Dungeon Defenders

I know this game has been around for some time, but I was just recently introduced to it. This is an extremely entertaining game. It is an arcade style game, yet so much more! With cartoon-y but well done (especially considering the extreme amount of action going on at any given time) graphics and a smooth, intense game play, it is a winner. I kind of reminds me of Gauntlet Legends combined with a tower defense game. Yes, that is an extremely simplified description. The game has a role playing element as one can level up and upgrade to equipment. There are some pretty amazing weapons available if one is willing to put forth the work. There is also a strategy aspect in the placement of traps, towers and other defenses. The best thing about the game is the cooperative play, because, the game is hard! It seems to be regularly updated on the Xbox and I have heard that the Steam version gathers even more attention.

The only complaint I can really think of is the repetitive nature of single player play. The difficulty often jumps dramatically within a level. This forces one to either repeatedly farm lower levels for xp and mana or solicit other players (which is kind of the point anyway...). Still, it is an excellent and addicting game that does not carry a terribly high price tag and I highly recommend it.

Malazan Book of the Fallen

I am really enjoying blogging and while my main blog is http://www.worstbeerblogever.com and focuses on beer, I am also a pretty big nerd and therefore read a lot and play board games whenever I can. So, I am going to try and operate both sites.

Since, I included books in the title, I have a quick suggestion if you are looking for something to read. I am currently on book 4 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series. This series is awesome, but compared to other sword and sorcery epics, extremely complex. In fact, it takes several books for one to even begin to understand what is going on. So if you are looking for a challenge with big literary rewards check out Steve Erikson's epic series. http://www.amazon.com/Gardens-Moon-Malazan-Book-Fallen/dp/0765348780

Here is a fairly recent post on some of my other current reading projects http://worstbeerblogever.com/2012/03/reading-material/

Game of Thrones Board Game 2nd Edition

I am so stoked to have found the "A Game of Thrones" board game at Barnes and Noble, I just had to blog about it! Nearly a year ago after completing "A Dance With Dragons" I purchased the card game, thinking it was a nerdy board game a long the lines of Catan and so on. I was grossly mistaken. I briefly immersed myself in the Living Card Game (LCG). (I got the game confused with "The Battles of Westeros", which was much more difficult to find. Still, I thought the card game was a lot of fun (although am still not sure of all the rules) but found that I simply did not enough friends interested in playing to justify the increasingly large amounts of money I was investing. So, I forgot about the playing in the world until I saw and purchased the game tonight! I will include a review in the near future!

New Website

I just created the following website http://wtfgermany.blogspot.com/. I just remember seeing a lot of funny things involving Germany on YouTube so I have created this website to compile some of it. It is not completely limited to Germany either, I just really liked the name.

Six Month Anniversary

Six Month Anniversary of Worst Beer Blog Ever