Nerf NOW!!

Happy?

2010-09-09T01:12:05Z

Today I decided to try something new, I decided to play Terran.

Outside my first loss (I didn't build Tech Labs on my barracks) all games were victories, fun victories.

I found suprising how good resource effective Terran is.. probably because of MULEs and gas-free marines / hellions coupled with recycable bunkers you can go pretty far just saving gas for whatever crazy tech you have.

The number of different strategies is vast: proxy barracks, bunker push, tank hopping, that-chopter-thing harass, MMM, list goes on.

Scan is awesome. No, really. You get the info you want, the time you want.

I didn't expect so many people to read my ramblings here so I end saying this: On my low bronze tier corner, Terran game is fun.

SC1 Zerg was more fun, though.

All Lings Go To Heaven

2010-09-08T00:54:03Z

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Starcraft 2 is a Terran game.

When you go attack a Terran base and find it yet again blocked by buildings and infantry while their Reapers freely harass your base I can't stop but ponder a good deal of the game was made for and by Terran players and somehow, at the middle of the road, they figured they needed to finish the other races too.

From retractable supply depots to stackable M.U.L.E.s, passing for mobile, safe expansions, Terran game is full of fallbacks and safeguards. Zerg need to win with units which blow themselves up making the slightest error a game loss.

I've heard some voices defending Zerg saying they are anything from reactive to a macro race, but I played Zerg on the original because it was fun. I don't get that fun in SC2 Zerg.

Yeah, I am biased.. and bitter.

Waiting for path 1.2.

P.S. Independent of game balance, I refuse to play until spawm larva is autocast. Many may argue Starcraft 2 isn't the game for me and, honestly, they may be right.

Adam is my husbando

2010-09-06T23:44:00Z

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Metroid Other M sold well, it sold very well. What it shows?

Depise some fans getting horrified by fragile and submissive Samus, the target public, many who never played a Metroid game before, enjoyed it. Or at least bought it which, for now, it's what matters.

To people used to old Metroid games is may sounds like an heresy, but game companies care more about staying green. The game sold wonderfully and I fully expect a sequel now.

I don't know why they suppose the new chatty Samus was worth a try, but they surely didn't made it to piss of people. I don't doubt, however, they think a cold character isn't as profitable.

In the end, the ones who are crying the loudest are probably the ones who had it pre-ordered, and this one is hard to make happy, but quick to buy it anyway, so it's easy for a company to focus on the new blood.

For me, Samus before wasn't exactly the more involving of the characters. You could make a Metroid game with another Bounty Hunter and, until the unmasking in the end, no one would notice. I think this speaks how important the person inside the armor used to be.

At least now she have some kinda of personality, even if isn't my favorite one.

Dwarf Fortress 2/2

2010-09-05T06:42:45Z

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Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Dwarf Fortress 1/2

2010-09-04T05:19:54Z

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Dorf Fortress page had a quote which terrified me... "losing is fun". Well sir, I don't like losing but I like dwarves throwing tantrums on magma filled fortress.

To whoever don't know, the game can be downloaded here and it's both graphically poor, complicated and CPU intensive. If you want lifelike textures and a smooth learning curve Dwarf Fortress isn't your game.

DF kinda remind of a mix of SimTower with TheSims, with the expection your "tower" will crumble sooner or later and your "sims" are infintely more entertaining and dangerous. It's the voyage, not the miasma filled destiny which matter.

Remember, losing is fun.