Warframe on the Switch

Hey everyone. Now before I start this review I want to clarify one thing that clearly the people who make YouTube videos can’t tell the difference between a pay to win game and a free to play game. Warframe is completely free to play there is no pay to win period, yes the game has a store where you spend real money but the items you buy vary between new warframes, ingredients to build blue prints, different color pallets for your character, or alternate helmets so before you let anyone sink in your head that the game is pay to win try it out and see for yourself that it’s not.

Now on November 20th 2018 digital extremes warframe released for the nintendo switch which added another free to play title to nintendos library and one with an amazing history. Now for anyone who has never heard of warframe you play as a space ninja called the Tenno to restore peace to the universe and boy is it a big universe.

Along your journey you face different enemies. The biggest threat coming from a race called the grineer which are basically humans who use a very thick armor that makes them look almost robotic and there are a few grineer crews who are actual robots who can take a punch and dish it out as well.

The second enemy you encounter are the corpus they look like suited up welders or machinists and they have small robot walkers and a shield drone that is the biggest pain out of there arsenal considering most of them are melee fighters.

The third enemy race is called the infected and I’m sure by the name you can tell what they are mindless infected creatures that attack and like to swarm you, best recommendation is melee attacks and your special ability.

Warframe for being a free to play game has a lot of places to visit doing different missions on each planet, the map is of the solar system plus a few extras one being the void another is a planet called phobos and sedna and recently they added to big areas to the game that are open world and let you do lots of exploring and other activities. One being fishing so go prove your a master fisherman and catch the big one.

Now warframe has been around for a few years releasing on PC first and now in 2018 the game has been ported to switch and it’s a great port I play all my games in handheld and you truly can’t see any frame issues. They hold up really well compared to other consoles. There’s also docked mode for the switch which let’s you play the game in it’s full 1080p glory but I’m sure many people use handheld more and I for one don’t complain. The small list of issues I have come across I feel is more due to the network side of the switch then the game itself.

Since the switch doesn’t have an actual ethernet connection it relies on wifi connection having the ability to connect to both the 2.4 ghz channel and if your router is able to the 5 ghz channel. You’re switch has a healthy choice of wifi but with a game like warframe that is heavily dependent on a connection it will boggle in certain areas. I’ve noticed mainly in loading screens I’ve had my game slow and stutter and on the boss fight against the jackal I’ve had the game take a while to load up the boss animation so the fight can start. I’m not sure if this is an issue on nintendos side or digital extremes side but I do hope there’s a way to help this out with updates or maybe maintenance. I run my switch on the 5 ghz connection so it offers the least interference but anything could be the issue. Let me know if you have had any issues with slow loading. One small issue I also have I think has to do with the joy sticks themselves I feel when I play in handheld and I’m aiming down sights or doing anything with my range weaponry the movement is super stiff and I do have a hard time getting pin point targeting as compared to mashing the A button for melee. I’m not sure if it’s a design problem I’m sure nintendo didn’t expect to have shooters on the switch so maybe the stiffness is meant to favor RPG games but then again they have splatoon which I have yet to try out let me know your thoughts if you have had similar issues.

The port is brilliant giving nintendo players lots to do as they save the universe on the go which is the advantage the switch offers players being able to take the console anywhere they want to play to show off the games to both friends and family and I for one recommend trying out this port if your looking for something new to play. That’s all for this review I hope you enjoyed. Jave a great day and take care.

Dungeon Crowley

Now I’m no stranger to reviews since I love the gaming industry so much. Many people turn to reviews whether they are from a professional or their friends. These reviews help people with the choice of if they want to buy the game or not or any product for that matter, which brings me to my review of a game called Dungeon Crowley. I received an email from the dev team offering me the key for the game. Being a big fan of RPGs I wanted to try the game out and it had an interesting plot idea. In the email I received it said you’re trapped in a delusional world and have to find your way out but the steam introductory for the game is a bit different which I am posting just below.

“Dungeon Crowley blends RPG and FPS elements altogether while providing seamless full multiplayer-campaign where players must cooperate through procedural dungeons. Follow through the delusions and discoveries of a teacher which engages with the occult while facing financial problems.”

