Pokemon Randomiser, so much fun! XD

I've recently been watching videos on Youtube by Scykoh, who has used a Pokemon randomiser "hack" that works for just about every Pokemon game up to Black and White 2 and I have to say, it REALLY makes the games more fun!

Randomiser site: http://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/index.php

It has quite a few options which can randomise things like, which pokemon appear where, the moves they will know when caught (they still learn their set moves i think), give them a random ability, change what trainers have, as well as their "class" (Cool Trainer etc) and name.
Trade NPCs can be set to request and give random pokemon, you might be lucky and be able to buy a Mew from the Game Corner, so much fun, madness and chaos is possible.

I've just been playing a Pokemon Soul Silver rom which I randomised and got a Shaymin as a starter!
It only knew pound, but it had Wonder Scale and was an Electric / Fire type due to randomised moves, types and abilities.

Now I'm messing with Pokemon Black rom and the Starters are as follows: Drifloon, Salamence and Banette.
I have only randomised the wild pokemon and trainer's pokemon on this rom because I want to see if you can trade them over and have them count as "legit" for X Y and possibly the Ruby Saphire remakes (wooo secret bases!  ahem... >_>;  ).

If I can get a good recording setup, it would definitely be fun to make some sort of lets play :D

New Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare add-on

Yet another free add-on from the guys at Pop Cap! :D

The new Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare add-on is interesting. the free peashooter variant is a little inaccurate, but it's charged shot is good for hitting a corridor or small room, a few players firing its charged timed shot could clear a room from extreme range.
Personally i still prefer the Toxic Peashooter for its splash damage and poison effect by just walking near a zombie!

The new map is golf course themed and a very good one to use for Garden Ops mode.
The new game mode, Suburbination, is like Conquest modes from Battlefield.

It also has a "bling" items sticker pack, which is basically all the original vanity items but metallic silver, gold or diamond encrusted versions.

All in all, it's another nice add-on, but there was no mandatory patch or any new achievements added.
Seems silly to put in 2 new game modes and not add achievements, they did it for Gnome Bomb...!

Oh yeh, beware the Vampire Lord boss in Garden Ops, it's eeeeviiilllll.........

Black Ops 2 - S&D - When did you slump so low...?

Having decided that I had had my fill of Modern Warfare 3 and being fed up of the hackers, I've moved up to Black Ops 2.

Some who know me will know I love to play Search & Destroy, its more tactical and challenging than just you simple Team Death Match, Domination etc,  but it seems to have slipped into some sort of slump over the last few years some how.
Connectivity is shaky at the best of times in Multiplayer and Zombies, you tend to be put into your own lobby or get put with one person.
Also, the "trick shot" seems to have gone uber-mainstream now, mainly with all the underaged players who think they have something to prove.
Almost every game will have at least 2 people trying to do some form of jumping shot, frantically switching weapons and equipment.  Most of the time it looks like their controller is having some sort of epileptic seizure with how sporadic the switching is @_@

I suppose I was exaggerating a little, 2 people doing it isn't that bad, it's more when an entire team does it and all you want is to have a challenging game, but instead end up being the last man against a full team of 6, then end up jumping off a cliff or building to their deaths anyway.  Why bother?  If i wanted to prat around and do something like that I'd do it in private matches, and if I wanted to spend an entire round watching people I'd go play Zombies and die deliberately :/

I do get some laughs out of it though, since they're too busy messing around so much it's easy to kill them, mostly because they can't aim or even quick-scope straight XD
One guy accused me of "camping till last" (some weird ass term that applies to people deliberately sitting back until everyone is just about dead, then doing trick shots), which i wasn't, I was walking around the edge of the map to attack them from behind, it wasn't my fault that everyone decided to go and commit suicide in the central part of Studio...

It may make me sound picky, or even anal when it comes to stuff like this, but the number of people I've reported recently is ridiculous.  Though I do question the point in doing it using the games report feature.  I only say that because now that Call of Duty Elite is dead, Treyarch seem to have moved onto other things, presumably their next title, let's hope that that game has a more balanced damage system and walls that aren't made of paper, cardboard and MDF (cough-hijacked-cough)!

R.I.P. to my main Dofus account :(

Anyone following me here from other site I'm part of may remember that a long time ago i used to play an MMORPG called Dofus.

Somewhere in the 3 years that I was busy at university, my account was banned and I finally remembered to try again with recovering the account.

