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Here are a few game soundtracks I have wanted to talk

Here are a few game soundtracks I have wanted to talk about:

Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty: Got this soundtrack from the collectors edition bundle of Starcraft 2. I am not sure I love all the ways they mesh typical orchestral faire that moves to guitar that then moves to synth though. They do this in a few songs and I think they should just pick on motif and stick with it. Moving around that much in one song is jarring.

That said, its a great score and a few times I can hear people breathing in the orchestra so the mics at Skywalker Sound really hot that day.

The Binding of Issac: The score came with the steam game if I gave them like $2 extra. The score is really... Read All

I just finished this game today. I started it months ago,

I just finished this game today. I started it months ago, much later than everyone else under the sun, and had a nice chunk of time over the past couple days to finish it.

Overall, I'd have to say I'm disappointed. I was level 16 when I finished-- I had no real problems with it except for a few *major* frustrating sections. In 8-4, if I hadn't been in the last level I would have turned it off and never finished it. After the credits roll, you can go back and do some sidequests. I checked into them online to see whether I wanted to bother and found that some of them aren't recommended unless you are level 40.

And there's the part that I hate. This game is a platformer.... Read All

I recently had Portal 2 on PS3 returned to me as a friend

I recently had Portal 2 on PS3 returned to me as a friend had been borrowing it for a few months. I started up a new game today as ive wanted to replay it for some time. Taking my time this playthrough as I missed a few things in my first playthrough.

I took a few pictures on my iPhone of stuff I thought was awesome:

http://imgur.com/U36kq (history of evil)
http://imgur.com/t4AGw (she is dead)
http://imgur.com/xx6Pr (so many choices)

I found a rat den where a radio plays The Nationals Exile Vilify. I missed that in my haste on the first playthough. I really like games where you can explore and find cool stuff. Playing through Portal 2 again is still really fun. The puzzles... Read All

This is a really rad blog post about the game.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-personality-flaws-skyrim-forces-you-to-deal-with/

This is a really rad blog post about the game.

I just found out that Ground Kontrol Arcade now serves

I just found out that Ground Kontrol Arcade now serves booze. This is not bad news, but if you are under 21 you can't enter after 5 PM. Maybe someday they will have a separate yet adjacent bar like so many restaurants do, but until then, if you are a teen, plan accordingly.

How many bunnies have you killed? Im really not sure why,

How many bunnies have you killed?

I'm really not sure why, but the game does track this! I've killed 3 or 4 so far. They're not that common, and they're quick... I just realized I've killed more dragons than bunnies.

Today I chased a snow fox, trying to kill it with an arrow (that thing is hard to aim at a moving target!), killed a widow in her secluded tower (I didn't realize she was just a widow by herself. In my defense she started throwing fireballs at me...well, I don't remember who shot first actually...) and was attacked by fish. Totally just wandered around Skyrim. Practiced dual wielding weapons and spells and totally just killed time. A fun night in Skyrim!

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/18/2012 at 10:19pm

Awesome. When I get Skyrim I will allocate time to killing rabbits. See if my rabbit average could be well over my Dragon average.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/22/2012 at 07:30pm

Protip-- following foxes around can lead you to interesting stuff.

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/22/2012 at 08:14pm

Dude, rock on. I will try that tonight!

Travis Admin wrote on 02/22/2012 at 08:33pm

They can also lead you around in circles for an hour. That's the only fox I've killed.

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/22/2012 at 11:16pm

I'm blaming you if I go around in a circle for hours now.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/22/2012 at 11:33pm

Fair enough. To be honest I don't have a huge sample size. I have followed three, and two took me somewhere interesting. I learned about it from this article: http://www.damnlag.com/things-you-may-have-missed-in-skyrim/ but in searching around for more info it appears they may just be entirely random and just happen to pass interesting things.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/23/2012 at 01:55am

Awesome.

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Age of Booty!

I haven't delved too deepy in downloadable games for the PS3. I am still wrapping my head around the new digital download world for PC games. That said, I picked up a few PS3 downloadable games and Age of Booty was one of them.

Its a real time strategy game where you play a pirate and you goal is to control the majority of the towns and then you win the round. You can do 1v1, 2v2 & 3v3. You can play online and split screen multiplayer as well.

One cool thing about Age of Booty is that its accessible enough for my wife and I to play together. Its not a terribly deep game so we don't play it a lot, but when we do its quite fun. One nice thing is that all the extras... Read All

I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character

I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character creation so I could start playing right away. Something I noticed very early was how easy it was. It was so easy that I actually lost interest in making new characters for a while. I wrote the difficulty off to being scaled down for testing purposes, but I don't think that's the case. To prove my point I had a co-worker watch as I stood in the middle of three cold enchanted zombies and let them beat on me. Keeping my cursor over my health we noticed I was actually regenrating life faster than they were damaging me. Lame.

Well the other day I found that lots of other beta players agree with me on the lowered... Read All

Minecraft Legos? Awesome.

Minecraft Legos? Awesome.

http://legocuusoo.posterous.com/announcing-lego-minecraft-micro-world-the-thi

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/16/2012 at 05:55pm

I really want one of those little creepers!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/17/2012 at 03:34am

Its pretty cool. I like how the legos are not typically what they build. Nice to see some variety from that company.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 04:43am

This is a brilliant tie-in, but I do wonder how big a demographic they have for these. I haven't seen any stats on Minecraft players though, it could be much larger than I think.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:15am

Minecraft players seem to love to build. If they know they can put something on a shelf that looks like what they have In the game, I think that will do well.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/23/2012 at 06:28pm

Last count there were 5 million paid Minecraft users, and several more million playing the free version. So there's quite a fan base out there. Even if a tiny fraction of those people buy the Lego set I'm sure it'll be worth it for Lego (and Mojang.)

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/23/2012 at 06:29pm

Forgot to post my source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats

Travis Admin wrote on 02/23/2012 at 08:25pm

Jeez, I didn't know it was that popular.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/24/2012 at 03:09am

I think some people will buy it not even being minecraft players.

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Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky

Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky 100,000 in the last round of invites. I have played through all available content on a few characters now and haven't taken the time to level everyone up to max level.

I was a pretty hardcore player of Diablo 2 online. My best friend and I always played the ladder and even hardcore mode. We would spend so much time after a ladder reset trying to be in the top 10. Saying I have some emotional attachment to the Diablo IP would be an understatement.

I've decided to split my D3 beta impressions into a bunch of focused mini-posts to mitigate my scattered thoughts. So feel free to comment and ask questions, I'll do my... Read All