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Gaming…Thursday? #8: From Dust

August 23, 2011 Leave a comment

Lots of you have been asking me why my delay on the 8th installment of my Gaming Saturday series is so long so here is my explanation paired with a new game…Wait what?…You didn’t ask me? You know what, just go to hell and never return, I’ll continue to write these no matter if you read them or just seek the noobish mistakes I make when writing English.

 Who of you hasn’t dreamed of being a got at least once? Having powers to shape the world anew? You know what, all of you should play From Dust right now. Why? Let me tell you!

In the newest god-game published by Ubisoft you play the role of the breath. An immaterial being that is able to move materials from one place to another. Of course you are in dept of the people who summoned you on their search for their ancestors and so you help them reaching their goals. The game is explained that simple yet it allows a deep gameplay especially in the later levels. You can tell your people to civilize around a totem forming something like a “base” for them. But first you have to make sure they will be able to reach it. There might be a stream of lava blocking the way. Do you want to build a bridge from sand so you can pass?. Careful the lava might find another way downtown, harming your village leading to the death of “your” people. Your people need to traverse the sea? Jellify all water and dig it out so they can walk on the ground of the sea while you laugh like a maniac, feeling like Moses…and then realise that the water will liquefy before the tribe reaches the other side, making the water-walls clash on them, leading to a certain death.

Playing god suddenly feels less enjoyable but really challenging when the beautiful yet fragile world gets faced by the cruelty of the nature. You always have to find the balance between creating a wonderful and functional world with your terraforming abilities and between creating something too fragile. Water washes the sand away and lava sets your whole world on fire if you don’t care, and you’re more likely to get caught by the cruel nature the nearer you get to the creation of utopia.

Besides the story mode there are also a couple of challenges but there’s one thing really missing in my opinion. Some sort of challenging endless mode . If you wish you can play any map endlessly but most get boring after about an hour because you solved every problem that might show up. Another missing thing is a really cool multiplayer mode, yet I have to say that I prefer a missing multiplayer to a really unworthy multiplayer mode.  Although some little flaws I really love this god-game that has a small touch of a physics-game.

Don’t forget to watch the videos people on youtube I provide you. Until next time, bye.

Categories: Games, Gaming Saturday

Guild Wars 2: The Sylvari get their first own video

August 10, 2011 Leave a comment

Hello readers out there, I hope you’re a plant lover. No matter if you like gardening or to imagine weird stuff involving humanoid plants, you’re going to love this. Since Arenanet released the first informations about the completely new race of the Sylvari I was waiting for this moment to arrive. I was waiting for over two years now to finally know and see more about their background. Even though this video is going to only show you a little bit of the stuff they have to offer, I got completely hyped by watching it.

I don’t think I have to write more and wish you lots of fun while watching this awesomeness coming as a video.

Gaming Saturday #7: Ghost Trick

August 9, 2011 Leave a comment

Hey there, I know it’s not Saturday anymore by far but I actually don’t care at all. The League of Legends servers are down due to the Skarner-patch and I’ve been waiting for Skarner to be released for over three patches now so I’m too excited to play something else.

As you can already see by the box-art I posted, today’s game is called “Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective”. In Ghost Trick the player controls the ghost of the recently died Sissel. Sissel lost his life during a murder and lost his memory when he died. Unfortunately he can only travel through the world by using cores certain objects have in the ghost-world. But soon…with the help of a possessed desk-lamp he figures out that he has the powers of the dead and he uses those to save a girl named Lynne. His powers are described really fast but they offer deep gameplay. Sissel’s ghost is able to manipulate every object he currently possesses and by touching a dead human he is able to rewind the time to 4 minutes before the death occurred and then manipulate the surroundings to save the person that would have been dead.

