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  • 20Oct 12

    Hello dear readers


    its been a while but i thought today is the right time for making a new blog. The power of the purse hhm strange blogname so what's it all about. The recent discussions here on gs as well as in the whole gamer scene about dlc season passes failing game series and lack of innovation brought me to this point. Why cause we the gamers are the cause of this situation and of the upcoming way gaming will be. Thats the power of the purse cause through the point that the gaming industry is more money gaining then the movie industry in the meantime things and companies have changed.

    So the main point will be innovations and how we gamer handle them. In the last year there always was that bick yell throughout the community that there is a lack of innovation. Old game models and series get milked and milked often on a cost of quality. So the Community yells hey we got a lack of innovation in the game development scene. Well dear gamers were the cause of it. Why do you think do we see the most innovations from small game companys or indi gamers cause they are still willing to not avoid risks at all costs cause they are in my eyes more connected to the game community then the global big companys. Why is thats so mentioning the movie industrie above was the first slightly change the gamers recognized.

    Since you can make so much money through selling a great game it has become more and more a pure economical thing then creating a piece of art or something that should affect people in a new way. Only the profit comes in view when deciding about making a new game. You see this in the spreading like mushrooms dlc for games. Well but were the paying gamer comunity are the cause of that as long as we will throw our money into dlc season passes or games which came out every year with only slightly changes and a bit of polish we shouldnt cry for lack of innovation.

    This is the cause why there still new CoDs ever few month and someone like double fine needs to make a crowdfunding to develop an adventure. Yes cause all companies tell them hey you wont get our money for that make us an CoD with Dlc that will make 400% more profit. (Sorry about the alltime CoD reference but its the prototype of those games).

    So the only creative innovation or games including so much love and art come from the small companies and we got it in our hand. We shouldn critisize every effort to create something new picking the weakspots and ruining a game. Look at the beloved fps mentioned in the last escape from mount stupid where is the innovation? What is new beside 1-2 small new functions and a new textureset and maps not much in the last 10 years. Still its the cash cow of the industry all want to make pfs or action games cause they sell best.

    Since this is going on now for years the big game companies lost all effords in making an game which is new and might not be loved from all people cause its new different and unexpectable.

    So dear gamers think of your power of the purse when getting your next games when you want a change and a new game century of innovations and new things for us. Support those who are innovative and have an critic view on those best selling games what do they offer you new? Is it really worth getting it cause all people get it?Rethink and force the companies to take more risks by making not economicly planed games a huge success.

    throw your coins in the right direction

    hoped you liked my thoughts, your welcome to comment and im waiting from your view of that situation

  • 3Jul 12

    hello all,

    i recognized so many failed posts about the F2P Genre. Ppl just dont watch the game itself they just see a F2P and judge the games to be awful and pircey on longterms to remain playing the game.

    In general you need to split the term F2P. Cause the F2P genre has a great variety due to facebook related f2p games and the huge moorpg genre.

    First of all what is Free to play. Free to play are games called there you can download the game for free and you need no costs to play the game.

    The Name was Build through the first Free To Play Games either Browsergames which hadnt a client or massive online roleplaying games. Due its a growing rentable market the genres which have f2p evolved. You see many f2p fps or strategy games in latest time.

    Why do ppl judge f2p generally. Mostly those comments come from ppl who played p2p games. Ok i can understand that they need to judge games wich offer the same content for free as the game they play with a monthly subscription.

    1) Rumor 1 : f2p games are not worth playing (bad technique, no updates)

    This isnt true at all i tried many f2p games to find the one fitting for my play and i play my game now for 2,5 years. The Engine might not be the state of the art but honestly you aint playing a moorpg for the grafical details more for the value the game offers you so the state of the art engine isnt needed at all. Second Points no Updates. Strange thing i seen regulary updates often more frequented in f2p games then on its p2p game clones like wow and such. More frequently and with a countable new amount of game stuff.

    2) Rumor 2 : f2p is a lie, you need to p2p to be able to compete with other players or you can play the game. Well there is a slightly point in that rumor but only a slightly. You need to variate some f2p games here and the shemes which are behind them.

