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But then the latest driver came out! (335.23) And so it made possible for us notebook gamers to begin testing it too. And so I did. 

I should let you know I own an ASUS Republic of Gamers Notebook, model G46-VW which comes equipped with a GTX 660M Nvidia VCard, Intel i5 4th Gen processor @ 2.4 GHz (I think), 8 Gb DDR3 RAM and 750 Gb HDD.

I ran a couple of tests first while playing Battlefield 3 to see if it would impact the performance and... I felt no difference, the game ran as it always does with ShadowPlay working in Shadow Mode, after some minutes I clicked the hotkeys used to save the recording and it did so.

I Alt+Tabbed to check it out and see the results and I was very very pleased, they are stunning! The audio, video and voice quality are excellent and it had it's promised 60fps. 

However when I Alt+Tabbed back to BF ShadowPlay had closed, no idea why, when I opened it up again I could't make it work with BF or any other game as it showed it was disabled during gameplay. Only way I could make it work again was by restarting my computer.

User Interface of ShadowPlay

After that I made a second test, this time with Dust: An Elysian Tail. I had no issues while recording the test, however, something that wasn't recorded was the fact that nearing the 5 minutes of shadow mode the game began lagging very hard, that started happening just as I saved the shadow recording and so it is not in the video I will leave here, but exiting the game was kind of difficult due to this issue which I'm thinking might have something to do with the temporary files being created by ShadowPlay.

All info on ShadowPlay is on the link at the start of this post, it is really easy to use and it has a sleek and simple UI which I liked. I leave you for now with the recording I did yesterday for Dust: An Elysian Tail.

The commentary for the video it's in spanish, hope that doesn't matters too much, here's the link.

See ya later!

So, english again? Yup, why? I dunno, if anyone likes it better in spanish let me know, the post from yesterday felt a little bit more... natural.

Well, today I'm gonna be talking a bit about a game that I've been playing for about 5 hours, I haven't finished it yet and it's not a new game or anything, but I've really been enjoying it.

The game's name, as you might already figured out is Dust-An Elysian Tail. It is a platformer 2D game with some 3D and particle effects in which you take control of Dust, a blueish fox/furry thingy that wakes up one day in the woods not remembering anything about who he is or how he got there. He's awakened by this weird flying-talking sword called Ahrah who tells him a thing or two about how he must find his destiny and all that kind of stuff. Not much later another party member joins, this one's called Fidget and it's a...cat? I would say, with bat wings and cangaroo tail.

Fidget says the sword belongs to her people and wants to take it back to which Dust replies he needs the sword to find out who he is.

From there, the story develops but I won't be talking about it, let's switch out to the gameplay.

Since I started the game I've been playing it with an Xbox controller, it just feels better to me to play platformers with controllers, and overall it's been a good experience, the controls themselves are responsive and fluid and not hard to get used to.

One thing though that really grinds my gears is the moving speed of Dust, you see, when you're fighting you can do all sort of crazy techinques and the game feels fast paced and it's awesome! But, when you're outside of battle the moving speed of the blueish hero is really annoying! Like I said I haven't finished the game yet and I'm still hoping there will be a way further in that allows you to actually run when not battling...Still being 5 hours into a game and having to basically WALK everywhere when you're not slicing monsters is quite a drag.

Anyway, just to dig a little bit more into battle that's an aspect of the game that I really liked a lot, the combos and moves you can make are all pretty fun and the screen gets filled out with particles of explosions and attacks during almost any battle making it a rewarding experience at least for me. You learn some basic moves that you can perform with Dust and then there's Fidget who also helps by firing this "projectiles" that don't do much by themselves but once you combine them with Dust moves you can turn the screen into a mess and begin massing up combos, the larger the combo the more exp you get from the battle, however if you get hit during a combo the whole chain will break and of course you will not get the exp from it.

Experience will get you levels, and levels will get you gems which in turn you can use to ...levelup... your stats. Aaaand of course you have your inventory with a slot for a quick item to be used during battles (usually healing items) and slots for equipment, armor, accesories, etc...Also you can collect crafting items and blueprints which can be forged by blacksmiths inside the game to get better equipment and items.

Last but not least I'd like to tell you about the dialogues in this game as the characters are voiced. 

THEY ARE GREAT.

It probably is the part that I've enjoyed the most out of the game mainly because the scripts are spontaneous and casual and funny and the voice acting is very very good. Also they make some cool references

In general I'd say the game is a little bit childish as for art design and storyline goes but it's worth playing if you want a cool platformer/beatemup game.

Ok, I think that would be it for now, just a friendly reminder this is NOT supposed to be a full review of the game or anything, please do not take this as a reference of whether the game is good or not as this is merely my opinion of it, if you want an actual review of the game to see if you should buy it or not please google it as I'm sure there are a ton out there made by pro people who does that for a living. Remember I haven't finished it yet.

Allright, that's all then. Have a great day~

So today, for no reason at  all I will write this post in english.

I don't have a particular topic that I want to talk about but I do want to make this post to recommend to whoever may read this, a web(?)series that I've been watching over the past weekend.

The title of the show is Video Game High School, so yeah, it is relevant to this blog, and it's basically about a society in which gamers are broadly viewed as rock stars, you know, like soccer or football players are seen today. 

Tournaments are streamed by TV and Internet all over the world, there's a world ladder and a whole bunch of other things...apparently, but the main story centers in this so called Video Game High School or VGHS for short which is recognized as the world's most prestigious Pro Gamer Academy as the very best player of them all "The Law" is enrolled in there.

The story however does not follow "The Law", as a matter of fact for all season 1 he's the main antagonist. The main character is called Brian who by weird circumstances ends up killing "The Law" during an Online Match for the most popular FPS  there is. Casually, the match was being streamed, and so, our hero jumps to fame as he enters said school and struggles through ...everyday? highschooler scenarios, mainly centered of course in getting a girlfriend.

Anywayzzz... the series is quite short, 5 episodes for season 1 and 6 for season 2, each with a duration no longer than 35 minutes, however, at least for me it is worth watching as it has a lot of cool references and funny moments.

I'm watching it on netflix so if any of you has an account you should totally check it out.

Let me know if you liked it!

That's it for now people, see ya later.

Buenos Viernes,

¿Como les Viernes el día de hoy? 

Espero que Viernes, yo ayer ...¿o antier? No recuerdo, vi unos vídeos en youtube que me gustaron bastante, son de esos que hacen un overview y comparan dos consolas.

El sujeto que hizo estos es agradable y no se ve que quiera atacar a ninguna de las dos compañías involucradas en el titanico encuentro, aunque... quizá tenga algo que ver el hecho de que las consolas comparadas tienen mas de 10 años de antigüedad

Bueno, aquí se los dejo, es un solo vídeo en dos partes. ¡Ojala les gusten!