Hi duders! It's been some time, but I'm back with another video game related blog thanks to a burst of inspiration - this time, from Mass Effect (No spoilers, don't worry) There was a piece of music floating around in my head, but I couldn’t identify it right away. A few seconds later it hit me: it was music from Mass Effect. I immediately opened Youtube and started up my favorite ME soundtrack...
Usually, you play a game, and if you love it, years later you may look back fondly on the time that you'd spent with it. But what if love arrived late? What if it grew and fully formed by the time you were supposed to be feeling nostalgic about the game? What you have then is a weird experience and a special chance to love something for the first time while satisfying the yearning that is cause...
Yesterday, I just got done with playing the second episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm. I absolutely loved the story, atmosphere and the characters, and felt it was one of the most enjoyable video game experiences of the year. In a year packed with so many high quality releases, that's saying something. Having finished the episode, I started thinking about a question I usually return t...
Excuse me for the odd title but I couldn't think of any better way to word it. This is something I've been subconsciously thinking about for months now, but jumping back for a listen to this soundtrack made me want to share my thoughts about this. I absolutely love this suite - the first 30 seconds of the music bring back a flood of memories and emotions that had been built during a journey man...
Yes I know, I should've had backups. And I have no one to blame but myself. There isn't any hope left of recovering any of the work, so this is kind of a eulogy (and a way to get myself to accept reality) before I start everything again from scratch. A few days back I took my external hard disk drive to my sister's place to watch a movie. Stupidly enough I plugged that in to the TV directly ins...
Hey duders! It's really odd, but I've never had any platform for gaming except a PC for the past 15-20 years that I've been playing video games (except for some cheap knock offs of N64 and such that I had as a kid) My parents never got me a console 'cause getting something exclusively for games didn't agree with them. A PC was useful in many ways though, so I got that. (They did buy me a good o...
Introduction As you might have read in my previous blogs, I've been pretty confused about the direction in my life that I should be headed in (career wise) I joined an Architecture college 6 years back, tried to shift to video games mid way (but gave up as there's no game scene in India, and the indie scene wasn't as strong as it is today I think) Along with that, I grew a passion for films - w...
A few months back I'd written a blog post discussing the reasons why I loved GTA V, quoting the game world as one of the biggest factors that kept pulling me back. ( Read that blog here ) The living, breathing world of Los Santos (as long as you're willing to play along and maintain the illusion at least) I observed, can offer moments and experiences unlike anything I've seen before - video gam...
So I wanted to get better at digital painting, and get faster at it as well. With the new Game of Thrones season (now almost over) I decided this was the perfect way to get involved with a series I love, and churn out weekly paintings on an episodic deadline. The different scenes also allowed me to get used to a variety of color pallets. I don't know about getting any better, but it's definitel...
One of the main reasons I play, and love playing video games is that they transport me into a (very believable) alternate world. Sometimes, these worlds are straight up beautiful - The forests in Cyrodil, the hamlet of Bowerstone, or just all of the Witcher 3. Other times, the world is a just an accurate reflection of where we live - GTA V's LA for instance. Somehow, that makes you first realiz...
UPDATE! About week back I made my decision to leave, go back, and make films on the side, mostly as a hobby, at least for now. I've felt my creative inspirations (which got me into films in the first place) drying up, as life became all about work, travel and sleep. I also need to get my life stabilized financially. The reasons have been explained in full in this blog and in my replies to the c...
As you might remember me asking in this poll, I wanted to know how many people were considering switching over to PES 16 this year after having had enough of frustrating times with FIFA 16. I wrote about how I hated the scripting and the overall clunky gameplay that FIFA had devolved into in recent years, making the experience of a match more frustrating than exhilarating. Having played the FIF...
I'm often here blogging about games I finished and loved, and I end the whole experience by making a tribute video for the game and putting that up along with the blog. Well FIFA is a game that never ends, but I've only recently started making music videos for that too. I love long range goals. Recently I looked up on Youtube on how to score those, and since it's not been left up to chance, I'v...
(I edited the title so many times that the word "career" sounds really funny now. How did we come up with that funny word?) Note: I live in India, so things like education/ career work a little bit differently here (for example - the film industry) First, a bit of intro to my college life, and why films After 5 long, difficult years of doing something I pretended to be interested in, I'm finall...
So a couple of weeks back, I finished playing (or rather rushed through the last couple of missions) AC: Unity. I'm usually very lenient when it comes to Assassin's creed games (i.e I'm a fan) and don't bash them for releasing an installment every year since they manage to create good experiences every time. As you might've read, I LOVED ACIV : Black Flag (and it did receive a lot of praise), a...
