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Posted on 07.26.09 by Oblique Red @ 6:28 pm
Comments on this: 7 so far. Add your own.  I'm about to make a confession that may shock you. I have never played a tabletop role-playing game. I know, I know, it's hard to believe! I put up a good front, after all, cracking "saving roll" and "initiative" jokes with my geek friends, referring to things as "chaotic neutral," making appreciative comments about d20 earrings in the dealer room at cons...but it is all a hollow lie. People have a hard time believing this when I tell them. After all, am I not the queen of the console RPG, both Japanese and Western? Do I not do all the sidequests on my Final Fantasy games, even the really annoying and tedious ones? Did I not, as a young lass, round up the neighbor children, dress them up, assign them roles, and lead them on various quests in a sort of baby LARP? (Favorite themes: Narnia (I was Lucy), GI Joe (I was Scarlett) and Princess Escaping From Evil Wizard (I was the Princess. Duh.)) Yes, gentle reader. I am all these things. And yet I somehow missed out on the grand progenitor of them all. How could this be? Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 05.31.09 by Widge @ 7:35 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own. 
Release Date: May 5, 2009 Publisher: PopCap Games There might be a backstory to the game, but if there is, I didn't bother to find it out. If there was one, it might be something like this, in a nutshell. Zombie holocaust. In your neighborhood, at least. And you're some kind of mad vegetarian Dr. Moreau, because you've got an army of seeds that will sprout plants to defend your home from the undead. That's really all you need to know. It's quite possibly the perfect storm of addictive games, which is why I'm going ahead and reviewing the goddamn thing so I can uninstall it before I spend any more time with it. First, it's tower defense--which, for non-gamers like me, basically means you set up items that have distinct qualities that enable you to defend yourself against increasingly specialized attacking forces. If you haven't played a game like this, seriously, don't. Because it is a timesuck of the highest order. Second, it's zombies. And you know how we are on this site about zombies. Categorized as: Games and Reviews
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Posted on 05.11.09 by ScottC @ 11:31 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. As you may have noticed, the staff here at Needcoffee have certain specific areas that we report on. Widge has caffeine and zombies, Dindrane has anime and animals attacking humans, and Tuffley has music and fabulous haberdashery. So I thought it was a little strange when both Widge and Cosette sent me some link from SF Media Labs about some new video game controller. You see, besides being the Keeper of the Fu, Doc Ezra is Minister of Gaming, so this should go to him. Then I opened the link and realization dawned. Be warned, this is slightly Not Work Safe. Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 01.31.09 by Widge @ 4:57 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I am a very, very amateurish chess player. I know how to play, I appreciate the game, and I figured out a way to re-stage the musical in the round with a combination of the New York and London songs. Because I'm just a nerd like that. And I also have an appreciation for the chess board and its pieces as works of art...although admittedly I think my favorite chess set of all time is a Looney Tunes set. And not the Franklin Mint one you can find on eBay now, no...this one, I remember, had the characters prepared for BATTLE. Daffy was a bishop (I think that's right) but I distinctly remember him grinning like a madman, clutching an axe. It was tremendous. And tremendously expensive, which is why I don't own it today. But anyway, when NotCot posted a link to that chess set there by Alastair Mackie entitled "Amorphous Organic," I was intrigued. Each piece holds a suspended insect, with one side all flying insects and one side all crawling insects. Slightly creepy? Perhaps. But still awesome. So I wanted to see what else was out there regarding slightly bizarre chess sets. Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 01.05.09 by Widge @ 8:00 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Yes, I know, but we are coming off of a long holiday, so you probably need double the normal amount of sorbet we would have for you. Here's some sort of dance/sparring/something at the 1995 E3 presentation of Doom; the original video poster says this was their announcement of porting the game to the "Playstation, SNES, and Ultra 64." Direct link for the feedreaders. Another dance craze after the break. Categorized as: Games
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