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Mercs 2: The end of an era

There are so many games today that has come and passed by to be topped of by some over rated game with graphics and cost that would not compare to how fast games like that would get corny before another investment in another is made. Mercenaries 2 is one of those games that has passed on, it does not have the best graphics owing it directly derives from the PS2 only to be remade for the PS3, but certainly its a "Play ground of destruction" a phrase promising total mindless action and simple missions that actually involves the character toppling entire buildings with c4! Its a game that is actually addicting to play where you have plethora of weapons ranging from bombs, guns, and vehicles to dispose those pesky if not idiotic ai of the game! The game itself is a sandbox, where basically you are free roaming the world in Mercs, free to do any missions you please at any time, anywhere and however you want it accomplished save but a few.
The environments in the game are completely exploratory, you can scale an entire mountain, get atop buildings(though you cant get in them), swim an open ocean, visit vast areas that has entire cities, towns, villages, etc. Its like a gta of third person shooters, you jack cars, steal tanks, grapple hook to a helicopter and basically have at the enemy and have time to earn cash while at it! Did I mention bombs?! Thankfully, you just don't collect guns, and tanks but call in airstrikes, artillery, nukes, etc as much as you want as long as you want if you got money and fuel to spend. Money is used to buy weapons, vehicles, and bombs to collect, and fuel to sustain air re-supply and continued air strikes! Its like BF or COD with care packages and strikes but easily demanded and available! Nothing beats two nukes and twenty more to take care of one soldier LOL! Its a game like other that is available and very expansive in terms of how you play, there are so many shooters now that are FPS, standard shoot and run, heal, perk up and airstrike, good graphics...BORING! Too simple, and those games are only worthy to be continued playing is when you got friends or actually good people to enjoy a sleepless night in pwning and raping the shit of everybody. Now, imagine good graphics, the sandbox play of Mercs, the immersi ng and expansive game play of mercs where you do anything, kill anyone, steal, buy and blow the shit out everything and do it again!? That there my friends is the day gaming actually takes off!
The sadness of it all, people actually thinks that looking in at good pictures, running around and shooting, and basically dumbing down the game play is far better than the freedom and creativity that Mercs give! I don't know where and why they become so naive, so simple minded, and foolish enough that games of today are just expensive pieces of shit that has no value in them after a couple months all for better graphics but same old shit: Run and gun! If I would think that the only way to go, the only reasonable and worthy way is basically to play older gen games with a lot of freedom like Mercs that has no sense but is far more fun and enjoyable destroying entire cities! Yes its unrealistic, but would you sacrifice reality for a bit of fantasy and nukes!! Games already are a fantasy and yet people are so close minded to the fact that games are about enjoyment and most of all substance! For the realistic freaks out there, join the military and get bombed as certainly you wont be enjoying it and not re-spawning any time soon and will not be missed! LOL For those whose reading this that are skeptical, buy yourself a military simulator preferably ARMA and tinker with it, or mod your own damn games to a point where you play and easily get killed and have to start over from the very beginning! Thats how FPS games should be realistic! You get shot in the head, chest your dead! Not re-spawn and recharge health! Don't be dragging the game industry and not revolutionizing with your lameness and stubbornness for some same old crap! However, the few people like me out there blogging or complaining out there won't be reviving this concept as the tide of people who can't see past there ineptitude are influencing the gaming trends, so becomes the end of an era. The end of Mercs!( till after you nuke those lame ass people lol)

