Another brick in the mall

Hey everyone hows it going? Today I’ll be bringing you my opinion of a little management sim/ builder called another brick in the mall.

This game throws you into the owner ship of a massive piece of land but do to restrictions you cant turn it into a residential land or industrial so this is where the tutorial takes you through the basics of turning this land into your own shoppers paradise no pun intended. The tutorial although good does leave out a few things you learn on your own so I’ll go over what you learn thanks to the tutorial.

Like any good builder game it tells you where in the menu you scroll to in order to find the things you need you start with building a very basic store where you divide it with a small wall so your store can have a storage for the supplies it will need to operate.

The game has gone through a few updates where new things were added you can tell from the tutorial as it has you build a small office and hire office workers so you can research you things to help expand your growing mall, yes I call it a mall cause honestly that’s basically what your doing lol. Now the tutorial shows you how to assign the storage unit to the store and how to place parking spots for a delivery unit as well as a recycling spot another feature they added was a time bar which tells you what events are approaching and how long before they arrive it also details what people will be looking for the most so you have time to add those to your stores which I think is an awesome addition so you can try and maximize profits.

Your not restricted to just the small store you have a massive plot of land so you can do whatever you want as long as you have the money to make it happen, the research tree is very extensive unlocking electronics and fast food as well as liquor and other stuff among the vast list and since this game is part management so you have to know and study the busy times since the game will make it a constant reminder to tell you how bad your doing and I say bad cause in all my save files I have never made the game happy I always always miss an opportunity somewhere and it’s tough very tough but a fun little sim and one I enjoy playing and watching my store succeed or fail since every choice i made was on me.

The game also task you with hiring and you do hire a lot trust me the best thing is figuring out how many workers you need and at what time you also can hire people based on there speed socialism and how tolerable they are which I find its key to having a successful store since you wanna make sure your workers are fast so the lines dont get to crazy as people will leave after enough time in line I’ve had that happen to me and trying to make changes is another big problem since you wont know how good or bad they are till the day goes by.

All in all another brick in the mall is a fun game letting you work your magic and building the mall of your dreams as you aim for profits and happy customers so they can come back for more enjoy everyone and have a great day.

Bungie Activision split

Yes you read that right and it’s pretty much the talk of the town bungie announced on twitter that they were splitting from Activision and in the divorce there taking along destiny which in my opinion yes that is awesome now let’s see what happens in the future.

If you played both destiny 1 n 2 then you will know the game has had a hard life and many pointed fingers at Activision myself included simply because all they wanted was the money back for there investment, I remember many rumors that went around after the release of taken king that it was part of vanilla destiny and Activision made bungie cut it to be made into DLC. Now I know how much drama went on with destiny the fact that dlc took forever to arrive and the fact that the game had no real story except for the lore that you discovered throughout the game. Destiny 2 even though it had a story and decent lore suffered the same as the first game as in not having enough end game content and to be honest even now after forsaken and the annual pass things are slowly moving in the right direction.

Now what does this mean for destiny in general? Easy it means bungie doesnt have big brother pressuring them to release this now and to do this as well dont get me wrong I’m fine with paying for a season pass as long as the content in it is worth it and even tho many people hated curse of osiris me and many people I’ve spoken to agreed that if bungie had done more with the infinite forest it could have been a huge success and even now I feel bungie should go back and let us travel through time and visit historic moments in history. This also means that any issues that come out with future installments of the game will be strictly on bungie if they hit or miss and personally I hope they learned from all there mistakes and I hope that what they start to offer will be awesome.

I also hope that the PC community doesnt get affected to much considering d2 is on battle.net I hope bungie can find a way to keep us going o PC I admit I am nervous about that.

I want bungie to succeed even though I have a love n hate relationship with destiny I still want the future of this franchise to blossom and I cant wait to see what bungie starts bringing to the table thanks everyone have a great day.

