caticonslite_bm_alt Why I Hate Dota 2 (And Subsequently Love League of Legends)

by venn177 [May 18, 2012]

The first thing I will say is: Dota 2 is a very, very good game. This is not me talking about how bad the game is. In all likelihood, if I played it enough I would find be able to point out exactly what makes it better than League of Legends. But this isn’t about my opinions on quality, this is about my opinions on preference. And all of my preferences point me towards League of Legends.

I’ll attempt to avoid having a direct comparison between the two games, but really, what else is there to say besides the reasons for hating one and loving the other? Whenever someone asks me why I hate something about Dota 2, I explain it through a comparison to how the same mechanic works in League of Legends and why I like it better that way. So I suppose I’ll just break down each part of the game on its own. Here’s to a steady hand!

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caticonslite_bm_alt Welcome To The Halfway Tavern

by Luley [May 14, 2012]

A tall fellow who didn’t look like he fancied conversation – he was a bruiser, this one. I couldn’t see his whole face – he wore a cowl low and kept his head down. From his nose to his chin was a deep scar, one that doesn’t come from a tavern brawl, but a battlefield. Hopefully we’d all survive the next few minutes.
“Hello,” I said leaning onto the counter, trying to catch his eyes like a man. There hadn’t been fear in my bones when I was young and slaying trolls and I’d be damned if it would show up now.
“You’ve not ordered a drop all night, and the bar is for the most miserable customers– it’s how I keep the girls paid, you know.”
“Of course, Barkeep.” he replied with a distant, cold tone.

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caticonslite_bm_alt In Retrospect… Left 4 Dead Series

by venn177 [May 13, 2012]

The Left 4 Dead series was always an anomaly for me. The first was an incredible game that was a lot of fun… for one playthrough. The graphics pushed the Source engine to its limits and then some, and it really thrust 4-player coop into a new level of popularity.

Really, both of the games were so much fun, but I just never had any inclination to play them after beating them each once. And maybe that’s just what I didn’t see back then: They’re fun for a good 8~10 hours every few months with a few of your friends. Any other way of playing it just feels like too much.

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caticonslite_bm_alt Kanye Zone – DON’T LET HIM INTO HIS ZONE.

by Luley [May 10, 2012]

The BD crew have been obsessively playing Kanye Zone trying to topple the new high score which is being set every 5 minutes, the current ceiling set by yours truly at 40 Kanyes ($2,179,781.) What is Kanye Zone you ask?

http://www.kanyezone.com/

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caticonslite_bm_alt The Vardaeus Chronicles, I: The Stormcloak Menace

by venn177 [May 9, 2012]

After a long trek on a miserable boat, Vin Vardaeus has finally made it to the land of Skyrim, ripe with civil war. Assassinations are commonplace, death is found at every turn, and it’s exactly why he left the (mostly) peaceful land of Tamriel.

Vin Vardaeus is our “hero.” A protagonist for sure, a hero for maybe. A young Imperial trained in the art of swordplay from a young age, he yearns to right the wrongs in Skyrim, following in the path of his idol, the Nerevarine of many ages ago.  I suppose we’re getting slightly ahead of ourselves, though.

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caticonslite_bm_alt Luley’s Top 10 Skyrim Mods That Barely Do Anything.

by Luley [May 8, 2012]

The Skyrim Creation Kit is out and we here at Branching Dialogue are huge mod fans and one of the best thing about Bethesda Softworks is that they go out of their way to enable you fuck with their beautiful masterpieces. I was a late bloomer with Bethesda and started with Oblivion on a modded 360 and I played it religiously. It was after I had bought the GOTY edition on Steam when I built my PC was I introduced to the beautiful world of modding. There are mods to make the tits glossier, mods to make the female npcs wear nothing but thongs, and who could forget the groundbreaking cute elves of Kawaii-shire? Yes sir, the best part about Elder Scrolls games is the complete control Bethesda willingly hands over to the community. Since the SCK just launched I want to celebrate the mods that came out beforehand. It’s time to count down my top 10 mods for skyrim that barely do anything. (game changing or not.)

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caticonslite_bm_alt raptr: What Kind Of Drugs Conceived This Abomination?

by venn177 [May 7, 2012]

You know how Facebook has that really popular style of having a few buttons that open to your three different menus? Yeah, it’s like “friend requests, messages, updates.” Well here we have in the same exact design, “social activity, game activity, updates.” Then right next to that is a search bar. The other half of the bar is taken up by a few buttons that also have drop down menus.

Ugh, it’s like someone took Steam and threw Facebook up all over it. I honestly can’t tell which gimmick here is the worst: The “free” shit or the fact that this is literally an XFire/Steam/What have you ripoff combined with Facebook.

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