    2.1) The Free Free to play games: Free Games with an Item Mall. Either Browser of roleplay games created this genre you can buy stuff in an item mall to advance faster in the games or to get a visual benefit get the newest cloth for your char and so on BUT not limited in the game mechanics. I play such a game i reached lvl 149 of 150 and i never used the item mall i can buy all stuff i want or need ingame with ingame gold just need to invest some more time on grinding then the ppl which buy stuff in the item mall.

    2.2) Limited f2p. Mostly p2p games which didnt succeded in the past caused by too less subscriptions. Mostly you can see a limited f2p game here you can play the game but get limitations such as limited inventory space limited classes or such. Those games can be a hidden p2p cause normally at some point you can either play for fun and dont advance or are forced to pay to keep at least some stuff in your inventory but still those games are on 90% failed p2p games and the most f2p games dont follow that sheme.

    In my opinion the former p2p games need to follow sheme 2.2 or they would lost in there eyes the last subscribers they got. But on longterm this wont be the right choice. Another way would be to benefit subcribers but not to limited none subscribers. If there way had worked the game hadnt went f2p.

    Im a old gamer and for me im simply not willing to pay a monthly subscription on a game as good as it may be i can get plenty of other gameing fun with more variety if i spent that money in other ways (old games or new ones, if you compare playing 1 year wow for example or getting 12 games hhm there isnt really a need to choice for me ^^)

    Now the genre f2p will see many changes cause the main developers realized p2p has no future cause the f2p genre is too good so they would either put massive work in there product to outstand them (which wouldnt be rentable) or accept that there is no real difference.

    Well ok you also see same products from different firms in supermarkets for different prices. There is always a market for anything so subscribers wont die on longterm but it wont be the cashcow market they used to have in the past 5 years.

    Now even crytek and other teams already said or will say under the hand that f2p is the future. So how will our f2p future will be. In my opinion it will be the 2.1 way cause all other forms of f2p will die during the war about the customers who want to spend money.

    ^^ somehow i lost the point at this point so i would resume fast. Dont judge a title cause its f2p, look at it, try it then judge. And f2p isnt f2p but i hope that will change in the future. =D

    • Posted Jul 3, 2012 2:20 pm GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 14Jun 12

    =) ok since fuse is down again and i dropped the hope the psn side from gamespot will ever be half actual or interesting i thought its time to make a small preview of games this week. I will first only talk about the new games not all dlc cause i first wanna get the response of my new blog idea so please all comment and stuff

    PS3 Games

    Alien Breed Trilogy

    Price:£17.49,?20.99,AU$31.45
    PEGI:16
    Availability:Not available in BL, HN, QT

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    There is not much to say about the alien breed games a nice remake of the old classic from amigas 2 player coop mode possible pretty much trophies for a psn game (platinums!) and its a blast from the past if you aint got one of the games this might be your chance to pick all 3 at a fair bundle price

    Ratings of Games on GS: Part 1 (7.3 ) Part 2 (6.5) Part 3 (6.6) i only played it a bit but at the sum i would give the triology a 7.0 to 7.5 nice alien shooter with much coop fun

    Babel Rising

    Price:£7.99,?9.99,AU$15.95
    PEGI:7
    Availability:All

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    Portation of the Iphone Game for consoles. You play a God trying to kill those bad babel ppl who want to build that tower.

    Never played it or the phone version but GS give it a 6.0. First Impression: Nice Onetimefun but no core game

    Bang Bang Racing

    Price:£7.99,?9.99,AU$15.95
    PEGI:3
    Availability:All

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    A splitscreen fun arcade couch racing from a hungary develop team also ported from an android game. Most impressive feature is the 4 player splitscreen option. No online modes but for the price a nice couchfun with mates

    Suggestion score is 6.0 ported from other side reviews


    Rune Factory Oceans

    Price:£39.99,?49.99,AU$79.95
    PEGI:12
    Availability:All

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    J-RPG prequel (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny)rated due GS at 6.5. Can't Say much too this but looks like an average jrpg but for the price its likely to get a cheaper disc version somewhere

    StarDrone Bundle

    Price:£3.99,?4.99
    PEGI:3
    Availability:Not available in AU, NZ

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    (includes PS3 and PS Vita versions)
    StarDrone bundle features both PlayStation 3 system and PlayStation Vita system versions.


