Games

WFH? It’s Time To Play Video Games

by CS · Apr 30, 2020

What can you do when you are Work From Home? Yes, of course, working right? But working from home sometimes can be distractful especially when you have kids. But for some others, there’s a lot of “me” times, and while you work don’t forget to play some games.

If you are like most people who love to play video games, then you should try playing online. The latest video game consoles today now offers a great line up of video games that you can play online with your friends as well as other people from different parts of the world.

Thanks to the advancement of technology and the internet, it is now possible for you to play online using just your video game console, such as PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii.

There are hundreds of game titles which you can play with online.

So, what are the games that you should play online?

First of all, not all games are great and was well-received by the public. This is why you have to know what kinds of games are popular for online gaming. By doing so, you will be able to avoid wasting money on games that no one plays and also be able to join in on the fun in the online gaming community. Here are the examples of these games.

Battlefield Series. Released for Xbox and PlayStation, this first person shooter game is filled with non-stop action which will surely keep you on your feet and your eyes glued on your TV screen.

In this game, the players will be put in a fictional war between the US and the Russian Federation. The players will lead a squad of soldiers against the enemy. Although the game is already fun to play in single player, you will find that this can also be played in multiplayer mode online.

The great thing about this game is that it can support up to few players. This means that you can have few men or women on your team and few on the opponent’s. This game is filled with high speed action and you can be sure that you will have fun for hours upon hours of playing this game online in multiplayer mode.

Killzone Series. Exclusively developed for PlayStation, this first person shooter game offers great graphics and extraordinary online play that will keep you coming back for more.

Also filled with high speed action, you will see that you can choose from few different classes of characters in the game. Each class has its own pros and cons and you need to take advantage of its strengths and overcome its weaknesses in order for you to win the game.

Call of Duty Series. It’s another great game that has great multiplayer feature. Developed for Xbox, PlayStation, and even on PC and Nintendo Wii, you will find that this game offers a completely unique multiplayer game option as it will be able to let you and your friends play in cooperative mode.

You can also try the team death match and capture-the-flag multiplayer gaming option if you want in order for you to fight other teams online.

These are just some of the great games that you should get for your video game console. With its online features, you can be sure that you will have countless of hours of fun playing these games right in the comforts of your own home.

Too Scary

by CS · Feb 16, 2018

I have never been a fan of scary thing! The fact that I have to control myself is a burden. I am excited to watch any scary movies, and most of them is only making people surprise.

I think this will give me a heart attack sooner or later. It’s just so graphic, blood everywhere, my hand being chopped and eaten by them. It’s total full cannibalism, brutal, and that’s not even close enough to what I experience.

I have been chasing around by my own wife, which turned to be some kind of “thing”, and also there is a psycho person who just don’t die. I chopped him, shot him, spit him, curse him, this guy JUST DO NOT DIE.

I mean this is hell! Beside all of the thrills I get, I also have to solve puzzles, but I promise to finish this until the end, and I only able to do it, like for 30 minutes or so.

The good thing is it has the beautiful song ever and it rings into your ear every time. You know it’s just like some of the ghost story. If you heard a voice which seems near from you, it means the ghost is far away from you, but then you heard again the voice is fading away, then it has only one meaning, it sits ………………………. next to you.

In this game, you will never gonna get those signs, they will come to you, attacking you in silent, but the funny thing is that this game is combination of Exploration, a puzzle type of game to get out of Baker’s Family house, and Action-Thriller which lets you equipped with weapon ranges from knife to flamethrower.

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Mobile Gaming Development

by CS · Oct 13, 2017

Mobile games are the great example of successful mobile application ranges from simple free games to paid games, of course with a lot of in-app purchases available in the “free games” for players to fasten up their mobile gaming experiences.

In-app purchases itself has been the fundamental sales of any games for decades. It’s mostly found in any games but mostly in the MMORPG games. A massive multiplayer role-playing game is the best way to make profitable in-app sales, because it involves competition among players.

Let’s say a website games like Wartune has been embedded their in-app purchase in monthly events, and weekly events, and its getting costly for players to get even catch up with the big shark players of the game.

