The Arithmetic Mean To My Life

29th August '09

2009-08-29T08:26:00.000-07:00

Hey hey everyone :)

It's been a while ... again ...

Just came back from my guitar class and OUCH! my finers feel like i've left them on a frying pan for a couple of months ! Ah well ... the solemn state of gaming is really keeping my frown the same side down ... No new games so far . All waiting for the holiday season to release their games .

1.Uncharted 2

2.Mordern Warfare 2

3.Assasin's Creed 2

4.Tekken 6

ONCE AGAIN it's either NOTHING or TOO much !!

But that is a pretty impressive line up ! I am really looking forward to AC2 and MW2 ! They both look sublime .And the new PS3 price cut is almost HERE !

I already have a ps3 ... So why do i care ?

BEACUSE it's helping the company ! :D

I'm a really bad fan boy and i am one of those guys who cant keep his mouth from cursing the XBOX owners .(hehe)

AND

I got myself into a LOT of automobile studies these days . The way they work is truly GENIOUS !

Car Engines RULE !

Well that's about all i can think of what i've been upto right now ..

I know i have a lot of free time ~_~

NOT SO !

Your forgetting about the one thing which keeps me occupied all the time and the same thing which i keep cursing even in my dreams ... School ! :(

Oh yeah and by the way the tribute to Micheal Jackson concert is going on as i type ^_^

Cannot Think Of A Tittle >_<

2009-08-04T08:44:00.000-07:00

Woah ~! It's been a while since i wrote here ... and tons of crazy crap has been happening here !! First of all MJ is D-E-A-D !! :O:O:O

Irony of the fact is i just started listening to his songs and started liking them .. lol

The other topic on the list is that i am officialy sweet 16 ^_^. Got loads of gifts !! Most of them rocked unlike last year .An original Gucci t-shirt ! (\m/) Thats my favourite .

And did i mention the fact that i am one of the editors for my school's E-news paper under the "Voices" categeory ! My job is to conduct surveys on any topic of intrest and i get to meet the students and ask them how much they hate school !! JOY :)

And another ultra awesome thing which will remind me never to Rip my bike on a runway is that recently me and my friends went to this place about 27 kms away from chennai which is actually an abondoned runway ! Maxed out our bikes for about 40 mins and got chased by the officials :P

Well i guess im having fun ...

Cheers ~! ^_^

When Things REALLY get hot ...

2009-06-15T10:11:00.000-07:00

Well my entire house is running on low current right now so ill try and make this quick .

Heres a good "quote" (or whatever u call it) in life which i just thought of ... but then quickly realised that there are better quotations out there which are as same as mine >_<

Well here it is anyway :

When things get too hot to handle .. We have to become hotter then them .

You know .. when you grow hotter than them then practically they are cooler then you and you can handle them :D

Okay i know it sucks but sheesh ...

Making media cheaper ??

2009-06-15T08:24:00.000-07:00

Ok , this blog is a reply to my buddy Azeron who thinks games , songs and movies are too costly being at 1000 bucks and more ..

Well listen here dude ... and all you other dudes who think this is right as well ...

I'll start off with an example .There is a game called God Of War III due to release on the playstation 3 on March next year .This game ,with no doubt ,i can tell will cost around 3000 bucks .This i am completly willing to pay for i know what they had to go through to make the game what is was in the E3 . Apparently they started building the engine for the game from scratch right after God Of War 1 came out ... Thats like almost 4 freaking years !! And thats only the engine ! And ive seen tons of these sorta things and listen here my friend .. pay them what they deserve so that they can make better games next time ..

And as for movies i don't know much but i sure say that all that graphics and all those cars which they blow up dont come easy ....

Heres another angle at the point .

If an organisation is creating say a game or movie ... And lets just assume that it costs hell a lot of cash . Lets say about 3 crores . And say that organisation imposes a price of 1000 on their product and expects a good response from its consumers .

This is where the whole problem begins .. If there are about 20 people willing to buy the game ,the company's income should actually be 20,000 .But say just two people buy it and make 10 pirated copies each .Then the 20 people who actually wanted to buy the game , naturally , will opt for the cheaper (illegal may i add) version which may be priced around 100 bucks .