    Star Drone is a rythum shooter also a GS review available which had a 6.0 Score.

    Two Worlds II VELVET Game of the Year Edition

    Price:£19.99,?24.99,AU$39.95
    PEGI:16
    Availability:Not available in DK, FI, NZ, NO, SE

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    RPG from Topware in the velvet goty edition included dlc's nice game for the price if you aint got it take a look

    GS rated the game at 7.5 review available

    Thats the new Games this week tell me if you liked the short overview of the new content and if you would like to see weekly updates like that short description rating and some small screens to make a small preview of the new stuff im waiting on your comments

    • Posted Jun 14, 2012 3:08 pm GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 22Mar 12

    I cant really decide which of my 2 really beloved rpgs i should choose so i will blog about both

    Borth were the first appearances of 3d Dungeons. At the time this was really a great step towards our todays rpgs

    The 2 main games which brought this out and which i really loved and played for hours are

    Eye of the Beholder

    Eye of the Beholder

    Dungeon Master

    Dungeon Master Logo

    Lets take a look at Dungeon Master first. The Game was Released back in 1987 from FTL Games. It started to have a huge success story in the rpg genre. You have your soldiers from different ****s with different abilitys like in all common rpgs of that time but what made the expierience unique were 2 main points. An 3d Dungeon and real time fights.

    The Main Screen looked like that:

    Dungeon Master Screen

    As you can see the 3d Dungeon with also an opponent you moved either with the arrows on your keyboard or with the mouse from over the buttons on the screen. You can change your formation on upper right 2 front fighters and 2 backrow which normally got space for mages or rouges and fighters in frontline. Another thing which you can see was the new and also grwat spellcast system. You see the runes on the right side. You couldnt simply cast a known spell you needet to get the right runes in order ro activate spells. Higher Spells got like 4 runes which made it also more difficult to use them during the real time battle.

    i know that 3d dungeons aren't what we know today as 3d dungeons but believe me back in the days this was so omg wow

    I even learned much english through this came cause i needed to translate most of it to my friend into german

    Ok now a look at Eye of the Beholder:

    Due to the great success of Dungeon Master the best and biggest rpg smith back in the days SSI decided to make a new remake of it with updodate grafics back in 1990.

    There were also some new features in addition to the better grafics compared to Dungeon Master

    Character Creation

    Since the RPG System which was behind that game is from AD&D it made it possible to Creat your characters this time from different ****s. In Dungeon Master you choosed from already made Chars.

    Main Screen

    You can see pretty the similarities to Dungeon Master in the Main Screen of the Game. SSI dropped the Spell System and Made it like on normal rpgs if you know the spell simply choose it and then cast but the main fighting system was taken from Dungeon Master. Improvements of Inventory and Stats from the different Chars where also made

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    2

    another thing this screen reminded me of was the fact that you needed food for your crew in both games which was rarely spread in the dungeon so you always were a bit under time pressure which made the game also more interesting.

    Here the Box of Eye of the beholder i found it pretty scary when i was young so it also forced me to kill the bad monsters in the game

    cover

    These 2 Series were Masterpieces of RPGs cause they brouht the RPG Genre 2 main features 3d Dungeons and Real-Time Battles which are part of mostly all rpgs nowadays.

    ok that was the blast from the past for today more to come soon

    • Posted Mar 22, 2012 3:06 pm GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 3Feb 12

    Back in the days when i was a kid my dad got a home pc for work. He was kinda one of the first of his company who got one for working partualy home.

    This was a huge super machine =D ^^ a 386 highscreen with 16 mhz in turbo mode and a huge 35mb drive

    So since i only could use this thing i got like 10mb of hard disk space for me and my sister to put games on it.

