Entropy Gamer - Game Analysis and Rants

Elemental - The First Hour

2010-09-08T22:44:00.001+08:00

The world was in chaos. Mobs began pillaging and protesting across the street. They decried the world that was made for them. Yet this is the world we live in, a world in cataclysm. Monsters, men and fools roam the land. They seek power and wish to rule the world that has formed. This was a world of magic - channelers could harness the very elements of the world. I started noting the

Beat Hazard

2010-04-17T10:48:00.000+08:00

I remember a year back when I got Audiosurf to play while listening to my music. Now, there's a new indie game (XBLA port) over in the PC called Beat Hazard. It's basically a Geometry Wars clone. Waves of enemies pour through the screen while you dodge and shoot them. The difference between this and other clones is that your music plays a part in determining the level. Fast and exciting

Chaos Rising First Impressions

2010-03-23T22:26:00.001+08:00

I only really got into the single player of Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising recently as I got really frustrated with my Bad Company 2 crashing. I've played several missions and realized that this game is definitely for veterans of the original DoW2. Tough missions will test your skill and tactical prowess. New players will probably have a difficult time. I haven't encountered the old mission

Bad Company 2 Crash

2010-03-21T08:51:00.000+08:00

RAGE!!!! (This will be a very incoherent post - more than the usual) EA/DICE - your game, Bad Company 2 has some real crash issues. Before the patch, you have connection problems to your servers. After the patch, my game crashes every 15 minutes! Fifteen! I can't play and finish any game, all I seem to do is run to the frontlines, get killed then crash. The patch seems to have erased my

Bad Company Hardcore

2010-03-14T12:40:00.002+08:00

Are you a tough soldier? Do you like realism? Or do you simply just like being killed without knowing where it came from? Hardcore mode in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 shows off how a realistic the game can get. You don't get any crosshairs in hardcore mode thus firing from the hip relies that you make sure your target is at the center of your screen. I probably spend most of my time finding a

Bad Company 2 Issues

2010-03-10T19:58:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, I probably had the worst experience with Bad Company 2. It has nothing to do with the gameplay but merely with the servers. It took me maybe half an hour to search for servers only to get the failure to connect to EA online error. I then tried joining games people in my friend's list were in. I have unbelievably bad ping in their games so I quit out. It then took me another half

Bad Company 2 Tips

2010-03-09T20:49:00.002+08:00

A few of my multiplayer tips in Battlefield: Bad Company 2: 1. Fire in short bursts - As much as possible, fire your gun in controlled 2-3 bullet bursts. Firing like this leads to better accuracy at medium and long range. You can hit people some distance away even with the submachine gun when fired in bursts. Only go full auto when in close quarters. 2. When using the LMG - crouch and fire.

How to Reach High Ranks in Bad Company 2

2010-03-08T19:39:00.001+08:00

I have been accused of cheating in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I've placed top in several games consistently without being the one with the highest kills. My score is sometimes even double to the person next to me. I kill people at a distance with my light machine gun. I guess that you would think I was cheating too until you actually join me and find out I'm one of the best medics in the

Bad Company 2 Impressions

2010-03-04T19:51:00.001+08:00

A bullet to my back ends my life. A sniper fires his weapon and off goes my head. I hide behind a wall only to be blown up by a large tank. This is the real modern warfare - brutal, deadly and indirect. The Battlefield series has always been different from run and gun shooters like Modern Warfare 2. In this game, when you see an enemy soldier, you run for cover or drop down to crouch, aim

End of Feb 2010 Sale

2010-02-27T08:55:00.000+08:00

Great deals for this last week of February. Well I guess March 2010 will bring in the big releases that were delayed but if you're looking for something to play (for cheap) now check out these deals: Steam and GamersGate has a sale on the Spellforce games. It's a mix of RTS and RPG in a fantasy world. The Spellforce 1 games are really cheap like $5 so if you want to try feel free. Impulse

Game Detox

2010-02-25T20:28:00.002+08:00

I am a video gaming addict and I am undergoing the withdrawal phase. My mind craves for another hit of the gaming drug. I need to be immersed in a world that's not real. My monitor has taken a hit, as I mentioned. It's probably a driver problem or with my ATI 4770 video card which causes the monitors to die. Like I mentioned, I'm using a colorblind monitor... red is nearly black and the

UBI DRM!

