Don't take this as an admission of dislike for the game! I've been deliberately holding myself away from the game, waiting for some more updates to come to the game and friends to get themselves back into a situation to play too. I've been keeping up to date with the updates and it looks really exciting! Hopefully soon I'll get back into it. Until then I have DOOM and other awesome games to keep my mind off it.
I recently saw youtube videos showing alien ships appearing in Elite! Thargoids?!
Friday, 6 January 2017
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
2016 games of the year
There were several games I really enjoyed last year, but the top spot is very easy:
DOOM - the new incarnation of this classic shooter is a stunner. If you enjoy an FPS, this is a must have. The feel of the game is spot on; it's a rare example of a modern game with an actually good single player! The sound, the graphics the gameplay are as near to perfect as I can comprehend. The only down side is the multiplayer, but it has it and it's good for a laugh.
Other games I've particularly enjoyed have been:
Company of Heroes 2 - this game has contributed a lot to my decent into going back into modelling and table top war gaming. This is a strategy game with character. Each Nation has a very different feel and the different Generals add to the diversity of tactical choices. The combat, pseudo base building and resource gathering sort of make sense and make for an enjoyable, highly tactical, divert real time strategy game.
Helldivers - a top down, stick shooter with so much more! I loved playing this game at the beginning of the year on PS4 and now it's dropped in price on PC I've grabbed it there too, with a mate. I love the playability of Arrowhead Games' games; so simple, yet brutal and wonderfully moreish!
Planetside 2 - I've not played this in a while, but when I was it was absorbing a large amount of time. It still stands as my most played game on Steam... This massively multiplayer shooter really scratched that mass military operation itch, that I hadn't been able to satisfy since I stopped playing WW2 online some 10 years ago or more. The only reason I moved away was because it was becoming repetitive; campaigns only last a couple of days at most and the game revolves around the same continents over and over. If the pace of the campaigns was slowed somehow I think I would have felt more compelled to stick around. It is a brilliant game otherwise and I will be back at it in the near future, when the itch re-emerges.
Space Engineers - I must admit I don't really feel I've actually "played" the game yet. But I have spent 10s of hours creating things in the creative mode! Looking back through my old ship designs I've built a couple of large ships I'm quite proud of. With the game recently moving into beta I hope to finally make the plunge into survival mode and start playing the game properly, so to speak.
Those are the main games that have really stuck in my mind from the last year, but there were numerous smaller games, such as, Prison Architect, FTL, Planet Base, Banished and, of course, World of Warships. These games haven't occupied my mind so much as tickled a smaller itch or, in the case of World of Warships, been a catalyst for staying in touch with old friends.
Computer games are an important part of my life. I love the creativity they can encourage, the social interaction it allows with peoples 100s of miles apart and the stories they can tell. I can't wait to explore new games in the coming year!
DOOM - the new incarnation of this classic shooter is a stunner. If you enjoy an FPS, this is a must have. The feel of the game is spot on; it's a rare example of a modern game with an actually good single player! The sound, the graphics the gameplay are as near to perfect as I can comprehend. The only down side is the multiplayer, but it has it and it's good for a laugh.
Other games I've particularly enjoyed have been:
Company of Heroes 2 - this game has contributed a lot to my decent into going back into modelling and table top war gaming. This is a strategy game with character. Each Nation has a very different feel and the different Generals add to the diversity of tactical choices. The combat, pseudo base building and resource gathering sort of make sense and make for an enjoyable, highly tactical, divert real time strategy game.
Helldivers - a top down, stick shooter with so much more! I loved playing this game at the beginning of the year on PS4 and now it's dropped in price on PC I've grabbed it there too, with a mate. I love the playability of Arrowhead Games' games; so simple, yet brutal and wonderfully moreish!
Planetside 2 - I've not played this in a while, but when I was it was absorbing a large amount of time. It still stands as my most played game on Steam... This massively multiplayer shooter really scratched that mass military operation itch, that I hadn't been able to satisfy since I stopped playing WW2 online some 10 years ago or more. The only reason I moved away was because it was becoming repetitive; campaigns only last a couple of days at most and the game revolves around the same continents over and over. If the pace of the campaigns was slowed somehow I think I would have felt more compelled to stick around. It is a brilliant game otherwise and I will be back at it in the near future, when the itch re-emerges.
Space Engineers - I must admit I don't really feel I've actually "played" the game yet. But I have spent 10s of hours creating things in the creative mode! Looking back through my old ship designs I've built a couple of large ships I'm quite proud of. With the game recently moving into beta I hope to finally make the plunge into survival mode and start playing the game properly, so to speak.
Those are the main games that have really stuck in my mind from the last year, but there were numerous smaller games, such as, Prison Architect, FTL, Planet Base, Banished and, of course, World of Warships. These games haven't occupied my mind so much as tickled a smaller itch or, in the case of World of Warships, been a catalyst for staying in touch with old friends.
Computer games are an important part of my life. I love the creativity they can encourage, the social interaction it allows with peoples 100s of miles apart and the stories they can tell. I can't wait to explore new games in the coming year!
It's the New Year already?!
The end of last year went by in a flash! I was determined to post more on this blog and before I knew it I was knee deep in buying a house, new job and caving to peer pressure.
Last year was a big year in my life, I went from being unemployed and a bit lost, to having a job I enjoy and starting to get back into things outside work. New house and also a new car for the lady is all still in the process, but I think I've got a handle on things now (famous last words...).
I gave into peer pressure! World War 2 table top war gaming finally became too much to resist and before xmas I bought a bundle of British troops, which absorbed the weeks leading up to xmas and will undoubtedly take up many weekends from now, but I don't regret it. My brothers kindly gave me the money for my army as my xmas present and after I'd assembled them all, one of my bros helped me with a base coat, so they're looking pretty good already.
I've seen there's a gaming club in Carlisle and I'm hoping people there play Bolt Action. It's about time I actually started doing stuff in Carlisle with people, socially-like.
There have been a number of bargain games I've picked up in Steam and lots of interesting new games coming up in this year, including maybe some Star Citizen....? We can only hope.
Last year was a big year in my life, I went from being unemployed and a bit lost, to having a job I enjoy and starting to get back into things outside work. New house and also a new car for the lady is all still in the process, but I think I've got a handle on things now (famous last words...).
I gave into peer pressure! World War 2 table top war gaming finally became too much to resist and before xmas I bought a bundle of British troops, which absorbed the weeks leading up to xmas and will undoubtedly take up many weekends from now, but I don't regret it. My brothers kindly gave me the money for my army as my xmas present and after I'd assembled them all, one of my bros helped me with a base coat, so they're looking pretty good already.
I've seen there's a gaming club in Carlisle and I'm hoping people there play Bolt Action. It's about time I actually started doing stuff in Carlisle with people, socially-like.
There have been a number of bargain games I've picked up in Steam and lots of interesting new games coming up in this year, including maybe some Star Citizen....? We can only hope.
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