Gobi's 2nd Blog

 Hands of Fate - The Old Magic reincarnated. Long long ago, before the emergence of the Internet which are used by common folks now, there was an era where humans play games on top of coffee tables and even on the floor. They could have large map-like paper, a few dice, a few tokens (sometimes it could shape like human figures but most of the time, it is just colored round objects) and dozens of cards, each written with specific rules, battle encounters, rewards, punishments, weapons, armour, spells and so forth. These were the Age of Table-top RPG games, an era so long passed that gamer generations today have never even heard of them, much less experience them first hand as I did back in 1970 and 80s when I was around ten, going against teenagers who are in their twenties and making them sweat a buck. I really had a certain gift of foresight in this type of game.  Over the time, games like the tabletop RPG started to vanish from the mainstream by late 1980s (largely due to th...

 My first post for 2022. I have wrote this last year (in November) but decided to put it this year as a new post. My first post for 2022 will be my personal review of the game - Kingdom of Amalur : Re Reckoning. In the month of November, 2021, I received a surprise addition to my game from Playstation Store, courtesy of being the Playstation PLUS members. Once a month, PLUS members will get to download some random games from the store for free. Surprisingly, I got Kingdom of Amalur : Re Reckoning.  The reason for the surprise was that the game was recently remade for Playstation 4 and I wasn't expecting it to be given out freely so soon. Nevertheless, I did play it and finished it in a month (which included the DLCs). But first, we will speak of the background of this amazing game.  Kingdom of Amalur was first released back in 2012 for Playstation 3 (and X-Box 360). Strictly speaking, the game was the biggest competitor at the time for the game Elder Scroll : Skyrim which...