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Sometime during the last big steam sale (I think it was the summer sale) my roommate and I both picked up Terraria off of steam. I don’t think either of us played it for months. It was always on the to play list, but I was busy with other games, he was busy with Minecraft. So we just put it off.

Man was that a mistake.

I played it a bit one night waiting for a group to show up for another game. The group ended up canceling so I kept playing. Next thing I had known 3 hours had gone by,  It wasn’t hard to get my roommate interested. It was a simple game with low requirements.

I quickly found and setup a multiplayer server for the two of us.

Fast forward a couple weeks. I get back from family trip/PAX to find my roommate has built a couple really sweet houses.

Got my friend Nigel playing on my server the last few nights. Last night My roommate and I went down to the lava areas to mine for Obsidian, after about an hour, we came back up, to find Nigel had been busy on his own house. I can’t wait to see what we do next. I think the group exploring is the most fun.

I have to say I know I’ve gotten my $10 worth (it was on sale, so actually less) probably a hundred times over so far.

I’ve always been annoyed there is no steam cloud support. You can’t switch between computers to play the same character/world.

Today I remembered that dropbox is a cheap and easy cloud save game support

junction "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Terraria" Terraria

With all the new recent games that have come out, across all systems, I keep finding it surprising that I’m playing a browser based (originally) mmo.

I describe the game as a merge of both simcity and any space trading sim. I’ve sucked in at least 2 coworkers, and a few others have tried this game out. I love the public wiki based help system, complete with a public tech tree. Its very cool how every ingame building and ship (and a few others) all make sure to have a wiki link which people can expand.

The game has a completely open jsonrpc based api. Which allows all kinds of fun tools to be created. I’ve seen one set of tools being created to generate nice solar system maps, and we’ve been discussing various other random tools at work.

I think its awesome how you are safe and can continue to do the single player experience of building your planet up, but the instant you send out colony ships and expand you are no longer protected. I now have 2 colonies and having a minor fight with one of my neighbors, and I can’t wait to see what other multi-player options there are.

So go ahead and join lacuna and send me (halkeye) a message hi.

Finally finished the game (DQIX) tonight @ 10:25pm…

Random notes and stats to remember this by:
beat the final boss in 5 or 6 rounds
my 2 gladiators did 1500 damage (at 50 tension) and nearly 2000 (at 50+double up)
it helped i didn’t use forbearance
so one guy didn’t get slaughtered
3 rounds for tension + 1 for magic mirror + 1 for double up + 1 to attack = 6 rounds

Stats:
Time Spent Playing: 122:29
Time Spent in multiplayer: 13:52
Battle Victories: 2869
Times Alchemy Performed: 103
Accolades EArnt: 120
Quests Completed: 37
Grottoes Completed: 24
Guests Canvassed: 79
Defeated Monster List Completion: 79%
Wardrobe Completion: 25%
Item List Completion: 51%
Alchenomicon Completion: 19%
mini medals: 59

Levels:

Goku – Lv.47

Cassie  - Lv.47

Norbert – Lv 37

Stacey – Lv. 35

So far this weekend I got to try two really cool demos, and one really pathetic demo.

TMNT: The Movie game really sucks, you can easily tell its the same engine as hulk, and spiderman and such. Doesn’t even feel like ninja turtles except you can do some combo moves(?). I think at least, I had trouble getting anything other than the super jump to work.

Supreme Commander was pretty cool. The first level took me 1.5 hours on easy to complete, and i was shocked to see there was another level to be played after that. I guess the 1.5 gig download had alot of stuff on it :) Unfortunately, during the last phase of the first level, I had approx 40 guys, plus whatever the computer had fighting, and it was seriously starting to lag my machine, so I doubt i’ll be picking up this game any time soon.

Command & Conquer 3 was by far the most fun, and the full motion video briefings were finally cool, except for the one time your “helper” told you to right click on something, otherwise it felt really cool (I know I already said that, but it did). Plus they got a few big name actors to go along with the ones they had in the previous games. Jennifer Morrison From House, Grace Park from Battle Star Galactica, and Billy Dee Williams from starwars. At least those are the big names I saw in the demo.

I am so pre-ordering C&C when i get a chance this week.

that is all.

(note, thanks to the #mysql guys, i have figured out a bunch of issues the server was having with mysql.. its all good now.. stupid bugs)

Sin Episode 1 was so awesome. I’m pretty sure i’m one of the very few people who’s played the original.

I’m surprised that the game works so well in episode format.. Its weird, being only a couple hours long per episode, but its highly action packed, etc..

got so many pictures up in the New Gallery.

Whoaaa

The latest elders scroll (.. not quite sequel to morrowind) – Oblivion Video

Its a must see for any RPG fan.

even if you are not, its pretty enjoyable, the comments the narrator says are just fun.

http://pics.halkeye.net/gallery/000dwd3x is my pictures from the F.E.A.R beta demo thingie. I don’t even thing it warrents a review, so i’m leaving it at that.

Okay, I’ve been sitting staring at this window for a bit now, Unable to quite get my thoughts on this game typed out properly. That is, Until I actually started to look through the screenshots, I was just going to cite this example InGame screen. Its a pretty decent example of all the ingame activity so I didn’t even try to bother to find one closer back to the point in the game I was.

Now, taking a look at the rest of the screenshots, you’ll have to notice that they all are pretty much the same, there is no, other parts, just chopping up people. Puzzles are barely there. If you had Knights of the Old Republic with the same interface, it would still be totally different as you’d have some semblance of a storyline there, instead of the sorta, wierd one that was added to make the game have a point (KotT not KOTOR).

Anyways, Not a fan of this game even in the slightest, I thought I was going to have another rpg to play, but sadly not so.

Not sure what else to say about it, but don’t buy it unless you got so much cash to spare.

15:47 < halkeye> hahah
15:48 < halkeye> it only took me like 10 tries, but i finally beat riku in the race

I so miss this game, I can’t belive I restarted it so many times just to beat riku. I mean, I know that cutscene by heart now.

Sora: If I win..ummmmmm. I’m captain…. And if you win
Riku: I get to share a paupo with Kairi. Agreed?
Sora: Wha? um…

Actually not quite by heart, but i think thats it.
And I finally beat him!!! score now of 2-1, from the previous battles!!!