Bioshock Infinite

Bioshock Infinite published by 2K Games was released on platform for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 26 of March 2013. This is the third installment in the famous first-person shooter video game BioShock series. The storyline of this current version is entirely different from the predecessor, the gameplay concepts and themes still smells the same.

This is a game that definitely held a lot of attention, with a lot of high expectation from the gamers, this game is still able to open your eyes with some gameplay which you haven’t seen it before. The setting of BioShock Infinite is “Columbia” which is a city suspended in the air through a combination of “quantum levitation”, balloons and blimps. Launch by the American government in the year 1901, this city symbolize the ideas of exceptionalism.  Civil war eventually broke out on Columbia between different factions of citizen due to greed and control of the city. Hence, Booker DeWitt came in as a disgraced former agent of National Detective Agency who had performed many brutal acts. Booker is skeptical of faith, unwilling to accept the idea that he can be absolved of his sins by embracing religion, as he considers his sins to be extreme as to demand a penance rather than forgiveness. That leads him to be emotionally scarred and lead him towards excessive drinking. Another important character is Elizabeth, young woman who has been held captive in Columbia most of her life. A skillful pick-locker, intelligent and wears thimble in place of the tip of little finger, which she can’t remember how it was cut off.

The gameplay is quite similar to its predecessor as player needs to move around Columbia both on foot and by using grappling hook on the series of railways connecting the buildings, Skyline. Gaining weapons in numerous ways including on Skyline. There is a limitation where only two weapons can be carry at once. Power and abilities can be gained by using vigors, plasmids and tonics, and wearing gear which is all scattered around Columbia. Consuming vigors allow you to activate powers such as telekinesis, electricity manipulation and animal control. Vigors also have upgrade paths that can be purchased from the vending machines, and alternate-fire capabilities.

In addition to the normal mode, a mode called “1999 Mode” is also available in BioShock Infinite. This 1999 Mode is more challenging version of the game, and the reason it is called 1999 mode is because it is named for the release year of System Shock 2. This mode requires player to make mutually exclusive specialization choices such as Booker’s proficiency with certain weapon type, which may make later parts of the game difficult to complete as the specialization has caused some other impaired.

Overall, although this game does not have much freedom in story line wise, the setting of the game, the narration, the flow of the story, made this game extremely addictive. For the old BioShock gamer, welcome back after the long wait. For those who would like to try out this BioShock Infinite, watch out before it blows your mind off!

 

 

 

Tera Online Classes short review

TERA CLASSES

TERA is a new breed of Mass Multiplayer Online(MMO) that takes the fight beyond whack-a-mole monotony with modified aiming, dodging, and tactical timing to create intense and rewarding combat. It has several choices of control, let it be mouse, keyboard or PC-compatible console controller. It is also a faction-free world where all players can impact the community as well as the social, political and economic structures of TERA.

Picking a class in TERA as each class is unique and plays differently from any other class. All races can play any classes. The Lancer is considered as tanker in TERA due to its heavy armor and used lance and shield as their main weapon, They have the highest defense stat in the game. The downside of the Lancer is slow in combat, relies on charges to move more quickly while engaged in battle. A Lancer’s job is keep agro on monsters and actively blocking their attacks. It is considered as the easier tank compared to the other tank.

Warrior is another tanker in the game that plays its part in the game. They are the fastest in the movement speed compared to the other classes, it also has highest HP pool. The downside is they have fragile armor. They are evasion tank that actively utilize their flip, attacks with invincibility frames, and shout to avoid and interrupt bosses as they hold agro with cries and moderate damage output. Warriors are one of the most difficult classes in TERA as they need a lot of fleeing and voiding causing the player to have high movement in order to play this class well. They are able to run circles around enemies and avoiding all attacks. 

Priest is a healing class with buffing abilities that falls under supports. They are the healers and focused on buffing allies and keep everyone at full health. They also have the ability to resurrect should things didn’t turn up well. No downtime when soloing makes them one of the easiest solo classes in game. They are the main character during boss fights or some other group activities, they can be quite difficult as they need to maintain health of a team of people.

