Okay, I’ve been hitting up Viking a lot this week and I’ve put Dragonball Z on the backburner. My list of tasks were:

• Free X Vikings
• Find stuff
• Kill stuff
• Summon the dragon

Now you get the hints and parts of the dragon quest quite early on, so I got annoyed I didn’t find it sooner. It’s just a huge tease to mention it so early on and then leave it till just before the last battle. Anyway, I’m starting to get a little annoyed with the game. There are certain sections that can only be done by using stealth(see video). Actually, I’m sure they can be done, but the moment you are discovered in the camp of the enemies, you get attacked relentlessly. Just when I thought I had fought my way out I was swarmed again and killed.

The big battle scenes are quite epic, the amount of fighting going on is just insane. I learned the hard way that you shouldn’t let the bloodlust take control because in the slaughter if you slay too far from your army you go down quickly under a hail of blows. Unfortunately the dragon isn’t fighting with you in real time. In a way I don’t know how they could have done it without taking friendly fire into account. Even if they used the same ‘get a rune, tell dragon to attack this spot on the map, return to battle’ and had the dragon flying around in the background it would have felt a lot more rewarding. They tried to say that it only does what you say when you acquire dragon runes(taken from shamans and big gribbly dudes) so story-wise it works, but it seems like a cop out.

Anyway, you fight a big guy at the end, and you don’t get to finish him off, then go to the next land. Im not sure if this game could hold my attention unless they really increase the killing move types in the next area. But without further adieu, here is the next vid in my adventure:

I just checked a post over at the Brainy Gamer and thought I might share a kickass idea. He is running a vintage gaming club online which works on the same concept as a book club, as in grab a game, play it, discuss. The catch is that the game has to be vintage, ie: “characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal”. The enduring appeal is the thing that might very well sucker me in.

As much as I like to play games, my time can be a bit scattered and the general feel of the club is that it will go at its own pace and really appreciate the game. I’ve always loved to talk games but being as anti-fanboy as I can be and with some games coming out, it’s hard to keep a level head. Not saying that I don’t have my own moments of gibbering blather on games that may otherwise not really be the best, but this does look like a great idea.

Anyway, I thought I would throw it up to any readers that might not see the post:

Vintage Game Club

Okay, this is my first video for quite some time, so excuse me if its a bit rough. For ages I’ve been meaning to record some gameplay from the Viking: Battle for Asgard game and I’ve only just gotten around to it. It’s a 20 meg video so be warned, it might take some time to cue, but I did cut it down quite a bit from the original. I just grabbed some nice kills that I described in an earlier post and my first ‘raid’ so to speak. Im currently playing a lot of Dragonball Z Burst Limit, but I think the last few fights have got my adrenaline rushing so I might pick this back up again sooner than I thought.

Enjoy:

I signed up for the Mythos Beta ages ago, installed a big file and deleted it shortly after. Recently, a friend of mine has tried it again and convinced me to give it a go. After a lot of screwing around I decided to download it and jump back on. I have to admit, I was quite surprised. Instead of the excessively confusing and awful game I remember I was treated to something that played very similar to Diablo. In fact, if Diablo and World of Warcraft had a baby, it would be Mythos. When I mean baby, I mean baby.

Meet Loco. He is the character I have made, you can choose from 4 races and 3 classes. This isnt a hell of a lot of choice, but they do the job of steering clear of the Blizzard races, while still retaining the same elements of every RPG. You could say it looks like the character creation screen on WoW, but a lot of things use it, its nothing new to use a good layout. For some reason he has a cigar/cigarette. This wasn’t because I chose a Pyromancer class(although it’s quite convenient, it’s because he’s a Gremlin. Don’t feed them after midnight, don’t get them wet, give them tobacco.

The main things I took a little bit to get around were the movement and the ‘quest instances’. The movement works like Diablo, your basic point and click movement. I don’t really mind this at all, but after WoW, it just feels a little weird. The other thing was the instances are more ‘dungeons’. The first quests were easy enough for me to solo, even as a spellcaster. I only have 2 spells so far, one which is basically the awesome Burning Hands spell from Baulder’s Gate, and the other is a basic flame arrow that goes through rows of baddies.

There isn’t really much else to say at the moment, but I highly recommend it to MMORPG fans. It might not be past it’s infant stages, but a free *decent* game is hard to find.