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Five Pretty Good RTS Games

In any RTS game, I just want an amazing Skirmish experience. I just wanna build up some crazy amazing fleet and take the entire map to pound town. I don’t care about any story or campaign missions, I hate playing them. A number of games understand my silent breaths of desire and have gifted me with their hot and strong bodies for untold hours of powerful entertainment.

Here are some of my…

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Ancient Space is kind of icy, and devoid of air, like a refrigerated vaccuum cleaner. Another RTS game thrown into space with some spooky visuals and 100% gpu candy, but lacks any gameplay that warrants such a drain on my electric bill.

Sins of a Solar Empire is one of my favorite games in the universe. Creating massive ship armies and throwing them all over the map to conquer planets and systems is exciting as heck. Ancient Space tries to do this, in a sort of copy paste fashion with no real innovation. There are ships, there are small battle areas you jump to, and there are the RTS standard elements. Standard is about all this manages to squeak by with in every aspect.

Too many cutscenes and story elements felt annoying and lacked punch during the campaign. Interrupting the battles and moving the camera around while I’m in the middle of some battle is frustrating. With the convoluted camera controls it just drives me insane.

Small marked off areas keep the battle map scaled down to managable sizes, but I think that’s defeating the purpose of a ‘Space’ RTS. I want lots of giant open everything happening, like Sins of a Solar Empire. Ship units look super tiny, and having five or six battle points on the same small map is just not necessary. They’ve managed to make space feel crowded and linear. Campaign missions are a dull minigame of goal after goal.

Battles in 3D definitely pushed beyond my tolerance level rather quick. Flying the camera around with WASD is fine, but there is a huge like 10 mile Z axis of depth. Panning up and down with Q & E keys is insane. I didn’t see any necessity to zoom in except when I couldn’t select an enemy target because the controls are all janky. I don’t even know what to blame for this. It could be better, anything above the bare minimum, but it isn’t.

A depressing upgrades system tacked on and offers confusing choices. I don’t see why I need to choose a separate upgrade for extra damage vs small or large ships. That’s the best idea anybody came up with? Srs? Good effort.

Bare minimum seems to be the goal for this release. I was hoping for just anything to surpass Sins of Solar empire, which is about a thousand years old at this point. No innovation and tedious controls make this much more frustrating than fun. It’s a dull experience, I just don’t enjoy playing it. Another generic RTS. Feels like a tower defense game.

Ancient Space launches a disappointing 2 out of 5

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/249190/

Ancient Space: Review Ancient Space is kind of icy, and devoid of air, like a refrigerated vaccuum cleaner. Another RTS game thrown into space with some spooky visuals and 100% gpu candy, but lacks any gameplay that warrants such a drain on my electric bill.

Back to Bed: PC Review!

Back to Bed is a serious power nap of a game. I’m a big fan of puzzles in pretty much any form. It’s such a raw antique form of entertainment, people have been making amazing puzzles for centuries. A little puzzle on a screen is no different from any other medium. Back to Bed pillow slaps it hard.

Key to a successful B&B is a high score on TripAdvisor.

Our main character, Bob, falls asleep at…

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Pure Pool: Review! PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CFZT-qjXgg

Pure Pool is the most photo-realistic pool game since real life version 2. A solid and accessible entry for some casual friday entertainment.

Pool, billiards, cue sports are good mild entertainment. Originating in the 16th century, pool has proven a valuable game without ever feeling outdated. Nothing too offensive or dangerous, and no part of it…

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Merchants of Kaidan: Early Access Preview!

winter is on its way I think.

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/294020/

Merchants of Kaidan makes me miss the Tradewinds games. I spent so much time on those, weeks amassing untold riches with a bunch of big boats and barbarous bombarding. This has that same vibe, that same Mount & Blade traveling merchant freedom.

In any tycoon sort of game, I need three things: Huge Piles of Money, Cool…

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Unrest: Review!

Unrest Review

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/292400/

story time.

I spend a lot of time reading when I’m not whittling, photographing puffins, or boxing kangaroos. I also like to play games.

Unrest is not so much a game. Unrest is an interactive choose your own adventure story. I’ve spent over an hour reading textboxes on a screen. I’ve meandered my way through realistic personality…

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Point Perfect: Review!

Point Perfect Review

Drag and also drop.

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/303840/

I hate this game but also like it.

Not a whole hell of a lot to it, use the mouse and stay alive through 3 levels of different minigames. Unlock some powerups or something I have no idea. I can’t play this more than like 20 seconds at a time. I hate it more than salad. If I had a choice between this and…

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Sokobond: Review!

Dihydrogen Monoxide

Sokobond is one of the most well presented puzzle games ever made. It’s really beautiful to look at and never distracts, which is probably a good thing because these puzzles can get stressful.

Functionally this feels similar to a slider puzzle with a few little unique changes. Based around the idea of free atoms, the goal is to create a chemical by sliding…

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The Nightmare Cooperative: Review!

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A fun little puzzle game with a bit of rogue-like paint. Not a super in depth mega RPG, but it does what it does just fine.

Random levels are well designed and can get extremely challenging when trying to guide a team of 4 through a billion enemies and traps that spawn even more.

There isn’t much loot though, I’m disappointed by that.…

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Top 5 Best Skateboarding Games OF ALL TIME!

Skateboarding games are pretty flippin important. Kickflips are hard as heck and my bones are too brittle for that real world bs. Safety first little lemur, here’s 5 of the best ways to skate from the comfort of your lay-z-azz ha haaa shh.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color,DREAMCAST!!!, N-GAGE ha haa!?

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Duck Sauce - Quack: Album Review!

Duck Sauce – Quack: Album Review!

Hello Party People.

Duck Sauce has two ingredients and that’s enough to win Best Underground Dance Track, and top of the charts in a few countries. Quack is their first full album, piling together some singles and new jingles that basically crisp up into a pretty hot party mix. It’s like Chex for booty.

Some standout singles are…

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Circuits: Review! PC

Circuits

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/282760

PROS:

It’s pretty pretty!

CONS:

I can’t hear, so I can’t really play it

Circuits has me all bumble humble ready to dance with two of my favorite things: electrical engineering and connect the dots. Immediately this turned into a horribly blatant opportunity for the developer to tell me I’m deaf and we can’t be friends.

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I…

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Bardbarian: PC Review!

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/269490/

Nice Raccoon

Bardbarian is the most heavy metal tower defense related game I’ve played in at least a week. Everyone remembers the old saying, “Heavy metal toxicity can result in damaged or reduced mental and central nervous function, lower energy levels, and damage to blood…

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Construction Machines 2014: Review!

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/252050/

DO WORK

If you want to have fun filling in holes with large rocks using machinery you definitely are not qualified to drive, this is the cheapest way to do it. If you want AAA hardcore precision and mind blowing realism, this is going to disappoint your booty.

I had fun playing…

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Spate: Review!

Eva Green

Casual platforming has its place in every gaming library, and Spate isn’t awful at what it does accomplish. If you want to hop around and look at shiny happy stuff with familiar elements from other games like Helicopter and various low difficulty puzzles, this might be enough to occupy an hour of your weekend.

Spate is a mucho typical platformer, much the way a Toyota corolla is a car.…

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