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Fallout 4 is a game by Bethesda that was released in 2015 and received decent reviews at first, but the honeymoon stage is over. This leaves a lot of fans disappointed with Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game I have played, but I have gone back and played Fallout 3, and I am currently playing Fallout: New Vegas so my opinion may differ from long-time fans of the series.

Playing the older Fallout games, you can tell the dialogue system in Fallout 4 is written lazy. Dialogue is broken down into four lines you can say. Most of the time you will have no idea what your choices mean because they vaguely tell you what your character is going to say.

The combat system is much improved from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. Gunplay feels much more fluid than ever before. The V.A.T.S. system no longer stops time, but only slows it down. I like the pause in the game as you can take your time to decide the best course of action, but it is not a game-breaking change.

The story of Fallout 4 isn’t all that great, but it is average in my opinion. The ending could be better, but at least it is not as bad as Fallout 3’s original ending. Only the Institute ending is different. If you choose any other faction, you will get the near the same ending.

The game is boring after you beat it as well. You would think you could do cool stuff with the Institute, but all you can really do is walk around and look at stuff.

Activision is back at it again with the new Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and the game is only dead on computers.

The game released Friday and it was met with mixed reviews on Steam with the newest reviews being negative. This is no surprise as the trailer for Infinite Warfare is the second most disliked video in YouTube history.

Activision launched a beta which received backlash as well for being bad. The beta was not good in any kind of way at all and even the big YouTube channels bashed the game for the first time.

There was report from IGN stating that the game would not be able to support cross-service multiplayer on the PC. This is a new one for me honestly. Microsoft must have paid Activision a lot of money because this just makes the game less valuable.

If you buy the game on the Microsoft Store, then you cannot play with people on Steam and vice versa. This is the most idiotic move I have ever seen and not so mention it is incredibly anti-consumer. This shouldn’t surprise me since Microsoft is the same company that is responsible for Games for Windows Live.

Infinite Warfare is essentially dead on arrival anyways since the game has only peaked around 13,000 players since launch day on Steam. That is nothing when you look at the size of the Call of Duty brand. I have seen indie game reaching those numbers and I know that the franchise is aimed at consoles, but that is no excuse.

The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer beta is over and it is exactly what I was expecting.

The game is complete trash this year and I saw it coming 8 Eminem miles away.

There was only one good thing about the beta that I experienced. The wall-running is smoother than it was in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. I’m being generous by saying that and I’m assuming that you like the futuristic experience to begin with.

Now let’s go with the negatives.

They decided to use the map Terminal again because it makes their job just a tad bit easier because they don’t have to use any form of creativity to make a new map. The map is not even good. It is awful.

This is a running theme as all the maps in the beta are trash. They have no flow and corridors literally everywhere you turn. The maps resemble Call of Duty: Ghosts in the absolute worst way possible.

Also like Ghosts, the score-streaks are boring and not fun to use in any type of way. I do not get excited when I’m doing good in the game anymore.

The guns are just an abomination of previous guns in previous titles. None of the guns are fun to use and multiple sounds from the game are just from older titles as well. Half of the guns in the game are a copy and paste job.

The user interface looks so much like Black Ops 3 that you begin to wonder did they really spend 2-3 years making this game. The menus look like last year’s title so much that there is no way that it took 3 years. A complete copy and paste job from the user interface and the HUD (heads-up display).

Let’s get into the other issues with this game.

The game runs like Donald Trump carrying a bunch of bricks in his pocket to build the wall around the border.

The game drops frame rates so bad that sometimes it is unplayable. It is the year 2016 and and there is still host migrations. Every other game I have played this year has had real dedicated servers. Also the net code is bad once again.

I have never seen a host migration screen in Overwatch, Battlefield, or Counter-Strike, because all those games, unlike Call of Duty, are competent.

The other day I bought Grand Theft Auto 4 on Steam because I loved the game, but never beat it because it was it was stolen from me at one point. I bought the game thinking it would work but I was dead wrong.

When you finish downloading the game, this is what you will see. If you are like me then you will want to start the game right away to test drive the game. I like to start the game just to test how well I can run the game so I can play later. 