In this case the organisation's profit , all the way from 20,000 , is reduced to 2000 .

And they will be history if this countinues ...

Sad is it not ?

inFAMOUS

2009-05-26T08:15:00.000-07:00

inFAMOUS demo was out on playsation network yesterday ... Dumb-asses release the demo one day before the actual release ...
Was'nt really impressed with the visuals but gameplay was sweet ..

It's Either Too Much Or Too Less sigh

2009-05-18T04:22:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago i really regretted eating my words ...
What were my words you ask ?? Good Question ..
Me before the last exam to my mom : Phew ! The last exam ... after this comes infinite freedom !! **broad Grin**
Mom Listening to my petty emotion : You say this now but wait until they REALLY begin ... you'll really miss school ..
And i was like "chh Yeah ! Like thats gonna happen ..."
I had a good reason to say that .... I had a PS3 for heavens sake !! And a ... ummm ..err ... My friends ! Yeah i had my friends ! Ok is that all i had ? (-_-*) What ever i had made me feel that way and the hatred toward my books fueled this ....
After a week into the holidays :
*tring tring*
Me : Hello ?
Friend : Yo ! Wat'cha doin ??
Me : Trying to conquer the world while hopping on one foot
Friend : What's put you in this bad mood ?
Me : Im Bored ...
Oops ... mom beside me ... did'nt see her ... forgot about the whole " I Wont be bored thing"
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....
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OK OK I lost !!
Anyway ... i really was bored ... didnt expect the "Long awaited holidays" to end up this way . My ps3 u ask ? Well ... i ran out of games (~_~). I did have killzone to play but my friend borrowed it and i could'nt ask it back (long story). And this is the part where i had nothing to do ...
A week later ....
I get sickened by boredom and get Street Fighter IV (although im not an arcade guy .. i had nothing else to do)
Friend compeles me to try out Call Of Duty IV online and i loved it !!
Borrow story book from another friend and it turns out to be good.
Friend visits my house and returns killzone and i realise how much i've missed it ..
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW !!!
I HAVE TOO BLOODY MUCH TO DO !!
It didnt matter for long because my mom says we have to go to andra to visit relatives (~_~)
I hate my life ...
Cheers to you too !!

Killzone2

2009-05-05T21:59:00.000-07:00

This is my first Full-scale review on a game ... enjoy ^_^
Name : Killzone2
Genre : Action/First Person Shooter
Platform : Playstation 3
Developers : Guerrila Games
Geaphics : 96%
Gameplay : 90%
Lifespan : About 12 hours
Overall : 98%

