Game: Plunder

Plunder is now Age of Booty and it’s available on Impulse - but not for me :(

From: https://store.stardock.com/application.aspx?id=agebooty&theme=impulse

I was checking the Impulse preorder list and the screenshots for that game “age of booty” looked familiar. So I went to the Certain Affinity website and sure enough, the game is now called Age of Booty - live on the xbox, coming any day now on PC.

The reviews speak of “well crafted”, “easy to get addicted”, “catan for the rest of us”, “sharp humor”. I think I will preorder - at $9.99 they deserve a chance

AoB’s own website is at http://certainaffinity.com/ageofbooty/
Bunch of reviews at http://www.giantbomb.com/age-of-booty/61-20564/user_reviews/

UPDATE: Grrr - tried preordering on Impulse but no luck “Not available in your country”. Now what is the point of digital distribution if they keep the outdated market limitation view?

More about Plunder

Use-what-you-have-challenge: I need a plan

This refers to Challenge: use what you have

I’m not doing too bad on books and havent bought a DVD in a long time, but games are tough - I am not playing my existing games and still tempted to buy some of the great games coming out… maybe making this public will make me stick to the challenge…

Games I plan to revisit:

Descent 2 and Descent 3
Sacrifice
Freespace
Red Faction
Evil Islands (under way)
Might and Magic 6 (under way)
Disciples 2
Sacred
Neverwinter Nights
Arcanum
SWAT 4
Oddworld
Chaser
Fable
SIlverfall
Max Payne
No One Lives Forever 2
Prey
Iwar 2
H&D 2
Armies of Exigo
Europa 1400
Virtual Villagers
Hostile Waters

That’s just a random grab from my list  - I’d welcome suggestions/votes as to which one anyone is interested in my revisiting and writing about

The embarrassing games list (or “why i shouldnt buy any more games”)

There’s actually not too much damage since the last time I published this as I didnt buy that many games this year - but I did buy a few.
And I didnt play back many old ones, so the list of not-really-played list is still embarrassing.

Still I did manage to give Avencast, Depths of Peril, Evils Islands, Might and Magic 6, TF2, Dwarf Fortress, Warhammer Online and a few others a whirl - not much of a dent on the list though :S

I do think I am missing some, will add them when they come back to me.

Read More...

Game: King’s Bounty

King’s Bounty review

From: http://jaguarusf.blogspot.com/2008/10/kings-bounty-legend-review.html

I follow a lot fewer games nowadays, but this one still looks like a winner :D

Quests are fun, simple, and varied as a sky full of snowflakes. At one point, the proprietor of the Dragon Fang Inn sent me to fetch his business’ namesake. What could have turned into a nasty battle with a blue dragon was resolved with a mean left hook. That’s right, I knocked the dragon’s fang out with my bare hands, and he thanked me for it. (Medieval dentists are hard to come by.) Another time, a creepy royal wanted me to fetch him a frog, so he could kiss it and turn it into his bride. Naturally, the first frog I came across was male, and none too happy that all his women were being snatched up by a perverse prince with a propensity for puckering up with those of the warty persuasion. Before this game’s release, there were a lot of rumors concerning the translation, but I’m happy to report that the dialog is a blast to read. When I asked to join a swamp witch’s coven, she interrogated me with a series of questions. After carefully considering each response, she finally hit me with a stumper: Can you be a woman? Because this is a witch’s coven (yeah, yeah… she got me)!

More about King’s Bounty

Game: King’s Bounty

King’s Bounty preview

From: http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/battle-lord/899111p1.html

More importantly, as we played through some of the early game with our newly minted Mage character, we were pleased to note that the gameplay just feels right, particularly to someone who still remembers the original fondly. The RPG and strategy systems seem to mesh together well and provide the player with quite a number of deep and interesting strategic battles.

More about King’s Bounty

Game: King’s Bounty

King’s Bounty Demo

From: http://www.gamershell.com/news_59956.html

More about King’s Bounty

Game: Warhammer Online

I got WAR

From:

Had preordered from Amazon because I had vouchers to use, and for once they actually had it delivered on time. I think there is a huge difference whether it is sent by amazon or by their Jersey partner… just a guess.

Now it took me all evening and through the night to install then update the thing, so I actually played a bit of WoW last night. This morning I managed to get about 30 minutes of play (after 20 minutes of faffing about making characters up) before the server went down at 9:00 uk time for some maintenance, should be back up soon.

Still, I had the beta so I am probably not as eager as some, but I am looking forward to exploring the different classes and races… a lot. Will post up server names here soon, in case some of you want to join me At the moment I have only a. I plan to have a go at an RvR and a RP server, and also of course try the other side - but at the moment that is the popular side so of course I had to pick the forces of “order”...

Servers:
I have an Empire character on the “Kazak Eight Peaks” (or some such name) server - but this server is now full so I might have to recreate it elsewhere to play with friends - “World’s Edge Mountains” looks moderate at the moment. I also have created a character on the “Ellyrion” server, again on the order side. This is a RvR/RP server so will have to see how far I get

Kazak Eight Peaks - Empire - Witch Hunter - Ifigenia
Ellyrion - Dwarves - Rune Priest - Agnil
World’s Edge Mountains- High Elves - White Lion - Zenaide

More about Warhammer Online

Game: Depths of Peril

Another Depths of Peril review

From: http://fidgit.com/archives/2008/08/depths-of-peril-will-do-quite.php

If I can make a few people try this game it will be good, so I will continue to link to reviews…

There’s diplomacy system here like you’d expect to find in an epic strategy game. Hey, Defenders of Virtue, how about I sell you this breastplate I don’t need? Yo, Treasure Hunters, how about you and me team up against the Brutal Slayers? Hey, Shining Blades, want to get a trade route going to improve our incomes?

And when clans finally come to blows, it’s all about the lifestone. Heroes throw themselves at each other, dying and resurrecting and dying again until the clan’s lifestone is sucked dry and eventually burned out, knocking the clan out of the world. Last clan standing wins.

More about Depths of Peril

© 2008. All my writing and photos are © Iphigenie - third party images and quoted text from reviews,poems etc. obviously are not mine and just shown as a teaser to going to the link in question