Game Dev Tycoon

Hello everyone and a late Merry Christmas to all. Hope the holidays were wonderful to all. Today we will be talking about another tycoon game called Game Dev Tycoon released August 29 2013 by developer and publisher GreenHeart Games. In this game which the title says it all you get to start your own development company so you can climb the ranks and be the top developer.

The game is simple it starts you out 35 years in the past when gaming was still young and it was mostly PC and I’m assuming the games version of atari. Of course for copy right reasons every console name is changed but by their pictures its obvious what they are. You progress slow and steady slowly unlocking new consoles and working through the game until you reach the end of the 35 year journey.

This game has a lot to offer I’ve played this multiple times having logged 30 hours it’s one of my most played tycoon games.

You start out alone in your garage prompted to pick a name for your company and yourself as well as your gender and the clothes you will wear for the duration of the game. After that the game enters the tutorial faze telling you what to do and how to start off and it’s a great tutorial it carrys you through your first game and the actions you perform from naming the game to the time invested in each aspect to the release of the game which shows you how much experience you gain at the end of every game developed and then the big release and off to the races, and just like in real life the game has 4 critics that judge your game on a 1 to 10 scale at the end the 4 scores are added up for your final score which yes it does impact your games sales the better the score the more you sell and the more fans you gain which we all know is the life essence of the gaming industry.

This game has a big variety of topics thankfully trying to reflect off real life as much as possible. You start out with 4 topics and unlock the rest using research points that you gain during development cycles each topic cost 10 research points if your lucky you have 1 good topic to use until you gain more. From all the times I’ve played the game offers 5 genres they are action, adventure, rpg, simulation and strategy and everything you do impacts your games in a big way so even though you will need to do a lot of experimenting to find good combos. Don’t be scared to go wild cause the game does help you out offering a little section called game report where it gives back advice on the game released telling you not only if the combo you picked out was good but if the PC or console you released it on was a good match and trust me there are games that work well on one and not the other.

There’s a lot to research in the game that helps you advance your products like creating your own game engine or better graphics and sound this tycoon game is really well made and in my own personal opinion I feel it is very close to real life minus coding and stuff lol.

Your able to progress past the garage and being a single worker once you start bringing in the big money you will also get to go to the big E3.

The game is a great time killer in short burst I’ve tried playing it for long sessions and got bored after a while but if you need a good time killer and love tycoon games check this one out.

Down below will be some pictures from the game enjoy. Thank you all and have a great day

Aftercharge Beta

So I was recently sent a key to participate in the beta for aftercharge from checking it out on steam the game puts you into 3 v 3 matches of search and destroy with being ramdomally thrown to the side of enforcer or workonics, those are what each side is called.

Now I didn’t get to spend a ton of time on the beta I admit do to playing other games but the time I did spend on it was to say pretty fun, to say the least. The game only offered 1 game mode search and destroy where you’re tasked with defending the generators or destroying them and for the beta, they only had a quick play option even though it seems they’re working on competitive to bring it to the table I assume during early access on steam.

Each side has 5 characters to choose from thankfully when 1 is picked it cant be picked again so there’s not doubles in matches and they each bring there own abilities to the table to help you protect and destroy the one team is called the workonics there tasked with destroying the generators to win the match, the other side enforcers protect the generators and hunt for the enemy team at the same time which isn’t an easy feat you see workonics run around invisible the whole match and only become visible if they attack or take damage this gives them the stealth advantage for a few seconds they also have the ability to share there own power with teammates so that you don’t go into the match without being able to trigger your special ability. Enforcers I feel have it a bit on the harder side their guns aren’t really accurate with a random spray effect and attached to there guns is a little detector that flashes when the enemies pass you which you then have to move around looking for them or wait till you hear the banging of them destroying the generators I will say this there win mechanic isn’t as bad though in order to win as an enforcer you have to knock out all 3 players which I guess makes up for the crappy detection system the workonics tho have to destroy every generator on the map in order to claim victory and from the matches I played there were players that refused to do anything so it’s a bit hard.

