E3 - 2013: No Sleep Edition
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But it will be archived!
Some things must be experienced live, like the moon landing or Giant Bomb E3 Live Shows.
These Maxis games don't need server support!
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So with the latest Sim City not being my thing, even server problems withstanding, small cities and this make me steer away from it. So originally I was going to play Sim City 2000 on recommendation from @fisk0 and others. However I needed to kill some time today and decided to walk into the local second hand store. Where, among a huge load of stuff I can't believe people actually had in their houses once, I found a box of cd-rom games. Yes that is CD-ROM. In that box I found 7 games I decided to take with me. Hotel Tycoon, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Dune 2000 and these:
So now I'm going to play these games, with the additional objective to play all Sim ??? games from Maxis. Luckily it isn't like I have other things to do or a huge backlog of games. Or that StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm arrived yesterday.
Blog plan: Let's play a series: Sim Games: Part I : Sim Tower
Because a title can never have enough colons.
So my plan is to play a series of games, like Fable I - III and see how a series has changed through the years. Now Sim games don't really follow that pattern but Star Craft does. Since I change the game I am currently playing faster than Taylor Swift goes through boyfriends I will give no guarantee that this will actually happen.
I still need to figure out how to do the million and one things I want to do in a day and also have time to play games.
Dragon Age:Origins is making me crazy
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So with the Ultimate Edition coming out and Dragon Age 2 in pre-order. I decided that it was a good time to prepare for the arrival of DA2 by playing through Dragon Age with the savegame I wanted. I have played through the game once with a male human noble but I wasn't really happy with all of my choices.
So I started playing, due to time constraints I was only able to finish Leliana's Song and Darkspawn Chronicles before DA2 hit my doormat. crap.
So that is now staring at me. I want to play it really, but I do want to have my savegame imported. So not in another 100 hours of game time/. Worse as I started my journey as a female human noble this time, I noticed all the other options. Part of me craves for an evil blood magic infused world domination together with Morrigan. So I also started an evil path with a male elven mage.
But then I realised that I hadn't done any dwarven stories or the elven forest start. Looking at the possible endings on wikia. I probably need to play this game another 3 times to truly experience it all! For a total of 5 games with about 100 hours per adventure. Luckily I don't need to do that today.
My plan is to finish the "good" line and go on to DA2 with that save. Finish that than go back to DA:O to finish the evil line and go in to DA2 with that. Finally somewhere I need to do those other origin stories and maybe a bit of the game as well. Of course there will be DLC and a DA3 which means I'll be repeating this entire ordeal in about 2 years from now...
Luckily Mass Effect 3 isn't out yet. Since I need to do Mass Effect 2 with all the DLC as well. Just waiting for that announcement of the ultimate edition of that. Which will surely come.
Bioware knows how to keep me occupied.
P.S. You might want to ask; "But what about those games you bought during the Steam Sale?" Yeah. I still need to finish those too. Oh and the God of War trilogy and Demon Souls and Fable3 and, and and and... Can we not have any new games for about a year or so? Oh and in that year it only rains and there is no work to be done.
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 14 [Recap]
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It's the final day and though I had some big developer packages on my list I decided not to buy them. Enough is enough. I now have 197 games according to Steam, this luckily does include some DLC packages, it's still a lot. Moreover I have finished about 20 of them. So if you look at it, I have more than enough games to play. And this is only Steam. Anyway, New Years resolution to finish all games in my current Steam list!
SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal giant huge list.
The Steam sale this year was, well not that exciting in my opinion, sure I bought way too much stuff. With the exception of Dragon Age, nothing really made me go OH SNAP! I need that! Still getting games cheap is always nice. Some of the games I kind of bought on blind luck ( King's Bounty: Collection), so I wonder how they will turn out. Others I look forward playing (Settlers 7).
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 13
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As the new year begins, the end draws near for the Steam sale.
