wait.... old fella and vid games don't go together  

Aha !!

That's what U get for Assuming.


I used to video game back in the early 64 bit days and am just getting back into it as I get all decrepit and immobile.   First person shooters mostly.    Or long legged busty blondes swinging dual pistol swords ....





Besides, one cannot properly despise MS without occasionally using its products.

The wife is a happy camper...LOL... a new game for only $1.24 !

She always has to use the cheat.....uh..... walk through LOL

I just reloaded steam..it has been awhile since I have been online with it...back in the half-life days...  

My account name is Orphistle, if you want to try to add friend... wife is dianamcg_1963.... I been a member since 2004...

I just finished the first 6 pages of Aura's 25 page walk through -- my goodness this is a complicated game.

To do one silly thing you have to solve like twenty puzzles, some of which have sub puzzles to them that are stacked 5 deep, an error in any of these puzzles (or doing them out of order) stops you cold.

Russian programmers -- they do love their puzzles.

Nah, that's a city building type game.    Too tame and nice fer me.


Serious Sam 3, BFE is on sale this week for $9.99 on Steam -- I am trying to decide if I am energetic enough anymore to rip out a cyclops single eyeball and to tear heads off of Kleer skeletons with my bare hands .....  or swing a sledge hammer on buffalo heads while running backwards.  

Mebbe not -- I am older now.    I have a hard time keeping my sword girl hopping and leaping well enough to win all her fights.

Steam and Indie games are slowly changing the face of on line gaming.  I'll use Dino Horde as an example or talking point of this change.

Back in the days of DVD releases, Dino Horde first came out as Dino Beat Down, a first fruit of a new crop of amateur indie programmers.  It was a collective, supported by one lead programmer and a host of kids.  The lead programmer provided tools and training and game programming support and the kids made the game up to suit themselves.   It was raw, as soon as something worked good enough the kids went on to the next thing that needed doing.  They were into good action and WOW factors, so the game had a lot of wow but almost zero fine polish.

Kids came and went, video graphics engines came and went, Star Wars got hot, then not, Serious Sam got hot, then not, etc. etc. literally everything that got hot in game land has left an imprint in this built by fans indie extravaganza.   Dino gets blasted for copying (and outright stealing) ideas, characters and moves and weapons from other games.

It is still growing and changing and is about due for another re-skin soon.

Steam sells the game, and provides update service to it.  Interesting that this game will update to the new released game (new graphics and skins etc)  automatically next year and then that game will go through its development cycle into the next released game.

So, if you feel you have explored the game completely, wait a year and come back to it and you will likely find some new levels have been added on to it.

Serious Sam could have taken this pathway, but Croteam comes out with a NEW game (story path) for each new video engine intead of just reskinning the old game.  

Serious Sam also has a defined story/pathway for each game while Dino Horde does not -- Dino Horde is just a big dino spawning environment where bunches of guys go to bag a dino (or get bagged as the case may be).  

It takes more than one shooter to bring down the larger dinos, you do know that don't you?   Those walker things and armored cars are there for a reason you know -- T. Rex doesn't play gently at all.   And a Stegasaurus is jest plain mean for a veggie eater.

So, what is a game, anyway?

Is Dino Horde even really a game?    

Or is it just a fun dino romper room play land?