The Truth!

The truth in a stick. The stick of Truth. The South Park Game.

So, I've been trying out that new South Park game the last few days. I originally thought that it was going to be some lame excuse of a game with the South Park label attached to it. It looks like I was wrong. The South Park game is pretty fun. It doesn't reinvent the RPG genre or anything, but it offers a variety of classes with interesting skills, an engaging (south park themed) storyline, and the traditional turn based combat system with some timing involved in attacks and defense.
What stands out the most in this game is the (yeah you probably guessed it) South Park theme. The visual aesthetic of the game is really representative of the show and makes the game really feel as though it is the show itself. Some people have even said that it feels like you're playing through the next season of South Park by playing this game. There are also a lot of inside jokes and attention to details inside the game that will make it so that watchers of the show are very entertained; but perhaps not so much for the new players. This is still a great game even if you don't watch the show though, as in addition to the nice combat system and general feel of the game, there are also tons of easy and hard to find Easter eggs and collectibles hidden throughout the game.
Some parts of the game are really not for those that are easily grossed out. The game is so extreme in these sections that they are censored in some places across the world.

The TLDR is that it's a turn based RPG game that is inspired by south park.

lol, I know that was a greatest TLDR ever.

But yeah, South Park: The Stick of Truth.

Really fun game.

One Winged Blasphomet

So remember way back when, when I introduced that I had friends that also blogged? So one of them doesn't believe that son of a bishop is alive anymore, because he had been put down in this previous post:
RIP Son of a Bishop
But the truth was that he did die... BUT WAS REVIVED 3 DAYS LATER!!! WoW!
Doge Very Impress
Much Jesus
So Life

But yeah, the Blasphomet believes that we are one and the same (you can see the post here). He believes that we are the same person. Thus I dub him the blasphomet, for doubting the lord. (My friends started calling me lord, because my name is Kelvin and they found it amusing to refer to me as Lord Kelvin).

Lord Kelvin

But yeah, how dare this blasphomet dare doubt the lord and his prophet: Son of a Bishop. He simply maintains a personal relationship with the lord, and does as the lord commandeth. All who worship the lord know that the first commandment is to "moveth as a unit".
But yeah, all kidding aside, we aren't the same person.

On another note, some friends and I decided to try making some bubble tea over the weekend.

Surprisingly, we didn't fuck it up. We didn't undercook the bubbles or let them get stuck together. The tea went pretty well too. We ended up having to use honey ginger packets for sweetening since we didn't have any sugar, but it ended up turning out pretty nicely.

The reason me and my friends decided to try making our own bubble tea is because the bubble tea place near the university is incredibly expensive (about 5 dollars for a large cup of bubble tea). Another beverage that's really expensive is alcohol!

WoW! look how much fun these people are having drinking bubble tea! (that's totally bubble tea near the end and I totally just mentioned alcohol for no reason).

The Elder Scrolls Online

So, after my exams last week, I felt really tired.
I was so tired that I:



Well not really, but I was tired enough that I wasn't able to fall asleep from insomnia. It's a really weird experience to not be able to fall asleep even though you're extremely tired.

But anyways, I decided to play some Elder Scrolls Online Beta. I had tried the game out before, but I didn't really like it. Although I didn't really like the game, I thought that maybe I just didn't reach a high enough level for it to be fun; so I gave it another chance.

Well, my opinion hasn't changed. The game has great visual and holds a lot of things that can be explored, however I found many things disappointing. Don't get me wrong, this game isn't bad at all; but it isn't at the level of greatness that I would pay $15 dollars a month to play.
My first qualm is with the combat. The elder scrolls games have had a history of having a pretty cool combat system that combines a sort of first person aiming system with melee and magical combat. The Elder Scrolls Online combat, however, seems more a lot more like the traditional tab targeting system. Sure some of the spells in the game are AOE (area of effect) based, but for the most part, you don't really need to aim, but just press the corresponding button to the skill and it will automatically hit (this include the normal attack and a lot of enemy attacks). Sure there is a dodge system, however that also doesn't appeal to me. This is due to the dodge system working based on the stamina bar. Dodging will make any damage you would have taking, get mitigated. You don't actually have to dodge the blow, as long as you start up your dodge animation, everything will miss you. So pretty much, if you just upgrade your stamina bar, you will be able to dodge more. I dislike this because I believe that everything should have a area of where it will hit, and dodging should be based off of the player's ability to perceive incoming threats and dodging them accordingly.
The next topic I'm going to talk about is, in my opinion, the worst feature of The Elder Scrolls Online. When making a character, the faction that you will be fighting fore is based on the race you choose. So if your friends are all in one alliance, but you want to play a race from a different alliance, then you won't be able to join them. Another issue is that based on which faction you join, you will arrive in different places and receive different quests. This means that some factions might have better quest lines than the others (and I've found this to be the case with the Aldmeri Dominion). This also means that you won't even be able to interact with other players. I'm not sure if there is a point in the game where you will end up meeting with other players, but I got bored of the game long before reaching at point. Also there are big faction wars that I've heard are really fun and a spectacle to behold, however that seems pretty far away from where I've gotten in the game, and I'm not willing to put in that much time to get to that point.
Another qualm I have is with the level up system and what abilities you can use. Your abilities are all limited based on which class you choose at the beginning of the game. I was really hoping that they would revolutionize how the MMO genre would handle the class system. I wanted to be able to mix and match different skills from different trees, but that doesn't seem to be the case with The Elder Scrolls Online.
I really want a game that will revolutionize the genre of MMOs, because I really like the concept of an MMO, but I never really found any MMOs that made me feel like I enjoyed myself. There still is hope though! I await the arrival of "EverQuest Next".

The game promises to have full on multi-classing, a dynamic environment (changing population spawns based on player actions and quest system that doesn't just follow a set story line), destructible terrain, an action based combat system, and big quests that require the help of all players and will end up changing the world based on the results.
I feel like a lot of what it promises might fall flat on it's face, but I'm still eager to see how it will turn out.