Shacknews posted a bit that the developers of GW’s Blood Bowl will be doing a computer version of Rackham’s Confrontation– and absolutely excellent miniature skirmish game (at least the 3.0/3.5 rules era). Now I have another excuse to NEVER PAINT MY DRUNE.
Link for more info. This is one I will be following as closely as allowed by the interweb tubes.
More new old school. Really looking forward to picking this game up and giving it a go. 25$!
That said, here are a bunch of old, free rogue-likes compiled by digital eel (the strange adventures in infinite space dudes) to whet your whistle.
Champions Online just went free to play. Sure microtransactions, but as the best part of the game is creating characters and their nemesis (just like the pen and paper game) this shouldn’t be a problem. I’m going to jump in even with my extremely limited time for gayming these days.
NOTE: i’ve never tried to play a hardcore character in diablo 2. this is my first time.
NOTE: i’m going to do my damned best to keep a diary of my progress playing single player hardcore characters here on mraaktagon.com
NOTE: i’m using diablo 2 v1.13c (the latest patch for diablo 2 at this time), plugy 10.00, i’m using some german 3dfx glide hack that lets you use the 3dfx setting with a video card that supports opengl or some shit (makes the game run better!) and that’s fucking it. i’m not going to install any cheats. if you think plugy is cheating that’s okay for you! the main reason i’m using plugy is for the shared stash.
NOTE: i’ve played each of the seven hardcore characters classes up to lv10 just to get this warmed up. no deaths yet. i will pick one of the seven to start with and play until death / or 10 lv’s are made, at which point i’ll switch to a new character. i’ll continue this 10 lv rotation until all 7 characters are dead. this allows me to stash items away for the other characters while ensuring i don’t get fucking bored playing one character class for too long.
so without further fucking around my 7 characters are,
FlyingAssBang – lv10 Sorceress
ShoeDrinker – lv10 Barbarian
SomeCallMeTim – lv10 Druid
BiotchLips – lv10 Assassin
DayLabor – lv10 Paladin
TugandRun – lv10 Necromancer
KunningLinguist – lv10 Amazon
i’m going to start with FlyingAssBang the sorceress. i think i’ve only beaten vanilla diablo 2 with the amazon, barb and assassin, but that was fucking years ago people.
here’s a link to a large image file that has all of FlyingAssBang’s stats at lv10 and all the items she’s using. i am not making some fucking proven build from some goddamned FAQ, i’m not a pro! i’m not going to use the plugy re-spec without making a good argument for doing so and clearly documenting the use or re-spec. i’m kinda scared about how i should spend points on this sorceress character. i think you just spend enough strength to get the armour you need, and get like 50 or so in mana, and the rest goes to vitality or someshit. but how about skills? shit i really have no clue, i am learning the fucking hard way, the hardcore hard way. okay off to play my lv10-20 as FlyingAssBang. i’ll post anything of interest back here, shit i have no fucking idea what i’m doing with this sorc build, i’ve got skill points scattered in all the tree’s already selected, that is just fucking terrible.
FUCKING HAPPY FUCKING NEW FUCKING YEAR 2011
Though few have time to play through Old Style jRPG’s that I know of (I’ve been working on Final Fantasy Tactics for my DS for almost a year now), I wanted to make note of Cthulhu Saves the World to call attention yet again why we should be glad the Lovecraftian Mythos is in the public domain. Yeah!
A place to look at pictures and read some more information along those lines.
If you’re suffering with no games on your Mac (something that has been an eternal problem), and want to try a pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre alpha of a game that is largely unplayable, Dwarf Fortress may be of interest. While in it’s unplayable state, the game is free, and it’s probably still better than the abortive Elemental War of Magic. This post is pretty much for Matt.
Competition makes products better. Competition between awesome and awesome makes?! That said, I’ve watched the torchlight 2 vid only twice and haven’t done the frame by frame analysis that will inevitably be done– what it looks like though so far is that the screen has been opened up and, of course, they went out of their way to show off the outside areas in the game. Looks fantastich.
Looks like Blizzard’s D3 team are taking the crafting system seriously– something I miss a lot in Torchlight (and am spoiled by D2 Zyel in)—with the introduction of the artisan. Given that Diablo is at it’s core an item management game, this is an interesting twist that reminds me of leveling up the shops in Disgaea or Makai Kingdom.