The PC Is Not Forgotten

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Marvel Heroes, Steam

I’ve been running in Marvel Heroes again.     I currently have Captain America at level 59, and 60 is very close now.     Somehow, I had also previously unlocked the Hulk (16).   And I added Cyclops to the hero stable after getting some free item you could redeem for any hero.

The game is too easy, for certain.    I’m not really sure what I’m attacking half the time, but somehow it’s all still fun.    All I’ve been doing are the daily missions, and I also tried a “One-shot” mission to take out Mr. Hyde.    He had taken over the Bronx Zoo, turned all the animals into reptilian abominations, and I had to take him out.

The game irritates the hell out of me with the number of different currencies involved.   I gave up trying to figure it out.    So I ignore the credits completely, pick up eternity splinters in the hopes of eventual additional heroes, and sell equipment that I pick up (mostly accidentally) to the vendors to increase their levels.   Why I want to increase their levels, I don’t know, it’s probably part of the opaque crafting system.

The most valuable thing in the game is…. inventory space.   Nothing can get you more space for free.   Pretty stupid if you ask me.   This, plus the literally broken crafting that I’ve seen, has made me ignore most of the items.

What’s interesting are the various ways the heroes fight.    Hulk knocks his way through all of his enemies and smash things to bits.   Captain America (aka, Frisbee) has a thrown attack and behaves like a classic tank.    And I get hints about the other characters from seeing people in game and watching how they behave……. it all looks kind of cool, in small doses.   So I’m enjoying the whole thing.

It’s Steam Summer Sale time as I’m sure you all know.    So I’m clogging my Steam library with more games that I don’t have a lot of time to play.   Never did I imagine myself one of those helpless consumers, buying things that are on sale and never using them…… and yet, here I am.    My Steam library now numbers 103 games.

The hunt of finding fun things, for the lowest possible price, is a real rush after spending so many years a slave to buying at whatever Electronics Boutiques price was.    Once it’s in my library, it’s mine forever – moving from computer to computer.    So I guess I’m getting some good value about it, just don’t tell my wife how much I’ve spent in the last few days.

 

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Steaming through achievements

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AdVenture Capitalist, Steam

I’ve been enjoying capturing the various Steam achievements.    This is the kind of gamer I am – patiently accumulating various accolades/powers.    Currently I’m working on getting the final AdVenture Capitalist achievement, as well as Long Live the Queen.

For achievement #10 in AdVenture Capitalist you need a certain number of angels, first of all, so I’m continuing to play the game and restart it pretty often, just to accumulate the unimaginably large numbers of angels I’ll need to unlock literally everything in the game.    That would give me achievement # 430.

And I have two ways to show off my achivements.

I managed to get two different information bars – by achieving Steam Level 20.   I spent a bunch of pennies on buying cards and ended up level 20 so I could show both of these bars.   The first one shows the achievements that I’ve decided to feature on my profile, and the second shows the rarest ones that I’ve achieved.

I selected :

• Endless Space – destroying five fleets in a turn.    It was a fun game, half remembered, but I was surprised at winning so many battles all on one turn.
• Warlock 2 – Hoard 1000 gold.
• Long Live the Queen – Survive to coronation.    Not very rare but I was happy to play through the story and pull it off; over all the other ones I’ve managed to achieve.
• Mafia II – Help Leo out of a tricky situation.   This little part of the game had so much attention lavished on it that I remember it well.   You help the “old boss” to escape the City before he gets whacked.
• Civilization 5 – Build all the wonders.
• Space Ace – Complete the game in Ace mode.    Twas a lot easier than I remember it being in the arcade 30 years ago, but still.
• Carmageddon – Because I’m enjoying the game, and it’s coming out for release real soon – late May 2015.

All of my rare achievements just mean I managed to get very far in Fallen Earth versus the general public, who must have mostly picked up the game and gone to level 10 and quit.    Apparently, I also don’t dive very deep into a lot of games either.

Steam continues to amuse, as I pick up games for next to nothing, and I tend to focus on those with achievements I can earn.    And then – I don’t play them.   But they’re there, ready for me, so I guess it’s all good.     And the nice thing about Steam is, I’m again completely anonymous.    Time to buy another lemonade stand.

Feel free to look me up on Steam – MrrX.

