Game Diaries Archive for Fidgit
Star Trek Online: My ship. Let me show you it.
The USS Furious Turtle flies like a pig, but at least it looks cool. Seriously. Look at that picture. Try...
Star Trek Online: everyone's ship is cooler than mine
The problem with jumping into an MMO before you know whether you're going to like it is that you might...
Star Trek Online: Why it isn't just World of Warcraft in space
Star Trek Online launches today. In fact, you could be playing right now. So the question you have to ask...
The Quest: Would someone please invent the horse?
The world of The Quest is pretty big, especially for an iPhone game. It can take a while to get...
The Quest: inns aren't just for sleeping anymore
You go to an inn to rest up, to find out whether the barkeep can direct you to any quests,...
The Quest: potent potables for 1000
You can't very well have an RPG without some sort of crafting. Heck, there aren't many games these days that...
The Quest: a cautionary tale about visiting brothels
South of the starting village is a larger town called Vastares. They have all sorts of modern amenities down there....
The Quest: your first orc and you
I heartily recommend The Quest on the iPhone. It's a fantastically generous and surprisingly deep RPG. Think of it as...
iPhone: geoSpark is just right
A good game can be good on any platform. But then there's the perfect iPhone game, which is another matter...
iPhone: the best tower defense game on any platform
I only call the iPhone an iPhone because it's quicker to say. But when I want to be really descriptive,...
iPhone: Beneath that same old Steel Sky
One of the main advantages of some iPhone games is that they're not iPhone games. Instead, they're games on the...
iPhone: UniWar and the small red one
I keep the icons for my iPhone's games on a separate page, tucked behind the icons for the important stuff...
iPhone: itsy bitsy Spider
To understand any gaming system, you should ferret out the games best suited to the system. This is true of...
Solium Infernum: a couple things you should know first
I'm a huge fan of this game. It's imaginative, elegant, varied, and beautiful. It's one of the best multiplayer games...
Solium Infernum: touched by an angel
Many games have random events. A common mechanic in a boardgame is drawing some sort of event card that can...
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