2010-02-23T20:22:00.002+08:00

Is it April Fools day already? Oh wait, thats still more than a month away. I thought that Ubisoft's new DRM scheme was a joke. News that the new DRM will require newer games like, Assasin's Creed 2 for the pc, to be always connected to the internet. The problem lies with that not everyone has a super stable internet connection. This also adds to the fact that Ubisoft's servers might not be

Shattered Horizon

2010-02-22T22:03:00.000+08:00

Despite the fact I have a broken monitor (I have to investigate this problem thoroughly), I managed to grab an old CRT monitor to play Shattered Horizon. Granted this old monitor had really dark reds which were close to black and Shattered Horizon is a pretty dark game due to it's space setting, I'm not going to comment much on the graphics. I also have a newfound appreciation on

Unreal Demos

2010-02-21T21:37:00.000+08:00

Damn my title doesn't sound right. I'm talking about the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) which uses the Unreal 3 engine has been released for a while as a free engine. I've tried one of the demos, Dungeon Defense, which is a multiplayer action tower defense game. Basically, it plays like Lock's Quest on the Nintendo DS. You're defending a crystal from enemy attacks. You have a character that

Monitor Blew Up again Sale

2010-02-20T09:11:00.000+08:00

Steam has a Shattered Horizon sale which is a space first person shooter. I think you get to fight in zero-G environments and fly with a jet pack but I won't know cause my monitor has died again. I was in the process of downloading that stuff too but since I can't play it during the free weekend. I hope to get in maybe tomorrow after I either get a new monitor or have this one repaired.

Solium Infernum Recap...

2010-02-16T22:29:00.001+08:00

So what happened to my Solium Infernum recaps I mentioned about a week ago. Well, I'm now in two games of Solium Infernum. In the first game, hell has frozen over and nothing is happening as the host player is on vacation somewhere. On my second game, hell is heating up as we have just reached the 10 turn mark. Similar to the first game, I seem to be in a tight spot. I'm sandwiched between

Chaos Rising

2010-02-14T11:55:00.000+08:00

The forces of chaos approaches the battlefield. They are set to hit on the middle of March and another chapter in this Dawn of War begins. I've gathered a few tidbits of information for this coming war. First, this is a standalone expansion similar to Opposing Fronts of Company of Heroes. In multiplayer, the people buying the original Dawn of War 2 gets the new maps, units and game modes

Valentine's Sale

2010-02-13T08:57:00.000+08:00

Steam has an awesome sale this weekend. First off, all Total War games are at 66% off and the complete pack is just $20 bucks. Next, Mount and Blade, the amazing game I blogged about last year, is at 85% off. There are more great mods coming out for that game so it's a great deal to buy. The THQ complete pack is up with all their games at $50 bucks. Impulse only has the Sworld of the Stars

Aliens Versus Predator Demo Impressions

2010-02-07T09:02:00.000+08:00

I remember playing the first Aliens Versus Predator (AVP) in LAN with friends. The first thing we tried was species deathmatch where all players of the same race would work together. I'd always be a marine with the minigun and I'd find a good place to camp. I'd automatically spot any aliens or predators coming my way with my motion sensor and just proceed to murder any passer by with a rain of

Weekend Sale - 1st week of Feb 2k10

2010-02-06T07:53:00.000+08:00

Various games up for sale. I'll start with Direct2Drive (shocking!) - Overlord 2 is on sale over there and is available worldwide. It's $10 if you want to go try it out. Impulse has a Red Faction Pack for sale which has all Red Faction games for 25% off (around $22). Grab this if you failed to grab the Direct2Drive deal for Red Faction Guerrilla last week. Another good bundle over there is

What I want in Solium Infernum...

2010-02-04T20:54:00.002+08:00

Well, Solium Infernum is a great game though not without flaws. Here's a list of what I think needs to be added. 1. Colored Tiles. I want each nation to have their own color which will make looking at the map much easier. It's not really nice clicking on every tile to see who the owner is. Though I'm not so familiar with director programing, isn't it similar to just changing a certain hue

More Gratuitous Engineering!

2010-02-03T21:06:00.001+08:00

I've unlocked a new alien race in Gratuitous Space Battles. The Rebel faction has ships that are generally faster with their speed bonuses on all their ships. The default race, the Federation, has hull bonuses meaning your ships HP is much higher. Engineering Tips: With testing, I find that the cloaking field is pretty useless as compared to adding another repair bot or even more shields.

Gratuitous Space Engineering

2010-02-02T22:32:00.000+08:00

I made several mistakes with my last blog post on Gratuitous Space Battles. I have no idea why I claimed I had 21k points in the survival mode. I was only 7k I think but now I've reached 15k. However, I'm now rank 99 (everyone got better I guess). Except for the top 3 (who have scores of 800k), my goal would be to reach a decent score of 100k. I tried several new strategies last night. My

Gratuitous Space Battles

2010-02-01T20:19:00.002+08:00

Launch the cannons and set maximum thrust speed. Eight capital cruisers, 6 frigates and 3 fighter squadrons make up my armada. I've constructed my ships to have the heaviest titanium armor to withstand the heaviest of laser and missile fire. I stand against an alien invasion of unknown numbers. Their initial wave was 3 large capital ships and several dozen fighters swarming around in defense

Deals for the end of Jan 2010

2010-01-30T07:52:00.000+08:00

Steam offers Tropico 3 at 60% off today. Also, you might want to check out the Freedom Force bundle and X-Com bundle (careful on the compatibility though) at $2. I recommend grabbing Freedom Force cause it's a great tactical RPG. It's disappointing that the series didn't continue cause I remember that they were planning a game for each comic book era. Impulse has an indie game sale. They