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> P e r f e c t   W o r l d s < | MY GAMING FANBOY SHED MY GAMING FANBOY SHED > P e r f e c t   W o r l d s < HomeAbout Blogroll Browsing: » Home Leave a scuttlebutt theHunter: gone Wild Posted by David Haden on 20 November 2017 in Games in the news It seems there are now two versions of the spanking-new PC hunting game theHunter (now re-named theHunter: Classic). There’s now a new version tabbed theHunter: Call of the Wild, which appeared in the spring of 2017 for retailers. They towards to be identical, and it seems that theHunter: Call of the Wild just has a DVD box worldly-wise to sit on a shelf in a mall and gets on Amazon at £18. According to a scuttlebutt on Amazon theHunter: Call of the Wild theoretically requires Steam, plane though it ships on a DVD. And so far as I recall theHunter: Classic doesn’t require Steam but does need an Internet connection to prevent cheating. Other than that, I just can’t work out how they’re different. I had a squint at the theHunter forums and there’s no FAQ or thread there on the matter. At £18, does the DVD version ship with all sorts of pay-for addons for free? Exclusive items and areas? I would presume so. But the gaming magazines obviously have no interest in the game vastitude a few puzzled reviews and print-the-press-release items. So it’s all very mysterious. Advertisements Permalink Leave a scuttlebutt Titan Quest: Ragnarok Posted by David Haden on 20 November 2017 in Games in the news A decade without the most-excellent game Titan Quest, all of a sudden comes a large expansion Titan Quest: Ragnarok. It’s out now on Steam and switches the Mediterranean setting for the Northern… “realms of the Celts, the Northmen and the Asgardian gods”. Sounds good, very good. My review of Titan Quest Gold Edition is here. This has now been mildly superseded by the 10th year-end edition. Permalink Leave a scuttlebutt The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind – PC Gamer review Posted by David Haden on 5 August 2017 in Uncategorized PC Gamer has a quite positive review of the MMO The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind… “… one of the most encompassing and mannerly repositories for unconfined stories I’ve played in a long time. Morrowind is an essential excursion for those of a unrepealable gaming vintage, loaded as it is with reverence for that 15 year-old adventure.” Sadly the review doesn’t mention that vital stat: how long it’s going to take a well-constructed newbie to grind through the training levels, so they can get to the point where they step off the wend at Seyda Neen and not get nibbled to death by a small pack of Guars. Judging by my very limited past wits of MMOs (Ryzom, Lord of the Rings Online) all the potential joy of playing the game has evaporated by the time you’ve killed spider #276 or placid crystal #153 in your bid to level-up and thus unquestionably get into the main game. Permalink Leave a scuttlebuttWithoutNehrim, Enderal Posted by David Haden on 26 April 2017 in Cool game stuff, Games in the news The Nehrim guys have their huge Skyrim total-conversion out, and now have it pretty much nailed down. It’s tabbed Enderal, is free, very well reviewed, and as pretty as you’d expect. Released last summer it’s now misogynist in a full English version, which is currently patched to a 1.1.9 release — it’s now reported to be fairly stable. Which to me = it’s now playable. Permalink Leave a scuttlebutt Skywind preview Posted by David Haden on 30 March 2017 in Cool game stuff Loving what I’m seeing of the Skywind world (a Morrowind total conversion mod for Skyrim) in this late-autumn 2016 preview. It appears that 2017 is the team’s “big push” year and the voice-acting appears to be well underway too. I’d love to think this might be “main quest playable” by early 2018, but that’s just my guess on the timing… Permalink Leave a scuttlebutt “My god, it’s full of bugs…” Posted by David Haden on 24 March 2017 in Game reviews, Games in the news Oh dear, The Escapist review of the new Mass Effect: Andromeda game is in… “Unfortunately, Andromeda misses the mark” The story… “quickly devolves into something that’s going to sound all too familiar to fans of the series”. “… the game’s writing seems oddly out of sync, varying from quests that finger nerve-racking and meaningful to those that finger worth ignoring entirely. Worse, the moments that did finger important had little lasting impact.” “… a ton of quests that finger like busywork” “… the planetary scanning is just as tedious and worrying as it was in previous games.Planeworse, the planets you do land on finger empty.” “… poor animations detract from the enjoyment” And predictably “… the PC version of Andromeda has got its share of technical issues. … Four times, the game crashed to a woebegone screen.” “My god, it’s full of bugs…” Permalink 1ScuttlebuttTitan Quest: 10th Anniversary Edition Posted by David Haden on 20 December 2016 in Cool game stuff, Games in the news One of my all-time favourite games Titan Quest (2006) (my review), recently had a 10thYear-endrelease. This mega bufferooni of a release was slipped out in August when I wasn’t paying much sustentation to such things, and I’ve only just discovered it. The new edition is on GOG.com and theoretically moreover on Steam (I followed a switch-bait link to the game on Steam, and was sent to their home page instead. I guess it’s in Steam somewhere, maybe…) ThisYear-endEdition combines Titan Quest + Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, but that’s not new — since the old Gold Edition did that. It allows Steam mods, but the original game shipped with a full Construction Set of the sort that unliable mods up to and including massive total conversions such as Lilith. It moreover rolls up and includes all the fan fixes to date, and removes GameSpy, both kind of useful.Theoreticallythere are moreover stability fixes, but I found the Gold Edition game with the fan patch as solid as a waddle anyway. Changes which seems most relevant to single-player gamers: * Scalable UI for larger screens. * Dozens of new heroes and bosses. * Improved enemy and pet AI. * Shader & renderer improvements. * Updated loading-screen art. * Quick loot pick-up option. * Player run speed increased by 10%. * Higher stack limits inc. 25 health bottles, and a larger stash. That’s unbearable to tempt me when to the game, and I moreover see there’s a handy anti-creepy-crawly mod for the new edition: Turn all spiders into turtles or centaurs. Permalink Post navigation ← Older posts Follow > P e r f e c t   W o r l d s < on WordPress.com Want to make fantasy and sci-fi art? With easy-to-use software, and a vast range of pre-made drag-and-drop content? My other blog is defended to just that! Visit my Poser and DAZ Studio blog! 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