Alright, good to go

Back to the action.  Awhile ago Starcraft 2 came out and I am a huge Blizzard fanboy, so I had to buy it.  I was never that good at Brood War, but damn, when I got my hands on SC2, things just clicked.  I instantly knew the hotkeys and started playing some league games with Loktar and we smashed and boy did we smash hard.  Instantly shot to platinum league but we started plateauing and hit about a 50% win loss ratio until I started rushing a unit as Protoss. 

This thing is in charge of Malaysia.

Oh the Void Ray.  This unit was disgustingly overtuned.  Once you upgraded its speed boost and got about 6 of them, you won the game.  You could build its counters, you could build anti-air.  Didn't matter.  I am excellent at micro so a handful of these babies will burn your base to the ground in a minute.

I suppose I should explain how the unit works.  It fires a laser that is locked on to a target and does a little damage twice a second or so and slowly charges up.  Once it reaches level 3 charge, the laser goes supernova and starts fucking shit up.  I went up against a bunch of Vikings (terran anti-air Void ray counter) and absolutely murdered his entire fleet while losing maybe two of my own.  The problem with these units is that scaled infinitely with more of them since flying units don't have collision and there projectiles had instant travel time.  Vikings shoot rockets at the rate of about one every one and a half seconds.  That means that if all your vikings shoot one unit, it will get insanely overkilled and you essentially waste damage.  Not so with the Void ray, they just melt one unit and quickly switch to the next.

Thanks to this unit, we got closer to 70% win ratio and made a lot of enemies.  I can't count how many times I was bitched out while burning a base because I'm using an effective strategy.

As an aside, fuck marines, overpowered piece of shit marine *grumblegrumble*.

Busy busy busy

Sigh, sorry about no second post yesterday and the short post today, I've been very busy recently and until Sunday night I'll continue to be busy but I'll try and make time to get a second post out tonight about some Starcraft 2 fun we had awhile ago and maybe some Black Ops stories too since I haven't talked about that. 

I took a picture of my Quadra Kill with Veigar last night but apparently it didn't save so here is a picture of my only Penta Kill ever instead.

As an aside, I finished 8/8.

See you later tonight (hopefully)!

I'd be worried buuuut

In my Rammus post I talked about how I despise tanking.  I found a loophole!  I love casters, more specifically, I love burst casters.  This week, a hero named Galio is free.  Last night Cuddly, Pho, Turoth and myself were playing LoL and as per usual, none of them picked a tank.  I saw Galio and was like...could be fun.  This hero is built like a tank but plays like a caster, two damage spells and an AoE taunt that also has a damage component.

Galio is obviously hard to play.

Keep in mind that was one of my first games with Galio.  Ever.  This hero combined with Pho's Vladamir and Cuddly's Xin Zhao was just disgusting.  Every single team fight involved me running in, AoE taunting, followed by Cuddly and Pho just raping shit.  The greatest part about this guy is that he is almost unkillable.  They ganked me atleast 10 times and every time on vent I just said "I'd be worried...but I'm Galio."

Another thing to point out was this was Cuddly's first game as Xin in about 3 months and he tried to jungle.  This was the most pathetic display of jungling I have seen in ages.  I'm pretty sure he had to go back to base at level 2.  Also I saved his life like 4 times, so he owes me his first born child.

You are such a dick...

So me and a bunch of the ZeMo's got Minecraft awhile ago and Loktar set up a server for us to play on and we all set off and started building great monuments.  I was building a giant waterslide out of wool, Loktar was building a pirate ship, I think Pho was helping him and Prism started building a giant wooden tower.  Reinhart and Xit Woundz were making some polar ice kingdom or some shit, they aren't important though.

What is important is that there is fire in this game.  What is also important is that wood burns.  I wonder if you guys can see where this is going.  Prism went out drinking and when he came back, we all started showing each other our stuff.  When we started to go to his, they all went inside and started up the tower.  I was the last to go in and I "misclicked" my flint and tinder and "accidently" started a small fire at the base of the tower.  What ensued was something I should have saw coming, but essentially, I forgot the part where a) Mutually assured destruction and b) wool burns too.

So while his tower burned in a fiery hellstorm, he set off with 1000 boxes of TNT and a mission.  Fuck.  Shit.  Up.  He ran up to Loktar's boat and started laying TNT everywhere.  Literally fucking everywhere.  One thing is that TNT won't blow up until its disturbed so he just left it there.  Loktar and Pho were then pissed off that there pirate ship was full of TNT so they set fire to my giant wool waterslide.  In the end we all learned valuable lessons.  I'm a dick when I'm bored and Prism is vengeful.

9 Hours to Live

Today, instead of talking about my usual multi-player gaming, I'm going to talk about a game for my DS I've been playing the shit out of.  It's called 999: 9 Persons, 9 Hours, 9 Doors, and it's a puzzle text adventure game.  I may accidently drop a spoiler so if you're at all interested in the game, you make want to stop reading.

