Back in February Pokémon Shuffle was released for the 3DS and 2DS as part of Nintendo's free to play catalogue. It's a match three game in the same vein as Candy Crush, but with much less bothering other people over facebook. The game got a lot of criticism because of microtransactions and how you only have 5 hearts when you start and that they take 30 minutes to regenerate each.
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The Ground Will Fall Out Beneath Your Feet, The Pillars Of Eternity Will Shatter And The Earth Will…Evo…Land…Twice?
A whole slew of news from the GOG front:
Perhaps the biggest news is that Bethesda Softworks has finally landed on their digital distribution shores, but the new Pillars of Eternity Expansion has also been released on the storefront and - my soft spot game - Evoland, finally got a sequel and it's on GOG now.
So, let's take a closer look at what happened, shall we? Read more
Microtransactions in MGS5 confirmed. #FucKonami
You’ve probably already heard it, but just to make sure: Watch out before you buy Metal Gear Solid 5, unless you’re really cool with microtransactions in full price games. Read more
Got Graph Paper?
I remember a time when gaming was ridiculously difficult. There was no hand-holding or tutorials or any of that stuff. Just you, the manual, the game and your notebook - for taking notes, of course.
Well, that time has come again, because somehow GOG got the rights to the old gold box games - an AD&D standard from years gone by that is - since it was made in the 80's - sometimes ridiculously difficult. Read more
There’s A [Hearthstone] Jousting Tournament Starting Tonight!
Prepare your wallet for August 24. The Grand Tournament is finally arriving! Read more
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Announced
In the latest Divinity Original Sin Project update for Kickstarter backers of Original Sin, Larian Studios announced an upcoming Kickstarter for a sequel to their RPG epic.
Blizzard at Gamescom: The big reveal!
Blizzard Entertainment announced its next expansion for World of Warcraft at Gamescom, and it left me a bit not necessarily underwhelmed but close to it.
World of Warcraft: Legion follows the current story that Warlords of Draenor started by having the ever hated Gul'dan unleash the 'Burning Legion' or some really bad demon guys who have been around well, forever.
To make a long story short, for multiple expansions, as well as the original game 'Warcraft' was mostly dedicated to the Burning Legion trying to invade and take over the world. This legion was created by the titan Sargeras, who like most of the big characters in the Warcraft universe started off essentially good, but overtime turned out to be pretty bad. *Cough*Neltharion*Cough*
This expansion follows suit by continuing the fight against the hordes of armies that Sargeras controls.With the help of some friends new and old we can overcome any obstacle sent at us. But what does this expansion really bring for us?
1. We get a new 'Hero Class'!
Much like Death Knights in Wrath of the Lich King, Legion brings us the Demon Hunter. No, not Diablo's style demon hunter, the Illidan Stormrage type.
Yeah, that guy, The Betrayer, the one who carried the ever famous war-glaives.
Demon Hunters, who have long been locked away in the Vault of the Wardens are called upon to help fight against the Legion. The class itself has multiple different customizations when being created, and since they are a Hero Class they will start at a very high level to allow players to level with their friends. This also allows for people to hit speed up to level cap and do raids and dungeons right away.
There will be two specs for this class.
Vengence - The Tank Spec
Havoc - DPS Spec
Not all the skills have been released for this class, but more information will be revealed later.
2. The broken Isles
10,000 years before The Sundering an unknown elven land was sitting off into the distance, when the land broke it forged the broken isles which holds the tomb of Sargeras. With the help of Gul'dan the Broken Isles is turned into the biggest war zone that has ever come to Azeroth.
Each zone has it's own major story line, and is discussed here in Blizzards Gamescon presentation.
3. Ancient Weapons
These are class specific weapons that each player has a chance to get.
Maw of the Damned is the Death Knight specific weapons and it doesn't end there!
The AshBringer, this weapon has been around since WoW's original release. Players know this weapon, they fought for this weapon, and they did whatever they could to get it before it was taken out of the game.
Now each one of these weapons has customizations, meaning, they can be enchanted with runes to upgrade the damage or other specs of the weapon, and also it can have other visual depictions of the same weapon.
4, Level Cap of 110
As of right now the current level cap is 100. Pretty self explanatory, you get an expansion, you level and then start farming dungeons.
