Jan 22, 2010

Torchlight Review - It's Clobberin' Time

First of all, I NEVER played a Diablo game so this is kinda like new territory for me and I like it.


So Powerful, The Ground Makes Lighting (Ok... kinda corney)

The game takes plane in a town called Torchlight and no sooner you step into it, trouble is happening. You get thrown into a situation to cure your self and stop Alric evil deeds.


The overall story is meh but it's the overall gameplay that will keep you hook for hours on end. The Character range from Vanquisher (Hunter / Rogue), Alchemist (Mage / Summoner) or Destroyer (Warrior) are highly customizable in terms of ability and gameplay so if you want a Gun wielding Alchemist or Close-Range Vanquisher, you can do that. You also have a pet that can hold items and better yet, go to town to sell extra item / gear for needed cash. You can also change your pet to many different types of various strengths and weakness and can learn any 2 spell (of many) scrolls you buy or find.

But what about the environment... It's awesome, vivid colors, many environments ranging from mine shafts, dwarf fortress and more. You can see for yourself in the pics.

And Finally... Loot.. Loot.. Loot.. So Many Loot you might save for other classes till you kinda out lvl your weapon or/and armor. If you get unfortunate w/ loot you need, you can always enchant them but be warned, it's not 100% and your weapon/armor can be left w/ nothing but nothing like a mod can fix for you and I'll get into it at a later date..


Their is flaws like the enchantment failing but the two other is lack of more buttons and no extra mouse support. First, the Button Issue. I have a Pure Alchemist Summoner and keeping my pets up w/ buffs and myself up w/ spells and potions. I have tons of spells / abilities but the game gives you 10 hotbar space.when I have atlease 13 I need. They try to make up for it w/ binding the F1,2,3,4,ect buttons as a quick switch button but it's fail. Needless to say this cause problems for me and my survivability. Similar to the 1st problem is no support for mouses more then 3 buttons. The extra mouse buttons could help but guess that forgot or something.
    
Anyways, It's a very fun and addicting game and I recommend you buy it on Steam or on Runic Games site or even DL the demo from steam or their site. I'll be doing a Special MOD edition of this soon but you can go Right HERE if you want to see New and good mods.

4/5 Shields


PS: Wanted to do a Video Review but things happened and stuff misplaced so =(..

Jan 21, 2010

Rant - Microsoft / Nintendo Points Gotz 2 Go. (UPDATE)

 (Microsoft has lower the cost of their pointz but still a fucken joke)

This is the first of probably many rants I will do so w/ that said, here goes..

This will mainly be focused on Microsoft but w/ Nintendo mention.

These so called Points as replacements for $ got to go. Say I want to buy a XBL Game or DLC for an Xbox Game that cost 15$ but 1200 MS points. However, you're only able to pay the given amount for the points which are....
  • $6.25 for 500 Microsoft Points      (as of now $4.99 for 400 Microsoft Points)
  • $12.50 for 1000 Microsoft Points  (now $9.99 for 800 Microsoft Points
  • $25 for 2000 Microsoft Points       (now $19.99 for 1600 Microsoft Points)
  • $62.50 for 5000 Microsoft Points  (now $49.99 for 4000 Microsoft Points)
That's It.. No $1, $5, $10, $15 options given which means I have to dish out $18.75 for something I wanted $15 (or 1200 MS points) for. If you think having spare MS Points and losing $3.75 is not a problem, you clearly missing the point. I and many ppl want to save money and just no need to pay extra cash when we don't need to. Many ppl don't know (or don't care to know) that 80 MS Points equals $1 and their actually exists games (and avatar gear if you count that crap) that are 1$ but spending more to get it. Their is one redeeming factor, They list the actual price on their Games On Demand so hopefully we'll see a change for the better.

Nintendo have this problem as well w/ it's Wii Points. I have 700 points but need 100 for the game I would like to purchase but theirs no $1 (or 100 Wii Points) options in the Wii Shopping Channel but instead this...
  • $10.00 for 1000 Wii Points
  • $20.00 for 2000 Wii Points
  • $30.00 for 3000 Wii Points
  • $50.00 for 5000 Wii Points
I Don't want to play $10 just to buy one game. So the point is, just ditch these points crap and Just put the damn price of the DL game/item and just do Real World Price like Playstation Network does... Yea... They didn't BS w/ ppl like the others did and that's cool points for them.

There's Info and stuff about it not meant to mislead ppl Right HERE!!
The so call more reasonable Xbox pts price info Right Here!!