Steam Holiday Sale Lootbag

I bet you guys have rolled your eyes plenty times when girls wiggle of glee over the sound of the word "Sale".
Like my little sister said when she visited me last summer here in Gothenburg; "Rea (sale) is the most beautiful Swedish word that is."

Now imagine that their glee over 50% off trousers, shirts, dresses, six-pences, pantaloons and what-not is somewhere close to what you felt, oh avid gamer, when you saw Steam's holiday sale. And I gotta admit, as much as I do love shoes and shiny things and colors you can actually wear and not just look at, it exited me more then any clothing sale could ever do.

Granted we didn't buy that much, I would have liked to buy a lot more.. The steam sale is just a too good opportunity to pass up on getting some of the games you'd thought about playing but never got around to. The Indie Packs were hilariously cheap though and almost made me feel bad about not spending more on all those great games.

Here's what I ended up with:

• Indie Brain Pack:

1. Zen Bound 2
2. Diamond Dan
3. Puzzle Bots
4. Windosill
5. Big Brain Wolf

• Indie Adventure Pack:

1. Mr Robot
2. Jolly Rover
3. Gish
4. Samorost 2
5. And Yet it Moves

• Indie Heavy Hitters:

1. Audiosurf
2. Braid
3. Osmos
4. Shattered Horizon
5. The Maw
6. Zero Clash
7. Trine (Had this already)
8. World of Goo (Had this already)

• The Ball
• Greed Corp
• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
  
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R pack:
  
  1. Shadow of Chernobyl
  2. Call of Pripyat

How to Liberate Mars

... Well, in all honesty Mars shouldn't be liberated should it? I mean finally us girls have the upper hand it seems, in controlling sexuality and using that feminine Venus-power to control them, buwhahaha...

No seriously. I liberated Mars the other day by playing Red Faction: Guerilla. Its a fun game, Ill admit, but a bit repetitive. I gotta say its a blast to blow things up (fun pun, drumroll inserted.) even if destroying a whole EDF to itsy bitsy pieces means a bit of lag for my 8 gb ram/GTX 275 machine. 

The missions were pretty much the same though. Save hostages, Raid EDF, Defend the bases, Transport vehicles (which I found out was a whole lot easier when taking "en spansk en", shortcuts.) and blow things up in creative ways. The only storyline was the main one, and I gotta say I missed having some personality in the rest of the missions, instead of being so generic. 

When I finished the last mission I kind of hoped it would open up some fun and quirky missions, but no such luck. The only "personality" I really liked in RF:G was Jenkins. Cool dude. 
Either way what I realized when I ended the game was that I really missed the humor and weirdness of Fallout 3. Missing another game when ending one, isn't really the ideal. But RF:G was worth the money, still.  

Anyway, I think Ill play the F3 expansionpacks now, as I haven't done that yet.

Battlefield Heroes (Beta)

Ahhh this is one of the most fun shooter games Ive tried in ages!

Not only is it made in a cute cartoonish style that is just so increadibly charming, but fun and seem well made.

In addition to the regular pew-pew there's also some vrooom vrooom and some boom booom and some swoosh, i.e different vehicles that you can use to outmanouver and kill your enimies. 

While its currently in the Beta-stages, you can get a beta key from a few different sites handing them out like candy. Here's one: http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/battlefield-heroes/signup.aspx

Its the first free-to-play game EA's given out. Of course you can buy "battlefunds" with creditcards though. Until this stage I have yet to see anything useful you can buy for battlefunds that you dont earn up by doing missions anyway,... except XP boost. But so be it, I bet more will come.

Im looking forward to see more content, more equipment, more maps. But all in all this looks very promising!

Warning: That theme song gets stuck!

If you want to look me up after joining, my nick is "SkamSoldier", Im with the National Army and Im currently around lvl 8.  Enjoy!