could make an amazing game (possible sequel) with some more polished character writing and graphics.

7/10

Axiom Verge first play through impression

Found some time to play this game while taking a break from Heroes Of The Storm and I sure am glad that I did. This was a game that I don't recall how I heard about it, but I did have a chance to try the demo at a store when it the demo first came out and found it pretty interesting. I ended up forgetting about this game and getting distracted with other games when suddenly I randomly remembered it last week and quickly got it on steam.

Controls

I started out the game trying to use my cheap logitech controller that doesn't have any analog sticks and used a program to rebind the buttons to different keyboard keys since I couldn't get the game itself to recognize it. This worked out slightly but after getting multiple weapons I had a bit of issue switching between them so I grabbed my PS4 controller and went with that instead which worked out well so I recommend not being like me and trying to use a more retro-style controller or the keyboard because there is a lot of things you'll be doing. That was a small issue I had was that there was just a little too much going on with how many buttons are used so I would sometimes get confused and the main issue I had was once I got the dash I pretty frequently accidentally would dash, sometimes into enemies so it was a little frustrating. The other issue was with the quick-switch being L3 and R3, pretty much every time I tried to utilize this in the heat of a battle, I would accidentally open the weapon wheel and reassign a new quick-switch rather than switching. Mildly frustrating but not major.

Gameplay