Video Games - The good, and bad

I believe video games can have a negative affect on society. Most video games can be come addictive which will lead to a lot of lost time which can be used to be doing something productive. Because of video games, the motivation to do homework is now basically nonexistent. Before, people did homework so they can have a sense of accomplishment in which they finish their homework. However, nowadays, people can play video games to feel like they accomplished something easier, and possibly faster.

However, video games can be quite a positive experience when growing up. In video games, you could potentially learn many things that you learn later in life, albeit in painful ways. Due to video games giving a virtual reality, people could experience doing new things through video games, allowing people who are physically unable, or time constricted to experience new things.

Review: League of Legends

League of Legends

For a while now, I've been playing this Strategy game called League of Legends. This game is roughly based on DotA, a custom map of the Real time strategy (RTS) game, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. This game is a hybrid of a Tower Defense and Hero Arena game.


Gameplay

Gameplay wise, this game is quite newbie friendly, which includes a nice tutorial game in order for people to learn how to play the game. However, many people who have played DotA before can easily adapt to this game, as it is quite similar to it.

Graphics
The graphics are quite up to date, with a cell shade style. However, due to this, many older computers may not be able to run it at full speed.

Sound
In this game, many heroes and units have individual sounds so that you can hear when they're coming. Also, some of the unit responses are quite neat, but could potentially be stuck in your mind for quite a long time. the announcer and the music are pleasing, bringing a nice atmosphere to the game.

Presentation
right when you load it up, it's quite easy to learn as it has it's own tutorial level in which the user can learn how to play. Overall the interface is quite clean and straightforward, but could use some more options for modifying the user interface.

Replay value
I believe this game has quite a potential of reaching DotA's status, as it's quite fun and competitive, but also newbie friendly. This game has quite a large friendly userbase that's really eager to help. Also, with the matchmaking system, you'll never play the with the same people twice, unless you arrange your own team with your friends.

Score : 87 / 100

Great upcoming game, but still not complete, as it doesn't have that many game modes yet, and lack of voice chat feature.

What are computer games?

In my opinion, Computer games are interactive activities that one can do on a computer. This activity could potentially decrease productivity by -1000%.

Jokes aside, I believe computer games are a great way to step away from reality, allowing us to exercise the creative part in our brains.

I believe a good game is a game that has high replay value, good graphics, and easy control schemes and game mechanics. Furthermore, I believe that to have a high replay value, it must have multiplayer.

Games with multiplayer always gives the player a different experience playing with other people, whether it's local 4 player to online with thousands of people playing at once.

Also, in my opinion, a bad game is a game that is released too early in order to finish development. Usually this happens when people are trying to make money too fast, causing the game to be underdeveloped, or recycled ideas, namely Guitar Hero. Also, a bad game uses graphics as its main attracting point. I believe that the gameplay is the most important part, while the graphics and environment are just to supplement it.

Lightsaber Render

Lightsaber Renders

Done using Blender, and a lot of time.

It took about 20 minutes each to render, And the Blade is missing in the mirror render due to Halo effects not able to shown on raytraced surfaces.

Lego Block Render

Final render of my Lego Blocks.

Not to self, rename EACH single mesh, and stay away from smooth rendering.