DC Comics apparently has a line of dolls based on videogame characters as well as the expected superheroes. I have no idea who that guy is up there, but he’s from a videogame. He’s too beefy to be Nathan Drake and too slight to be Marcus Fenix. Man, I have no idea. At any rate, you can purchase him next week for, I’m guessing, about thirty bucks.
Having now played or played alongside each of the five character classes in Diablo III, I think I’ve settled on a favorite.
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The first game of Horde mode was pretty confusing. There’s quite a few day-glow green command areas littered throughout the map and a new window on the right side full of icons that are greyed out. On top of the new window is a timer set at 30 seconds, waiting to begin its countdown. I wander around the map, Checkout, for a bit before I grasp what’s going on. This would be the round that seals me in to playing countless hours of Gears 3. Horde is a good time.
For the horde, after the jump! Continue reading →
Hard Reset got a patch today that made a few significant changes to how the game plays. Mostly for the better.
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I partly blame Blizzard for my disappointment at the Diablo III beta. To me, “beta” implies a complete but early build of a game. “Demo” implies a brief taste of a game. If the Diablo III beta had been called a Diablo III demo, I wouldn’t have been quite so surprised at the giant Diablofont message, “Conratulations, you have beaten the Diablo III beta”, after a couple hours of play. Fair enough. I guess Blizzard just wants a few of us banging on their servers. I’m happy to oblige.
But the more pressing issue is that, after playing through this beta twice, I still don’t have a character.
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Stumbling into the Cool Levels area of the community section is generally not advisable, mainly because of the Cool Rule of Thumb: if something labels itself as cool, it’s probably not. Every now and then I jump in there to check it out though, so you don’t have to. Think of this as a public service.
The topmost Cool Level on this recon trip was called The Casino Robbery. I’ve got heists on the brain after going to see the movie Drive this week and subsequently listening to some other show in which an Internet bozo (in this case, not me) complained that it’s a terrible heist movie. Really? Huh. Guess what, doofus, it’s also a terrible bio-pic. And historical drama. And sci-fi epic. And rom-com. Internet gasbags. Ugh. (In this case, again, not me.)
Casino Robbery is cool enough, I guess. It’s definitely value added, since you get to level link into its second and third parts while playing it, which makes it long. It’s a little blunt-force-trauma for my taste, so if carefully orchestrated robberies are your thing, avoid it. But if wearing a rocket launcher on your head and smashing everything in sight floats your boat, go for it.
I would have tried out more Cool Levels, but I had achievements to earn.
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The first thing I tried after the co-op campaign mode was Beast mode. I knew Horde mode was going to be good and I’ve played the multiplayer in the beta, so Beast is the only unknown. From all the early information it sounded like Versus mode in Left 4 Dead, and that roused my interest. I had my full entourage with me, so we decided to try it out four player. I’m not sure if that helped or not but the results were… mixed.
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Peter Ginsberg joins us for a podcast in which we talk a lot about two games he’s not even playing: Gears of War 3 and Diablo III. Also, Jason P. McMaster wins money off Tom Chick. And what’s the deal with this hot new Monkey Preschool Lunchbox thing on the iPhone?
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The time is finally at hand. I have my copy of Gears of War 3 installed on my shiny, new Gears themed console. My wife Sarah has been wanting her own 360 so she can wreak havoc on Pinball FX2, so it’s the perfect time to replace my current system and get a new 360 slim. I spend the first hour or so transferring my profile and content to my new 360, so I’m pretty ready to kill some Locust scum by the time all is said and done. I fire up the game and hear that familiar sound as the Epic Games logo page appears on the screen. It’s on! Wait, a patch notice. Gah! At least this is the 360 and the patches take about 15 seconds. OK, there we go. It’s on.
After the jump, Donkey Kong… that’s how much it’s on. Continue reading →
I’m all like:
And Tom’s all:
Tomorrow: a more word-oriented entry
We were just trying to stay alive, I suppose. We were doing okay for a while. And then we were attacked. They came in through the kitchen window. They were really fast, you know? Chased us. Chased your mum. And we were trapped. Trapped in the bedroom. I seen them, biting. I couldn’t do anything. I tried to go back. She was already gone. She was already gone.
I wrote — well, appropriated might be a more accurate term — the above fan fiction. That passage is from the perspective of one of the creatures in Kirby Mass Attack. A turnip or a fish or a flower or something. In that scene, the creature is explaining to his kids why their mother isn’t around anymore.
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Before I hand you over to Jason “Fenix” McMaster for Quarter to Three’s enthusiastic Gears of War 3 game diary, I leave you with this review:
You’ve played this game a couple of times already, and here you are shelling out another sixty bucks to play it all over again, with only minor improvements, and with the same shortcomings it’s had all along. The word that keeps springing to mind as I play is “competent”. When it’s all over, the reaction is a shrug. When it’s sitting on my shelf, I might as well reach for Gears of War 2. Or a shooter with some creative energy like Hard Reset, or Lost Planet 2, or Fear 3.
Thumbs down.
“I should play what?”
I hear you. At a press event a few months back, this game was idling on a monitor in the corner. I probably wouldn’t have given it a second glance if I hadn’t been waiting for a demo of the remastered House of the Dead: Overkill for the Playstation 3. But as soon as the guy demoing it told me the name of the developer, my ears perked up. And by the time the demo was over, this was probably the upcoming Sega game I was most looking forward to.
I only wish Sega shared my enthusiasm. I didn’t even realize they’d released the game last week.
After the jump, what is Renegade Ops and why you should play it Continue reading →
Late in Gears of War 3, someone will say, “Bloody hell, they found the UIR! It’s a Gorasni ship!” The line is delivered as if it’s something that matters, but Gears of War 3 hasn’t told me what a UIR is or who the Gorasni are. The line might as well have been “Bloody hell, they found the Boop-i-dee-bop! It’s a Whamble-di-dee ship!” It’s an example of how Gears 3 cares about itself far too much to be arsed to care about me.
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…as Bodycount goes on, it resembles an Agatha Christie murder mystery in which the cast of characters begins to disappear one-by-one
Read the review here.