    First ones were like asteroid and the old classical ones but the first real game i played was a ssi rpg on pc.

    cover

    Death Knight of Krynn an epic rpg. Well i was like 10 or 11 years old cant remember for sure but this games put me under its spell. I hardly kew any english back at the time but i still managed to play it through after a while try and error Thats the reason why i get close to english cause i needed to translate my friends the view parts i understood so we could enjoy together.

    There were evil Monsters you needed to fight with your party

    monster

    :O yes a dread wolf omg ruuuuun

    ^^ stunning fighting visuals brought you through the game in addtition to some artpics and mostly written story. a movie a movie in a game to show something ^^ this idea wasnt born yet

    Here some of the beloverd fighting scences and there was a huge open world map where you could explore the fantastic land of krynn

    gameplay

    thats an open world isnt it?

    Its ideas basically are a computer version of the common d&d series. it just let the computer roll the dices. It included serveral citys, monsters, dungeons, spells ****s for your party yes it got me

    You even could create your characters which i loved or in the words of those time. You could color the pixels of your troops

    Why i post about this is cause i mostly got a different view on games like the gamers from today. We old fashioned gamers are more focused on the game itself not on its visuals or stunning animations. I dont say i dont like those too but the most improtant thing about a game is its gameplay. Nice animations or visuals are just and addition and dont make me play games. As you could imaginge those old games still need some imagination you made the cutscenes in your head same like doing while reading a book.

    I always loved rpgs and especially those from ssi. so sad they didnt made it through the years.

    so this was just a small view into the past and i will try to blog more about my gaming history and the titles which influenced my play and were most important for me.

    If anyone also played this game i hope i refreshed some old and nice memories ^^

    But most intension for this was look into the game beside the visuals and action look if the game gives you some feeling and catches you like a book yes a book and not a movie or a movie like most games are developed today a playable movie

    comments welcome and more history game blogs will come soon ^^

    • Posted Feb 3, 2012 8:53 am GMT
    • Category: Computers
  • 13Jan 12

    In one of my travels through the www i was looking for some stuff i can get for my girlfriend. Since she is a huge fan of anime and plush toys i was searching in origin for some studio ghibli stuff when i stombled over

    Ninjatown

    I didn't knew on that time that there is also a nintendo ds game and now also a ipad/pod game.

    It was one of those see it and love it things ^^

    Ninjatown is a branch from Shawnimals.

    shawnimals

    Shawnimals is aChicago-based design studio founded by Shawn "Shawnimal" Smith and his wife and business partner Jen Brody in 2002. Since then they make several plush toys, comics, art, games all around the ninjatown where the wee ninjas live in. From small plush to collectable designer plush you can find many things there. They even got a special Ninja of the month where they only create a small amount of collectable handmade plus toys.

    I really had problems get the products in europe but i managed to find 4 stores who sell some and got me some of the plush toys.

    the ninjas are simply adorable and so cute and fluffy and you simply need to fall in love with them ^^ theres only loving or hating i guess

    take a look for yourself ^^ =>> http://shop.shawnimals.com/;http://www.ninjatown.com

    ^^ the little ninjas are just adorable and i love them very much which made me ordering several of those plush toys

    geeky ninja

    • Posted Jan 13, 2012 11:06 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 11Jan 12

    Many Friends of mine move to other moorpgs atm which is kinda sad ^^ somehow swotr dont got me and beside the upcoming fallout mmo which can also be a failure nothing really interested me after they canceled the wh40k mmo.

    Maybe ill take a look at Guildwars but somehow it didnt got my either totally so far.

    On Ps3 im making kinda lazy gaming atm ^^

    Mostly playing Marvel Pinball with my friends in hotseat tournaments or Assasins Creed Brotherhood and recently Mini Ninjas.

    Assasins Creed is somehow fun played 1-2 and now the 3 part still has this comeback feeling. Not so many improvements but a very nice Game. Only thing i dont like so much is the multiplayer kinda lame but i already played it a bit in beta time through playstation plus. Think will have end the game till end of week chapter 7 of 9 atm.

