New Overwatch Character: Ashe

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A new character has been announced for Overwatch, currently available to play in the PTR (for PC players)

Have played a little bit imagine McCree but with range and can throw dynamite. Very fun so far for those who can actually play DPS.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/ashe

 

 

Four Hours : Red Dead Redemption II

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I don’t really like reviewing games, especially since I have not finished it yet so cant give a real “review” of it…. so lets do what I think of the game so far.

When Red Dead Redemption (the original) was first announced way back when, it caught my interest, but when was only going to be released for PS3 era consoles, I was a bit gutted……  but it became the reason I bought a PS3. (Got a great deal on the PS3 with games inc RDR)

I was hooked on the game – GTA 3 etc were good but this was amazing, the freedom, the graphics, the sound, the game play, it was just a top notch game.

It was/is so good, I even bought it on Xbox360 for my Xbox One (backwards compatibility FTW) and was still playing it until a few weeks ago when I pre-ordered RDR2…..

Anyway, onto RDR2

Graphics – being a “nex-gen” console, of course I was expecting better graphics than the first game, but wow, the detail and draw distance is fantastic. You can just lose yourself in the environment and forget about the rest of the game. Everything is well detailed and animations spot on.

Sound – again, amazing, just stop and listen to the world around you. Some of the speech of NPC’s can be a bit repetitive after a while but cant have everything.

Gameplay – Great as usual with Rockstars games.Does take a little while to get used to the controller changes from RDR but everything is accessible fairly quickly. I’ve only done a couple of the missions so far, but each have flowed well and been straight forward to complete. The intro missions are a bit linear but its more of a training system – does take a while to get through though.

Now, warning – it does take approx 90mins to install the game on a standard Xbox – so dont get home after buying it and think “yay, cant wait” – you will wait. But its well worth it.

Multiplayer will be available soon but I wont be trying that as I dont subscribe to Xbox Live Gold.

If you enjoyed RDR, or GTA5, just grab this, you wont be disappointed – except you cant put an exhaust on your horse 😉 But its testicles do shrink when its cold…………

 

Review : Armageddon 2018

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So, after I said I wasn’t going to Auckland Armageddon this year, I ended up going on Sunday courtesy of the wife winning some free tickets. Thanks NeonTV!

The TLDR version of this review is, I’m glad I didn’t pay.

Armageddon has lost its mojo.

I’m just going to go through a basic list of what I thought, and you may or may not agree, which is fine.

  • PBTech and Playtech were not present – these guys have been there for the last few years and always seemed to be busy, and had great deals on.
  • Toyworld not present – they always had great deals, but not a large range of items, but was always great for picking up stocking fillers etc.
  • Cosplayers seemed to be very minimal this time – last year (and before), cosplayers were out in abundance, but this year there seemed to very few present – those that were there, had some fantastic outfits.
  • The regular stalls had the same stock and same deals as previous years – come on, do something different.
  • The number of repeated stalls was amazing – must have been about half a dozen t-shirt stalls selling the same t-shirts. One candy store had multiple stalls scattered around. Or if it wasn’t the same stores, it was repeats of the exact same stock.
  • Chinese counterfeit goods stalls were present – was 2-3 I saw selling knock offs of popular boar games etc.
  • Noone “famous” present on Sunday that I’m aware of – used to find a popular author, or artist or something sitting somewhere doing free autographs, or meet and greets, but nope, nadda, zilch, nein.
  • Didn’t see any “play” areas for card games such as Magic etc – maybe I missed them.
  • Very little gaming orientated merchandise – XPDJunior struggled to find any Overwatch themed clothing.

It just wasn’t the same and I feel its lost its mojo.

I hope it was just a bad year and things pick up again next year, but wont hold my breath.

 

New Doctor Who Season

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The new Doctor Who season has just started, for those you that have been living under a rock or are not Doctor Who fans the new doctor is played by Jodie Whittaker.

The first woman to play the Doctor in a series, so far I have watched the first two episodes and have enjoyed them so far. They have been the usual get used the new Doctor and meet the new companions, there a three this time.

This season will have 10 50 minute episodes compared to the usual 13 44 minutes episodes from the previous seasons.

In New Zealand this can be viewed on TVNZ on Demand on the day of release:

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows

See the trailer below for the new season:

And for those who cant accept a female Doctor:

 

 

Slack poster I know….

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Umm yes….we’ve been a tad slack on the post side of things lately.

So what we been up to ?

Well, the TOR gang got together for a small LAN a couple weeks back, had some laughs, watched the league, burnt some meat on the BBQ, played some games, including Overwatch, CoD4:MW, and because timing was right, got to try out the latest Battlefield game, BF:V.

I was actually surprised how well BF:V ran on my system – impressive game to play, even on my “new” old box. Tough game though if you’re new to the series or just out of touch with it. Could tell those who had played a lot.

64 players aside made it fun tho – would I buy it ? Not really – I’m not a massive FPS fan so would probably get dusty on my Steam/Origin shelf 😉

Looking at all my games in Steam etc, I really havent completed many of them. So Ive uninstalled a good 80% of my games, and will concentrate on just a few, and will play them to the end. I’m starting off with Final Fantasy 7 (Steam version) – absolute classic, which I owned on Playstation on release, but never actually finished it. Cloud FTW

My RetroPi unit has been on the backburner for a while, but now I have two new 32GB SD cards, I can dedicate a card to the Pi and get on with it. So plan is to have the RPi 3 setup for RetroPi, and the older RPi as an Amiga emulator. Should be fun.

And thats it for now…….ciao!