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Welcome to episode 7 of The Inept Gamer! In this episode VP Quinn tried his hand at a very different type of First Person Shooter; one in which you have to solve puzzles instead of shoot enemies. The game is "Portal" and in it you have a gun that shoots two different colors of portals. One is orange and one is blue, and you can move between them in both directions. If you put a portal on the wall in front of you and one on the roof and walk forward you will move through the wall and come out of the roof. This game will twist your perception of reality, and you have to use these portals to get around obstacles and solve puzzles as you act as a lab rat in a maze for what you can only assume is some kind of crazy robot. Come watch our very own lab rat try to figure out how things work, and see how long it takes until he breaks down in a fit of swearing! Perhaps if he can get far enough he will even be rewarded with his own piece of cake... The following is a High Level Games Special Report! This video has been put together by Rui, one of our columnists, for your viewing pleasure and covers the article "6 Monsters Too Cute To Kill." In it Rui covers the article originally written by Angela about her favorite "cute" monsters in the monster manuals! Click Here for a link to the original article! Welcome to The Inept Gamer Episode 6! In case you missed the live stream on twitch you can watch it now here in glorious 1080p! In this episode VP Quinn tries his hand at Borderlands 2. Come watch as he does heroic things like shoot the ground, kill himself with a grenade and scream while flailing with a sword and accidentally jumping over the enemy he is swinging at at the same time! Borderlands 2 is a very high action arcade shooter that looks and feels like you are stuck in a comic book. Everything looks rather cell shaded and many of the weapons have very random qualities. Want a shotgun that shoots rockets? Or has a spread that looks like hearts? A gun or shield that has the AI of an angry murderbot that screams at you? How about a pistol that shoots hugely explosive rounds with horrible accuracy but a fast fire rate? WHY NOT?!? Add to that interesting and crazy characters with unique abilities and a huge dose of humour. In all seriousness, I have never laughed as hard playing any video game as I have at this one and after multiple play throughs it's still comedic gold. Welcome to Episode 5 of the Inept Gamer. In this episode VP Quinn takes up the fight to retake Earth from the Advent in XCOM 2. XCOM 2 is a turn based strategy game, and follows in a long line of games that are known for being brutally unforgiving. As it is turn based Quinn has time to think about his actions and to get used to the interface before he acts unlike some of the previous episodes, so the struggles are just in the difficulty of the game itself and not so much in trying to figure out how to play the game. Tune in and watch as humanities chances of taking back Earth dwindle rapidly under their new commander! This is the third episode in our "Leveling Up" podcast series, in which the hosts VP Quinn and our Blog Manager Josh discuss religion in gaming. In this episode they begin with how religion and gaming interact, as well as some history starting with the “Satanic Panic.” They then discuss how you can create and work with religion in a respectful way in your games without reducing it to a trope or just assuming that atheism is the natural order of things. Finally they talk about how to work with religious players in such a way that you are respectful of their beliefs while still allowing players to explore religion in the context of the gaming world. Our podcast is also available on iTunes, and you can get to it and subscribe easily by clicking here. The following is a High Level Games Special Report! This video has been put together by Rui, one of our columnists, for your viewing pleasure and covers the article "Let It Go! 5 Ways To Decrease Your Work As A GM." In it Rui discusses ways to lessen the work load on a GM by getting the players to help in the creation of the game! Click Here for a link to the original blog article! The following is a High Level Games Special Report! This video has been put together by Rui, one of our columnists, for your viewing pleasure and covers the article "Hit Points Are Not Health Points: 5 Clever Concepts To Improve Hit Points With Good Role-Playing" with a link to the blog article below. In this video Rui narrates an article about how hit points simply don't have to mean wounds, but how through clever role playing they can be interpreted as a variety of other things. Click Here for a link to the original blog article! Please feel free to leave any comments! In episode 4 of "The Inept Gamer" in which VP Quinn tries his hand at Mechwarrior Online. Mechwarrior Online is a Battletech game in which you pilot a gigantic usually humanoid mech that is between 20-100 tons, complete with a lot of armor and weapons. Watch as Quinn finds out how difficult it can be to manage multiple different weapon systems on different triggers, as well as heat and piloting all at the same time, and watch the panic on his face as things go predictably wrong or the joy as he has hilarious (and equally predictable) deaths. The following is a High Level Games Special Report! This video has been put together by Rui, one of our columnists, for your viewing pleasure and covers the article "Where Does The Poo Go?" 10 Ways You Can Make A Better Fictional City with a link to the blog article below. In this video Rui narrates his article on the best ways to help bring a city that you are creating or have created to life. Click Here for a link to the original article. Please feel free to leave any comments! This is episode 3 of The Inept Gamer. In this episode we make VP Quinn try his first PC RTS game, which is Starcraft II. His lessons from the odd IOS game don't seem to help as he struggles through the interface and has a drawn out battle against 3 computers in a free for all set on very easy. Come watch and have a laugh at his expense! We do these episodes live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/high_level_games and will post the times for new ones on Facebook and Twitter, so keep an eye out and join us live to leave comments for Quinn as he plays! |
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