    Mini Ninjas ^^ thought i could train some more my ninjaskills

    nom nom also ninjas need food

    its a funny and nice playable game ^^ not a challenge but fun atm

    • Posted Jan 11, 2012 9:58 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 2Jan 12

    Happy New Year all hope you enjoyed the last days in past year

    2 weeks holidays are over and i wasnt really productive in that time ^^

    Played Bayonetta through and Might & Magic Clash of Heros such a fun game ^^

    Yes i did take a look into skyrim but soon realized i need to many time to really get into it ^^ will still take some

    Also played some Assasins Creed Brotherhood was also fun.

    Trained a bit in Horad but am still a baby dragon

    soon will come more happy gaming all ^^

    • Posted Jan 2, 2012 12:53 pm GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 6Dec 11

    There it is my skirym copy lying on my desk at home.

    now i come to my mission i told myself to not open it until i finished saints row 3

    ^^ well shouldnt be a problem but will prox take me 2-3 more days to end it.

    Short prieview of rieview of Saints Row 3:

    Senseless Sexual incorrect violent game or in other words a lot of fun ^^. The Siliness of that game makes it so funny.

    beating enemys with **** or a gameshow whee you need to kill ppl (not a japanese original x) ).

    Will make a rieview but will take at least till weekend for me to do it.

    If you like saints row 2 or the gta series come and take a look at saints row 3

    • Posted Dec 6, 2011 10:21 am GMT
    • Category: Humor
  • 25Nov 11

    Ok first new games for xmas season are :

    Assasins Creed Brotherhood

    Saints Row 3

    Dungeon Siege 3

    Space Marine

    Bayonetta

    =o more will come i guess since im too long on amazon since black friday

    Oh i forgot my bought psn titles

    Horad, Renegade Ops, Heros of Might& magic, Scott Pilgrim and Alien Breed 2

    28.11.11 ^^ another Update since there where again price decreases on amazon

    Rango

    House of Death Overkill

    Ape Escape

    Medieval Moves

    and last but not least Skyrim

    • Posted Nov 25, 2011 8:40 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 18Nov 11

    Im just thinking what games i should get for the xmas season this year.

    if you got any non common nice games i might miss tell me those

    :s yesterday i bought all the nice games i could find in psn cause of the only 2 active system issue i mentiont bevore thats really sad if you see that i got my 3 ps3 atm and im not sure it will survive till the ps4 will come.

    Im hoping somehow i can also get some black friday deals but atm i cant be sure i will get some some are in uk but could again be restricted to uk residents i think that was so last year.

    Atm i spend most time in bf3 and dead island and atlantica. The new patch made dead island really really more nice and there will be the bloodbath dlc soon which i finally will get -.- i hate exclusive addons from special editions which then are only available after 2 month boooo to that ^^ but sure will be fun

    Important changes in dead island:

    1) kicking needs stamina => through that the game dont comes down to i kick all zombies 100 times cause i wont dmg my weapon and still kill them

    2) online gameplay => when you party in online play each player gets zombies on his lvl. bevore patch if i played with a lvl 50 guy i couldnt kill one zombie in 2 hours while they always kinda onehit me. Now the lvl 50 guy gets his lvl 50 zombies and me lvl 14 gets the same zombie as lvl 14 zombie so the onlineplay really gets much much better through that played 2h with different guys i hadnt played cause of lvl difference bevore was hell fun ^^

    btw i rally love zombies ö,ö films novels and games but they kinda get tooo common these days we dont need zombies in all games ofc!

    Its same like the common enemy theme. Long time the "nazis" got used for that, then in coldwar the bad evil russions where the enemy now it seems terrorist come from everywhere ^^ come on developers get some more creative at least a bit like making a non arabic terrorist maybe one from australia or brazil or something like that.

