MuttersomeTaxicab

When I play Trackmania, it's typically for short periods of time. Mostly I'm there to goof around because I don't really have time to boot up a longer, more involved experience. I'll hop into the GB server, fail spectacularly at a few tracks, maybe do a few of the single-player maps and then move on with my day.

I usually get up early in the morning, grab a coffee and fuck around for a bit before getting ready for work. Shootmania fills that niche perfectly as a sort of goofy, low-impact kind of shooter. If, say, there were a constantly-populated Quake 1 server, fuck yeah, I'd be playing that instead. Though, in Shootmania, even if I'm sucking (which isn't as frequent as I figured) - I'm still improving my overall score. If I only get a few points in a round, no biggie, it still boosted me up 100 or so spots on the global rankings.

It's definitely a weird take on the FPS genre, and I can see people who are looking for actual pro-gaming madness being a little put off by it. For me, it scratches a weird itch I didn't realize I had.

Super pleased with everything I've seen so far. I like that they're also pretty transparent about the fact that it's still "in progress" and letting players vote on new features, etc. I'm really hoping the develop some more of the lore into actual game mechanics. Horatio has quickly become one of my favourite factions, just based on explanation alone. I'm also amazed that this game looks as good as it does and runs as well as it does, even on my 5-year-old laptop.

Finished MA in English/Film Studies. Working on one in Experimental Digital Media.

Yep. Real employed over here.

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@MuttersomeTaxicab said:

@TheSouthernDandy said:

My moms is awesome. She made up a rap song about the damn cat. It was simultaneously the best/worst thing ever.

Is it weird that I want to hang out with your mom?

Not as long as there's no ulterior motives..

Oh, no no no! Your mother just seems like a lovely individual. Know what I'm sayin'?

@TheSouthernDandy said:

My moms is awesome. She made up a rap song about the damn cat. It was simultaneously the best/worst thing ever.

Is it weird that I want to hang out with your mom?

@Superkenon said:

Luigi has never done me wrong.

This. Or Princess Peach.

On it. Super interested to check this out.

@Geno said:

I haven't been following this news, could someone briefly summarize what happened at Relic/THQ such that now it's being delayed?

Following THQ's general financial issues, Relic and Vigil had to lay off some staff. As such, Vigil had to knock down the scope for the Dark Millennium online MMO to a more single player-focused game. Since CoH 2 is also in the works, it's reasonable to assume that that game is going to take primacy over getting DoW III out, given the reduced teams that Relic has to work with.

Yep! I got mine. Seriously didn't realize how much a non-dubstep mania experience kinda falls flat.

It's definitely a mania game. I'm kinda enjoying it. I only played for a little bit tonight, though, but I can totally see this jockeying for position when I'm in that Mania kinda mood.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/06/28/heroes-of-ruin-demo-to-hit-u-s-nintendo-eshop-next-week/

So stoked! Anyone else going to pick this up? Apparently it allows for multiplayer, too.