Unfortunately, it appears that the developers had a security breach and a number of accounts were compromised, mine being one of them....

I was informed of this in a support ticket that i filed on saturday, eventually getting a response mid evening yesterday (24th July):

"Monaka Yesterday at 18:58
Hello *******,

Thank you for contacting Ankama Customer Support and apologies for the delayed response.

The account was permanently banned for using a bot. Unfortunately, since this is a permanent ban, the account will not be released.

If you have other concerns or inquiries, please feel free to send us a ticket.

Best regards,

Ankama Customer Support"

Anyone familiar with MMOs will know the level of dedication you put into you characters, my best was level 80 and I had quite a few other high progress items, a guild (though it was just me and 2 or 3 other people) and a butt load of materials for baking bread and to sell on the markets (I liked messing with the economy).

Oh well, if i ever decide to go back it's a fresh start for me i guess...

Coliseum of DOOOM!!! 3, 2, 1 Fight! [Fable 2]

I came back to Fable 2 a few days ago for something interesting to do because FPS games have been getting a little stale in recent years.  I managed to finish and get the game's remaining 2 endings (dashboarding and choosing another) and managed 95,449 points with a multiplier of 20 on my 4th attempt of the Coliseum.

I kept bouncing between Time Control 5 and Inferno 4.
If a Flit switch or chicken appeared i would cast Time Control 5,  ignore all enemies and run to it / them and hit / kick them, then re-cast Time Control 5 and restart the casting cycle.
The more annoying enemies were dealt with by using a target Inferno (stilt hobbes, balverines (especially the white one), necromancer).
The Banshee was easy enough, 3 shot-ing it with my Master Blunderbuss.
I managed to beat the Necromancer with 2 minutes left on the clock.

Weapons and Augments
Master Blunderbuss - Lucky Charm, Flame, Ghoul
Master Hammer - Golden Touch, Renewal, Devastation, Discipline

All but 4 of my abilities were 5 star (the other 4 were 4 star).

One Pice did that thing again... D: XD

So there i was, catching up on the latest episode of One Piece and eating my lunch, when a sudden fight occurs, resolves and ended like this...

To which my reaction was...

Not that it put me off watching or anything, i just had to get my laughter out of the way and finish my food first so that i didn't choke.

Besides, anyone who has watched it this far will know by now that Luffy is practically oblivious to any situation involving a woman's charm etc, so his reaction is always funny  XD

Call of Duty: MW3 - Nostalgia

I'm not sure why I have gone back to Modern Warfare 3... but I'm glad I did, it's been a good laugh with some of the situations I have gotten my self into and out of XD

My general class build in FPS games like CoD and Battlefield usually comprises of a shotgun and a rocket launcher.  In MW3 that is either the KSG or Model 1887, with a Javelin as my secondary.
I am notorious amongst my friends for a blatant disregard for my personal safety, often martyring myself to put the team ahead by a few kills, as well as pulling off ludicrous javelin shots and creating complete chaos as i go.

Follow this link to watch a playlist of best examples of my playing style.

Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare

So, I have finally managed to get hold of a "new" XBox360 with a working disc drive.  This time it's one of the black Elite consoles, so fingers crossed it performs a bit better that the first and second generation original consoles i had :D

Anyway!  One of the first things i did was re-aquaint myself with PvZ:GW, because I have been dying to play a fun game with some action in it that didn't require as much team communication as Battlefield of Call of Duty (Although it is Battlefield for children pretty much).
The updates for it have made it a lot better, and they have been adding in maps, items and achievements with some of them as dlc, it's been great fun to get back into it.

Usually in other games it takes me a few matches to warm up and get used to the controls but I was on a roll from the first... very surprising to have done so well straight away!

Terraria360's new update. Those damn sneak developers...!

Those of you who play Terraria quite a lot on the XBox360 will have noticed that it has now been updated to have practically all of the PC versions items etc and come with it's fair share of annoying bugs and glitches.  The most notorious of these being that the Piggybank and Safe no longer keep your items and convert them into the item's ID worth of pickaxes...

While I don't normally go ahead with cheating in my games until I have completed it legitimately at least once, this situation has become and exception, because almost everything related to the update requires you to beat the jungle biome boss, Plantera, which cannot be achieved.

The spawning rate for all of the world's decorative grasses and plants is stupidly high at the moment, which swamps it with tons of space eating foliage and does not allow the special bulb plant required to summon Plantera to spawn.