I guess it does talk a bit about the delusional aspect but in the email which sadly I’ve deleted it made it sound as if your mind was trapped and your objective was to find a way out but let’s continue. I wanted to try this out being a fan of RPGs and the whole being in first person for a dungeon crawler since the only real dungeon crawler I’ve played is Diablo 3.

So you start in a small bedroom and after walking around a bit you find steps leading above ground. After exiting the stairs you see a house directly in front of you. As you proceed to said house you find a chest with a weapon inside for me it was a sword I don’t know if it will be different for everyone but that’s what I got so after exploring the extremely bare 2 story house I decided to move to the next door which had a lever next to it. The door wouldn’t open so I pulled the lever thinking that would unlock it which it did but it also spawned in all the monsters for the beginning area which were goblins and the bigger ugly human sized versions. I fought wave after wave making my way through finding armor pieces health potions and leveling up. After a few minutes the repeatative aspect started kicking in as I for the life of me could not find a way out or how to move on. I knew it couldn’t be the game files since everything was up to date. Was I missing something? After another lap around I decided to try the multiplayer which for me didn’t want to work. It wouldn’t connect which sucks as I feel maybe that would have been my answer to progressing forward or maybe they should have added a way point or something like any normal rpg. I mean there’s nothing pull the lever and go kill. What rpg does that? There is no item telling you this starts the mission. I mean can this really be called an rpg in the end? No I’m sorry but I can’t call this an rpg.

The game feels very basic. You only have 3 stats: strength, intelligence, and dexterity which depending on your actual weapon you only sink skill points into 1 slot unlike other RPGs where you need multiple and seeing as they tell you what there for underneath them its obvious that if you have a sword you go straight strength. Another issue I found which I’m not sure if it’s a bug or intentional I couldn’t switch weapons during my travel I found a sweet staff that I wanted to try out but everytime I unequipped my sword and moved the staff over it just fell out of my inventory and I had to pick it up again which really started to annoy me as I was more then able to equip the staff. A major thing missing from my experience was there are not vendor shops or a way to dismantle gear you didn’t need. You literally just leave it there in the world which i feel is a problem as that can hinder performance from your CPU or GPU depending on which one the game uses most.

The games file size is surprising coming in at 24gb during install which isn’t an issue considering most hard drives are huge now a days.

I can only think of 1 positive thing about this game and that’s the music. You have some kick ass rock instrumentals playing as you move around which is honestly pretty awesome since they didn’t stick to normal music like other games.

Now comes the hard part for me. After scrolling through the steam reviews and being flabbergasted by every positive review I read I knew that I was missing something but what after being stuck in the same area over and over again what was I looking for what did I miss? I for one can’t find the positive to this game. I don’t see what others see in this game and as of this writing I just can’t recommend someone go and spend the 19 bucks it’s going for on steam right now. Maybe after a few updates it will be worth it but I can’t for the life of me suggest it when it’s so freaking boring and repetitive. Mow I promised I would come back after a month and try it again to see if it will change my mind but for right now tread carefully and maybe someone can tell me what I missed during my time with this game. I hope you have a great day and take care.

The Nintendo Switch

Announced to the world in October of 2016 nintendos new console had a lot of work to do to compete against the playstation 4 and the xbox 1 what shocked many when nintendo introduced this console was the support of the industry’s big names as the trailer of games flashed some big names stuck out mainly skyrim it was insane to see a huge title on a nintendo platform fast forward to March 3 2017 and the unit went on sale at the time I couldn’t afford one I played the waiting game.

I’ve owned my switch now for maybe close to 6 months give or take a few days and I gotta say I am blown away by how awesome this little power house is taking home console and combining it with handheld you have truly the best gaming experience in my opinion the fact that the switch has some great games to go with it from Mario odyssey to L.A noire, skyrim and recently pokemon let’s go pikachu and eevee to name a few and nintendo also has a few popular free to play titles from paladins to the highly loved fortnite to the recently released warframe nintendo has truly hit a grand slam with the switch.

