May 13
JasonGames, Warhammer Fantasy Games, Total War, warhammer
Napoleon Total War
I have always been a fan of the Total War franchise, but in my opinion none of them have been all that great. Good and fun in most cases, sure.. but great? Eh not really.. All of them have had their share of issues of which Napoleon TW shares some of them.. NTW is by far the most refined version so far and a lot of fun but, I’m not quite sure it peeks the “great” meter just yet.. I will say its pretty darn good and a lot of fun though..
Totally worth the price as it’s clear to me that Creative Assembly (the developers) are getting better at their craft but the game has one staggering short fall that it shares with all it’s siblings; Horrible AI.
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May 01
JasonGames Games, review
Splintercell Conviction
I really like a good first person shooter.. But most FPS games these days aren’t about thinking or planning your way out, they are just run and gun, “zerg-fests” where you run in shoot a few.. die, respawn, run in shoot a few, die, respawn.. wash, rinse, repeat.. Boring..
The new Splintercell game isn’t this.. I would call it more of a first person sneaker. In that it’s entirely conceivable to play through large swaths of the game without firing a shot, and that’s just cool..
As with any game it has it’s ups and downs, but over all its up and I think UBISoft has set themselves up with a game that they can kick out a lot of downloadable content for, if they leverage this correctly..
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Apr 27
JasonWarhammer Fantasy fantasy, warhammer
So I prefer Warhammer Fantasy to 40k.. I just think the rules are better, and the game as a whole has a lot of tactics and strategy to it, where as 40k is written more for the kids to be a fast paced shoot’em’up style game. I still play 40k, but I prefer fantasy..
I also believe in having multiple armies for your game.. I have two 40k armies; Tau and Orks. I like them both and am not really looking to change them.. But right now I only really have one fantasy army; Skaven. I love my rats, but I want to find another army to play and have been looking for a while.. I tried Ogre’s and I tried Tomb Kings but really didn’t get into them. I have a lot of TK stuff painted up and I very much like the models and the lore, but for whatever reason the TK army just doesn’t excite me.. The Ogre’s never even got that far..
So I’m back on the hunt and I think I have settled on getting a Daemons of Chaos list going.
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Apr 09
JasonGames, Media music, rock band
Rock Band to Real Band
I have been playing the hell out of Rock Band 2. I very much enjoy it as it’s quite fun and challenging. I’m also willing to bet that games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero are helping the music industry quite a bit as most likely people are getting exposed to music they have never considered before (I know I have been).. But what might me more important is that people are getting exposed to the notion of making music..
In an era where school music programs are on the decline (or completely gone) I can’t think of anything more important for the music industry as a whole than getting kids interested and/or hooked at an early age.. This is the perfect venue!
They just need to bridge the realism gap.. Rock Band (and guitar hero, band hero, etc..) are great games, but they aren’t realistic at all.. For the guitar and bass you are producing notes by strumming a single piece of plastic and pushing one or multiples of 5 buttons.. As you graduate through the difficulty levels things get harder in that the waterfall of Chiclets come faster and the fingerings are more difficult, but you don’t actually progress towards being able to play a real instrument..
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Apr 05
JasonGames Games, music, playstation, rock band
So I haven’t updated my blog in a while because all my spare time has been spent playing Rockband 2.. It’s like crack.. They put subliminal messages in the video’s to make you want to play it day and night!!
The best part is that my wife has been playing it too.. And even more surprising is she likes playing drums!! That actually came as a shock to me.. I expected her to enjoy guitar or bass.. I never thought she’d like the drums because frankly they are the hardest part..
But she loves it so we play together and do fairly well..Good times!!
Now they just need to add a lot more Journey songs.. They only have 2?! TWO!!! *sigh* More! I want more damnit.. hehe
Good game.. I highly recommend it..
Mar 08
JasonGames, Rants! bullshit, DRM, ubisoft
Stop the DRM
When will companies learn that their draconian efforts to prevent piracy only serves to hurt their paying customers which directly affects their bottom line!!
Companies, you must stop counting pirated copies of your software as “lost revenue” — it’s not! Someone who is willing to pirate software isn’t willing to pay for it.. EVER! So you never had their money in the first place..
You’re trying so hard to capture that imagined lost revenue that it’s blinding you to how badly you’re screwing yourselves and your real customers..
Equating the number of pirated copies of your software directly to dollars is retarded.. More over, implementing these harsh DRM models only serves to prevent the honest players from playing your games, which effectively assures that you’re going to lose real money in the form of people who actually DO buy your games going else where..
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