Another support class would be The Mystic, which is hybrid class that performs things like buff, off-heal, resurrect, crowd control and can off tank by using their pets. The downside of Mystic is they have low HP pool and low defenses. They also have lowest damage output in the game. It is a very difficult character to play and be good at it. Their main job is to keep the group fighting shape by topping off HP and MP, buffing, and smoothing out fights by dispelling monsters buffs and crowd control. This is the most difficult class in game.

The Slayer is a damage class. They are the melee DPS class in TERA. The Slayer is deft in combat, and can move quickly through enemy formations by stringing together combo attacks and utilizing their roll. Their medium armor made them frail while engaged in combat. AoE damage is their main weapon, far reaching whirling arc attacks emphasizes that focus. They are not good in solo because lack of self-healing ability and low defenses.

Berserker is another melee DPS hero that involves pseudo crowd control. With many slow, heavy hitting attacks equipped, they can wreak havoc on large numbers of enemies and single monsters alike. The Berserker shares the distinction of being the slowest moving class in the game. They mainly focused on knocking enemies over and causing heavy damage to large number of monsters. Slow movement speed is the downside of Berserker.

The Archer is a single-target DPS class with limited crowd control abilities. They have very high damage output in a short periods of time. Medium armor with second highest defense stat in game made them a good choice. Archers mainly focus on doing high amounts of damage very quickly to monsters. Overall, they are easy to play in game both solo and group setting. They are able to keep their distance and put big damage on monsters with very little chance if harm coming to their low HP pool.

The Sorcerer is a glass cannon DPS class. High damage output spread out evenly among their skills makes them most consistent DPS class in game. The downside is they have the lowest defense rate. They have the ability to keep their distance and dealt damage from far therefore it is still not too difficult to play if you are not too aggressive. 

Tera Online Classes Explanations, Trailer and more explanations (taken from youtube)

 

 

 

Scarlet Blade Classes

SCARLET BLADE ONLINE CLASSES

There are a total number of 6 playable all female classes in Scarlet Blade. Each of the character has their own role to play when it comes to the PVP situation. Teamwork do matters as how you set up the team with different classes of members combining together to slaughter the other side of the team.

The Defender from the name itself you get to know that this a tough character. Similar to the warrior class, they are relatively good on close range combat. Big swords swaying around is what you are about to expect from this character. This character is will also get into rage when an ally becomes injured and they will start cleaving their way through dozen of enemies until they reach their fallen comrade and protect them till the Medic arrives. This is a true survivor intent character when it comes to protecting allies. The large sword held by Defender could practically double as a shield.

The Whipper is a not too common class as this whip-thingy seems to be out dated since the early 1970s. As usual using whip as her weapon, this character are specialist in AOE(area of effect). In other words, they are able to dealt damage with their weapon in a big area rather than one or two enemies. In combat she is rather agile and has good reflexes in order to strike all available targets with one attack. As this is one of the most effect crowd damage character, they will be quite demanding when it comes to boss fight or PVP because of the slaying power that they own.

The Medic which is one of the very important class where this is the only class with healing and reviving skill. The can cast best buffs in the game that makes them really important in the battlegrounds. This is a character that you cannot miss if you are going for raiding or PVP as you will have injured teammates and you will need them to support in order not to lose on the battle. She not only doles out blessings, when you need them they can be threatening as she can deal out a healthy serving of hurt as well. Poison is her main damage dealing skill and it will render the enemy unconscious and even disable their equipment.

The Shadow Walker is a stealth unit who dealt high melee damage. Having ability to cloak themselves from the enemy, they are very famous for back stabbing and will cause you decent amount of damage. An important character to kill out the opponent’s team pillar such as their Medic. One strike and that will be road to victory.

The Sentinel which seems they do not post any threat to their enemy is rather useful as they are able to cast long range elemental damage without getting into the battle field. Therefore the medic will not have to take care of them as they are far away from the battle field. This class can be a huge debuffer and can be very useful in battlegrounds and PVP.

The Punisher which is a range destroyer specializes on guns. With significant amount of accuracy, the punisher can deal quite a fair damage despite the range that they are having. A good class to play if you are good in aiming. 

