Skyrim was a game that I had tried to play on Play Station 3 when it first released for the Play Station gamers, but I didn’t get to play it much since it was very buggy. Obviously, Skyrim is now an old game since it had been around for a year and few months at least. With being out a long time already, Skyrim is now all patched up, and a lot of mods can be downloaded to enhance Skyrim gameplay. Although my memory with Skyrim on PS3 was a bad one, but there was something about Skyrim that I could not let go. Perhaps, the concept and the gameplay of Skyrim that had appealed to me even to this day. Now, I’m playing Skyrim again, but this time, it’s on PC. Now, I notice how the graphics in Skyrim cannot be compared to newer games. Nonetheless, with mods one can manage to beautify Skyrim further. Couple hours into the Skyrim world, I felt that Skyrim is a game that one should not ignore if one is truly a gamer. How come? Even though the graphics in Skyrim aren’t the best, the Skyrim world is just beautiful and the stories within are intricate but immersive. The gameplay is OK as the fighting mechanic isn’t Skyrim’s best trait, but the game just won’t let my imagination settled. I have to say Skyrim is one of those best games that I’ve ever played. Anyhow, check out the first episode of Skyrim gameplay right after the break. Enjoy!!!
PC gamers know that each game behaves differently on their PC, because each game might need a different configuration for game graphics settings. Using the wrong game graphics settings sometimes might actually choke the graphic card, therefore choking a great game experience. Usually, PC gamers would do is to figure out if their graphic card supports a game they want to play or not before they purchase the game. Afterward, they want to seek out the correct game graphics settings for the game from the Internet or from testing out different game graphics settings configurations through trial and error process, and then right just before they play their brand new game they would apply the best or I should say the optimal graphics settings for the game.
The second process where gamers have to apply the correct game graphics settings can be ranged from easy to sometimes plain confusing. How come? Some games might work well with just about any game graphics settings if you have the right graphic card, but some games might not. When a game might not react that well to your graphic card or game graphics settings, you have to either tinker with the graphic card by overclocking or know how to tone down the game graphics settings. So, getting an optimal game graphics settings for each game can sometimes be troublesome and time consuming. This is why I like GeForce Experience. You might like it too if you have a NVIDIA graphic card.
What GeForce Experience does is to automatically optimize game graphics settings for many games that you have installed on your PC. It’s a beta version at we speak, but it’s working out rather well for my PC and PC gaming experience. Check out the video right after the break to have a quick look at the GeForce Experience.
I don’t usually like first person shooter games, because the stories that glorify these games are usually just bad. Nonetheless, I do make an exception in liking any first person shooter game if the game mechanics are excellent. Basically, I think what makes a great person shooter game is how fun it’s to shoot ‘em up in a gameplay, and so good mechanics are definitely the things that attract gamers to play more. Anyhow, I think Counter Strike Global Offensive, latest version of Counter Strike, is one of those great first person shooter games which falls into the great mechanics camp. It’s the stuff of addiction, and it won’t let you stop playing it. Try it out and you know what I mean.
The video right after the break shows me play Counter Strike Global Offensive for the first time ever. The video also shows that I got killed quite frequently in the gameplay… showing that I’m not exactly a great gamer when it comes to playing first person shooter game. Nonetheless, I was surprised to see that even though I got killed very often in a Counter Strike Global Offensive gameplay, somehow I still wanted to play more or to be killed more. This is why I think Counter Strike Global Offensive is one of those awesome first person shooter games which now I’m a real fan of. Enjoy the video right after the break!!!
Steam empowers Windows and Mac gamers alike as it allows gamers to have a central destination where they can basically get discount game offers from time to time, download free to play games, shop for games, discuss about games, play the games, and the whole nine yards. I have no affiliation with Steam, but I like Steam a lot since I’m a Steam user myself. This is why I had created a video which strives to introduce Steam to whoever wants to play games on Windows and Mac platforms. Enjoy the video right after the break!
The Witcher 2 key chain (Photo credit: Sergey Galyonkin)
By April 17th of this year, Witcher 2 enhanced edition will come out. Thanks to the news and buzzes of the release of Witcher 2 enhanced edition, now I get to know about the Witcher series. I never had played the first Witcher and the enhanced edition for the first Witcher game, therefore I cannot comment how good the first two might be. Nonetheless, I had bought Witcher 2 the regular edition two days ago, and I have to say I’m enjoying the game very much. From what I heard, gamers who have the Witcher 2 regular edition can get a free upgrade to the enhanced edition, but I’m not sure if this is the case. I hope it will be the case, and so I’m crossing my fingers.
The Witcher 2 regular edition is vile (in a fun way), violent, and explicit. How explicit? Your character can basically go to a brothel and have sex, it’s that explicit enough? So, it’s obvious Witcher series isn’t for young minds, because it got very mature content. I don’t know how good the stories for the first two games of this series might be, but I really like how the story of the Witcher 2 is unfolding. I’m not sure if this will be the case when I get to the end of the Witcher 2 story, because I’m only scratching the surface of this game. Nonetheless, the content is rich and being richer as it’s imbued with extravagant details. No single scene within Witcher 2 is ugly in my opinion, because the level of details is simply too rich for any gamer’s blood. Tis a good thing! Tis making the whole idea of submerging oneself into a world of Witcher more enjoyable and believable.
I definitely like the game, but I’ve to say I cannot get use to the game mechanics yet! Witcher 2 game mechanics’ quirks might have to be the case of it’s being marketed for both Xbox 360 console and PC. This type of games tends to incorporate or mix the elements of console and PC together, therefore PC gamers might have difficulty of using the game mechanics. On the other hand, console gamers will have easier time since console games are usually designed to work really well with the controllers, or else the games will definitely stink. I’m playing Witcher 2 on a PC, and so I notice how inventory UI (user interface) is somewhat resembling to how a gamer would expect the appearance and the behavior of a game’s inventory on a console. Thus the experience of using console UI on a PC for inventory in Witcher 2 is rather somewhat confusing. Another quirky thing about Witcher 2 mechanics on PC is about how moving a character around. The A, S, and D keys aren’t behaving as how PC games would, because the camera will not swing in the direction that keys A,S, and D steer a character. Instead, gamers have to use W key to move a character forward as the mouse moves the camera — this means that the character will only be able to move and look in the directions that accord to the mouse’s camera positions. It feels unnatural this way!
Then again, every gamer has their own preferences on PC game mechanics, therefore my preferences of PC game mechanics not necessary translate into how things should be in regarding to game mechanics for PC games. So far though, I like Witcher 2 (Assassins of Kings) a lot despite this game mechanics do give me some problems. I guess, tis because of the superb quality of the game content and graphic. I think if I have to rate this game out of five whatever, I give it 3.5 whatever, and this rate is for Witcher 2 (Assassins of Kings) particularly. I can’t rate the first two games of the series since I had never even played them before. Let hope Witcher 2 (Assassins of Kings) enhanced edition will bring even more improvements to an already awesome game.
I like the game enough to make a video for it. Check out the Witcher 2 (Assassins of Kings) game play part 01 right after the break. Enjoy!
