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12
Oct

StarCraft II: Trilogy or “I’ve never met an announcement I couldn’t bitch about”

Dammit.

My rant on Halo 3: Recon is still fresh on my fingertips and already I find my fingers typing venom at Blizzard’s announcement that StarCraft II is going to be three games instead of one.  Obligatory personal color / backstory paragraphs (only two, I swear) before we get to the meat:

StarCraft is the shit.  Easily ranks in my (hell, most people’s) top five games.  I’ve replayed it within the past year, because I love it so.  WarCraft and its first sequel were good games, but they never hit me with “great”.  StarCraft did.  The characters were more formed, the universe more inventive, and the play more epic.  And for the past decade I’ve waited for the day that Jim Raynor could slit the Queen of Blades’ throat– so the announcement of StarCraft II was seen by me as a good thing… save my increasing distrust of Blizzard.

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09
Sep

Spore: Tremendously “Okay”

Grant Dent has weighed in his lofty pirate anger, but we have yet to produce a word on the actual content of the new Will Wright game.  Allow my title to produce our very first: “Okay”.

Aside to my writing partner-in-crime; Mr. Dent, you cannot read this article any further, for you still have to make your own review.  BWAHAHAHA (as if I’m in charge around here… I couldn’t program even this simple a Word Press website if my life depended on it)!

This game is apparently a big fucking deal, or so National Geographic tells me.  I don’t actually subscribe to National Geographic, nor do I worship at the altar of The Sims enough to have paid ten dollars in advance to essentially create worthless game skins.  So, when I first installed the game (without concern as to the greater DRM reckoning that has blown across the landscape of the Internet), I went in with the understanding that I would be playing from a single-cell organism all the way to a space-fairing civilization, and little else.

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