So Mount and Blade, my favorite series of all time, is on sale in a Steam Midweek madness. For $5 USD you can have any one of a variety of awesome games. If you have any interest in realistic melee combat, RPG leveling, horse archery, large sandbox worlds, army building, faux mongolians, telling poems to fair men/maidens, or kingdom management, you should buy it. The problem of course is that t...
Historically, Norwegian King Harald Hardrada died at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. It was supposed to have been a minor skirmish in a much larger campaign, but the Saxons got a jump on them, cut off from the majority of his army, Harald died in the field. The Norwegian Invasion was crushed. 3 Days later, William the Conquerer would land in Dover and his story would end much more famous...
After committing to buying Arma II: Combined Ops off steam, i've gotten deep into the DayZ mod. The servers have been fairly stable and i've had plenty of adventures. I've been playing solo, which is great fun, although i'll need to find some teammates if I want to maximize my time alive. Today I began my best run yet... but i'm starting to regret some choices i've made. I began in the small to...
I've played many musket mods for Mount & Blade, and always thought they were neat but not worth getting into. Napoleonic Wars has outdone most of those mods and done some unique stuff. Having played about 10 hours so far I thought i'd share some tips from my experience, most should be fairly obvious but hopefully they'll help someone. Always be in cover - This is pretty obvious but should be no...
How a mad dwarf made me realize the most fun part of Dwarf Fortress, is the losing... I finally got into dwarf fortress using This guide and this mod . My first fortress attempt was a bit of a bust because I made a bunch of mistakes, but my second attempt went fantastically, and I soon had a large working base filled with 2 dozen busy dwarves. I was unprepared for the winter and lost two miners...
Yea, you'll be staring at that explosion for awhile... Treyarch has put me into tears, I suppose they are metaphorical tears, I'm not that addicted to call of duty, I don't even start shaking after not playing for 3 hours anymore. But Ive been having serious issues with Black Ops PC multiplayer in that it Freezes and than has to be ended via task manager. The first 40 hours of multiplayer were...
We don't have much time before New Vegas comes out and while skimming the digital version of the EGMi Fallout New Vegas Issue, I came upon their preview article of the game. It was set up so when you turned the page the trailer music would play as you read and when that happened I was immediately taken back to what I loved about Fallout 3. Fallout is what games need. Its pure escapism. Its not...
Just Cause 2 was a great game, a Huge open world, a great sandbox for pretty much anything you could imagine. Avalanche made a formidable successor to a game that many people wanted to love but never quite could. What they did best though, was that they created a tropical Island of fantastic proportions. It is a magestic, vibrant island filled with great locations and unique landmarks. I recent...
So i tried to go exploring with my fellow guild member Gilandeon, we steeped over the boundary to an area we had never been to before. The rest went as follows..... Gilandeon: Dude, Justinne gave the interior designer position you wanted to Lwlyll. Mikemcn: WHAT! *Level 48 Bat hits lv.15 Mikemcn for 800 damage* Gilandeon: Haha dude you totally just got taken down by that bat, where did you go?...
So i tried to go exploring with my fellow guild member Gilandeon, we steeped over the boundary to an area we had never been to before. The rest went as follows..... Gilandeon: Dude, Justinne gave the interior designer position you wanted to Lwlyll. Mikemcn: WHAT! *Level 48 Bat hits lv.15 Mikemcn for 800 damage* Gilandeon: Haha dude you totally just got taken down by that bat, where did you go?...
A PC gamer article pointed out the diamond in the rough that is Face of Mankind (FOM) to me. Its an free to play MMO (Although obviously, people who pay gets some nice benefits, i am a free player though.) It is not a normal game in that the game mechanics are not the focus, this game is all about the players themselves and the chaos/awesomeness that ensues when you let the community itself dec...
Still.... just a test
this is a test
15 things that I love about Giant Bomb Giant Bomb Is awesome, here is why. Also, I want my list related site-achievements....... But seeing as I actually put some effort in, i might as well share it with y'all. This is a weak list as I consider all these things equally awesome, so number 1 may not necessarily be any better than number 4 or 5, but here goes nothing. 1. Brad Shoemaker He's kinda...
So today my Internet dropped out while downloading Mass Effect 2 from Steam, after about an hour of trying to fix it It still did not work. All my wireless devices worked fine (Ipod Touch, Netbook.) but my main desktop would not connect to the network. I continued to try and find solutions when a startling thought occured to me... What if i restarted the thing, madness, surely I would be commit...
So as you all know the STO beta is now over. I got to close it out with the Space Neon Lobsters, Jeff, Ryan, Vinny and Brad. And it was at the end that STO showed how truly fun it could be. Many of you question the wisdom of people who buy lifetime subscriptions, and i cannot say that I will ever join that group, but what I do know is that STO gave me some of the best gaming moments i have had...
Games of 2009 I wanted to play, but didn't The New Years reminded me of one thing, I did not play alot of major games this year. Most of my time was spent on games from the past I never really got to such as Garry's mod, TF2, Fallout 3, Mount and Blade and Call of Duty 4. Also, Modern Warfare 2 took up so much time that there wasn't much room at the end of the year for anything else. These are...
So now its time for me to be the 150th idiot who has posted a blog on their impressions about MW2s multiplayer! Aren't you all excited? Yes, yes you are. Basically, MW2 is the most complete multiplayer experience i have ever played. Theres little i could ask for to improve on it. IW did a great job. Im playing the PC version and despite what people may tell you, its actually good. Alot of peopl...
I reallly want to buy MW2, its my favorite game franchise of all time, and if you didn't notice, that most recent trailer was absolutely epic. But theres an issue, I want it on PC, so buying it will mean im paying 10 dollars above the normal price for a game that doesn't even live up to its whole potential. (They reduced the player cap from COD4, thats a serious step backwards for any game port...
( How do i post a blog to a specific forum?) Im not buying MW2 for PC, and if I do it will be several months after release when its cheaper. They cut dedicated server support and mods from the game so they could make it like a console game. Jeff is right it is a console port, but so was 4, and most could argue so was WAW and 2, but they both had server browsers. And yea, it still has that great...
In the falling post i want it to be apparent that i am against Onlive, so dont expect a ton of positives about it, if you have any, tell me about them..... I have done alot of thinking lately about Onlive, and what it will do to gaming as a whole. And im worried. Yes it introduces the ability to play games, anywhere, without the expensive hardware, but is this a good thing? First they will char...