So we're a bunch of 5th year Architecture students, and we've been given an assignment (in a non-core subject) to make a 5 minute short film. As an aspiring filmmaker (once I'm done with this course) I'm taking this assignment pretty seriously so that I can add to my portfolio and experience. I've done a couple of short films before, and a lot of music videos as well, so the technical parts are...
(I am unable to link this to the Game of thrones 2012 forums. Help?) For some reason this game received extremely negative feedback and reviews, even though it is a really really enjoyable game. I suspect the reason for this is the name that it had to be associated with: Game of Thrones. The name alone brings along with it a heavy burden of expectations, and not without reason. Game of thrones,...
(This is a copy of my post in the ACIV forums, which due to the site being broken, I couldn't attach it through my blog. Therefore I just copied it for my own collection of my blogs. I tried removing it from the general discussions forums, hopefully it worked. Either way, this topic is probably buried at its bottom) I often feel that the perspective with which we have begun to discuss games wit...
I used to share my attempts at learning painting (digital, using photoshop) on these forums quite frequently, but I began to get busier and busier with college work that prevented me from both blogging or painting too much regularly. I've been missing both, and while I continue to procrastinate that blog I've been meaning to write about the many interesting experiences I've had in life, (or tha...
So i'm writing a (proper) blog here after a long LONG break. Like, after about 2 whole years. The last blog I wrote was about my excitement for Skyrim. Oh man time passes by really really fast! (That's a topic for another blog though) So I started watching Lost ... well i'm not exactly sure when, but I'm guessing around late 2010. Giantbomb's Deadly Premonition Endurance Run had ended earlier t...
So i just finished playing the new Tomb Raider a couple of days ago, and found it quite enjoyable, atleast gameplay - wise. Thanks to my new, relatively powerful laptop (in comparison to my old PC) I was able to push the settings up to (almost) max and still get a good framerate. The animations are beautiful, and Lara moves, runs and jumps fluidly. I'd say the animations and the gameplay are th...
(Reposted as blog) So I'd been waiting an ETERNITY for this game. Ever since trailers started coming out I was very interested. And then they went ahead and cancelled it for the PC, and that's all I have! And then I spent the coming months searching "Alan Wake PC" on google quite regularly, only to come up with disappointing fake images and rumors. But finally, it was announced for the PC and I...
Remember my attempts at painting on photoshop with my new (now an year old) drawing tablet? So I did a few more drawings after that which turned out pretty decent. Then I was forced to take a big break as college work took over all my time. But before that I had managed to start a new painting as a tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time The Last Samurai (strange choice? maybe :P) So a...
So I was gonna make one of my game - music videos, this time showing the beauty of Skyrim with some pleasant music, but I ended up getting heavily addicted to this Oasis song (who put the weight of the world on my shoulders) and ended up making a video with that instead. It somehow developed a very interesting theme of the internal conflict that a person in the Dragonborn's position would proba...
So here's my latest work! I asked a friend of mine whether she would like me to make a portrait of her, and she was all up for it. It wasn't possible for us to do it live at that moment, so i decided to take a photo of hers as a reference. Did this in 4 hours (can't believe it! My last one had taken me 4 days! But that was much more detailed as well) sitting from 12 am to 4:30 am (almost on a d...
Now that i'll probably be spending most of my time playing Skyrim, and not Oblivion, I thought of making a little video tribute for Oblivion as a way of saying goodbye Youtube description: So it's finally time for a new Elder Scrolls! With the oncoming release of Skyrim, I doubt many people will still be playing Oblivion. Having spent many happy years playing Oblivion, and living in the world o...
So I got my first drawing tablet a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've been trying to get a hang of it by practicing. I made a couple of drawings following some beginner tutorials, and then, since I just started playing Fable 3 (and am loving it), I thought of ditching tutorials and making an original artwork. So, using Fable's art style as an inspiration, I spent 4 days (Im a beginner, so...
Ok so for the past 3-4 days I've been trying my hand at photoshop in order to prepare a portfolio for my interview at NID (UG for communication design). I thought it would make my portfolio stronger if I had some photoshop work in addition to my regular sketches (which is all that we need to get) So anyways, I thought i'd present me amateurish work to the talented people of giantbomb. Here's my...
MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS Remember my first (of many) music video(s)? It was back in early 2010, when I'd just finished Dead Space 1. Mixing it with Hysteria by Muse, I'd created something that would slowly make video - making my passion. So after more than an year (and about 30 videos :D) Im back with another Dead Space (2) video, this time with Time is Running out! (Again by muse) The lyrics of the...
So here's another music video from me. Contains spoilers. Enjoy :)
GAME SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED THE GAME So I finally completed this gem of a game by the beautiful company, Bioware. Man, what a journey. What a beautiful, just super beautiful setting. I love China :D Loved the game, and I hope the developers are still thinking of a sequel, would love that. Anyways, the game also reminded me of a beautiful movie, THE LAST SAMURAI, an...