Now I know theres a million professional reviews out there but that’s what they are professionals guys who will nitpick at any small issue they find me no I admit the switch has 3 issues that I have found and hope that if nintendo ever launches a revamp of the switch or a switch 2 that these things are fixed, first is the battery life when you play in handheld mode depending on the game as well as how long you play I feel the battery drains to fast with normal brightness on skyrim I’ve gotten a solid half a day of play mileage may vary per user I hope they can manage to add a battery that could give us a full day of usage since I have yet to find a decent accessory that adds battery life to it and the official battery packs that nintendo suggest are a bit premium in price. Next is the screen a small 6.2 inch lcd screen that I’m sure isn’t an issue to many since most cell phones offer that size screen the only issue I had screen wise was that certain areas of gameplay from skyrim I would max out the brightness and even then it was still dark in cave areas I hope theres a better screen that could keep price the same but offer better brightness and lastly is storage the switch comes built in with 32gb of storage which honestly isn’t a lot especially if you have a big collection of games now the specs say you can add up to a 2tb micro sd card for storage but I haven’t seen one of those and I’m sure they will cost a kidney in my switch I’m using a 128gb micro sd and so far for the 4 games I have installed it’s more then enough but I’m sure others will need more and hopefully Nintendo finds a way to add more storage and keep cost close to the same.

Now onto what makes me love the switch I grew up playing the original nintendo so at heart I’ll always love nintendo products and the switch is no exception it brings a dock which both charges the device and enables it so you can play on the connected tv in case the small screen is hurting your eyes or it needs charging but you dont wanna stop playing your game as for me my love lies with the handheld mode you dont realize how awesome it is to have a full blown console with amazing games at your hand and not worry about anything else well except maybe the battery. Nintendo truly nailed this concept I cant stress it enough i like to take mine around the house as well as the balcony to play it’s nice to have something other then my phone to play on.

For anyone wanting to buy the nintendo switch do so it’s an awesome experience if your a fan of zelda and pokemon the switch will have your back and if you just need something more mobile to keep the kids entertained on a trip well this has your back also thank you everyone for stopping by and have a great day

Override Mech City Brawl

I’ve played many top tier fighting games in my life from the original killer instinct to mortal kombat bloody roar, and soul caliber but override mech city brawl is a game that hit me out of left field. I hadn’t heard about the game until my buddy Savior told me about it and how he had an extra code. I told him send it my way, we can try it out together and that we did. Now during our testing of override the only modes available were online multiplayer and local co op so we spent the good portion of an hour trying out the 12 different fighters and just having fun.

What I did like was how each character was different than each other in movement and combat. You had big guys like Setesh and Rocco who hit hard but moved slow and then a ninja named Mya who was extremely fast. The match I used her I spent more time running around getting a feel for her then actually fighting. Now you wouldn’t think there would be any more separation between fighters but then there’s Pescado a luchador inspired mech who’s fighting style is on the advance side. I personally didn’t get to use him but Savior used him and his quote “there is a learning curve to him since he relies on drop kicking and using quick recovery” and I find that’s a good thing. The creators made sure each mech had not only their own movement and fighting style but they added a learning curve to some of them.

Now my favorite part of this game are the maps because they make me feel like I’m in an old Godzilla movie fighting against other monsters and watching the buildings crumble around really made it amusing and half the time I spent being the monster running through buildings for fun… and to get away of course. Another difference that sets this game apart from other fighters except for soul caliber is that periodically around the map drop pods show up with weapons in them with a great variety from shields to guns and a flame thrower to different melee weapons and my personal favorite the frying pan there is nothing better then hearing the loud cling as you smack your opponent with it.

Now this game truly emphasizes combat skill and calculating every move since you have a heat meter which is your stamina meter and you only gain access to your ultimate when your health reaches 25% or below and I for one think this is great as you no longer will suffer those insane 3 and 4 hundred hit combo’s and instead will have to make sure every move you make counts which I admit stamina meters in a fighting game is new but personally I love it no more combo spamming and even if you block your defense can be broken just letting you know.

The game does offer controller support so far since me and savior played on PC no word yet if there will be a console release but if there is I’ll let you guys know.

Override mech city brawl is a new fighting game that definitely deserves you to take a look into it and I for one will be watching this game for a release date it was fun offering 1v1 or 1v1v1 or 1v1v1v1 matches with a variety of maps taking you from Tokyo to Mexico to Egypt so if you’re a fan of mechs and fighting games then check out override mech city brawl. Have a good day and take care.