I will stop talking about the  plot here because it is really to spoil the gaming experience if I say too much. The plot is written very well and you keep wondering yourself what is going on until the last chapter, sometimes it took only a split second to change the way I think that stuff has happened. At the beginning I had a motivation problem but after my friend Rio convinced to go on I trusted him and gave the game another chance. Suddenly I hit a point in the game where nothing made sense anymore and I really wanted to know everything so I didn’t stop playing anymore.

I think everyone out there who has the ability to play Ghost Trick should at least give it a try. Especially if you played and liked Ace Attourney/Gyakuten Saiban because Ghost Trick is produced by the same developer. The riddles in the game are sometimes challenging but easy enough to be manageable without a walkthrough. The plot is literally amazing and somehow makes sense in the end.
I’ll leave you for today with two trailers of Ghost Trick and wish you a lot of fun playing it on your own.

Until we meet again
~Mirodir

League of Legends: New Trailer

July 18, 2010 1 comment

Hey guys. Don’t worry, I’m still alive. I just stopped postig ’cause of some problems. I should have known that girls always bring a lot of trouble but I didn’t expect it to be that bad.

But that’s not what I wanted to tell you. When I came home from my vacation in France yesterday, I started the League of Legends launcher and read about the cinematic-trailer, they brought with the start of “season 1″. I thought, it might suck but when I watched it, I was totally impressed. Most of you should already know the game, but if you have no idea what I’m talking about, check this post out or try it out and sign up for free here.

Now enjoy the video but be aware…it may contain win.

Bloodline Champions: First Impressions

March 1, 2010 Leave a comment

So, I finally managed to get an invitation to the closed beta of Bloodline Champions. Yeah, right, that cool game.

When I first started the game I was very excited. I knew that the game has to be cool but it was even cooler than I imagined. First I played some rounds against Glamurio, well I lost all of them cause he had more experience and this is very important in any skill based games. After, we went through some games and I got better and better while testing some of the bloodlines. I bet you want to know which bloodlines there are, so here you have a short overview.

There are 3 healers right now:

The Alchemist, who is mained by Shelt, the best BLC-gamer right now, has great defensive abilities paired with some nice possibilities to disable enemies at the right moment.

The Psychopomp is  more focused on the battle then the Alchemist but more in a supportive way, then the game’s casters.

The Herald is atm the best healer, staffed with some nice CC abiities and the possibility to return enemy’s projectiles which can be very devastating.

The ranged damage dealers:

The Igniter really likes to summon his fire-spells to burn the enemy down. He/She can even turn him/herself into a flame to get invulnerable.
Staffed with two guns and a rocket launcher the Gunner is able to deal heavy damage in ranged combat. She is able to blind their enemies and to get invisible for a short amount of time, to pull off surprising attacks.
The Nomad has the best CC of all ranged dps bloodlines. She can take out enemies for 4 seconds which is pretty long in this game. Her boomerangs are able to hit more than one enemy at one throw if well aimed.

There are also tanks:

Glutton is a really heavy person with a high amount of HP paired with a nice self-healing spell.  To deal damage he uses his fists to beat the enemy or he summons/throws rocks at them.
The Vanguard is focused on melee battles but he has two spells to reach the enemy easily. First in melee-range, it’s very hard to escape a well played Vanguard.
The Inhibitor is the tank with the least HP of all the tank, yet his MS is very slow. His aim is to inhibit the enemy or to strengthen up your team’s attacks. My favorite bloodline right now.

And last but not least, the Melee DPS:

The Harbinger is a very tricky hero to deal with, while he is classified with the melee chars, he is still able to inflict some nice dmg in ranged combat. Additionally he is able to pull enemies or allies towards him.
The Spearmaster is a nice melee focused dps-bloodline who can still pull of some damage in ranged combats, if needed, he can close the gap to the enemy with a spear throw and stunning them afterwards.
The Ranid Assassin is the bloodline with the highest possible dps. As the name says, he is able to go into stealth and surprising the enemy with a ton of burst damage. Paired with poison and a blind he can be really annoying.

Overall I have to say that this this game is really great and you will miss something if you won’t give it a try once it will be out of closed beta.

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