Trying to drain what’s left of my Christmas money, I got two more games yesterday.<\/p>\n
1. Booster Trooper.
\n2. Dragon Age: Origins – Ultimate Edition<\/p>\n
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\nI started playing Booster Trooper as a guest pass from a friend of mine. What I first saw I thought “Ehh.. another multiplayer-only game”. But actually this has Single Player in it, and you can complete against bots.
\nThe object is simple — kill the opposing team, over and over again. There’s four gamemodes..
\nCapture the Flag, but instead of flags you have giant rings
\nDestroy the Beacon. Red team tries to destroy Blue’s two beacons to win the round. Blue has to defend them.
\nDeathmatch. What’s there to say about it?
\nTeam Deathmatch. Red VS Blue in an all-out fragfest.
\nThe game is set out sometime in the future, which is why both teams have jetpacks. It’s probably the first 3D side scrolling multiplayer game I’ve seen in my life.
\nYour weapons range from an Assault Rifle to a Rocket Launcher, and can be changed… anytime you die.
\nReason why I like this game is because of the hilarious death screams of ending several enemies with one rocket, and the red “Double kill!”, “Triple kill!!”, “QUAD KILL!!!”, “CARNAGE!!!!” text you see infront of you. You also can gain achievements in Single Player that you would normally get in multiplayer.
\nWhat I don’t like is the fact it doesn’t save what you set to set up the match everytime you play. For example, I set Bots to 11, play, I quit the game\/map. I go back in, and I have to set it again to 11. Everytime. Hoping there’s a text file lurking somewhere that I can set the defaults.<\/p>\n
. The reason why it took so long is because of the shitty download speeds I was getting. Had to constantly switch servers just to get a decent speed.<\/p>\n Alright, now with ranting about how shitty Steam’s servers are, time to talk about the game. One thing I want to mention is each class (and sub class) is a game in itself. Such as playing a Warrior has it’s own story, and playing a Mage is another story which is completely different from the others. All of these different versions of the game’s opening are known as Origins. It’s the origin of how the player character, you<\/em>, came to be what you are now in the game.<\/p>\n As for the gameplay itself, it seems if there was a game before it (depending which class you choose), and apparently there was. Dragon Age: Origins is supposed to be the spiritual successor of Baldur’s Gate<\/a>. I would say that this game is just another “k, here you go, we couldn’t afford telling you what to do so good luck!” game, but it does have a tutorial… a limited one that doesn’t cover everything you need to know about the game, such as this Tactics tab. The plot of the game boils down to one thing; there’s these “darkspawn” which are like the Scourge in WoW, except they’re demons. Their armies, known as a Blight, are marching north as they kill everyone and everything in their path. I am already having second thoughts of this game, though. When your companions level, you have to manually set their skills and sub-skills and that’s quite hard for someone that just started playing<\/strong>. I can barely keep up with my own<\/strong> gear and skills. Would be nice if they could auto level, but it seems everything is manual in this game. Also it would be nice if your Mage companions would heal you. I’m just growing tired of seeing everyone but me dying in battle. It seems to me knowing what each of your teammate’s strengths and weaknesses are is crucial to completing this game, due to being able to control your party members. You can also get one of your party members to look into the party inventory (again, manually) and pick what they need from it. Also, after what I think was the end of my origin, I went to a random town where I was told by one of my party members “This town will be visited by the darkspawn soon. We should visit here because it may not be here when we return.” Another thing I don’t like is the lack of autosaves. I did alot of shit an hour ago (side quests for a town), and lost it all due to a crash because the autosave didn’t … save it.<\/p>\n This game is however not without some (and I do mean SOME) humor. One thing is talking to an NPC and you and all of your party members are covered in blood splatters from a recent attack. This game seems to lack any sort of transportation, including horses. Maybe it’s because the previous blights killed them all. When going somewhere on the world map, you click there and a trail of blood splatters shows your current location on the map. Other than all the issues I’ve faced so far, as long as there’s no internal time limit or phasing system I’ll do my best not to bitch about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trying to drain what’s left of my Christmas money, I got two more games yesterday. 1. Booster Trooper. 2. Dragon Age: Origins – Ultimate Edition . I started playing Booster Trooper as a guest pass from a friend of mine. … Continue reading
\nAnd then there’s Dragon Age. I first wanted it due to the name and the bloody dragon on the boxart. But the irony of it is there’s only one dragon in the entire game. The term “Dragon Age” easily means, the Medieval Age. The age of knights, kingdoms, and shivery.
\nFor months I’ve been thinking of getting it, yet the price kept turning me away. But I did something I should had done months ago… watched a tutorial of it on Youtube.
\nThere’s plenty of them too, but it still wasn’t selling me. That was until I noticed “Hmm… you know this looks alot like WoW.”, and I saw you can join up as a group.. that sold me right there.
\nI bought it and started the download yesterday. It took until tonight<\/strong> for it to finally complete. This thing has Origins, Awakening, and nine DLC’s all bundled into a $37 pack, which was cheaper than getting both Origins and Awakening separately.<\/p>\n
\nFrom what I can see when it comes to combat, healing is just like WoW (you wait after combat is over and your health goes up on its own). And if one of your party members die, it’s like Mass Effect (as in they come back to life after all hostiles in the area are dead).
\nHowever, if they die, they receive one or two nasty wounds as punishment for being defeated that can only be healed by two ways. Using a healing spell or going to a “party camp” which I haven’t found yet.<\/p>\n
\nEvery 200 years, they attack. The game is based around the start of the 5th blight. The leader of the darkspawn is an archdemon, who happens to be inside a… you guessed it! A dragon! The words “fierce” and “immortal” given to me from an NPC told me before I found out through the wiki.<\/p>\n
\nMaybe I’m just doing it wrong. I can dual weld now, but I’m having trouble locating a merchant.. or anyone I can sell this useless trash I’ve been collecting and try to get a pair of good 1H swords. I’m too busy questing to have a chance to just search for an NPC that’ll buy or trade.<\/p>\n
\nDoes this mean that there’s an annoying internal clock in this game, ticking down to a set time where you have to complete the game or you fail, or there’s phases where if you leave and come back later it’ll be gone? I really<\/strong> hope not. Because if there is, I won’t give a shit how long it took me to install the game because I would be uninstalling it.
\nI hate<\/strong> time limits.<\/p>\n
\nBlood splatters seem to be one of the themes of this game.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of going places, the loading screen times are horrible, sometimes taking 30 seconds until finally loading the new area.<\/p>\n