It has indeed, as I have been a bit busy lately.
To update you, I have recently started my own freelance company called Fivetwelve, which specialise in web design, development and a whole host of other things. (more…)
Recently I’ve been seeing Zend Framework pop up more and more. Since the aim of a framework is to “provide a skeleton application” that basically saves me, the developer, time; I was interested. (more…)
Well as per expected, GTA turned up this morning and what a day it’s been since.
A quick trip to the reception this morning revealed that although the post had arrived (the grey sack was on the floor), the lady working wanted me to leave her alone to sort it out. Thirty minutes later, I’m sprinting back from the reception with my Special Delivery package, frantically sending picture messages to friends of the game from my phone.
First Impressions
It starts off and immediately had me disappointed. “I think there’s something wrong with my game, the shadows are all fuzzy!” - I told my mates. After about half an hour of game play the game shines, and the fuzzy edge shadows actually begin to contribute to the draw distance and sheer scale of the environment.
Second impressions?
I did a few of the storyline missions and was hooked. The amazing thing about this game is that although it has the same ‘GTAness’ under the bonnet, with the same concept and principles, the characters are fantastic, the story line is a rival to that of Mass Effect and the comical value is something that will have you on your third pair of pants within a couple of hours.
The amount of times I just stopped and cried “WWOOOAAAHHHHH” to myself is staggering. I lost count. I think the first one was where I crashed a car into a wall at high speed and flew through the windscreen, whilst pinning an old man against a wall and covering the car bonnet this unfortunate gentleman’s blood.
Any bad points?
In two words: not really. There are a few very minor annoyances that really, really do not contribute to having a negative impact on the game. This is obviously why reviewers have given the game 10/10 pretty much everywhere you look.
Stats after one day? Most people could claim that it would take over their life - and after one day, that's exactly what it's done so far.
As it stands, I'm at 24% completion, I have $19656 and I’ve played for a total of just under 12 hours. Oh dear, in one day…
God forbid what GTA will do to me tomorrow.
A quick bit of thinking in this blog entry. I was just reading through a BBC News article here, about the chances of extra-terrestrial intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe.
To summarise the article, a guy called Professor Watson at the University of East Anglia claims that the chance of intelligent life existing on an “Earth like planet” elsewhere in the Universe is something like 0.01%. He goes on to claim that humans went through “four critical stages” in evolution to become an intelligent life-form.
However, here’s my take on the subject. Professor Watson says two slightly controversial/questionable things here:
It seems to me that all of these highly intelligent scientists, astrologists, astronomists, evolutionists and other “ists” seem to be certain that life can only exist on a planet that possesses all of the characteristics of Earth - such as liquid water, same amount of gravity, temperature, climate, resources and so on. Has anyone considered that maybe not all forms of intelligent life needs this “recipe” for evolution? Perhaps out there somewhere in some far reaches of The Milky Way we have this intelligent alien that doesn’t need water to survive and doesn’t need a perfect climate to avoid getting a pretty nasty sun tan.
Can you see where I’m coming from here? I’m not a scientist and I may be completely missing the point here but maybe these assumptions made by boffins behind a telescope all over the globe are slightly off. These “recipes for life” that the boffins claim must be identical to that on Earth are all good theories if you want intelligent humans elsewhere in space; but with so many galaxies, stars and planets beyond our Solar System, there could be a planet full of “aliens” with American accents. But the chances are there are probably some pretty weird and wonderful species out there too.
Maybe E.T. is out there now, reading this, on a “computer” that’s withstanding a gravitational pull 500 times that of Earth’s, with a nice cold glass of hydrochloric acid and some helium isotope for dinner.
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