Mods: The reason to why it's better to play on a PC

So, it's almost been a month since we were given the gift of Skyrim. With that said, there has been a whole lot of time for the great modding community to work on their mods!  Now, if you're anything like me, the first few mods you'd be looking for are the texture mods (better facial textures, surroundings, and bodies), and that's exactly what I did.

You can get easy access to community mods at Skyrim Nexus. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are other places to get mods, besides nexus, but nexus offers us lazy skeevers something other sides don't; a download manager. If you're familiar with the Curse Client, used for WoW addons, then this won't be a new thing to you. All you have to do is click on the download link (found in any of the pages in the site), and the manager does everything else for you. Please keep in mind, that not all mods work together, so make sure to read up on the specifics, before installing stuff!

For this test, I decided to run with the following mods:

Now, since the game is still fairly new, you can expect the mods to be somewhat buggy at times. In my case, I experienced a minuscule amount of frame-rate drops, but only during large scale fights, in intense weather conditions. I also encountered an odd bug, with regards to models bugging, and not being rendered properly.

Apart from that, all the other mods worked pefrectly! The blood-spatter seemed more realistic, the environment was a little more detailed, and the NPCs were more detailed too! Just once word of advice before modding: MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT FOLDER! Some mods require you to install them the old-fashioned way, meaning you'll have to cut and paste stuff onto your Skyrim folder... and if the mod doesn't work properly, you get royally screwed...so yeah, make sure that you make a backup folder, before modding.

Happy (dragon) hunting!

Weekend, what are you playing?

It’s the last weekend of November, a month filled with so many great releases, you probably have a few of eating your game time right now. What are you playing?

Migoy: Started The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and I’m just 1 hour in. Link is not even wearing his signature green outfit yet and I am currently looking for my bird.. Yeah. Downloaded a bunch of demos on my PS3, Ziggy, and played a few of them on our twitch.tv channel. Among them were 2 of EA’s skateboarding games, Skate 2 and Skate 3. Tried them out in order and Skate 3 is the superior game in terms of controls, graphics and even the features available in the demo. Also got in some late night Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Played a few online matches with a friend and then went off to try a ranked match only to get my ass whooped. Hey, at least I got to take out 2 of his characters with a Nemesis loop.

Watch live video from Too Much Gaming on Justin.tvArlie: Skyrim! My aim this week was to finish Skyrim (the main story quests) but I failed. There's just too many things left to do. I'm almost 120 hours in game on my PS3. The PS3 frame rate issue for Skyrim limits me to play for 2 hours per session before the lag becomes unplayable. I hope the upcoming patch will fix this issue. I will definitely sell my copy if the issue will still not get fixed.

Quash: Played a couple of games this weekend. Of course, Skyrim is still around but I've also revisited Gears of War 3 for some multiplayer. Gears 3 is seriously a good game, it just takes too long to get a match going. I also bought Super Meat Boy for like $5 bucks thanks to the Fan Appreciation Sale. its original price was at $15 so it bought it right away, and it was worth it. A pain in the ass but an amazing platformer.

Nothing beats local multiplayer

With everything connected to the internet, from cellphones to toilets, communation today was very different from what I grew up with.

People playing video games with each other from the comforts of their own home is a very normal thing nowadays. I was never really an online player, mainly because I didn't have the right tools to do so, but during my NES, SNES and PS1 days me and my neighbors would go to each others houses to play video games. If it wasn't a fighting game of some of the few good co-op games, we'd go just to watch and help them play an RPG or a single player adventure game.

Local gaming is at it's best when playing a fighting game. Most fighting games in this day and age require precise inputs, movements and timing but when played online the slightest input lag can determine the winner from the loser.

Me and my cousin finally got to play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 together and with me getting a 2nd controller just the other day was perfect. Here is the broadcast footage of the fights. We are in no way pros in this, you couldn't even call use casuals but we enjoy a good air combo or two.

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The bluest sky is infinitely high and crystal clear

What's better than one controller? Two controllers. I was on a quest, to find a PlayStation-to-USB controller adapter from CDR-King (a local electronics shop) so that I can connect a PS2 controller to act as a 2nd controller on Ziggy (my PS3) but alas, I had failed that quest.

I went to 3 different CDR-King branches, waited in line for God knows how long in each branch only to find out that "sir, out-of-stock". I'm a bit tight on cash but I made the decision that if I can't find that PS2-to-USB adapter thing that I would man-up and just buy a PS3 controller.

And I did. I went to Datablitz in Megamall and they had a small selection of controllers. Originally I was planning on getting a simple black colored controller and save getting different colored ones for the 3rd and 4th. However, I spotted a clear red one at the edge of the pearl coated controllers. I took a look at it and asked if they had more colors, the clerk wasn't sure.

Always been a fan of clear PlayStation controllers. Even back in the original Dualshock days of the original PlayStation, I always found em sexy. A neighbor of mine had one in clear green. I caved and decided to get the clear red one, the clerk then went to check the older stock for one with a fresher looking box, the one on display was a bit on the dirty side. I followed and asked just one more time if they had a controller in blue, lucky for me that was the first one she pulled out. A huge smile went on my face and voila, I am a proud owner of a clear cosmic Dualshock 3. I also got a new USB cable since none of the controllers come with any and I'm running short on that kind of USB cable.

Why did I get a 2nd controller so soon despite being short or cash? It's Marvel baby! Also, I just thought up a name for it (usually when I name things, I tend to take better care of them). Call him DiEnd, pronounced like "The End".

Let the flailing begin (LoZ Skyward Sword)

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is finally here! Dammit, now I'm torn. I just got a new console and now I have Skyward Sword on the Wii. WHICH CONSOLE DO I GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO?!

I'm a cheap bastard so I just got the game. The golden Wiimote looked like butt anyway but since I don't have a Wii Motion Plus to call my own yet I asked to borrow one from my cousins since they got the black Wii bundled with Wii Sports Resort that came with 2 motion plus..es. Since you can't play Skyward Sword without a Motion Plus and me spending most of my money on Ziggy (my PS3), getting my own would have to wait.

Wasn't able to really play the game yet. I just popped it in the Wii and see if it would work. I watched the intro and flailed the curson on screen a bit then left for work. Maybe I'll make an impressions post once I sink my teeth into the game but for the meantime I can say that I am super stoked to play this because Skyward Sword is serious business.