Archive for category video games
Torchlight 2: Because Diablo 3 Releases Much Later
Posted by jdodson in video games on August 19, 2010
I liked Torchlight. So did all my friends. Getting Torchlight 2 on multiplayer would be awesome so we could all play together. Looking forward to this release.
Diablo 3 Artisans
Posted by jdodson in video games on August 18, 2010
I am so stoked about Diablo 3. Ive heard it will be released next year. Heres to hoping!
If Video Games Had a Super Easy Mode
Posted by jdodson in humor, video games on July 9, 2010
Laughed out loud a few times watching this video. Funny to watch the inside jokes on some of the games but actually playing it that way wouldn’t be fun. My cousin had the original NES Game Genie and you could sort of do stuff in that video. It was fun to play the game outside its intended bounds but it really took the challenge out of the games. I think the best thing the Game Genie could do was allow you to enter any kind of random code and watch the result on the game. Sometimes it was like rolling the dice, it was really fun.
Mario Speed Run Graffiti
Posted by jdodson in video games on July 9, 2010
Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.
Don’t Save The Princess
Posted by jdodson in humor, video games on April 16, 2010
This video is not a reflection on women but princesses. Funny.
Going Broke For a Game
Posted by jdodson in video games on April 8, 2010
ZERG RUSH!
More details about the Starcraft 2 release are coming out. Today Blizzard announced they will be putting out a $100 special collectors edition Starcraft 2 release.
What does it contain?
* The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
* An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor’s dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War® expansion set
* A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director’s commentary, and more
* The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
* StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
* A World of Warcraft® mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
* Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit
OK save the last two things I don’t care about that looks pretty good. The game is already going to be $60 so for an extra $40 you get a making of DVD, soundtrack, USB with the original games and a Starcraft comic book + art book. That sounds pretty cool.
Heres hoping they dont release a ultra-deluxe limited edition $250 set.
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Posted by jdodson in video games on March 31, 2010
I really liked playing Super Mario Galaxy with my wife. She liked shaking bushes and pointing the wiimote at stuff to stop them or helping me jump higher. It was good because she didn’t feel overwhelmed learning to play the game she just sat back and helped me out. Unsure if Super Mario Galaxy 2 keeps this but this video makes it out to be pretty much the same thing as before.
Can’t say more of the same is bad with Galaxy, it was a really great game. Unsure if ill pick it up though, I mean I really could just play the original one more time. Good thing you can play the latest popular game and gamestop.
Starcraft 2 Force Field
Posted by jdodson in video games on March 30, 2010
This is why I am buying a new PC.
New Computer Hunting
Posted by jdodson in tech, video games on March 29, 2010
NEW!
In a move that might actually come to yield something six months from now, today I spend a bit of time looking around and asking people for advice on how to obtain a new gaming PC. The last time I obtained a desktop computer I snagged the parts from newegg and built it myself. Its been a great computer and I have had no large complaints with it save its getting a bit long in the tooth.
How long? Not much.
AMD64 3000+
DVD/RW
2G RAM (started w 1G)
Nvidia 5400LE 256M
320G HD
In a world of quad core & 8G ram machines, my computer is quaint. My eeebox is nearly as powerful and its 1/16th the size! Time flies in computing for sure.
I went back to newegg to see what is hot these days. I really haven’t kept up on whats new in computing save ATI seems the new hotness in video cards and Intel seems to put out a great quad core CPU. One thing I noticed on newegg is that they have bundles of parts meant to go together for specific purposes. For 1.2K I can get a really nice computer with dual video cards and 6G of RAM. That said, I am not going Nvidia due to its open source Linux support being poor so ATI is a must here. Thinking of trying out Intel this time as the CPU. Ive done AMD for so long I felt I needed to give Intel a shot. No real reason, as far as I am concerned they seem to be on par with each other save Intel is more expensive. That said I don’t mind going with something a bit slower. How fast do I need the four cores to be?
After sending out a email to the people I know that game the most it seems they seem to recommend not going the homebrew route and recommend Dell. At first I checked out some Dell Alienware computers but seem to be morally adverse to paying that much for a computer. So I started looking at the Dell XPS line. The Dell Studio XPS 9000 line that is. I have a few requirements of a new computer. This seems to fit them nicely:
1) It must be quad core and pretty fast. Right now a base quad core has each core at 2.6GHZ.
2) No nvidia
3) Gotta be able to dump a ton of disk in it. Don’t care how much it comes with but you need to be able to add like 2TB+ after it comes.
4) Bluray
Nice stuff:
* HDMI
* sata connection off the motherboard in the back
* USB 3.0 (nothing ive seen seem to support this yet so i guess that will be later)
* Looks great
So far the Studio XPS 9000 meets most of that criterion. Its pretty much the same price as the newegg computer but it may not be quite as powerful. The Dell comes with Windows 7 which is nice as I want to dual boot it for games AND Linux development. Windows 7 seems to be the next Windows direction so its prob good to do that. Plus it can allocate more memory per process than XP, which is nice considering I want 6G of RAM minimum. It would be nice for the OS to take advantage of that.
Anyways, all this is just preliminary work. I am still mulling it all over. Right now I don’t play any PC games that warrant this kind of horsepower but when Starcraft 2 drops that will change. It would be nice to say I had a PC worthy of Crisys or at least the new Wolfenstien game at a reasonable resolution. Then again the PC game my friends and I play the most is Age of Empires 2 and im not even sure that uses 3D! I guess fun games are really timeless.
Then again this isn’t just for games. I also work from home and its nice to be able to slap a jet engine on stuff when you can. Seems like whatever route I go ill be able to.
Woosh!
Mod Nation Racers
Posted by jdodson in video games on March 26, 2010
Mod nation racers look quite a bit like Mario Kart. Save that is has better graphics and you can make and upload your own tracks. Ive heard track creation is quite easy. They also recently announced four player split screen and two player splitscreen online.
OK tit for tat how is this different than Mario Kart Wii?
* Four player split screen… No difference.
* Two player split screen online… No difference.
* HD GRAPHICS! OK this is a difference, Mario Kart wii is only available in 420p on the Wii. Dunno if this really matters to me.
* You can make your own tracks in mod nation racers and download other peoples tracks. HUGE. My biggest complaint of Mario Kart Wii is the limited number of tracks you have. Game just gets stale because of the lack of more places to race.
* You can customize your own character in Mod Nation Racers. I can import my Mii to Mario Kart Wii. Do I? Nope, way cooler to race as the Mario gang.
* Cool weapons. I don’t know, the Mario Kart set of weapons is just different than these. Tossing a nuke at someone is very cool though, have to play it to know for sure.
I think I might pick it up, but not for $60. I want a good Kart racing game that I can get different tracks for but if Mario Kart had that, Mod Nation racers would be somewhat pointlessish. Well, unless you only own a PS3.
Hopefully during the next Nintendo console cycle, it gets HD and a new Mario Kart game with the ability to create your own tracks. That would be very cool because Mario Kart is a great game it just gets a bit stale due to racing the same tracks over and over again.