This is the next thing you will see on Steam. Sometimes the game will require a patch or maybe some kind of update so I just wait. I should have known something was up when there was no kind of update the screen just stared back at me. At first I thought that it would just take a while to load before the game works. I was wrong. Nothing happened at all.

The next thing I thought of was to go to the game directory files and manually start the game myself. I clicked on the game launcher and it took me to the sign-in screen. I entered the correct information and nothing worked. There was a bug in the system that I found after doing research on how to get the game to work. I pushed play at first and nothing happened again. I booted the launcher back up and decided to just play offline. This is where everything took a turn for the worst. 

The game ran for about a second and I was met with this screen. This lasted for collectively more than five hours.

My thoughts on the Razer Naga

The Razer Naga is a gaming mouse by Razor which released in 2014.  This is the version I currently own and I can say I like it so far.

The Razer Naga can be purchased on Amazon or through the Razer websites for around $70. This is quite expensive, but luckily for me I got it through a friend for not even half the store price.

A see a lot of hardcore gamers use the Razer Naga or something equivalent to it because it allows for a better gaming experience. The use of macros can come in handy when you have to quickly switch weapons in a game.

A cool feature is that you can bind the numbers at the left side of your mouse to any key you wish. The mouse wheel also has unique buttons on the side that can be clicked to execute actions as well. This can make browsing online a much easier experience.

I noticed a difference in performance when I played Smite. It may not work for everyone be I saw my game increase because I was able to execute my abilities faster than normal.

The mouse is also very comfortable. It was a grip on the right side where you place your hand and it feels very nice. It moves very nice on my mouse pad and my mouse pad is horrific. If it works for mine, it should work perfect for anyone.

The mouse also looks pleasant as well. This is not really a selling point for me, but it is to some. The Razer Naga lights green when it is active. This feature can be turned off if you want to do so.

This is just my opinion on the mouse so far because I have only had it for a short period of time. Longer users have told people to be warry because the mouse is made very cheaply so it will break within time regardless of how you keep it.

The worst game on steam

I have come across possibly the one of the worst game on steam right now.

sZone-Online is horrible in almost every way possible. You will notice right from the beginning that the game is missing a mouse cursor which makes it almost impossible to ever start the game properly.

I managed to get into the game where I was greeted with graphics so bad that that I had to put bandages on my eyes to stop the bleeding.

The game also runs like an overweight man in the 100-meter dash in the Olympics. It runs horrible for what is presented in front of your screen.

Whenever you jump it will always feel like you’re hitting a ceiling. It feels as stiff as a buzzard on the side of the road at midnight.

I walked in the first building which looks like some kind of pub to only realize that half the building did not load until I walked near a specific area. At this point, I was not surprised.

The worst part is that the cursor will still be invisible as you try to equip a weapon. This makes the game frustrating and not worth anyone’s time.

If you live in America, then you probably have heard of a social justice warrior. These are typically individuals who will find a way to get offended by almost everything.

These are the same people who will tell you to check your privilege if you dare to have an opinion different than theirs. This is shown as students on college campuses have thrown temper tantrums at free speech rallies.

In the world of gaming, they like to voice their insane opinions as well.

The new Battlefield game is set to release soon, and there was a video by The Know claiming that the game was sexist because they did not include women in the multiplayer. This game is a war game set in the World War I era.

They make the worst claims ever by saying that the game is already unrealistic due to guns not jamming and tanks not messing up.

This is an idiotic because anyone who plays video games at all knows that making guns randomly jam would be horrific game design. Making a game realistic to the point where it hinders the gameplay mechanics is a stupid idea.

The game is supposed to be immersive as possible and people can believe that guns work properly like they should. What a person cannot believe is that 20 women soldiers are running around with sniper rifles in a 64-player server.

Most women during World War I worked as nurses and other non-combat positions. The women who fought in the war were few and far in between.

It would disrupt the immersion by having a single woman on the battlefield during gameplay because it simply did not happen in the war. It is not realistic. If you compared the amount of male causalities against female casualties, you would see my point.

