So I posted a week ago about a new game I had purchased. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. I have played this game for more hours than I would like to admit but it has all been worth it. This game rewards you for the hours you put in. One week and around.....70 hours later (Me and sleep have become distant lately) I have reached G ranking. What is this you ask? G rank is basically where the game takes off any little bit of training wheels you had and throws you into the ring with monsters that will show absolutely no mercy. You take your eyes of the game for even a second and a monster will kill you in one hit. You have to learn the habits and signals the monsters do to predict their attacks. You have to literally learn the monsters habits and for a game to put that much depth into a game is amazing. When monsters get tired or weak they retreat to their nest. There are no health bars for enemies just signs of weakness. From hitting them over and over they gain scars, broken parts, tails cut off and when the enemy is close to death it starts limping. Tell me that's not innovative. It makes it seem like you are actually hunting.
Anyway after grinding for hours and hours I have finally attained an armour set and and weapon from G rank meaning I will not die....as fast. Now what's left for me is raising my rank and finding harder and harder monsters. My goal for this week is to hit the highest rank and possibly start getting high up on the leaderboards. So this ends my little bit on Monster Hunter and hopefully this has interested you to purchase this game or at least give it a chance.
Here is an overview of the gear I started with to the gear I now have. Not that it will mean much to any of you.
So as many of you know this blog has been about technology and gadgets up until my last post. This is going to be my attempt at doing video game reviews as it has been something I have been wanting to get into a while. I play video games almost everyday and they are a big part of my life. I use them for many reasons, stress relief, fun, and just general entertainment. But I wouldn't say i'm changing anything about this blog as video games are still "technically" technology. So this post is basically my introduction to a new and exciting part of this blog. My last post was about my all time favourite game and my next one will be about my follow up of having it for a week. So hopefully you will keep interested in my future posts as it will be about something I am very passionate about.
So I know this is a tech blog but video games are technology right? I mean you're storing all this incredible information and game play on your computer or whatever gaming device you use. So why go slightly off topic? This is because one of my favourite games is getting it's 4th installment next Friday and I literally cannot contain myself. I'm going full kid at Christmas for this one. Now what game could possibly instill such excitement. Well I will tell you.
Monster Hunter is a game I have been playing since I was in high school many many years ago. Back when you whipper snappers were still in diapers! Alright that's a bit of an exaggeration i'm not that old. Anyway I stray off topic far to often. This game takes you into the world you can only dream about. The world of giant creatures and giant weapons. I have put more hours than i'd like to admit into this series of games but I do not regret it as it keeps pulling me back in.
Now to talk about the game itself. You start off as a hunter with a starting weapon in every class. This to me was like choosing my starter pokemon. Or at least close because let's be real that was probably the toughest decision most of us have had to go through.....i'll never forget you charmander. So you pick your weapon and start killing these creatures that are plaguing the village you reside in. Now there is no real leveling system in this you just receive higher ranking which let's you do harder and harder quests. The thing I love most about this game is it resides entirely upon your skill. You keep eliminating these creatures and collecting resources to build and upgrade your weapons and armour which turns into hours of grinding (grinding for you people who don't play video games is when you keep doing something over and over until you achieve the result, level or item you desire) for that one rare part of a monster. The more you upgrade the harder the monsters are you can face. But realistically if there was no time limit you could technically kill the hardest monster with the crappiest gear....it would just take a really long time.
So with all this said i'm afraid for the release of this game as it will consume much of my time in between projects. But of course school comes first unless one day we could get paid to play video games. That is the dream. Although that is starting to become a reality with twitch and live streaming games. But i'll leave that for another blog. Hopefully this has peaked your interest into the world of Monster Hunter and maybe if you ever purchase this game we can play together. I leave you with a trailer for the original game as it was what sold me on the franchise those many moons ago.
So what is this SSD contraption? Well it's short for Solid State Drive and if you are one of my musician friends you're probably thinking "Solid state sucks. Why would you want that?" Unless you're a bass player....in which case I apologize. Anyway on to the subject at hand.
So over Christmas I purchased a SSD which I think was probably the best investment I could have made. What it does is makes anything you install on it start up ridiculously fast. Not like oh hey that was kinda fast. We're talking like Sonic the Hedgehog here. I'm able to start my computer up in 30 seconds. Tell me that's not ridiculous. Now you're probably thinking why not just use these instead of a regular hard drive on your computer? Well they are expensive as of right now. I spent around 80 bucks on 120 gigs which maybe 10 years ago was a lot of room but unfortunately that is not the case anymore.
With all that said technology has made a great leap within a short time so having these as your regular hard drive might not be far off. Hopefully I didn't bore you to much with all this technical mumbo jumbo but if you're into all this tech stuff you might find this interesting. Or not. Cut me some slack here i'm trying to be entertaining. I made a sonic joke. IT'S FUNNY GUYS. Anyway that's all for now. I leave you now with a short video of just how fast these things are.
