Dragon Age 2!

Hello everyone! Today we’ll take a closer look at the game called Dragon Age 2.

As some of you may know now is the perfect chance to get the first two games of the trilogy by buying the Humble Origin Bundle 2!

Dragon Age 2 revolves around the same world as the first part Dragon Age Origins.

I RECOMMEND THAT YOU PLAY DRAGON AGE ORIGINS FIRST! Since you can download your completed save to your game so the events change depending what you chose in the first game!

The game is a simple RPG Strategy game with pauseble combat. While people have said the game took a major downgrade after the first part it’s not that bad. Compared to the first one. Yes it is bad.

Dragon Age 2 screenshot
Dragon Age 2 Starting town!

Overall the games combat is Real time combat with strategy options included with pause feature, while paused you can order your party members, up to 3 plus you, use their skills the way you like. Comparing to the first one the combat is worse.

Not gonna spoil more of the story 😛 But i will be updating this post as I progress in the game myself!

I RECOMMEND BUYING THE HUMBLE BUNDLE!!

Life Is Strange!

SO recently been busy with school and been playing mainly League Of Legends.

So here is a juicy screenshot of a game i just got my hands on 😛

Life is strange schreenshot
Life is strange main menu screenshot 😛

Me and Games!

Me and games

My name is Henrik Tuulensuu and as you might already quess I play video games. And I play them a lot. There are few different genres I like, few of them being strategy, massive multiplayer online role-playing games, multiplayer online battle arena and first-person shooters.

Usually I use over 10 hours on the computer in a day, and about 8 of them I play video games, other 2 hours go by while surfing the internet and watching cute kittens.

Games I play are League of Legends, for short LoL, Battlefield 4, Guild Wars 2 and Mount and Blade: Warband.

About MOBA games (Multiplayer online battle arena). The main goal in MOBA games is to destroy the enemy base with your team of at least 5 players. Usually the base is protected by turrets and the main mechanics are the same. You kill minions to get money, extra money from player kills and turret kills. MOBAs are conquering the industry and new games are coming almost daily. Mosty of the new games get little attention and in the end get abandoned. Mainly because the 4 leading games have very big lead. LoL, Dota2, Heroes of Newerth and Heroes of the storm. Heroes of the storm IS the newest and is from Blizard, the makers of World of Warcraft. League of Legends is currently the leading franchise in MOBA gaming industry.

League of Legends wallpaper.
League of Legends wallpaper.

First-person shooter (FPS) are wargames, as the name shooter implies, few years back 80% of the games took place in the times of Second World War. Nowadays they are based upon 21 century warfare and some have futuristic combat and military equipment, such as unmanned airplanes and cloaking devices. In first-person shooter your main goal usually is to kill as much as possible. Depending on the game mode you either have to just kill or capture the flag. In some games you have to capture control points in order to give advantages to your team and deny the enemy team from controlling the map. Even the first-person shooter have few selected games leading the whole franchise. Biggest of them being Battlefield, Call of Duty, Arma and Counter-Strike, two biggest being Battlefield and Call of Duty.

Battlefield 4 Wallpaper.
Battlefield 4 Wallpaper.

Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) are games where you can make your own character in the fictional world depending on the game. You choose your own class and alter it with your own choices from the skill tree and traits. Battling monsters and completing quests are the main things everyone know about MMORPG’s, after “leveling” to the max you usually complete raids and dungeons with our party and try get the best loot possible. Enough said the MMORPG genre is the biggest genre at the moment and the thrill must come from the possibility of being the hero you have always wanted. Everyone wants to live their own fantasies, that’s what makes MMORPG’s the best. Currently the leading games are World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Rift, Runescape and Elder Scrolls Online. Biggest with a big lead World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft wallpaper.
World of Warcraft wallpaper.

I like all the game types and styles. I even play games that I am bad in and enjoy it. In the end gaming is all about expressing yourself the way you want even if it would be completely useless. The only few advantages from gaming are eye-hand coordination skills and decision making, which develop the most during games. There are few researches stating these but enough of those.  In the end everybody like games are they video games or not. They are here to entertain us. Some like them some don’t.

Starbound – The super big planetary sandbox game!

Starbound. Currently in Beta stage is one of the biggest sandbox games out there. Might not be the biggest, but has enormous amount of planets and galaxies to explore.

Starbound is a adventure sandbox game like Minecraft but takes place in space and planets. The game itself looks a little bit like Terraria.

Starbound main menu
Starbound main menu. Planets Yay!

The map revolves around a big universe which has hundrets and hundrets of planets that you can explore. While exploring you need to gather materials for your spaceship, fuel for example, and for making better equipment. In the beginning you need to do the “tutorial” quests. After that you start to get the hang of it. While having a massive map and many many many planet, enemies, weapons and so on. The game doesn’t take much power from your computer. UNLESS you get to a place where there is a huge amount of sand which of course has physics. Computer killer.

In the game you can choose from seven different races. Human, Avian, Apex, Floran, Hylotl, Glitch and Novakid. Each race has their own starting weapon and different racial armors.

Starbound spaceship
Your very own spaceship!
How cool is that?

Weapons in the game are very well designed and you can have either a melee weapons or a ranged weapon. Melee weapons are knives, swords, dagger, greatswords, hammers and spears, you can also have shields! Ranged weapons are bows, crossbows and guns. There are many types of guns from revolvers to laser rifles. It’s all yours to use! Or find!

Main goal in the game is to complete your quests and gather the best possible armors and weapons. The game just got an update and it looks to be better than ever.

I recommend this to sandbox game lovers and Terraria lover. Worth every penny!