Trying many titles, Very Old to Old

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Spore, Steam, World of Tanks, Xenonauts

GAME 1 : Xenonauts

Xenonauts game continues and has reached February 1980.     I have several countries at maximum funding, along with four bases each having four interception aircraft.

I decided to add another dropship, so I bought a Charlie and enough recruits in North America to crew it up.    They do not have good gear, given that everything I’m making takes forever and goes to the African crew; but they were started on moving up the ladder in ranks and abilities.

Then the Terror mission hit me in Panama City.

Thanks to being on easy mode and having the ability to save and reload, I managed to get through this one after perhaps a dozen false starts.     Go one way, and the Reapers eat your squad and wipe you out.    Maybe I should go this way instead ?    Reapers wipe me out.    Let’s head down the center instead.    Sebilisians shoot us to death, leaving the last two guys cowering under cover – where the Reapers found them and ate them.

I finally got a decent start and managed to lose a single squaddie – only the third guy killed in the game.    Matt Damon sprinted through the streets of Panama to spot the Lizards and take one out.    As he slipped the full auto clip for his rifle to “on”, he spotted a second Lizard and his anxiety increased; he ran past the bastard as he emptied his clip into the beastie, dropping it with a death rattle.

The second Lizard he’d spotted was taken down by his squadmates as the covered him.   Squatting down, he barely has time to react before finding out there were three Lizards standing next to each other, as the survivor clips him and he knows no more.

The survivors managed to slowly work their way across the map and wipe out the aliens.

Getting to this point took almost a week.    I was frustrated enough that I found myself playing additional games instead.

GAME 2 : World of Tanks

You don’t HAVE to play the game like a completely obsessed ADHD-driven teenager with Aspbergers.  (But it does help…..)     Instead, taking advantage of the new log in and get credits feature (50,000 per day!) makes me happy to move forward towards the usual holding amount of 8 million credits (just 400,000 to go), and I get in a match or three before logging off.

The M3 Stuart from China is now elited and also my best “Spotter” having gotten two games in a row with the special medal.

GAME 3 : Spore

Spore got a bad rap when it came out.     The game’s team didn’t manage gamers expectations very well and led the rabid-fan segment to believe there’d be much more to the game.   The truncated release version spurred tons of “But you promised!” comments.   Add in nasty DRM with a splash of EA-hating, and people just didn’t like this title at all.

I played a complete game again over the last few days.     Other than getting it confirmed to me that yes, the Galactic Adventures Add-on sucks, I completely enjoyed the game once again.

Now, EA is not yet done having problems with this title.   My username, for whatever reason, could not log in to the game’s servers.    Surprisingly, creating a new one was a matter of filling out the web form – no need to tie a key in to EA’s servers, probably because this title is so old – and I’m up and running again.  All my creatures are still sitting on one of my PC’s, but really, I don’t care that much, to find them and reintegrate them into the game.    The only nagging problem here is those achievements don’t mean much given this being the fourth time I’ve reset them.

But it’s a lot of fund to play through all the stages.   Even though the details are very wrong, I love playing the story of Evolution, and on towards a simple yet engaging future of space exploration.    Will Wright’s last game remains bittersweet.

“GAME” 4 : Steam

Having raced tanks to the top of my charts in World of Tanks, naturally I end up doing the same thing with Steam.    I keep buying $3 games and trying out other things, but I’ve moved Spore into my top ten games played which it deserves, and keep trying out whatever is fun (Carmageddon) and what isn’t (Age of Wonders III).

We may soon have three Steam accounts in the house – Dad, Son, Daughter.    My daughter is making videos with Garry’s Mod, which at the moment consist of slide shows set to music.   She’s doing a good job with them, and she’s trying to figure out how to animate characters and what not.   I haven’t looked at this stuff at all however.    Then my son is fascinated with Beam.NRG Drive and can’t wait until it comes out.    I’m thinking that each of them should have separate accounts instead of sharing one, even if they have to share a computer at the moment.   I don’t know.     I don’t have to decide until Beam.NRG Drive is available for purchase at least.

And for the moment, Dad’s still working on his Steam Game Backlog.

Beginner Banished

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Banished, Steam

I found myself on Steam again this past week.

My daughter (14) has developed a fixation on Sonic the Hedgehog.    Other than knowing he exists, I was completely ignorant of the Sonic franchise at one point; no longer.     I am treated to discussions of his characteristics and all the other hedgehogs regularly.     One outgrowth of this is she wanted to get Garry’s Mod (“Get me GMOD, Dad”), and eventually I went ahead and got her a Steam account.

