New Deeds of Yore!

The long wait is almost over. New Episodes of Deeds of Yore!, the only TV show set in a pseudo-Ultima universe, will begin airing weekly in only 8 hours.

Visit http://www.deedsofyore.com/ for the countdown clock and all the official information.

But while you wait, go ahead and check out 8-Bit City's recent review of the series. If you haven't started watching you've got plenty of time to catch up on all 13 episodes in time for 2:00 a.m. or so when the new one will hopefully be made available for viewing.

Epic Video Game Music - Grand Theft Auto IV - Oleg Kvasha - "Zelenoglazoe Taksi [Club Remix]"

When I first heard this song, I was hooked on the Russian radio in Grand Theft Auto 4. It perfectly captures the fast-paced insanity of the series and 4's protagonist, Niko Bellic. The title translates to "Green Light Taxi," which refers to a green light on Russian cabs signaling that the cab is empty. It also means, Green Eyed Taxi, and the music video puns off of this by having the hot female taxicab driver in possession of freakishly green eyes. 

Song of the Week aside, I've been hard at work researching video games. Although it will never be time to cast primitive gaming aside, my faith in modern technology has been restored by a new holy trinity: Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Diablo 3. Although I do not own an XBOX or PS3, it never occurred to me until recently that games could still be purchased for computers.

And while most modern games continue to railroad the player down a 60 dollar hallway, rare open-world games provide the greatest hope for the future. If developers can achieve the complexity and balance of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in a 3d environment, then who are we to tell them they can't do it?

With that said, listen to the track and buy Fallout 3 + Oblivion for 20 bucks, hot damn, at your local retailer. You can also pick up Grand Theft Auto IV for $15.00, although Diablo 3 will cost a hefty $60.00 for at least 6 months to a year.

Konami Code for TMNT 3 on NES

At the title screen, press:

LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, A, B, START

Then choose your turtle, select the level you want to play on, access easy mode (for losers), edit number of lives (winners use 7), and use the sound test.

Enjoy!

Song of the Week: GTA Vice City - Push It to the Limit

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City  is pretty much Scarface + GTA, and the inclusion of so many songs from Scarface added that glitzy 1980s sheen that makes this game one of the best ever made (and my personal favorite Grand Theft Auto). I just purchased GTA4 for PC, and although I didn't have time to play it yet I'm looking forward to finally playing the latest major installment in the series.

That said, I'd rather be down south in a speedboat than romping around Liberty City anyday. Scarface is awesome, Vice City is awesome, and Paul Eggelman's "Push It to the Limit" is double awesome.

Check out this awesome Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Tribute by some "gangsta." It features Push It to the Limit, the greatest song from the 1980s.

3-D NES Wallpapers

I stumbled about this awesome 3-D NES Wallpaper collection today by Justin Buonvino. You can download the full-sized wallpapers on his Deviant Art page I'm a big fan of the Ice Hockey scene, and it's always cool gaining a new perspective on familiar games.

All Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Dungeon Maps

An elegant and compact set of all the dungeons in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. Ultima 4 is probably the most imitated game of all time, and pretty much every RPG since has been a failed attempt at mimicking the greatness of Ultima 4. 

Minotaur Berzerker and Mummy Summoner of Sif Muna, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

I'm determined to conquer the Lair again in Crawl and to get past the middle game which has been giving me trouble since I started playing Crawl over 2 years ago. This time, I'm playing a Minotaur Berzerker, and Sigmund doesn't stand a chance. This is an awesome class/race combo, and worshiping Trog is always a great idea for melee. The Minotaur has all the aptitudes he needs (+2 Axes, +2 Armor, +2 Fighting) to become a death machine by the end of the lair. The trick is somehow staying alive until Trog can grant you an epic artifact executioner's axe.

I find and destroy my NEStalgia guildmate's ghost. Player ghosts are rarely a match for Berzerk.

However, soon I'd die to poison. A typical death, and annoying. I abandon the Minotaur and try my hand at another Mummy Summoner, eventually worshiping Sif Muna, and the results were:

A pretty easy early game, and I took it slow until finding this altar. Now things could get serious.

Summon Imp Spam on a player ghost.

It's a good thing I summoned some monsters before going down the stairs.

And all I lost was 4 HP :D

I never stop using summon small mammals. It's a cheap way to increase the ranks and protect the monsters that count. It can also be used to quickly position your Mummy in a favourable position before sending out wave after wave of spammed summon.

Narrow passages suck for a summoner.

Sending this Ice Beast into the passage took care of Sonja.

This gnoll sergeant wasn't fucking around; he killed a good number of troops, but he couldn't kill them as fast as I could summon them right back to battle.

This was an epic battle with a Hill Giant and some Yaks. I'd found the "Shadow Creatures" spell, so I was able to summon all sorts of things.

Like these awesome wights.

And some more awesome wights. We eventually won the battle.

But on the next level I died. I honestly can't remember how--I played several games since then and none of them were very exciting. This however, was a disappointing end to a great game. I never found the Lair, which would have made things easier. The Lair is pretty much a ton of free exp, and it has to spawn on level 13 or above. I still feel Mummy Summoner is an awesome class, an will probably continue to be my "main" combination on my quest to retrieve the Orb of Zot.