Another major freak out was when Tracer from Overwatch. This came about when Blizzard showed Tracer with her back to the camera with her butt showing. I know it’s weird, but everyone except Miley Cyrus has a butt so I don’t know why people took offense.

It was not just Tracer in the pose either. It was a basic pose for many characters in the game, but people get triggered by everything. Since this happened, Blizzard decided to take it down.

I think this is just stupid and if you are triggered by a video game or movie then do everyone a favor and don’t play and/or watch it.

Biggest CSGO hacker I've seen so far.

The other day my friend was playing CSGO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) and ran into one of the biggest hackers of all time.

I told him to send me the link to I could capture his hacks in glory.

If you guys watch the video, you will notice the frame rate is having issues because I had over a million programs running at the same.

The game started off normal as the hacker was on the counter-terrorist side and was playing below average at first. He wasn’t even doing the best on his team at this point.

After time however, things changed.  He instantly became a god at the game and started to perfect the headshot with ease. The reaction time became a lot sharper as well.

It became obvious that this man was a hacker.

So I checked his account and of course he has already been banned once before.

The best part about his guy in the video is that he didn’t try to hide his hacks.

After the first suspect round of him getting all headshots with an AK-47, he then picks up a Negev and get all headshots again.

The worst team in the NFL are the Cleveland Browns.

There has been no team in recent history that find ways to lose. Losing games is a tradition for the Browns. If the Browns are up 56-21 in the 4th quarter, then it is still a close game as the Browns will find some way to lose.

The Browns has not been in the playoffs since the 2002 season and lost the very first game. Ever since, they have only smelled the playoffs once back in 2007. That is almost 10 years ago.

The Browns have only two winning seasons since they rejoined the league back in 1999.

The whole organization is a joke that’s not even funny. They are world famous for having horrible management and ruining the careers of quarterbacks. The Browns would have found a way to make Tom Brady look like Ryan Leaf.

Speaking of quarterbacks, the Browns has not had a consistent starting quarterback since Tim Couch in 2001. You know your team is horrible when you cry remembering the stable days of Tim Couch who threw 21 interceptions that season.

Another accomplishment that the team has is starting two or more quarterbacks for 15 seasons in a row. This started with Holcomb Kelly back in 2002 to Cody Kessler in 2016.

The Browns are also notorious for the Johnny Manziel incident where he crashed and burned and playing for the team he did wasn’t going to do him any favors.

The team also had the opportunity to pick in the first round eight times since 2011. Unfortunately, none of them panned out.

The most noticeable was running back Trent Richardson who apparently became blind after he left Alabama because he cannot find a hole to save his life.  I feel like he played every game for the Browns with a blindfold on.

When you combined all of these stats, it is safe to say that they are a miserable team. Getting drafted by the Browns is almost a death sentence for your career. The government might have to regulate their picks so we don’t kill innocent careers.

Console fans often love to talk about how great their consoles are and compare the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Where they go wrong is when they try to compare it to a gaming computer.

I have heard the dumbest arguments from fans who say the console experience is just better. Let’s take a look at a few.

Most PS4 fanboys will say they have exclusives. They fail to realize that Pc gamers literally have hundreds of exclusives. Some of these wouldn’t even work properly on a console.

Some will say that there’s petitions of people asking for Pc ports of PS4 exclusives which mean the PS4 is clearly better. This is idiotic because most of these petitions don’t even represent ¼ of Pc gamers.

Another argument is that the graphics are better. This is simply just not true at all. The Pc will 99.9% of the time will look better than the console counterpart assuming that the graphics are set to the maxed out limitations.

The dumbest argument you can have is that the console performs better. If any Pc gamer has an updated rig at all, it will outperform a console on multiple occasions.

The Xbox One struggles to run demanding games such as Fallout 4 at 1080p at 30fps. That is terrible. When playing the game on console, you will experience drops around 25fps casually. The game will also freeze sometimes and go to 0fps.

Every console gamer’s claim to fame the Batman: Arkham Knight port which was horrible. For every bad pc port, there are dozens if not thousands of games that run better on the pc.