    Today i also want to give a thumb to one of my beloved genres turn based strategy games why why dont love more ppl those games to make them also profitable and for the mass public interesting i really want more of those games and not only from certain small develop teams. Dont let it die like the adventure genre (

    ^^ ok thats enough for today i still didnt managed to make my game list or new reviews but the playing goes on

    So have fun all and always 1 credit remaining

    • Posted Nov 18, 2011 10:40 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 8Nov 11

    another year another battle between cod and bf

    ok i dont really need to say much about that cause im in bf union and a totally fan of bf since i got really each playable part on pc/ps3. But honestly i watched the mw3 gameplay and though beside all the points i dont like on that game.

    Wow :O the grafics are really really lame... I thought from the first animated moviecuts it really would be better but what i saw wasnt rly nice :/

    Well ok grafic isnt all especially for the old gamers like me who started with games in ega or tandy grafics ^^

    But this well discussed battle once again made me thought about the fps history and made me think about it.

    I came to then conclusion that im really sad about 2 game rows i really really liked but which arnt here anymore

    My first highlight ofc

    Unreal Tournament

    *_* dont need to tell one of the most pro action fps ever made.

    Many copied most never reached and there isnt still anything like it offc i got ut3 in 2007 for my ps3 but since then we had idk how many cods but no other ut i want ut4 !!! with new great grafics but the same insane fast and excact gameplay like the other parts

    ^^ i still like to play ut2 in browser look for it its pure fun

    My second highlight i thought of is :

    TimeSplitters

    i loved every part of them so far the coop missions in splitscreen were as much fun as the fast multiplayer maps

    had so many fun and great times in there at least the Timesplitter 4 part was announced but still no release date :/

    im having rly much hope in both new games and both series cause they are simply too good to dont make another part

    and i also want a

    Buy Two, Get One Free deal at amazon ( or at least beable to order stuff from amazon.com

    i need to update my game section as well some new ones did find there way to my home again ^^ i also will try to find the time for making my historic section ^^ pc games and other stuff but this will take rly much time. Since my pc broke down lately and i needed to search several things i stombled over some old games which made me happy to think about them again.

    Oh if anyone wanna play bf3 on ps3 or other ps3 games with me send me a message and ill add you in my list

    My next plans are :

    • still getting the uncharted platin trophy x) hey i played one more lvl so i made at least some on that.
    • Playing more bf3 to reach lvl 45 and find finally some guy who can play in the coop modes -.- somehow i always get only noobs in there
    • ending dead island
    • update my game list
    • trying to stop me ordering more games from amazon cause i cant keep up atm xD too many stuff too less time

    And the last thing for today is o: O.O i finally reached the max lvl in atlantica online 140 'yay ^^ so i think ill find some more time now for my ps3 until the 150 lvl max will come

    • Posted Nov 8, 2011 2:41 pm GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 28Oct 11

    Yay finally i will get my copy of bf3 tomorrow at least amazon says so ^^

    So i think i wont need to look what i will play at the weekend ^^ also long weekend till wendsday 'yay !

    ^^ hhm but pokecharms blog remindet me to play uncharted through once again ... only miss the hard playthrough for the platinum

    we will see what i can do there.

    Second issue today is the PS Plus. Im kinda mad of it cause of 2 reasons. They stuff you with lots of demons and games through your one year abonement. Well when its over you can't play any of those games. Ok first silly thing i found cause they offered you content for your abo and not a "on-time" content. But which made me really angry is you liked many games or bought the fullgame through some money saves in playstation plus so i payed lets say 11$ instead of 14 $ for a title.

    O.O and you cant play those titles if your ps plus is over !!!!!!! Hey Sony i payed for that game kinda twice one time for the ps plus abo and one time for the ourchase in the network. That really sucks !!!!!!!! The free games you got ok that you cant play them when the abo is over still i though you announced that totally differently one year ago when i bought ps plus.

