MW3: Awesome Campaign, Split Screen Fun Factor gets a 9, Bad Multiplay Caused by Bad Bad Team Balancing, Battlefield 3: Awesome Multiplayer, Campaign = Balls
9 JanSince everyone is at it, I’ll give the MW3 vs Battlefield 3 bout a whirl.
But let me tell you before hand that I may be biased to Battlefield, having spent most of my holidays early last 2011 playing Battlefield 2 Online. I’ve played MW1 and 2 though and played online a bit on the Wii, back then, streaks and perks were still too overpowered – I had fun but not as much with BF2 with its tanks and snowmobiles.
I recently picked up Battlefield 3, and the multiplayer is just more awesome than ever, I suck compared to most people I know, but once in a while good strategy will make you get into momentum and score decently. I’ve had a chance to play a bit of MW3 multiplayer first hand, and I can now say Battlefield is more forgiving – and will not kill you around the next corridor – this might be a shallow or even inappropriate comparison but Battlefield feels like Tekken, think out your combos, practice, learn the counters, and against hardened veterans you can play a bit more defensive and make a come back with smart playing, MW3, feels more like Mortal Kombat, you can piss off a veteran by using Sheeva’s tele or, kill someone of with a few special moves, then laugh with your friend over babalities, fatalities and pit finishing moves. I’m sorry but gameplay wise, MW3 doesn’t bring anything new to multiplayer table, but it is indeed fun, they both are.
Some friends came by over the weekend and swapped a few Blu Rays with me, La Noire for Heavy Rain as I recall, and a few others. They were kind enough to bring over MW3 as well, so me and my brother finally had a chance to check it out on PS3. He for some reason feels a bit betrayed by Infinity Ward, being a fan of the first and second Modern Warfare, I was surprised that he didn’t cut Infinity Ward some slack when I asked him what he thought of the third installation. “Sucked balls, nothing new, same engine, guns sound the same” – honestly I think this was brought by the fiasco brought about by some employees leaving Infinity Ward. Nonetheless we got a peak of it online and here are some things we found.
What some people seldom mention is that MW3 just has a little bit more of a friendly play fun factor than BF3 – I’m trying not to say kiddy fun, but come on warfare simulation award goes to BF3 hands down. But MW3′s Spec ops was great, split screen multiplay was awesome as well. I could sense my brother trolling when he intentionally dived mobs in wave mode just to watch his wingman run over and save him from bleeding out, but I could see he was definitely having fun. MW3′s split screen goes upto 4 players I think and gives you a whole lot of content to play with, whatever Infinity Ward lacks in warfare simulation they make up with these fun modes that BF3 didn’t think to employ – and maybe just maybe these games target totally different audiences.
The online gameplay flaw is still there though, obvious and apparent. Here’s a small clip of the multiplay, my bro who is 300x a better FPS player than me, and a friend sharing splitscreen to do multiplay deathmatch. They sucked proverbial balls at level 1 against a few high level Japanese dudes. After the round everyone just left the game and ditched them both for the lobby, haha. My friend and I just settled to play League of Legend after this round and my bro went back to sweet ol’ Battlefield 3.
I hear the campaign for MW3 is pretty decent as well, I’ve played BF3′s campaign through and, god did it suck. Ok, so we’ve seen MW1, MW2 and Black Ops and a whole heap of other Campaigns for shooters, BF2 was a bit of meehhh… I’m sure Dice had these story lines to reference, but come on, Iran? What the hell! And I really didn’t get the whole interrogation thing, the other agent seemed to be pointlessly against Blackburn, the other one too forgiving, it was so by the book good cop bad cop it turned stale for me. Then they give a momentous choice at the end, which isn’t a choice at all cause if you don’t choose right you fail! Haha. Touche.
So I guess that’s my two cents. MW3 Better Campaign – Haven’t played it – but knowing Soap, Shepherd, Roach and Price will be around already assures a sense of substance compared to BF3′s seemingly cut and paste story line. MW3 has split screen mode to make up for the poorly thought overpowered perk pumped Elite players online.
