I haven't played a Civilization game since Civ 1 in 1990. But I have played many 4x games like Master or Orion and Master of Magic. Age of Wonders was probably one of my favorite games of all time. This generation, I've enjoyed Sins of a Solar Empire immensely and all it's expansions.
I'm currently waiting for Elemental: War of Magic to get patched to a stable and featured release, but while that is being worked on I'm playing Civilization 5. And I just may forgo Elemental because Civ5 is just an amazing game. I'm sure that there isn't much difference between 4 and 5 but after not playing civilization for almost 20 years, this is just awesome.
On another note, I did finish Mass Effect, which was totally awesome. However I didn't like how the game felt sort of rushed, I feel like I could of explored other star systems and done other quests but the main story in Mass Effect really pushed me with urgency so I didn't feel like I could explore as much as I wanted to. But it was still an awesome game and I can't wait to play the sequel. Bioware can do no wrong.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
A breather
With so many changes and fixes coming to FF XIV in the next month, I'm just goind to take it easy for now. I haven't logged into the game in a couple days, and I'm enjoying other amusements that I've put off for too long.
I'm continuing Mass Effect, this is such an awesome game. I keep wondering why I stopped playing it and seeing that I would really like to play Mass Effect 2, I feel like I should finish the first one. And it really is awesome, I love all the voice dialogue, makes me wonder why the hell Square-Enix couldn't do the same for FF XIV? Makes me wonder a lot of things about Square-Enix... eh. I mean, FF XIII has more voice dialogue than FF XIV has text dialogue... wtf...
I'm also playing Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light and Dragon Quest IX for the DS. Both are great fun and are classically inspired jRPG games. This is where text dialogue belongs!!
This is an advantage of being a casual gamer, you get to put off buying games that you know you would enjoy because of various reasons/excuses and now when you are ready to play it, it's a nice 20$ discounted game. I'm thinking about picking up Fallout 3, I enjoyed the first old-school fallout game loooong time ago, so I'm excited about it.
On the PS3 side, NHL 11 has been sitting in my Gamely GameQ for about a month now... I really want to play that game. Also, I was really stoked to finally see a built-in Netflix app for the PS3, much better than using the disc. The deal between Microsoft and Netflix finally expired so now other consoles can finally reap the benefits of a built-in Netflix app! Yay!
I'm continuing Mass Effect, this is such an awesome game. I keep wondering why I stopped playing it and seeing that I would really like to play Mass Effect 2, I feel like I should finish the first one. And it really is awesome, I love all the voice dialogue, makes me wonder why the hell Square-Enix couldn't do the same for FF XIV? Makes me wonder a lot of things about Square-Enix... eh. I mean, FF XIII has more voice dialogue than FF XIV has text dialogue... wtf...
I'm also playing Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light and Dragon Quest IX for the DS. Both are great fun and are classically inspired jRPG games. This is where text dialogue belongs!!
This is an advantage of being a casual gamer, you get to put off buying games that you know you would enjoy because of various reasons/excuses and now when you are ready to play it, it's a nice 20$ discounted game. I'm thinking about picking up Fallout 3, I enjoyed the first old-school fallout game loooong time ago, so I'm excited about it.
On the PS3 side, NHL 11 has been sitting in my Gamely GameQ for about a month now... I really want to play that game. Also, I was really stoked to finally see a built-in Netflix app for the PS3, much better than using the disc. The deal between Microsoft and Netflix finally expired so now other consoles can finally reap the benefits of a built-in Netflix app! Yay!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Speed and Grind
I picked up F1 2010 over the weekend, and it is HARD!! I only turned on traction control and turned all the other assists off and rules on realistic and this game is giving me quite a challenge.
The rush is amazing going through an entire race weekend. I'm doing the career mode and i'm only on the second race (squeaked my way through race 1), and I've practiced on the track many dozens of times, but it's still amazingly hard to be consistent. I haven't experienced the weather system yet, but this game is quite beautiful.
Also still playing FF XIV, crafting is getting so involved right now, I'm starting to find my niche as a Carpenter and a Weaver, but it's getting hard to skill up. I'm also looking forward to the rank 15 main quest, I've heard a lot of good things coming my way.
The rush is amazing going through an entire race weekend. I'm doing the career mode and i'm only on the second race (squeaked my way through race 1), and I've practiced on the track many dozens of times, but it's still amazingly hard to be consistent. I haven't experienced the weather system yet, but this game is quite beautiful.
Also still playing FF XIV, crafting is getting so involved right now, I'm starting to find my niche as a Carpenter and a Weaver, but it's getting hard to skill up. I'm also looking forward to the rank 15 main quest, I've heard a lot of good things coming my way.
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