Defender’s Quest! You Got Your Tower Defense in my RPG!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 9, 2013

I’m a sucker for Tower Defense games.  It’s sort of a subgenre of Real Time Strategy games (which I’m also a fan of, but I don’t have the devotion to play very competitively). In fact, I have heard that they got their start as user-created mods / levels for Warcraft III and other RTS games. […]

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Rocksmith vs. Rock Band 3 Pro Guitar

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 18, 2012

I have waited a while for Rocksmith. Specifically,  for the PC version, which was finally released Tuesday, about a year after the console version. I was looking forward to it when it was first announced. I was waiting for it even longer than that – since I heard about the never-released Guitar Rising, which also allowed […]

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Age of Decadence – Impressions

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 25, 2012

Strangely enough, the fantasy series I really got into as a kid was not Lord of the Rings, or the Shannara series – the latter being fairly recent and popular, in an era where “fantasy” wasn’t quite a genre of its own and tended to get lumped into the “Science Fiction” section of the bookstore. […]

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Dragons, Dungeons, and Skyrim

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 26, 2011

With a Christmas bonus from the Day Job, I went ahead and picked up Skyrim on Friday. Thanks, Day Job, for the game. Of course, the following day it appeared on sale at Steam for a third off. Ah, well. My internet connection sucks right now and would have taken me days to download the […]

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Reading the Magical Diary

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 8, 2011

Last weekend, my family and I went to visit my in-laws. I brought my laptop. And a copy of Hanako Games’ new game, Magical Diary: Horse Hall. I spent an entire afternoon playing the game.  I don’t know why this surprised me – I really happily surrendered some “man points” and loved the Cute Knight […]

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Quick Take: Sylia

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 6, 2011

I think at this point it’s pretty safe to say that I’m a somewhat veteran, hardcore computer RPG fan.  Console RPGs, too, to a lesser degree. I guess having played them for longer than some game reviewers have actually been alive might give me a little bit of cred. I’m nowhere near the most veteran, […]

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Preview: Darklight Dungeon Eternity

Posted by Rampant Coyote on June 1, 2011

Back in April Jesse Zoeller sent me an alpha link to his upcoming old-school style role-playing game, Darklight Dungeon Eternity. While it’s still an early build missing a lot of features (not to mention levels), I thought I’d share a little bit of my experiences about this upcoming title. Just bear in mind that this […]

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Preview: Dungeons of Dredmor

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 23, 2011

I have died dozens of times now.  Many times in the first or second room of the dungeon. I’m not so much rolling up new characters as creating the latest incarnation of my last dead character. But those bird-like Diggles who taunt with the creativity of the French knights in Monty Python and the Holy […]

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Quick Preview: Inaria

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 19, 2011

I’ve had some serious distractions lately – pretty much since returning from my vacation. Besides catching up at the ol’ Day Job, I’ve had a number of games demanding my attention. Some you are probably familiar with (Portal 2, and The Witcher 2).  Others are indie games that you have probably heard a lot less […]

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Preview of Avadon: The Black Fortress

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 22, 2011

Okay, Mac owners may continue their gloating, as this indie RPG is old news for them.  But Windows RPG fans can read this preview of the upcoming Windows port of the first game in Spiderweb’s new RPG series, Avadon, provided by Brother None at GameBanshee… Avadon: The Black Fortress Preview The game is still slated […]

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Quick Take – Din’s Curse: Demon War

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 2, 2011

I played a bit of the new expansion for Din’s Curse – Demon War over the weekend. I call it “work” as a justification. You know, so I could tell you about it and stuff. In reality, I’ve gotten myself hooked all over again. Sigh. I’ve gushed a bit in the past about the original […]

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Quick Take – Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 14, 2011

“Think of it as an RPG gone wrong.” That’s part of the description of the Torque (TGEA) – based indie parody RPG, Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch.  I’ve raised a few eyebrows when I’ve told people the title of  what I’ve been squandering my miniscule-and-still-diminishing “spare time” on, but hey — it’s a humor-oriented […]

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