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Weekly Poser; Has a Beta ever changed your mind on a game?

23/2/2014

 
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This question has a lot to do with the Titanfall Beta that has finished this week. Strictly speaking a Beta is a test for the developers to make sure the game is functioning as they wish. However they now seem to be  used by the general populous a s a away to gauge the suitability of the game.

My question to you all is; Has a Beta ever changed your mind on game in a positive or negative way?

We will be adding thoughts from all our social streams to this article and those streams just to get more views from everyone we can.

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Random Chat; Why the opening 4 Minutes 11 seconds of The Walking Dead was a true game changer in TV.

22/2/2014

 
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The best way to start to a TV show is something that will stick in the mind, this is something The Walking Dead did and it still amazes me that the creators of the show had the bottle to pull it off. The opening revolves around the two characters you can see below. One is Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) the other is (or was) a little Girl.    

The opening actually starts off in a very quiet manner. You view a quiet country road with a car coming towards the camera. Then it becomes apparent to see that something is amiss, there are glimpses of cars turned over and damaged in what can only be described as a chaotic event. The whole scene is tense and this is added to by the lack of speech and background music. You do get the odd chirp of a bird and scenery related sound as Rick picks his way through the carnage to a petrol station and then we hear it.
A slow moving shuffle of what we assume is shoes. Rick picks up on the sound at the same time as we do and investigates. Then he spots a little girl in a dressing gown and fluffy slippers he calls then and says the immortal line “don’t be afraid”….

If you have got this far and not seen the scene you will be spoiled for ever more if you continue.

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Image courtesy of AMC,
Description:The Walking Dead, Season 1
Characters/Actors:Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Greg Nicotero
Photo Credit: Scott Garfield/AMC
At this point the girl turns and we get to see fear in the eyes Rick instead. His realisation that this young child is a zombie seems to affect him and that’s why I love this scene. The realisation that he is going to have to take on this girl seemingly hit him in hard in the few seconds of calm he has before she starts moving towards him. 

The creators of the show could have gone any way they wanted to with the zombie a man, a woman or a boy but a little blonde girl seemed to me a statement of intent. It meant no one is safe. How often have we seen children get shot on television in a brutal fashion? I’m not sure I have ever seen such a brutal execution of a child in any form of visual entertainment ever. The sound of the gun shot echoes in the surrounding environment and the bullet hit is shown in slow motion along with the blood splatter. As the body falls you finally get a brief soundtrack and the title scene kicks in. This is a bar setting scene if there ever was one.

Admittedly the girl is a zombie but the feeling of revulsion still remains as we are yet to find out what it means in this universe to be a zombie. She was a young girl and our feelings about child killers is something ingrained in to most people from a young age. I’m not sure however though if anyone would blame Rick for his choice as it was more about survival then about violence towards a child. For the life of me I can not even think about how many zombies I have seen killed in this show but this is the kill that I remember (and one other from Season 2). Maybe it's because I'm a father? or it could be the first kill always sticks with you? but I can not remember the death of an extra that has been so strong in any other show.

The whole opening was perfectly pitched and made more of an impact on me then any other TV show or version of The Walking Dead. The stellar opening means the rest of The Walking Dead has a lot to live up to. The question is can it? We will endeavour to find out as our shuffle around Kirkman's universe continues.

Random Chat; World of tanks Tips; using Artillery to your advantage in the early levels.

18/2/2014

 
This video (at the bottom of the post) came about after a brief chat on Twitter about the toughness of WoT in the early stages. As you can see in the exchange below.
This is a little trick but one I hope so,e will find useful. 
The second part of the video shows how not to play this game.
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Random Chat; Titanfall Thoughts and Beta Gameplay

17/2/2014

 
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As a spoiler this game has hooked me.
First Person Shooters have a habit of making players fell like Gods or else make them feel worthless. One of the unique aspects aspects of Titanfall is no matter your skill you can feel like a God among Men.
In this video I have tonnes of fun in a Titan or two as well as get some kills and more than a dash of deaths. 