Tales from Battle: fun, sweat, tears, and laughs
BF2MC

The first time I have ever played online was on the PS2 console for a game called BF2MC. Its basically a scaled downed copy of BF2 for the ps2 with less than appealing graphics, horrible ai in campaign, but a massive online multiplayer with the same things in BF2. Now the game itself is not worth buying or bothering for its single player, but the multplayer is the most sought after like all BF games. The first day I played online for BF2MC, the action was really faced paced! I mean fucking jedi fast! One nano second your spawned on a flag, the next nano second your dead and the whole team is losing! It took time to get used to, my reflexes needed to be sharp, my hearing perfect, attention level perfect, and concentration so acute that I can literally rush to an infested flag point and kill all around me! Seriously! I was on edge like my heart was pumping, sweat coming out my forehead, and slightest noise just sets me in a startled panic!(Especially if you got a chopper on ya ass punding away with rockets, arty raining down on ya, sniper waiting to pick ya off, and the rush of tangoes on my spot!). This was on a map called Backstab, the de_dust of BF2MC maps. The whole map consisted of one base on the bottom left hand of the map and vice versa for the OPFOR. The whole rest of it was desert and a village which was to be fought over in the middle. I couldn't recount so many times me and the whole team and I gets pinned downed inside a mosque or another building that has a second floor. All around was an army of tanks, choppers( stolen of course), and arty and mortar strikes on top of us while team after team was rushing in each time getting killed but lowering our ticket count which was the amount of points of life for a team. The whole map was taken over! Almost all the flag points, and lonely us had a building and base thats crawling with tangoes stealing our choppers.
The problem is...brains, guts, aim(lol spray fest) and most of all team work! There has not been a game I played from then and now that so many are uncoordinated, uncooperative, unmotivated, bunch of tards that fights for a chopper and starts a tker fest! LOL!! When the game starts, the first bunch rushes to the hummers drives off running over some guy who spawned in the wrong place, while two other people are shooting at the driver for a ride or revenge! The other bunch of tards about seven or four( rarely and dreadfully) the whole team tries to ride and get a ride in the two choppers. The choppers has a capacity for four people with eight for two, half the team gets on while the other half kills the pilot or puts C4 on the chopper because they wanted a ride or pilot it. In otherwords, a kick vote war occurs, revenge killings til finally the whole team starts killing each other till the enemy fucking takes over the whole map and got us surrounded! LOL!! The world just ended, shells, missiles , bullets are fucking killling everyone half of it still from our team, tanks are all over the place, snipers just killing everyone, people getting blown in to the sky just mazing! LOL Then there are the guys that are everywhere and nowhere! The game starts then these guys about in groups of 2 to to 4 and rarely 6 goes off all over the place finding a glitch in far corner of the map, two are tking each other back at the base, while the 3 or 4 are racing all over the map with jeeps! All the while, the whole team is losing because where out numbered, lost half of the maps spawns and got pinned in a spawning building in the center of a map. Talk about teamwork better yet playing a SHOOTING game! Then there are the jackers that steals your ride and kills you, arty call whores that races you to the radio for arty stikes and kills you for it, health whores who always are noobs that constantly plays medic/machine gunner that pumps himself up with health, campers who are snipers that are just hiding in the most annoying far off spots, and finally the most hated! TEAM KILLERS!!!
Team killers or tkers in gaming lingo are players who gets off grief by killing their own team members and causing as much mayhem on their own team as possible. These are either noobs who goes off in a vendetta after you for "stealing his ride" at which you kill him and kick him, or seasoned veterans of tkers who randomly shows up in a game to cause havoc. Now, these guys are the worst since they provoke you into shooting them and you get kicked if you kill them or they really can get the team heated and start a civil war which basically one side of a team is hunting the tker, the other side thinks other are tkers, more tker shows up and tk some more which basically confuse the heck out of every one till the enemy just surrounded the base! There so many fail online play that I cont even play for a whole week because of these guys. Love em hate them...to me just makes me laugh and cry at the same time.
Not all the time it was such a bad experience in BF2MC. There are days I'm online and found myself playing all night to the next day because of good players and veterans who really takes the game seriously and coordinate. The whole team would usually spawn and rush to the choopers half on board the other in jeeps to take the spawns points overlooking the village below them, while the team parachutes down to the village on the two spawn points and use the helicopters to kill tanks that are rushing to the village. By the time we the village and the hill secure facing the village, half the enemy team in hummers and tanks were dead and only one spawn point was left just outside the enemies base. From there on, it was a cake walk to base rape! just a a quarter of the enemy was defending the spawn point , they didnt even bother to send tanks or anybody since our choppers and snipers were killing practically anyone that came out of their base. We captured the last spwan, and a enjoyable base rape of epic win occurs. Everyone just loves running over some fuck who spawned in the wrong place or just rampaging with a tank just killing everyone in the base and not one has nothing to do about it! That there is the shit, BF2MC is probably now long dead but memories of it and the people I made friends or enemies with I say: GOOD DAY tea bagging you all and all a good frag!

Battlefield 3: Modern Warfare Redux!!!

