onefinemess | March 17, 2011
I picked up Dragon Age 2 (PC version) on launch day a week or two ago, and have been splitting up my play time between it and City of Heroes. I totally wasn’t expecting it to come out as early as it did – I guess I’m just used to the monolithic development times of [...]
onefinemess | January 4, 2011
Elemental (PC) by: Stardock It’s Magic of Civilimoo, basically. The tech trees remind me of the way MOO worked but, upon reflection, I suspect Civ works that way as well. The magic and hero stuff is straight out of Master of Magic, as are the summoned units – in a good way. I’m a little [...]
onefinemess | December 27, 2010
is that I’ve been thinking about posts I’d like to make a lot more. Unfortunately, most of them are going to be a bit time consuming to put together… which just kinda drives me off. I do have one I’ve been working on for the last few weeks that will probably go up tonight. I [...]
onefinemess | October 22, 2010
…and breathing way better than Everquest does for me. As I mentioned in that post, GoG.com is some shit. I can’t say “the shit” because there is lots of other “good shit” out there, but it’s definitely “some shit”. Where else could you find a prepackaged (ie with a built in DOSbox shell so you [...]
onefinemess | October 9, 2010
So, perhaps inspired the nostalgia awesomeness that is GoG.com (more on that in a later post), I wondered how well the original Everquest has held up. YES, 11 years later, the game is still going. 16 expansion packs and counting (the 17th is due out soon, how not really exciting!). So#2, I tried to track [...]
onefinemess | July 28, 2010
II admit it: I wasn’t excited to get Starcraft 2. Yes, I pre-ordered it because… I mean, it *is* Starcraft 2. 11 years in the making. 11 years? Wow. I mean, I remember playing networked SC in college, was college that long ago? *checks* Well, shit, I guess it was. But, I was feeling pre-underwhelmed. [...]
onefinemess | June 25, 2010
Go me. I set out to hit 200/180 or better – and I did, so there’s some geek pride for you. Usually, whenever I get up 18-20, the matchmaker starts putting me with teams that are obviously worse than me (which is saying a lot), or a bunch of leavers – it wants you to [...]
onefinemess | May 4, 2010
I think it’s interesting that MMOs have their roots in RPGs – perhaps the most solitary form of video game there is (not counting some of those Japanese dating sims….). Sure, I used to watch a friend play the SNES Final Fantasy games for hours (I don’t think I ever had an SNES), and that [...]
onefinemess | April 12, 2010
OK, so like three months later (than everyone else), I finally finished Mass Effect 2. It took me something like 32 hours of play time, and I played through a (matronly) female infiltrator. Man, the female faces are FUG. Urk. They need more women working on this – or was the point to have everyone [...]
onefinemess | January 11, 2010
and it’s not even flash-crap tastic! It does use Adobe Air for the basic client interface, which I’ve found to run poorly on my monster of a laptop – especially when a web browser is open (and visible – this is critical apparently) at the same time – but this is really minor. If you [...]
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