Tuesday, October 21, 2014

AltecApollyon : This Week's Gaming

I've actually been able to slow things down lately. Mostly because of  a very busy month so far : baseball playoffs and the NHL season starting, concerts and thanksgiving, a mini-construction side at home, trying to use the last warm days of autumn wisely with my children. I've had to focus on a select few games. My 'Zombieweek' that went much longer than that has ended, in spirit too, and I think I have had just about enough of Dead Island.

First up this week (and probably this list goes for last week as well) : Magic 2015 on the iPad. I've said this before - they've made some good changes over the 2014 version, its a good challenge, has good unlocks and can be played a round at a time and then the iPad can just be turned off. Easy.


Ecipse : New Dawn for the Galaxy, is something I have been trying out lately. I found the tutorial long and detailed (in a good way) but then when I started playing I felt like perhaps I hadn't learned anything at all. I've been playing (and losing) off and on - today I came within 1 point of winning. Crap.


My son is Spider-Man crazy right now (he's two and a half) and he's also a real screen fanatic - so he was watching over my shoulder one evening while I was scrolling though the appstore and he saw this free to play Spider-Man game - I thought I would just get it to play for him as a reward or distraction now and again - I didn't see myself getting addicted. At the moment I am playing this daily...everywhere.


Rogue Legacy has been something that has been sitting in my Steam account for a long time - waiting for me to just finally play it. I feel really bad about how long I left it collecting virtual dust. I booted it up this week and found it to be clunky and difficult - it had me wishing I had just started up Guacamelee again or Mark of the Ninja. I stuck with it, again because my children were watching and they got a kick out of it and now I am beginning to like it - I have unlocked more abilities and upgraded my equipment and skills so I can go spelunkying (oops, wrong game) loot-gathering all the longer. I still think it's clunky and kinda strange at some parts and I hope they are working on Rogue Legacy II.


Another thing that happen this week is that I actually was able to ignore Devolver Digital's humble store sale - I had almost all the games I wanted anyways, except for OlliOlli - but I was strong and told myself I have enough games lying in wait that I don't need to add to the pile with another. On a similar note I bought #SuperHyper for iOS from Sets and Settings - haven't played much but the little I did allowed me to notice how difficult it really is....




Monday, October 13, 2014

Youtube Reviews of Destiny




You might think that I have a preoccupation with Destiny - and I am beginning to think so myself - for a guy that doesn't have the game I have really spent a lot of time reading and watching stuff on the game. Maybe it's because I feel the same burn that I felt due to the hype of other games I got bured on ie. Goldeneye Rogue Agent....Diablo 3....

I also just really wanted to believe in Bungie...

Well, here are some Youtubers that have the game and have some entertaining and informative reviews.



Now please excuse me I'm going to continue watching True Detective.


Thursday, October 2, 2014

Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars (Browser)


I'm at a point now that I will play pretty much anything that Adult Swim Games finds and puts in front of me.  I loved all of Volgarr, Jazzpunk, Castle Doombad, Super Monsters Ate My Condo, Giant Boulder of Death (although minus the IAP on that last one). When a title like "Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars" pops-up on your twitter feed its hard not to take notice.


The game itself is a little take on a PAC MAN idea : run around a maze and avoid / eat your enemies. The added trick here is the constant shooting line of "webbing" that will render your slaves immobile and allows you to pull them slowly towards you....to their deaths!


The game isn't great but it's worth playing to see the funny expressions on your slaves faces when you wrap them up and pull them in for the kill.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Warlocks (PC / Kickstarter)


'Warlocks' is still being funded on Kickstarter as we speak - made by a small enthusiastic team in Poland it looks like it could be a good dungeon platformer - at least it's going to look great.

Check out their kickstarter page for some great artwork and the pitch video.

You can play a demo here by means of a Unity plugin.