Puzzle Quest 2
Aug. 16th, 2010 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomHappy happy, joy joy! Although some people will likely not get it simply because the online version requires Steam. I've got Steam, haven't hooked up with it in over a year; I may wait until the PC disk version of PQ2 is released to see if it needs Steam as well.
For those of you curious about my excitement, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (the game to which PQ2 is a sequel) is a match-3 game, like Bejeweled, with one simple, amazing twist: The match-3 is done competitively, as a fantasy RPG combat system. Match colored gems, you get mana for your abilities and spells; match purple stars, you get experience; match gold, you get gold.
Match skulls, and you do damage to your opponent.
(Best place to buy it is Big Fish, only $6.99.)
Any upcoming games you can't wait to get your hands on?
For those of you curious about my excitement, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (the game to which PQ2 is a sequel) is a match-3 game, like Bejeweled, with one simple, amazing twist: The match-3 is done competitively, as a fantasy RPG combat system. Match colored gems, you get mana for your abilities and spells; match purple stars, you get experience; match gold, you get gold.
Match skulls, and you do damage to your opponent.
(Best place to buy it is Big Fish, only $6.99.)
Any upcoming games you can't wait to get your hands on?
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Date: 2010-08-16 01:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-16 02:37 pm (UTC)I'm also working through a backlog of XBox games. Finished Assassin's Creed the other day, now working on Bioshock. (This is what happens when you come to a system three years late. At least there doesn't seem to be any sign of the eighth console generation.)
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Date: 2010-08-16 02:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-16 02:46 pm (UTC)Where am I going to find the time...
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Date: 2010-08-16 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-16 04:27 pm (UTC)Only thing I'm kind of mad about is that I'm going to have to play through the entire thing again in order to get one of the XBox 360 acheivements.
Upcoming games I can't wait for (in order of desirability:
1) Epic Mickey <--really, really want to see this one
2) Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
3) Marvel vs Capcom 3
4) The new Zelda game (can't remember the title right now)
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Date: 2010-08-16 04:29 pm (UTC)Bioshock Infinite - if you haven't seen the trailer they just released, do it now - do not pass go, do not collect $200.
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Date: 2010-08-16 05:59 pm (UTC)The biggest one I'm looking forward to, though, is Fallout: New Vegas. Yessssssss.
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Date: 2010-08-16 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-16 07:44 pm (UTC)I was sold on MvC3 as soon as I saw Deadpool do a Shoryuken. :D
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Date: 2010-08-16 06:20 pm (UTC)DC Online's trailer kicks, of course, how the game will be is still uncertain.
DDO is about to introduce underwater adventures in Update 6.
WWE is going to have both Raw vs Smackdown '11 *and* a classic wrestler game coming up in the next six months.
Tom T.
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Date: 2010-08-16 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-16 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-16 09:42 pm (UTC)The biggest problem I have is that the computer wrestlers will pull off moves that the real ones they are simulating would never do (John Morrison and R-Truth themselves complained about this) and that the game does not tell you what you have to do to unlock things, so you have no choice but to play *everything*, even if you don't want to do Edge's RtR campaign. A lesser one is that the final abilities that you have are always the same--100s in all your talents. A better path on that might be to allow you a max total of points, but let you go to 130 on some of them. "My wrestler goes to 11," so to speak.
Next time you're over, I'll let you try it--didn't think of it this April.
Tom
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Date: 2010-08-17 12:17 am (UTC)(I don't recall buying it, but I must have picked up the Orange Box at some point - possibly because I had some credit at Steam due to the HL2 delayed release and a promise made by ATI when I bought a video card from them)
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Date: 2010-08-17 02:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-17 02:54 am (UTC)(Also for the record, I prefer Impulse to Steam.)
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Date: 2010-08-17 03:53 am (UTC)So far it's pretty good. I went with someone on the side of the Tyrant. At one point you have a choice between two missions. One takes you on the path of Responsibility (using your powers to protect the citizens) the other on the path of Power (using your powers for fame and fortune). I know I clicked on the former but wound up being put on the latter. So be careful when you make your choices.
I'm trying out a Fire/Kinetic Tanker (not sure how I'll explain her powers). It's fun but a real END hog. I'm playing her as an idealist who becomes disillusions by Emperor Cole's form of order and joins the heroes.
Next I'll build a demon summoning mastermind as a cross between Joker and Harlequin. She'll be a resistance fighter then a villain just to cause chaos. I'll name her demons after conservative talking heads like Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, etc. (sinister laugh)
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Date: 2010-08-17 03:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-17 02:32 pm (UTC)I'm not very thrilled with online requirements for logins for a non-online game. In Dragon Age: Origins, you can lose some of the items and adventures you've paid for if the game can't connect with the server and verify you're you.
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Date: 2010-08-18 12:22 am (UTC)I like the idea of online content delivery and will tolerate a reasonable DRM system. But I shouldn't have to have an internet connection all the time. I play non-online games when my internet is down (or being used for *ahem* high broadband applications). Going online to confirm what's mine is mine pretty much defeats the purpose of the whole thing in my case.
This line from their wiki entry I find most disturbing:
According to the Steam Subscriber Agreement, Steam's availability is not guaranteed and Valve is under no legal obligation to release an update disabling the authentication system in the event that Steam becomes permanently unavailable.
So when Steam goes belly up or bought out (it happens to all companies sooner or later), whoever spent their money on them gets screwed. One reason I still buy physical media (CDs, Blu-Ray, DVD-ROMS, etc) when possible is to protect me from the inevitable failure of digital-only media.
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Date: 2010-08-18 12:46 am (UTC)Some of the games have additional DRM, but that's usually present on the DVD version as well.
Most DVD games require online activation these days as well, and atleast one publisher *has* gone to active network connection at all times required to play the game (That's Ubisoft).
For me, the convenience of not having to find a place to store media outweighs the chance of Steam going belly-up.
It is one of the reasons I prefer Stardock Impulse, as that has much looser DRM as a baseline. Read Brad Wardell on DRM for games sometime; it's eye-opening. Essentially, he wants his music on Napster.
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