Saints Row 4

Well I've mentioned this game in my previous two posts, but now I'm going to focus on this game as I have finally been able to play it properly. Saints Row 4 is an open world action-adventure game. You play as the President of the United States (former gang leader) and you fight against aliens who invade the planet. The aliens capture you, and put you in a simulated world that is intended to be a prison for you. However, with hacks and bugs in the program you can have superpowers and attempt to escape.

The game play is rather fun, as I find it very easy to aim and shoot in this game. The driving mechanics are also nice, driving and handling feels so smooth. Another cool thing is how in-depth the character customization is.There are lots of options that allow you to create pretty much anyone. You can also customize most vehicles, but getting a lot of changes done to a car can cost a lot of money. Something that's more fun than the main story is just simply causing mayhem and fighting off the aliens. After all what can be more satisfying?

Laptop's Better!

My reaction when it worked.

Good news! I got some aerosol last night and cleaned up my laptop, and I fixed it! I'm so glad my laptop is back to normal, and I don't have to deal with those thermal shutdowns anymore. What's great is I didn't even have to open the bottom, I just blew the compressed air into the fan on the bottom and I got out enough of the dust to get my laptop working like normal. My laptop's performance is much better now, and I can finally play Saints Row 4 without any problems.

However, now that I got the laptop clean I need to make sure it doesn't get dirty again. I'll have to do monthly cleanings to keep this problem from happening again. There's more I have to do to keep it clean, for instance, I need to keep the environment around my laptop clean so dust can't enter the laptop. The fact that I didn't do this before seems to be the main reason the problem got so bad to begin with. Therefore, cleaning my desk is something I've got to take care of as well. A general cleanup of my room will probably be the first order of business over the upcoming March break.

Dusty Laptop

Yesterday my Windows 8 laptop hasn't been able to run certain games on it properly. Every now and then it would have a thermal shutdown during the game, which as you can probably imagine was quite annoying. No matter how much I would try to adjust my laptop's settings to prevent this from occurring, it still happens regardless. I was getting frustrated and I needed a solution.

Dust in a laptop

I looked into the problem, and found out what was causing the problem. This was being caused by dust that has been building up inside of my laptop. In order to fix it, first I must open up my computer and then I'll have to air it out with a can of compressed air. I'll need to make sure I blow all of the dust out of my laptop as instructed by and online service manual. The sooner I get this dust out the better, because then I can finally play my new Steam game Saints Row IV without any more pesky interruptions. That will be a time of celebration.

Difficulties

Things haven't been going too good for me lately. Namely school is giving me some troubles because I have to worry about selecting my courses for next year. On top of that, I've got some work I need to really get done but it seems like so much. I've got a chemistry quiz tomorrow, an assignment to work on for computers, and now a project for photography. These aren't that big of a deal, but all this cold weather is making things difficult for me.

I can't begin to tell you how much I'm disliking this year's winter, and cold weather in general. I've been really sick for about a week and a half, and on top of that I'm having horrid headaches. To make matters worse, I usually have to walk home since neither my mom or my dad can pick me up at that time. Even though the distance from my high school to my home is only a few blocks, having to step over the tall snowbanks and putting up with all that cold and the sometimes unforgivable wind makes it so much of a pain. I wish winter would just stop right this second, but that's not how nature works. One things for sure, I'm going to have a wonderful dream of a warm sunny beach tonight.

Paradise here I come.

Sonic Robo Blast 2

Gameplay from Greenflower Zone, the first stage.

There are some interesting fan-made Sonic games out there, but Sonic Robo Blast 2 is probably one of my new favorites. SRB2 was created using a modified version of the Doom Legacy port of Doom. It's gameplay gives the feel of the Sega Genisis Sonic titles while having 3D gameplay. You can play as eaither Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles and stop Eggman from being bad.

The controls in this game are a little awkward the to

"Nights Mode" AKA the special stage

get used to using, even after multiple tries, but I don't mind that. I enjoy this game for the feel of the old games that I mentioned before. The thing that really made me like this game a lot was the special stages. What I like about them is how the special stages use the engine from a Sega Saturn game called Nights into Dreams, which is a game I liked very much when I was younger. Upon playing a special stage for the first time, and immediately recognizing the Nights engine, it literally made my day. Sonic Robo Blast 2 is probably one of my favorite fan-made Sonic games, and I've played a lot so that's really saying something.

FNaF 3

I'm sure you've heard of Five Nights at Freddy's, the horror game in which animatronics try to kill you. Well, a while ago a trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's 3 was released, and it caused a lot of speculation. The trailer for the game can be seen here. The trailer has caused a lot of the fans to start making theories.

Some theories are about the new animatronic, some are about game mechanics and some discuss the release date, among other things. All of these theories that make the game mysterious is why I find the FNaF series interesting.

Unturned 3.0

The Map editor in action

I'd like to say more about Unturned and how it is starting to improve. There is a new 3.6.4.0 update that is currently in beta testing that will add new content, features, and bug fixes. The game has lots of new content, with two brand new maps that are both significantly bigger than the old maps, PEI and Arena. There will now be a map editor, which allows you to make custom maps. There are more character customization options, and characters can have specialties, which can make them better at a specific task.

One thing that I am very happy to see added is VAC support to servers to prevent hacking. Hackers were one of the biggest problems Unturned had, because if someone cheats it isn't fun for anyone else now is it? I encountered hackers quite often while playing Unturned. I once led a horde of zombies to other players so the zombies would kill them for me because I was unarmed. When the zombies started attacking them, they must have hacked and blacked out the server for everyone on it. Now that cheaters are no longer an issue, Unturned will be a much better game.

The new character customization screen

Unturned

A game I've gotten into playing recently is called Unturned. Basically, it's a early access zombie survival game that can be played on Steam. I like playing Unturned with my friends and trying to survive together, but there are many things about Unturned that need fixing. In the most current version there is no serverlist, so you have to search for a public server's location on the internet.

A military zombie.

Another thing that needs to be addressed is how buggy the zombies are. Sometimes when they're chasing you they'll go in a different direction and get stuck in place. To make matters worse, when they play their attacking animation they can sometimes hit you when your behind them, you can imagine how this can get frustrating. The last problem I have with them is how they can approach you completely silently, and by the time you know they're on top of you it's already too late. Unturned is still really fun, but there are problems that need to be fixed.