The Secret to Everybody site takes phrases from the original games and collects them in screen-shot form for you to view. Very fun.
Found an awesome site the other day as I was searching for phrases from Zelda games. Yeah, I do that.
I got this game as a gift from a friend for Christmas. I'm told this is very similar to the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, but I've never played that so I can't really comment on any similarities.
The game is a mix of RTS and RPG. There are two teams and your objective is to destroy the other teams base. Throughout the map are several flags that teams can occupy that grant their side either stat bonuses, increased gold production, or portals that spawn waves of NPC controlled soldiers.
Each player picks either an assassin character (you control one character, but your abilities are typically more powerful) or a general who can command a group of minions. The... Read All
I got this game as a gift from a friend for Christmas. I'm told this is very similar to the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, but I've never played that so I can't really comment on any similarities.
The game is a mix of RTS and RPG. There are two teams and your objective is to destroy the other teams base. Throughout the map are several flags that teams can occupy that grant their side either stat bonuses, increased gold production, or portals that spawn waves of NPC controlled soldiers.
Each player picks either an assassin character (you control one character, but your abilities are typically more powerful) or a general who can command a group of minions. The characters seem to be pretty well balanced, and there's a lot of variety between each character so they each have their own feel and play style.
Over all, I really enjoy this game. I've played it with my friend several times as well as a few on-line matches with random people and I've had a lot of fun each time. Unfortunately, the community for this game is all but dead. There have been several times I've logged in to see that there were no open matches on-line to join and ended up just playing against the AI. From what I've read on-line, the game had a horrible launch with several game breaking bugs that chased many people away. It really is too bad, because now that the game is working it really is a great game.
I'd say wait 'til this games is on sale for cheap, then convince a friend or two to buy it with you so you'll have someone to play with.
I played through Defense of the Ancients on War 3 and it was pretty fun. Still fun to load it up and play, not sure how many people are playing it these days.
Blizzard DoTA and Valve DoTA should be interesting when they come out.
I was talking about this game the other day with Rett. I'd play it some more, was a fun MOBA game for sure. I did play against bots back then and the AI wasn't terrible to play with. Wonder how the game is now.
My quick first impressions from the beta (<1hour in):
I miss the old art style. I wasn't a hater on the original footage, and I think that it's okay for the series to move in a different direction, but so much of the game right now looks like the early areas of WoW when you start as an undead. It's good, its fun, its interesting, but it's not how I think of Diablo.
One thing I really miss are the old 2D sprites. They were so detailed, while the new models seems so cartooney, just like the base models of WoW mobs.
Enough with the bashing. The gameplay is spot on. It's just like you remember except they've added fun little things like environmental damage and a more... Read All
My quick first impressions from the beta (<1hour in):
I miss the old art style. I wasn't a hater on the original footage, and I think that it's okay for the series to move in a different direction, but so much of the game right now looks like the early areas of WoW when you start as an undead. It's good, its fun, its interesting, but it's not how I think of Diablo.
One thing I really miss are the old 2D sprites. They were so detailed, while the new models seems so cartooney, just like the base models of WoW mobs.
Enough with the bashing. The gameplay is spot on. It's just like you remember except they've added fun little things like environmental damage and a more intuitive ability system, while ditching frustrations like identify scrolls.
I'm playing as a Monk and he's fun. click-click-click-CLICK and everyone's dead. I do feel perhaps a bit over powered right now, but I'm sure I'll go back on that the first time I die.
Overall, I'm very happy, and I'm sure I'll get used the the art style soon enough. I'm sure I'll pick this up whenever Blizzard deems it ready.
Awesome. @chowda said that the beta is VERY simple and that the regular game would be harder.
The original sprite art was great, but as with everything 3D is the movement ahead. Wonder how much sooner the game would have shipped if it were 2D :)
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:02am
After playing through it for a couple hours, I'm very happy with it. The game play is just fun and the atmosphere is great. It started seeming less cartoony and more just... dark. Not a game to play when you're already depressed.
The customization of the powers looks like it will be really cool, as will the artisan system. I'm not sold completely on the auction house, but, eh, so what if it breaks the game.
I need to run through it again as the other characters, but I think I need to go back to Skyrim and actually run through the main quest line (213 hours in and I still have no clue why the dragons are coming back).
I just downloaded the original Donkey Kong for the Wii last night. I had never really thought about it before, but I've never actually played the original Donkey Kong up until now. Of course, I've been familiar enough with it since I was a small child, but for what ever reason, I had never actually gotten around to playing it. Being a history buff, I decided I had to finally give it a try.
In a lot of ways, it was Donkey Kong that made Nintendo. Of course it was Super Mario Brothers which was responsible for the domination of the NES/ Famicom in the 80s, making Nintendo a household name. But it was Donkey Kong which not only made Nintendo into a presence in the global... Read All
I just downloaded the original Donkey Kong for the Wii last night. I had never really thought about it before, but I've never actually played the original Donkey Kong up until now. Of course, I've been familiar enough with it since I was a small child, but for what ever reason, I had never actually gotten around to playing it. Being a history buff, I decided I had to finally give it a try.