Who would have ever thought that killzone which came out in 2006 for the playstation2 would have such a massive sequel .When the sequel was announced through a trailer ,the immense graphic quality surely required a standing up for ..
When the actual game was announced a few months before its release date massive hypes and ripples were created all over the gaming world ... could this be the break sony was hoping for ?? No one knew until the actual day ..
And on the day of truth all was revealed and Killzone finally lived up to its immense and towering expectations.
I personally loved the game to the very extent it could take to ..
The story actually goes like this ....
The year is (im not exactly sure about the date but its somewhere around here) 2159 and humans have moved on and started colonisong on other planets .One such planet is Vekta .And another planet involed in the story is planet Helghast .
In the first installment of the game we understand that planet Helghast has a new leader/dictator known as Scholar Visari .He converts his planet into this war machine and invades Vekta .You play as captain templar and replel the forces out if the planet .As the invasion draws to a defeat for the Helgans they steal a few warheads and they happend to be nuclear ... coincedence ??
And so in Killzone 2 you play as Sergent Sevchenko and take the fight to their home planet .Aim. To bring down scholar Visari and bring a halt to the war machine ,and to retrive the nuclear warheads .
The stunning visual effects truly raises the bar and anything under it is now unacceptable .The powerful engine seemlessly anti-alises the environment all in the while keeping the frame rate at a very good pace . The physics are astoundingly natural and the flow-movement of the game is magnificent .The surroundings are also taken into account where every now and then a paper piece may flutter along or the friendly sun rays through the destroyed buildings seem all to good in thier natural glory .The fast action gameplay keeps you moving from one battle to another with hardly room to breathe . The fights are long , but not too long as to get tedious .
The weapons are another good factor in the game .Especially for me as i take them into account and so much to say that i let go of call of duty : world at war lookin at those world war two type of guns .There are various type of guns in the game which rise to specific occasions .. There are two types of standard assault rifles .The ISA M-18 and the helghan assault ( i dont know wats its called ) The M18 with its green assault scope is defineltly the pick of the lot . The other notable weapons include a bolt gun ( AWESOME !!) .Shooting a bullet onto an enemy will send them flying and bolts them to the nearest wall before blowing up .Another really slick gun is an electrifying sort of weapon which makes you almost invinceble .It has infinite ammo as it picks up energy from the air .I was nearly going to drop it down and pick somthing else as the going became too easy (LOL).And the standard sniper and all that party follows on ...
There are certain infantry types of helghan known as the "Heavy" which i'd like to point out .They are actually soldiers fed with drugs and exposed to too much propaganda speaking .So in the battle field all they know is hatred against the ISA (the good guys) . They have huge armour im-penetrable by common bullets . The only way one can kill them is by shooting thier helmets in which case they turn around and expose their flammable cylinders . A good 20 bullets should make those heavies jump in a swimming pool ;). The helghan soldiers are not exactly the sharpest tool on the sheds but they are surely a force to be reckoned with .The AI is really good and keeps you real busy on all sides .They take cover when they are attacked and dont peep put if you keep them suppressed i.e. Shooting bullets near their cover.
The weird thing about this game is that the gameplay never slows down . Even when your walking to your next destination .Maybe im just mesmirsed by the really good visualls ... i personally dont know ... I remeber those days when i used to play crysis and those long walks along those mountain roads were ever so boring even in "Super-speed" mode ...
You just don't walk around and shoot people in this game by the way .. In certain missions you get in tanks and get behind turrets which rise to the ocassion .One awesome mission sees you get into an ISA robot-like machine which is almost too good to be true... another mission gets you behind an anti aircraft turret to defend your cruiser .
All in all the campain mode is a bit of a flash but the trophies should keep you comming back to it .... The online mode is just well placed together .There are many modes :
1. Body Count - Your average death match
2. Search and retrive - Somthing similar to capture the flag in most games
3. Search and destroy - The game picks a target . One team Tries and destroys , the other defends
4. Assasination - The name says it all
5. Territory control - Isn't this mode there in all the games ??
The game moulds and mixes these missions very well . The online maps are really where combat happens in close quarters and there isn't much camping .
The online mode has two rewards .One as your leveling up to promoting classes like sergent and general .And the other one is being able to unlock new guns for the standard soldier ,the engineers , medic and so on .
All in all this game is definetly what the sony wanted ! Their big break and their saviour .The low price comes as a suprise and goes good on your wallet . PICK THIS GAME UP ! Its worth everything you own your ps3 for.

Hello People !! Missed Me ??

2009-05-05T21:57:00.000-07:00

I am finally back in business just to prove that exams and my ps3 are not going to control my inner bolgging spirits .... Phew !
And now that i AM back ...
Look Out :P

My Gaming Blood Flows Through My Veins With Pride ..... Once Again

2009-01-24T22:02:00.000-08:00

I have reached the top of the food-chain and now have seperated myself from the heard .... Because while you little kiddies play .... i Game on the playground which sony has destined me with ...
Look .... All im trying to say is that i got a Playstation 3 !! Jeez .... You guys can take a little dramatric talk can you ??
Well Anyway ....
Actually i got it in my vacation to Dubai (Yes , im Showing off :P) There was this "Offer" and so i could'nt resist .... I just hope i made the right choice ... Hope fully the Xbox isnt any better ... speaking about choices i made my first bad one already ... Guys take an advice from me ... never fight with your parents for 22 long minutes and spend 2000 bucks on a filthy , bugging , framing , hell-crapping , good for nothing , sad and stupid game like "Need For (not so) Speed :Undercover" .... it aint worth it ...

