Turns out that the PC version of Metal Gear Solid 5 is still the ultimate one. Not because the console versions have performance issues or look much worse (they don’t), but because you can do this on a PC Read more
Tag: WRUP
Butt WRUP Solid
Metal Gear Solid is out. Mad Max is out. What a great time to be sick.
I went for MGS and what I got wasn’t exactly what I expected. It’s more Ubisoft than MGS. Splinter Cell meets Far Cry meets Assassin’s Creed, with plenty of silly sprinkled in.
A great game, no question about it, but not story driven and therefore not Metal Gear Solid. Where are my hour long cutscenes? Whats up with all the collectible shit? Hundreds of side missions?
The gameplay is great, the amount of content you get for the money is outstanding for a game like this, you can listen to Kids In America while your horse takes a shit on civilians that got burnt to a crisp, and there is enough Hideo Kojima (non)sense in it for me to love it, but as someone who fucking adored MGS2, I feel this little speck of “disappointment dust” in my eye, and the more I try to rub it out, the more it itches.
But what is everybody else playing this weekend?
Give me a W. Give me a R. Give me a U. Give me a P.
This week the WRUP falls to me because I have some exciting news coming your way and also because Dr. S is currently sick and passed out and I've stolen his computer (Mwhahaha). Next week is the Toronto Ontario Canada's FanExpo and I will be there attending it. What's so exciting about FanExpo you ask? Well let me let you in on a tiny secret. Video Game Demos! *Squee*
Alright let me compose myself here a tiny bit and give you a list of Demos that I'll be hopefully reporting on the week after.
- Assasins Creed: Syndicate
- Battleborn
- Halo 5:Guardians
- Disney Infinity 3.0
- R6
- StarWars: Battlefront
- Lego Demiensions
And without a doubt my personal hopeful, Project Morpheus.
It's not just all about video games though, you can find yourself walking aisles and aisles of comicbooks, figurines, collectibles, treasures and more. There's table top games, costumes, and people everywhere that you can chat with. Are you an up and coming writer? Do you want to be an illustrator of some form? There's vendors from all over the globe that you can meet. If you do see me walking around in my Teemo hat next week while I'm in Toronto don't be afraid, stop by and say Hi!
Alright now, let's get down to the real reason we're all here. What's everyone playing this weekend?
- Andrew(Twitter):In a Rockstar mood. Might replay Red Dead Redemption. Also, possibly some GTA IV (though I never beat that one). Oh, and some Mega Man Legacy Collection for good measure.
- Danteg: I'll be playing the waiting game. I need my new ISP to get their installation done so I can get back online.
- Thomas(Twitter): Too sick for gaming now, which sucks. I'll probably manage a round of solitaire though.
- Greywolfe(Twitter,Youtube): Rex nebular: I'm now out of the ship and exploring the planet. it's a proto-larry game and from what i remember, things get silly from this point outward. larry 5: we're doing what i believe is the last Patti segment and then the game wraps up. i could be wrong. I've installed and played a bit of Wildstar, so maybe that, but my big pet project at the moment is leveling a guy in wow from scratch on a new server with no money or gear. we'll see how that goes. There may come a point where the garrosh-ness and orc-ness of the game makes me just flip a table completely. Oh! I'm also dithering around and messing with evoland 2. so far, i quite like what I've played.
- Tisnight(Twitch): Been playing a ton of Starcraft 2's arcade games, check out Solo Lottery Defense, a sort of weird tower defense where you set up your defenses by scratching lottery tickets, RNG is a bitch!
- Yoda0VGs(Twitter):Back on the multiplayer gaming fix. My inner masochist will be continuing to put another 300 hours into Dota while the idiot in me will be hoping back and forth between a few different MMOs until one.... stiqs :smile:
- Hasenpffefer(Steve): Planning, planning and hearthstone. Also more planning.
The Gamepocalypse is near. Stock up on your WRUP!
Another week done, still not even close to getting any of the videos from Gamescom out. Screw you CyberLink and your broken software.
Anyway, the season of games is now starting: Metal Gear Solid V, Until Dawn, Madden, Mad Max, and Gears of War are all getting released in the next 14 days. Even some indies throw their weight into the ring.
I still need to finish The Witcher 3…
But what is everyone playing this weekend?
WRUP: Post-Gamescom
Gamescom is over. I’m personally still catching up on everything that happened while I was in Cologne, but looks like I didn’t miss that much. We’ll also have some of our own Gamescom content coming, some video, some written previews, but no direct ETA yet. One of the first things will be a Mount & Blade 2 special, including a quick overview of its history.
But what’s everybody playing in the meantime?
WRUP: We Are Not Legion Edition
Did you catch all that news about the new World of Warcraft expansion? Did it feel to you like twelve year old Metzen was running rings around forty+ year old Metzen saying “YOUR GAME NEEDS MORE COOL THINGS?!” No? That was just me? Oh well. Maybe you’re going to play World of Warcraft this weekend, who knows? But this is what Twinstiq is up to: Read more
It’s Friday Night, Do You Know Where Your WRUP Is?
Another Friday, another WRUP, but there have been some exciting changes for Twinstiq, as I'm sure you can guess just from visiting the site to read this. Dr. S did a fantastic job with the new site, and he continues to work on it to improve and update. Bear with us as we make Twinstiq the site we know it can be, the site it will be. In the meantime, check past the break to see what we're doing this weekend, and make sure to tell us what your plans are in the comments below.