Waiting for sales is foreign to little miss “I want it all, and NOW” so we paid the full $10 out of her money and I got to look at it.    It seems like a well done FPS sandbox game, but she wants to use it to make videos and is finally starting to dig into the computer and learn the technology.    Thank you God !

And so, after fiddling around with that, I began to wonder why I’ve not gotten Banished going and loaded that up.    Banished, you’ll remember, is the single player game that gives you a few families which you need to build up into a functioning village among a random map.

After a couple new false starts (all my previous saves are on another computer, and not valuable, as apparently I’d rather start over than dig any of them up) I think I have a good village started.     I went with “Super Easy Mode”, selecting no disasters in addition to easy.    Stebbingdon has a population of 34 and is built with a few strategies in mind.

The first one I’ve saved.

First, is the idea of using a forest carefully for multiple needs.      If you build a herbalist, gatherer’s hut, and hunting lodge, you can overlap the three of their forest circles for min-maxing.   Add in a forester’s lodge just to plant trees and you keep a really nice forest for this use.    Just next to this big circle I built a second forester’s lodge for gathering logs.

The cluster to the left, and the village right and up top.

After a while I found my starting storage barn to be filling up, so I built three more homes and a new storage barn.    The population started eating more than we’re bringing in, so the next step is more food.    But the other key item is the trading hut – the best way, so I’m told, to gather stone and iron for the long term is to trade for it.    Probably by using the renewable resource of trees, and selling firewood for them.     My traders hut is completed, but no traders over the short period of time I had it running before logging off.

Stebbigndon so far. Storage barn is offscreen to the north.

Many sales were had since I’ve last really looked at Steam, and I find myself putting a ton of stuff onto the wishlist in case it goes on sale.    Then I’ll get an email telling me “Hey!   Buy this !”.    I’ve missed out on several, including for Beyond Earth and a couple other things.     And installing a bunch of stuff onto a new computer can be a bit of a pain.    But there’s no question that Steam is valuable for building a game library, being exposed to new stuff, and getting things cheap (on sale).

Interrupting our regular deep introspection with a brief note about playing many games at once

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Carmageddon, Civ5, Fallen Earth, Mafia II, Steam, war-worlds

And for the past week I have spent my energy on many different games.      Many.    Different.   Games.

War Worlds expansion continues.    The north corner of my “square” is getting better defined, and as I continue to move it southwards I get closer to having a large area being worked north-to-south.     I still have my ships moving in that direction all along the loose line from Inkdium to what is left of Curufin, and have passed 6.5 million population.

Mafia II turns out to be quite a bit of fun.    The game is advertised as a shooter, which it is in a certain sense, but I have a much stronger feeling of being inside a Mafia movie instead.    Taking care of the family, and business, and crushing those you don’t know under your bootheel.    So far I’ve gone from rags to riches, to rags, twice.     I assume I’ll end up with riches again but it’s a scripted movie game so who knows for sure.

One thing driving me crazy about Steam is the screenshot method.    When I take a screenshot, it gets saved in some crazy numerically-named folder deep in the folder tree.   This has more or less sapped my desire to get screenshots during the games, which is silly, but I have to be honest with myself.   I want to find it two or three deep in a clearly marked folder, and anything else just doesn’t work for me.     Now, what it works well for is publishing screenshots on your Steam feed, but otherwise, meh.    This is why there’s no images in this post.

I now have the “Pre-Alpha” version of Carmageddon, which is a lot of fun in a limited sense.    I can take out pedestrians and race the other crazy personalilties, just like 20 years ago when the game first came out.    It needs work, no doubt, and I’m waiting for additional updates.    I was misinformed thinking that the game was finished and ready to play.     And so the excruciatingly long lead time for my initial Kickstarter investment continues to tick off.

I have reached Level 23 in Fallen Earth and moved on to S2 – The second map, where there be many factions and the large city of New Flagstaff.   I’ve done some adventuring, but I decided to catch up on my tradeskills.    I now have an ATV as well as my horse, and I’m currently working on making my last Ballistics book before I hit 90 skill, which is the next point at which I can unlock more recipes.    I’m running low on materials (finally) and at some point will need to go out and do some more harvesting.    With 7 red chips (7 million total, I believe) and nothing auction-wise to spend them on, I am buying plenty of Scrap Paper, Pens, Scrap Lead, and Weak Botanics to continue the tradeskilling spree.