Lastly though, which gives the game more for its value, not even considering the sound, graphics, helicopters, f-18 hornets, t-90s, and customizable guns… hehe sorry Modern Warfare, thank you for revolutionizing shooters the past decade though… but Battlefield seems to have more to offer when it comes to Online Multiplayer.
So buy MW3 if you don’t game online at all – the campaign should not disappoint, if you want want quick fast online matches – get MW3, if you like split screening with friends – get MW3. But if you want warfare simulation, strategy, teamplay, vehicles, BF3 is the game for you.
Bottom line is they both are great games. Haha, its just a shame I can’t afford the time to play both, so I had to choose one. So I’m happy with Battlefield 3 – maybe cause I’m a cheapskate.
Oh and btw if you game on PC, better pick up BF3 for pc, PS3 servers fit in 24 players. PC does 64… <insert troll face here>
Tags: Battlefield 3, BF3 vs MW3, Modern Warfare 3, MW3 Split Screen, Perk Pumped Elite Players, Rant, Review
The End? (Contagion – a short review, and Hollywood learns the art of “meh?”)
8 JanI’m afraid to admit it, but yeah I’m turning into that old guy that refers to movies with “That movie with that guy from that other movie with that other guy?”, or replies to recommendations with, “Really? It’s thaat Good? Maybe I should see it”. And it is sad cause I’d like to believe I’m a movie mogul to some extent, 5 years back I was one of those pompous kids who would shake his head in dismay saying, “tsk, tsk, wow I can’t believe you haven’t seen any of Kevin Smith’s movies” Yeah, I was an ass.
I recently started a list of things people recommend and keep it on my phone, and even look to metacritic or rottentomatoes for new stuff.
Recently came across a review for Contagion , 85% on rottentomatoes. The cast felt like Oceans 11 without Clooney, and Lawrence Fishbourne was in it so I had to see what the fuss was about (LF is like 2nd runner up to Samuel Jackson on my bad ass list – Though his role here is more Langston than Morpheus but you might have thought that already).
Contagion is one of those viral apocalypse movies with a more clinical, “what it would look like and how it would affect people” feel, rather than “how are we gonna beat the shit out of this virus- and end it all with a high five”.
There is no particular protagonist here – and damn hell I would’ve took an arrow to the knee if it had any of that sort – and spoiler alert, there is no high five in the ending to Contagion as well. I know Hollywood is just a script away from resolving a plot like this by blowing up microscopic amoebas with T-90′s or RPG’s. I needed something with a little more substance after playing too much Battlefield in my spare time, and this was it. The characters are all flawed in Contagion, and don’t hold up key positions in the plot, each and everyone reacts and fights his way through, and it’s nice to see a that.
Haha, a different version Outbreak, minus all the machismo and shouting Dustin Hoffman… or wait… haha. Lets just leave it at that.
One thing irks me though. Recently I’ve noticed a string of movies that revolve around plots that tend to leave people hanging. Yeah, the world needs more critical thinkers and movies that exercise “It’s up to you to imagine how it ends”, are great and all, but I just have the feeling its becoming too much of a fad, and feel like people are overdoing it. Dark Knight with its “Because he’s not a hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a dark knight.” line, then there’s Everything Must Go, a comedy, with the last scene being Will Farell and CD Wallace fondly exchanging puns, it left me feeling a bit cheated – OK, where’s the wife that started all this? Then there’s Contagion. These are great movies, but come on Hollywood we get it, it was great with Inception but it’s getting pretty tiring, while we’re balancing at the edge of the couch, waiting for that last riveting scene you, mind intentionally fudge us, grinning, mocking us with your sarcastic “we know better than you”, or “your stupid if you don’t get it” tone, “Haha! Theee End?”.
Pfftt.. Hollywood come on you too?
Watch out Chris Nolan you might get tagged on one of these soon.
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The Joker and More Hullaballoo
27 Dec
I had a handful of comic books as a kid. Sgt. Rock, GI Joe, Tales From thr Crypt and a few other older 70′s comics I inherited from my uncle. I picked up a few as well growing up even Judge Dread at some point I recall. I wonder where they all went though, aside from the 5 issur Agimat from Avalon Comics which I passed on to my brother, Idon’t have an inkling to the whereabouts of most of my comics.
