I don’t know how it’s possible, but I hadn’t heard of EasyTutu until just this weekend. This project is completely made of win. It’s developed by the Pocket Plane Group, and the bottom line is that it takes the Baldur’s Gate 2 engine, and lets you play Baldur’s Gate 1 with all the enhancements of […]

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I’ve mentioned previously that I thought Oblivion was a better game than Fallout 3, despite the fact that both were created by Bethesda on the same engine, and despite the fact that Fallout 3 is a more recent game. Now I’d like to give you some concrete reasons as to why. I’ll totally agree that […]

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I played and enjoyed the first game from Penny Arcade shortly after it came out. I guess I was a bit surprised by its vulgarity, but I enjoyed it. Now, I’ve just finished the second game. I suppose that it was a bit of a disappointment that the second one is also titled “On the […]

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Despite my overall disappointment in Fallout 3, I’ve been playing a whole lot of it recently. But trying to figure out which weapons I liked best took a while. I’ve done a bunch of hunting around in an attempt to find the “best weapon” in Fallout 3, and while some are better than others, I’ve […]

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I’ve never played World of Warcraft, or any MMO for that matter, but a recent Penny Arcade Comic made me start thinking about how the “quests” in so many RPGs simply require you to travel to a faraway location, and either find an item, kill an enemy, or simply visit point A, then point B, […]

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I’ve got to say, overall I’m a bit disappointed in Fallout 3. What I’d wanted was a game much closer to Fallout 1 and 2. That is to say, a role playing game with turn-based strategy elements. What I got instead was something much closer to Oblivion, which is of course not a bit surprising […]

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This is something that had driven me absolutely nuts. When I started playing Fallout 3 on Tuesday, I decided that it would make sense to map the V.A.T.S. key, which defaults to “V”, to my mouse 4 button instead. After all, I bought this nice fancy mouse specifically so I could do stuff like that. […]

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We’re not in the habit of doing game reviews here at Lungfishopolis, so I’m phrasing this in terms of game remakes, and what makes them good. Yeah, I know it’s still more a review than anything else, but let’s pretend it’s not. M’kay? I’m so glad that video game remakes haven’t gone the way of […]

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Today’s Free Game Friday special is a long-time favorite of mine. Taking the best aspects from that era’s Ultima and Bard’s Tale games, Wasteland improved upon them and created something unique. In the post-nuclear world of Wasteland, you create a party of desert rangers, assigning points to their pistol, SMG, assault rifle, and other various […]

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I think I first started playing the Baldur’s Gate games back in 1999, and was thrilled to find a computer RPG based on Dungeons and Dragons, which I’d been playing with friends for years. At the time, I hadn’t played a D&D based video game since the gold box series on my Commodore 64. Flash […]

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