    Now i will think twice bevore i will get ps plus again -.- or if i better save the few discounts and buy my games directly from psn to have them for all time ...

    i played bf2142 again and was happy to see that there are still 6 servers online where i could join oh yes that refreshed all the fun memories i had in that game wooohooo to bf2142 i would love to see a sequel of this

    • Posted Oct 28, 2011 10:23 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 27Sep 11

    Today my Topic will be my favorite morpg which is also freetoplay so if you may get interested come and take a look for yourself

    you can lookup the game in gamespot of course but ther is no rieview through gs

    Atlantica Online

    In the World of morpgs my game isnt very known cause the game started in 2008 has changed the publisher and the main focused market is still the korean game version called Han-Game. I started the game early in 2009 and the game got me since then. Well what to say about normal morpgs. You got normally 1 main char and thats it lvl and skill him and game done so most morpgs didnt catch me for more then 2 month. This main problem of all morpgs has the solution in Atlantica Online (AO short so i dont need to write that much ^^).

    You can choose your main ****from different ****s like in other morpgs too but then you get the possibility to form a whole party through recruiting mercs. The number of mercs raises till you get 8 of them in your party. Each merc has other abilitys and skills and through that you get a huge varity of how you personall make "your" party. The mercs can also lern different skills and your aim is to make them fit best together. The maximum lvl cap atm is lvl 140 but will soon rise to lvl 150. Nexon is the actual punlisher and they still push the game on. We get new patches with dungeons quests also new mercs every few month. The Game actual has 3 Gamemodes:

    1) PvP where you can fight in tornaments or single league fights against other players making 9vs9 fights.

    2) PvE normal fights you fight against monsters with your 9 ppl party against monster mobs of 3-27 monsters in. Also each with own abilitys and skills.

    3) PvE missions called TBS (Tactical Battle System): Here you enter dungeons and play a mission the game mode is different from others cause you can only take limited mercs with you. The Dungeon itself is kinda a version of old rpgs for example final fantasy tactics. where you move with your mercs in a huge scaled dungeon. each merc can attack and move some fields eacht turn.

    Im Sad that the game isnt known so well cause in my oppinion and i tried so many morpgs its the jewel between the other morpgstones

    On Youtube you can watch several actual gameplay movies of either tbs missions pvp or pve.

    The game finances through micotransfers and this is working now for the time the game is online. You dont need to make micros its only a additional bonus to gameplay. Im Lvl 138 now and i bought all stuff ingame and didnt used the item shop so far so it sure isnt needed like in other games to get along on higher lvls

    would be happy about comments or if anyone takes a look at the game. If you wanna know more write me a mail or send me a message ingame im playing on Argos Server with the nick Hobbyjaeger

    • Posted Sep 27, 2011 12:17 pm GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 21Sep 11

    Today i wanna write about an issue i really dont like or lets say is one of the most probems which i see in the gaming market.

    First of all we got 1 World countrys like Usa and Japan they got all the cool new stuff instantly yay and well for a decent price or at least some kinda fair pirce

    Then there are the 3 World Countrys in which you are very poor when you live there like me in germany

    I tell you why ^^

    1) Yay we finally made it into the year 2011 still it isnt possible for publishers in movie or game industry to make there publised products world wide -.- why do we in europe alwayse have to wait for the translation (ok this one could count if i would looking for german versions but even then -.- how long could it take to translate something into a other language). Normally the software for example we make in our firm is localizationable ö,ö fast translated in every language so you dont need to take 4 month for this for another release

    2) i read some stuff about the gouvermental group in australia who censores stuff we got also one of those in germany so since the beginning if i need to want an uncut version in need to go and order in foreign countrys ^^ ok blame germany laws for that you cant blame the industry but i found it still lame

    3) lets call it fair trade o.o or the big mac issue

    Somehow the crazy publishers thought well lets see which cow on the planet we can get the most milk of hhm hey look at those german ones they look really healthy :O ^^ i will explain. I simply find it seriously unfair that you can get such huge price differences for a game. Example if i want to get a new game here in germany which is just released for ps3 i need to buy one for lets say average 65€, so thats about 89 $ or 57 Pounds if i order the same game in uk i pay average 39~40 pounds which is a difference of 20 € ! Ok sure the uk is a land faaar away from germany its in africa and we all know that ppl there are all unemployed o.O oh wait it isnt so they are also in the eu and not so many miles away from germany

    4) to get to point 3 the americans also find a way to keep the situation as it is. You could get to the point hey why should i pay more for games that you need to and you think hey lets order some from usa -.- fail through restrictions you arnt allowed to order games from usa when your from germany -.-

    so my conclusion or idea i spend almost the same ammount of money for games each month and to get more ofc i order in the uk to have more for my money. But im sure if they would made a fair price for all which not soooo much differences the publishers would sell way more units and get more ppl fascinated about there products and get a totall win if they keep all ppl equal ä.ö but when should we have a fair world ......

