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Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves

Just downloaded the beta, (going live 6/4/13), of this  from Steam for around $16 NZ. The download gives you access to the full game when it is released.

It's a Diablo/Torchlight clone but with a well put together tower defense strategy element thrown in. Graphics are a mix of Torchlight and The Walking Dead which work well. The Storyline is written by a professional and prize winning writer Bryan Perro.

I've only had time to go through the tutorial, but it's pretty damn good so far, (a tutorial that is fun speaks volumes), challenging and scary at times, you have to beat off wolves to protect your family but then come the werewolves which are far nastier. Other creatures are mentioned later on the game.

The basic story in the beginning finds you holed up in a cabin in the woods with your brother and sister. The Devil has made a deal with the the local priest to bring him the girl with an army of vulpine minions to do the job. You have a choice to play one of the two brothers. I've started with Joseph who is armed with an axe, rifle and a variety of traps to defend the cabin.

My only niggle so far is that I would have called it Cold blood: Tales of Werewolves but hell they are a Canadian Games company!

I reckon this may well be one of those unexpected hits of 2013.

http://www.sangfroidgame.com/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/227220/ 

Ok so who's playing what?

Is your sister fit?

Starting to tip-toe back into the world of Advanced Squad Leader.  Scary.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243/advanced-squad-leader

Anyone played Battlefield 3 on PC with 1080p 60fps ? Have a change of underwear handy.

You aint shit yourself properly until you play that.

I knew there would be some old Role-Players out there. People unafraid of dark dungeons and faced possible death fearlessly with mighty thews or subtle arcane arts.

I cried when I lost my Very Rich Noble fighter "Stratus". His Battle Axe was of no use against the Gorp's acid juices, (sort of like the amoebus blobs/slimes you get in dungeons). No running back into battle from the Graveyard for me, like all these Soft Core MMORGS do these days. Unless your god or another player  rezzed you, you stayed dead tough titty. I had to roll 11% or below on x2 d10's to get My God Orlanth to bring me back with Divine Intervention I rolled 72% and the waterworks started.

A brothers friend 17 at the time, I was about 12, lost his Barb "Grarrgun" he died and Daz started crying too. It was a tough day in Snake Pipe Hollow.

My brother was an excellent GM/DM and preferred that to playing a character, still he always was a Meglomaniac with a God Complex B*stard though.

I think Warhammer killed Role Playing off with it's table top battles and then of course you had computer games and the rest is history...

There has to be others out in the Fever Zone Junior not just us? Come on guys what was your game?

Arghhhh guess what we've just bought?? Zombicide!!!

Sorry cant post link on the work browser plz cut and paste:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/904596/zombicide-review

http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/review-zombicide.html

Not arrived yet but will let you know if it's any good

I don't know who it was on here a while back who pointed me to World of tanks, but I finally got it going Tuesday and I'm hooked already. 

I'm not normally one for online gaming but this stuff got me hooked quicker than crack.  Well worth a look.

Cheers

My account is Siggy.  Junior news and I sharing it currently but suspect we'll get his own going at this rate. 

Struggled early but clicked last night and got three kills in one battle.

 Too lazy to type that in. Good idea though.  Maybe I give Jr. News Siggy.

*Struggling to concentrate on anything else in this thread* ummm.... what???

I dont know if any of you guys watch Ginx TV or not, but dont suppose any of you know the name of the theme song? Google has not been kind to me thus far

Launching Barbarossa soon...

4th Panzer Group NOT to move on Leningrad...their target: Moscow.  3rd and 2nd Panzer: Moscow.  1st Panzer Group: drive south.

I can see this ending really well.

Bliming heck...this game, Barbarossa campaign, it's a bit of a monster TBF...you really are mirco managing the entire Eastern Front.  

At 'challenging level', turn one, June 26...time for the infantry to wipe out some major frontier pockets.  Minsk will sure fall this turn.  Guderian's panzers are now some 150 miles into the Soviet Union...the Soviet question in the southern sector?  Not much happening down there...have to be cautious...major concentrations of Soviet armour here...

July 3, start of turn 3.  Almost half way to Moscow. Panzer armies need to pause.  Gas issues.  Should I swing 2nd Panzer south?  Enemy forces in the Kiev area are massive.  The Pripyet is such a bitch.  THe Soviets have lost over half a million men.  Krauts 45,000.  2000 enemy planes shot down vs 150.  4,000 enemy tanks destroyed vs 170.  The usual story: need to regroup...the infantry need to catch up, after their annihilation of the surrounded Russian armies on the borders...

I'm enjoying this, keep us updated Ban

Dude, this is a very good game (especially the Leningrad scenario) - but now I've got to move 200+ divisions (the Finns + the Romanians have declared war), countless HQ/air units, rail repair units, reinforce everything...gas issues...I might have to restart this baby at "normal" level...

War can be hell.

Just while we're on this fred:

Which one?

Afrika Korps

Fallschirmjaeger (paratroops)

Gebirgsjaeger (Mtn Troops)

Wehrmacht

I choose Falschirmjaeger (Fort Eban Emael, Monte Casino etc) - Stevo, if you had a few units of these dudes, Ivan would be suing for a new non-aggression pact and you would have access to his oilfields in the South, thereby allowing you to push Britischer Schweinhund out of North Africa.

If that fails then a couple of legions of Trajanic Romans with a cohort or two of Pretorian Guard will do the trick (but you need plenty of pila for the street fighting in Leningrad so your legionnaries need to operate in small units and ditch the large shields).

World of tanks is going to kill me (or her indoors will due to to WOT).  Stupidly late nights in the 'just one more battle' space.

...plus platooning it up with DBart and co. each evening.

Fantastic game.

Also now available on tablets and smartphones. Uh oh. 

Yes.  Possibly less dangerous as it won't transfer your history and stats from your account.

We were talking about this classic game at work today

"Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you."

And while we're at it, how about this li'l beauty:

I loved the original Casio. Have yet to find a phone ap that matches it.

Me,my brother and his mate tried to clock that casio game one day -got so close, then his mate choked like the mariners.

still, a day not wasted in Whangarei!

My buttons were pushed when I could line up a whole screen of the specials and then ping them off one by one.

Possibly school work suffered.

Sounds like your brother's mate could have done better.

Also from that same vintage, the original Rubik's cube.  I could solve that thing in a reasonable time (minutes, not seconds).  Can I do it now?  Can I bollocks - would have to dismantle the f*cker. 

Hard News, in tank, yesterday (Siggy the Hetzer)