Volcanoids

Volcanoids I’m sure when you read the name you think robots and volcanoes which you would be correct this game has both. Let me introduce you to volcanoids, a survival game by an indy publisher and developer which share the same name indy studio. Volcanoid is responsible for this new take on the survival genre and I gotta say from what I’ve played so far in the alpha I can not wait to see this game grow. The game starts off with your character inside a submarine that’s docked on an island. The captain is your quest giver he helps you out in telling you what to do and he also walks you through the first few steps helping you get an understanding for the game as you see you won’t be building a normal base of operations.

After you get the basics down the captain is notified by the computer of an enemy drill ship about to surface only thing the ship is damaged and this ladies and gents is your new home sweet home, as you take over said ship you’re tasked with making repairs to it and adding the components you will need in order to get that puppy working.

The components are the interesting part as you have to place them on the walls of the ship theres a few that can be placed on the ceiling of the ship, you get your standard storage and refinery as well as the production module which give you plenty of tabs with things you can build to help you out on your journey.

From the map that you find in both the submarine and your ship the island is pretty big in size and you can explore it all and sitting nicely in the center of the island the main attraction to the survival part of the game the Volcano. This is what separates volcanoids from other survival games instead of zombies no you get an angry volcano sitting on a pretty timer waiting to erupt and catch players off guard and change the landscape temporarily. And if players aren’t paying attention well let’s just say a lot of work will be waiting for you and I speak from experience.

On the map the enemies you encounter are called cogs and boy are they a pest, the times I encountered them really were a pain in the butt. You see if you’re coming above ground your stuck in an arial view watching the ship leave the ground but this is where the first big issue comes into effect. While in this sequence you are vulnerable and the minute the cogs see you they’re on you blasting away and boy do they do damage to both your ship and you, now to counter these bad boys you get a trusty sawed off double barrel shotgun which if your good enough you can take the cogs down with the first 2 shots or if your terrible like me 4 shots depending on how many you miss. Depending on the area you visit you might get lucky and only find 1 or 2 cogs or be swarmed by the cog swat team and trust me they hurt. I do hope later on during beta’s or early release we see more guns cause the reload speed on the shotty is painfully slow and accurate. So far during my exploration I’ve seen 2 types of cogs the basic solders in red paint and the next level above them in a green paint, I’m sure there’s many more variations and sizes but we all need to discover them ourselves.

The drill ship itself is pretty cool but I think they could add a few more things like letting players see the underground world as you tunnel around this volcanic paradise. The drill ship being base command truly gives new life to the survival aspect always being able to move around and you can add more segments to the ship to make it longer so you can add more modules like storage as well as lockers. I hope to see upgrades to the drill itself like size or the groves on it so far weaponry for the ship hasn’t been added but the devs have told us on there discord there are plans to add weaponry to the ship which I hope they offer automated weaponry so that if your away from the ship it could defend itself or even add a system that if you leave to explore you can make the ship tunnel below till you return.

There’s a lot more I could talk about but this games really good and doesn’t deserve to be spoiled. If your a fan of survival base building games then do yourself a favor and keep an eye out for volcanoids when it hits early access in January 2019. Have a great day and take care.

Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu and Eevee

What can I say finally after many years we get the pokemon game on console that many have wanted, yes it’s not a new generation like many hoped for it’s a remake of pokemon yellow. Which I personally don’t see an issue as I’m sure nintendo needed a starting foundation to make sure there weren’t any major bugs or coding problems for their next pokemon game and honestly what better version to be remade then yellow. Pokemon Yellow had some of the best features from the first few games The fact that all 150 pokemon were on the same cartridge, you had pikachu following you around, and similar to the tv show you found bulbasaur squirtal and charmander and made them yours without the need to trade for them.

So then where is the issue? Why are people being so negative about the games? Well in simple terms a few of the changes made didn’t sit well with hardcore fans which I can understand. I’m not happy about the catching method but that’s not stopping me from enjoying the game, another is you can’t fight wild pokemon anymore which that in itself is a bit of an issue because then to train your pokemon you are forced to fight everyone and catch as many pokemon as possible over and over again but even then that’s not enough as you struggle to train the party that you like and may be forced to use random pokemon that you catch just to make it through or you can toughen it out and keep fighting and working on your current party.

