Darkness Within - Bugs/Glitches FIXED!

The first version of Darkness Within has a lot glitches that make u wanna bang ur head on the wall, I spent my whole evening trying to open a locked case that it didnt have a lock due to that glitch of course!

The 1st version is the 1.00 but they made 2 patches after that, that seem to fix a lot in-game things! Here are a link to both patches!

Darkness Within - Patches 1.01/1.02

Nintendo DS vs DS Lite

I really dont know what to choose when it comes to picking one of these 2 Nintendo consoles. But I think i eventually lean more to DS Lite just dew to its a lot brighter screen. So listed below are the differences of those 2 portables

DS vs DS Lite

1. Size. The DS Lite is really smaller than the its predecessor but that its not always a desirable feature. Players with larger hands will find it difficult to use it.

2. DS Lite Brighter Screen. The Ds Lite has a considerably brighter screen and it gives the option to choose between 4 intesities! On the other hand the original DS has the option to just turn the light off.

3. DS Lite Stronger Battery. Its battery is slightly stronger. The DS Lite has a battery of 450mA and the DS has a battery of just 320mA

4. Power Button. The original Ds has the power button on the left side above the d-pad cursor, the DS Lite has the power button on the right side and it is a slide up button which it makes it a bit hard to operate.

5. DS stronger built. Though the Ds Lite is smaller and cuter if u want, it is built from a cheaper plastic in contrast to the original that it looks and feels stronger, and is built like a tank!

6. Mic position. Ds original has the mic on the lower left side of the screen and the DS Lite on the center of the hinge above the touch screen.

7. Power light. Ds original has the power light indicator on the lower right side of the touch screen and the DS Lite has it on the right side of the hinge

8. Touch Stylus. Ds has the stylus inserted on its back, and DS Lite has it on the right side next to the power button.

Why Square Enix, Why?!

Whats going on with that huge mega therion! It looks like they are on berserk mode with a main quest to ruin all those games that we grow up with! Im frustrated Square Enix, honstely I think you could do better than that! I dont know where to start. Final Fantasy series?! Thief series?! Tomb Raider series?! Dungeon Siege series?! Deus Ex?! (well Deus Ex to be honest is still quite playable!)

But what's up with you guys. And who said that gamers need innovations? We want Lara Croft as we met her back then in the middle fucking pixelish 90s, we want back that atmosphere of total exploration we want to sneak in every corner to find hidden treasures! Oh, and stop indicating us EVERYTHING, you take away from us the feeling of discovering your very own worlds!

Who said that lara is a fucking gun expert that kills 50 armed soldiers with just an axe! Guess what!!!NO ONE! She is a fucking TOMB RAIDER, and what a raider of tombs does??? Raiding Tombs!!! Duh!!!!  And NO Square Enix, we dont need auto healing, we need to heal her with medipacks! SImple fucking kneel-to-grab medipacks! Because thats classic! Simple as that!

And what happened to the old school hand drawn map of Thief? Why do i need to see a damn quest indicator constantly on my screen to show me where to go? Is it supposed to be set in a fantasy steampunk medieval age or not?! We need to find our own way we need to compare the old school handdraw map with the environment to see where to head next! And dont you think that the map on the last thief is too "high tech" for the game? Even its sounds! It is steampunk age, so we need sounds from metal clanging and steaming machines!!! Oh, and almost forgot, come guys.. admit it... what s with the rope arrows?! Copy&Paste anywhere right?!

Do i have to mention about the threnody that the Final Fantasy series are going through? Probably that's obvious! The elements for a successful FF game is QUITE SIMPLE! 

1. Turn based battle system

2. Traditional leveling system

3. Clever/strategic battle gameplay

Simple as that! Can you follow that?! Probably not, to hard for you huh?! What the fuck, you never talk with actual gamers, never hear their opinions?! Honestly i dont know what's happening with you dudes! 

And you couldnt keep away from Dungeon Siege either. So nice gameplay, so epic music so epic battles so adventurous explorations, and with DS 3 you just spoil all the fun. I began to think that you do it on purpose! And whats with that fucking button that shows us where to go?! I dont get it. What am I supposed to do if you give me everything that I must do myself? An autopilot button and there you have it! The perfect game for low-intelligent gamers! You dont have to simplify everything for us. You just have to make them intriguing and FUN at the same time,  I dont care how care to do it, thats your buisiness, and thats why we are paying you for!