I have only three tradeskill slots given that my premium has expired.    This is encouraging me to log in for a few minutes at a time, whenever I know I should be done making whatever was last in the batches.     Then I set up an additional 3 recipes and quit the game.     Play some more War Worlds, etc, then when the time is right head back into the game.  Planning to rinse and repeat until I’ve done everything I can with tradeskills.     So far, the only limiting factor is collecting salvaged wood – I know where to collect tons of the level 1 materials, but I need a bunch of salvaged wood as well.     I’m sure I’ll figure it out later.

Having bought the latest expansion whose name escapes me, I went ahead and fired up Civilization 5 again.     This time I am Ramkhameneanang or whatever the Siamese leaders name is, on Warlord level with Terra map and no goody huts.    I am doing OK and trying to get the hang of the new artistic winning method.    Without the goody huts the game is significantly harder, but more fun, and we’ll see where I end up when it’s all said and done.    A win will tick off another achievement, and Civ5 always has the advantage in that it’s easy to interrupt.   Now looking forward to Civilization : Beyond Earth.

I’ve pretty much finished the good parts of Flatout 2, and plan to start the next game in the series which is Ultimate Carnage.     Quick races when you can squeeze them in are pretty good, and easily shareable with kids.

What happens when you die IRL ?   Good question.    But I now have my failsafe plan in the event that I should pass away suddenly – IRL friends (2 of them) now have the keys to this blog and are supposed to post to it.    I think about Jeff Freeman every so often, and his amazingly fun blog which has disappeared after his passing.  I do want all my regular readers to know if I disappear suddenly, why.    Not that it’s expected, but you never know.

And with that, back to Real Life outside gaming.

So much Steam

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Steam

I have been collecting various Steam games, and have even hit the threshold to have a scrolling list.    So just what have I ended up with ?

Well – there’s the list

Bad ideas = Borderlands2.  Crusader Kings 2.    Post Apocalyptic Mayhem.    Sengoku.    Star Ruler.

Never played = Gal Civ 2 (at least, on Steam).   Gettysburg.   GTA IV.   Mafia.   Patrician III.   Skyward Collapse.   Space Trader – Merchant Marine.   Tank Universal.   X-Com : Enemy Unknown.

Extensive Play, not covered in this post : Civ 5.   Long Live the Queen.   Saints Row the Third.   Sims 3.   Torchlight II.   Tropico 4.    Universe in a Sandbox.    X-Com : The Original.

Didn’t grab me for some reason : Fallout New Vegas.   Magicka.

Democracy 3 is an interesting game.   So far I am a big failure, all three times I’ve played.      It’s a bit short on action, is probably its biggest issue.    That, or it’s just too flaming hard.

You need to get re-elected to win the game, and start out with about 20% support for the United States.    No matter who I pander to, I either get booted out at game end or assassinated.    And all three games, SOMEONE is trying to assassinate me.    Maybe it just needs some study.

Dragons Lair and Space Ace – Awesome nostalgia for children of the ’80s.

Endless Space – I still fire this up from time to time, it’s a reasonable 4x game.

Flatout, various versions.     Kicks the llama’s ass.

Lucid – A fun puzzler.     Played for a few days and am close to the top “level”.

Stardrive – Loses me right away at the exploration model (Just let your ships auto explore !)

Fallen Earth – First Steps

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Fallen Earth, Steam

I got curious and looked into Fallen Earth a bit more than “Wow, its on Steam, has achievements, and is free”.

Apparently this is an MMO from 2009 thus accounting for some of the old, dated look.    The game was not originally a free-to-play, but a subscription.    It was converted after being bought by Gamers First.

So all that explains my lack of knowledge about the game.     I’ve been tanking for two years and paying minimal attention to more traditional MMO’s.    Even before that, I had little interest in another subscription.

Meet Marcellus Gibbs, post-apocalyptic melee fighter.

Gotta harvest them all

The best way to progress includes running the quests given out.    Not the repeatable quests; there are lists of exactly what matters.    In this way you get bonus AP points, which are important independent of level.

The guide also clued me in on how to spend them.     I have a melee character.    Strength – Intelligence – Coordination – and Perception.   Ignore the rest.    Intelligence is necessary for crafting, and if you’re not crafting why play this game.