I love this game a lot. And I love it for reasons not shared by most people. People would usually like the game for... I dunno, it's side quests, it's story, gameplay, character progression etc etc. I love all of that too, but there's some other reason why I keep returning to this game year after year. The game is just beautiful in every aspect. The music, the landscapes, the books, there's ......
SPOILERS AHEAD So here's my latest music video tribute for the latest game that I just finished - CoD : Blops. The SP campaign was alright, but the end was pretty interesting, especially the Fight Club - ish parts. Still, CoD 4 : MW remains my favorite. Anyways, here's the vid, and if I say so myself, it's pretty good :) Definitely one of my favorites actually. Watch it and tell me what you think!
Medal of Honor spoilers! So I just finished the SP campaign a day before, and thought that though it was short, the story was pretty much worth it. Focusing on realism, the ending really got to me. As always, MoH chose to pay tribute to the soldiers rather than just make them action movie superstars. So here's a tribute to the fallen hero - Rabbit. The first video shows the build up to the resc...
You're gonna love this So I'd asked the GB community for a song to make a music vid with for BF:BC2, and one of the suggestions that caught my attention was A night to remember by Shalamar (recommended by eroticfishcake) So HERE it is! You won't be disappointed! (I hope) and as a sidenote, 1:16 is probably my favorite moment. It's fucking hilarious XD Thank you eroticfishcake!
So I FINALLY got around to finishing the SP campaign of Battlefield Bad Company 2, and you know what? I loved it! I don't know why it was criticized for the SP campaign in the reviews, because I found it varied, engrossing and a little different from what I'd expected. And being used to CoD campaigns, the length was a welcome surprise. I also enjoyed the take on story, with a lot of focus on th...
No not for the game itself, just to be able to get into all the inside jokes about the game. This game, is beautiful. It's art. It needs to be played cause it's so retarded. I'd played the game in 2008 or early 2009 I think, and though it took a lot of effort, I adjusted to the bad parts of the game, and slowly even began to enjoy it! (Yes, it's true) I guess I was halfway through the game, whe...
Guess I'll start with a little backstory about me- First of all, I live in India. I don't think that really affects any of the stuff ahead, but anyways, I thought you ought to know. I, like millions of other kids, want to break into the game industry (as an artist). It's a dream I've had since I was a kid, and I'm an absolute lover of games. I've done a lot of research about it, and even though...
RANDOM BLOG ABOUT MY LIFE COMING UP! CSB'ers OUT! I haven't been very active on Giantbomb lately, the reason probably being that I was locked out of my account. My Yahoo account had been hacked so I just deleted it as I was too lazy to ask for help. So in turn I ended up locking myself out of my MP, and had to create a new account. Luckily, I was able to get that Yahoo account back, but MP stil...
This is a question that's probably been asked a million times before, and a question that hardly ever gets a proper answer : Which is your favorite game? How can you possibly choose one game over the many hundred games that you've played in your lifetime? Well, I think I have my answer to that question. It is a game that has remained at the top of my list of favorite RPGs since the time I playe...
So I am supposed to sketch a historical battle scene for my assignment (First Year Architecture), and after asking around on Giantbomb, I've decided on sketching out the events from and before the Battle of Hastings. This led me to watch the documentary/film 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth . And boy, was I blown away. There's obviously not much I can tell about the plot, as it is all history...
So I had written this depressed blog a few weeks ago, and in it I wrote about how irritated of the world I felt at that time. In it I also wrote that I was disturbed by the drinking and smoking that kids did in my college. (i'd removed those lines from my blog after sometime) Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm usually completely fine with all those activities. Heck, even my close friend...
I don't wanna write too much about it, but stuff happened in the past few days due to which I'm disappointed of people and the dirty ways in which they think. (Just joined College and am disgusted by the way some of the people think.) Also, all the rush and crazyness shown by everyone to become successful and "do well" in life seems meaningless to me. I can't see why people are in such a rush a...
Here's another one of my videos! Footage from the game Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening. Song: Cemeteries of London (Coldplay) Have fun! Click here to see my Video tributes to Dragon Age : Origins I felt my video tributes to the original game were better, so I posted them here.
*Spoilers may lie ahead, also a LONG blog* I have lately become obsessed with Dragon Age and it's world. And since this is a video game site, I thought I'd blog about it! It's pretty funny how I became a fan of the game. I waited like crazy for it to come out, but when it was released, I was too busy with my final exam for HS preparation to play it. It came out in November, And I got to play it...
