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What’s Gus Playing? King Arthur Knight’s Tale!
You know Neocore Games. They are the PC gaming outfit from Hungary who have put together some solid offerings over the last 5-10 years, including WH40K: Inquisitor, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and King Arthur: The Role Playing Wargame and its sequel of the same name. I haven’t played Inquisitor, but I have put some hours into the action/horror RPG Van Helsing which I enjoyed, as well as the original King Arthur game strategy game/RPG hybrid, which I liked a lot but could never win. I always got to a specific point in that game and could not advance. I think I was missing some key progression point and after a few playthroughs grew frustrated. I never played the sequel…maybe one day.
Now Neocore return with their Early Access title King Arthur Knight’s Tale. I feel like there is a slash or a comma missing from that title – maybe it will be added later. This new game combines action RPG elements by giving the player a selection of knight’s from the King Arthur mythos to play through the game with.
By: Lloyd Sabin
Grogheads Sunday Morning Musings!
Red Dead Redemption 2 is incredibly well-regarded for its immersive rendition of the American West in 1899. Rockstar Games created an open world that logically reacts to the player’s deeds and misdeeds. If you commit heinous crimes in a little town, you can always pay off your bounty – but even so, the local sheriff’s office maintains a description of your character’s appearance. If you come back with the same clothes and facial hair, the locals are prone to remember you as that jerk who shot their cousin a few weeks back. On the other hand, if you cover your face when you commit crimes and strategically swap outfits when nobody’s watching, not only can you get away with plain-sight robberies, but you can follow them up by casually chatting with the lawmen investigating your crimes. The depth of the bounty system is arcane and not particularly well explained in tooltips or tutorials, but once you understand it, it’s equally delightful and frustrating to try and manipulate.
This strength of the game is exactly why many players hate Chapter V – the “Guarma” section where the main characters are stranded on a tropical island embattled by civil war.
By: James Maxwell
Grogheads Zombie Survival Guide – The Generation Gap
As if a pandemic, global recession, and race riots weren’t enough to make 2020 a joyful year, mommy nature sent a hurricane into the east coast and up the I95 corridor to wreak havoc in my neck of the woods. This wasn’t a monster storm. It only rained for a few hours. But it brought high winds that dropped trees and tossed debris like beads during Mardi Gras. It caught my local power authority off guard and for over a week after the storm, many remained without power. Mine was out for 4 days. This also happened in the middle of a heat wave. Personally, I can rough it without power just fine, but it is tough on my family. They are quite fond of everything that has a plug. It was also hard on my 13 year old pug. That breed has trouble breathing under ideal conditions. Due to her advanced age and a myriad of health problems which would garner lots of street cred at an assisted living facility dinner table, she went into respiratory distress and spent a night on oxygen at the emergency vet. They felt her symptoms were so severe and indicative of enough health problems that we talked about putting her down. The happy ending was that our power came back, AC was restored and she hacks and coughs just like before the storm.
By: Jonathan Glazer
Do Zombies Drink Corona? The Zombie Survival Blog Returns!
It has been quite some time since my last communication in this blog. It hasn’t been because there was nothing more to say. I was just focused on surviving. And then world events popped up and made all of us think about survival. Even the hermit living at the top of a mountain knows about the pandemic that crashed through world economies like a wrecking ball. In a perfect world, politics would have no place in health discussions, but this issue has become so highly politicized that it is difficult to focus solely on the facts. Regardless of whether you feel that this was a health crisis that threatened the lives of you and your family members or that it was an overblown reaction engineered for a political outcome, readers of this series will agree that it has to make us think about what to do for the next pandemic.
By: Jonathan Glazer
Groghead’s First Look! Field of Glory: Empires – Persia 550 – 330 BCE
It was a great day when Slitherine announced that the original Field of Glory – Empires (FoG:E) would link to Field of Glory 2 (FoG2) and allow players to fight out the campaign’s battles in a tactical turn-based format. As I concluded in the Groghead’s FoG:E review, the system succeeded! I never had one stutter, bump or crash when switching between the two systems, or in the games themselves for that matter.
What did happen, though, is that the campaigns were very long. This is still the case with the new FoG:E DLC released this week for Persia (Persia 550BC-330BC) – I’ll acronym it as FoG:P. I fired it up for the first time yesterday, chose Persia immediately and played for two hours. How many turns did I complete?