And horses – more useful for the simple fact of bag space.    The “Old Nag” default horse I have has a mere two bags, but others apparently have more.   But it’s probably difficult to fill the Embry Crossroads banks, which is four sets of banking slots, 64 slots each.

The crafting is definitely the heart of the game.    Nearly everything you loot is a crafting ingredient.     Where do you get your weapons and armor ?    You craft them, although some quests reward gear.     Kill baddies quickly for lots of crafting items.

The game has a sick number of Steam achievements and I’m working my way through the list for giggles.      Visiting each town and looking through a tourist telescope gives one.     Kill counts give more, and someday I may have 75 skill points possible in crafting, which will allow me to earn some for that.

Grand total to date for all Steam achievements : 219.     Most of them are still Civ5 achievements but Fallen Earth is moving up there.

Messing around on Steam and Minecraft

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Fallen Earth, Flatout, Minecraft, Steam, war-worlds

Over the weekend I let my War Worlds empire take a breather – all I did was answer the Sit Rep.      I left the Wibbit empire 100% crushed, and am moving on to bigger and better things – trying to expand out and touch two neighboring empires.

And needing a break from World of Tanks as well, I got back onto my Steam account.    Which they are very good at getting you to buy and install new games on – I mean, 50 cents ?     Sign me up, I’ll buy it !    Before I knew it I had installed three new games and messed around with some others.

My Flatout 2 experience continues as I try to finish the campaigns on Street Racer level.     This is a very accessible driving game and I got a bonus – I even had my boy playing it.    His current Ipad game of choice is some free racing game, which includes all the elements of typical video game grinds – unlocks, races, earning money for upgrades, and slickly rendered versions of real life cars which he gets to drive.    So Flatout was fun for him to mess with.

My Minecraft world Biomass got reopened and I found myself wandering the world again re familiarizing myself with what I’ve wrought.    What I would like to do continues to be connecting all my explored areas via railroad (minecart), which requires massive grinding to find enough iron.     I’d also like to find some of the new biomes in it – I have no dark wood, and no mesas discovered.      And I never have found a horse either.

With Minecraft I can also get slave labor – the kids will log in from the other PC in the house.     We have a total of two licenses, or I could start a three player game.   And they help me out doing various things such as mining for iron/diamonds, or working the farm.    Slop the hogs out on the North Forty son !

I installed Fallen Earth and started playing that as well – for whatever reason it’s a fun experience.    No death penalty (other than a debuff), and I’m a clone wandering a post-apocalyptic world doing quests and trying to get better at making stuff.    The game is apparently, at its heart, a crafting game.    That would be great, except I’ve only used a bare few of the items which I have crafted as I grind my way up skill levels.

Fallen Earth has pretty basic graphics and an “Old Everquest” look to it, along with nasty lag issues.      But creating a melee character and figuring out the game has been a very fun diversion.    One of the important questions as always, is money – will they be able to extract any from me ?    I’m not sure I can see why I’d bother, at the moment, and I don’t plan to start digging into all the web information about the game either.      I just need to figure out where the scenic overlook is on Clinton FARM…..

And of course, (most) all Steam games have achievements which I can’t stop myself from trying to achieve.     I am too goal oriented sometimes.

Many things to note

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EQ2, Minecraft, Steam, Tropico 4, World of Tanks

World of tanks wins the Golden Joystick award, for “Best Online game of the year”.     I’m not too surprised, given the audience for the game, and the fact that tons of people can play it because it’s free.

Steam has also won as the “Best Gaming Platform” which I certainly have to agree with.    My swag for voting was a free game – Mafia – which of course I haven’t gotten around to playing.

Wargaming is giving away a free Tier II tank in celebration of their victory; this will happen along with the 8.9 update.     The update is supposed to be “Soon” I suppose, given that the public test has come and gone.     I’ve not played in a week or so, partly due to no internet access, and partly due other games.

It sure doesn’t help that again, for perhaps 4 weeks in a row, there’s no special for crew retraining.    I really don’t want to blow 1000 gold to crew-up my Maus, and I’m continuing to wait until I can do that.    Supposedly, the scuttlebutt is I’ll hate the thing anyway and be ineffective, but I’ve been known to disagree with the majority opinion about these kinds of things.

