Star Trek Online Open Beta: Dancing For the Borg
It had to be done…
An early chunk of space combat against a couple of waves of Orion ships. I’m badly piloting the scrappy little USS Feltham, which I proceed to get blown up later on in the fight by drifting into the third (I think it is) wave. Go me!
The USS Feltham meets its end for the first of many times in the Star Trek Online open beta. It was at the hands of an Orion fleet that I was accidently taking on all at once!
A random race, from when I suck (I probably still suck but let’s pretend I don’t). If you added some jazzy loops and stuff it would be the perfect Speed Racer simulator. And this only cost £1.50 in the Steam sales, which is really quite awesome.
“From what I remember, this was during a 3 player co-op game where we had to off the AI people to ensure control of our vehicles and weaponry. War is hell.”
I installed Fallout 3 on Windows 7 ready to finally finish it in the new year. We welcomed each other with open arms and hugs and stuff.
“So I got this free with my GFX card earlier in the year. Lucky that, because it’s a pretty shoddy port. Exiting is hilarious (thank god for alt+F4), what the hell are these black borders, and it doesn’t support the triggers on the bloody 360 pad. I have games from before the 360 existed that support those, let alone all the games since that have no such issue.
Also, it’s not quite pretty enough to deserve all the gushing over how pretty it is. A bit like 13 in House…”
“Imagine a million puns related to hanging on/around/about etc going in here. I fear that if I typed them I might unleash some daemonic otherworldly entity.
I can’t remember where this is. Damascus was it?”
Imperfect as it may be, Borderlands is still a rather entertaining FPS version of an Action RPG, especially in 4 player co-op. It works best in the first half of the game when challenge is high and you’re most enthused about gearing up. The final third doesn’t really capture the same thrill, throwing in far too much loot that you won’t use and having fights too easily beatable by two or three of your four person team. Fun though.