News at the Corner!

     Good evening and goodnight ladies and gentlemen! This week has been a slow week and I apologize for it, it's been hectic at work so things were slowly moving for us here at the gaming corner. Now that the weekend is here we are REALLY excited because we will be doing at the MINIMUM 3-4 episodes a day in order to catch up for time missed and to get everything ahead! We are VERY pleased to announce that our Blog has PASSED 300 views! With a steady climb like that we are doing A LOT better this early on than we had anticipated! So as a special treat we are going to be doing a behind the scenes video for you guys so you can meet the guy that runs things here! And after that if things are STILL progressing this well through next week we may even try to plan a special event for next weekend. We will keep you guys posted on whether or not to keep your calendars open!

     As far as what to expect this weekend we will be doing LOT'S of Borderlands 2 and a few I am Alive with a crysis 2 and a fallout 3 episode thrown in here or there. We might even go as far and take all our recent Borderlands 2 episodes and make a Death by Stupidity Montage episode, including any deaths we may incur this weekend lol. OH, and an episode where you get to meet ME! lol, Anyway we thank you guys for your continued support and don't forget to like and share the videos and the blogs with your friends, pets, and/or family!

Thanks for your time today and I We will see you guys NEXT TIME!!!

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A Mystical Land Review

Overview

First and foremost  this game has a great concept. It lets the players do pretty much anything. Now that being said, to start players out it puts them into a tutorial area that only covers a minute amount of information. What I mean by this, is that it has many different areas where it teaches players about the different aspects of the game but only has quests and information for half of the things there. It shows you how to use an anvil to craft things but it does not show you how to shear sheep. The quests do not follow any kind of ordering to make sure players cover all of the areas there. So not only does it have little information, but it does not make sure the players learn what is available to then. Even after the player is out of the tutorial and makes their way to the fairgrounds there is little to no direction for players. This doubled with stability issues such as lag, server timeouts, and connection crashing makes for a very frustrating experience that will undoubtedly make players not want to even bother with the game.

Fixes

In order for the game to be more apealing to the player base, the networking issues need to be fixed first and foremost. Lag is one the most unberable things to deal with in any online game world. It makes players want to rip out their hair when, for no aparent reason, one game out of many plays in slow motion because it refuses to have a stable connection.

Only after the stablilty issues have been taken care of, the quests should be more structered to move the player from point a to point b. This will ensure that the player learns everything in the turtorial area while at the same time the feeling of being lost or confused will disappear. This ensures that the player wont just sit around a quit and makes sure that the player knows where to go when they have finished in an area.

Conclusion

Again, this game has a great concept but unless the stability issues are fixed and the quests have a more general direction to them I would not consider this to be a great game.

TALLIED SCORE!!!!!! (drumroll please)............................... 4.50/10!!!!

Thanks for reading guys, If you enjoyed it please let me know, and if you did NOT enjoy it STILL let me know! I wrote this back in November for a job interview, so but the information IS still current, (I checked lol) Peace guys, and I will see you guys next time!

Wizards101 Review

Gameplay

As far as controls and user interface goes Wizards 101 did a decent job of making everything smooth and pretty straight foreward to understand. The game presents itself as another typical World of Warcraft clone until it puts you into your first battle. The card battle system is a welcoming change to the MMORPG genre because it allows the player to have a more casual experience to the typical gameplay found throughout the game world at this moment in time.

The only thing that I would change as far as Wizards 101 is concernered is the background downloading of the game. Although this idea is a great way to get player into the game at a faster rate you run into the issue of having things that the player is not close to encountering downloading before needed. What I mean by this is, if you are on your way to a zone in the game and you are forced to stand and wait because that section has not been downloaded yet, you as a player are bound to get frustrated. Now in that same situation your notice that the piece a game that IS downloading has nothing to do with the area you are going to (which did happen to me while playing) you are going to realize that there is no structure to the order of what is being downloaded in order for the player to have a smooth game transition.

In my eyes the only two remedies for this include either just making the player to fully download and install the game or, restructuring the order data is downloaded by the game to allow the more important pieces that will be needed by the player to be installed sooner rather than later. This would allow for a smoother game transition for the player and help prevent the player from standing around and waiting just to get to another zone in the game.