On to other games – Everquest 2.    I recently resubscribed, and got cut off from internet due to being on a cruise ship.    When I returned, I got a bunch of level 95 spells in my hotbar that I can’t use, so I figured I’d wait until they had fixed this problem.    And I haven’t logged in again since, because I’m not that interested in troubleshooting this kind of crap.   Is it fixed yet ?

Apparently, not.    I understand the workaround is to fiddle with the settings in your spellbook, set it to show all spells, and then you can add the level appropriate ones.   I should do that.  I really hope this subscription period doesn’t end like the last time I played – I got all excited, paid, and then just quit playing.

While on the cruise ship, I couldn’t get Minecraft working.     I just managed to have the update that required online authentication once, without ever having authenticated, so I was out of luck.    So this lead me to Tropico 4.      This is a fun little “mini-simcity” game in this incarnation, at least for someone who hasn’t yet played 2 and 3.    I did mess around with the original and didn’t like it.

I survived the tutorial and have finished the first mission after a false start.    Once I got enough money it became easy, and game 2 doesn’t seem like it will be any different.     The theme is fun, for someone who recently walked through the tourist district in Ensenada Mexico.     However, not much to write about here other than that I’m playing it.

After getting back to dry land I looked up Minecraft and finished updating and authenticating.    Now, at this point, my laptop will play the game successfully without an internet connection.    But what’s unexpected is today is a big update, which I’ll detail in a later post.

Space Ace !

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Space Ace, Steam

1985 was a good year.    I was 20, and I worked in an arcade at night.      Probably my fondest memories are of playing the newly-released Space Ace.    I’ve waited quite a while for a good PC version of the game to pop up, and one’s now available on Steam.

It works well as a PC game.    There’s a Cadet, Captain, and Ace level for you beat.   Being a person who beat the game at one point, it didn’t take me too long to hit the final battle on cadet level, and I then just played continuously until I had all the moves down once again and beat it.    The game itself probably takes about 10 minutes for a full playthrough and is worth the full priced amount ($10).    You can save a buck as I write this .

The PC menu. This bit, at least, is not 30 years old.

The only thing surprising about it is….. the graphics aren’t really that good.    The Laserdisc based cabinet versions I remember had fantastic and rich cartoon graphics.     The PC’s seem a bit chunky.     Perhaps its hard to transfer that to the way graphics are created today.    I could only get it running in 1152×864.

Game beginning. KIIIIIMMMMMYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

As a game itself – it always stands out as unique in my mind.    You had to hit that joystick at a precise point in time.     Apparently, today this is known as a QTE – Quick Time Event game, and these Laserdisc games birthed this term.

She may be kidnapped by aliens, but she has access to a communicator.

During the final battle, it was a time of insanely intense concentration.     Usually, I had a helper with me at the arcade, to keep anyone from doing things to distract me.    And you had to be DEAD ON with your moves, every time, or it was time to be dead.   And hopefully you still had another life to keep moving on with (usually 3 IIRC) if you did.

GET ME OUT OF HEEERRRREEE ! – this is half of Kimmy’s vocabulary.

More than one guy watched me and remarked “That looks like work”.    And, to a certain degree, it was, but the ability to concentrate so hard on something and succeed was a intense feeling for me.   And then life went on, I’ve never played another QTE game, and I’ve wondered *for freaking ever* if the game would surface on the PC.

Beware your dark side

On cadet mode for PC, it was more about making the move at the correct point, and not making the wrong one.     I’ll try the harder versions next, but one thing at a time.

The nostalgia factor is strong for me.     So I thought, let’s try this out on my boy, who is Mr. High-reflexes as he plays Mr. Crabs on his I-Touch.      I got him familiar with the gameplay before he went to bed – a couple games only – and I could see that light in his eyes that says “This is fun”.    So I’m still thinking it holds up well even for those who’ve never seen this before.

If only there was a native screenshot functionality.   I installed Snagit to get these shots, but it will expire in 30 days.

The motorcycle scene. Shades of the Tron Lightcycle.

The only thing really bothering me is the Steam store description of the game.

Excuse me ? Casual ?

No, Mr Categorizer, this is NOT a casual game.    This is a heart-stopping, adrenaline fueled rush to both memorize a large sequence of moves (which can be reversed left/right randomly on you) and a challenge to execute them in the split second timing required.     This game is concentration personified.

Well, especially at one or two quarters per 5-15 minute game.