The Ultima series has floundered in recent years, though even saying that is a bit of a stretch. The last mainline entry in the series was Ultima IX: Ascension, released in 1999. And while few can deny its importance in shaping Western RPGs or the weight of its legacy, the property does not seem to be treated with much respect. One could blame that on rights-holder EA, whose recent free-to-play MMO Ultima Forever has not reviewed well, or the general landscape of the games industry today, which would much rather have its hand held than play something as demanding as an old school CRPG, but those are just moot points at the moment because if you have an iOS device handy, you can play Ultima IV right now for free.
Doing some grinding, I went back and played the Overlords hand part in the first chapter and got my ass handed to me. The first time I only lost maybe 200 hit point when he attacked, this time he took about 4000 in one hit. WTF! Anyway, I am still enjoying the game, but damn! lol.
Well I got back from PAX earlier this week, and I just got finished writing my PAX articles for GamerDad.com. So here’s a short blog with links to the write-ups so you can see what games I played and things I saw and took pictures of. Sorry that I’m not posting any of the pictures and articles here. I went as a member of the media for GamerDad.com, so I figured my articles would need to be there only. Anyway, I sure would appreciate it if you all were able to click on and read the articles and stuff.
Ooh boy. Controversial question. The main issue people have with piracy is that no money is going to the developer. This is the same with used games, and yet we wholly accept this, and even fight for it. We do both for the same reason, to save money. So can someone answer what the difference is, morally speaking?
I use to do this on 1up, I would find a bunch of awesome Custom Covers and post them on my blog on there to share them. Thought I should bring it back after Lee was talking about generic cases.
The gaming season is about to heat up. It hasd been a pretty decent month for gaming. There wasn't much I am interested on the 360. I used to get all my third party titles on the 360 but I decided to change that since my PS3 is getting more attention by its many exclusive titles that are coming out over the last year.
So I know I've been whining a lot the last few weeks over my friend not being available to play games, but I have actually played a fair amount on my own.
Well the beta for the PS3 begins on October 12th. Anyone wanting to join I say sign up now to increase the chances of being part of the first waves. You can join by downloadng Dark Souls 2 Closed Beta Registration Ticket in the Playstation Store. They havent announced a PC or 360 beta. Im gonna go sign up now ^_^
So todays a good day last week I broke my LG Optima which was a good phone but I broke the screen and couldnt do anything tried to recover all my pictures and videos and couldnt so I was very upset over that but today me and the wife switched from sprint to AT&T sprint kept dropping my calls all the time and after replacing my LG 3 times cause I barely dropped it and it was in a case the screen cracked and thats it no phone ,so I got sick of replacing it at a $150 per phone and thats insured, so today I got my new Galaxy Mega and this is one cool phone.
So I have FINALLY finished the Breath of Fire review I was working on for awhile. I think it came out pretty awesome if I do say so myself. Here is a link to it for you to read! Plus it'll give me some traffic on my personal blog!
For fuck's sake I shouldn't even need to say this, but some people are just fucking ignorant. This isn't opinion, this is objective fact. The initial price point may be too high, and that's fine. And you can try to justify how much you love your console because you made shitty life decisions and can't afford a pc all you fucking want, but it is better.
Well, it's been over a month since I last posted... time flies, I suppose.
So one of my all time favorite shows is ending tonight for good: Futurama. I'm really happy with what we got when it came back on. It wasn't quite up to par with what the show was originally like, but it was still one of the better things on television and did a much better job staying funny than The Simpsons, Family Guy, and even South Park have these past few years. There were still some really great episodes and a funny recurring gag where the season finale would always be three weird stories ending with everyone dying. But here's my favorite episodes from this show, the ones that got me hooked on it.
I remember this feeling back in the 80's when I was mad for music and collected vinyl albums whenever I had some cash to spend. When CD's started coming out, I was even more enthusiastic and, on weekends, I would jump on my bike with my lawn mowing money and dash to one of the fly-by-night import CD stores that cropped up to get the first CD pressings of my favorite albums. I used to fight with a friend of mine, who was crazy for music too, over who got to buy the one copy the store had of Genesis' Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album - fresh from the U.K.. It was $40 for that double album on CD (probably like $80 today), but I was so excited, I didn't care. Well, now I'm that way about video games. I have a friend who's just as mad for them as I, and I can't help myself when I think a new release might be hard to find down the road. I just have to break my budget and get it. Today was such a day and I picked up Dragon's Crown for Vita and Shin Megami Tensei IV for 3DS after being haunted by them for over a month. Whoopie!
While looking for games that might interest me more that the rehashed crap coming to other systems I ran across this one.
I'm not much on multitasking or in this case jumping arounds from game to game. I didn't get to play FF14 at all last night and they are doing maintanence on it tonight. But the new DLC for Borderlands 2 came out today and it is tough. Digistruct Mountain is a large map like many other of the large areas in the game and since it is supposed to be a kind of training area it has a lot of variations from section to section. Your mission is to be a guinea pig and test it out to make sure its not too tough for the new recruits. But much like the circle of slaughter fights , if you die missions over and you got to start again. I was playing solo so there was no one to revive me, deffinitely geared toward being a multiplayer venture.
Hey guys, last night we flew in from London Heathrow airport and thankfully we all got back safe. I don't really like planes. Especially international flights because they make you feel all sticky and gross right after.
Dear god, where has this game been all my life? I spent like 7 hours on this yesterday. I skipped a class to play this. I haven't done that since high school! This game is consuming my life! And I'm not even that far into.