I can see that being a big negative which after a certain area in the game it is but I mean come on it’s pokemon. I have been wanting this exact product for years and I for one am super hyped that nintendo has done this and they have even said that the next chapter in pokemon arrives in 2019 so people come on, take the game for what it is an amazing rework and enjoy it till the next gen releases.

Now these two games even tho they are remakes of yellow they feel more like a mixture of all 3 games red, blue and yellow. You see the only feature they implemented was the version exclusive pokemon which isn’t an issue if your an avid pokemon go player which I’ll explain later on. Now my love for this game is seeing everything that made the game fun going through Kanto after so many years makes me feel like the first time I started playing pokemon red on my gameboy pocket… yes I’m old I know lol, but anyways I’ve seen so many memories facing off against Brock and his rock types to getting the dome fossile to visiting the S.S Ann to get the cut h.m which sadly for this game H.M’s don’t exist more on that later. My point is this game has brought back so many memories that I for one even though I have found my gripes with it am truly thankful for nintendo giving us this long awaited gem.

Like any remake there are changes to the game and this is no exception. Firstly the biggest would be the lack of an actual safari zone which is now a small safari park with a few pokemon. The zone has been replaced with the pokemon go park which is where you send any kanto region pokemon you transfer over from pokemon go. I have tested this feature out. I sent my extra dratini over because I didn’t want to wait till end game to try and get a Dragonite. The one part about this that I found annoying is that you have to catch your own pokemon again. Why do I have to go through that much trouble for my own pokemon? I should be able to walk in there, claim my pokemon, and move on. I don’t know why nintendo did it that way but they did.

The next noticeable change like I mentioned earlier is that the H.M’s are gone and are now renamed as secret techniques that your starting partner learns. This is a plus as you don’t waste a move slot on the h.m but I do hope in the next generation game nintendo brings this back. I miss the struggle of which pokemon to make the h.m only mon, and it’s a bit comical and weird seeing my partner eevee learn to fly a balloon powered bike so that I can fly to places and I just learned surf so now I can see eevee riding a surfboard to get me places which honestly always makes me smile as I see eevee making it obvious that she will be learning the moves and not me like there intended to. Now as I haven’t played this game in years I forgot where to get flash and ended up traversing rock tunnel in the dark so kudos to me.

Now the newest feature to these games is the ability to connect your nintendo switch with your mobile device and connecting your pokemon go and let’s go games so that you can 1 way transfer pokemon into let’s go, yes you read that right 1 way transfer so make sure 1 million percent sure before you transfer any pokemon over that you either A. Have a much better version of the pokemon or B. Have more than one of the same pokemon before you transfer them as you will not be able to get them back period. I personally like this as you’re helping yourself complete your pokedex which any pokemon trainer knows that is not an easy thing to do.

There are a few ways you can play the game if you paid the extra cash for the version that brings the pokeball. You can play in docked mode and the pokeball becomes your controller, I wasn’t able to buy that version. I have the basic copy which I can still play in docked mode with the switch controller to move and catch pokemon but I want the old fashion feeling I play in handheld mode and catch pokemon by pressing A which I don’t mind. I can’t be up in my bedroom which is where my switch is connected since I have a son to watch. I like how nintendo didn’t force 1 specific form of playing the game on people and understand that many want to play the game where ever they can without any restrictions.

Now that nintendo has moved pokemon from the DS console family and added it to the switch family I do hope future installments of the game add more to the small side of things like the animations with certain attacks. It would be cool to actually see the fire attacks leave the attackers mouth I know you are thinking why does that matter? Well it doesn’t but it would be nice to see more realism added to the attacks as well as maybe a rework to the fighting system where instead of forcing the first pokemon in your party to be sent out maybe give trainers the chance to pick what mon is sent out so we can feel like we are actually battling instead of waiting till it’s your turn to switch pokemon and waste that precious first move. I also wanna see nintendo go all out with there next few pokemon games and maybe even one day be graced with a game that let’s us travel to every region to battle and catch pokemon but I know all this is a long shot but hey a guy can dream though.

