Having celebrated Christmas, and with the Boxing Day Test on the telly, Lusipurr and SiliconNooB settle down to a winter’s evening of video game news, literature, and reflections upon the state of Australia’s fielding–and this time, no one deletes it!
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This week’s panel
Silicon Noob
Lusipurr
Also featuring:
BupPoetical Review
Warlords of DraenorUpcomming Features
Written Review
-Eternal SonataNEWS
Cricket news: OZ vs India
I welcome the return of Cricket News. It allows me a few minutes at the beginning of the podcast to setup the Info Blast template.COD on the decline
Annual franchises get stale. I can’t think of a single exception to this.NIS goes all in for PS
One of these days I’ll play a Disgaea game.XBL/PSN Hacked
Predictable. Many hackers are assholes and many child gamers are entitled jerks. 2+2= “Worst Christmas Ever!”AC:Unity Season Pass owners screwed again
Yeah, that sounds about right.New Suikoden?
Neat.Bup Talk
Best Game of 2014Imitanis Literature Corner
Interview With A Vampire by Anne RiceI’m very interested to see where this whole bit with Claudia goes.
Imitanis Gaming Moment
This week I played several new games but I’ll focus on one.Steam Park is a game about building a theme park for robots. Players will build roller coasters of different colors for visitors to ride and some stands in order to help manage visitors. On your turn you can 1: Build Rides, 2: Build Stands, 3: Attract Visitors, 4: Clean ‘Dirt’, 5: Play Cards for Points, 6: Expand Your Park. The catch is that each player gets 6 dice and must roll them onto the side that represents the action that they want to take. Players can roll their dice as many times as they want, but must ‘lock’ their dice when they get to a side that they want. The catch for that is that it pays to lock your dice fastest as there are turn order cards and whoever finishes first will take their turn first and also get a reward. Finishing last sucks as all of the other players will take the rides that you want and your park will get dirtier.
I’m really not doing this game justice but allow me to try. The game has unique pacing because every round starts with a real time frantic dice rolling and then you have to manage your park strategically based on the dice that you rolled. The art style is also pretty great.
I dunno if I’m just off my game this week or if this game really needs to be played to be understood, but I enjoyed this game a lot more than this text implies.
Bonus: I also played Boggle with my family and managed to get 99 points in a single round. (It takes 50 to win the whole game and that usually takes several rounds)
DiceAdmiral Travel Moment
Traveled for Christmas. Nothing special.Final Notes
“Bando Namcai” – Lusi
“How are you Bup?” “Yes”Donators
Cumulative total record holder: Imitanis
Single Donation record holder: ImitanisDonators eligible for end of year drawing: 14
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@Lusi
The turn order tokens from Steam Park have Latin on them.
https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1841601_lg.jpg
Any chance I could get a translation?