Kevinese Perspective

kronologis touring brogaders koster jak-ut ke kopdar gabungan puncak

27-28 Desember 2008

17.30 : saya berangkat menuju meeting point di nissan Kelapa Gading

17.40 : bertemu bro Marco yang mau mengantar sampai cawang

18.30 : bro Abe sampai di meeting point

18.45 : saya dan bro Abe makan nasi goreng dulu buat isi perut

18.50 : bro Catur sampai di meeting point

19.14 : saya, bro Abe, bro Catur dan bro Marco berangkat menuju cawang untuk bertemu bro esel

20.10 : bro Marco memisahkan diri di PGC

20.15 : bertemu bro esel di kramat jati, melanjutkan ke makojo

21.00 : bro Abe kecelakaan, bertemu bro cosmos dan bro putra dari TC, ada perubahan rencana meeting point berikutnya dari makojo pindah ke cibinong

22.40 : sampai di meeting point cibinong tempat bro Tiaz

23.15 : saya, bro Tiaz, bro Esel, bro Abe, bro Catur, bro Cosmos melanjutkan perjalanan ke mega mendung

24.10 : berhenti di pompa bensin, 14 km lagi Taman Safari, motor bro Esel sedikit bermasalah, saya jadi korban keisengan para brogaders ^^ 

01.00 : sampai di mega mendung, terlambat sekitar 4 jam 

02.00 : acara kopdar gabungan selesai, berhubung bro Cosmos harus kembali ke jakarta, maka brogaders jak-ut turun gunung semua

03.54 : bro Abe mengantuk maka diputuskan untuk berhenti untuk ngopi

04.51 : saya sampai di rumah, sehat, selamat, lengkap anggota tubuh dan motor ^^

let see… I played Fallout 1, nice game. I played Fallout 2, addictive game. I PLAYED Fallout 3, and I say “it’s Oblivion with guns and power armor”. Well the guys from nomutansallowed forum already have the bad feeling about the third series of the game being developed by Bethesda (the other two were developed by interplay). But I think to myself back then “well… just give Bethesda a chance”, and now I feel pretty dissapointed.

I’m sure other people who don’t play the last two series will find the game kind of PERFECT, and it’s quite reasonable… For the game, if it’s not a Fallout series would be a great one.

Lets see the positive side of Fallout 3 shall we?

- Nice Graphic (especially the environment, the characters look fine although they have funny movement)

- Nice way to combining action and turn-based game (the vats system OK)

- Wiiideee world to explore (yes it’s gigantic)

- The A.I fine, quite challenging

- Have more option “how to play” than the Elder’s Scroll series 

- The feeling of post-nuclear world is good developed

 

well that’s quite a lot nice things in Fallout 3, but for me it has more mistakes, such as :

- Okay, you have a gigantic world, lots of dungeons, but for what? Fallout 3 indeed has tons of dungeons, yep TONS of USELESS dungeons, you just came in, killed everything that moved, and came out thinking “what the hell did I do that for? got no idea”  just for wasting ammo i guess?

- The level is limited to 20, well that SUCKS, why? because it forced player to put their intelligence stat to 10 (because every time you gained a level, you’ll get a number of skill points to distributed, which is determined by your INT, the less your INT stat, then the useless your char will be).

- unarmed and melee weapon and basically useless, why? imagine you are running with a knife to a rocket launcer equiped-super mutant, it’s pretty messy since it’s real time.

-your charisma stat is basically useless, just boost your speech skill and the NPC won’t know or feel the difference. 

- it’s the most buggiest game in 2008, try it if you don’t believe me.

- the weapons and enemies variety is way down compare to Fallout 2.

- the A.I behavior (such as walking, sleeping, waking up) pretty much the same like Oblivion.

- you can only have one companion… well in Fallout 2 I can have 5! I can have a band full of gun-blazing.

- you can’t kill children in Fallout 3 (well… it’s unfair right?)

- it’s seems impossible to win the game without mastering one or more combat skills. In Fallout 2 I can win the game with my char’s intelligence, charisma, or items. That’s made Fallout 2 not just a kill and loot game.

- You can’t continue to play the game anymore after finishing the main quest

- The main quest is to short… and it’s just so clear, not very challenging, in other Fallout series to finish the main quest is pretty hard, the games did not give us clear directions to finish it, it’s up to us to find our way and without pointers.

- and many more dissapointment from me,,

 

so that’s it, the nuke blown, just hope Bethesda will make a better Fallout, or even better Interplay buy the license from Bethesda, although it’s pretty impossible…

 

War… War never changes

 

GTA IV… just heard the title made me think “heck.. THIS is the one i’ve been waiting for! this is the one that going to be my best 2008 game!”. So I bought the xbox360 version (by the way it’s not original, the original one will cost me about 500,000 IDR so I bought the “bajakan” version for 30,000 IDR). heh so much for the privacy. So I got the game and put it into the console, Rockstar logo apperars and then loading screen with GTA style, then with no menu screen the game starts instantly… showing a ship. the first impression I got… DAMN THIS IS GOOD! so it’s GTA time for me

these are the reason of my good first impression:
-breathtaking graphic (although they said the PS3 version better).
-excellent gameplay (free roaming).
-very nice voice actor works (especially the east-european accent).
-a very good improvement in the combat system (for the melee now you can perform counter-attack, block, and grapple, and for the firefight you can use cover, and perform blindfire just like in “killswitch”).
-and a very deep storyline and finally takes place in recent date(it feels like i’m watching a movie).

BUT! nothing last forever… as I played the game (I played it like hell, about 5-7 hours a day), then suddenly I finished it, and I realized I finished the game below 36 hours (FYI, i used the health cheat) and it just SUCKS! when I played GTA:San Andreas in PC, which I used ammo and health trainer, the game last for at least 2-3 weeks! and the GTA IV ending sucks by the way.

these are the reason of my dissapoinment of GTA IV:

- a very short story (compare to the long complex story of San Andreas).
- a very small map (compare to the 3 big cities plus countryside of San Andreas’s Map).
- many of the unique place are untouched in the mission (such as: airport, jail interior, docks, etc).
- we can’t buy assets, which are the BIGGEST of my dissapointment by the way, it’s just feel fun if we can buy stripclub, showroom, etc.
- as long as I know, we can’t fly a plane, we can fly heli, but it’s pretty rare in Liberty City.
- there are no army forces anymore (sure, a tank on a street is pretty weird, but it’s fun, at least for me) so if you reach 6 stars wanted level, you only got chased by SWAT team (by the way the name is NOOSE)

But I still admit that GTA IV is one of the most great game in 2008, but for me, who played GTA:vice city and San Andreas, the GTA IV isn’t as addictive as it’s predescessor.

in the end GTA IV is NOT going to be “MY BEST 2008 GAME”.

Waiting for the FALLOUT 3 and FABLE 2….