Tower Defense Games

I like a good Tower Defense game, and one I keep going back to is Defense Grid 2.

I hope Hidden Path, the devs, make a thirds game in the series.

Google Wall of Claude Rains

                                   

Brief Casablanca

I've watched Casablanca, the terrific 1942 Bogart film, several times over this past week. So much to love. These characters are all so terrific, and the story moves along at a great clip.
I know this has been written about repeatedly over the last 75 years, but now, as ever, Claude Rains is so good you cannot keep your eyes off him. He finds his patriotism along with Bogart finding his.

This movie holds up.

                                                  Casablanca                                  1942

Flea market Day

Today was the Parkville Flea Market, a twice a year, very popular place to find good junk. Today was good for me, found two fun things to add to my collection. $4.00 total

Urban Eploring

I tried some urban exploring yesterday. I went to the old Simpkins plant in Ilchester, Md and explored the power plant building. Such an interesting relic of a place.

Online On PS3

If you want to meet nice people online while gaming, you couldn't do much better than with Worms on the Play Station Network. I always have a good time playing, and I always seem to find fun people to hang out with.

Give it a try.

Demon's Souls

I have been keeping an eye on the soon to be released Demon's Souls for the PS3. All of the magazines and blogs and podcasts are saying that this is one very hard game. A game that is prepared to make me it's bitch. I imagine that's true, but I have heard this before, and it hasn't always been the case.

Back in the day I got into those Koei strategy games, especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, and it was easy enough for me to get so familiar with the systems involved that I could play the game on "hard" and win effortlessly.

Another game that was listed by many as "hardcore" and "difficult" was Etrian Odyssey for the NDS. I thought that game was challenging, but it wasn't overly difficult. All one has to do is enter the dungeon, fight, exit the dungeon, heal, buy better stuff and rinse and repeat. Patience and a willingness to grind is all it took. Nothing difficult about that.

Demon's Souls, however, is an action RPG, and it is because of that I am more able to believe that this game might, in fact, be quite difficult. I look forward to finding out.