http://www.cineris.org/blog Musings on Electronics and Culture Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a response to Shamus' post here, this was originally meant to be a comment but it kind of grew and I felt guilty at neglecting this place when I actually wrote something fairly substantive. It's pretty undeniable that there's significant market forces at work in [causing game developers to ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/11/10/towards-a-new-equilibrium/ Despite being underwhelmed with the amount of content in L4D, I went ahead and pre-ordered L4D2. What can I say, the game cost $30 and at that price point it's hard for me to pass up a AAA title that I know I'm going to like. My first impressions with L4D2. Do ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/11/01/l4d2-demo/ Smoker - The Smoker is the odd man out of the special Infected. When I first began playing L4D, the Smoker was by far my favorite Special Infected. These days it is my least favorite. The Smoker's main role seems to be to incapacitate and separate the Survivor group. Basic Gameplay: Left ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/06/29/l4d-tips-smoker/ Hunter - The Hunter is typically the main damage dealer of the special Infected. It is also probably the single most difficult thing to play as in L4D. Effective Hunters will pick off isolated survivors, dealing damage that will further slow down the survivor's movement, or force them to delay ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/04/05/l4d-tips-hunter/ After reading Shamus complaining about how there is no instruction to playing as the Infected (zombies) in L4D, I figured I would write up a bit covering some of the basic tactics and important things to consider while playing. Boomer - The Boomer is, in some ways, the crux of the ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/03/24/l4d-tips-boomer/ Found this video demonstrating some degenerate L4D tactics. This isn't Shiva spam, but it gives a good taste of the annoying non-fun entailed in Shiva. The only time the Survivors are even at risk in this whole video is towards the end, and the players are so incompetent that they ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/03/22/l4closet/ 1. Other players. L4D is no fun unless you are playing with friends. When I first purchased this game I immediately hit the online lobbies to play through the campaigns. Within five minutes of starting the game I already had one person who went idle leaving the rest of us ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/03/02/top-ten-reasons-why-l4d-should-be-l4bargainbin/ I don't think I can embed this player, but check out this link anyway. http://ningin.com/mediastream/item:show/2008/11/21/megaman-movie-official-trailer/ I'm not quite sure what to think. I suppose for a low/no-budget fan movie it looks good. The soundtrack, judging by the trailer, sounds great. http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/01/24/mega-man-fan-movie/ I'm really fucking tired of people who play Xbox 360 and PS3 calling themselves "hardcore gamers." Look at the list of top 10 games on 360 up above. See anything in common? Those are the games that most people play on 360, and with the exception of ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2009/01/22/videogame-gourmands/