 

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Scarlet Blade Online Introduction

Scarlet Blade Online Introduction

Scarlet Blade offered by Aeria Games has been infecting the world of Multiplayer Online game lately. It is a mature MMORPG that involved Sci-Fi Theme. This game takes place on the future version of Earth after humanity became extinct and annihilated by alien invader called Nurak. Mankind in the game are the last hope to regain their home through violently fighting against the devilish creatures from other planet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The gameplay is combat action based, with different combos and skills that make it fluid and dynamic. It is not something that required you to read the manual. Moving your character around using the so called ”gamer’s direction” which is the WASD and the mouse to control the direction. It is also an intense PVP and battlegrounds, the fun is limitless on its Massive PVP. You will get to kill the opposite faction for fun and gain experience at the same time, either your kill or kill steal. The experience calculation is based on the damage dealt.

 

If you are a good kill-stealer, it will not be an advantage as you only get the portion of your damage dealt. It is teamwork that matters on the warzone, instead of damage counts on enemies, it also depends on how you heal on your fellow faction mates. This game focuses on huge and intense PVP that urges the players to go for faction killing as you will gain a lot of benefits from it.

There are also several sideline of the game such as pet system, puzzles, instance, enchantment and many more. Although it is not new, the club really takes the cake. It is a feature that you are able to enter an awesome room with techno music, whine your head and let your hair down after one hell of a killings. If you go to the dance floor, your character will dance automatically and plus your pet gain experience while your character is partying which means you are away from your keyboard.

A good feature to keep gamers logged in. The customization is very limited which is the downside as you will not be able to create male character to your liking. Even the size and height of the characters are preset, all of them look almost alike except you can change the face and also hairstyle.

The newest feature which is outfit customization which is also kind of boring as you can get that in almost every MMORPG. The weapon design is really outstanding as you can see classy blades, whips and many more. One thing I like about the game is almost every equipment you wear ends up almost naked. It is simply an excuse for playing MMORPG with combination of soft-core which aims to take the market of the mature audiences.

Overall, I think this will be quite a good game as its main feature is PVP and it will not be too boring to play like traditional RPG where you need to gain experience and level and bla bla bla. Another addictive add in as you will have good enjoyment of playing this game just by looking at the hotness and perfect curve of your character.

 

Below information are taken from http://blog.games.com/2013/03/04/scarlet-blade-hands-on-preview/

Scarlet Blade features many different mini-games and extra content that we weren’t able to see anything during our short time with the game. There were some things that I was able to experience and can tell you about here.

Lounge / Nightclub
One of the more interesting parts of the game, and one that may cause a bit of a stir for some is the lounge/nightclub area. The purpose of this nightclub zone is to hang out and relax while showing off your Arkana’s lingerie. The club can be accessed once you are level 25 and costs a certain amount of in-game gold. The club features NPCs where you can buy any of the items and gear that you need as well as a dance floor where your character will perform a special dance while hanging out with other players without the fear of monsters taking you down. Players in the lounge will get extra EXP bonuses for their pets as well as show off their avatar’s lingerie while listening to an ever-changing selection of music. There is also a special VIP club that costs additional gold and has special added bonuses not found in the nightclub.

Puzzle Game
The puzzle system is a not so much of a mini-game but something worth mentioning here. When you gain levels through the game you are able to go to the puzzle section where there are about 15 or so different puzzles to unlock. Pieces are unlocked either via leveling up or paying some of your in-game gold for more pieces. The puzzles have 24 different pieces that when unlocked will reveal an often-times risque image that you can either use for your own viewing pleasure in-game or exporting it to your computer and using it as a background. A bit of a warning, or incentive, the puzzles do contain nudity.

Card Game
The cards mini-game is played by finding random cards throughout the world as loot or by trading with other players and matching them up using standards poker style hands. Once you’ve matched up a certain poker hand you can turn it in for prizes which may include rare items and/or consumables for use in-game or during PvP.

 

Game Videos

Gameplay Video

 

PVP Trailer

Gameplay Trailer

Gears of Wars Judgement Introduction

 

The fourth entry of Gears of War series, the Gears of War Judgment has finally surfaced on Xbox 360 on 19^th of March 2013. This third-person shooter that’s developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly, has come up with both single player and multi-player mode.

