Like I said in the last post, I also bought Red Faction: Guerrilla for computer. How else would I buy it? Much of the game is like the old one, in the sense that you’re a demolition guy that gets stuck in the middle of a revolution on Mars. You motive in this game is that your brother gets almost immediately after you get to the planet and you have no choice but to help the Red Faction because the EDF already pegged you as a Red Faction member. So, why not help them and get a little revenge?

Single Player

The single player campaign is great. Since Red Faction is a sandbox game, you are not forced to doing straight story missions abd there are a couple hundred side missions to help you take control over the different sections but they cannot be completely captured until you complete the story missions. A lot of my time playing was just running around destroying the EDF’s buildings, destroying them make their control on the zone weaker, and trying to see how much chaos I can get started. At one point I had a walker and was rampaging through all of the buildings. It’s funny that not many EDF came to stop me. There are also real-time missions, like you could be walking down the street and get a call saying to be somewhere to help the Red Faction in some way. Once you get past all the open world stuff, the campaign isn’t really long. I ended up beating it in a weekend, about 38 hours of game-play, but the whole time I didn’t want to stop. That’s how good the single player was at making you want to play more.

Multiplayer

I can’t say that I played any of the multiplayer games and that’s usually where you will find me. My brother, or Ghost, played some of it and said that there wasn’t that many players or the matches ended really quickly. I would say the game doesn’t have a lot of players because it does need some, not a lot, graphic power to run and because it was a fairly new game. I can’t comment on the matches ending too fast because I didn’t play or watch any of them. He’s just used to playing Counter-Strike where you play the same map for like 30-45 mins at a time, depending on the server.

I would say go out and buy it. Red Faction: Guerrilla is definitely worth the money for the single player campaign alone. I know it does share the same lacking multiplayer as Borderlands, if you read that post, but the more of you that get it and play, the more of you there are playing! It’s funny how that works… To make it clear, I didn’t say either have bad multiplayer but multiplayer that could be made better. Borderlands with cross-platform gaming and Red Faction with more players in general.

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It’s been a really long time since on of us posted… I know it and I am not sure if anyone comes around to read anymore but I thought I would put a post up about some of the recent events I have been doing within the game world.

There is no more WAR for us. The developers make the game unplayable to Bailen and I. So, we went back to WoW and that’s where Bailen is currently. I play it for the most part but I bought Borderlands. Oh yes, I said Borderlands and that game lives up to expectations; I think I’ve already logged 40+ hours on my Xfire playing it.

If anyone hasn’t heard about it, Borderlands is a FPS RPG. Your character goes around killing people with a gun and gains experience to level from each kill. When you level, you can put talent points into skills to make you fight better. There is also a lot of loot, mainly guns, to find. There are so many guns in the game, I don’t think the developer knows the exact number of guns. They just give you a rough estimate. Which means more for us! Borderlands has almost a comic art style and a lot of the environment reminds me of a movie called Mad Max. It’s kind of post apocalypse and everything is kind of limping along in the world.

This is definitely a game worth the money. I know I didn’t go over the online game play but that’s where the game lacks in my opinion. Most the people that I played online with just wanted to get free guns, trade guns or duel. I wanted to join a game and play through some of the story; I sometimes jumped in to help lower level characters. If you have friends that bought the game it would be great playing with them.

In my next post, I am going to be talking about Red Faction: Guerrilla, another great game that I got my hands on after the fall of Warhammer Online.

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I know it’s been a while since one of us has posted anything about games. We’ve both been playing WAR still and we switched guilds again. We were with vVv Gaming but their WAR guild didn’t really have the organization and the willingness to fight in ORvR. I am not saying they’re bad gamers. I am saying they didn’t seem to have what it takes to make it in WAR. So, Bailen and I joined Dominus Letum. They’re a good sized guild on the Destruction side and always looking for more PvP.

Since joining them, I’ve got about four or five renown ranks in a couple weeks. That’s really fast for me since I work Monday through Friday. My time is limited to a couple hours a night and the weekends. We’ve managed to turn around some of the order’s raids on our capital city. If anyone is following my Twitter you would of seen the night that we got the leader of the largest guild on the Order side to leave and take his warband with him. We didn’t have the numbers to take them on directly but we managed to keep the battlefield objectives so that Order couldn’t raise their victory points and take the city into stage two.

This guild is also plays a variety of games. They’re looking forward to Global Agenda as much as Bailen and I. So if we decide to try it out we will not have to change guilds, just find out what server Dominus Letum is playing on and join up with them. I am hoping to continue playing with them and all but Bailen and I always keep an eye out for trouble. We’re not going to get caught in a guild that tries to force players to give up their game time and style to make the guild leaders happy. If any of you have played games with me before you know that I will push it with guild leaders because I will not do something I do not want think I should have to do. The guild already tried to get on to me for not being on Vent but I don’t really care. I can play just fine without hearing people trying to order me around. Right now, this guild is good. Let’s hope it stays that way.

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Since my subscription us up for WAR and I am not able to pay it until the end of this week, I’ve been playing some of the other games that I own. It got me to ask myself. What are some of the games that you like to play? Then a better question came. What old/classic games do you like to play. I’ve tried a lot of games and only a few make me come back to play for hours. If you have your own blog you can make a post that responds with your answers. Then you create a comment on this post with a link to your post. I am interested in seeing how many people read this blog and which old games you like to play. A quick few of favorite games would be the following:

• Guild Wars
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Day of Defeat 1.3
• Civilization III

I’ll add more of them when I think about it but right now I wanted to get the post online so that readers and other bloggers could respond and tell us some their favorite games. They could show up on our list if we just didn’t think about it. No game is off limits and there is no system requirements. I just would like them to be older then a year or so. Since games usually go out of style quickly a “classic” game doesn’t have to be really old but the older the game, the better the feeling when you start playing it again. You then realize why you played it and loved it so much in the first place.

