My Dwarf Fortress Story

The video below contains my Dwarf Fortress story. It's the story that I tell my friends when explaining why I play Dwarf Fortress and why they should give it a second glance.



If you're wondering what's up with the screenshots being a bit out of place, it's because I took enough screenshots to fill 5 minutes out of 8.5 and I didn't have any other ideas of shots to take without spending a couple hours with the game.


If you want to learn more about Dwarf Fortress check out it's website:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

and it's wiki:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

If your interested in playing or learning to play, check out the Lazy Newb Pack which comes with tilesets to make the game more graphic friendly and utilities to make Dwarf Fortress more user friendly. It helped me get into the game.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0

Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together First Fifteen Minutes

I play Tactic Ogre Let Us Cling Together for fifteen Minutes.... I fail at talking, I take a quiz, I answer my cell phone, and I learned to walk. 


I also play the tutorial battle where everyone talks casually about items and how to walk, as they kill people... oh and I get to throw rocks at the enemy!

PSP Video Test Persona 3 Portable

If the video feels like it just stops its because I had to chop off the last minute because of youtube limits... which doesn't matter because Like I said in the video this is a test to see if I can record PSP games with my Hauppauge HD PVR... and I think its was a successful test (other than me failing at talking at some points) but you can give your opinions if you want. I'll be getting Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together for the psp Tuesday and I'll be doing a first 15 minutes video for it (hence the test) so check back for that.

P.S. I'm still doing that top 10 of 2010, I got the list down already but I suck at writing...

My New Year's Resolutions

Honestly this should have been posted yesterday or Friday but I didn't think about it till today. I'm not sure if anyone will see this but hell if i don't follow through on these I can at least feel bad each time I come to the blog.

• I'm going to post more often with reviews and opinion articles on current gaming news.
• I'm going to try to stop writing "gonna" because apparently my computer is trying to tell me it's not a real word.
• I will try to start using my video equipment to do more videos. (maybe video reviews, or me playing a demo/first 15 minutes of a game and try to be entertaining.)
• I want to learn how to play Dwarf Fortress effectively. (I got most of the basics down but the military aspect eludes me.) 
• And lastly I want to give other video game genres I've usually would just avoid a chance. (mostly fighting, and racing games.)  

Anyway my next post which will be about my top ten games for 2010 should be up by tomorrow or Tuesday.

--Thanks for reading.

Old Cole Vs. Old New Cole Vs. New Old Cole

Old Cole was bland but at least he looked like a badass.



Old New Cole may look like an asshole but at least he doesn't look like the zombie the original was.



Initially I was annoyed by the change but eventually got over it and realized they don't look 100% different. Old New Cole could kind of pass as a happier "I have powers and you don't" Cole...with hair.



New Old Cole...Yay!!!!!?????



When I first saw the newest iteration I was ecstatic. The more I thought about it, the more I hated it. This new Cole doesn't really look as badass as the original. He doesn't look as boring but he also looks more like your average person...if that makes sense. In some screen shots the newest Cole looks sick almost diseased. Now even if the best of the screen shots is what he will look like through out come launch, I have one big problem. They didn't change back the voice. The voice of Cole in Infamous 2 doesn't really match the current character model in my opinion.



I loved the first Infamous and trust Sucker Punch will deliver an even better experience than the first. I guess I'll eventually get use to Cole's voice with his current look. Funny after all this I still have to get use to it. I mean was it really worth complaining about the original character, about the second iteration, and now the third, if in the end it still isn't quite right?

Revised Top 5

Well I saw that most of my “top 5 games I can’t wait for” came out and I decided to update it. I’m still gonna stay in the 2010, so any game that was on my list that got pushed to a different year will be replaced, and any of the games I’ve played I’ll give a little description on what I thought of it. So lets start with the games I’m gonna take off the list.

Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver (DS)
I did not complete this game. Reason why? I got bored halfway through. I think I’m getting tired of the whole pokemon formula, I’ll probably even skip pokemon Black and White.

The Grinder (Wii, PS3, X360)
Not Coming out this year. Halloween 2011...

Alpha Protocol (PC, PS3, X360)
I skipped on this game… after seeing a couple of reviews I decided to save my money…. For naughty bear…

Naughty Bear (PS3, X360)
I feel I picked the wrong game to back my money on, I should of got alpha protocol. I did not enjoy Naughty Bear…

Okay now to the revised list.

5. Civilization 5 (PC)
I have no clue if my laptop can run this game, I don’t know much about pc gaming… but after playing civilization revolution on the consoles I been wanting to try the pc games, and with civilization 5 coming out soon might as well try that one.
September 21, 2010
http://www.civilization5.com/

4. Fallout New Vegas (PC, PS3, X360)
I loved Fallout 3. It took me a while to get into it, but I've spent more time devoted to that game than I did to my porn collection at the time. A new location and a new story with some tweaked mechanics. I'm up to pay 80 bucks for it. (if I had 80 bucks)
October 19, 2010
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

3. Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar (DS)
I love the harvest moon series… It’s hard to explain why I like it so much, but I always enjoy myself taking care of my farm, wooing the women of the town, and giving people I don’t like trash…(By the time this gets on the blog this game is already out… I’m just to poor to get it at the moment.)
http://www.natsume.com/coming_soon/games/hmgb/index.html

2. LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
I still enjoy the original LittleBigPlanet, and having that game with a bunch of new items for level creation just sounds amazing. I really like the music sequencer they showed off not to long ago. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete making a level this time.
November 16, 2010
http://www.littlebigplanet.com/2/

1.Fable III (X360, PC)
This should have been on my list the last time, it just slipped my mind but not this time. I really loved the first fable (I didn’t hear about all the stuff Molyneux said while the game was in development.). And Fable 2 is something I still play today. I really can’t wait for this game and I’m hoping on saving enough cash for the limited edition version.
October 26, 2010
http://lionhead.com/Fable/FableIII/

Naughty Bear Review

Naughty as in bad

Liked

Some Humor: You’ll get some chuckles out of the things that are going on. Stuff like choking a teddy bear with a phone or the fact that they named a zombie teddy bear Geebus.

Hated

Sea Sick: the Frame rate in Naughty Bear is poor. It gets distracting and it just gets worse when you start killing the other bears.

Boring: Naughty Bear Gets boring fast, the deaths and screams of the other bears become a dull throb in the back of your head as you think what game you’re gonna play next.

You know what fuck the list of pros and cons. The bottom line here is Naughty Bear is not a good game. The Frame rate is Disgustingly bad, the camera is shit, the game can’t keep up with its self and freezes up when to much is happening (which is often towards the end of the game), and in the end a big waste of time. It’s a interesting concept but poorly executed, this game would be hard for me to recommend to anyone even if the price was ten dollars. Just pass this one up or wait till its 3 bucks.

2.0/10 SHIT

I played all the main story missions, a handful of the challenges, and a few matches in multiplayer.