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Geek Knight Games - Ep 02 - To The Gay Bar

Geek Knight Games
Episode 02 - To The Gay Bar (The Top 10 of 2009)
Runtime 2:15:54
Hosts: Hoss Rockey & Ron McQueen
Guest: Nick Cornett

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Today's episode includes top 10 lists from each of our respected hosts, so sit back and enjoy.

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Ridiculously Fun! Ridiculously Cheap! 1/20/10 Edition

By David Rockey

RF!RC! is back and brings with it one of the best games of the new generation of consoles, “Saints Row 2.” The sequel to the 2006 Xbox 360 game is everything that the original was and way, way more. Better than that, it is super-cheap!

Saints Row 2
Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC
MSRP: $20 or less

“Saints Row 2” is one of the best values available today. The game is an open-world crime sim, much like the older “Grand Theft Auto” games. Gangland combat, immature humor, bloody gun battles, and ridiculous mission structure all conspire to make “Saints Row 2” one of the most well-rounded and varied experiences available on any platform.

Living in Azeroth: World of Warcraft Column

By Steve Woodworth, Master of all things Warcraft
Today in this introductory WoW course, I'm going to talk about the three plate dps and tanking classes.

Warrior
The first class I'm going to talk about is the Warrior. The Warrior is probably the premium Tank in the game. A Tank is someone who holds all of the aggro or threat of the npc mobs that you have to fight through to get to bosses in dungeons or raids. What makes the warrior unique is they are made to take a lot of damage and survive if they choose to be a Tank, usually using a one handed weapon or shield to do so.

Movies that Suck Presents: "MegaFault"

By Rocky Mcvey

I watch a lot of bad movies, and I mean A LOT. Therefore my view of bad movies is a bit skewed when compared to others. It takes a REALLY bad movie for me to say it actually sucks, so when I do, we are not in the realm of the average movie anymore. This will become the first of my "Movies that Suck" reviews, and they'll be written as I find movies that are so deserving of this honor i can't pass them up. Netflix has made the process of finding these (mostly undesired) films quite a bit easier, and in the coming months and years I will be bringing you these films so you don't have to sit through them yourselves.

First Impression: Star Trek Online (Beta)

Star Trek Online Open Beta

So, I was pretty excited to try out Cryptic's new Star Trek Online game. I'm not an avid Trekkie; I'm more a Star Wars guy, but I like space, I like beams of light, and everyone has giggled at the term "Captains Log" at least once. After a pretty hefty 6.6 gig download, and 3 separate attempts at installing it, I got the game up and running. I made my first character with only Federation characters to choose from (this early in the beta you can only play Federation) but this leads me to the only feature of the game I really liked...
Create your own alien race!!!

Planet Hulk Review

by Rocky McVey

The EMPs are Coming!

(its the big one, Martha)

So a full-scale nuclear war just broke out and pretty much just fudged up your day. But let's forget about all that nasty fallout, nuclear winter and lethal radiation rays, cuz who gives a crap about that? Your computer, television, and even your car no longer works, and that just sucks. How did this happen? It's called EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse. It's a pulse of high-level electromagnetic energy that will fry every piece of electronic equipment you have. EMPs, regardless of what you might have heard, are not going to effect you, your animals or your house plants, but electronic devices are all on the hit list. The good news is they don't have to be. There are ways to protect that precious $1500 Macbook you just had to have (even thou you coulda bought a Windows pc for half the price, doofus.)

"Nier": A JRPG Getting it Right For a Change

by Rocky McVey

Many of you may have read some horrible, horrible reviews floating around the interwebs about an action-rpg from Square Enix called "Nier". I'm hear to bash some toes and give you a completely opposite view of this game. I'm not going to tell you this is a perfect game because it isn't; believe me, it has problems and, at times, they can be frustrating. But, that doesn't change the fact this game is very well written, has good game play, and has innovations that have never been seen in the action-rpg world.

First Impression: Star Trek Online (Beta)

Who hasn't wanted to make up their own race of aliens and use them to destroy the moon base of your enemy? So I made my alien and selected his traits. You get to select 4 and they do various things, from increasing your damage to repairing your ship faster. Needless to say, I looked them all over twice and picked the 4 that I felt would make my character as balanced a captain as possible. I enter the game and I'm...an Ensign? I'm wearing a red shirt? I'm dead by Star Trek standards. But wait, there is one saving grace: I have a last name. So I go through the tutorial and here is my first gripe with the game. The running animation is really really clunky and the controls are not very responsive at all. After holding my W key to move for about 1.5 seconds I started to run forward, in what could quite possibly be the "I really need to use the bathroom BRB" motion capture run. After a few minutes in the tutorial, I got into my first use of a handheld phaser. There is no auto-attack in this game. You basically spam 1 to shoot a damaging phaser shot, 2 to set your phaser to stun and fire a stun shot, and 3 to punch the thing in the face and have a chance of knocking it down so you can get room, but you never need to do 3 cause nothing in the tutorial even dented my personal shield let alone touched my HP pool.

After a while we get into Starship control. Yeah, it's not all away team stuff. Apparently, the Borg raided your ship and you (an Ensign, mind you) are the highest ranking surviving member of the crew. That means everyone who's even thought about putting on a Starfleet uniform is dead. Score one for Ensign Cannonfodder, new captain of the U.S.S. Roflcopter. Here you learn Starship controls. Remember, kids; these are giant Starships, not little fighters, so it's slow. I couldn't even get past this part of the tutorial except for one time because it's so boring. You would think shooting photon torpedoes and giant phaser arrays at Borg cubes and spheres would be awesome, and it would have been if it didn't feel like everything was in slow motion. Needless to say, this is about as far as I got into the beta and I won't be playing it anymore because the game has some serious design issues. I mean, when it takes ten minutes to retrieve a rifle from a crate with only one rifle in it, that's a glitch. When an integral part of the game, your second away team member, fails to load every time you change instances and its impossible to progress without him, that's a huge design flaw.

Yes, the game is in Open Beta still and some glitches are to be expected because they're probably not even close to the release version of the game. But, the design flaws just killed it for me. Expect this game to release in February.

Steve "Captain's Log" Riley