I for one love this game, I love the memories that this game has brought back watching jessie James and meowth run away after every defeat going from city to city and making fools of team rocket or battling my rival or gym leaders. This game is like any other pokemon game out there so do yourself a favor if you are a pokemon fan and are on the fence about getting this game well don’t be. Take the plunge and buy it and enjoy it just like the old days when you played through yellow on the special edition gameboy that was released with it. I hope my words help you to buy the game and to have fun. Have a great day and take care.

Between the Stars Demo

Yes Demo you read that right in 2018 and I’m talking about a demo. Now this isn’t like the old playstation demo’s I grew up with where you played 5 or 10 minutes, According to the timer on steam I spent 61 minutes playing said demo.

Now I’ll be honest I didn’t go into this demo with high expectations for the simple fact that the only experience I’ve had with space games is a handful of hours on elite dangerous. Now for a space game playing on a mouse and keyboard felt really alien, the W/S keys were used for what I call up and down the A/D key were used for the roll of the ship and Q/E handled the left and right your standard keyboard movement keys for any game. The arrow keys controlled the distribution of power between your engines, shields, and weapons and then the scroll wheel and the mouse handled the thrusters which I’ll be honest since not that many games I’ve played use the wheel unless you specify it it was really hard to remember that it did the most important part of the game.

For an hour long demo I’m surprised at the content I was able to play considering the demo marked it as the prologue which for many also offered the prologue in a hard mode. You start in an empty area coming out of warp drive with your ship failing as you take control and go over the simple instructions on what keys move the ship and what keys fire weapons you are soon interrupted by the enemy which puts you and your failing ship in a classic dog battle 1 against 3 which considering the weaponry they had kind of felt a bit unbalanced as you fire away with your cannons and guns. You end the trio only to have the ships A.I warn you of more enemies in same rinse and repeat fashion you destroy them and the game teaches you about looting which yay loot. You must approach the ships until they turn holo and find the red spot hover your mouse over and click and hold boom loot for you.

After the little battle intro you make your way to the nearest space station looking for repairs. After finding the repair chief you make a deal for the repairs on the ship and this brings you to the first of 2 contracts you can complete during the demo. I admit the contracts felt normal for any typical game (go here find this go there check that fight and return) Nothing major to make it stand out to the only game I can compare it to. The second contract tasks you with babysitting and exploring and finding out what’s going on near a mining area. Once you investigate and find what you need you’re thrown into another space battle against some space pirates a few minutes later their gone and you have a computer chip to decipher. Making your way back to the station, the repair chief let’s you know your ship is repaired so you set out right away along the way in warp drive your crew decipher the chip and play the message on it. Soon you find out the danger and treason said message holds as you rush to warn your superiors.

The final part of the demo has you reach a republic space station just in time to see the admiral talking to another admiral welcoming him only to behold that said admiral is the bad guy starting a galactic war. Soon your giving control back of your ship and fly into the heat of battle after taking down a few enemy ships your A.I reports that Admiral Shiao (good guy) has died in battle, hearing this you become emotional and launch an all out attack on the traitor who happens to be in the middle of a cluster of 5 other ships. Again you take over and struggle for a few more minutes after getting the enemy down to 35% the cinematics take over as you sacrifice your crew and ship to destroy the traitor and enemies around, you come to asking your A.I how the ship is down only to a few seconds later see yourself and your ship explode and the name of the demo Between the Stars show up on screen. Demo over as a message of helping to support the production of the game flashes on screen linking you to the kickstarter.

Now I don’t know if it’s like that for every space game or if it’s just me but I was bored during the whole demo it wasn’t until seeing the message of treason on screen and hearing of the impending danger that I started to get interested in the story of the game and seeing my captain die in an explosion like WTF man. Story wise I feel the demo took to long to get you to the juicy bit and then your hit with a high pressure hose of story only to have it end a minute later. I hope the game has an amazing story cause the tiny bit that I got to see left more to be desired.

I also hope to see support for controllers and flight sticks added to the game upon release. If you’re a fan of space games and want one with the makings of a good story then keep an eye out for between the stars when it releases next year out on steam. Have a great day everyone.