Special thanks to @ILoveMalteaser1 for sorting me out with a Beta code a wonderful gesture and very much appreciated.

The weekly Poser; What completed game has the pulling power to reel you back in?

15/2/2014

 
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This is a new section where one of the team will ask a question for everyone to think about and drop an answer to if possible. Always feel free to comment as your opinion is always welcome.
So without further ado. Borderlands 2 had a free weekend on Steam and I having completed the game on PS3 thought I could play it a little to compare and contrast the two versions. Now a week later I have sunk a further 14 hours (according to Steam) into my newly acquired PC version and I'm loving every minute of it.

My question to everyone in Internet land is;
What completed game has the pulling power to reel you back in?.

We will be adding thoughts from all our social streams to this article and those streams just to get more views from everyone we can.

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Random Chat; Flappy Bird lived and died by Social media.

8/2/2014

 
Sorry for my technical noobishness but please read the tweet feed below in a bottom to top fashion.
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This tweet is from the creator of the hit game Flappy Bird. (from a screenshot from the official twitter app)
The mobile game Flappy Bird is being taken down from its perch at the top of the mobile gaming charts by its creator. The reason being the pressure the creator is getting from sources all over the world about his creation. of course the question is Why?

The stream above is a little cryptic but in a few hours the game will be gone forever.

I promise you one thing the review we posted earlier about this game has nothing to do with the news, as we posted it after the twitter release. You can read Matt's thought on it here. Then below in blue are a few thoughts
This is a game I tried and deleted within half hour of playing. I can see the attraction but its just not for me. As we do not know the full reasons for the removal it's not fair to speculate. 
However the legacy of this game however should live on in any budding developers mind. Social media can make a title but if you use this form of advertising beware the repercussions and fallout that can sometimes be levied at you.
-Paul

Random Chat, The lighter Side; @MattTaylor138 attempts to show how to play Flappy Bird.

7/2/2014

 
Usually known for his prowess Matt decided to take on the new hotness in the gaming world Flappy Birds. We have his full review coming later but for now you can have a chuckle at these pretty horrendous (I'm being kind) failures.

Random Chat; The Walking Dead, a poster child for Trans Media Entertainment.

6/2/2014

 
Whether your passion is Gaming, TV or Comics or a combination of these you can have helped but hear the name The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman's along with Tony Moore (who was the original artist but he was replaced by Charlie Adlard at the 7th issue) creation has gone from strength to strength since initial comic release in 2003. Spawning books a TV show and now a hugely successful game franchise (along with a not so successful game but lets keep quiet about Survival Instinct).
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I'm a fan of the three areas mostly thanks to the way they interweave with each other. Each can be appreciated on its own merits but as a whole they give a great insight into the post Zombie Apocalypse world. The varied characters are multi dimensional each with their own back story  and inner demons. This helps the narrative to flow and make something interesting come out of nearly every issue or episode. 

This kind of media is growing and thanks to the efforts of Telltale, Skybound (along with Image) and AMC it looks like the Walking Dead is destined to grow even stronger as time goes on.

We have a cunning plan in how we want to cover this type of media which we will be sharing more of in the coming weeks. So for now I leave you with this common question; who actually cuts the grass? 
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Random Chat; Tips on Linking Your Youtube Channel to Social Media via @xXGunsForShowXx

5/2/2014

 
If you are aspiring to grow in the Youtube sphere then social media is one of the most effective tools you can use to grow. In this little tips video Guns will show you a little how do on YouTube. Its worth taking the time to do this.
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    The random chat is changing a little to be just as the title says. This is going to function as my place to chat about things that can come from anywhere, from TV to films to Sport to gaming. Most things are up for discussion even though I will avoid the key no no's like Religion, Politics and Macro Economics (Micro economics of the gaming/comics world though is still fair game) and of course the biggie whether the Spice Girls were the greatest musical group of all time or not. I hope to bring a taste of something different in these posts and please feel free to comment where you see fit.

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