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Gaming on the Side | The Mighty Quest for Epic Rant.

by A.J. Sharer on April 20, 2014 at 6:53 am
Posted In: Gaming on the Side

Things have been busy here in my corner full of soda cans illuminated by the obnoxious blue LEDs from my computer and keyboard, so busy that I missed posting a review/suggestion last week. I was so pumped about playing a game and telling you all about it… I grabbed a soda and an M-150 (it’s a weird Thai energy drink) and decided to play The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot.

 

Is my opinion a little too out in the open?

 

A free-to-play game! What could be easier to review than that? You literally can play it without having any commitment at all. No guilt if you don’t like it OR completely forget about it OR leave it to rot for the rest eternity at the bottom of your Steam library without ever having been played.

 

“Yes, today would be the day,” I thought. “And if this goes well, I’ll review some other Free-to-Plays. Smite just came out, and new games pop up all the time. This will be the beginning of a whole new content heaven…”

 

Some info on this game. It’s by UBISOFT. It’s a game where you have a castle and you loot other castles to steal the other players gold. They try to loot your gold as well. Now, Ubisoft rocks at assassins and pirates, hopefully they can do a castle defense and raid game, right? Well, first strike, it requires a UPLAY account to access the game. This also means that to play this game, you’ll need to be connected online, logged-in to Steam and logged in to UPLAY. They make you do everything short of voice analyzing you like that elevator in Captain America.

 

Keep Calm and Hail Hydra

 

I’m seated, I have beverages to keep me going, I relectuntaly log-in to UPLAY,  I press play… and I’m stuck at the Ubisoft logo.

 

I close it, submit a bug report, and try to open it again… No more logging in, the servers remember me. “Great! Now surely I can set up my castle!”

Think again…

 

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“Ok, I’ll go to their website for tech support, surely they want me to be able to play their free game, so I can eventually give them money.” I was wrong. These guys must hate money.

 

I did my normal process for when I have a game bug:

1) Check the Steam Community for the game.

2) Do a quick google and reddit search for an answer

3) Last Resort: the games Support Forums…

 

The steam community Bug Reports section has multiple instances of people experiencing the Network Error issue in various parts of the game, so even if you are lucky enough to get it to run, you may not be able to attack other castles if the network decides you cannot. Once or two of these have even been responded to by Ubisoft employees, however none of them  were resolved. Here’s an example if you want to take a look. http://steamcommunity.com/app/239220/discussions/0/558749190837780307/

The Ubisoft employee gives a cookie cutter “Tech Support for Dummies” answer, the poster says it did not fix the issue, and the Ubisoft employee disappears forever into the mists of time.

 

After finding no solution in the Steam Community, I did a quick Google and many people have experienced this, no answers. Ok, time for door number 3… Support Forums.

 

The Technical Support Forum is a disaster. The majority of the posts are ads for Islamic Black Magic to help your marriage or bring back your husband… I couldn’t make this up even if I wanted to. Since I have no need of Black Magic from the Middle East to help my relationship, I decided to keep scrolling through. On page 4 I finally found some actually relevant posts! Also, none of these have responses from actual Tech Support.  While I would not want to deal with 3 pages of the Middle Eastern Dark Arts either, that doesn’t mean you can just completely ignore your player base.


Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I tried to make a support ticket to see if I could get some one on one help… Please excuse my upcoming rage…

 

Really Ubisoft?

 

AN ERROR CREATING THE TICKET? YOU CAN’T EVEN CREATE A SUPPORT TICKET FOR THIS FALLACY OF A GAME?!?! I’M DONE. WE’RE DONE. NEVER AGAIN.

 

So, for the record, don’t play this. Don’t even waste your bandwidth trying to download it. Want a game that you can actually play? Here’s my recommendation for the week: Bloons Tower Defense 5. It’s great.

 

 

└ Tags: A.j., gaming on the side, mighty quest, mighty quest for epic loot, RANT
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The BEST Fanart | Patreon | ACen is looming…

by Kristy on April 16, 2014 at 7:03 am
Posted In: Comic News

Hi everyone!

I suck and keep forgetting to post this AWESOME piece of fanart from Emily over at Blitz Phoenix.

Seriously, this sketch is amazing.
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Why yes, that is Bran riding into battle on a puppy. How’d you notice?

Now, how did I get this rad piece of art? I backed her Patreon campaign for Blitz Phoenix. So go check out her swell comic and back it if you want! You could get a sweet sketch too!

Onto other business…

Anime Central in Chicago, IL is coming up in a few short weeks. I’ll be attending ACen with A.J., our video game blogger (and my fiance! What a lucky dude!) and Robert, one of the co-writers of the comic. We’re in the Artist Alley, booth A024. Come and see us! Map will be posted closer to the convention. I will have pins, prints, and of course TEC books for sale.

That’s all for now!

└ Tags: acen, anime central, fanart
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Gaming on the Side | Little Inferno – Better than burning a dollar

by A.J. Sharer on April 7, 2014 at 5:38 am
Posted In: Gaming on the Side

Sometimes you just want sit down and light things on fire. Have you ever wished that when you embrace your pyromaniac tendencies you were rewarded with MONEY?!?! Well, have I got a toy for you! My Little Inferno!