Today two things interest me:
Back in the day when CD-Roms where all the hotness, Settlers 2 was probably the hottest RTS game. The Settlers game differ from your regular RTS due to a slower pacing that concentrates itself more on economy than combat. This changed somewhat in 5&6 which were masters of none. This game seems to go back a bit to that classic pacing.
Don't really need to explain, too bad you don't get 85% off when you own Half Life 2.
Except for these games I feel there is one other game I need to talk about. 
I say; don't buy it. That is if you like me expected basically GTA4 set in the fifties. Cause it's definitely not that. If you expect to follow a story and don't mind some clunkiness than go right ahead. Brad's review perfectly portrays my feeling of this game.
The other games I really don't know, they don't appeal to me but maybe they do to you.
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 12
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So first of all a very happy new year to you all, your friends and families. May it be a beautiful year where darkness brightens up.
Now for VIDEOGAMES. Ah as of this writing I have 10 games in my (virtual) shopping trolley. Yes day 12 is for me personally the best day so far. Some of these games are not for everyone and one of them is actually kind of bad if you look at the rest of the series.
But first of a very good entry:
Anyway, if you like any sort of build sim: Sim City, Civilization, Tropico, buy this now! This game is great, it's awesome. Really I love it. I already own it. But that's the German collector's edition (Don't ask) Meaning that if I want the expansion I need to get it from Germany, getting it cheaper than 19,99 from there is probably not going to work any time soon.
Was this actually game of the year anywhere? Doesn't really matter. I just wonder sometimes with certain GOTY editions. What does actually matter is that I suck at Total War. No really I SUCK at it. Rome? Can't even win at the EASIEST setting. Clearly I am doing it wrong. I mean I can play Civ at Prince level (I know, let me be) so I am not the worst tactician. So why am I buying this? Cause I love the idea. It just looks so awesome. With the ships and everything. Also it plays in one of my favorite periods in history.
From Steam: "
Non-scripted artificial intelligence
— Medics will drag wounded soldiers to safety. Grunts will come to fear you. Your reputation and in-game actions will make enemies drop their guns and run for their lives. Feel the tension of never knowing just how an enemy will react."I am actually uncertain of how good this works but with overall critics being positive I really want to try this out. A free roaming world where your actions matter, those are the games I like.
I am buying this to see how the wrap up the story. That's it. Some time ago I was in a game store and someone was doubting between this and Dawn of War 2. I convinced him to buy the latter. Actually now I'm typing this I realize that 12,49 is still too much for this game. Not buying this. Ha this blog just saved me money.
It's not as good as the first one. Still at 5 "euro-bucks" I'm totally getting this.
Yes, say it. Now let's carry on ok? For those who are not too busy sighing and face-palming, I'm buying this as a little something to do while listening to podcasts.
4,75 for the entire Jedi Knight Collection is criminal. I am a happy thief. I don't know how well they will look today, but back then oh I totally loved it. These are for those that were disappointed with Force Unleashed and don't mind playing an older game.
This looks like some kind of mixture of Magic the Gathering and Stratego. Hmm looks interesting and again at that price, I'm happy to try it out. The 62 cents more I'll pay, you never know I might like this and have saved me an extra 1,50. See it as an investment.
I own Shadow of Chernobyl since last years holiday sale, I haven't played it yet. Déja vu anyone?
This did interest me: " Extended system of handmade side quests" Handmade? Is that a thing now? Is there something as a computer-generated side quest? Where the computer goes ok you need to collect X amount by killing X. Ok now for a story.. uhmm Well X needs your help because Y did Z and now V is totally M'd.?
I am spending way too much money, maybe next year I should set my self a budget.
So now for my first game in 2011: Dragon Age: Origins!
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 5-11
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Christmas has come and gone. As did my birthday (yay!). So little time to do these. However I did buy some games:
Finally! I can prepare for Dragon Age 2 by playing all the DLC.
This was almost for free, ok for very little. So why not. Remember some QL far back which I remember as enjoyable.
It involves pretty girls, at least apparently to the logo.
Yeah, this was a no-brainer.
Someone on some forum said this was good.
