Anton Here!

I don't check in very often, but just a few game recommendations...

I'm still playing League of Legends regularly after a year and a half since starting. I enjoy its competitive and team-oriented play. It's also very fast-paced--a match lasts 20-60 minutes typically. You just need a thick skin for internet smack-talk, because people on your team will verbablly abuse you every time you make a mistake.

Been playing Terraria with my 5-year-old son. I put the game on my laptop and he plays on the desktop. We have been finding all kinds of hidden secrets in Terraria's randomly-generated worlds and becoming very powerful.

My dream in a CNN post

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/23/tech/gaming-gadgets/rebirth-turn-based-strategy-games/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

The rebirth of turn base strategy games. I love turn based games! We need some more turn based strategy type action in games instead of frenzied button clicking and unfair gear advantage. But it wouldn't have to be MMO just any game with a chat room making you able to hook up with people to fight with or against would be cool. Still can you imagine an MMO with a progressive campaign that you can fight for and make a difference on? WAR tried this a little but and individual's effort felt like an ant's. It needs to be scaled better. Maybe something more like you can make a difference if the other side doesn't move to stop you fast enough, and you can actually be a threat alone by building armies or rallying npcs or something. Food for thought. I love building games so I'm going to be trying Terraria this weekend. (My brother gave it to me for my birthday)

You should watch Secret of Kells

You should watch Secret of Kells. Its a great little piece of work with an Irish mythological flavor, and if you have Netflix you can watch it any time.  Here's a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPhHTtKZ8Q

I love the hand drawn aesthetic.

Aislings song is pretty too.

Umm in video game news, I've been working to death for my job, but I am at the giant squid boss at the end of whale island in Rune Factory, I'm stuck on a bridge to Daien in hard mode on Fire Emblem, and on Lotro I'm stuck at lvl 67 or something like that cuz I've been playing my hunter instead, doing the Epic quests solo that I could never get anyone to do with me before (I'm on book 14 I think). I still want to try out Guild Wars 2.

Lastly, My new baby, Luke, is so cute when he laughs, and he laughs whenever I make farting noises, how cool is that?

Hmm....

Hmm seems to still be working...

If this post shows up it means I can still make posts, which is good...

Google is going to terminate my blog

Google has dropped support for legacy blog migration so they won't respond to emails and their broken system doesn't recognize my user id, so due to them being incompetent, our blog is going to be terminated on may 2012 sometime. I will try to get a post up with a link to a new blog before that happens so that we can continue to create new posts. Maybe I will use a different company with better policies than Google the next time around.

An MMO you can actually BEAT!

Ever get tired of MMO's that you can never ever win in a thousand years? Just want to pummel the boss of the game and be done with it? Well now you can! Play Browser Quest, the MMO powered by HTML 5. Or use its source code to make your own mmo!

Have fun. Here's a screen shot of me after I beat the boss in under 30 minutes and got the best armor and best sword.

Dungeon Defenders for 3 bucks on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_360016442_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000771881&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0TKV8G15YJ49KFB5M146&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1346663642&pf_rd_i=979455011

Dungeon Defenders for 3 bucks on amazon. Playing with my brothers right now. More later. Over and out.

Edit: Ok I played it and its fun. Only four player but good for some fun together on a Saturday. Will need to try playing this in solo mode. I like tower defense when it's well done. This one might make the cut. Although I'm not sure if it balances more towards tower placement strategy or twitchy combat yet.