Steam Captured

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Endless Space, Flatout, Steam, Torchlight

While I have little time to blog, I have managed to squeeze in an hour or so of gaming a night.     Hyperactive teenage mode is engaged; I find myself switching rapidly between one game and another.

That list has gotten pretty big ….

Steam sales have me hooked.    I am finding myself checking nightly to see if there is anything else for me to pick up.     So far, I’m glad I did : turns out Flatout is quite a fun racing game.    Picked up a four pack of versions of it for $10, but really only playing the original at the moment.

Endless Space seems to have improved, or my temperament has changed, and I’m busily trying to win a game with a huge galaxy.    My first game I lost, because I’d more or less forgotten everything about the game.    Now, losing a game on newbie mode was pretty surprising for me, but if nothing else it was instructive about how to play – turtle mode is NOT going to work on this particular 4x.

Currently in first place and moving forward on to victory conditions – so the tooltips say.   I have no idea how to win most of the modes, but Domination sounds pretty good and matches my usual playstyle.

Torchlight 2 is also a lot of fun.    I got it, enjoyed playing one session, and promptly ceased playing it.    Now I’m advancing through level 19 on normal mode, and enjoying things quite a bit.    It’s pretty mindless, simple clicking, while looking for the good loot and enjoying the music – in that regard, the spiritual successor for Diablo, just as many people have said.     Berserker with Cestus is pretty fun.

It appears I need to update to 8.7 in World of Tanks, although without a 5x special I’m not too tempted to log in.     My non-virtual social calendar is full this weekend anyway, and next week will be work filled as well.   Summer is the busy season unfortunately.

Steam, though, will certainly be drawing me towards more games.

Many Games were downloaded

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Steam, Torchlight, War Thunder

Because I clearly need more games to play, I find myself installing War Thunder following a visit to Z’s blog.

Yet more WWII goodness?

Apparently Gaijin (the publisher/developer) has decided to put the game on the Steam “Greenlight” program.     I can’t exactly get behind the idea, other than if they are trying to reach more gamers.    I don’t want my MMO’s encumbered by Steam, there’s no point to that.     Some of you don’t feel the same way however.

Looks like a 2 1/2 hour download.

While I wait, I probably better check my email.     And of course, I find out that the Steam Sale begins now and Torchlight II is on sale ($10).   Time to pick this one up and see what all the fuss is about.

Now I really have a lot of downloading to do.    That’s OK – I need to get some work done anyway.     I look up and get ready to update my Tomato router.    I read up on NAS and decide to think about buying some.    Holiday pictures get processed.   Time Warner Cable still has no clue that upload speed is important, so I won’t be upgrading my service.

Guys. I would gladly pay you for faster upload speeds. Retards.

Finally, I get to log in and mess around with War Thunder.

Fantastic talent. I completed the tutorial for “Fighter”.

The game looks pretty good – I am getting a high framerate during the tutorial mission, the controls respond well (Even though it’s beyond easy) and my respect for Russian game programmers grows.

This is, apparently, my hangar.

Now if this doesn’t look like World of Tanks I’ll eat my hat.     I can apparently choose any of three planes and jump into a battle, or I can finish the tutorial which seems to consist of 8 or so different little missions to clue you in about how to play.    Think I’ll mess around a bit with this one .