5. New Dungeons and Raids
Tons of new dungeons, according to the conference the devs are working on having a relatively large number of dungeons compared to the last expansions so the players will have more to do. This includes level up dungeons as well as level cap dungeons.
So far two Raids have been announced, the first being The Emerald Nightmare, and the second Suramar Palace where the final boss will definitely be Gul'dan.
6. Class-specific Order Halls and followers
This one is a bit on the fence, I don't want to say time management style, but at the same time I want to say time management. Until more details surface about what is actually done with your followers I'm going to leave it at this.
- You lead the Class Order.
- Order Halls are a base of operations for your class. You share them with other players of your class. Only members of your class can enter this area, similar to the Death Knight starting area.
- Halls will be located in thematically appropriate areas.
- Shamans in a cave near the Maelstrom.
- Paladins will be under Light's Hope Chapel.
- Warlocks will be on a Legion Portal World.
- You get special quests and work on your Artifact weapon here.
- Your Hall has Champions, an evolution of the followers. This time around you aren't raising an army, but a small group. Some will be established characters. There will be more integration with the world. They won't do things instead of you, but help you to accomplish things. They discover an area for you to investigate. You work alongside them and with them rather than sending them out on missions. (mmo-champion.com summary)
7. Revamped PvP progression system
- Prestige Ranks - You can reset your honor level and do it again for cosmetic rewards. This is extra rewards for players that do a lot of PvP.
8. Improved transmogrification system (More Information coming later)
9. Improved social features (More Information coming later)
If you would like to see a full transcript visit here.
( THE FOLLOWING IS AN OPINION)
I feeling like there somethings missing from this expac and I can't quite put a finger on it. I mean, according to lore, Blizzard is actually doing okay, though some of the things like Archmage Khadgar having Mediv's legendary staff Atiesh, and having yet to be explained still bother me apparently. For everyone else, I've seen nothing but complaints about reusing old models and Blizzard getting lazier as time goes on. Well honestly, in my opinion, what other game has lasted this long? Maybe the guys working are finally starting to realize that even with each expansion they are losing more of a customer base then they wanted to.
Maybe this is just a precaution, yes they are still producing content, but instead of being such an attention getter to a new crowd their trying to keep who still believe in the game interested and active. No matter what they have a fan base and for the guys to come out and say, "We're still doing what we love, but we had to make a few changes." Might be just breathe of fresh air to everybody.
As for me, I'm probably still going to pick of the Collector's Edition like I have done with every since Blizzard game, but it seems like I might not be anywhere as serious about raiding or instancing like I have in the past, and surely I can see myself taking a hiatus for awhile until I grow bored and six months later activate my account again.
Until more details come out I'm outta here.
All photos were taken from blizzgc.com an external link of Battle.net.
~Tisnight
New Steam Store Releases: Legend of Kay
10-year-old PlayStation 2 platformer Legend of Kay has come to the Steam Store this week. Nordic Games has rereleased the game for modern platforms as a remastered anniversary edition. For those unaware, Legend of Kay is a martial arts themed action adventure game that takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals.
Also out this week, the video game adaptation of a terrible 49-year-old B movie (developed by the same studio that made Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures), a Steam port of a 15-year-old PlayStation 1/PC World War I game in which anthropomorphic pigs take turns battling it out, and a brand-new shoot 'em up game with a puzzle twist. Everything old is new again. Proceed further to see more of this week's new releases. Read more
New World of Warcraft Expansion To Be Unveiled This Week
In a recent press release, Blizzard Entertainment promised some fairly exciting news about the developers most popular game.
It Came From Japan
This week's humble bundle is made up of Japanese games. The bundle offers 7 games in three tiers, 1 dollar, break the average (currently $7.27) and $10 for all of them. The crown jewel of this bundle is Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1, which made its PC debut earlier this year.
"Pay what you want for 99 Spirits: Special Edition, Vanguard Princess + Hilda Rize and Lilith DLC Packs, and Supercharged Robot VULKAISER. If you pay more than the average price, you'll also receive Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, NEO AQUARIUM -- The King of Crustaceans, and The Sacred Tears TRUE. Pay $10 or more, and you get all of that plus Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1."
This promotion will be available until next Thursday and you'll be supporting charity: water and Direct Relief.