Battle Brothers: The Green Sea
Part of the Fate of Heroes series - spoilers ahead!Unwilling to lose any more cities, Gander marches the Spears back to the Western front - hiring the sell swords Oghren and Adam Chaplin on the way....
View ArticleBattle Brothers: Heavy Casualties
Part of the Fate of Heroes series - spoilers ahead!Having saved Lazenfeste, Gander purchases 9 war dogs and recruits the bowyer / archer pair of Eberhard and Hartmut "One Shot" before leading the...
View ArticleBattle Brothers: Warriors to the End
Part of the Fate of Heroes series - spoilers ahead!While at the tavern, a contingent of House Grimmund soldiers arrive to announce that the war is over! The main horde is retreating into the wild...
View ArticleBattle Brothers: Path of Peace
Part of the Fate of Heroes series - spoilers ahead!Having lost face, Sir Winfred Steinhart asks to join the Spears - which Sahkarov agrees to despite Sunbro's protests. Sahkarov also convinces Ulfert...
View ArticleBattle Brothers: Retirement
Part of the Fate of Heroes series - spoilers ahead!Retired as a rich man, Sahkarov purchases a keep and pretty much buys his own little fiefdom near the sea where his allies of House Ruhmolt are glad...
View ArticleMurder on the Orient Express (2017)
Extremely bad luck for a murderer to have (possibly) the world's greatest detective on the train.Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on a train where one of the passengers is murdered....
View ArticleSuicide Squad
Too many characters, not enough development.When the government decides to leverage "gifted" criminals into working as a team against an equally overpowered foe, one has to ask what could go wrong?....
View ArticleBattle Brothers: Review
A post for Isey!I know I've leveled up in obfuscation when I can write 30 or so chapters based on this game yet leave readers wondering what the game is about!At its heart, Battle Brothers is about...
View ArticleThe Foreigner
Tell me the names!When Quan (Jackie Chan) loses his last family member to a random bombing, he decides to hunt down the perpetrators himself. Not the most unique of premises, but the method he takes to...
View ArticleToday I Smiled: The Gift of Gaming
What do you give a guy who doesn't buy himself games? My friend Juris had a good answer, giving me two big plastic bags filled with his old games as an early Christmas present! Sure, I've already...
View ArticleSaints Row 2
Open world silliness at its best.The Saints Row franchise has never been on my radar, and I only got this game when Greenman Gaming was giving it for free. Yes, it's now very dated and the combat is...
View ArticleBlacksite
It's like first Person XCOM except everyone is an idiot.I can forgive a FPS for being linear and for having a strange story filled with plot holes. I also am ok with it using a checkpoint system,...
View ArticleHappy New Year - 2018!
I hope everyone has had a wonderful (and safe) New Years Eve! I did, killing time till the stroke of midnight playing a great round of Zombicide: Black Plague where my uncle (first time player) was the...
View ArticleIron Man (2008 Game)
The movie was fantastic. The game, not so much.While this is "based of" the movie, in reality it only starts and ends like it - with a ton of filler between those two points. That's not a bad thing on...
View ArticleWolverine: X-men Origins
The movie was good. The game is better!Much like Iron Man, this is "based of" the movie - weaving in key plot points into the padded out story (filled with helicopters), but in this case the story is...
View ArticleConstantine (Game)
The Keanu Reeves Constantine, not Matt Ryan's Constantine.Continuing the games based on movies trend, Constantine suffers from many flaws. A questionable "filler" plot filled with holes and time skips,...
View ArticleOverlord
Where goblins are made cute!This fantasy game sees the player control the titular Overlord, revived in his dilapidated tower after a band of heroes had destroyed it. He's pretty tough as a spell...
View ArticleQuestion: Do you replay games?
Simple one I'll leave up for a few days... in this age of MMOs and game backlogs, how often do you go back to replay a "finished" game? Replaying due to DLCs or "new/updated content" does not count....
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Intrigue
The only thing intriguing is how this passes as a GoT game.It has the Game of Thrones name on the box and the characters on each card, yet the theme is lost completely in this card game - which...
View ArticleThe LEGO Batman Movie
You mean nothing to him. No one does. Batman as an action comedy in the LEGO universe sounds like a bit of a stretch so I was pleasantly surprised at how good it turned out to be, especially as this...
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