This stops you legitimately accessing the jungles lihzhard temple as Plantera drops the key needed to open its door, which is currently breakable by virtually any mining tool.

You are also stopped from opening any of the special biome specific chests legitimately, which is a shame as things like the Vampire knives are a popular item for the more grueling end game fights.

Nearly all of the items added in the update can be obtained through what was dubbed the "Piggybank Glitch", which can be as rewarding as it is dangerous (possible save corruption, 20 minute slow debuffs etc (dying cures the debuffs)), you can probably find in a couple hundred videos on about it on YouTube.

Now for the second part of this post's title:

THOSE SNEAKY DEVELOPERS!!!!

Before the update, the Achievement for acquiring all of the games pets only involved 6 summoning items.  Now though, thanks to the update, it requires you to have 23 summoning items...!

This is the only other thing I used the Piggybank Glitch for (I wanted the MineCraft Creeper outfit from the halloween part of the update), and took a few hours to do.

Pet Items required now are:

Petri Dish

Vial of Blood

Cabbage

Brain

Beeswax

Wolf Fang   -----^ They were the original 6 you had to find.

Fish

Seaweed

Strange Glowing Mushroom

Parrot Cracker

Eater's Bone

Seedling

Nectar

Tiki Totem

Eye Spring

Spider Egg

Toy Sled

Magical Pumpkin Seed

Unlucky Yarn

Lizard Egg

Amber Mosquito

Cursed Sapling

Bone Key

The Cursed Sapling can only be gotten during a Pumpking Moon, something that requires you to Piggybank Glitch some Ectoplasm because that is only dropped by the Dungeon's skeletons after you beat Plantera (which you obviously can't do right now).  The best method is to turn auto save off, save near night time, use the amulet in a well spaced area / arena to start the P.Moon off, if you don't get it, exit without saving and try again.  I got it on my second attempt.

Though I am unsure if the Bone Key it is required for the achievement to unlock or not, it's always fun to have and show it off.  It is gotten by beating the Dungeon Guardian that will attack you before you defeat Skeletron at the begining of a new world.  It will one-hit-kill you and only takes 1 damage from anything you throw at it, so expect lots of running about to get this.  This is one boss I wouldn't mind tackling so that I can say I got it legitimately.

Even though I have completed the achievements now, I still play Terraria every now and then.  I'm currently trying to build a castle in a corruption, hallow, crimson (shudder) free world and it's going well!  The Clentaminator is the life saver for biome spreading and suppressing, it made getting 50% Corrupt and Hallowed worlds so easy.  I miss one of my older worlds though, it had gotten to 35% hallowed by just letting is spread and using Holy Waters XD   I derped heavily though on that when I thought about what I was doing, which was adding blocks to the world instead of taking them away D:

Eagerly awaiting Warface's server improvements! :O

Even though the connectivity to the Warface servers has been incredibly unpredictable while the dev' team gradually increase the player capacity, it's still been fun to play, even if it means going all the way to the end of a mission then getting thrown off by a random spike and losing most of what you just did XD

Wishing the VP bar would fill quicker... I'll admit i've been getting a little impatient about getting some of the later weapons, only having a few of the recent common and rare ones to unlock and now being left with all the "ultra-rare" guns @_@

Whilst i was on the closed Beta, like most people I mass bought the free Kredits, levelled up with the vending machine and bought most of the interesting looking weapons.

The Striker shotgun was awesome, can't wait to unlock it again!  However, what caught my eyes was that when they did a minor patch, the Striker was replaced with the FAS-12 (AA-12 in real life), THAT is what I really want to aim for!  A fully automatic shotgun to go with my fully automatic S18G pistol (G18)  :D

Due to the free unlocks and stuff, once I had looked at all i could thing of, I kinda got bored with the game, so I waited until the Beta went public and have started playing proper.

One major issue that still needs seeing to though, is that ally corpses act like obstacles sometimes, and cause you to jitter about on that spot before you can push past, so when I go on a "Knife only" lobby to do a knife kill related Crown Contract (Crowns are the games SPECIAL currency (not to be confused with the premium Kredits currency), they are used to buy higher end weapons and outfits etc so that you can have a heavier presence in matches, they also have a specialised design so you can tell them from standard clothing), that someone has started, because of the large amount of deaths, you often get stuck in an pool of your teammates bodies and then get killed easily because you can't move to safety.

Other than that there's very little wrong with the game now.  Connectivity issues come with expansion of the servers and a few minor issues like sometimes failing a co-op climb, don't affect the game much.