As I said before some of the matches I played were really fun teammates working together to win, although I did have 1 match where the guy did absolutely nothing and cost us the win cause he refused to save us and also refused to try and break the generators I didn’t see any type of kick feature when I played so I hope the devs add this for there early release I don’t think it’s fair for some to do all the work and others get a free ride.

There’s also the drawback that enforcers are able to move a

Aftercharge felt really peaceful a fun game to play the beta was super stable while playing I didn’t have any connection issues I would like to see what else will be added into the game when it gets closer to release and if your looking for something fun and simple then check out aftercharge thank you all and have a great day.

Gamer Career Tycoon

Hey everyone today I want to talk about a new game I just picked up a few days ago on sale from steam. The game is called Gamer Career Tycoon. I love tycoon games they’re fun, simple, and sweet so I couldn’t wait to try this one out. The game comes from raptor claw games and they have done 2 other games but this is the first one I’ve played.

So the game centers around streaming or being an esport gamer which I think is pretty awesome. The start is slow with low energy juggling between working and streaming as you need money to pay your rent and bills which I’m glad they have real life aspects in the game to keep it a bit on the realistic side otherwise it would be boring.

The esports side offers most of what you would expect. You pick a game in the popular categories between fps, moba, mmo, rts, fighting, racing, and the digital card genre. After you pick where you want to make your impact you can play ranked matches for your game and work your way up the ladder and wait until you get noticed by an esport team or you can go out and hunt for a team if you so choose. From there you follow a path you have your try out match and work up from amateur to the heights of being a pro. You get offered contracts to sign with a team. I’m not sure how many teams the game offers since in my experience I’ve only had 4 offers but when you play ranked matches you do see more names so I’m sure theres a lot more then the ones I have encountered. I will say this the only negative I’ve found from trying to do the esport route is that you reach pro contracts and the money you make is chump change compared to streaming.

Now the streaming route I will have to admit is more fun. It gives you choices in the games you play and theres pop ups with different actions that reflect upon your stats which help your stream to be a success or dud. I personally feel the streaming aspect of the game is broken by that I mean way to easy, by the 30 day mark in the game you should have enough subs that you won’t have to waste energy working to make money and by then your making 15 to 20 times what you make working which yes is a big plus because you can finally buy the best computer equipment in the game and the best services for drinks food and internet but at that point I feel it’s pointless to continue for the fact that now your streaming so you can level up and get more resource points to unlock all the other hidden things in the game. Don’t get me wrong I understand the point is to become an awesome streamer, have a huge following, and tons of subscribers but it breaks the game from how easy it becomes I’m on day 75. I have everything equipment and service wise unlocked and now the only thing left for me is to move to a better home but why bother when there really is nothing else at that point.

But according to the steam page there is and it’s as follows below this part is taken directly from their steam page.

Key Features:

Create your gamer and develop your own playstyle.

Develop your own gaming stream channel.

Broadcast your content and gain worldwide fans.

Gain new insights in game trends or research improvements to your stream.

Start your esport career and choose to compete in MOBA, FPS, Digital Card games, MMO, Fighting, RTS, Sports or Racing.

Buy furniture, decorations and gaming gear in the shop.

Work IRL to gain extra credits.

Upgrade your way of life with better food, drink & faster internet.

Special Events – StreamCon and Esport Championship.

Build and manage your own gaming organization, hire staff and sell merchandise.

Now as you see there seems to be a fair more to the game but if all of this is unlocked using research points then the devs really need to rebalance the xp gain as well as how many points you get but it seems that the points do increase as the most I’ve gotten was 21 points but I don’t know if that was a flook or intentional.

This game is a sweet gem and I say with some balancing in small areas and maybe add a small arena where you go to actually do the esports stuff this game is a fun time killer but it really needs some rebalancing so that when you do make it up there in days the game itself doesn’t get boring. Thank you all and have a great day.

