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Guild Wars 2 is a bad game

September 4, 2012
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Because it compels me to play it even when I should do more productive things.

Maybe there are other reasons. I’ll keep playing and look for them.

Gamer Theater

July 30, 2012
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Things I love:

Video games
Playing video games
Other people watching me play video games
Um…
Profit

Deus Ex: Human Revolution reflections

July 27, 2012
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My housemate’s friend wandered over to watch as I was playing DXHR tonight. She was amazed by the character animation when Adam talks to David Sarif and how you could choose what tone to take with your boss. She’s not a gamer, and the quality of current generation graphics floored her.

“It’s like a movie where you can decide the ending.”

You can, and even all the little bits in between. Dig through the garbage. Clock a bystander in the jaw for no reason. Seeing the game through another person’s eyes is wonderful.

Insanely Twisted Shadow Remnant

July 24, 2012
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Two more games purchased from the Steam Summer Sale that I didn’t get a chance to play until now: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and The Last Remnant. Today’s theme is “doing it right” and “trying to do it right.”

Dark Souls

July 23, 2012
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Dark Souls is coming to the PC next month. I’m… excited isn’t the right word. Tense? Fearful? Giddy? I adore the game, but something about it doesn’t feel right on consoles. I’ve migrated to the PC for gaming this past year and would prefer it in my native tongue.

Why do I love Dark Souls? It feels like the single player MMO I’ve always wanted. It has the precise mechanics of Demons Souls, but in an open world which I greatly prefer. It has a ton of interesting lore that you have to work to find. Its vistas are unparalled, its rotten core unmatched. Sometimes it feels like a roguelike in terms of weapons and armor.

EYE on Exodus

July 22, 2012
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Picked up a few more games on Steam’s insidious Summer Sale:

I didn’t buy them to increase my colon stockpile. I was just in the mood for some non-linear shooting and a little space combat. I got none of those.

It might be for lack of trying. I really can’t be bothered when ten minutes into a game I’m not even whiffing any fun. Fans of the above titles, make your pitches quickly, before I go all uninstall-y!

Zeemote

July 21, 2012
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One of the party favors I picked up from last night’s AT&T hackathon was a Zeemote. It’s a Bluetooth gaming controller for Android devices. Yeah, it solves that problem.

The fact that you can’t feel an analog joystick or tactile buttons on a touchscreen device isn’t one of those constraints you should fight against. Yes, it means you can’t port Halo or Street Fighter to the iPhone (not that people haven’t tried). But we already have those games. When the Xbox 720 and PS4 come out, we’ll have even more.

The Rolling Dead

July 20, 2012
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This is an idea for a zombie game using smartphones and Sphero devices that I came up with at an AT&T mobile app hackathon. I’m kind of ashamed. I hate zombie games! But the Sphero device looks really cool, and watching Yahtzee’s review of The Walking Dead inspired me.

Summary

Humans and zombies have Sphero devices. Humans hide in a cubicle farm. Zombies are blindfolded and hold a Sphero device to their face. The Sphero color shows bright red when it’s pointing at a human’s Sphero. But the zombie’s Sphero goes dim if they move quickly. Humans’ Spheroes vibrate when a zombie is near. Given a time limit, can the zombies find the humans?

The Binding of Seacrest County

July 18, 2012
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I bought The Binding of Issac and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit today off the Steam Summer Sale. They’re equally absurd.

Issac has been described as a roguelike, but that doesn’t come across at first. It feels like Zelda. The original Zelda. Just the dungeons from the original Zelda.

You’re a small child with a large head in a big scary world that… er, sorry, wrong persona.

EA as underdog

June 25, 2012
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EA’s senior VP of global ecommerce David DeMartin, in an interview with MVC UK:

I didn’t expect to be able to out-feature Steam within the first 12 months. But I’m quite optimistic we will differentiate ourselves as a service. We’ve built the foundation and now we are starting to add value to the service off of that foundation.

Origin already has Steam beat on a few features: its UI looks way better and it lets you save installers and games anywhere you want. I’m happy to have competition in digital PC game delivery.

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