Did your family give or receive lots of fun Games & Puzzles this holiday season? Board Games, Card Games and Jigsaw Puzzles are my favorite form of entertainment. Here I share a few of my favorite ‘games’ stories from years past.<br /><br /><br />
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Monthly Archive for December, 2010
Many of the Free Kingdoms refugees held high hopes that their beloved Sir Robert of Andover would help them escape the drudgery they were in. So far he could not live up to the expectations. But, as any good leader would, he decided to step up and once again become a great warrior on the battlefield, putting his life at stake in order to give his armies a fighting chance at achieving victory, freedom, and the chance to having a life again.
This is an immediate erratum to the Warlord Sir Robert of Andover: He receives an additional Hit Point (4 HP total) and his order is changed to: “Order: Twice per turn: Until end of turn, target adjacent Free Kingdoms has an additional melee strike (base = target’s primary ATK) when he attacks. If Sir Robert is in the first rank the target may perform an order.”
This gives him more versatility to play both in a support role as well as a front line role and marks the first step in jumping up our “three worst Warlords”. I look forward to playing him and I hope, so do you!
With Christmas just over, here’s a little tidbit that will make the heart of any Sir Robert player beat faster:
Commanding Presence
Level 4 Fighter Item
Stance
Adjacent lower level characters have +3 ATK. This character has +1 ATK, AC and Skill for each character in this rank that his character is giving a bonus to.
It is still in playtest, so there might be changes to it, but I don’t really expect it.
When I first saw this title, I was a little skeptical. What possibly you could get from a game called Deathspank? Well, it looks to me that I was wrong. Deathspank actually delivers fun for RPG fans, even though it’s a “hack’n’slash type of game.
First, this game is RPG, so you will have opportunity to dress up your characters, choose the guns you want to use, will have potions and other skill-changing items. Secondly, it endless fun to listen for the conversations between NPC and Deathspank! If you have a good humor sense, if you understand ironic humor, this will be a really well spent time while playing Deathspank. I actually laugh out loud for a quite few times when playing this game. And this doesn’t happen a lot to me 
The PROS for this game that it’s colorful, good looking, graphics – while not the “Realistic” ones, still “drawn” graphics deliver. Quests are fun and the reading/listening part is very funny.
CONS is that the game sometimes is a little bit repetitive. It’s hack’n’slash – so there is a chance you can finish your game spamming X button.
I would give this game 8/10. It’s a really nice adittion to your best PS3 RPG games collection, while waiting for some other games. Did I mention that this game is downloadable from PSN (means no actual disc). When I got it I paid something in a range of 8$. There is two expansions for this game, but I still didn’t got it – currently playing Fallout: New Vegas
As always, there is a video review from gametrailers about this game:
Hello Warlord players!
Christmas is here and looking out of the office I see more snow than the region has seen in over 35 years. White Christmas is something that is not expected here (we are not like Florida, but usually all we see is rain).
Anyways – I wish all of you a merry christmas and a good time spending with the people who you love!
I really loved one sentence I heard somewhere – “This is how Final Fantasy XIII should have looked like”! And when I was playing this game, I really had exactly the same thoughts. This game is pretty hard (but not as hard as Demon Souls), and it’s one of rare RPG’s where you are able to play with guns, instead of futuristic swords or axes. Also, the battle is a little different from regular turn based or hack/slash battles. You will have to the video review from GameTrailers to see what I mean. Basically you have two types of bullets, one of which does “temporary damage”, and if you want to do “permament damage”, you have to use your second bullets, or the temporary damage will heal fast.
What else I liked about this game, is the moving between battles. You still have some random encounters and you have to battle enemies even if they are way below your level. But you don’t have to run with your character around. Instead, you are using grid to move around. While playing, you open new levels of the grid, new blocks to put on the grid and later be able to move around it, and so on.
CONS of this game – sometimes I got really mad with all the random encounters while wandering in low level territories – I still had to fight enemies which were way below my level, and that took time! So I couldn’t always enjoy battles with worth enemies. Also, game got harder and harder when going further.. It sometimes killed the fun.
But overall, this is really great game. I would give 8.5/10. Yay!
As I can see now, this game is on sale on Amazon.com ! Now it’s only 20$, while the regular price is 50-60$.. So you should really consider buying it if you want to have a nice addition to your PS3 RPG collection
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APS #22 and #23 will be delayed somewhat – mostly because we in the design team are reviewing the set under the slightly changed design parameters (”more game for the buck”).
The big question, though, is: Are you planning to buy this set?
If you are a US player, please discuss (and use the poll) on the Temple of Lore!
If you are a European player, please use this Cardmasters-Forum link.
As passionate gamers, we at GameSpy Tech (and I as a product manager) spend time each week thinking about which dynamics and technologies enable great gaming experiences, which don’t, and which just plain suck. Recently, a friend forwarded me a …
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