In a lot of ways, it was Donkey Kong that made Nintendo. Of course it was Super Mario Brothers which was responsible for the domination of the NES/ Famicom in the 80s, making Nintendo a household name. But it was Donkey Kong which not only made Nintendo into a presence in the global video game market, but is also responsible for video games as we know them today.
Nintendo games were a big hit in Japanese arcades, but were a bit of a flop when the company tried to expand to the US. Donkey Kong was designed specifically to appeal to US markets, and seems to have been successful at doing so, making Nintendo a contender in the global market.
Donkey Kong was the first multi-level platform game, as well as the first video game to include a backstory and cutscenes. Also, Donkey Kong is responsible for the creation of Mario, named for the cranky landlord who owned Nintendo of America headquarters, who has grown to be nearly as iconic as Mickey Mouse. Without the advent of Mario, there would have been no Super Mario Brothers to lead Nintendo to become "the" name for consul video games after the video game crash of 1983.
I don't know... Ads = money Mo Money = Mo Problems
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:47am
Its true. I am about ready to have a money fight over here so I think I need to put on some gloves so I don't get a paper cut. The money is pretty fresh....
Playing through the game, and doing a lot of side quests, the game almost felt *too* big to do what I really wanted it to: a full scale war.
Now things have happened, and the war is in motion!
(Trying to not give any spoilers!)
Playing through the game, and doing a lot of side quests, the game almost felt *too* big to do what I really wanted it to: a full scale war.
Now things have happened, and the war is in motion!
Let's do some math: Deus Ex: $15.99 36 hours 44/hr Skyrim: $54.99 213 hours 26/hr Portal2: $49.99 23 hours $2.17/hr
And you know what, Portal was worth every penny.
It was my favorite game of last year, over Skyrim, over Deus Ex, over... everything. Shoot, there should have been an option to leave your web-cam on during the entire game so that you can go back and just watch your own $#!? eating grin for hours on end.
There wasn't a part of that game that I didn't think was about perfect.
Possible my favorite part is this: you go through an entire game without hurting a fly (unless you count personality cores or turrets). No, I'm not a huge pacifist, and I have zero... Read All
Let's do some math: Deus Ex: $15.99 ÷ 36 hours ≈ 44¢/hr Skyrim: $54.99 ÷ 213 hours ≈ 26¢/hr Portal2: $49.99 ÷ 23 hours ≈ $2.17/hr
And you know what, Portal was worth every penny.
It was my favorite game of last year, over Skyrim, over Deus Ex, over... everything. Shoot, there should have been an option to leave your web-cam on during the entire game so that you can go back and just watch your own $#!? eating grin for hours on end.
There wasn't a part of that game that I didn't think was about perfect.
Possible my favorite part is this: you go through an entire game without hurting a fly (unless you count personality cores or turrets). No, I'm not a huge pacifist, and I have zero problems with games where you run around cuttings heads off and running over prostitutes, but isn't it nice to be able to play a game that wins completely on gameplay and personality rather than OMGTHATISSOBRUTAL!!! It's a game that I show people who don't like games.
Can you think of any other games like that, "evangelical" games as it were?
I agree. I'm on my second play through and it still awesome. The game art is great and it's paced very well.
I've never broken out a game in terms of value per hour. I should. Wonder what my Borderlands value per hour would be? I got the game of the year on sale for $20 on Ps3. Such a great deal.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 03/05/2012 at 06:54am
Shoot, I wish I knew how much time I put into Minecraft.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:00am
I never did it. I took some time with the single player campaign and by the time I got around to it, the only people I could find had already run it. Puzzles are no fun when the other person knows the solution.
"Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world. But what if Nintendo teamed up with Valve and recreated the famous Mario game with Portal gun mechanics?"
Some people actually created a Super Mario Brothers with portals game. Looks pretty awesome.
"Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world. But what if Nintendo teamed up with Valve and recreated the famous Mario game with Portal gun mechanics?"
Anyone here still playing this one? It has been a bit frantic since out went free, but I still pick it up from time to time, you know, looking for hats.
Anyone here still playing this one? It has been a bit frantic since out went free, but I still pick it up from time to time, you know, looking for hats.
I play a match or two here and there. It seems like a really fun game but (being a noob in the game) I completely suck at it. I typically stick to the Heavy or Soldier class, as I seem to be able to do the least amount of harm to my own team playing those classes. :P
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:06am
I like to play as nothing but my worst class until it becomes decent and then I start the process over again. I thought I'd never learn how to play as the spy and then *poof* one day it was my highest scoring class.
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Ive been seeing reports that Valve may release a "Steam Box" to compete with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in the console market.
The picture above is from a patent application filed by Valve last year for a "game controller having user swappable control components."
