30 Days of Videogames Day 15

Post a screenshot from a game you're playing right now.

I could do this for a lot of games.  CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Game One: Team Fortress 2 -

I love TF2, but that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone reading this.

Game Two: Osmos -

A still screenshot does not do this game justice.



Osmos is a really neat game that came with my Humble Indie Bundle.  It's a really neat (and occasionally frustrating) time-waster.

Game Three: Spiral Knights -

Spiral Knights seems like a free MMO-Lite.  You get set up in a party with three other people you don't know (unless you actually have friends) and kill monsters for greater wealth and therefore, weapons.  Even when I think I'm not going to play, though, I use all my energy (think along the lines of a Facebook or Twitter-based game that only allows a certain number of actions a day) to post weapons on the auction house.  I'm rich, beyotch!

Game Four: Tropico 3 - 

It's kind of like a politically-twisted Sim City.  You're a small island in the Caribbean in the middle of the Cold War.  Both superpowers want your alliances, and give you financial aid.  The main objective is to stay in power and accomplish any objectives you may have in that time frame.  The key is balancing development with the environment, and capitalism with communism.  You also have to make sure your army can take on any rebels that might rise against you.

Game Five: Amnesia: The Dark Descent -

Goddammit this game is scary.  This game is freaking scary.  I have made so little progress into this game because the atmosphere is so damn scary.  Easily one of the best videogame gifts I have ever been given, maybe the best.

Seriously, it's so freaking scary.

30 Days of Video Games Day 14

Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper:

This one isn't really fair.  I have so damn many, and they're rotating every half-hour.  I took a screencap from pretty much every Meet the Team video and made them wallpapers.  I think I took four of them from Meet the Medic. But for the sake of the technical name, I have this as my current wallpaper:

I have a lot more as well.

30 Days of Video Games Day 10

Best Gameplay - Team Fortress 2

The damn game's just too much fun to not get this award.  Its gameplay is a very weird story, though, because when the game came out, it was pretty simple.  You have 9 classes to play as, each with 3 weapons.  The Engineer could build sentry guns, and the spy could disable them.  Heavy Weapons Guy had all of the HP, and the Medic was the most important class no one wanted to play as.

Then Valve started adding weapons.  Suddenly the Medic has a gun that heals him when he gets successful hits.  The Pyro gets an Air Blast that reflects projectiles.  The Sniper gets a bow-and-arrow.  All of a sudden the game changed a lot, and it was awesome.  The game actually got so unbalanced as weapons were added to counteract new weapons that it re-balanced itself.

They even added Middle Eastern-themed weapons because why not?

It's pretty neat, though, to see so many varied styles of play in one game where so many skills offset other skills.  And in general, it's just really damn fun.

30 Days of Video Games Day 7

Best Gaming Couple:

Just kidding.  Kind of.  They do make a great team.

I dunno much on this one.  I do like the idea of Mario and Peach, but only when Peach actually does something to further her getting out of the situation, like in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.  It's kind of the same with Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey; Maya's a fun character, but Phoenix carries most of the investigation.

I guess I'd go with Crono and Lucca.  Crono isn't a particularly great character, what with him hailing from the silent-protagonist tradition, but he's very offset by the awesome characters around him.  Lucca is definitely my favorite for a couple with Crono, which is saying something considering most of the teams you make end up with Crono looking like a pimp.

 A 32-bit pimp.

But Lucca was a machinist, and she complained a lot less than Marle.  She also spoke regular damn English, something Ayla could never comprehend.  Also, judging by all of the fanart and cosplay on the internet, I'm not the only one with this opinion.

This is notable because Lucca isn't naked in this picture.