    • Posted Sep 21, 2011 11:36 am GMT
    • Category: Games
  • 16Sep 11

    it always goes so fast

    ok a short briefing what i done in last 2 month

    Still Running my Guild in Atlantica Online and still all fans of morpgs should visit us in atlantica online and have a look for me still the best and only morpg on market we get new patches with lots of content from time to time and all test and prieviews of the game only got 40% of it so take a look if you dont wanna miss a really good game

    gamespot should make a new review about Atlantica Online how can i ask for it ?

    Well beside i played not so much pc in the time some shogun 2

    On Ps3 played pretty much zen pinball, got my platinum in fallout las vegas and play plants vs zombies atm rly funny game ^^

    Next is getting the 2 last trophies for uncharted 1 then i hope dead island will finally arrive .-. i will never order from game.co.uk again they are such slowpokes and portal and mass effect 2 will arrive in next days maybe ill also get marvel pinball cause it looks nice and will be as much fun as zen

    what i hated in last 2 month is that i see a new trend in the game industry destroy old brilliant titles -.- lasst victims where xcom and now syndicate. Oh can yuo remember back in the days i loved syndicate it was so much fun to gear your stuff and make ambushes on your victims -.- and now oh lemme see again an ego shooter ......... yes sure we need 50 ego shooters a year come on if you make 4 rly good ones fine rest into the trashcan next thing is the dying genres in pc hello world there still are ppl who love good strategi games turn based or adventures and such and if you would make a good game you cant say it wont sell im for sure.

    • Posted Sep 16, 2011 2:23 pm GMT
    • Category: General
  • 8Jul 11

    Happy Bday PSplus

    Since i got it from the beginning and got all those funny stuff i rly hadnt bought for myself i could only advise all enter psplus. You might think oh i get strange games and avatars and stuff but i must tell give it a try i got plenty of funny games which made rly fun to play which i didnt get without psplus and for 50 bucks for now 15 month its really worth the price!

    so happy bday

    Played some Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Demo yesterday rly a fun game im looking forward to it need to try the splitscreen option with a mate but it was rly cool playing will play some more this weekend

    • Posted Jul 8, 2011 9:25 am GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 22Jun 11

    I just wanted to mention cause i get asked frequently about it. I dont like the Firefox Browser and my nick doesnt come from there ^^

    it neither comes from the original atari game back in 1983 cause i was only 2 there

    Originally its an mixture of a fox game i played long time back ago on my amiga ^^ ok who still know the red fox

    The Fire was adopted from my visual beeing since i got red hair ^^

    So i choosed this nick way long ago bevore i knew the firefox explorer

    now this made me nostalgic and i will make a new blog about my entry to the gaming world in a few hours

    • Posted Jun 22, 2011 2:45 pm GMT
    • Category: General
  • 25May 11

    What i made the past Month,

    didnt really come to play much ps3 in last month but i ordered yesterday some new games so some reviews will follow during june

    The Blob2

    L.a. Noir

    Marvel vs Capcom

    still old but i hadnt heay rain so fat

    disgea 3 should end bevor i buy disgea 4

    but most time stole Atlantica Online again but managed to get to lvl 133, lvl 134 soon and my guild got a lvl up yeeha Shangrila Nation ftw!!

    if you wanna try Atlantica Online which i would recomend all moorg players come to Argos Server an pm me "Hobbyjaeger"

    • Posted May 25, 2011 1:23 pm GMT
    • Category: N/A
  • 17May 11

    Yaaaay im finally Online ps3 works again in some parts cant wait to play online again

    • Posted May 17, 2011 11:10 am GMT
    • Category: N/A