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Skyrim Mod List

By Shamus Posted Friday Jan 31, 2014

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Someone asked on Twitter…

Well, I never pass up a good excuse to fill the blog with easy-to-produce content like lists. So sure. Let’s go over my list of mods.

Note that installing mods in Skyrim is not something you do in moderation. Either you ignore mods and just play the base game, or you’ve got three dozen of the dang things, because once you start it’s hard to draw the line. There are so many aspects of the game that could be improved, and once you’re over the initial learning curve additional mods are basically free.

Here is what I have loading via the Nexus Mod Manager:

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Diecast #43: Broken Age, Wii U, Nintendo

By Shamus Posted Thursday Jan 30, 2014

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Spoiler Warning: Season 14

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jan 29, 2014

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Yes, it’s been something like 7 weeks since our final episode of Metro 2033. It didn’t seem to make sense to launch a new season during the holidays, since we would be busy and the blog traffic would be way down.

When the break ended, we got together and found that Twitch.tv was basically broken and unusable.

See, Josh streams the game to us while he plays, so we can see what’s going on and comment. But this appendage of the ugly oddball technology contraption that makes this show has always been the most wonky. In the early days we used Livestream. Livestream was unreliable. It would go down, refuse to broadcast, or just plain stall in the middle of recording. The only part of the service that worked were the advertisements, which worked incessantly. We’d see the same ad 7 times in a recording session. It was torture.

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Anniversary #4: Amnesia: A Sex Machine for Pig Butts

By Josh Posted Tuesday Jan 28, 2014

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Man, we’ve been doing this show for four years. And over those four years we’ve gotten progressively better. At being insane.

As evidenced in this video.

Don’t ask about the title. It’s better that way.

Also, Rutskarn says that if guys are good in the comments, he might drop by with some puns. He told me to put this in the post because he also told me to write the post instead of doing it himself like we originally agreed upon.

Bad Rutskarn. No biscuit.

 

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Experienced Points: Superheroes That Should Be Games

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jan 28, 2014

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Which is more amazing, that Arkham Asylum games were so good, or that we haven’t been flooded with DC, Marvel, and the other IP holders trying to do the same thing? It’s odd, I tell you. The closest we came to someone trying to crib from Arkham wasn’t a superhero, it was Lara Croft. But if any of these companies do decide to enter the “Arkham genre”, what heroes would be a good fit?

The article was already long, and there are literally hundreds of quasi-notable heroes to choose from, so the cutoff for making my list was pretty arbitrary. Here are some other heroes I think are worth mentioning:

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Sandbox Space Sim: SPAZ

By Shamus Posted Monday Jan 27, 2014

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Made by a two-person team, Space Pirates and Zombies is very obviously a labor of love. I mean, look at the new game screen:

How can you not find that heartwarming?
How can you not find that heartwarming?

It does for mainstream space sims what Terraria did for Minecraft: It distills the gameplay down to the elemental, focuses on combat, and does it all in an accessible 2D retro style. I played it way back in 2011. I liked it and got a couple of days of fun out of it, but it suffered from the same restrictive approach to character progress as Freelancer, which eventually turned me off the game. I suppose I should get my long-overdue Freelancer rant out first:

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Errant Signal: The Novelist

By Shamus Posted Sunday Jan 26, 2014

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We talked about this game a few weeks ago on the Diecast. This Errant signal gives a more holistic look look at what the game is and how it works.

Chris uses it as a jumping off point for talking about review scores and the review cycle, and the score he gives at the end is the exact same score I’d give the game.

 

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