Civ 5: Do NOT Let Me Buy This!
I have degrees to earn. I’m not allowed to buy this. Until I get my Ph.D.
Tags: civilization, pc gaming, rip van winkle, loss of time
Entries Tagged as 'Play'
Play: Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance II PS2
It’s been a while since I’ve felt like sitting down and playing one of the consoles that we have in our house. Lately, much of my gaming has been on my iPod Touch or on my MacBook (and even then only when booted into Windows XP at Boot Camp). I’ve got lots of games for lots of platforms, but I usually don’t have a great deal of time to sit down and play games at any one time. When I get home from work at night, I’m usually to tired to play video games; most of the video games I like require you to engage your brain because of either gameplay of storyline. Casual games are fine, but I tend to prefer long-form games which require you to think and have a story attached to them. The problem is that I’ve not really had more than a half hour at a time where it’s been quiet enough for me to play, and I’ve been awake enough to play. Last night was the exception.
Play: Torchlight (Steam)
Last week, during the Holiday Sale, Steam had a deal on Torchlight, offering it for $4.99, which was an absolute steal. I purchased it a few weeks ago when it dropped to $9.99 on special, but I’m not bitter. Not me, no. So, what is Torchlight? Think of it as the meshing of single-player Diablo, Fate and Mythos, which is pretty much what it is because the development team for Torchlight were all involved in these games.
How’s the gameplay, you ask? I’ll tell you…
Play: Star Wars X-Wing
Ah, DOSBox, you make reliving my youth all the easier and ten times more enjoyable. There’s nothing like blowing the snot out of TIE Fighters while listening to a midi version of the Star Wars music as you zoom around the galaxy in your X-Wing fighter. It’s been years since I played this game, but I could still remember the keyboard hotkeys. Note to self: use a mouse as it’s too hard to play this game via the multitouch trackpad of my MacBook Pro.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to blow up some bad guys…
Tags: pc, dosbox, star wars, x-wing, tie fighters
Retro: Dark Forces Mac Attack
Lately, I’ve been on quite the Star Wars kick, so I’ve been keen to get back into playing the Jedi Knight games, which started with the original Dark Forces game. I can still remember when this game first came out. Of all the first-person shooters that came out around that time, including Doom, Hexen and Wolfenstein, this is the game that sucked me into shooters.
As I’m Mac-centric now, I loaded up Boxer and imported Dark Forces into it, and proceeded to shoot as many Stormtroopers in the face as I could (see above). I’m making many new Christmas memories, beating the snot out of the Imperials.
Sing along now: We wish you a Merry Christmas, and blaster shots in the faaaaaaaace!
Tags: star wars, dark forces, shooters, fps, in the face
State of the GameSave
Like most people, I’ve usually got a number of games that I’m playing at any one time, all at various stages of play. I need to get some of these completed so that I can wipe them off my list and get started on a few other games. These are the current games I’m playing:
PS2
- Tomb Raider: Legend
- Rogue Galaxy
- Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked
- Psychonauts
Xbox
- Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
- Halo 2
PC
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Tron 2.0
- Puzzle Quest
- Majesty
- Command & Conquer
- Dune 2000
- Starcraft
- Dungeon Siege
- Guild Wars
- Civilization IV
- Prey
Wii/GameCube
- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
- Okami
- Metroid Prime
Nintendo DS
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer
Yup, it’s about time I finished playing some of these games…
Guild Wars: Canthan New Year
It’s Canthan New Year again, and we’re about to start giving the chefs the ingredients for the celestial meals. The wife, my daughter and I are all in District 29 in Shing Jea waiting for the arrival of the Celestial Ox. Hopefully there’s plenty of other people in the district who have the remaining ingredients we don’t because we’ve only got about half of what we need. Some of the drop rates for the rarer items were really low and we didn’t get any of several. There’s still time to farm them today, so if things don’t go to plan in the next ten minutes, we can still recover.
Guild Wars: Jingle Bear, Jingle Bear, Jingle All The Waaaaaay
For those that didn’t manage to complete the four quests in the Guild Wars Wintersday Festival that unlocked the Jingle Bear in Gwen’s garden, there’s a relatively simple hack that will allow you to get access to and tame the Jingle Bear. Just make sure that you have someone in your party that has completed the quest, and the bear will appear in the garden. Send in the character you want to tame the bear, and you’re all set. The bear will persist with the character until you get rid of it with a Tamer. The only drawback is that you want more than one character to have it, you’ll need to go back into Eye of the North then out again with someone who has completed the quests.
I see a whole income stream appearing in-game…
Guild Wars: Canthan New Year 2009 Recipe Ingredients
One of the greatest things about Guild Wars is the various festivals that are held throughout the year. We recently just had the Wintersday Festival, but now it’s time for the Canthan New Year. With the Canthan New Year, this year being The Year of the Ox, comes the Great Feast, in which a number of chefs prepare dishes for the celestial creature of the year, and which players can get involved in by gathering the ingredients needed for each meal.
I’ve compiled a list of the ingredients and where to get them in one place, to make it easier for myself and others to know what to farm. The list below shows all five Imperial Chefs and what they are looking for, as well as where it may be found. Each entry is linked to the Guild Wars Wiki maintained at the original Guild Wars website so that you can drill down for specific information. Keep in mind that this information is based on what’s in the Wiki, and on last year’s requirements, and could be subject to change for this year.
Steam Year End Sale: BioShock!
BioShock is one of those games I’ve been holding out on getting, mostly because I don’t own a Xbox 360 and I don’t have a powerful enough computer to run it well. I was planning on waiting until either of those situations changed, and the price dropped to around $10 or so. However, Steam are currently doing a huge Year End Sale with a lot of titles heavily discounted. BioShock, which originally arrived for $49.99 and dropped quickly to $19.99 was always on my list of games to buy, but this Year End Sale put the price at $4.99. There’s no way I can ever beat that price at retail, unless I get a used opened copy, so I bit the bullet and bought it. Even if I can’t play it right now, I’ll have it in my Steam account so that when I do get a better computer, I’ll be able to fully enjoy it. Of course, the wife’s laptop can run it just fine, so I might be commandeering that to play on.
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