Dungeon Crowley

Now I’m no stranger to reviews since I love the gaming industry so much. Many people turn to reviews whether they are from a professional or their friends. These reviews help people with the choice of if they want to buy the game or not or any product for that matter, which brings me to my review of a game called Dungeon Crowley. I received an email from the dev team offering me the key for the game. Being a big fan of RPGs I wanted to try the game out and it had an interesting plot idea. In the email I received it said you’re trapped in a delusional world and have to find your way out but the steam introductory for the game is a bit different which I am posting just below.

“Dungeon Crowley blends RPG and FPS elements altogether while providing seamless full multiplayer-campaign where players must cooperate through procedural dungeons. Follow through the delusions and discoveries of a teacher which engages with the occult while facing financial problems.”

I guess it does talk a bit about the delusional aspect but in the email which sadly I’ve deleted it made it sound as if your mind was trapped and your objective was to find a way out but let’s continue. I wanted to try this out being a fan of RPGs and the whole being in first person for a dungeon crawler since the only real dungeon crawler I’ve played is Diablo 3.

So you start in a small bedroom and after walking around a bit you find steps leading above ground. After exiting the stairs you see a house directly in front of you. As you proceed to said house you find a chest with a weapon inside for me it was a sword I don’t know if it will be different for everyone but that’s what I got so after exploring the extremely bare 2 story house I decided to move to the next door which had a lever next to it. The door wouldn’t open so I pulled the lever thinking that would unlock it which it did but it also spawned in all the monsters for the beginning area which were goblins and the bigger ugly human sized versions. I fought wave after wave making my way through finding armor pieces health potions and leveling up. After a few minutes the repeatative aspect started kicking in as I for the life of me could not find a way out or how to move on. I knew it couldn’t be the game files since everything was up to date. Was I missing something? After another lap around I decided to try the multiplayer which for me didn’t want to work. It wouldn’t connect which sucks as I feel maybe that would have been my answer to progressing forward or maybe they should have added a way point or something like any normal rpg. I mean there’s nothing pull the lever and go kill. What rpg does that? There is no item telling you this starts the mission. I mean can this really be called an rpg in the end? No I’m sorry but I can’t call this an rpg.

The game feels very basic. You only have 3 stats: strength, intelligence, and dexterity which depending on your actual weapon you only sink skill points into 1 slot unlike other RPGs where you need multiple and seeing as they tell you what there for underneath them its obvious that if you have a sword you go straight strength. Another issue I found which I’m not sure if it’s a bug or intentional I couldn’t switch weapons during my travel I found a sweet staff that I wanted to try out but everytime I unequipped my sword and moved the staff over it just fell out of my inventory and I had to pick it up again which really started to annoy me as I was more then able to equip the staff. A major thing missing from my experience was there are not vendor shops or a way to dismantle gear you didn’t need. You literally just leave it there in the world which i feel is a problem as that can hinder performance from your CPU or GPU depending on which one the game uses most.

The games file size is surprising coming in at 24gb during install which isn’t an issue considering most hard drives are huge now a days.

I can only think of 1 positive thing about this game and that’s the music. You have some kick ass rock instrumentals playing as you move around which is honestly pretty awesome since they didn’t stick to normal music like other games.

Now comes the hard part for me. After scrolling through the steam reviews and being flabbergasted by every positive review I read I knew that I was missing something but what after being stuck in the same area over and over again what was I looking for what did I miss? I for one can’t find the positive to this game. I don’t see what others see in this game and as of this writing I just can’t recommend someone go and spend the 19 bucks it’s going for on steam right now. Maybe after a few updates it will be worth it but I can’t for the life of me suggest it when it’s so freaking boring and repetitive. Mow I promised I would come back after a month and try it again to see if it will change my mind but for right now tread carefully and maybe someone can tell me what I missed during my time with this game. I hope you have a great day and take care.