Video Game Madness

Sorry for the delay of VG Madness and just posting today in general. I finally finished my book and really wanted to get my review out while it was still fresh, plus I felt that 4 posts would be a lot for one day. Today, I had jury duty and had issues with our Internet, but everything is back to normal. I will post my part two of my Ecuador trip tomorrow along with my bio on Margaery Tyrell (Month of Thrones) and FanGirl Friday so keep checking in! Now onto games.

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Titanfall came out on Tuesday and it was all over my newsfeed. For those of you that don't know Titanfall is a multiplayer only first-person shooter game that is supposed to be the Call of Duty killer. I thought it was interesting that at least 3 people that I knew posted a picture of their Titanfall/Xbox One Bundle. I do wonder that if it is going to be the big seller that Microsoft is hoping it will be. I feel like they may have sold themselves short by offering the game on PC and XBOX 360 as well. I feel like the priority for the first few months of a new console should be to drive up sales and entice people to stop using last-gen technology. Despite all of this it looks like a really fun game that spices up the genre a bit. Plus who wouldn't love to take down a Titan? We'll see how successful this ends up being, especially with COD being an annual game to compete against.

In other news, it was announced that there is going to be a Last of Us movie with Neil Druckmann as the writer and co-producer with Sam Raimi (Spiderman). It is going to be an adaptation of the story, which I think is kind of odd since Joel and Ellie's story has been told basically movie style. Plus there's the stigma of mediocre video game movies that have come out. Hopefully they can do the story justice and also grab a larger audience that possibly doesn't play video games that are zombie fans. Since Neil co-created TLOU, so I have hope that it will at least have a solid story.


I started playing Crusader Kings last night (ha, I originally spelled this knight) and I will always be hooked on this game. Basically, this is a game where you can play as a ruler (Lord Paramount) and control all aspects of your land from marriage alliances, to taxes, and keeping vassals in line (plus you can assassinate people). Interwoven in this are random events that can pop up that can change the game like the spread of disease. I use the Game of Thrones mod to play this game, so it is one of the ways I learn a lot of character names and houses. You can go to many points of time in Westeros and play as  Torrhen Stark, the king of the North 300 years before the start of the story/show. Another awesome thing about this game is that sometimes events don't happen like they do in the book/history (or you can make the change happen) and it can completely change how you play the game. Personally, I just have my character have a bunch of kids and then marry them off to create awesome alliances and increase the potential of growing the Stark rule (because of course I play as House Stark). The goal of the game is to gain the most money, prestige and piety to become the best House through the generations.