Halo: Reach drops in two weeks. Are you ready to join Noble Team?
I can’t stop playing Starcraft 2. It’s an addiction. There were all these games for Xbox that I wanted to try out, but I haven’t turned my Xbox on for almost a month. Limbo is still in limbo, Death Spank has no life, and Final Fantasy is a fantasy. There’s only one game that has a chance to get me away from my mouse and keyboard, and that’s Halo: Reach, so I figured I’d take a look at why.
I guess this means maybe I should retire as grand champion since I beat multiplayer!
I was planning on posting an entry on the 3v3 Zerg mid-game today, but because I finally hit rank #1 in my division for Diamond League in 3v3 RT I decided I’d just spend some time recounting random stuff on how I got there. It was a long road to the top in my case (132 games to be exact), but of course, now I at least feel a little better writing 3v3 strategy and tips since I have the credentials to prove it. But in today’s entry – I won’t be sharing strategy…just random thoughts.
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Smack dab in the middle of my 3v3 Random Team ladder league after my first week.
With the little time I have, I’ve been devoting my free time for gaming directly towards Starcraft II – bouncing back and forth between the campaign and the multiplayer. So, while I may have occasional other games to write about in the coming entries, perhaps you’ll be reading about Starcraft II from me for a while.
Being a huge 3v3 RT fan and having played over a hundred matches during the Starcraft II beta, I’ll spend today’s entry sharing my thoughts and experiences with 3v3 multiplayer in the retail now that I have 18 matches under my belt.
If you need evidence that gaming is alive and well in Asia, check this out: at the Osaka Aquarium, you can download information to your DS.
I spent a few years in junior high living in Hong Kong, which were major formative years – in my gaming life. After playing NES, SNES, Famicon, Super Famicon, and Street Fighter in arcades with my cousins, I was a gamer for life. When Mrs. cmfl3x and I decided to take a trip to Asia this summer (Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong), I was curious as to what the gaming scene looks like over there these days – to my more adult eyes. Hit the jump from my impressions.
If I am logging onto my account in offline mode, why do I get kicked out with this error screen?
Starcraft II was released last Tuesday. How did it go? It’s almost comical for me how badly it went. Even with my Internet down, all I wanted to do was play Starcraft II’s single player but couldn’t even do that due to the Internet authentication steps the game took. Read on for what I had to go through to play Starcraft II in a time when my Internet was actually not working.
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Between Starcraft II and Super Street Fighter IV, the winner is no surprise.
A couple months back I had talked about how excited I was for playing Super Street Fighter IV and Starcraft II – two of the most hardcore competitive games that hit this year. During May and June, I had my hands full with both the Starcraft II beta and the retail release of Super Street Fighter IV. While I juggled my time back then playing both games, as the summer went on I found myself drifting more and more away from Super Street Fighter IV. Now that Starcraft II is out, the relationship I have with Super Street Fighter IV is definitely over – even though I think we can still be friends.
Although the tech has progressed, 3D still gives me a headache. Is it the answer for gaming?
I found this year’s E3 pretty disappointing. Microsoft was all focused on its Kinect stuff, which seems not tailored to gamers at all. Sony focused on the Move and 3D tech, simultaneously pushing their games and their 3D televisions (funny how that works). Meanwhile, Nintendo just played to gamers’ nostalgic tendencies by introducing new versions of a bunch of old franchises. This left me with one question: Where is the innovation?
I just started playing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker at the end of last week after beating Portable Ops. This past weekend, I took my wife to the mall (as usual) and with the Metal Gear Solid games not working too well for portability in a mall, I decided to bring my DS and Dragon Quest IX instead. After putting about an hour or two into both games now, I’ve started to really enjoy both. I like each so much that I had a very difficult time deciding what to play today on the subway. So…I ended up packing both my DS Lite and my PSP into my bag to bring to work. This can’t keep happening though. Only one will become the victor…who will it be?
Read on for the background behind each of these major portable heavy hitters this summer as well as my very short initial impressions of both.
Starcraft 2 manages to keep players of all types hooked with leagues for their skill level.
Alas, the Starcraft 2 beta has ended. Unlike the Reach beta, SC2 sunk its hooks into me and refused to let go. It got me thinking about what types of multiplayer experiences appeal to me in my current “leveled down” state. Why was I done with Reach in 3 or 4 sessions while I played 5 times as much SC in the same amount of time? Hit the jump for my thoughts on the matter…
