Guest poster Rob gives us a quick look at this limited edition tabletop game from Games Workshop.
Picture taken by Anomalous_A, originally uploaded to Flickr.
Brittnie and I have had a pair of free movie tickets sitting on the bookshelf by our front door for months. Last night, we pondered why they are still sitting there, collecting a sheen of dust, rather than being torn in half at our local movie theater.
I was pretty sick last week, hence the lack of updates on the site. It felt like it was a cold on steroids…definitely not the flu, but still quite nasty. It wasn’t until late Friday that I was feeling well enough to do some gaming, but I did a TON of it over the weekend.
I started up Mass Effect 2 again so that I could complete a playthrough with my Female Renegade Shepard (I’ve got 13 hours and 54 minutes on the savegame) Even though it’s been two years since I wrote it, my original review for ME2 still represents my opinion today. I find this to be quite interesting…I figured I would view the game differently now, but that’s apparently not the case.
On Friday, I also got started on making an additional dent in our 2012 backlog by loading up Chrono Trigger when I wasn’t sleeping or playing ME2. I’ve got a little over 10 hours on it, and just beat the Guru on Mt. Woe. It’s really odd: I’m trying to go through it as if I were the age I would have been when it was first released (I would have been 11), and it’s really cool, but I feel like Final Fantasy VI and Secret of Mana/Evermore were better (which I was busy playing when Chrono Trigger originally released, hence why I didn’t play it back then.) Don’t get me wrong, I really like (love?) the game, it’s just that it hasn’t been the earth-shattering experience I’ve been told to expect. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any nostalgia attached to it? ::shrug:: Who knows. It’s definitely good though, and I look forward to going through it again at some point after I finish it. Ironically, it gave me even MORE appreciation for Radiant Historia, which quickly became one of my favorite games of all time.
Over the course of this week and the coming weekend, I hope to finish off both ME2 and Chrono Trigger, paving the way for more backlog goodness. Hmm…perhaps L.A. Noire will be next? We’ll see!
As discussed in this article, 2012 is the year that we’re going to be making an effort to get through our backlog. As we play through each title, we’ll post an article on it…it may be short, it may be long, but it’ll provide a brief synopsis on what we think.
In this first entry of Backlog 2012, we take a quick peek at the decimated world of Metro 2033.
We played the PC version, which was originally released on March 16th, 2010 in North America.
Scalable gameplay! Status effects! Phat lootz! Legions of monsters! Random dungeons! Spawn points! Magic Spells! This isn’t the latest hack ‘n slash video game; this is Super Dungeon Explore.
What do you get when you film a movie with actors speaking four different languages, create some cheesy special effects that manage to capture the viewer’s imagination, and throw in some body suits that look like the X-Men movies and Biker Boyz got smooshed together? You get Planet of the Vampires, that’s what.
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Like most of you, we here at Living With a Nerd have a rather extensive backlog. Considering what the release schedule in 2012 is looking like, this is the year we’re going to spend putting a solid dent in the games we have yet to complete.
Do you want to have access to tasty espresso in the comfort of your own home, but don’t want to deal with the maintenance a proper espresso maker demands? The Essenza may be just the machine you’re looking for.
Note: this review is in no way sponsored by Nestle or any of its subsidiaries. We received this machine as a gift from a family member.
The excellent Trails in the Sky made it’s way to North America by way of publisher XSEED. It was beginning to look like we’d never see the multiple titles that followed, but fortune has smiled on gamers once more. Aeria Games is not only porting the first entry to smartphone platforms, but it’s porting the entire series (which is the third “act” in a massive collection of games.)
Trails in the Sky joined titles like Radiant Historia and Crimson Gem Saga in marking the triumphant return of the old-school RPG, so it does my heart good to see that the rest of the series will make an appearance here at some point.
