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Ray puts Melvin Van Peebles to shame.

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:18:05 +0000

Ray puts Melvin Van Peebles to shame.

Bound in Blood is the first time I see b …

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:19:32 +0000

Bound in Blood is the first time I see brothers actually behaving like brothers.

Also, it’s awesome. Crazy awesome. Everything I’ve disliked about the first game has been fixed so far.

Blood Bowl is here. About time! Can’t w …

falconeer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:42:10 +0000

Blood Bowl is here. About time! Can’t wait to have some people up to set up a nice friendly league.

I like how I have this god-tier PC now a …

fabricated — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:29:56 +0000

I like how I have this god-tier PC now and I keep playing old games. I’ve suspended my NWN2 game for a little bit to play through Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. I’m a whore for classic-style point and clickers and this is one I haven’t been able to find for years until now.

WUA’s BG write-up makes me want to do o …

UnSub — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:24:46 +0000

WUA’s BG write-up makes me want to do one for the Witcher, but then I’ll look like a copy cat. Hmm. Maybe I’ll try on one of the short separate adventures first, see how it goes.

I resubbed LotRO. Need to check Moria. H …

falconeer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:19:29 +0000

I resubbed LotRO. Need to check Moria. Ho, uhm.

Continuing my NWN2 game. Goddamn everyth …

fabricated — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:10:55 +0000

Continuing my NWN2 game. Goddamn everything involving Moire is annoying. Good design spawning a dozen rogues every 10 feet, who get sneak-attacks on everything regardless of who is facing who. Thank god for stoneskin.

Doing the Fort Locke stuff now. Slaughte …

fabricated — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:03:19 +0000

Doing the Fort Locke stuff now. Slaughtered the thieves camp horribly with my swashbuckler where my rogue needed several reloads. Doing the graveyard now and getting fucking irritated at getting hit with disease every fight.

After just a few matches of Demigod, I f …

Yegolev — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:16:32 +0000

After just a few matches of Demigod, I find that I really want someone to make a multiplayer version of this game.

Finally reinstalled Neverwinter Nights 2 …

fabricated — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:54:58 +0000

Finally reinstalled Neverwinter Nights 2, along with both expansion packs which I haven’t even started into yet.

Realized I had only backed up very old saves. Very little motivation to start over. Sigh. Maybe I’ll make a swashbuckler this time around since the game seemed to hate my guts when I made a rogue.

Damnation proves beyond a shadow of a do …

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:16:34 +0000

Damnation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a TPS steampunk shooter can be completely generic.

The Sims 3, you say?

schild — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:53:27 +0000

The Sims 3, you say?

Cryostasis is the most atmospheric survi …

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:02:16 +0000

Cryostasis is the most atmospheric survival horror game I’ve played since the original Silent Hill.

And Yet It Moves is beautiful, murderous …

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:25:05 +0000

And Yet It Moves is beautiful, murderous, fascinating, and simple. A nice diversion.

Mirror’s Edge. Harumpf. Would be more i …

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:58:10 +0000

Mirror’s Edge. Harumpf. Would be more interesting if it were a sandbox parkour fps.

Grin did quite a good job in Wanted: Wea …

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:58:31 +0000

Grin did quite a good job in Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Shame that it lasts about 4 hours. Well worth a rental.

Picked up WC3 from the Blizzard Store si …

fabricated — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:08:04 +0000

Picked up WC3 from the Blizzard Store since I was bored and had an itch to scratch. Discovered I am bad at WC3. How the fuck do you get 10 basic melee units + hero rampaging across the map like 15 fucking seconds into a match?

Zeno Clash is 13 shades of gorgeous. Sha …

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:39:22 +0000

Zeno Clash is 13 shades of gorgeous. Shame that the combat isn’t as fluid as Condemned. Still good, though.

Created a Champion in Brandywine. Ye god …

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:49:38 +0000

Created a Champion in Brandywine. Ye gods, this game is ugly. Gimli and Gandalf in the first 30 minutes, then straight to wolf cub killing.

I miss Blood Bowl.

falconeer — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:00:35 +0000

I miss Blood Bowl.

Been playing a lot of L4D and TF2, and a …

FatuousTwat — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:11:28 +0000

Been playing a lot of L4D and TF2, and am getting kind of burnt out. I should take a week long comp break…

Tempest of Set hit 60, got to high-five …

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:09:59 +0000

Tempest of Set hit 60, got to high-five Conan. His VA is the poster child for Trying Too Hard. Six days left on the account.

Been a good week lootwise. Picked up a c …

fabricated — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:24:26 +0000

Been a good week lootwise. Picked up a couple upgrades out of Ulduar during a much-improved run my guild had, then made out like a bandit in a regular “pug” of Naxx-25 and got my Last Laugh. Loot, yay.

I’m so close to getting a horse in LotR …

Yegolev — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:43:34 +0000

I’m so close to getting a horse in LotRO that I can taste it, but my wife complained that I’m getting ahead of her so I played Rune Factory Frontier instead. It’s nice to have a game that I enjoy and that everyone else hates.

4-1, but Yegolev died too. I am dying to …

falconeer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:29:02 +0000

4-1, but Yegolev died too. I am dying to write a radicalthon.