Skyrim and the Switch

Hey everyone hows it going? Today I wanna talk about my adventures in skyrim on nintendos new console the switch. I’ll be honest when the switch was first announced like many I was a bit sceptical, like how can something that small run triple A games like skyrim and other games. Well it took me some time but I was finally able to buy a switch mainly cause of pokemon yes huge poke nerd here but anyways, the first game i got for it was L.A Noire the game looked beautiful controls a bit rough, fast forward about a month an a half and I bought skyrim for it I own skyrim on PC but barely play it since I’m always playing multiplayer games, now on the switch I play in handheld mode which drops the resolution to 720p which to me isn’t an issue I’ve been playing games since the original nintendo. I gotta say man the console was playing skyrim like a dream I wasn’t having any issues at all no frame drops no stutters even at the start when Alduin decides to come in and burn everything to ashes the switch played like a champ, the graphics for a tiny screen like the switch were beautiful walking around and enjoying the world around you does not disappoint I love playing in handheld as it doesn’t restrict me to being in one room and the fact I can take it with me anywhere I go is even better. Nintendo truly has done it with the switch, but there is one small issue I found and I’m sure it has to do with the battery size in the switch, the brightness isn’t very bright I play skyrim on max brightness since I have terrible eyes as it is and in a lot of areas I struggle to see anything to make out pathways. I love the switch it has a lot to live for and it really takes handheld gaming to the next level I only hope that when nintendo does there remodeled version of the console they find a way to add a bigger battery and maybe a better screen and brightness setting as well as more internal memory since your stuck buying a bigger SD card just to be able to save more games on it, but then again the console is kicking butt so I can forgive it for its battery. The console uses a type c charger to charge on its docking station, I really haven’t been able to play the switch docked so when I get the chance I will update you guys on it but I gotta say if your on the fence about the switch just jump over and buy it the console is amazing gives you the freedom of the old DS days but with better games not just Mario or pokemon the fact that more companies are bringing games to this new console is awesome I see a bright future for the switch and I hope nintendo doesn’t mess anything up cause their train is riding smooth on the tracks. Have a good day everyone.

Gambit

No I’m not talking about one of the best X-Men ever, I’m talking about destiny’s new game mode introduced with forsaken. Hey guys hows it going? So when bungie introduced forsaken they also introduced a new PvP game mode called Gambit. Now gambit isn’t your normal pvp mode as it has pve aspects which is what makes this game mode fun to play over n over. Now in gambit players play till they win 2 rounds and how do you win you ask? You summon a special boss called the Primevil now how do you summon said baddie well at the start of the round you get a big map divided into 4 sectors 3 of the 4 sectors spawn bad guys in a rotation when you kill said guys they drop a special object called motes which is basically the game modes currency the last area of the map is a flat platform where your bank rest. Your team must kill the monsters saving their motes till they have either 5, 10 or 15 motes saved to send a blocker to the enemy teams side, this is where it gets fun cause the faster you bank your motes the faster you can open up your invader portal to go to the other side and wreck havoc on the enemy team to make it harder so they can’t summon their primevil. Now I’m not one for competitive play but this is one mode where I have played hours into it, my current rank is mythic 1, this game mode I find it fun to play even with randoms but if you have a group of friends to play with the good times get better. This game mode is how you also get a special quest for the hand cannon malficense I won’t spoil anything from that quest so you can get it yourself. The map rotation is a bit lacking with only 4 maps at the moment but I can completely understand as it will take time to produce more maps cause of having to split it into different areas. The enemies you fight are picked at random from the enemies in game, the only enemies that are a sure threat is the primevil who is a taken boss. I hope to see some new maps added to this game mode in the future maybe even a hybrid gambit iron banner would be epic as well but my biggest request please bungie keep this game mode in future installments of destiny. It’s fun, it’s new, and it gives people a reason to play the competitive scene in destiny that’s all I have to say for this guys hope you enjoyed the read and I’ll catch you next time take care.