Another argument I see is that Pc gaming is a lot more expensive. I hear this quite often and it is true to a degree that Pc gaming is a more expensive initial investment.

What most people don’t take account for is the games that you will buy new at $60 each, another $60 just to play online which is a scam.

If you play on Pc, you can get the games a lot cheaper on release day. Mafia III is set to release soon and only cost around $28 on Pc. You will not find that on any console. More than likely, you will pay $60.

Fanboys of products have been around for a long time, but the worst type of fanboys are the console fanboys.

Being a fan of a product is completely different than a person who pledges allegiance to a certain company for some absurd reason. These type of people have helped ruin gaming for quite a while now.

Every so often, Microsoft and Sony release a new console which draws a lot of attention in the gaming industry.

If you are in the gaming community, then you know about the console wars. This is when a bunch of kids and adults brag about how much better their gaming box is.

What they fail to realize is that Microsoft and Sony are cashing out on this behavior and will continue to milk them dry for the next decade. This isn’t even the real problem though.

The real problem is when Xbox and PlayStation players feel the strange need to defend Microsoft or Sony like they are the executives. This mentality is why gaming is going downhill these days because corporations know that they can get away with behavior that is bad for the community.

This is why Microsoft and Sony can nickel and dime their users by making them pay just to play games they already own online because they know you have absolutely no choice if you want to play online. They also know that you will moan and groan about their service, but will come right back to them at the end of the day.

Valve tried to do the equivalent last year when they announced a paid mod feature on Steam. Pc gamers however, rejected the idea to the point where Valve had to get rid of the idea altogether.

Another type of fanboy is the franchise fanboy. This person will protect a franchise like a father hovering over his daughter on her first date with a teenage boy. This person is willingly ignorant to any issues a game might have.

This is why we have so many games like Star Wars Battlefront, Evolve, and many other games that are released unfinished, unpolished, broken, or just lack any type of content. This is also a reason why developers and publishers can just release day one DLC/micro transactions and get away with it.

The 21st century has brought many amazing game onto the scene such as World of Warcraft and Counter Strike.  Unfortunately, not every game is created equal.  For every great game on the market, there is complete crap. One so big that flushing it down the toilet is simply not an option. Please do not try playing these games yourself as it may cause bleeding of the eyes. 

5. Air Control

 The fact that the developers had the balls to ask money for this absolute travesty is impressive itself. In 2014, Killjoy Games released Air Control on Steam. It was promoted as a flight simulator, but was instantly met with bad ratings which is well deserved. Everything in this game is horrible. The graphics are from the PS1 era. The game play makes no sense at all. The game crashes almost every play through so expect it to crash often. The game also has one musical loop that plays during the whole entire game which is enough to make you want to overdose on painkillers to end your misery

4. Drake of the 99 Dragons

 Idol FX rose to fame in 2003 by releasing possibly one of the worst 3rd person shooters ever. This abomination of a game also includes possibly one of the most idiotic characters in gaming history. Drake of the 99 Dragons is absolute garbage on every level. The graphics are just trash. Even for a 2003 game, gamers expected more. The acting job performed is bad enough to make your ears bleed. I’m surprised Idol FX have not received any lawsuits to help pay for the medical fees.

3. Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing

 As far as gaming goes, Big Rigs barely qualifies as it was released in pre-alpha. I wish I was lying, but in late 2003, Stellar Stone chose to release this piece of poo barely in a stable condition to run. To start it off, the game has no sound. Buildings have virtually no meaning as your truck can drive right through every object in the game. Bridges are just for decorations as your vehicle dips below it as you make your best efforts to ride across. Big Rigs manage to destroy every law of physics as trucks can drive up the steepest mountains without a pause. This game deserves to be thrown in the middle of the desert and buried deep within the Earth layers.

2. Raven’s Cry

 This game was released in late 2014 and was instantly classified as one of the worst games of the year. Before I get into the negatives, I would like to talk about the positives. The graphics are decent. Yes, that is it. The one thing you will notice right away is the horrible voice acting and dialogue. The combat system is embarrassingly bad and frustrating. The icing on the cake is that the hit detection is a figment of your imagination. This game should have never been released as it was clearly in early-access still.

