Having finally gotten my hands on the fabled Gears of War. I installed it expecting much from this game! For starters it took about 30 minutes of Installation time! Having after waited that long and loosing a few hairs from my head, I finally went up and about only having to realize that the game constantly crashes on windows! Apparently microsoft's so called 'live' service running in the background with the game tended to crash pretty much after 2 minutes of game runtime. At times it would just crash while you went through the game menu!. Going through countless forums, the first suggestion I got to fix the live service crash was to install the latest patch! Having done that, microsoft's true color became apparent! They make stubborn programs! Windows Crashes, their other software isn't much helpful! 'Live' didn't feel like being left out! Infact it tried to take the lead and it probably would have but it failed due to some reasons I'll explore soon!.
Second suggestion that I got to fix the crash problem from a forum was to edit my registry and change some specific settings. Having that failed on me as well, I went whole heartedly to the next suggestion! Which was to replace some files in the GoW folder with some files on the Disc! 'Live' being as stubborn as it is came on top! I was beated, like a drunk old fool lying in an alleyway. My soul within me started to fade, as if the devil himself owned Microsoft who first brings down his opponent and then gnaw's away at their soul!
I simply could not stop there! There has to be a way! I kept telling myself and then through another hour of going through forums, I ran into a suggestion which changed my life. It basically stated, "When the live service crashes, don't click the close button. Instead switch to the game and keep playing!" and YURIKA! That is where 'live' failed to be the worst thing ever made by Microsoft!
Finally in the game! I started out, the controls were easy enough to adapt. Learning curve is about half an hour give or take! Starting out in the prison blocks, an old comrade comes to help you get out! The action in the game never tends to get old! The AI is smart! I kept wasting my grenades! Everytime I threw em, everyone just scattered! The PC version of the game has way too many AI bugs especially with your own comrades who follow you! They tend to get stuck in places or just go back and forth on a same spot! So your left to fight most of the fights yourself!
This game is just another one of the great shooter games that I have played. I believe it has been extremely overhyped by the media and the people! I give the game a solid 8/10. For starters it lacked weapons. There were only 5-6 Guns in the whole game! And your pretty much stuck with your first gun if you love the chainsaw that comes along with it! There only exist one type of grenade! The AI failures at time were also ridiculous on the PC version. Enemies stuck at places and just won't move or attack or make noises! Without killing those the mission would not proceed and you had to find angles and openings to get shots at it just to kill it so we could get on with the game!
Having played the game both the 360 version and the PC version, the PC version was more polished, adding much more luster to the enviornment. The great part about this game was that it used the Unreal engine! Having played Rainbow Six, this game did not seem much different from it besides that this was more grusome, there was so much more gore and yeah! there were aliens! why can't there be extra dimensional beings ever?!?! FFS get something new!
I bet the aliens in GOW are just humans who mutated. They pretty much looked like human and they were pissed off at the humans for dumping all their radioactive shit in the seas, rivers, sewage, dumping it underground.
P.S. For all the GOW Fanboys: GO GET LAID!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
21st December 2012 - Just another normal day....or is it?
Aliens, they always interest me! I read once that man used to be on this earth long before the evolution and birth of human's again took place! The story goes such that this all happened before as well, but such that back then humanity was scientifically and technologically far ahead of where we are right now! They eventually restored earth to it's former glory and took everything with them out into space in search for answers!
Ironic as it may be, the story that is. One simply cannot turn down the possibility of such an event! I ask the very same question myself! Have we had infinite resources, producing zero pollution, having the technology to go out into space and having the technology to ward off the heat of the suns that exist out in the universe, having the technology to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole, what could stop us from going out and exploring?
Man is indeed a creature of curiousity! If there is nothing to stop us then why sit on earth when we can go see the universe for all it's magnificence and beauty!
The mayan's, having had nothing better to do then look at the stars. It is only theory but they might have stumbled upon some secrets left by the predecessors of mankind. Which helped them make their Mayan Calendar. There are alot of sayings about the Mayan Calendar, afterall their calendar is about to end on 21st of December 2012. One would say that such a coincidence is impossible but that is a topic for another day!.