Recently I’ve been able to set up a small office to separate work from home life – the greatness of working freelance and from home being I work – at home. I’ve been doing this almost for 5 years now and have no plans to droning back to the corporate world in the near future.
Though this is the case I’ve been having trouble separating my work area from everything else, like when people start watching a movie I drift off from focus and get sucked into the boob tube – then there is distraction like Battlefield and Skyrim – I’d rather not go into that, thats a different story.
Until just recently, I had reclaimed my old office turned guest room turned office again. I think the main reasons I hadn’t pushed through with the office is cause I had little to put into it. So I’m blogging about it in hopes that it reminds me later in the year of what I vision it to be.
One thing I want to put it in is a shelf, which I plan to stuff with graphic novels. Yeah yeah there is a ton of pdfs and free mangas you can read off the net but thats beside the point. I haven’t read a single fiction book in the past 3 years or so, not for the lack of wanting, I have a heap of them lined up till 40 – just can’t seem to find the focus or time.
I think it will be a preservation of old, and a historical visit for my kid when I get to fill up this shelf. I feel sad when all these hollywood versions of heroes of ink become bastardized for the sake of kaching – yes the evil dollar. What movies will always fail to thread across the screen is how imagination and a sense involvement will make kids love these characters more. The closest I’ve ever felt to reading a comic book and wanting to see the ending was – Batman Arkham Asylum. Getting people to be Batman and help him swing and run across Joker’s Asylum was the closest I felt to a kid banging his brains out for the next issue of Spawn.
Come to think of it, I think Batman was the only character given enough respect when brought to life on the screen and in games come recent. Spiderman dancing ala Christopher Walken cause of alien nasty warping his head doesn’t really cut it, Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze? Uhhhh ok… and the X-Men – sad to say the cartoon series kicked ass more than the million dollar version. There’s too many to mention – heroes, villains poorly written or interpreted, lets stop at the few I mentioned as it will only bring disappointment and utter sadness – just as Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote on an episode of Southpark, our beloved characters have slowly been degraded and raped for profit(Check out the Indiana Jones Episode).
My brother was kind enough to lend me his copy of Joker. He mentions Heath Ledgers epic performance was inspired by a handfule of graphic novels, not Jim Carrey’s Riddler or even Jack Nicholson’s version of the sick twisted villain, but these inked stories that left many to be filled by imagination. And his portrayal was as dark.
The book doesn’t disappoint. In fact it revived my gusto for frames and inked action sequences, crash frames, fights narrated on the side. And I will leave my son some of the action, even if its a select few stuffed in a bookshelf in my office. Hmmm now where to start thats the question – haha, half the fun of collecting comic books was where to find them, and finding them cheap! God this feels fun.
Till next time!
Tags: Graphic Novel, Joker
Capitalizing user input with jQuery
13 NovEver need to capitalize the first word or all words in a textarea or input field? Well a few weeks back I had to come up with this behaviour. Hopefully this will help someone.
This is bulky code, it isn’t elegant in anyway, but it works like a charm! You can extend it as a function or just strap it to a class like I did.
/* Capitalize Name */
var flag_next_position = 0;
$(".capitalize").keypress(function(e){
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
//alert(code)
if(code == 32) {
flag_next_position = ($(this).val()).length + 2;
}
if(($(this).val()).length == flag_next_position){
var new_string = '';
var string = $(this).val();
words = string.split(" ");
for(i in words){
i = $.trim(i);
if(i > 0){
new_string = new_string + " ";
}
new_string = new_string + words[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words[i].slice(1);
}
$(this).val(new_string.replace(" "," "));
flag_next_position = 0;
}
if(($(this).val()).length == 1){
var string = $(this).val()
var capitalized = string.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + string.slice(1);
$(this).val(capitalized);
}
}).blur(function(){
flag_next_position = false;
var new_string = '';
var string = $(this).val();
words = string.split(" ");
for(i in words){
i=$.trim(i);
if(i!='')
new_string = new_string + words[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words[i].slice(1) + " ";
}
$(this).val($.trim(new_string.replace(" "," ")));
});
/* end Capitalize Name */
Have fun!
Tags: Capitalization, Javascript, jQuery