As for the games of today: GTA4 complete jumps out. I thought of buying it but rumors of a bad port and the fact I still haven't finish the game though I own it since it came out has put me off. There is Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, but
Oh and Star Trek Online! For those who want to join a not-so-good-mmo.
There are 3 days left by my account, one of which is probably the "best-of" day. Which will also be 'are there any catalogs I need to get?' day. Need to get my calculator out to see if the Square Complete Pack is worth it. Too bad Lego Star Wars doesn't have any achiev.. oh dear, I'm turning in to one of those people. Hmm and maybe I'll do something stupid and buy the NCsoft pack.
On a related note, I mean I wasn't that interested but what happened to the Southpeak Publisher and Mumbo Jumbo complete packs??
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 4
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It's late, why is it late? Cause Day 4 is boring. Very boring.
I can understand that you might get exited for Darksiders or Dead Rising 2. But for me it's just a very boring day sales wise.
In fact as I'm writing this there are just 2 hours left of todays sale. It's also the time that Christmas Eve starts, at least for me. So instead of giving my opinion on the games of today, all of which are probably fine if your interested in them, I'll suggest the best Christmas games. The other reason is that I'm not going to blog during Christmas, I just don't have the time or the interest.
What are the best Christmas games? Well surely they must be the ones you play together. Not all of use have perhaps people next to us to play with so I'll venture in to online multiplayer as well.
Mario Kart Any version will do really, fun and mischief guaranteed!
Any kind of party game, as long as the rules are clear and the concept simple. Nothing more fun than robbing your friends and family of their stars, gold, credits, houses etc!
Minecraft, WoW, EVE Online, MMO x. Alone for the holidays? Your spouse a million kilometers away? Boot up one of these games and build a giant christmas tree in Minecraft, sit near Santa and tell each others stories in WoW, go enjoy the stars in EVE Online, any MMO will do really, most fun is of course when you can have some kind of campfire (or sun) to sit around and tell each other stories. Give away some Ep1c l00t while your at it.
Have a very merry Christmas everyone, lots of gaming love,
Nick
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 3
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Day 3. Fuck day 3. So if you read my day 1 entry you've seen I bought bully. Wasn't this a daily deal? Did I really make that mistake day 1? UGH.
So I already own Just Cause 2, Tales of Monkey Island and Recettear.
Assassin's Creed and Modern Warfare are too expensive. I can get them cheaper at the store down town.
Spore? A game ruined by EA. Yes EA because I don't believe Will Wright thinks we're all idiots.
If trains are your thing I guess Railworks 2 is appealing?
See you guys tomorrow. I'm going to play some expensive Bully.
The crazy days of Steam holiday sale! Day 2
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After the big start, today seems a step back. I own most of the games on sale today and others I'm not interested in.
Day 2
If you don't own them already, Bioshock 2 and The Witcher are recommendable. Of course only if your interested in their respective genres. A small warning on The Witcher: It's basically linear, though your choices do influence the game. It's also a game where you don't have to worry about weapon and armor upgrades as they can be counted on one hand.
Gothic is a series I took a look at, its premise interests me but taking a better look there seem better games out there, especially in the cases of Gothic 3 & 4. But Gothic 1 & 2 do seem good. Gothic 2 seems like an improvement over 1 so that is where my choice lies.
Now for the games I'm buying today:
Defense Grid: The Awakening
A good looking defense game with Steam achievements with good reviews for just 1,80€? SOLD
Seems like a very enjoyable puzzle game with a story added for taste. For just 1,50€ this is another easy choice.
Gothic II: Gold Edition
My choice for getting just Gothic 2 and not the whole package I already explained. The money I saved I hopefully can spend on Dragon Age Ultimate Edition at 50% off. Please Steam? *Puppy Eyes* . Oh and I still need to finish Morrowind, Oblivion and Demon Soul's... So another huge RPG seems like a good investment, no?
Day 2 was a small day, we will see what tomorrow brings. If only I can remember that my salary is supposed to last the whole of January...
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