It’s always a bit awkward for me trying to post something the day after a more serious entry. What do you do the next day? Follow it with something else along the same line? Try to shake things up? Just not mention it at all? I never have found what I would say is an adequate answer to the question. So…games! One specific game, actually. One area where computer strategy games have always had a [...]
Aug 302011
Aug 252011
Thus far, I’ve done a pretty decent job of extolling the virtues of Descent and Earth Reborn. Both are terrific games. The trouble is, both also tend a little more towards the hard core end of the spectrum and have a price tag to match. Earth Reborn is likely to cost you in the neighbourhood of $65, and that’s in the realm of the cheaper online world. Descent is $80 just for the base game, [...]
Aug 232011
Today, the computer arrived. I have installed software and apps. Tonight, games will download as I sleep. Fancy games with shiny explosions. Tomorrow, I will commence the shooting of the people in the face. Before I could start this bad boy up, though, I had to install my graphics card. Seems PCI slots aren’t designed to support a GeForce 570 GTX during transit…pussies. Look at that keyboard! That thing looks like black death itself. And [...]
I made a brief mention of this in my earlier “Hey guys, board games iz fun n’ stuff!” post, but it deserves more detail. Much more detail. Earth Reborn is a tactical minis game, but one where you don’t have to spend hundreds of bucks buying up armies of units only to get pwned on a table top by some cocky 16 year old whose divorced parents buy him Baneblade tanks as a way of [...]
Aug 142011
Dungeon crawling. A group of heroes smashing their way through legions of bad guys and monsters and minions in search of treasure and…well, treasure. Are they really that heroic? And why are all of these monsters hanging out underground? And how pleasant can that be…would you wanna spend time in a warren of caves that trolls have presumably been shitting in for a few weeks? Errr…yeah. So, dungeon crawls are a pretty big fantasy sub [...]
Aug 132011
I’m rather excited! Soon enough, big shiny blow stuff up action will once again be available to me. I ordered through NCIX again, which is where I got my previous gaming rig from. I seriously considered just ordering the components and actually manning up and building it myself, and had the cost for them to assemble everything been more I may have. But for a whopping $50 extra, I’ll bitch out and let them put [...]
Aug 112011
Grandma needs her Team Fortress fix! Seriously, there’s me. If I were hooked on smack, rather than games in general. And if I was old…and a woman. In other words, this might be the worst example picture ever. But hey, seniors shootin’ up is all kinds of laughs, right? Oh, you AREN’T all morbid sickos whose senses of humor have been twisted in to something sinister by their bitter hatred for most of humanity? Then [...]
Jul 242011
I have a confession to make : as much as I’m enjoying this game, I hesitated for a bit about whether or not I should talk about it. Mainly because of James. The last time I mentioned a little dungeon crawling game, it was Desktop Dungeons…and that game had the same sort of affect on him and his existence that heroin does for most people. And here I am, heading down the same garden path [...]
Jun 092011
It’s time to travel back to see stuff that actually happened a couple of days ago. Woo? The hardware developers have been rather craptacular, so let’s see what a couple of purely software devs have going on. Of course, considering the execrable disaster that Ubi’s event was last year… EA Event -And the beginning of the whole thing is a video sequence that seems to be laying out the end of the world. Perhaps armageddon [...]
Jun 072011
The goddamn playback doesn’t actually start at the beginning of it! So, starting from about 10 minutes in… -Nintendo’s new strategy – I shit you not – ‘deeper and wider’. There’s probably something to that, but I cannot stop laughing long enough to hear it. -We begin with what’s actually a pretty awesome laser and lights and graphical effects type show. I have to wonder what fucking genius decided to devote all that tech to [...]
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