"Apparently meetings were held during CES to demo a hand-built version of the device to potential partners. We're told that the basic specs of the Steam Box include a Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GPU. The devices will be able to run any standard PC titles, and will also allow for rival gaming services (like EA's Origin) to be loaded up."
Some more interesting bits from The Verge:
"Part of the goal of... Read All
Ive been seeing reports that Valve may release a "Steam Box" to compete with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in the console market.
The picture above is from a patent application filed by Valve last year for a "game controller having user swappable control components."
"Apparently meetings were held during CES to demo a hand-built version of the device to potential partners. We're told that the basic specs of the Steam Box include a Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GPU. The devices will be able to run any standard PC titles, and will also allow for rival gaming services (like EA's Origin) to be loaded up."
Some more interesting bits from The Verge:
"Part of the goal of establishing a baseline for hardware, we're told, is that it will give developers a clear lifecycle for their products, with changes possibly coming every three to four years. Additionally, there won't be a required devkit, and there will be no licensing fees to create software for the platform."
I think this is very interesting because if this is all true then the Steam Box will be a much simpler system for developers to port games to in terms of licensing fees. Steam is great for indie publishers to get something to market and make money with it. Consoles are not quite as easy and Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo take more of a cut of the sales than other hardware makers like Apple or Google.
Looking forward to E3 this year, hopefully it will be showcased.
What do you all think? Is another company entering the console market a good thing? Is this even needed at all? Never going to upgrade from your original NES?
I think it would be pretty cool. I'm loving Steam over Live with all the indie titles, but I'm already wondering about my hardware. A steam box would be the near of both worlds.
That said, have you seen the RAZOR gaming tablet? Throw steam on that and I think you'd be set.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/03/2012 at 10:06pm
Ive got a pretty decent gaming rig but its fairly new. A Steam Box seems like it would be as beefy as a PC and have something devs can target that is more open than a PS3 or XBOX. Then again, the price might be very very high.
It seems like a cool idea. It would really open up the PC market in a way by allowing a cheap way to get a solid gaming machine and games. If it allowed for mouse and keyboard, I might bag one down the road.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/04/2012 at 06:18am
I kind of hope it supports mice, keyboards and standard controllers. Be cool to put a Steam machine in the living room.
I'm very interested in seeing what this will look like. At the moment it sounds like you're basically buying a gaming PC. So, uh, why not just buy a gaming PC instead? However Valve seems to know what they're doing and Steam has been a huge success, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about what will make the Steam Box stand out over the other consoles and regular PC gaming.
The controller looks cool, but I can just see all the pointless add-on's third parties are going to make for this thing. Just look what they did with the Wii-mote to get an idea.
I'm all for a relatively cheap standard box. It's kind of like phones now: older models are slowly just losing the capability to play new things. You could buy one years steam box, use it for 2-3 years, then it will just stop being able to play some games until you upgrade to the next steam box.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:32am
I think the reason why people still use PC's is because of games else you could just have a Mac or Linux laptop. Ill admit, owning a console is simpler to play some games because I don't have to track down extra RAM or an upgraded video card. If the Steam Box offers an advantage I won't mind upgrading. Wonder if it will be able to run non steam games?
They said EA Origin would be a possibility, so it'll have to run some sort of stripped down windows. I don't see EA playing nice with a linux box. No technical reason, just a feeling.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:37am
Plus it would be hard for publishers to support Linux when its hard enough for them to support a Mac. Its not technically impossible its prob just more work than they want to do. Id say, for Valve, start with the platform on Windows and get users and developers to adopt. In a later iteration worry about the API changing to something better.
Shoot, if sony can get people to develop for the cell, then anything is possible.
What about OnLive though? Wouldn't that put a big fat nix on the way we play games now?
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:45am
I'm not sure people are ready for OnLive. I am not sure the market is ready for OnLive yet. When I see people chatting about OnLive it seems lag is a major issue. People don't seem to trust that if they pay for a game in OnLive it will last them as long as they would like.
I think two things need to happen before OnLive is the next thing:
1) Internet Speeds get wicked fast so streaming a game lags out as much as a modern game that can run at like... 30-60FPS or equivalent. Right now, my Netflix is pretty flakey and Netflix is a huge company with a ton of smart people. I imagine its a harder problem with game streaming.
2) People want to move to a rental model for games. Lets face it, I don't own anything with Netflix and OnLive is no different.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:01am
Ok, what they said is they are working on having Steam work in the living room. I think, it's possible they are first making it so Steam can work in the living room and then later a Steam Box?
I don't know but it wasn't great, I really wish we had a new "open" take on consoles.
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I bet you'd like to have more bombs.
Checked the chest. Wow that is a nice chest! - Zelda pick up lines.
The fact that this website exists makes me very happy. I am definitely bookmarking it.
I know. I did the search expecting a sImple screenshot not the amazing that is that site.
And yes, I always buy more bombs. :).
When it comes to bomb bags and quivers, bigger is always better.
It is, plus its not hard to add more bombs to your bag after you up the maximum.