The theories of the day holds that on the 21st Dec 2012, all the planets in our solar system will be in alignment! IF that is so, it's going to be one hell of a sight to see! Some say our ancestors will finally return back to earth with all their high tech and finally make the world a better place. The religious fanatics say that it'll bring upon their promised messiah who will bring peace and justice!. To me, it'll be just another day when I sit and laugh at the faces of people! why do you ask that I would do such a thing!
Back in 1999, alot of media attention was given to the people saying that the world will end on 31st Dec 1999. Some of the richest, dumbest people sold all of their property and gave away their money and went into the middle of a farm and waited there for the world to end! To their surprise they got screwed over BIG TIME! having lost all their possessions and valuables, indeed stupidity pays heavily!
21st Dec 2012 is going to be a day of lot of activity, some will await the coming of their Messiah, some say that the world will end on that day! some even say that rapture will happen on that day! even Judgement day!
As you might have read or not read but the poles of the earth switch every thousands of years! Our poles are about to shift as well and most likely within our lifetime! Some of the scientists reckon that the shift will occur on the 21st Dec 2012. How they reached to that conclusion is beyond me but I could not find any definite answer!
Also the problem with the pole switching is that since our brains work on electrical activity, the disruption caused in the magnetic field of the earth due to the poles switching will take us to a whole new world, the barriers of this world and the next world will break down before us and we'll end up in a whole new world! Also one more related problem with the poles switching with is in actual reality is a real problem is that the magnetic force that keeps the radiation away from earth from space, which can possibly kill us. That magnetic shield will be down temporarily while the poles are shifting, during this period the earth will be constantly bombarded with radiation! How dangerous would that be to humanity is not yet known to me! But can radiation be ever good?
I suppose we'll have to wait another 4 years to see what does the world really have to offer on the 21st December 2012!
Ironic as it may be, the story that is. One simply cannot turn down the possibility of such an event! I ask the very same question myself! Have we had infinite resources, producing zero pollution, having the technology to go out into space and having the technology to ward off the heat of the suns that exist out in the universe, having the technology to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole, what could stop us from going out and exploring?
Man is indeed a creature of curiousity! If there is nothing to stop us then why sit on earth when we can go see the universe for all it's magnificence and beauty!
The mayan's, having had nothing better to do then look at the stars. It is only theory but they might have stumbled upon some secrets left by the predecessors of mankind. Which helped them make their Mayan Calendar. There are alot of sayings about the Mayan Calendar, afterall their calendar is about to end on 21st of December 2012. One would say that such a coincidence is impossible but that is a topic for another day!.
The theories of the day holds that on the 21st Dec 2012, all the planets in our solar system will be in alignment! IF that is so, it's going to be one hell of a sight to see! Some say our ancestors will finally return back to earth with all their high tech and finally make the world a better place. The religious fanatics say that it'll bring upon their promised messiah who will bring peace and justice!. To me, it'll be just another day when I sit and laugh at the faces of people! why do you ask that I would do such a thing!
Back in 1999, alot of media attention was given to the people saying that the world will end on 31st Dec 1999. Some of the richest, dumbest people sold all of their property and gave away their money and went into the middle of a farm and waited there for the world to end! To their surprise they got screwed over BIG TIME! having lost all their possessions and valuables, indeed stupidity pays heavily!
21st Dec 2012 is going to be a day of lot of activity, some will await the coming of their Messiah, some say that the world will end on that day! some even say that rapture will happen on that day! even Judgement day!
As you might have read or not read but the poles of the earth switch every thousands of years! Our poles are about to shift as well and most likely within our lifetime! Some of the scientists reckon that the shift will occur on the 21st Dec 2012. How they reached to that conclusion is beyond me but I could not find any definite answer!
Also the problem with the pole switching is that since our brains work on electrical activity, the disruption caused in the magnetic field of the earth due to the poles switching will take us to a whole new world, the barriers of this world and the next world will break down before us and we'll end up in a whole new world! Also one more related problem with the poles switching with is in actual reality is a real problem is that the magnetic force that keeps the radiation away from earth from space, which can possibly kill us. That magnetic shield will be down temporarily while the poles are shifting, during this period the earth will be constantly bombarded with radiation! How dangerous would that be to humanity is not yet known to me! But can radiation be ever good?
I suppose we'll have to wait another 4 years to see what does the world really have to offer on the 21st December 2012!
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