Ægrus Somnium

so a majority of people have played an mmorpg by now, lots of people leave out the rpg aspects, and lots of people don’t even read the quests and just grind to to get to the high lvl’s, but if you haven’t experienced an mmorpg yet here’s a short synopsis of things you ashould know, first and foremost mmorpg is massive multiplayer online role playing game, ok, there’s like millions of these out there and your sure to find one your like, i for one and currently loving Forsaken World which is put out by perfect world international, they are like most rpg game, lots of quests to do with classes and races to play, skillsets to put points into when you level up but being online there’s thousands of other players so you get a social experience as well, and with any social aspect there comes things you need to know hence this little blurb, so lets get started:

Toon/Char: the character in the game that represents you, the character in the game you play

RL/IRL – Real Life or In Real Life, talking about your real self, your real life outside the gaming world

Noob/Newb – there are many variations of this term and it is generally meant to be a condescending term for new players, or players who don’t know what they are doing, generally used by what i like to call the “umbilicals”

Umbilicals – this is just a term i call them, you’ll never see this being used, umbilicals are players that call all other players noobs, because even though they are 30, and the game is 2 years old, they act as though they were born playing the game and were never a lvl 1 new player

Twinks – twinks are low lvl players wearing the most expensive gear, generaly given to them or they spend real money to get the gear from a cash shop which many games use now, the best part about this term is that twink also means “gay porn”, i always got a good laugh at that

PVP – player vs player, this is a server or area where everyone can attack everyone, mainly for hardcore players, you fight the monsters and the other players

PVE – player vs enviroment, players can’t just attack you unless you duel them, or allow them to duel you, much more relaxed playing

PVPlayas – another term that i use, these are people who think they are PVP but they go to PVE servers and take all the time in the world to get all the best gear, generally spending real money to have all the best gear and the right level before going into a PVP arena, they do this because they can’t really handle a PVP server and they want to look cool and great at PVP

Foremans – these are the players who tell you how you have to play, how your character must be built or YOU WILL FAIL, they are very annoying

Cookie Cutter – a cookie cutter build is generally the build the everyone uses for a class because it’s known to work, called cookie cutter because it’s all the same, mass produced kinda idea

Bot – bots are programs that allow cheating, they move a character around and automatically do things such as harvesting, mining, killing, generally if you get caught your account is suspended and IP banned

Instance – a dungeon you go into with a group or in some occasion solo and it will only be your group or you

Run – generally what you call doing an instance, like, we’re doing a so and so run

pwn/pwned/pwnage – almost forgot this one, i HATE this one with a passion, at one point in time someone went to say they “owned” something, as in destroyed it, beat it completely and utterly but mistyped it, and it became a phenom in mmo’s and games everyone, now here’s where it gets fucking AWFUL, people SAY the word in real life they literally speak it and say “powned”, i want to physically hurt these people

aside from acronyms there are a few more things you will notice with the people, most tend to be cliche basement hermits, living in moms basement, you can tell this by the way they act, 50% of the female toons are male players, most of them will not talk or do anything until a (if in a guild) guild superior comes on, then they’ll be all helpful and nice to try and gain respect and higher rank, they think this is some kind of actual social standing, and lastly they will do the same thing if a female toon with a real female player comes on

that should be a good start, you’ll learn more as you go like all the dungeon acronyms of the game your playing and stuff

this game is absolutely amazing, I see here people are still giving it bad ratings and saying it’s meant to be bad and meant to look like old RE, wrong, yes, it’s got old ps2 style graphics, yes the controls are bad, the storyline is amazing though, and if you want to know why it’s so weird and off the wall watch the old tv show by David Lynch "Twin Peaks" THATS what this game is basically based on, NOT RE or Silent Hill, and here is my case and point pictures:

Twin Peaks hotel and Waterfall

 
Twin Peaks Police Station

The Town Hall/Bell Tower and the "Pot Lady"

odd isn’t it, have you realized it yet or should i show the final piece to this puzzle and prove to the non believers, ok i am here it is:

red drapes hanging at a crime scene

there ya go, others have said this game is "a love letter to David Lynch and Twin Peaks" even the main character acts just like the FBI agent in the show, and there’s all the proof you need, hell even the towns people are similar, now, if you haven’t played this game because it’s a “budget title” send me an e-mail and i’ll give you my address or you can give me mine, if your a gamer that is, because i’m going to come to your house or you to mine and punch you in the face

 
Sleeper Hit of 2010!!!

ok, going to do my reviews here then move them to the review section after, when i do do reviews that is since i’m slacking

ok, so Red Dead Redemption (PS3)

honestly i am speechless about this game, it was FUCKING AMAZING!!!, this is what a game should be, all around PERFECTION!!!, NO this isn’t just a GTA western, and if you are not a true gamer DON’T FUCKING TOUCH THIS GAME, YOU’LL TAINT IT!!!, by true gamer i mean a person who get’s into game’s, like REALLY get’s into there games and has empathy for the characters, like when the character is wronged you want to get that revenge, if the character is emotionally hurt you know what he’s feeling, games like that are like good books that just draw you in, yeah you can just go around and be the asshole and kill everyone and yes sometimes i did to get a couple trophies that were either humorous ones or challenging ones but i also put my bandana on so as not to damage my characters reputation as the good guy which i mad so stayed maxed, we all do have to have a little fun sometimes, it is a sandbox game after all, but this isn’t like your typical Rockstar game where your playing a badguy mobster drugdealer where the goal is to do bad stuff, your playing a guy who had a bad life, did very bad things, tried to make a better life for himself and is now in a really shitty situation and who can’t relate to being in a shitty situation and wanting out or to just make it better, anyways this game is just mindblowingly good in my own opinion and a big thank you to rockstar and all those involved in making this masterpiece

One of the Best Games EVER!

ok, so during a format a few months back, and an os change i, being a dumbshit, forgot to backup my game catalog database and am going through today with my little catscan barcode scanner adding them all back to the database, and behold, an interesting surprise. Now for this surprise to make sense we have to go back nearly 10 years or something like that to the days of the N64, now we used to do a bit of the underage drinking and try and play tetrisphere on that sucker, yeah, that went well, but golden eye rocked, anyways, back on topic, every single 3rd party memory card we bought for the N64 came with a savegame file for WaveRace 64, we never understood this, no flash forward to today, I’m scanning my games into my collectorz program and the game Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life scans up as WaveRace: Blue Storm, who the hell out there is trying to force WaveRace down our throats, it’s a fucking conspiracy…. A CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!! all making me type in the numbers below the barcode and shit because the actual barcode doesn’t match the number sequence WTF!

this is hilarious, kids are pathetic when it comes to this game, I played WoW before, on several occasions, and on several occasions I got bored, cancelled my account and went on to different mmo’s, right now I have LotRO going and haven’t played it in a month or two, i should probably cancel it since it’s costing money, they’re only addictive if your a weak minded tool(btw, the second vid is an oldie)…..