This game has long been anticipated since BF2, a long awaited continuation to the tradition of large maps, massive multilayer mayhem extraordinaire that combines the repetitiveness of fast paced shooters like COD to tactics as seen in Arma or OPF. What the game brings is: guns,guns and yes more guns! Everything to the coveted 50 cal to the humble machine gun that everyone from L33ts to noobs who go off lighting up everything around them! Yes...the gun porn is finally brought over from COD, who would not miss out the opportunity in pimping out boom-sticks and decking the "47" with skins and love handles for "ease of performance", the wet dream of hard core FFS nerds that will fap to such extremes! Maps as big as the eye can see!! Maps in the likes of: Kubra Dam, Mastuur, and Karkand the De_Dust of BF2 maps. Its not like CS maps or CS pirated COD maps that really does not have any space save but a few noob nests, and confined like a DE_Ice maps of CS. I'am talking about disorganized monkeys fucking around at some part of the other side of the map probably tking for some chopper, some actually teamplayas fighting for a village right in the middle of a map, and the other side where the enemy team spawn! A battlefield map where it is a battlefield hence "Battlefield" get It!!
Now, the developers were quite kind to us players! They didnt want us to walk about 10min worth across the map where we could be busy killing in the 10 min time or dying 20 times in 10 min for a flag! We couldn't afford the exercise! Players like that gets banned for not getting to the action in time, they be thinking were some noobs who always get killed before we get there or just someone fucking around! There are vehicles mistah! Vehicles! From the Hummvee, to tanks, from helos to jets! Anything that kicks arse, takes names, are worth fighting for, killing for and rampaging to action! Thats the whole thang about BF series. Put some graphics in there, put a touch of COD and you got gold not only its playable non graphics wise, but the wet dream of all of us gamers from those who keeps it real to eyecandy freaks who drools for the lastest graphics! A good day to us all! Nothing can beat BF! Nothing!!! You just don't run around, shot, pimp, hump, own, accolade, and upgrade your little arse through the game and in a year your bored and go get another COD thats the same shit! Talk about coke addiction! BF3 is the king of all FFS! P to the E to the R to the I to the O to the mutha fraking DEE.

WORST ERA OF VIDEO GAMES
EVER

This is my first blog and have to say there has been no point history where video games are in the lowest point of existence! I swear I cannot take another days worth in buying sixty dollar games that are stallions of Graphics while the whole game I am playing is just some shoot em up that has no point whatsoever! Hell, I might as well go back to playing Contra , Silent Scope even Counter Strike then waste time in looking at good pictures while I'll paint the screen red with blood!( you know yourselves COD fan boys!!) Where did this all go wrong? When did we gamers started caring for graphics more and more that neglected game play and above all quality to products made? Well...Its our fault boys and girls! OUR FAULT!! As consumers, we have always awed and fantasized how awesome if it looked at all realistic like out of a person's eye type of realism!
So, the industry catered to our tastes of what was to become of our future addiction to an already unhealthy love affair of games( to veteran gamers everywhere you know how we are!) So, they built up games in " Three Dee" like Tomb Raider which the Icon of game sexy the ever beautiful Lara Croft, who someone out there right now is fapping off to is the first step to our obsession in graphics. Not that it started this love affair in graphics, games of course needs to be at least appealing and not be "two dee" as it was before. Its the trying to make something that is artificial, purely fantasy while making a connection to humanness and life. That is the same reason why movies are better if they are better portraying humanness. So games like the first gen MOH, COD, Syphon Filter, and other games that had three dee rendering started gaining popularity ove the two dees that is quickly becoming a stone aged vestige. I have to admit, its fun playing three dee games, where you can actually kill someone who looks real, and have blood and gore then some blob with two or three pixels! But, when it starts to go over the top say tweak the shaders a bit, give real shadows, textures and so and so till it becomes a Mona Lisa...well that right there is crossin the thin line of gaming!
Sure, anyone out there who is half-witted out there can say I am a freaking idiot! Like: What are your smoking! Real is the new shit! It looks so real that it makes it so cool! But, they are forgetting the quality of storyline, the versatility of games focusing on challange, wit, and basically fun, imagination, continuation of a franchise, strategy, and some actually thinking then "runnin and gunnin". There are so many games out there nowadays just like a Mona Lisa without the above mentioned strategy, challenge, imagination that you end up buying for 40 to 60 dollars then finishing in two days!! What is the use of looking at good pictures , and doing useless shit like runnin and gunnin, bad ai, the storyline out of a children's parable, the challenges are mundane as picking up items to killing people, minor tweaks in the difficulty of mission like ai skill level than over a different approach to playing a game! If as if people have forgotten that a game is about substance not superficiality, thus the gaming industry has not been revolutionizing since it came to birth because people are to obsessed with graphics, and useless minor shit like cars or textures.
The only salvation to the gaming industy worst era is to revive old favorites like: Tomb Raider that combines puzzles, strategies to defeat enemies, action and adventure. Even incorporating Rpg elements will be fun as more approaches to game play is discovered. In the end, people have the final say in this, if they want something else that will not be eventually be mundane and too expensive they have to go back to the roots of gaming in order to recover from the era of video gaming!