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Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts
August 8, 2008
August 7, 2008
The Soul Still Burns
That's right - Soul Caliber IV came out last week.
I got my first taste of playing it last night. I can't say that it has the same problem that Soul Caliber 2 had (namely that is was practically the same game as the original Soul Caliber, just on a different system). It's still fun, at least against un-awesome opponents.
August 3, 2008
Massively Effective
Haven't finished it yet (and will probably play through a few more times), but it's pretty good so far (I've finished the first 3 planets you're sent to, to say without spoiling).
I feel really lucky: I got the Asari and Quarian Ally Achievements this go round. Rock! The asari one should be nice for my upcoming Adept + Assault Rifle, plus all the XP bonuses I'm getting from this first run-through should make it faster.
Soldier = Very Easy, even on easy (I suck at FPS's) - incredibly survivable and very potent with weapons. I'm impressed by how much damage you can put out with a sniper rifle. Not high DPS, but if it has to die in one shot, that's the way to go. The one thing that really sucks: Shredder/Tungsten ammo doesn't come in varieties higher than VII.
July 27, 2008
Drum Hell
Some guy apparently decided to go through ever Rock Band song on expert drums in one sitting - pack-in songs and DLC. He's got about 29 songs left to go right now.
http://www.customhero.net/drumhell/
That's just insane. The dude is insanely good too.
July 19, 2008
No-CD Cracks
This is pretty crazy. Why on earth would your devs do that - especially when you consider that, with the size of the internet, someone is doing everything conceivable with your files. And that, sounds dirty for some reason.
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Final Fantasy XIII....Non-Exclusive?
News from the front at E3 (no longer the gaming giant event it used to be) says that Final Fantasy XIII will be simultaneously arriving for the PS3 and the XBox 360.
Not sure which I'll be buying it for, but this is a big blow for Sony. I'd be willing to bet that they were hoping for this release to sell PS3s - it may still, but it's far less likely now. Of course, they haven't said whether all of FF XIII is going to be multi-platform: Final Fantasy Versus XIII - whatever that is going to be - may still be PS3 exclusive.
July 10, 2008
Song Summoner
Square-Enix has continued their foray into the tactical realm with two - relatively - new releases: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and Song Summoner.
Song Summoner is breaking some new ground for them moving further into the mobile realm - it's an iPod game. Being on the iPod, they make use of a technique that's similar to Monster Rancher's CD-based monster creation: your squad members, "Tune Troopers", are created through the selection of songs from your music collection and I assume the stats are based on song data and metadata.
Of course, I've never managed to finish a tactical game. The battles take quite a while, and they're usually varying degrees of punishing if you're careful.
Besides, I have to think of how to keep people used to video games and the internet interested in a tabletop RPG. Think about it - it can be pretty tough.
July 6, 2008
Mass Time-Spender
Ok, so I've never been satisfied with Mass Effect on the XBox 360. So I went out and bought the PC version today.
It runs fairly well, as evidenced by the fact that I'm barely making this post on the 6th.
Yes!
Oy, I finally finished Green Grass and High Tides Forever, Easy Drums. I realize this may not sound like much, but it's taunted me for quite a while. It's not really that challenging, although some of the quicker bass pedal sections give me hell because I have trouble separating feet from hands in terms the of independent motion required for the drums, just really really long. The only real instrument I've ever played was the trumpet and it really just requires a mouth and 3 fingers on one hand + 2 on the other.
For those who haven't heard my own self-rankings: I'm pretty good at vocals (I've completed Hard - generally with actual singing - and started Expert, which is a pain, but I did 100% Dani California on Friday night, who cares if it's easy), absolutely suck at guitar/bass, and am moderately better at drums.
June 28, 2008
Stay a while and listen...
Well, it's official: Blizzard announced Diablo III at the Worldwide Invitational in Paris.
The only thing I have to say is, this in no way means that it's near ready to go. It's probably a few years away.
June 24, 2008
Worldwide Invitational?
Apparently the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational is on for this weekend and tradition indicates we should expect a game announcement. So sayeth Rock, Paper, Shotgun at least.
I don't have much to say about it, except to say that I like RPS's nickname for Wrath of the Lich King: Anger of the Zombie Monarch.
It's funny. I almost don't need an excuse for this post being short: there's a scheduled outage at blogger in 15 minutes.
June 22, 2008
Instancing/Solo?
Interesting factiod, if you didn't know it about Age of Conan: From 1-20, or there abouts, the game plays largely the same for all players. This is because a decent part of play during that period is 100% solo. You're never forced to go solo, but it's an option for those classes that have an easier time of it.
I think this is done largely because, similar to WoW, if you start on a PvP, you need an area to get used to your character.
June 20, 2008
Outrageous Deaths
I'm getting this one in quick before the scheduled Blogger outage.
Some games just have great or funny deaths. I've never played Karateka, but that sounds quite harsh.
In other news, I'm going to be finishing the The Dark Tower tonight. I might have something kind of interesting to talk about tomorrow.
June 17, 2008
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June 12, 2008
The Crackpots and These Women
No, it's not Big Block of Cheese Day, I just thought I'd point some kinda funny things.
Those of you who follow MMOs at all probably know that Age of Conan dropped a few weeks ago. If you can't tell from the requirement of an age once you pick your country of residence, it's actually one of the first [M]ature-rated MMORPGs. This means two things: blood and breasts - that's right, if you remove the chest armor from a female character, you see naked, digital breasts with nipples. In fact, if you go into the "advanced" character design, there's sliders for pretty much everything (too many sliders, in my opinion).
That's somewhat to the side of the point, except to say that apparently some of the female character models had an unintentional breast reduction. Oh, and apparently Funcom (creators of Anarchy Online, one of the worst MMO launches in history) screwed something up such that, if you're playing a female character or possibly if your first character is female, your attack speed is slowed. In the heavily PVP-oriented world of AoC, this can be a very bad thing.
June 10, 2008
Hellgate? In more ways than they intended
At least, it seems like it. To me, that seems like such a let down from the (or at least a large portion of the core) team that gave us the Diablo games.
I haven't played it personally, but I'm thoroughly enjoying Shamus Young's autopsy of the game. Here's the three parts so far: Statement of Intent, Part One, Part Two.
June 8, 2008
Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics)
First, Boom Blox = soreness. I guess I was a little overactive throwing balls at towers of blocks.
Second, the guys at Penny Arcade along with Scott Kurtz from PvP recorded a pre-release D&D 4E game session that's being released in parts (one a week, and I'm not sure how many) as a podcast.
It's pretty cool, and shows you some of the depth of the new power system.
June 7, 2008
Big Badda Boom
So I'm a little later than normal posting. The culprit: Boom Blox. It's not the only thing either, as right now I'm about half-way through The Wastelands, and the nap I had this afternoon threw off my sense of time.
Also, last night's Battlestar Galactica showed that the promo team at Sci-Fi has figured out at least one trick of the trade: a quote used out of context.
June 6, 2008
Games Galore
Wow.
That's a lot of equipment.
Update: No purchase necessary entry form.
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