Saturday, October 30, 2010
.:. Lan 9 bucks .:.
Qi Ge Long Dong Qiang Dong Qiang
Had a really great weekend :). Met up with ryan, ter and sharon for usual lan therapy. Got to try the L4D2 new campaign, though it isn't really as epic as the first few. Things are always like that, nothing is better than the first time. Then sharon had to leave for choir, so we grabbed a burger and walked her to Bras Basah. Then what do you do when there is ryan, ter and me and hours to spend, LAN la...duh. So its CoD time. Another 2 hours woohoo.
Ryan left for church, ter went home to catch a nap, and I went to jalan jalan on my own again. Dunnoe why for some reasons sometimes I jus to like walk through the streets alone, other times jus with a good friend, such a nice feeling. Then when I was at the lib, i received the "Message of epic fail". Apparently I checked the pricing for Sakae buffet wrongly, turned out to be $27! I was like "...omg why I so blur..." *slaps self* (so sorry people! Gomenme!). So in the end we ate at the NYNY (note to self: next time order the mozarella cheese chicken thingy). Proceeded to some random void deck for a more condusive environment to talk, and we had "random fact" session! Been so long since we did that :) Nice as always, somethings never change. I feel this is the best way to get to know one another. And you really feel the trust in the group of friends when you do such things, cos you know that when even you say even the "shock"iest thing on earth that noboday knew, still they will go "eh really ar? Wow. Ok but your still the *insert your name here* we know :)". Such a nice feeling. Though not all cliques have a random guy like ryan who is essential to get the ball rolling.
On the way back home, ryan was saying that he was thinking of doing a blogpost on how his gaming style reflects his personality, cool idea right. So I'm now going to steal his idea and do it first muahaha!
I play mainly First-person-shooter(FPS) games, namely Halo, L4D and CoD. I started playing Halo first, and my favourite weapon in it is the Sniper rifle. I will always start the game and have dibs on the sniper rilfe asap. An alternative to that would be the energy sword. Then in L4D2, I love the automatic rifle that has a scope, pure awesomeness. Following the trend, in CoD I favour the onli automatic sniper rilfe in there, though at times it depends on the situation of the gameplay and I have to change the weapon. Slowly but steadily, I've learnt the art of stalking and knifing ppl in CoD also haha!
So ya, needless to say my gameplay style is very extreme. I either take you out from afar, without you knowing how you died or who killed you (I get joy over that), or going up behind and its goodbye. So it took me awhile to actually figure out how it links to my personality. And the conclusion: Control. I realise I like to be in control of things, or to put it another way, I like to have things all properly planned out into as much detail as possible. Being a sniper, normally you would command the high ground, which gives you vintage over the battlefield so that you can easily spot your enemies. It gives me the sense of security, I know what's going on and everything's going according to plan. Holding the knife is the same logic, I know where you are, you dunnoe where I am, I sneak up behind you and voila, my control.
Although with this comes a huge flaw in my personality as well. I like being in control yes, which conversely means I hate being lost. Or you could say whenever something unexpectedly happens, I tend to get a nervous rush, or jus panic. That explains why I am never the super spontaneous kind of person. In game, say if I were to sneak up on you, then suddenly the guy turns around, I will panic and start to fumble, usually resulting in my death. Sniping from a far distance does allow me some space to avoid such situations, but if say my cover were to be lost and I start taking enemy fire, I can't hold down onto my sight and calmly employ my sniping skills to the ,maximum (aka I start spamming which is why I prefer automatic snipers).
While that is a huge a hole in my tactic which I am slowly trying to get past, if say in game by chance I get to survive the sudden turn of events, it dosen't take for me to re-assess the situation and get in control again.
One thing about snipers is they are never alone. You will always need to have someone guarding your back. In order to do my job, I need full trust in the ability of the person backing me up. And thats how I am in real life. I trust all my friends alot. I treasure them as I know they would treasure me, and I will always do whatever I can to make sure they're happy. That's me. A sniper might be in the backlines of the formation, but you can definitely count on their support in your time of need :)
Ok this post has gone long enough then, and I anymore materials in head to work with, so that's all folks.
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