The single-player campaign takes place through series of flashbacks from the previous version as each members are narrated to different stages in the courtroom testimony. If you are able to complete the main Judgment campaign with 40 stars, the “Aftermath” campaign will be unlocked. The “Aftermath” is a side-tale of Gears of War 3 story that follow the characters Baird and Cole and styled closer to classic Gears of War stages. This “Aftermath” campaign became lengthier stages and more wide-open areas. The Aftermaths campaign is what gamers was hoping to see from the new Gears of War title. As you are proceeding with stages, there is a smart spawn system that will change the flow of the game dramatically at times. If you are doing well through the games, the system will make life more difficult for you as it will spawn enemies in different locations to push player harder. If you are still not too good at the game, the system will ease up for you depending on the difficulties that you have chosen.

The multi-player has two new modes which is the OverRun mode and Free-for-All mode. OverRun mode is a 5 vs 5 Multiplayer version of Co-Op survival mode similar to Beast Mode from Gears of War 3. One team plays as Locust Horde and the opposition would be COG Soldiers. Both team will need to fight the hearts out to destroy 2 Emergence Holes and a Generator. If both teams win a round, the team that destroyed all 3 objectives the fastest will be the winner. The Mercy Rule of OverRun is if the second attacking team beats the first attacking team’s score, the game ends. Free-for-All mode is a basic Death match multi-player mode. The first player to reach 25 kills will be the winner.  Eight maps can be chosen by the players. Several features have been changed from its predecessor, including ability to plant grenades on the walls, damage boosts from active reloads and many more.

Game play wise has many changes as well. One of the changes that are noticeably different from its predecessor is wall bouncing. It gets really simple in this game compared to the previous version as it helps a lot when you are playing multi-player or single player as it made you avoid a lot of attack. Another addition feature is switching weapons when you are sprinting. Previously none of the version allows switching weapons while moving and this feature definitely ease up those fast hand gamer as they can react and change their weapon according to situations needed. The aiming are also slide different from the previous game as you may find changing direc

 

tions of radical may be a little heavy due to the weights of the weapon. Unlike the previous version, this game also starts off with one primary and one pistol. Never two primary weapon in this version of Gears of War.

Gears of War Judgment is definitely a must try to all the Xbox 360 users. You may find it a little complicated in the beginning, but it gets very addictive when you are familiarized with the game.

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God of War- Ascension introduction

GOD OF WAR _ ASCENSION

Developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio, the long awaited God of War – Ascension has finally surfaced on March 12, 2013 in PlayStation 3. This third person action-adventure video game is the 7^th of the God of War series. God of War series always stood out among their peers such as “Devil May Cry” or “Bayonetta” due to its combination of Japanese gaming sensibility of stringing combo attacks to make their rapid-fire moves more colorful and artful. The background of the story is ancient war that involves all super-powered Gods that based on Greek mythology. Players get to control the protagonist Kratos, who is the former servant of God of War.

The gameplay itself is similar to its predecessors, which required fast and responsive controlling of the gamepad as it focuses a lot on combo-based combat. The gameplay is also viewed from a fixed camera perspective with some scenes that shows first-person view. Other than combating, players are also requires to perform platforming and puzzle game elements as the game proceeds. Platforming includes sliding down walls, jumping across chasms, climbing up walls and swing on chains in order to proceeds through certain section of games. Some of the platforming may happened to be more difficult as it requires more precision of timing during jumping and also precision of direction controls. Therefore players have to be a little more patience when it comes to this few areas. The puzzles includes moving boxes to act as jumping off points, solving mazes and many more which is brain cracking. It is definitely a much more interesting gameplay rather than combating over and over again. As the game progresses, players are also able to unlock increasingly elaborated and acrobatic moves, but the combat never sacrifices this viscerally gritty charm.