So the 2010 World Cup was filled with excitement, shocking results, controversies, and a lot of great goals. With Spain clinching the title, I thought I'd make a small music video of the story that unfolded over the past month. Song: Black and White Town by The Doves. The video is available in HD (Metacafe) and Myspace (I don't think that's HD). Here are the links Video on Metacafe Video on Mys...
Having not played many multiplayer FPS's, I don't know whether it is normal to die 20 times and get 2 kills in a match on an average. The only FPS' I played multiplayer were Counter strike, Team Fortress 2 and L4D on LAN with friends. And I sure didn't suck this much at them. I also played the MOH beta, and I am pretty alright at that (top 5 rank at times in my team). And come on, I've played a...
Here's another meaningless blog by me :D So my holidays are going on, and I've been trying to catch up on a lot of games I missed out in the past few months. I just got Battlefield Bad : Company 2, and as a newborn in online FPS multiplayers, I'm kind of having a tough time :P I also got Split/Second (which is a great game) so that me and my friends could have some exciting racing action on spl...
So I was playing Runes of Magic today, and I and Revolutionare were the only people online at the time. After unsuccessfully trying to kill Yuri a dozen times, we decided to split up and do our individual, easier quests. He started killing Silvermane hounds, and I started my search for the fourth pillar, situated north of silverspring, for a quest that required me to find all the four pillars i...
MAJOR ENGAME SPOLERS IN THE VIDEO So, I'm back again with another video. This time it's for mass Effect 2, which i completed about a week or two ago. I didn't enjoy it as much as the first game, but it was a pretty good game in itself. So here's the video, let me know what you think! Song - Daylight Watch it in HD! :)
EDIT: Reuploaded on Metacafe Tribute to York and Emily (HERO) - For more amazing video clips, click here Here is finally, a video tribute to York and Emily from my side. The video is infested with spoilers , so if you haven't played the game, go away! Here's the description I posted in the video: [MAJOR SPOILERS IN THE VIDEO AND DESCRIPTION!] So here's a tribute from my side to one of the best...
It's weird, but I had the same avatar since this site had launched. I'd gone over the thought of changing it many times, but had always dropped the idea. But Deadly Premonition affected me so much, that I finally changed my avatar, that too to a moment that highlights a very special part of the game - York and Emily's romance plot, which according to me, is the best love story I have seen in a...
Well, a lot of shit has been going on lately, so I thought I'd put up the new vid I just uploaded to get GB a little back on track. Enjoy the vid, and if you like it, comment! :D Song - Violet Hill SPOILERS AHEAD
If you've been following me and my blogs, you probably know that I make a video tribute to every game that I finish. So I finished AC 2 yesterday, and here is a SPOILER FILLED tribute to the game. Song: Somewhere I Belong By Linkin Park Also, I had planned to make a second video with either Carnival of Rust or Breaking the Habit, but I'm feeling too lazy and want to play ME2. Should I make a se...
Well, if you haven't seen my first video, here is the link If you have seen it, here is another one! The song is Rush of blood to the Head by Coldplay (suits the theme, don't hate the song!) by the way, MAJOR SPOILERS IN THE VIDEO Enjoy and please comment!!
Alright so I finished Dragon Age: Origins yesterday, and was completely amazed by the game and the ending. And since it's becoming somewhat a tradition of late for me to make a video about the games I finish , I made one for this too. The song is Frog Prince by Keane, and I think it fits in with the theme very well. oh by the way, MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD. DON'T WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU HAVEN'T...
Alright so as some of you may know, I'm interested in Fine Arts, and want to get a BFA degree so that I can go on to become an artist in the game industry. My family didn't have a problem, but suddenly my father heard about BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) from someone, and he's heavily pressurizing me to go for that. He says that as an artist I will be unemployed forever and live on t...
So I've always been a "happy" kind of a person, and it's always been my biggest fear to become like those people who say they hate their life (basically the majority of people on this planet.) Yeah, I've always had my normal shares of problems, but I've always pushed them aside, saying happiness is something too precious to me to be compromised. In other words, in case a situation would turn up...
This song has been stuck in my head since I uploaded my video of the song on youtube. Its weird! It cant be a part of a game! Its so goddamn driving me crazy! It echoes! Oh how it echoes in the depths of my head!! (not because my head is empty though) And when I heard it now again just before writing his blog, I felt the weirdest things. As if I was having some weird (spiritual maybe) experienc...
Alright so I've finally asdasd So after 20+ days of heavy studying, and about 6 months of torturous abstention from gaming, IM FINALLY F*KIN FREE. So after 20+ days of heavy studying, and about 6 months of torturous abstention from gaming, IM FINALLY F*KIN FREE!! Starting march 3 I had my final year final exams of High School (we call them Board exams). They were obviously one of my life's bigg...