Activision Un-Happy

Hey everyone hows it going? So recently Activision released a statement about how they are unhappy with the way destiny 2 was performing sales wise which I can understand. You invest a 10 year, 500 million dollar contract you expect a good return in profits. But it makes me wonder how much say does Activision really have with the development timeline of the games they’re gonna publish or better yet who is at fault here for the game not selling so well? Is it big brother Activision who was standing over bungie’s shoulder and watching their every move or was it bungie who from the first destiny didn’t learn and kept making the same mistakes? That is the real question. I’ve been playing destiny since the Alpha days, the first game launched for ps4, ps3, the 360 and Xbox 1 to which I think it had a great variety except the fact that it left out a huge crowd, the PC gamers. Now to many, myself included, the first destiny was decent but it really didn’t feel like there was a story to it until all the DLC started releasing and the game didn’t pick up momentum. Fast forward 3 years and Destiny 2 releases previews of a great story and more content and the best part a PC release. Awesome even though PC had to wait an extra month. Now Activision stated that they weren’t happy with sales figures but didn’t disclose just where the margins were. I mean for all we know that margin can be 3 pennies short of their expectations. Now I feel bungie either needs more staff or needs to schedule there content production a bit better. The base game is a great story in my opinion, the end content was a bit lacking until the raid was released. Then the journey of the great leviathan was born, a massive space colony (cause I can’t call it a ship) holding emperor claus as the main boss. It had great mechanics but not a fault for its sales in my opinion. Here is where I feel Activision pushed bungie to hurry the dlc out the door, destiny 2 first dlc the curse of osiris takes us back to mercury to explore a new enemy area called the infinite forest home to a race of robots called the vex. Now when I first played this I loved the story behind it and I truly loved the idea behind the forest, basically a massive super hub that channeled every time line in vex (alien robots) existence but the story was short, the content was over to fast, the boss fight was to say crap you had your hand held the whole fight he could have been a raid boss even. Then comes the raid. Instead of making the raid for the dlc it’s own thing no they turned it into a lair for the leviathan which I feel was bungie’s first mistake. They have this awesome infinite forest that can literally give the player days of content, if they would go back to it instead of it just sitting there collecting dust. I feel both Activision and the pressure from their fan base hurt this dlc majorly. The second dlc called the warmind which had players returning to a different area of Mars to save rasputin from the hive wasn’t any better. The players enemy this time was some frozen hive and a big bad worm god who again could have made an epic raid boss fight but no they made him a basic boss battle and added another lair to the leviathan with a cabal boss as the main enemy. This time a new raid that has nothing to do with the story for the dlc again either pressure from fans or big brother Activision the dlc failed and the only fun activity it gave players were the escalation protocols which task players with surviving 7 rounds or enemies for any type of rewards. Fast forward a year and boom another dlc this time forsaken promises to change everything about destiny and give players an area that evolves every week after reset and guess what? Bungie delivered an epic DLC. A big area to explore, new enemies to battle in the form of the scorn, and an amazing story of loss, betrayal, and vengeance. My only quirk with the story was the vengeance part felt a bit empty in my opinion, now the raid, the dreaming city is huge and delivers a kick ass experience for people. The race to worlds first was beyond intense. Forsaken did for destiny 2 what taken king did for the first game, gave it life only this time players only waited 1 year instead of 2. Activision is worrying about the money the game is bringing in but was it the right choice as a publishe. You have a game that is essentially an mmo with fps aspects and I feel that Activision doesn’t understand the pressure that bungie has put themselves in with their game. I feel blizzard would have been a better option since they have wow. The next content drop for destiny is supposed to be in december with the black armory, I feel if bungie had offered both forsaken and this forsaken annual pass at a better price it would have been an easier pill for people to swallow so Activision help out bungie and stop worrying about the money for 2 seconds cause I bet you anything if bungie went back to the infinite forest like they did for Halloween and started giving it more content people would be happier and you would get your money back by bringing in more people. I also hope that for the next destiny bungie goes a bit darker with the story and gives us a game that’s bigger then d2 and all its DLC cause I feel taking destiny down a dark road would honestly help it out instead of always making us be the good guys. Activision sit back and open your eyes. The lore that destiny has created has basically surpassed your 10 year content contract. There is so much left to discover, to show off, to engage. So many stories to explore, so much to do. Stop being business and start thinking about your consumers cause in the end we buy your games, we play them, and we do better than any commercial or advertisement you can put out. People will take the word of a gamer over anyone else. Don’t pull the plug on destiny. Sit back, relax, and help bungie cause destiny is here to stay even with the repeat errors d2 made. I for one can’t wait till the next game releases and I hope we get more options,new enemies, more lore so who cares about the money worry about keeping your customers happy cause without us you don’t get paid. Have a nice day.