The Ending of a Game

Like all journeys every game has to end somehow it can either be with a boss battle or a battle and with victory or defeat.  Most game will have their boss with a higher amount of hit points and they may be able to call in minionsan example of this would be Legate Lanius form Fallout. One of the most recognizable bosses would have to be Bowser from Mario.

The ending for most shooter would be the protagonist killing the antagonist and the world is at peace or sometime still at war because you need to kill another enemy. RPG works sometimes the same but sometimes they will give the protagonist a choice on how the game will end. (Spoiler alert) Example of the first one is modern warfare series in the first one you defeat the Zakhaev, then General Shepherd, and then Makarov.  An example for the RPG is in Mass Effect you can take to Saren and help him change him mind. The games that I think have the best ending would be Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout and Knights of the Old Republic.

The story carries the single player in many ways. One problem with stories they always seem to sound the same and the ending also sounds the same. Some video games that have a great story is Fallout, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Gears of Wars, and games from Rockstar's games are some example of good games or series. For most shooter the story is about some kind of revenge and for RPG they are mostly about having to save something or for revenge.

The start of the game you will start at a character creator or they will give you a charter you would normally have to go thought some kind of tutorial from shooting at some kind of shooting rang or running from a dragon or they will put you in a mission that will teach you the basics of the game.

Bleep Bloop

Many gamers are happy when they hear that beeping sound and the pop up 'achievement unlock' and the points that are added to your gamer score. There are groups of people that try their best to get a 100% on their game and there are many names for those groups but the name I like the best is Achievement Hunter and that name came form a group that works at Rooster Teeth. The PS3 also has them but the system is different. Their called trophies and they are rated bronze, silver, gold and platinum. They work off of a leveling system each one gives a certain amount of percent to the next level up. Achievement on the other hand works on a number system and they don't have the platinum ones, which is getting all the other trophies.

Each retail game normally comes out with 1000 point and each arcade game come out with about 400 points. People competed to see who can get the highest games score or if they have completed the game. The world record for the highest gamer score is above 700,000 and belongs to Stallion83. The think I like about achievement is the names and trying to beat a friend score on a game. The name can come for anywhere they can be puns, references or something else. For example, a pun from fallout 3 is Rescue from Paradise and two examples for references is I <3 Red vs. Blue in Halo 4 or From Whom the Shells Tolls in MW3. A random one is Towering Achievement from brink.

Shock and Awe

There are hundreds of games that come out every year from indie to block buster games. With all of them being released there are always a couple that will get media time because of questionable content and scenes of destruction. Last year there was a couple of games that almost got banned in a country because they destroyed something that is important to the people that play. One of the major thing publisher have to be careful with is who is the enemy in the game is.

A little history on the US rating system ESRB it was made after the original Mortal Combat and other games were release do to their violent nature and the rating system is EC, E, E10+, T and M. Some ways companies try to get around a ban is to take that content out of the game, change names of group, and have that part skip able. Some example of this is in Fallout 3 they disable half of the power of atom quest do to the ones country's history, Metal of Honor they change the name of the enemy in the multilayer and in Modern Warfare 2 you are able to skip able the mission no Russian.

Single and Multiplayer

Having a good multiplayer and/or single player is key to any video game to be success full. For single player it should be simple to learn the controllers and should not be the hard or easy to play. The most interesting part in most games are the cut scene or the button mashing scenes. Some of the block buster game that thrive on single player have low completion rates, the cause for this may be that people lost interest or they don't have time to play thought the campaigns.


The multiplayer is what brings people back to the game because in a way it is a new game every time you join one because you are playing against real people that will not act like the normal AI or bots.
It is interesting that people can make a living off of YouTube and muiltiplayer. They do this by uploading video tricks and tips or just by commentators over the video.

Video Game Blog Start

In this blog I will be writing about video games and apps that are on consoles.  I'm mostly an Xbox 360 player and an achievement hunter. I'll wright about upcoming apps and apps that are for the Xbox and some key points in video games.