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Fair Warning: This is not a long game. In fact, it’s more of Toy Experience than a traditional Game. I beat it in just over 3 hours. This isn’t a game that will suck days from your life, this is something you can enjoy in an evening or a day off.

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In Little Inferno, you are given what would best be described as a personal fireplace. As someone who is mostly stuck in a drab apartment staring at a monitor, this was actually surreal and (pardon the pun) heart-warming. You proceed to burn objects, each one burning in a unique way. The game part kicks in when you start burning multiple objects together. Combining objects earns you combos and changes the way things burn. There are 99 combos to figure out. Each time you achieve a combo, you earn cash to buy more objects to burn and get closer to unlocking another catalog to buy more stuff.

I sat down and played this with Kristy actually. I’m not great at puzzles and matching myself, but with a little back-seat gaming from the couch we made it through. I figured we’d just laugh a bit at the fun interactions between different object, but we both got sucked in, surprisingly by the story. At first it seems like a simple matching game, but you won’t be able to stop until it’s complete. The few other characters you meet are very engaging, but my favorite is The Weather Man.

Do you have a dollar? Most likely. Is this game worth a dollar? Definitely.

For the next four days, this game will be a dollar at https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly  You also get 3 other games for that dollar. Although, I’d recommend buying this HumbleWeekly Sale at $6, because at $6 you get Hotline Miami. I’ll be reviewing Hotline Miami before Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number comes out later this year, and I will say that from the small amount of time I’ve spent with it: play it so you know what you’re gamer buddies are talking about in 2014.

└ Tags: gaming on the side, little inferno
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Happy 1st Anniversary, TEC!

by Kristy on March 31, 2014 at 6:19 am
Posted In: Comic News

My god, you guys! What a year it’s been! Over 150 comic pages, 8 convention appearances, a successful Kickstarter, and a book ALL IN ONE YEAR. That’s so crazy!  Thank you so, so much for your continued readership and support.  I am so excited to be working with my favorite people in the world to bring this comic to you.  This has been a lifelong dream of mine and it’s. . . actually coming true.  So thank you.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

This week I have some special treats in store for you. The image above is a preview of the wallpaper that is Kickstarter backer exclusive. But I thought I’d share the art with everyone, since it’s pretty rad and took forever. Unfortunately, the wallpaper will only be available for backers.

So, today’s awesome update IS… We had a TEC party last night to celebrate this milestone. The TEC crew and friends got together for a little fun at my house and the festivities were kicked off with the “ceremonial” burning of the book proof. We spent so many hours and so much stress on that book, it only seemed appropriate to kill the proof in a cleansing flame.

HERE IS A DUMB VIDEO OF IT

Normal comic update on Wednesday and Friday (I tried to get tonight’s done but I am very sick.) PLUS the colored archives of chapter 1 will be put up this week, along with a, uh, drunk “dramatic” reading from us of the first chapter.  It’s pretty stupid.

So yeah! TEC Anniversary Week GOOOOOOO~

└ Tags: behind the scenes, tec 1 year anniversary
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Gaming on the Side | Goat Simulator is a Hilarious, Glitchy Masterpiece

by A.J. Sharer on March 29, 2014 at 9:43 am
Posted In: Gaming on the Side

Goat Simulator.. Yep, that’s what I said… GOAT SIMULATOR.


Go buy it… I’ll wait… not convinced by that title? Well, let me tell you what you’ll experience, so you can make an slightly better informed decision.

This game has a HUD and display very similar to the Tony Hawk games, which makes since you’re dealing with a physics based game that wants you to do flips, throw objects across the map, pop the game into slow-mo and ragdoll all over the place.

You can jump from trampoline to trampoline getting dazzling heights, do a 1080 front-flip, bounce back up and land on top of a hang-glider and fly around the entire map. There are some secrets and challenges which I won’t spoil, but make sure to find the baseball cage, because shooting infinite baseballs from your back is quite entertaining.

This is genuinely the most fun goat experience I’ve had. Bear in mind, this is the premier goat simulator. Nothing else even comes close… and this game is about custom maps and challenges, so there is so much more to come.

Ever looked at what people do in Minecraft or Garry’s Mod and decide not to pick up the game because you are so far behind the curve? Well, this game is currently on Early Access. You can be the one to make the best new mini-game. You might mess around in the level editor and make what ends up being the new Minecraft: Hunger Games or Garry’s Mod: Trouble in Terrorist Town. This is actually what the developer (Coffee Stain Studios) is counting on. You can even submit your levels for others to try, and the best of the best will be shown at E3 2014! If you’re an aspiring game developer or just want to be internet famous, get on and make some levels!

Overall, I’d say the joy I had kicking over a fully set dinner table and watching fruit fly EVERYWHERE is worth the 9.99 price of admission, but the replayability of a user-created content game is UNLIMITED. Pick it up and build the gameplay that you want to experience or just enjoy the levels other make and try to get the top score!

Goat Simulator officially comes out on April 1st.  You can find more information at http://www.goat-simulator.com

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