Look, I love a system like Diablo 4's Paragon Boards, in a game like Diablo 4, because I'm going to be playing it, I'm going to be grinding in that turn-off-my-brain-and-play sort of way, and I like seeing numbers go up. I like having these little carrots I'm working towards.
I love thinking about all the possibilities...
Dead Island 2 is good, dumb fun. I'm having a good time playing through with a co-up buddy. But even if it's not your cup of tea, you really should check out the F.L.E.S.H. system they created for the game.
It's interesting from a technical standpoint, and entirely effective for a zombie game. It takes typical slaughte...
My friends and I have been playing Wartales since it launched out of early access earlier this month. I'm having a blast. It has all sorts of stuff I love. Co-op, turn-based tactics combat, RPG choices and character progression, exploration, tradeskills, and the kind of sandbox freedom that really shows you which direction so...
2023-04-21 05:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The authentic Monster Hunter experience!
https://www.polygon.com/23686321/monster-hunter-now-capcom-niantic-pokemon-go
Dark and Darker is a pretty fun medieval fantasy dungeon dive loot and extract game in rather early access. Think Tarkov, but with swords and wizards. I participated in the (free, they aren't selling the game yet) playtests and found it to be pretty fun, if a long ways from being finished.
Anyway, it recently got yanke...
I've become so numb to the hype words/descriptors that publishers use to try and sell/quantify their games. At this point it's just noise; words that have been blurred together and smoothed out, had all of their corners and meaning sanded away.
But for me there is still one word that manages to cut through the noise. Th...
2023-04-13 18:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I suppose it's better than the rainbow coalition of ponchos that passed for cosmetics in the first game, but the Jedi Survivor deluxe edition is an easy pass for me. I'm not even slightly tempted to cosplay as Han or Luke for $20. You want to charge $90 for a special edition of the game, you'd better make sure it's something ...
2023-04-12 16:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Monster Energy Drinks is suing some indie game developer because their game (Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals) has "Monster" in the title (they went after Ubisoft some time back for a similar reason).
A friend of mine joked that Capcom had better watch out, but I found out today Monster already tried to...
We have a number of new shirt designs coming to our store on Monday, to coincide with the most recent books becoming available again. I felt the designs made great backgrounds you can add to your wallpaper slideshow (which I literally just found out is a thing you can do).
2023-03-30 18:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostSo I have a lot of irons in the fire right now, and work has been keeping me silly busy, but in an excited "can't wait to release this stuff" sort of thing. I'm chugging away on Volume 2 of the Starcaster Chronicles, Analog and D-Pad and CAD 2.0 books. I've recently finished a tabletop card game I'm hoping to bring to Kicksta...
2023-03-29 02:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Diablo 4 ruled last weekend, but I did carve out a little bit of time to try Exoprimal's beta.
I won't say it's a perfect game, by any stretch; I had a lot of fun with it, but I have no doubt that the premise alone is doing a fair amount of the "enjoyment" heavy lifting. Something about blasting waves of velociraptors ...
With the sheer amount of dead trees containing gold, I figured it's either this or the squirrels have some explaining to do.
Spent a good amount of time with Diablo 4 this weekend, and I'm even more pumped for release now. Really enjoyed what I've seen so far. Hoping to see a bit more variety in dungeon objectives, sin...
I don't imagine I'm the only one that remembers Error 37's sting ten years ago, and am hoping beyond hope that Diablo 4's servers don't collapse in similar fashion tomorrow...
...and yet I fully expect that to be the case. After all, that's why it's a beta, right?