I am sure that Bailen will make a post for himself about which games he loved to play. You better not say World of Warcraft either. I used to play it and I don’t count it as “old” or a “classic.” It’s more like a world of crack that sucks player and forces them to play it. I’m just kidding… or am I kidding? Either way don’t put retarded answers.

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I’m going to be completely honest, Warhammer has been pretty stale lately. Order has been farming IC multiple times a week, server bugs/crashes have not had any attempts to be fixed and are worse than ever. Personally, I think Warhammer Online is starting to circle the drain. Mythic has, in my personal opinion, not done shit to keep players happy. There is no balance in classes what so ever, constant crashes during fort takes, even after having the population cap reduced 3 times and, not to mention, that the game has basically come down to which side has a zerg with more people running around. So really I’m just playing right now to keep myself occupied.

As Bio said in his last post, there are 2 MMOs that have caught our eyes. Aion is basically what Bio said it was, and honestly, it looks good but I think it will have the same problem War. A lack of end game content. So for me, that’s out. Global Agenda on the other hand has me checking my email every 5 minutes to see if I got into the Beta. I am SUPER excited for this game. In the past there has never been a real successful TPSMMORPG. This I think is going to be the one that could break that cycle of failures. Its Heavily PvP based with a good amount of PvE content like War, but unlike war, its PvP content is kept to small groups of say 12 vs. 12. Now I know that doesn’t sound exciting but this is how it works. Say you have a huge group of people taking a base, everyone together adds up to 60 people on each side. Instead of having a zergfest, it would put you into 5 groups of 12 each taking care of certain parts of said base. For example group one could be fighting to take out the base’s power generator, if that group succeeds, the other groups notice its effects, such as turrets and force fields going offline. I think the real time multi group concept is amazing. Now lets talk a bit about the player itself. Now just a forewarning, this is based only off of what I have read, don’t take me for a final word and check out some stuff your self. Every person gets to create their own “agent” from one of 4 classes, Assault, Recon, Medic, and Robotics. Assault is all about heavy armor and BFGs (Big Fucking Guns) They can choose to go as a meat shield and play the tank class or they can go heavy damage. Recon is all about fast movement and killing an enemy before they even see you be it with swords or sniper rifles. Medic is for the most part a pure support class, They can either play a healing role or a damage role that focuses on debuffs such as draining shields and health. Robotics, my personal favorite class, is really interesting because they have multiple ways to play multiple roles. You could choose to focus on defense and build defensive turrets and force field walls. You could also go offense and create robotic pets that follow you around and help you out. The third way to play a robotics is to create machines that you control from a distance and fly in shooting people from above. Now once you create an agent you can still make other classes but from what I understand they have to have the same name and appearance, this I’m not to sure on though. The one thing I’m worried about with Global Agenda is that it could turn into a twitchy jump around spray and pray game. I don’t think it will, but its an itch that’s always going to be in the back of my head until i get my hands on it. Ill keep our readers posed on anything else i hear about the game.

Bailen and I have both been looking for somewhere to go when the inevitable fall of WAR happens. People in WAR started talking about Aion, a game being developed by NCsoft. They’re also the ones that made Guild Wars. The games art style reminds me of Guild Wars a lot but they bulked up on the anime influence and made all the skill animations really over-the-top. The other game that Bailen brought to my attention and that we’re both interested in trying is Global Agenda. It’s a MMOTPSRPG, that’s one hell of a category name. It’s made by a company called Hi-Rez Studios and it uses the Unreal engine for it’s graphics. So, it will look like Unreal and most of the other games that use it’s engine.

In Aion, I would assume you are playing like any other MMO that’s based in fantasy and spell casting. You get your character, you level, gain new spells, join guilds, get gear, raid people’s homes and all that fun stuff. Where is the draw to it? The only thing that I can see that people like about it is the fact that it looks like a 3D anime game. I played Guild Wars for almost three yeas and I thought Aion was Guild Wars 2 when I first saw it. I don’t think that I am going to give Aion much of a try but from the comments I’ve heard about beta testing it’s going to be better then playing WAR. One thing that I like about Aion system of fighting is that players will be able to fly and fight. I have never seen an MMO of it’s style that’s even tried to fly and fight. I don’t think that’s going to be enough to get me to drop some cash on the game and some time cards though. It’s just not enough to keep me from going back to WoW or just staying in WAR.

Global Agenda has mine, as well as Bailen’s, attention. We have both signed up to try to get into the beta testing. The game looks to be a mix of Tribes, Planet Side and the quick fighting of old school Quake. You’re playing as an agent that breaks away from this huge company and you’re on you own until you join player created agencies [guilds]. You fight against the company you broke away from and other player agencies for control of areas and resources to gain your levels. You get different load outs depending one the class that you created. You can be the heavy gunner, sniper, up-close assassin, engineer, medic and more. You will be able to deploy force fields, create bots to fight, fly, shoot, stealth, and always gank other players. The combat is going to be more instance based. You will see fights of 12 vs. 12 or something like that. It’s could all change because the game is only in beta testing. I have a lot of anticipation for Global Agenda. I hope it doesn’t roll over and tank like WAR.

I cannot wait to try Global Agenda out but until then I will play WAR, Guild Wars and all the other games I’ve got to keep myself from becoming a working stiff. I think Bailen is making a post. So, he might talk more about each game. Check out their websites and consider one of them if you’re looking for an escape from the sinking WAR ship.

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