The picture on the top is when i unpacked it for the first time ... *tears* so beautiful ..

The Big Bomb ... Boom!!

2008-10-20T09:22:00.000-07:00

Yup ... Finally the day has come ... the Not-So-Enthusiastic Parents Open Meet .

For people who don't know what it is ,it's the day where all the fairies in their homes get their true colors revealed in school .The parents and the teachers discuss about the student's performance in the terminals and this meeting also includes discussions on how to physically torture our very being and push us into further studies to diminsh the last burning candle of hope ... fun .

It's not all that bad for me because my parents aren't that strict and i don't give them much to scold at me but thinking of the various ridiculously stupid excuses for their low marks .There are people who go "we got attacked by freakishly large aliens " and thier brainless parents are dum enough to fall for that .

But this time i have a reputation to keep up to . I got the first rank in the mid-term and people expect that of me everytime !!Remember the time when i said that my parents were a bit lienient ?? Because of that im not used to much pressure .They don't want THAT much from me .... Now because of this first place my class teacher is "all roses" at me !! She was looking forward to me getting the first rank more than me !!

Today when it was "officially" finalised that i was not that anymore the disappointment in her voice really made me feel "am i really this bad at keeping up to other's beliefs ??"

Anyway ,this exam was really bad and there were many 60's than the dust in my history teachers head.

Big suprise !! The hardcore gamer has some feelings too ....

-Harrnator

(On the verge of loosing my net connection)

Call Of Duty

2008-10-15T04:41:00.000-07:00

Put all three of your hands up for the best fps i've played in my life so far ...(drum rolls please).... CALL OF DUTY 4 !!

Name :Call Of Duty 4

Platform :PC and The XBox 360

Developers :Activision

Genre :Action/First Person

Graphics :92%

Gameplay :94%

Sound :94%

Lifespan :About 15hrs

The first thing u'll notice about this game is the pretty good looking graphics !! The game story is really good as you play parallel roles between two characters in the U.S.M.C and the S.A.S searching for the same person , the bad guy .The awesome graphics however dont come with a price as i've seen my friend play it on his nvidia 6 . Keeping the visually stunning looks aside the sound is just Extreme !! It really give you that heart-stopping feel as you play on through the game .The missions are really innovative as you dont just play on only the ground but also the sky and on the sea and in one crazy mission you play in a ghilly suit.The really neat features include you being able to throw back the grenades which the enemies throw at you .The realisim in the gameplay relly stuck to me .When you pick up a sniper you wont be able to just shoot like you do in other games . You need to focus your breathing and keep the direction of the wind in mind !!

Pretty neat eh ?? The bottom caption ill give to this game is "highly addictive" . To justify that id like to share the fact that i started playing this game just before my terminal exams began and finished it within four exams and the cool part is ... i was playing during them !!

U'll Never Look At Hand Writing The Same Way Again !!

2008-09-26T09:52:00.001-07:00

Graphology .It's the science of looking at a person's handwriting and getting a vivid display of his/her personality and habitual behaviour.It also relates to that persons mental and physical health at that point of time when he/she wrote the specific script.
Phew !!
Now that the boring part is done i can get right down to it.For people who didnt understand a thing in the above self-made and ridicilously stupid definition ,graphology basically allows you to look at the person's handwriting and tell his entire personality and what type of a guy he actually is !! The thing that attracted me the most is that it gives me the ability to find out even if the person is lying or not !!
Suppose if i were to appoint a person to a job, i can take a look at his hand-written resume and find out if he is the "Im waiting for a chance to stab you in the back" type or "Im an stupid no-good jerk who cant even stand up my own two feet" type !! It even allows the graphologist to find out culprits in crimes and stuff. Its proven to be better than a lie detector .
You could even try it on your friends . I still dont get tired of telling what type of habits my friend has and looking at that awestruck face silently saying "Dude ,i gotta make preparations to move away from this country" .
You could unlock the secrets that your girlfriend has been hiding or you could tell that the gift card which you recieved is full of hatred though its filled with love.Sounds fun ??
I got my graphology book from my cusion who finished the entire thing and is pactically a "mind-reader". Its called "Hand writing Analysis" by Andrea Mcnihol . Its quite awesone and gives me time to kill during these never-lasting stupid excuse for holidays .
So anyway you should try it out too !!
-Harrynator
(Stealing Hand Written Samples From Everyone !!)