One of the most special thing about God of War Ascension is it offers online multiplayer that feature up to eight players with story element. Featuring 4 multiplayer modes which are Team Favor of the Gods, Match of Champions, and Trial of the Gods and Capture the flag. In the mode of Team Favor of Gods, 2 teams with maximum 4 players a team are separated in to Spartans and Trojans. Each team accumulate a target of amount of points, which is knows as Favor, needs to earn by kills and other methods to help their team to win. Other than offensive playing, players may also help their team by capturing altars, collecting orbs, setting traps and many more. The Match of Champions are so called individual events which is a death match version of collecting Favor(individual points). Trial of the Gods is a ‘teamwork’ game as 2 players cooperate to hit time trial. Players will face five increasingly hard waves of mythological monsters and followed by the boss.

This game is definitely a must-try to the God of War fans. To those who are new to God of War, you wouldn’t regret trying out this game as its storyline is interesting and the gameplay is breathtaking. The multiplayer is also a new improvement made to make the game more addictive and challenging. 

 

 

 

Ragnarok Online 2 Healing Priest

Monday, January 14, 2013

Guide to Healing Priest by Fuyuko

http://ragnarok-online-2-guides.blogspot.com/2013/01/guide-to-healing-priest.html

 

I started my Ragnarok Online 2 adventure with an Acolyte hoping to eventually build a priest. Unfortunately I had no idea what I was doing at first and managed to get to level 8 or so then realized that I was doing it wrong only to delete my character and remake it over again. From what I’ve noticed so far the importance of leveling any DPS skills over one point is useless because in a dungeon or raid group you will not be using them at all and you will be focus healing and buffing your group. When a player in your group dies it’s important to bless them right away because they will not be staying alive for long without buffs. Healing as a priest from what I’ve read is easier for healing a single target like a tank.

The type of build I’m using is more of a hybrid healing build since currently I’m leveling. I’m mostly investing points into INT but in the future I’ll most likely be going with something similar to 40 INT 40 AGI and the rest into VIT. I put an example of my build in the table below. I find I can gather a group of monsters using Oratio and then just AOE them to death. It makes questing much easier then Holy Light spamming. Of course if you wanted more points to spend towards your support skill tree you could completely skip all the other DPS skills on the DPS tree.

The skill Aqua Benedicta will save you a fortune on potions in the future of course I still took Alchemy as a job because I wanted to be able to make the buff potions for myself. Aspersio is one of the most valuable skills to a priest because it allows them to use resurrection with no cool down time. It takes around 3 seconds to cast resurrection and is a valuable tool in a raid where 3 seconds wasted can mean a wipe for your group.

Highness heal can critical up to 4k+ and with meditatio at 1 you’ll be able to heal around 2k+ every 2 seconds it also effects sanctuary and raises the hp of your party members temporary. Meditatio’s translation is really poor in the English and does not really explain properly of what it does. But meditatio doesn’t effect the percentage of a critical hit. It effects the value of the heal amount so for example if your heal was a critical of 3000 damage it would raise it to 3500 or 4000 instead. And the combination of having aspersio a healing priest would not need to raise the skill. Only a DPS priest would see value in increasing meditatio.  Angelus is pretty useless because bosses will 2-3 hit a party member regardless of the amount of your current defense especially with the amount of defense it gives. If the skill however was 100% instead might allow someone to last longer but the value of what angelus gives is terrible. Archangel has a really awesome ability but as a healing priest you would not want to waste the points in this skill even as a DPS priest you would be forced to give up resurrect and bless and the investment in other skills would be much more valuable to you. Suffragium is a very useful skill but for my build since I invested in the extra DPS skills I did not have enough points to make use of the skill. Perhaps at max level I’ll respect and drop the other DPS skills to pick up that one but if your making a pure build you can drop the extra DPS skills and pick it up right from the start. Sanctuary is useful for survival and should not be used for healing your party using aspersio is a must and should always be paired together. Highness Heal causes a HOT(Healing Over Time) besides just healing your party members when used with aspersio but this skill can cause a lot of threat you would want to avoid using this skill at the start of a battle to avoid getting killed by the boss until the tank has built up enough threat. Assumptio will keep whoever you decide to give it to alive whether you decide to give it to yourself or another healer in the group.

The other valuable professions to go with as a priest is either blacksmithing, or artisan. Avoid using Chef because it has the lowest value to a priest. That’s about it for a healing priest. Once I learn the class more I’ll make another guide with DPS priest and explain what you’ll be aiming for in terms of skills and how they are used.