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Destiny 2 is not Free to Play

When you hear "Free to Play" the first things that immediately pop into your head is a game that is very repetitive, very grind and heavy with microtransactions. Every time you turn around the game is asking for money for access to certain quests, certain weapons and outfits.  Fortnite is probably the game that most of you probably think of when you hear "Free to Play". A game that asks players for money at every point for the Battle-Pass, the emotes, the outfits, the weapon skins etc. etc.  However, there are free to play titles like Warframe. Warframe is probably the gold standard of free to play titles. It is a game that while yes offers microtransactions for many of it's in game items and special goods. A lot of what the game offers is completely free. You can make it from expansions to expansion without paying a penny for better gear, better warframes to take on combatants. You can grind for as long as you'd like to getting better gear and you will righ...

The Partisanship Bubble

Well hello everyone, I'm taking a crack at a political blog post, this may either get nasty very quickly or something that's rather sobering for many. Have you noticed that in politics today we are very divided? Many of you probably rolled your eyes and said to yourself or out loud "Gee, ya think?" and some of you sighed in sadness as it is very disheartening to acknowledge the fact that we are very divided when it comes to our politics. How it has happened, I think, is from the one thing both the members of the Democratic and Republican party have in common, a bubble. A bubble of selected information from a particular source of information and a group of friends or acquaintances that share similar political views and opinions. Those on both sides have decided to escape into these bubbles, not wanting to have anything to do with the other people outside of their own bubbles. We do not want to put ourselves in the shoes of others, not understanding why ...

GazetteGamerReviews Update

Good morning folks. This is an update post about what's going to be happening with the blog and what reviews will be posted later in time. College for me is starting again tomorrow and I have more classes then the last time I was there, so that means I'll have less free time to post news updates and reviews. Right now I'm playing three games for review. Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past Dead Rising 2 And Ghostbusters: The Video Game I'm not going to be finishing them in any particular order or by a certain time, they'll be done when they're done. I don't want to rush through the games just for the sake of review to move on to other games, no I want to start from the beginning and make it to the end. Also what some of you may have noticed is the change in template for the blog. I changed it back for the easier customization of the background for the blog to give it more of a personal touch, Dynamic Views didn'...

Call of Duty Ghosts Multiplayer Reveal Impressions

Good afternoon everyone. Today was the multiplayer reveal of Call of Duty Ghosts.We got to see a glimpse into what the new multiplayer has in store for us, what improvements and changes have been made with this new entry into the series and of course we heard a rap song to go with the trailer. Here's the trailer that was shown. There are 7 new multiplayer modes, 20+ new killstreaks, 30+ new weapons and over  twenty thousand possibilities for soldier customization, which includes customizing your own female soldier. Of course some of the new weapons we'll be seeing in the multiplayer was also shown. A new tier they introduced is the Marksman Rifle tier, which includes semi-automatic rifles and scoped semi-auto sniper rifles. The new scope system is called "Dual Render" now when you're sniping you'll be able to regain some peripheral vision that you would normally lose when aiming through sniper scopes in past games. There are also 35 perks...

Pat Robertson: Video Game Murder Is The Same Thing As Real Murder

Yes folks, you read that title right and this is something he actually said. Pat Robertson who is the host of  'The 700 Club' was doing a Q&A section in the broadcast when one of the question was about what the bible says about "virtual sins". Here is the video. So if you've killed someone in a videogame, it's the same as doing it in real life. Oh yes of course, I killed a soldier in Call of Duty with one cut of my knife, it's the same thing as doing it in real life. In a video game the characters you see are not real, when you kill someone in a videogame that someone in most cases will come back again and will do the exact same thing it did before you took it upon yourself to kill that someone. In Borderlands 2 for example when you kill Hunter Hellquist of the Hyperion Truth Network, leave the area and come back after 10 minutes he's back doing the same thing he was doing when you first encountered him, the same thing does not ha...

Why I'm Buying A PS4

Good morning everyone. Now before I begin with this post, yes I know I had a previous post that had "Why I'm Buying a PS4" in the title, this is the expanded version in a sense. One of the reasons stated in the post I made was because of the games. This is adding to the reasons I'm buying a PS4. The Price 100 dollars cheaper than the competitor? Yes please. A lot of people buying the PS4 are also buying it for the price. Add me to the list of people who are buying the PS4 also because of the price. The price of the PS4 would not have been 400 dollars if Sony had the Playstation Eye bundled in with the PS4, they decided to remove it for the lower price. I live on a budget, 400 dollars is a comfortable price for me. Reason 2? The Games When I saw the games for the PS4 vs the games for the Xbox One, the games for the PS4 interested me the most. Some games that have also been PC only titles that others are going to be able to play. Games...

The Niched On Multiplayer: My Take On The Subject

Good afternoon everyone. Recently most of us have learned of the recent addition of a multiplayer component for Batman Arkham Origins. Some of us were intrigued as to how exactly the multiplayer component would work out and some were concerned or not pleased of the revelation. Here's the trailer We've seen this been done in the past, a single player game designed only to be single player has had a multiplayer component added later in the series. The result is not a very good one and a lot of players such as myself do not like the addition of a multiplayer component. Games such as Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Bioshock 2 and Dead Space 2  had a multiplayer component added in, however it was Spec Ops: The Line that had a multiplayer component made only because 2K said that there needed to be a multiplayer mode available on the game. The lead designer of Spec Ops Cory Davis said... "The publisher was determined to have it anyway, it was literally a ch...

My Thoughts On The Xbox One DRM Petition

Good morning folks. Before I go on with this blog I want you guys to realize, no I am not an Xbox Fanboy, no I am not a Nintendo Fanboy, no I'm not a PC fanboy and no I'm not a Sony fanboy. I play on Nintendo consoles, Microsoft consoles, Sony consoles and PC. With that said, let's get onto the subject at hand. A petition has been made asking for Microsoft to bring back the policies that consumers were not a fan of, wanting the same policies back so they can get the features they lost when the DRM policies were reversed. This is what the petition says. "This was to be the future of entertainment. A new wave of gaming where you could buy games digitally, then trade, share or sell those digital licenses. Essentially, it was Steam for Xbox. But consumers were uninformed, and railed against it, and it was taken away because Sony took advantage of consumers uncertainty." "We want this back. It can't be all or nothing, there must be a compr...