Conclusion

Other than the downloading order, this game gives a unique experience that allows for a different kind a game experience while at the same time retaining the familiarity of todays game worlds. It allows players from across many age groups to be able to play together while keeping the younger players entertained while at the same time giving the older players a different game experience.

TALLIED SCORE!!!!!! (drumroll please)............................... 8.50/10!!!!

Thanks for reading guys, If you enjoyed it please let me know, and if you did NOT enjoy it STILL let me know! I wrote this back in November for a job interview, so but the information IS still current, (I checked lol) Peace guys, and I will see you guys next time!

Battlestar Galactica Online Review

Controls

Once a player enters the tutorial area of the game, they are walked through the control scheme for controling your ship. These controls that players are learning feel as if they were originaly mapped for a controler, not a mouse and keyboard. This makes the gameplay controls feel extremely taxing to try and keep up with the events going on around you. If, for instance, instead of making the throttle be controlled by the mouse wheel but mapped to the "Q" and "E" keys the player would have a more natural reaction to what he/she is doing as far as movement is concerned. Now when it comes to actualy playing against players and npcs you are forced to find and click your target in order to be able to begin any kind of attacks or manuvering away from your enemy. My suggestion to remedy this is to allow players to use the "TAB" key on their keyboard to cycle through all players and/or npcs around them. Another option to fix this is to either make an item that allows the auto aquisition of hostile targets or to make it a regular feature of the game. The reason I say make it an item is to make it so that if a player wants this ability then they would have to buy the feature with in game currency as to not unbalance the game.

Game Interface

After finishing the tutorial the player is thrust into their chosen race's main facility. Upon entering they are able to aquire their first mission or start their own personal exploration. For those that forgoe their first mission and say choose to go straight to the facility to purchase new ship parts and new ships they are left stranded and forced to find their own way back. Granted the game does warn you that you have to find your own way back before you choose to leave but once you get there you are not given any indication as to what each of the icons on the user interface are for, your map has very little detail and location markers so you have no idea where you need to go, and the game assumes that you know everything about the game mechanics, UI, and gameplay. In order to remedy this you can either redo the tutorial to teach players about the User Interface and/or implement a Tips and Hints feature which would cause random windows with bits of information and help to push the player in the right direction.

Conclusion

Battlestar Galactica is overall a decent game for a browser based game. It does a good job of giving the player the feel of it ACTUALLY being installed on ones computer. Other than the minor issues I mentioned, I would definitely recommend this game to a friend or two.

TALLIED SCORE!!!!!! (drumroll please)............................... 7.25/10!!!!

Thanks for reading guys, If you enjoyed it please let me know, and if you did NOT enjoy it STILL let me know! I wrote this back in November for a job interview, so but the information IS still current, (I checked lol) Peace guys, and I will see you guys next time

Galaxy on Fire Review 5.5/10

Good evening and goodnight ladies and gentlemen! We here at the gaming corner are proud to bring OUR FIRST REVIEW!!!! I know it's AWESOME!!!! Not really. I this is a bit rushed so I apologize for the stumbling of words my friends BUT, It is our first EVER review. Not really I actually did a few reviews which I tried to get a job with and I think I'm Actually going to post those on here since I never did get that job... BACK ON TRACK Anyway I hope you guys enjoy it, please leave any feedback in the comments either here or on YouTube! Feel free to send us a message as well! Thanks again guys and without further Adieu I give to you, the "GALAXY ON FIRE 2 HD" REVIEW!!!!!

Due to the short comings of this game I am giving it a 5.5 out of 10, the reason for this IS; Even though this game is an imported to PC game it was treated as a full scale PC game. on android and IPhone I have no doubt in my mind this game would be MUCH more enjoyable than I found it to be. Thank you guys for watching and reading AND I will see you guys next time!

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New stuff mang!

Good evening and goodnight ladies and gents! Tonight we got a couple more episodes loaded and we made the decision to push the GoFHD review back a few days (technical issues). We are VERY excited to have some new software for recording, it might take a few days to get everything tweaked for perfection. So if you noticie anything still off on the videos that is why. Please let us know either way so we can get it addressed as soon as possible! We should hopefully be getting a contest together of some sorts so keep an eye out for that. That about sums up tonights episode so again Please share both the blog and the youtube channel with your friends so we can continue to grow! Peace guys, and I will see you guys next time!

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