Moody Gamer

Since I updated. Lots happened during that time: Ramadhan, Eid, started Masters program, excessive workload and working on some new reviews at MEGamers. So on the gaming scene, a huge amount of new stuff came out and/or happened that I don’t know where to start. Maybe a good starting point is what was I doing related to gaming.

First of all, I played and finished Devil May Cry 4 on the PC. Easy recommendation for button mashing players. You get to play as both Nero and Dante with each having their own play style. The game does suffer from one of the most horrible repetition of levels and boss fights. It is also worth to mention that it runs great on the PC compared to it’s older brother DMC3, so good job Capcom.

I also managed to grab a PS3 and a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4. All I can say that it is AWESOME. I can’t remember a game having a more complicated, twisted and emotional story better than this. I must warn you that it is very much recommended that you play MGS 1 to 3, which you can play on the PS2 (MGS1 was released on the PS1 and PC, while MGS2 was released later on PC after PS2 release). Keep in mind that MGS4 is about granting the player an experience through both cinematics and gameplay which both complement each other very well. The game is quite lengthy since I managed to go through it in about 19 hours without checking many features out because I aimed for the story. Though that time can be extended thanks to the replay value MGS games have. I haven’t checked out the multiplayer part of the game but from various feedbacks, it seems to be a blast.

Going back to PC, As I told you before, I purchased Crysis Warhead from Steam. Being in Oman, I totally recommend against this. It is both slow and expensive to get the game that way. Since you will have to pay 30$ for the game and then pay for the gigabytes to download through Omantel which many of you know, is bloody expensive (1RO per GB or about 2.6$ per GB). So you will end up paying more that 60$ for the game over here. Check out the review of Crysis Warhead to know more about the game.

One thing many of you know, Warhead is quite demanding on the PC, so I went ahead and bought me a Gigabyte Radeon 4870 512MB card (Contact me if you want to know where to get one in Oman) and am happy that I did. The game is now very playable on Enthusiast setting at 1680×1050 resolution. Though I can’t enable Anti aliasing ore Anisotropic Filtering. I also got me an extra 2 GB of RAM which helps a lot since Warhead is very resource hungry. Of course I did suffer the penalty of using Windows XP 32Bit version hence my PC shows only 3.25GB instead of 4GB. I guess 64 Bit OS is the way forward, but an extra GB is still useful.

I still have a lot to write about and because of time, I have to stop here and will update another day. Feel free to let me know of your experiences about the games mentioned above.

Yeah yeah I know it is old, I saw it more than a year or so. Though it is so awesome that it is worth to link in this blog for people to know about it. I am a huge fan of street fighter and 2D fighting in general (Mainly from Capcom and SNK) and when I saw this video, my jaws literally dropped to the floor (ok it didn’t). I played Street Fighter since I was 6th Grader, thats I think about 12 or more years back. Me and bros always played for the sake of not only winning, but winning with style. This video just does it at its best.

Now what is amazing about this fight is the last few seconds mainly where Ken gets to parry all of Chun Li’s super art hits. Do note that Chun Li’s super art is a very very fast hitting move and to parry it, you need to tap forward just as a hit lands. So this is a hard move to pull.

Oh and if anyone in Oman thinks he can beat me or my bros in any Street Fighter (Capcom and SNK 2D fighters in general too) game, you are welcome to challenge us. Don’t come bragging you know Street Fighter and at the same time can play ONLY Ryu/Ken/Akuma, that would be pure lameness.

Anyway, enjoy the video and tell us what you think.

P.S. For those who don’t know much about SF, the video is taken from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.