Just so you know, Bat Country is 1-1. Bu …

falconeer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:32:22 +0000

Just so you know, Bat Country is 1-1. But today Yoru died :(

Can’t we mess up with NDAs at least her …

falconeer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:20:22 +0000

Can’t we mess up with NDAs at least here? Noisegrids can’t really obey laws!

Picked up the CoX 14 day trial with two …

Morfiend — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:22:53 +0000

Picked up the CoX 14 day trial with two of my friends. For some stupid anti-goldspammer reason you cannot start a group if you are on a trial account. So short of having some random person start a group for the three of us we cannot group up to do missions, which is arguably the best part of the game. Stupid stupid stupid.

I wish Flagship had put the test patch l …

lesion — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:56:59 +0000

I wish Flagship had put the test patch live and enabled sub content for single-player before imploding. Whatever. It’s like playing a funeral.

A Copper guy came looking for me and att …

falconeer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:26:40 +0000

A Copper guy came looking for me and attacked while I was picking berries. He lost. All of a sudden, after 16 levels, I found the fun in The West.

Had to flip Arcanum to turn based combat …

jwiv — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:26:27 +0000

Had to flip Arcanum to turn based combat. Niestchze poster child makes you both naked and dead FAST.

Dinged 64 in EverQuest 2. First levelup …

falconeer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:22:47 +0000

Dinged 64 in EverQuest 2. First levelup in almost 3 years. It feels good. The world is empty, the visuals suck, the combat is awful. Still, there’s something cool in this old fashioned mmorpg. I’ll probably ding 65 very soon. Green quests give tons of XP and AAs, and the leveling is surprisingly fast (it wasn’t).

Reinstalling EQ2, possibly the DIKU I lo …

falconeer — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:10:21 +0000

Reinstalling EQ2, possibly the DIKU I loved the most in my life.

Still, why?

Dark Templar hit 30. Surprised that Aqui …

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:59:52 +0000

Dark Templar hit 30. Surprised that Aquilonia was (mostly) correctly made out of mud. Glad to see funcom pull off great looking armor with (mostly) realistic design. Shame about the templar taking so long to drop stuff.

I’m obviously decent at Demigod, maybe …

schild — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:36:00 +0000

I’m obviously decent at Demigod, maybe I would’ve been good at DotA! http://bit.ly/3K64NH

Sweet, Patch 3.1 is out. Fuck. All my a …

fabricated — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:59:15 +0000

Sweet, Patch 3.1 is out.

Fuck. All my addons are broken and the server is lagging to death. Oh well. I got classwork to do anyway.

Demigod is very, very alt-tab unfriendly …

schild — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Demigod is very, very alt-tab unfriendly. Be careful. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But it is friends with Fatal Error, my arch-nemesis.

Demigod might end up being pretty decent …

schild — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:18:42 +0000

Demigod might end up being pretty decent with a regular group of players!

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is fun. Unfo …

Yegolev — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:17:13 +0000

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is fun. Unfortunately it is not more fun than Demon’s Souls or LotRO. Also I suck.

Finally unlocked something in TF2. Playe …

HaemishM — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:46:09 +0000

Finally unlocked something in TF2. Played the Heavy all weekend and got the Sandvich and Natasha. I like them both. Makes me want to work on the pyro unlocks.

Given up on AoC again. Couldn’t stay co …

FatuousTwat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:49:49 +0000

Given up on AoC again. Couldn’t stay connected for more than about 30 minutes. Kind of in between games right now. Nothing new is out that interests me… Perhaps I should get the Fallout 3 DLC.

Rather than finishing the classwork I ha …

fabricated — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:44:05 +0000

Rather than finishing the classwork I have due yesterday, I played WoW and got my rogue from 67 to 70. Posting this both to annoy SChild and to note that man, rogues kinda suck right now.

Aion is my black hearted love.

falconeer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:05:31 +0000

Aion is my black hearted love.

Rumble Fighter is still one of the best …

Hoax — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:34:05 +0000

Rumble Fighter is still one of the best fighting games for the pc, too bad the p2p “netcode” is awful and its so frustrating to lose that I want to uninstall it every night.

Played the Chinese Open Beta for Aion la …

Nonentity — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:34:27 +0000

Played the Chinese Open Beta for Aion last night, for about 6 hours. English patch makes the entire game in English. Surprisingly fun, I got to level 10.

Tortage cleared. Onwards to Conall’s Pa …

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:50:18 +0000

Tortage cleared. Onwards to Conall’s Pass. Or Ravine. Or something. Wish they’d made a single player version of AoC.

Quality of players has gone down greatly …

Hoax — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:13:50 +0000

Quality of players has gone down greatly in TF2, makes me sad, where did the fps l33t kids all go?

Finally got my Valorous shoulders! GG Lo …

Rendakor — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:00:09 +0000

Finally got my Valorous shoulders! GG Loatheb

Well, they managed to fuck up BF:Heroes. …

FatuousTwat — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:42:51 +0000

Well, they managed to fuck up BF:Heroes. GG.

Well, the Chosen hit rank 12. Was fun wh …

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:18:29 +0000

Well, the Chosen hit rank 12. Was fun while it lasted. Lots of lowbie RvR going on in Phoenix Throne.