In-app purchases makes a player stays ahead in the game and also make game challenges easier and satisfactory. But is it going to beat the revenue of game’s platform like PS4, X-Box, and Microsoft? I surely doubt that.

So how much the cost to build a mobile app? Kinvey said at the average of USD 270,000 per app which can be developed in 7 to 12 months. The most expensive mobile games among them are Clown Punching game (USD 300) and Gun Bros Apathy Bear (USD 600), which is totally not worth it to purchase. With that amount of money, you can get few awesome games with lower prize.

With that being said, there are a few pros and cons of mobile games compared to other platforms.

Pros :

Despite the fact that they are games in Mobile Phone with lesser graphic than other platform, it is actually still has it’s edge on the excellent graphics and sound, but of course there are bunch of worst graphic games which i rather not say.
It has pretty much simple control for more challenging games, and easy game controls. As such in shooting games like Gangstar New Orleans, it use pretty much perfect auto aim.
They are cheap and low cost but still fun and satisfactory to pass time or to build character over time, such as Blades of Brims and Pro Evolution Soccer Club Manager which you don’t have to be there everyday to do the game but simply do it when you have time.
As many other games, some mobile games can be very addictive, and there the in-app purchases offer is there for you to engage.
It has the multiplayer also, league, and leaderboard which extend the game further which are very great for competitions.

Cons :

Mobile Games are very easy to dismissed by the Developer, I have 4 to 5 games that i play consistently and someday the developers “SADLY” stop its production, meanwhile I already “invested” in the game with my in-app purchases.
Some game difficulty is inconsistent, easy games are great, but going to a dungeon with same level enemies as the characters and still die is unthinkable.
There is some problem with mobile screen for finger sweeps, a fps game with manual shooting is hell for mobile game, but even with other type of games, sometimes we missed the finger placements.
Some levels are repetitive and you have to use many sweep tickets for obtaining a lot of resources for upgrades which pretty much unbelievable took time if you do manual grinding.

Mobile gaming has low cost development rather than any other platform games, yet it has provide gamers with easy and great value even though the control is not as comfortable as console or PC gaming as an example.

But any video games has very great opportunities to grow no matter what platform they were, and selling video games is one of other thing people do to make money out of this enormous games developments.

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The Most Expensive Entertainment

by CS · Oct 6, 2017

Game Industry is really going very fast, we notice the changes of graphic so much and it’s getting better and better. Let’s say Horizon Zero Dawn, which is already sold about 3.5 million copies. So, why Guerilla Games eager to build a fascinating world of Horizon Zero Dawn, and with that kind of graphic, how much is this cost?

Horizon Zero Dawn costs around USD 47 million. It’s such a huge amount for a game, while the most expensive porn movie budget is at USD 8 million. Compare to how much the customers of these two kind of industry, porn has gain higher customers than games.

So what makes game producer expenses that much of money? In the case of Guerilla Games, they branded Horizon Zero Dawn as risky game, yet in the end was a big success. It’s part of their brainstorming of “had enough KillZone” idea which then brought them to Horizon.

Anyway, both porn and game is short and only based on story, when it reached the end, you stop playing. Of course, they can inject it with Events to make it more interesting for players to play it again. It’s more interesting with Guerilla Games , a team of 270 people, that make a game outside of their genre in which they have been success with KillZone anyway.

“Pirates” is the american pornographic action-adventure film with the first budget at USD 1 million and the sequel at USD 8 million. Well, Jesse Jane, Teagan Presley and Devon there, who doesn’t want to watch. But porn industry is much tougher than Game Industry. The competition is huge, and the preferences is unbelievably vast, the sacrifice of the people to make things different is unthinkable, take Sasha Grey as the example.

If that is not enough ensuring, let’s compare the most expensive game budget in the history with the most expensive movie budget in mankind history.

We are talking about Grand Theft Auto V. So how much is the cost to build a game complicated as GTA V? It hits roughly at USD 265 million, and it hits USD 1 billion in sales. This game is totally expanding and growing. A lot of gamers still play this game, and this game offers a lot of activities and a badass experiences. Do what you got to do, play as you want to play, be a bad person or a good person, well but mostly bad.