Nintendo DS / DS Lite Are Region Free

Though i live in Europe, Greece, lately i bought an american version of Super Mario 64 DS and i was pleasantly surprised to discover that both of the DS and DS Lite systems are region free. I have European consoles and the american version seems to run just fine to my systems, I recorded also a video to show you. I believe that the compatibility goes backwards as well.

Why Gothic Is The Best RPG Trilogy

Many will say that if you haven't played Elders Scrolls Oblivion or Skyrim you dont know what an RPG means. If you want an rpg that you won't get bored of it, wont feel like you do over and over again the same thing then you definitely wont chose Bethesda's masterpieces. Although that many of the so-called gamers don't even know their existence Gothic games are by far the best of the genre and you will soon discover why.

Realistic Exploration

In Gothic when you want to track down a quest you track down a quest! and not by simply pressing "X" and chasing a dot on the minimap and you know why? because there is no minimap! You have to find it yourself by exploring the wolrd around you depended on the rumors you collect along the way! I dont want someone to take me by the hand and lead me to the quest's goal, if thats the case then i could use a walkthrough on youtube. The purpose is YOU to do all the necessary exploring! Play one quest like that and then you will see what feels better! It is supposed to be a fucking fantasy medieval game.

Real Time Healing/Looting

Remember all those western rpgs where you are during a battle your health drops dramatically and you just paused heal and unpause?! Really you noob?! Are you the only clever in your family or you have a twin?! Gothic gives you plenty ways and items to be healed but you have to do it like you would in a real fight, you have to run away from the enemy enough so you have the time to open the inventory select the healing item and heal yourself!

No Loading Times

Many wrpgs are designed that way so every time you enter a house it loads to show you the interior. In gothic you dont have such inconveniences. You enter a hut just by passing through the door simple as that, you dont have a loading screen to spoil the fun every now and then!

Improving Weapon Handling

As you progress through the game and become more proficient at several things you can see the changes on your hero. At the beggining when he is totally noob at anything he weilds even a small sword by clumsy grabbing it with his two hands. As you go further in the game, he becomes more familiar with it as he grabs it with one hand changes his body stance etc.

Learning Skills

I've been sick of rgps that you gain a level and some ability points and just apply them to your character attributes. In gothic you need to find important people, each one being specialized in something, and then get them to teach you what they know. There are teachers for swordsmanship, use of bow, use of acrobatics etc. and they teach you stuff by actually explaining things to you through dialogs How cool is that?!

Many Ways To Fight Enemies

The choice board there is really big, you can actually do anything even take down a pretty big fella that in a hand to hand combat

you d be wasted. You can climb on rocks unreachable to 4 legged monsters and kill them with bows , you can sneak behind them, you can put them to sleep with spells etc etc...

Many Way To Complete Quests

And those ways are not implied by anyone most of the times, you have to find them yourself. And the attractive part is that sometimes they feel quite natural like for example when at a quest you have to steal a document from a house the choices are many you have kill the owner in his sleep, you cant talk him out of keeping the document, you can put him to sleep with a spell and steall it or you can just grab it outside of the window!!

Everything Is Killable

Everything in Gothic's world especially in the 3rd game is killable, every NPC has a standard life bar that can be consumed, literally anything you can see moving can be killed from slaves to bosses and even pigs. Whatever you kill, stays dead, there are no respawns. Lets say that you kill an important NPC? well the game doesnt stop there just do what you must to continue in some other way your game.

Everyday Routines

One other amazing thing about gothic is that every NPC character seems to have a daily routine. They wake up in the morning, do their daily choirs talk to other guard passages and when the night comes they go back to sleep. This thing alone creates a realistic feeling that there is normal life everywhere around you!

People Watches Their Stuff

Everyone in the game mind their belongings. Lets say you enter a house and the owner is out sitting on a bench or by the campfire they immediately get up and warn not to do anything stupid.! And thats totally normal isn't it! Imagine you are hanging in the backyard with a friend and a stranger dude barges in your house .. what do you do?

Liberate Cities

The main plot around Gothic 3 is that the humans have lost the war to the orcs and there still are some rebels that they dont want to accept that and work underground to rebel against them! So, one of your many choices is that you can actually go to slaved cities and persuade the people to rebel and exterminate the whole population of this city and take it back!

Build You Reputation

If you go through a camp and you are just a stranger noone will trust you to give you lets say their armors and stuff. You have to work your way up do some choirs for them prove your worth and then you can be a trustworthy fella and join their cause!