Archive for the ‘ Gaming ’ Category

Ultima IX Ascension – Intro Video

  • February 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

What’s best to do on a stormy spring autumn evening in your cozy carpeted living room with fireplace lightened messy bachelor apartment on the seventh floor while the wind cries outside through the trees concrete gaps? Correct! Playing a nice and well-matured Role-playing Game like for example Ultima. Ultima is the one role-playing game where you [ READ MORE ]

Moments In Gaming 5: Fighting Force

  • February 14th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

Today’s installment of Moments In Gaming covers the 1997 Playstation game Fighting Force. It was one of those games in the late nineties era of video games where the fresh 3D technology of the Playstation spawned an avalanche of outstanding 3D games. In Fighting Force you play the role of one ruffian (or ruffine) who is [ READ MORE ]

Mass Effect 2: The Future of RPGs? Oh really?

There has been a lot of hype around the release of Mass Effect 2 some weeks back and some people already start claiming that this game is going to be the Future of RPGs. Rampant Coyote took a stance and so did The Brainy Gamer. Being an old hand RPGer and having played Mass Effect [ READ MORE ]

Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic with Tandy Sound Enabled

  • February 9th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

Today’s video pick (yeah right, as if I had a new post everyday here) is from YouTube user Five5Six and about how he managed to get Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic to run on DOSBox with Tandy sound enabled. That’s right, Tandy sound! By default the game uses those bleepy PC speaker sounds as in [ READ MORE ]

Sword of Fargoal for iPhone

  • December 13th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

The classic dungeon crawler Sword of Fargoal has been released for the iPhone and it turns out that it’s one of the few computer/console-game-to-iPhone conversions I’ve came across that are actually fun to play on the touch-screen (unlike, say, Sonic, Bomberman et al). Go check it out if you’re into RPGs with an ever-changing maze-like [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 4: Whodunit? (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

  • November 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

While the main quest of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion didn’t attract me very much -- admittedly I haven’t even completed it once to this day -- some of the side quests were amusingly entertaining, particularly the Thief’s Guild and Dark Brotherhood quest series. Both of these feature stories with some pretty twisted plots and [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 3: Grager’s Yacht (Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic)

  • November 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

Back in the days when computer games still required you to use your imagination to play them there was a role-playing game pearl named Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, one of the many scifi-themed RPGs back then which today are only sparsely seeded in retailer shelves. Future Magic was first released for DOS and a port [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 2: “All In” ICBM Launch (CoD Modern Warfare)

  • November 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is one of the few FPS games that really impressed me. First, it didn’t feature the same overused WWII theme but a refreshing present day scenario, second, it has a very professional feel to it. The graphics are awesome, the gameplay is perfect and characters and dialog are believable. And [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 1: Cate Archer vs. Isako (No One Lives Forever 2)

  • November 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

No One Lives Forever and it’s sequel are two games that I particularly enjoyed playing. Set in a mid-century spy movie theme you are playing Cate Archer, a top secret agent for an English secret service called U.N.I.T.Y. who has to take down the terrorist organization aptly named H.A.R.M. The two games are very atmospheric and [ READ MORE ]

For less Left-Hander Discrimination in Gaming!

  • September 27th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

I’m a southpaw! I do all kinds of things that require a certain degree of eye to hand-coordinated skill with my left hand. This includes using the computer mouse too. So I have the mouse on the left side next to my keyboard with my left hand using the mouse and left part of the [ READ MORE ]

Good Old Games releases Realms of Arkania

After their last RPG masterpiece release, the Might & Magic 6-Pack, gog.com have now released Realms of Arkania 1+2 and 3. RoA is the English version of what I only knew as Das Schwarze Auge in German back in the 16-bit days of Amiga. If my memory serves me right only the first part [ READ MORE ]

Bad Language in Games

The other day I was playing the Point Lookout Add-on for Fallout 3 and there is this one main quest where you go to inspect an area named Calvert Mansion just to run into a ghoul named Desmond. He seemed very busy trying to defend the mansion against Tribal intruders and without asking me directly [ READ MORE ]