1.Ride to Hell: Retribution

I have already torn this game apart in a post before so you need to check that out. The short summary pf this game is that it is terrible. Ride to Hell is truly a ride to hell. The name does not lie one bit.

I made a post not too long ago discussing integrated graphics . This week I decided to put in a Nvidia GTX 1060 in my computer and test every game that I once played with integrated graphics.

If you did not check out my last blog, my current pc build is an Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 Ghz and the HD 530 graphics that was build inside my computer when I first bought it. This is a very good work computer and can get many task done and I would recommend it for anyone who needs a basic computer and very basic gaming. If you want to get into gaming on your computer, I would suggest investing in a graphics card and it will boost your performance dramatically.

I noticed a huge difference almost instantly as most games only played at 720p resolution while I was using integrated graphics. When I put in the dedicated graphics card, I was playing games at 1920 x 1080p at high frame rates.

Last time I tried out Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and I got around 80 frames per seconds on low settings on 720p resolution. With the GTX 1060, the graphic detail is maxed out and the resolution is 1080p. The performance is leagues better with over 200 frames per second and can sometimes even exceed 300 which is outstanding.  

The other game I discussed was SMITE. This games ran at 720p around 40-50 frames per second on low settings with the integrated graphics card. Now the game runs over 120 frames per second with the graphical details set to the maximum capacity.

A game I did not talk about in my first blog about graphic cards was Warframe. This game was originally played on 720p on low graphics with an average of around 45 frames per second. I would say this game was unplayable at the moment due to huge frame rate spikes because the integrated graphics simply could not handle it. I would have not recommended that you play without a dedicated graphics card.

Overall the performance of a dedicated graphic card beats the integrated card by a long shot like it should. I also recommend that you buy a power supply as well as you want to make sure that your graphic card will not get burned out by a bad power supply.

Infinite Warfare Multiplayer First Impression

Activision has finally released “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” multiplayer gameplay footage last week and it was no surprise that it closely resembles the game before it.

“Infinite Warfare” has brought the series to space which is something my friends and I used to joke about, but that is now an unfortunate reality.

The trailer for the game first released early in May received nothing except hate as it earned the second most hated video in YouTube history. The hate was received at first due to the futuristic setting, which most fans of the series have shown great amounts of dislike towards. After the initial hate was received, a wave of bandwagon hate came forward which puts the trailer up to 3.2 million dislikes of today.

The trailer did not look great in my opinion. I’m not too worried about the futuristic setting, but the appearance of laser guns in the franchise seems a bit too much.

The first change I did notice was the time-to-kill in the game was very short and could be compared to “Call of Duty: Ghost.” Depending on how you felt about Ghost, that could be a good thing or a bad thing. I know a lot of people love to hate on Ghost, but the hit detection was better in that game then it was in last year’s release.

The short time-to-kill should decrease the amount of hit markers in the game which will also reduce the amount a raging done. This will only work if Infinity Ward finally fixed the net code and servers within the game, but unfortunately this will never happen so we might as well move on.

Almost everything you hated in “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3” is back as well. The specialist abilities are back. The wall running and double jumping is back. The black market is also back which was one of the worst aspects of last year’s cash grab. Activision has yet again implemented the same money-hungry tactic they used last year to milk every dollar from its fan base and I see it only getting worse in the feature.

Let's look back at “Ride To Hell: Retribution”

“Ride to Hell: Retribution” has to be the worst game of all time. I would rather live stream “Custard’s Revenge” for 72 hours straight than to play though the story of this game.

In 2013, Eutechnyx and Deep Silver opened the fiery gates of hell upon the world. There are no redeeming qualities in the game at all. The graphics ae absolutely deplorable on all fronts. The graphics look like it was made in 2004. The story features one of the most unlikable characters in gaming history.

Jake Conway is an absolute grotesque character in every way possible.  The voice acting sucks which is theme throughout the game. It seems to be missing multiple sound files as cut scenes are missing sounds that you could get online for free.

