• 3Dec 11

  Terraria

  I'm very pleased with my newest acquisition - Terraria! My friend and I were playing Minecraft the other day and got inscrutably bored (Minecraft, after a while, has a way of doing that) so he decided to buy me Terraria. It was quite a pleasant suprise to be honest. We proceeded to start playing. I've noted the inherent similarities with Minecraft, but I actually may prefer Terraria more due to the 8 bit, cooler armors, bosses, more combat, etc. It really is a fun game.

  

  I find myself really enjoying it, though probably because we cheated pretty bad. My friend gave me full shadow armor, a Muramasa, and a ton of great accessories. After we went on a rampage and killed the Eye of Cthulu (mostly him, I just stood there stuck in a hole, trying to lob shurikens) and the Devourer of Worlds (I actually did help that time) he bought me a minishark, so I began stockpiling musket balls for no real reason. ("You've got over 6000 shots and you call ME a HAXX0R?")

  

  We managed to take out Skeletron pretty easily, but we messed up the Wall of Flesh - I accidentally shot a monster carrying the guide doll and spawned him (soooo...). I got ahold of some necro armor, and we found the guy who reforges gear (so I got some rocket boots!). My friend spent over 700 gold reforging his accessories while I only reforged my Minishark and Cloud in a Bottle (Now it's a "Demonic Minishark" because I got the random bonus on top of the reforge, pretty cool). So, I'm really enjoying it and I've already played about 15 hours in the few days I've had it. I'm looking forward to killing more bosses here shortly. Thanks for reading!

  -Trey

  • Posted Dec 3, 2011 9:22 am GMT
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• 4Oct 11

  Flight Simming - Help!?

  After shuffling around on my computer desk and not being able to find my ancient copy of Jane's WWII Fighters flight simulator, I decided to purchase IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 on Steam. After an overnight download wait and some graphics issues which I managed to fix very easily, I began to play. I had a huge amount of difficulty just maneuvaring the plane!

  I've decided I need to buy a decent joystick for combat and commercial sims. Does anyone know of a good joystick $150 or below that isn't super complex (but still complex enough that it has enjoyable realism), works well, and is compatible with both Microsoft Flight Simulator X AND old flight games?

  I've heard Saitek is pretty good...

  • Posted Oct 4, 2011 6:28 pm GMT
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• 6Sep 11

  Tails!

  Well, I finally caved in and chose Tails instead of Luigi/Yoshi in my all-time sidekicks bracket. I just think that Tails is the much cooler sidekick and has a fair chance at winning, despite the fact that Mario addicts are infesting reality. I honestly really like Sonic (and Mario) and think that Tails deserves to win more than Yoshi or Luigi. I mean, c'mon, who doesn't like Tails?

  I just had a thought... why wasn't Pikachu a choice on the bracket? He can be considered a sidekick since he was in Pokemon Yellow, and he's one of the most popular video game characters around due to mainstream exposure...

  So how did everyone else vote?

  • Posted Sep 6, 2011 12:19 pm GMT
  • Category: Editorial
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