A Hour And A Half Trip To ..........

2008-09-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

......... Queens Land !! For those of you guys who dont know what it is ,its an amusement park here in chennai .Our good for nothing ,money hungry ,sniveling ,snaveling ,dust biting ,worthless ,but licking and a stupid excuse for a school sometimes ,does something worth the money were paying and takes us to a feild trip .And this time it happened to be an amusement park .I thought it would be a blast and all ,but the trip today was ..... er .... not "exactly" a blast .To start from the top it was really cloudy early in the morning and all of us had a bad feeling that the feild trip might be over before it even began .That gave me something to pray about to god and fortunately they were answered in the way i would prefer to be answered .That was the least of the troubles i faced on my way .My friend told me that our head master(a.k.a Prof.Bulldog) told everyone that they could bring any gadgets but cell phones .So i decided to bring my camera .Bad move .After getting on the bus Prof.Bull dog walked in and he was like "ok everyone ,arf arf ,no one will bring cell phones ,arf arf ,cameras ,arf arf ,and anyone who does bring one ,arf ,will be in trouble ,arf .Pretty bad eh ?? Moving on ,i happened to be the 3rd last person from the entire school to get a ticket .And when i say the entire school i mean about 500 students or thereabout .So me and me buddies were a little bit late , big deal ,wats an hour going to take away from us ?? Only the best ride in the whole entire godforsaken place !!everyone we met along the way were talking about the ride we missed !! it sorta' pissed me off when this guy came running to me and was like "Hey ,did you go on that ride ?? it was bloody hell awesome!!" He happend to catch me in a bad time so i tied him upside down on the freefall tower and pretended i was looking at the pretty roses when the found him half dead and half mad .We got on only about 8 rides when everyone else had finished about 15!!
But besides all that i guess it was alright and not all that bad .We got on the free fall tower ,the bumper cars ,someting called hanging coaster ,the big roller coaster ,the alpine blitz as it was called there which is another type of a coaster ,some spinning thing which was quite fun ,the colombus if you know what that is and we played some arcade games .

Defeated ,Destroyed ,Buried And Killed !!

2008-08-27T09:46:00.001-07:00

Why the title is so harsh you ask ?? Oh i'll tell you alright !! Me and a few of my friends go to this gaming centre where people (mostly kids of my age -15 to 20) hang out . Well lets just say that its the place where children would prefer to spend their time and get spoilt rather than go to school and get some useful trash stuck in their useless craniums . Well any way ,we went there to play this MMO called Counter Strike . The first day when we went there we were all like - Dude !! we rock at this game !! , Dude !! we are the champs !! ,Dude !! this game is so easy me and my grandma could team up and win!! .Yup ,thats how we were people . But the second day ,things were er ....... sorta different ......... We sorta got carried away and challenged these 12th grade dudes . And this is where the really harsh title comes in .......... u know what i mean ?? The score was 22 to 3 ,and yes , u guessed it , we were 2 . And i want to mention that we got those points when they were eating their lunch and we had a handicap because they could'nt react that fast .

We were just laid there for the vultures man !! They killed us in just one shot and we shot about all the bullets we had at them and STILL could'nt kill them !! The lesson that we learnt from this is "Not all ugly people suck at counter strike" . We are practicing anyway ,but this embaresment will haunt us for a while .