A geometry bug that i miss was where you are being dropped into the second part of a "Safari" co-op mission and could move against the left corner of the cockpit side of the transport chopper.  This sometimes made you fall out of it and onto a building bellow.  Then you could run around a few buildings and all the way down the main road, killing the Blackwood troops ahead of your team XD   The problem with that though is that you all have to board a transport truck with a checkpoint so that it can take you around the rest of the map, which means a suicide as you cannot get to the truck because of invisible barriers, followed by instant revival back a the truck.  I never tried to go to the Heavy gunner mini-boss as i was afraid of being kick-voted but it would have been hilarious if it had worked.

After some more fine tuning i can see Warface becoming a lot more fun, I just wish there were more people in my friends list who played is as much as i did.  Some peeps i used to play with are practically married to their XBox Ones now.

I should start some sort of recruitment thingy to get more people in my clan on their as well, "Warface-Furries", get a few furry peeps to play co-op with and so on.

Still Writing my Bio page...

zzzzzz it's taking aaaages to think of things...

Yugioh: Millennium Duels - Getting used to all the new cards... D:

I haven't played a Yugioh game in aaaaaages, it's changed so much since the GBA and DS games came out D:

All these things about Union monsters and Synchro summons made my head spin and I'm still not entirely sure I understand them.

Anywho...  I'm almost through the first part of the single player and struggling loads on the ZEXAL characters.  Having used the same deck for every fight up till now then suddenly hitting a brick wall, I rebuilt my deck using what I have managed to farm from mass duelling Tea Gardner XD

It has proven to have been a very good decision so far, although I do rely on a few specific cards, I usually end up with at least one that i want in my had at the beginning of the match :D


Yubel's Wrath

Normal Monsters
D.D. Trainer x2
Flamvell Guard
Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World
Soul Tiger

Effect Monsters
Yubel
Yubel - Terror Incarnate
Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare
A Cat of Ill Omen
An Owl of Luck
Black Stego
Gellenduo
Genex Ally Crusher
Hedge Guard
Marshmallon
Mystic Tomato
Zero Gardna

Magic Cards
Big Bang Shot
Chorus of Sanctuary
Dark World Grimoire
Heart of Clear Water
Inferno Tempest x2
Nightmare's Steel Cage x2
One Day of Peace
Ring of Magnetism
Swords of Revealing Light
Tribute to the Doomed x2

Trap Cards
Acid Trap Hole
Bottomless Trap Hole
Divine Wrath
Magic Cylinder
Negate Attack
Nightmare Wheel
Raigeki Break
Sakuretsu Armor x3


Can't make it any better than that until i get some more of the cards but i am assuming that all the ones i really want will be banned or limited :/    ONWARD WITH THE DUELING!

Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea

I had been craving a change in pace from Call of Duty and  Terraria and snagged the On Demand version when i saw it was on sale.

The main story wasn't too bad, although I did get a little confused towards the end until things were explained @_@

So far, Burial at Sea has been... interesting.  They did a good job recreating Rapture, I couldn't help but laugh as one of the first things you see is a whale, just like you do in the first Bioshock, but not as robotic.  Sander Cohen is just as twisted as i remember him being! XD

The brutality and violence seems to work better in Rapture than it did in Columbia, it just seems to fit in more with all the psychopaths and weirdos of Rapture than the highly strung religious and political atmosphere of Columbia.

One thing I am slowly getting used to is the limited resources in the dlc, shots have to be well placed and vigour / plasmid usage has to be thought through, especially when against a big group of enemies.
In the original Bioshock I had an uncanny knack for swinging my aim and getting a headshot with the revolver, but it doesn't seem to be as easy this time around :/

I really need to get into the habit of cleaning the 360's hard drive if I want to play the rest of the dlc.  I rarely play Battlefield 3 anymore (most of my online friends now have an XBox One) which is one of the major space hoggers along with Fallout 3, the latter can't be seen to though because my fiance still has saves and things she needs to do on that game, the same applies to Oblivion and a few others that are storage heavy (gotta love Fallout: New Vegas for its small dlc!).

Padding details, coming up with post ideas...

Please bear with me whilst i pad out my

bio etc!

The start of something big?

So i thought i'd have ago at blogging and see if i can actually focus on something constructive for a change.

I mainly enjoy gaming which is quite a dominant thing in my life, as well as cooking, which has been a slowly growing interest in the last few months.