When you finally get into any type of action, you will realize that Jake controls stiff as a board and enemies soak up bullets like a sponge. The only way to kill anything in the game is to get a headshot or to kick enemies until they die because kicking an enemy will stun them to a point where they can no longer attack back.

The reward system however, has to be the most disgusting thing about this game. From time to time, Jake will have to beat up another biker who is harassing a woman. After the fight, you would think the woman would thank you and give you a power up or cash. If you thought that would ever happen then you are wrong because women will have sex with you right after you murder someone right in front of them.

This game also displays the worst sex scenes in history. The sex scenes are fully clothed and poorly animated.

Once you get past all the bad cut scenes, broken mechanics, horrid voice acting, quick-time events and sex scenes you will not care about anything else besides finishing this piece of bollocks. I would rather jump off a cliff into the middle of a busy 4-way intersection than to ever touch this game again. This game loses the comedic value in less than an hour as frustration sets in as you realize that this game truly is a legend in its time for all the wrong reasons.

My experience using integrated graphics

Many Pc gamers today have dedicated graphic card or GPU for a good reason. The reason is simply because it is almost a necessity to own one in order to play video games at high quality levels. I have been using integrated graphics which is built into your CPU or central processing unit.  It can run games, but not at spectacular levels.

My current build is a budget build which includes an Intel Core i3- 6100 processor at 3.7 GHz. Since I have yet to put a GPU in my system, this means I am stuck with integrated graphics. The HD 530 integrated graphics is a big step from the past integrated graphic cards since it can actually run a few games.

The first game I tested was Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The game at 720p on low settings runs fairly smooth around 70-100 frame per second depending on the map. The frame rate does start to hit the low 40 mark whenever a flash bang occurs or a smoke grenade is tossed.

When playing at 1080p, you can expect frame rates to be around 60 fps for the most part with dips every now and then due to the lack of a dedicated graphics card. You can expect the frame rates to dip around the 30 mark when a flash bang occurs. I would recommend playing on 720p for the best experience.

Another game that I play often is SMITE, which is an online only game. For the best experience in this game I would turn the resolution down to 720p and turn down the graphics to low or medium. If you set the graphics to medium, you can expect around 40 frames per second. If you switch the graphics to low, you should get around 60 frames per second. I would not recommend playing on 1080p as the frame rates make the game unplayable and it will not serve you well.

Overall, I cannot recommend gaming on integrated graphics unless you are specifically going to play Counter Strike and older games. Some older games may still be dragged down by the integrated graphics so it is best to save up and buy a dedicated card if you are looking to get into gaming on the computer. I will test these two games out again when I get my dedicated card next week and I am very excited for that.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the newest installment of the Call of Duty franchise. This franchise should have died years ago, but fanboys and the massive amounts of casual gamers keep it alive.

Call of Duty has become progressively worse with every iteration since MW2 in 2009. The worst of them so far since 2009 has to be Advanced Warfare, which came out in 2014. Advanced Warfare was the worst Call of Duty to date. I would rather peel my eyes out with a rusty spoon then to ever touch that game again. Black Ops 3 was a lot better than AW (Advanced Warfare), but is still a trash first person shooter.

So far the only thing Infinite Warfare can brag about is how that it has the second most disliked video in YouTube history with over three million dislikes and not even a million likes. The only video to be more hated is “Baby” by Justin Bieber. So with a small amount of explanation, lets briefly look at a few reasons why Infinite Warfare will be complete gutter trash.

One of my main issues with Call of Duty since forever is the lack of dedicated servers. No Call of Duty to date has real dedicated servers which is why the game still has a host migration screen. I have played Battlefield for years now and never seen a host migration screen. This combined with the horrible net code causes the game to feel slow at all times and you wonder why you will die when you run around the corner. I will be almost willing to bet my life none of these problems will change.

Another issues within Call of Duty is the use of supply drops. This has to be the single worst thing about Black Ops 3. It was in AW, but in Black Ops 3, it is beyond bad. Not only do they want you to buy the crappy DLC, which will almost guarantee to have maps reincarnated and sold as something new, the want you to pay to unlock the weapons within the DLC.  I will go over this fully in another rant, but this feature will most certainly be used in the Infinite Warfare title.