Say No To Teachers Who Were Former Military Soldiers

2008-08-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

Dont understand what the title means ?? I thought so . Our maths teacher is what im talking about .Maths used to be my favorite subject but when she came around it became anything BUT my favorite subject !! She's so damn fast that you wont even have time to open the cap of your pen !! No people im not egsadurating !! Her mouth and her brain are the only things which are slow .Her hands are like computerized mechs., which go on doing the sums for ever till the chalk is grinded to dust . She dosent even care if we understand the sums !!She says that she always encourages doubts .But if you did stand up and ask her a doubt she'll go "This is such a simple doubt .Anyone can answer it .Stop asking such silly questions and sit down ". After finishing every sum she goes "Very easy no ??" while the rest of the class is either scratching thier heads or making plans for her murder .She even forced me into tuition !!Im telling you ,if you walk into our class and ask anyone who they hate the most among the teachers ,i bet anything from my 2 year old smelly shoes to my Play station that their hand will go flying towards our maths teacher .If you ever had the misforune of meeting her or taking maths lessons with her .................. im sorry man .
-The Harrynator

Jak 3

2008-08-27T09:32:00.000-07:00

This is my first game review for u guys .expect these sorta reviews on games every once or twice in a month or so .
NAME : Jak 3

PROS : -Exellent storyline

GENRE : Action/Adventure -Greavisuals

MANUFACTURERS : Sony entertainment ,Naughty dog -Great gameplay PLATFORM : Play Station 2 GRAPHICS : 89% CONS : -A few hard missions that GAMEPLAY : 93% make u wanna give up SOUND : 89% -No locking on LIFESPAN : About 20hrs STORY : 4 stars out of 5 OVERALL : 94%
So the whole game starts wit u who plays as jak(hero) being kicked out of his city cuz he was blamed for sumthin he didn't do .(this is a triology so if u wanna know wat happens bfore this pls xcuse me cuz i dont know .i only played the 3rd part). u are left for dead in a desert with ur sidekick ,Daxter. u are rescued by a group of people who were banished frm the city just like u n soon realise that they made a small colony in the desert and hate the city .to get accepted inta their colony u shud prove urself worthy .to do so u need to win a series of battles which they give to u .so u are a given a chance to fight in the arena where if u win u will earn a temporary liscence sorta thing to stay in their colony . then livin in thier place ur supposed to wait for the next arena battle to prove ur self and also help the mayor wit his tasks which may involve anything from catching chickens to killing meatllic dinosaurs in the desert ,or rescuing their traders from bandits to fighting precursers frm outer space !! in the midst of all this u try n earn the respect of the people in the colony u are living and try to find a way back into the city frm which u were thrown out bcuz u are the only key for stopping a war between the people of ur city and the K.G .u also soon find out that u hav hidden demonoic and angel like powers which i find really cool .u can freeze time ,recover ur heath ,get wings ,a shield etc using the respective good or dark poweres .All in all this game is a mind-blowing expereience for gamers of all ages !! extatic visuals with high quality graphics n never boring gameplay combined wit an intresting blend of sounds and an awesome story line make this game one of THE BEST games i've played !! if u own a ps2 and dont have this game ......... well all i can say is " u are leading a sad life man! "
-THE HARRYNATOR (life's never boring wen u have games)

This Guy Has Seen A Funskool Gameboy !!

2008-08-27T09:25:00.000-07:00

Guys, u gotta listen to this one .I study in the 10th grade n this guy (whose name i donot want to disclose) might jus be the most brain less jackass around ! For an example me n my circle of friend usually talk abt things like ..... say gaming ,cars or football. This guy outta nowhere comes n tries to fit in wit the conversation ,though he does not know anything abt it !! An incident like this one happened once .All u guys out there know wat a nintendo gameboy is rite ?? Well i was jus talkin to my frnd abt it he comes along n hes like "Ya game boy im gonna get one of them !! i jus cant decide if should get it from the company 'Funskool or sony' " !!! I mean COME ON !!There were plenty more incidents but u guys will hav to start shaving if u wanna know them all !! He tries really hard for joining with us ,has crushes on girls who donot know he even exists ,laughs for jokes he does not understand .......... goes on man !! Everyone hates him and for his sake i hope he changes ...........................A page in my life so far .Just thought u might wanna know .

Yours truly,
The Harrynator