BPGE #23 – Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Warcraft II was one of the most important games in the history of Blizzard Entertainment. This game defined their RTS style which was highly praised during its release. Warcraft II was so well received that gamers elevated Blizzard among the elite gaming companies like Westwood and iD Software. As you can imagine, this sparked the Command & Conquer vs Warcraft debates for years to come. Speaking of the future, this game would also form the basis for what would arguably become the most popular RTS of all time. The game in question would be StarCraft and it’s expansion called Brood War.
BPGE #12 – Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle
The final game this week is another classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure game. The story starts off with two mutated tentacles called Purple and Green tentacle respectively. Against Green tentacles suggestion, Purple tentacle decides to drink out of the toxic sludge. After gaining his flipper arms and vastly improved intelligence he decides to rule the world. The game has some great writing, humour and art style which makes a great game overall. Read more
Custom Craft Ep.15 – Going on hold
Episode fifteen marks four months of Custom Craft episodes and unfortunately this will also mark the last episode for the time being. We had great fun making every one of these episodes, and we will be miss playing a new custom game every week. The reason behind this choice is the amount of time required to make every new episode has been rapidly increasing week over week. The video goes into further details as to why this is happening, but suffice to say it has become unreasonably long to make these videos. We would like to resume these videos in the future, but until the changes we talked about in the video are made, this series is on indefinite hold.
Custom Craft Ep.14 – Desert Strike
This week we play Desert Strike, a tug of war custom map that has been enjoying the front page for quite some time. This 3v3 tug of war map is quite simple to play, but it does require some strategy to start getting good at it. The aim of the game is to beat the oppositions army, so you have several building choices which each have their own specific units. The challenge here is that you have a steady income rate and a limited amount of space to place these structures, so being space efficient is very important on this map. Beyond that, the rest of the game is all about finding a good build that will counter both the wave you are attacking into and the wave following that. Since all the other players are essentially doing the same thing, you will need to come up with some clever strategies to win the game. Read on for further information concerning this map. Read more
Custom Craft Ep.12 – HotS Custom – Metalopolis
Last week Blizzard previewed the changes to come in Heart Of The Swarm to all BlizzConn attendees. As you can imagine, many people including us could not attend the event. While the special build of the game was not made available outside of BlizzCon, there is a close alternative available right now. I will be going over the changes shown at BlizzCon on this custom Heart Of The Swarm map. Read on for more details on this set of custom maps. Read more
Best Games Series – Announcement
A recent post on Reddit had brought up this post from RPS which is a list of the 122 best PC games. The list in question covers games from 1989 all the way up to last year. While going over the list, I started to realize how many of these great games I had been missing over the years. This new series will be covering what are arguably some of the best PC games of all time. Read on for some details on this new series.