Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Love is not Free

Today Ghost Recon® Wildlands Open Beta goes Live to the general public for 120 hours.

It’s a standard strategic move to grow the community before the game goes on sale and for the most part an excellent experience for all types of players.

You can tame her but careful, she bites

Open Beta’s is a boost of Oxytocin or a School Boy Crush 10 times the normal levels.

The downer comes pretty fast as you realise you haven’t got the resources to play the game for any extended period of time.

No dedicated time

No enough money to buy the game in the first place

….and no one to play with.

It sucks and you wonder,  why play the Beta in the first place?

Well, like Love, better to have a neurotransmitter dopamine rush for a short time than nothing at all.

Dopamine is commonly associated with the ‘pleasure system’ of the brain

 

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Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart)

One of the things that make BioShock such a great title is the sound design.

As you wonder through the first level you can hear Fitzgerald’s God Bless the Child in the background and can easily eavesdrop on the conversations of your enemies around every corner.

Destination this summer – Daytona Beach

Pretty early on, you are faced with critical moral decisions – rescue or kill.

It’s at this point you really have to get your head straight.

Got a bit stressed out last night. Back to usual dosage 60mg today.

 

Diana and Marvin sang it well in 1971

You’re alone all the time
Does it ever puzzle you, have you asked why
You seem to fall in Love and out again
Do you ever really Love or just Pretend
Why fool yourself

Don’t be afraid to help yourself
It’s never too late, too late to

Stop, Look
Listen to your heart, hear what it’s saying

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Endlessly

“Flower” A Rare treat on PS4

I was 13 years old when Randy Crawford dropped the track “Endlessly”, I had enough pocket money to buy the Album 3 year later. To this very day, the lyrics echo the perfect Love song from a woman to a man.

What is “Rare Grove” today?

Chances are you can find it on all the popular streaming services, there is not even the need to own it anymore.

I still have a load of sealed Vinyl records in my garage but keep my 80’s Typewriter close to my gadgets.

In this cashless, always connected world keeping our “Rare” stuff offline and unavailability to SmartPhones is an admirable goal.

See me after Class for some authentic Rare Groove experiences.

Endlessly

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Beautiful and Big

Escape the madness into Ghost Recon

I set my alarm for 1:30 am so I could have a dedicated Beta testing session with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

The environment is absolutely beautiful transporting to Bolivia. After running around like a n00b for half-an-hour I figured out how to join a session with friends.

The game feels like a hybrid of FarCry and The Division so it fails to deliver a jaw-dropping first-time experience.  However, the sheer scale of the map points towards an adventure with over 6 months of steady gameplay.

It was kinda interesting meeting fellow Beta testers in Live chats and game sessions, some of whom were paid handsomely to keep you playing the game.  Point being that the developers need as much player experience data as possible for the final release next month.

Final verdict:  80% chance that I’ll buy a physical copy on release, especially as I’ve just completed FarCry Primal.

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Global Gaming – Breaking into the African market

There are 54 countries in Africa yet the PlayStation Network is only available in 1 Africa country.

With an operating income of 2604 million U.S. dollars reported in 2016, one must beg to question why the Sony Corporation does not provide services for the other 53 African countries.

Let’s face it Africans do import PS4 Consoles personally and are avid gamers.

Bandwidth cost is no doubt a massive and dangerous problem and probably the root cause of the lack of availability on the continent.  If low-cost bandwidth was available to African gamers then the Sony Corporation would be jumping all over them with heavy marketing.

Here in Europe, to get the Ghost Recon Beta on my PS4 I ran into multiple regional account issues and my code simply did not work. 4 hours later I figured out a workaround using advanced Virtual Private Networking.

It will take 2 hours to download the Beta (25GB) even though I have a fairly decent 24.13 Mbps download speed at home for less than 50 Euros a month.

I can only imagine the frustration corporations are facing trying to figure out how to make money in the African market.  For now, only wealthy Africans will have access to games a 14-year old in Kentucky USA can buy in Wal-Mart with the family groceries.

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Boom shakalaka….I snagged a Closed Beta

I was getting ready to start watching my favourite streamers explore Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands this weekend and was thrilled to see a code for the Closed Beta in my inbox.

There’s no Non-disclosure in place so testers are free to stream and publish spoilers.

The actual game is not released to the public until March 7, 2017.

As a Tactical Shooter in an Open World environment, this should be just pure fun.

Anyhow, let’s hope I can download the 25GB without any issue.