It's A Binary World 2.0

Eric Mesa | January 4, 2013

Saint’s Row the Third (14 hrs):  I got a lot of video games for my birthday and Christmas (mostly on Steam).  So I wanted to finish up the last narrative game I had started before playing those games.  I played a few missions in Saint’s Row The Third.  As I had surmised before, the loose [...]

Category: Geek Love, Video Games | 1 Comment »
Tags: Civ 5, Civ V, Civilization V, indie, Saints Row: The Third, Steam, To the Moon

Eric Mesa | July 1, 2012

Civ V (11 Hrs) – talk of the expansion pack made me want to play some more Civ.  I played a scenario and then I played a regular game.  I had a blast and I can’t wait to buy the expansion pack. Peggle Deluxe (5 hrs) – Worked on some of the challenge puzzles Team [...]

Category: Video Games | 2 Comments »
Tags: Civ 5, Civ V, Civilization 5, Civilization V

Eric Mesa | January 4, 2012

Civilization V (75 hrs) – What can I say about this game that I haven’t said already?  This is the series that made “One More More Turn…” famous and it still works today.  If I were to start a game tonight, I would not go to bed at a reasonable time. Team Fortress 2 (70 [...]

Category: Video Games | 1 Comment »
Tags: Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Bastion, Batman: Arkham City, Cities XL, Civ V, Dungeon Defenders Demo, Final Fantasy X, Greed Corp, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Party 8, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Plants vs Zombies, Portal, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Tetris, The Secret of Monkey Island

Eric Mesa | October 3, 2010

To finish up talking about the game I left off in my last post, I won my first civ 5 game via conquest – a new one for me.  I usually turtle and do a culture victory or science victory.  It was only near the end of my time playing Civ IV that I started [...]

Category: Video Games | 3 Comments »
Tags: Civ 5, Civ V, Civilization 5

Eric Mesa | September 24, 2010

At first I ridiculed achievements/trophies.  The idea that grown men and women (and, heck anyone over 12 years old) would care about getting these achievements enough to continue playing through their games until they earned them all seemed ludicrous.  Then, I acknowledged it was a fun way to compete with friends in games that are [...]

Category: General | 1 Comment »
Tags: achievements, Civ 5, Civ V, Fat Princess, Plants vs Zombies, PvZ, trophies

Eric Mesa | September 21, 2010

Interestingly, the game appears not to pop up and tell you to choose city production, you have to notice that in the bottom right, same for science and so on…..At least it doesn’t let you skip a turn before you worry about that.  So I actually like it better.  It was far too easy to [...]

Category: Video Games | 8 Comments »
Tags: Civ 5, Civ V

Eric Mesa | September 21, 2010

The opening movie is AWESOME.  Most of the visuals were from the trailers, but the frame story was great.  Best intro thus far.  I decided not to play the tutorial first since it appeared to be for those new to the Civ franchise.  I chose Wu Zetian of China since I’ve been playing the Chinese [...]

Category: Video Games | 3 Comments »
Tags: Civ 5, Civ V

Eric Mesa | September 21, 2010

By order of the Governor of Maryland, have a happy Sid Meier’s Civilization V Day!

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Tags: Civ 5, Civ V

Eric Mesa | September 19, 2010

14 Sept Sometime in my junior or senior year of college I came across a book about building my own computer and resolved to do it.  My tribulations with my Dell computer were enough to convince me that building computers with generic parts was the way to go.  Later experience with my Emachine and the [...]

Category: Computers, Geek Love | 3 Comments »
Tags: AMD, Asus, Civ 5, Civ V, computer building, Dell, Intel