Tag: Love and Happiness

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19th Century Gaming

Vienna, renowned for Opera and Fine Arts, hosted the 11th Vienna Games Conference in the Vienna City Hall which is more accustomed to Banquets and Balls than Game tech.

I was actually hopeful, especially in the backdrop of just finishing the StarWars Battlefront II Open Beta.  Sadly, this was probably the worst hybrid attempt at bringing Gaming Academia and Players together I have ever had the misfortune to spend time on.

I actually whizzed through the entire venue on a Sunday morning in under 90 mins.  Considering PS4 and Xbox were heavily represented, the actual gaming content lacked anything new.

Titles that are already available for pre-order were presented to visitors to test drive and I had a great 10 mins on FarCry 5.  The only other title I hadn’t seen before was Quantum Break (released April 2016) for Xbox and PC but this stands to reason as PS4 Player.

19th century meets Gaming

There were plenty of refreshing upsides to the event.

Reason to be cheerful

A brilliant absence of mandatory visitor data collection.

A Beautiful Neo-Gothic palace-like structure built from 1872.

Wonderful noise control (conversation level)

No overcrowding and marketing hassle

Excellent compliance to the 
Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, 
basically all 16-18+ had to prove it.

Downside

Very limited new gaming news

No Star Wars Battlefront II presence or demos

Small demo screen, most players today enjoy
37+ inch screens at home while we had to endure tired 
small screen old PS4 demos.

Heavily restricted eSports access.
My verdict

Vienna should stick to Opera and stay out of the Entertainment Software Industry.  Shame on you Microsoft and Sony for allowing this travesty to actually happen in the Global Gaming arena.

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Star Wars Battlefront II – Open Beta review

The Open Beta will be over in 4 hours, it revealed the actual gameplay this weekend.

Here’s my humble opinion.

This game is aweeeesommme, beautiful 
and set to become one of the best shooters ever.
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II Multiplayer Beta

Ok, now I can calming look at the facts.

EA are masters are drip feeding the player with rewards and achievement hunting. This feeds the brain, builds and sustains a global gaming community that will be here for at least 3 years.

Being able to home in on your play style or class is a brilliant move and should harvest the best of COD or Division players.  I’m leaning towards the Officer class as I probably won’t get enough game time for the other classes.

Seems that the key to success is to work with a squad with dedicated roles and voice chat. Otherwise, you run around with randoms hoping they play the objective rather trying to rank up.

Biggest complain I see so far is the lack of teamwork in a team orientated game.

Helldivers succeeded because of serious close-knit teamwork gameplay.

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II Multiplayer Beta – Officer job is the life for me.

My problem will be how to play without life interruptions as well as finding a good crew to join regularly.  It is a brilliant ‘do not disturb, I’m gaming’ title because once you get over the beauty of the game you must focus to achieve anything.

Typically, this means at least 30-50 min of undisturbed gameplay per session.

Only a few of the streamers I follow even bother to join the Beta and these were the hardcore StarWars types. I think the thoughts are that this would be more like Battlefront One but bigger.

The gameplay is better, the scale is bigger and the audio is epic Movie scale. I got so distracted with running through leaves and watching birds fly away.

I can sense there are lots of surprises in store for the full release.  Makes me want to return to PC gaming.

90 Days without any Myasthenia gravis (MG) symptoms

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Fallen down

Giving the player free-roaming options in a massive Open World is the ultimate gameplay.

FallOut 4 is an old game but now dominates my game time, typically 3-5 hours a day throughout the night.  I’m still only level 15 and backtracking to farm some of the earlier areas and chapters in the game.

This has triggered poor eating and almost no exercise, binging on peanut butter and jam sandwiches is not a good thing.  I recognise the fact that I’m just trying to escape the “End of month, Run out of money” Blues.

 

“If you want something you’ve never had
You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

― Thomas Jefferson

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What kind of Fool

Yeah, Love is as annoying as ever.

I, for one, cannot tell the difference between a raging argument and a relationship crushing move.

Jill Francis sang it well in 1993

First you say Yeah
Then you say No
Tell me to Stop
And then you say Go
What kind of Fool are you looking for?
Make up your flipping mind up

I have -37 Emotional Intelligence right now