Let’s compare this to the Pirates of Caribbean : On Stranger Tides (2011), it costs around USD 397 million. Do you see huge money here? Yes, but it stops there. Once you done with the movie you stop there. Meanwhile, games are still growing with sales increasing over time. So maintaining that sales, games producers will take their game to another level by increasing, improving everything which will cost them money over time too.

With all these considerations, games are much costly than porn or even blockbuster movies. Even though, as many other businesses, you can’t maintain the success of every games, some games’ developer have to cease their games and refocus to new games because of the flat revenue from these games.

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Die While Playing Games

by CS · Aug 18, 2017

People died because of many reasons, but rarely when they play games. The fact, it happened in the past and we don’t want it happen again in the future.

Some people dies naturally, the others because things happened outside of their control, but some dies because of their ignorance. Ignorance is the worst enemy of life.

This list will keep going until people aware of it and stop the habit.

Rustam died after playing Defense of the Ancients for 3 weeks nonstop.
Brian Vigneault died after playing War of Tanks for nearly 24 hours.
Hsieh died from cardiac arrest after playing 3 days nonstop.
Chuang died after playing Diablo 3 for 40 hours marathon.
Chris participated in 12-hours long X-Box game and died.
Lee Seung Seop playing Starcraft for 50 hours and died.

Those people died not because of games they play. They died because they did not know the line between “it’s enough” and “let’s keep going”. It’s not their mistakes, it’s nobody’s mistakes, they just need to take a break once in a while.

Is Playing Game for hours, an addiction or a habit? Whether it’s addiction or habit, people need to stop and go for a walk and not ignoring that sitting for hours is bad for our health. “Habit is something that you do without you think. It’s automatic, predictable, and consistent”. {click to tweet}

What are Gamer’s Habit that you need to be aware of ?

The first thing they do in the morning is open the game platform. It’s the first thing you have in mind when you wake up in the morning. It become priority to you. A habit that state deep in your heart that “you have to play games, before you do other activities”. You need to aware of that you will ignore your important activities for a day, and keep playing for hours. It’s your comfort zone, so “No one takes me nowhere at this point”. By ignoring your important responsibilities, it will always takes an effect in some moments of your life. You will run out of time to change something you ignore. Time is precious, you will not fly back to the past.
Sit for hours. Your body is designed for regular movements. If you do not change your hours sitting habit, it will lead you to heart attack, diabetes, colon cancer, brain damage, digestion problem, posture problem, muscle degeneration, leg disorders. Google for experts’ articles out there about these terms. These … will get you if you don’t change. Your blood circulation in your body was not supposed to be pressed in a long time. Gamers always focus on achievements in the game, while they should focus on their body. They will not able to play any games in unhealthy body. Even, if you go for a fitness for 1 – 2 hours, but if you sit the whole day, it will not gonna works for you also. It’s still risky for your body. You need to move around a bit, refresh, and continue gaming after that.
A bad habit always followed by other bad habits.I am talking about your eating habit, snacks, smokes, drinks while you sit and gaming whole day. Gaming is not easy activities. Your body, your heart even moves a long with the thrills, the challenges, and the achievements in games. I remember a day when I’m in deep stress and my heart beats faster when I play Nioh. I am feeling very tired afterwards, then I draw a line and that line is “ENOUGH!”. But people are awesome, instead of enough, they say “One more time”. This “One more time” continue to 4 hours later. To ease up the tension, making you bit relax, you run on cigars, snacks, soda that will lead to more illness later, and when you realize that it’s not worth, you will lose your time to undo your actions.

Of course playing games always has its positive sides. It gives you satisfaction, happiness, confidence when finishing a hard game. It can increase your way of solving problems.

Playing games also not a way to waste time also. It just need you to manage yourself to play games. You need to approach games as any other important things that matter in your life. Make a schedule with it and stay healthy in your life.

Exercise often or do the medical check up is precaution for your health before it became worst.

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