Clive Barker's Jericho Demo [Screenshots]

I was not expecting this game to feature such beautiful graphics. It feels like every other game you are going to see these days will have vibrant environments.

Not only that, the concept of the game is also good. Jericho is a squad of a number of players who stick together most of the time. Because of this you can switch to play as anyone of them at any point. These members have unique abilities which you can exploit to slash the enemies.

One of the capability which impressed me most is that you can direct the sniper bullet on a path which can take out at-most 3 enemies. If you can get 3 head-shots, you kill all 3 of them.

About graphics, first of all the characters are modeled really well.

It features a really nice 'Depth of Field' visual which causes blurring of non focused objects. See the screen-shot below to get the picture. No performance hit in real-time whatsoever.

Increased the brightness of this manually, here also you can see blurring of all the unfocused background.

Fantastic lighting and shadows along with depth of field makes the game looks fantastic.

The wonderful visuals are running really good on my 7950gx2 which is an example of elegant game engine design. (Bungie may want to learn something here)

By the way, Clive Barker is a famous author and movie director. His novels are famous and if you remember the Movie "HellRaiser", that's his directed. If you remember the old horror game "Undying" (which I still have btw) was his step into gaming industry.

India Kicked Balls [Sketch]

Heres a salute in my way to India -


Also I would apologize team India for my previous sketch on their return from world cup. These awesome guys have brought back a cricket fan straight after the match fixing crap. India kicked in the nuts of Australia you guys! Can you believe this? And to make it even better, became the world champions in 20-20 cricket!

NBH Mess is good

Disclaimer: I dont like wasting food, it is a terribe thing to waste food. But I believe that it is something which will happen how much ever you try. I mean it can really come between you, your convenience and your diet, but food will still end up getting wasted.

OBH Ground floor mess has reached new levels of sucking. It sometimes feels like whichever mess is felt worst is deliberately assigned to OBH ground floor always. Specially for this mess, it seems people actually worked hard to get a bad mess to ground floor.

OBH First floor mess is good. I like the fact that so many people eat there and never complain. I really like the breakfast of OBH FF, I try to do that everyday. But whatever the case may be, the meal's taste is just not my type.

So the only mess left is NBH. Not that I am stuck with it, it actually came out to be really nice. The food is good but the thing I also like about NBH Mess is how easily you can waste food there.

I will tell you how:

When you go to place your dish on the container on the ground floor mess, anyone can be seen from anywhere how much you are wasting. First floor mess is even worse, you hand over your plate to a person washing them.

But NBH mess, you find no guilt at all. You just go to the cleaning place, just drop your left overs like everyone is busy doing. Either no one is noticing or no one wants to notice coz its a little disgudting job, moreover it's like everybody's job. Whether you take all your food as a left over to the basin or not, it doesn't matter.

One more reason can be that, you have to wash your own dish, so you already get a feeling that you are being responsible at something, and it gives you the freedom of doing something little irresponsible (wasting food).

When I talked to my friends about this, I felt a little ironic as they said the whole concept of washing your own dishes was so that people do not waste food. But I really dont believe them, I mean intelligent minds behind our institute cannot make such backfiring decisions. Seriously is it true?

Got BioShocked, wtf?

Would you kindly read this even if ur not playing/going-to-play Bioshock, or if u dont play games. For Bioshockers, spoilers ahead. (Post is written in a way such that a non-gamer can understand as well)

So basically u r given a choice of either rescuing or killing innocent little girls at some moments in the game. If u rescue, you get less points but if u kill them u get more points. Getting more points is important to win the game (as you can eliminate a sinister boss) which is a good deed overall. However you can still manage to win the game with less points.

I rescued all the little girls except one. For the one I killed I was just a little greedy for points and I wanted to see what is the animation shown while killing her. But I felt guilty and I rescued all the others.

Somewhere in the middle of the game you visit the little girls' santuary, they are all like, 'stay away from that bad man', 'Dont talk to him' etc. I was like, come on girls! I killed just one but I did rescued some of you, little courtesy?

Apart from this, in the much later part of the game you have to protect them as they lead you to the villain. If a girl gets killed another can come to lead you, but as the game projects, if you are unable to protect even one of them, its a sin.

I mean, they are little powerless girls and I am just one person. At once 10 to 20 of deadly enemies come to attack me (and her), how can I manage to protect her? If they attack only me, its fine, but not them please, they are innocent. I tried my best but I couldn't protect 2 of them, one of them finally leads me to the villain.

So at the end, when I kill the final boss, the game shows a video, shows me that I am even a bigger villain than the one I killed. I was shown that I only killed that evil so that I could unleash more evil on humanity. I was thrashed! I mean wtf???!!!111

I killed only one and was unable to protect 2 of them. What about the other 15 or so girls I rescued? Why was I given the bad ending?

Frustrated, I went to the game folder, found which are the movie files which are played at the end of the game and saw the good ending anyway. Fk u bioshock developers. Why was I made bad in the end? Seriously wtf?

The good ending shows that you take all the little girls with you, let them go to school, college, they find boy friends, get married, have their own family, kids, blah. Finally when I am old and dying a natural death, they are all aside my death bed pacifying me while I depart.

Above's a really good ending and I was expecting it. But no! I played the whole game, craving such good graphics of Bioshock, awesome gameplay, riveting sound, nice environments and atmosphere, and in the end what did you give me, huh?