The basic premise of the game is that you wake up on a ship in a room and suddenly you are in a fight for your life.  You find 8 others and you are all forced to play the Nonary game.  This game throws several twists but it becomes very apparent that not everyone is going to make it out alive.  The best thing I can compare this game is to is one of those "choose your adventure" Goosebumps books.  You make decisions, these decisions change the outcome of the story.

Now I've put in about 7 hours and I have unlocked 2 of the 6 endings.  One of those endings was one of the most disturbing pieces of writing I have read in a long time and left me wanting to start over and get right back into the Nonary game.  I have still yet to make it through the game alive, but I will make it out one of these times.  This really shows you have humans react in a life or death situation.

That being said, it does have its downsides.  Some of the puzzles have really obtuse answers, the counter arguement to this is that if you get stuck, the game will keep dropping bigger and bigger hints until it becomes pretty damn apparent what exactly they want you to do.  Also the decisions you make feel like they should have bigger impacts.  It really annoys me that no matter what, I can't save one of the characters even though I know exactly where and how he will die.  That being said, if that character lived, then the anxiety and hatred in the ship would be so much less, which fuels some great twists later on and playing without that would be boring.

If you like reading, I'd say give this a looksie, it definitely grabbed my attention, but I'm a sucker for a good story.  Read some professional reviews as I'm probably extremely biased and decide for yourself.

It's like a Golden Gun

Has everyone here played Goldeneye?  No?  Go play it, seriously, bust out a N64 and play it... Goldeneye and Perfect Dark were easily two of the best games for the console.  Back on topic, it had a gun called the "golden gun" which was little dinky pistol that one shot anything it touched.  Why is this relevant?  Well I was playing BF2 earlier today and a thought occurred.  "Holy shit, this is a lot like the golden gun!"  What was I referring to?  Well my set-up on recon of course.

Yes, that is a 4x scope on a .50 cal rifle.

Essentially I run around the map with a 4x scope similar to what would be on a normal M16 rifle on a sniper rifle that will one shot anything no matter where I hit you.  I didn't really think how powerful it was going to be until the game ended and I went 29-7, which is not bad in a deathmatch.

I pose a question today, if you play BF2, what class do you play, if you don't, which do you think you'd play, Assault, Recon, Medic or Engineer?

Attain Ramming Speed!

Played Rammus for the first time in a year last night.  Something I haven't mentioned here yet is that I hate tank heroes.  Rammus is a tank hero.  Cuddly dicked off and picked Shaco and the rest of my team picked non-tanks and locked in.  To sum up Rammus in a picture.

'Ok'

This hero is an asshole.  He basically spins in a ball at insane spins, rams into you, taunts you, becomes nearly unkillable and then the rest of his team kills you.  The worst part about this douchebag is that he is in almost every game because he is so powerful.

Back to me playing him, I hate tanks, I don't play them, I don't usually try to play them, I suck at them and I really hate doing things I'm not good at.  Spoiler, we lost.  The reason I don't like tanks is that I believe everyone sucks and without a good carry you will almost always lose.  I did good, started team fights, taunted enemy carries, died after my team lacked the damage.  In short, fuck Cuddly.

Karma's a bitch

So I've been playing LoL's newest champion, Karma, a lot recently and by that, I mean I haven't used any other heroes since I bought her.  My first game with her was, I assume, similar to most people.  Sitting there wondering why you are useless and limited by some stupid thing called "Mantra".  Once I got used to it however, it is a recipe for destruction.

I've been playing AP with her and her AoE damage output is pretty silly, however it requires someone on your team to dive into the other team so you can make the most of your shield and chain damage.  This is complemented nicely by Cuddly's complete disregard for his own safety as he tends to dive into teams like a champ.  He also seems to get out of the situations alive, which is pretty hilarious.

Hopefully in my next update I'll have some pictures to include.

So who are we?

Me and my friends have been gaming together for awhile and there is one thing we noticed in every game we play.  People are bad.  From League to CoD, DotA to BC2, bad players are everywhere.  We also noticed that there is nothing more fun then walking over a team of bads.  Unfortunately, since all the games we just listed are team games, we have to play with bads too and all these terrible players have turned us into a spiteful group of people.  Take my lizard buff?  I will abandon your ass in the next fight we get into.  Tell me to stop using an overpowered gun?  I will run around the map killing you with smoke grenades.

And I'm not even the most spiteful.  Turoth and Cuddly are far worse.  You tell Turoth to get out of your lane and he will not leave the entire game.  Kill Cuddly for a first blood because he was being stupid?  He will hunt you down the entire game and b-line it for you every single team fight.

I may be spiteful, but I hate losing because my team is retarded.  If it's a close game and we lose, so be it, they may have out played us or out comped us or something, but if I lose cause Jethro wanted to build attack Mundo, you bet I'm going to be in a shit mood.

The beginning of the end

I've always wanted to start something to talk about the everyday life of me and my friends when we game.  I may at one point do youtube videos, but we'll see how this goes. 

Me and my friends play several different games.  League of Legends, BF: BC2, CoD: BO and then several other flavor of the month games.

This blog will have the stories of the hilarious, the epic and the supermassive fails.  AP Renekton?  We've tried it, CAVJ vs tank? You know it!

So tomorrow I'll talk about how I play games and who I play them with.