We never test our comics on focus groups. Here are some of the questions that they couldn’t have asked because they don’t exist. Question 1: Can a t-shirt with “+1 Charisma” get me laid? Answer: That’s not a simple question. Follow along closely and I’ll be able to give you a customized answer. Step 1: Roll your d20 and add …
Nothing like a Charger to totally wreck your evening. Sort of like a mid-season finale. Speaking of zombies and mid-season finales… I miss “The Walking Dead” (That’s how you segway people). It’s not so much the mid-season finale that has me bummed out as it is that I’ll have no weekly Zombie programming to look forward to until February. *SPOILERS FOLLOW–Both …
Dear DICE, The Soup kids because we care. Battlefield 3 is a brilliant achievement. Frostbite 2 allows gamers to blow the bejeezus out of gigantic levels. No other shooter series does what the Battlefield series does for me. I think it’s the visceral sense of destruction that I love so much. So why the critique? DICE has begun listening too closely …
I picked up Rocksmith this weekend, and I didn’t even have the game running for a minute before I got several messages from friends asking how it was. So apparently there’s interest in this game, but also a lot of doubt. Which is understandable, considering what it claims to do. I’ve played it for only three or four hours so …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 8 Daily Deaths: 1 Total Deaths: 40 Bosses Beaten: Moonlight Butterfly, Capera Demon, 2 Butcher Mini-Bosses, Giant Rat Current Level: 29 Sweet Loot: Evil Eye Ring, Spider Shield, Soul of the Moonlight Butterlfy, Magic Weapon Spell Awful Moment: Falling down a trap in The Depths getting cursed, then dying, and losing 6,ooo souls and a humanity. …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 7 Daily Deaths: 2 Total Deaths: 39 Bosses Beaten: 1 Gargoyles, 1 Mini-Boss Black Knight Current Level: 25 Sweet Loot: Black Knight Shield (Awesome!), Gargoyle Axe, Heal Miracle I can kick the hell out of a Gargoyle. This isn’t vanity or ego. Like Muhammed Ali said, “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” Oh …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 6 Daily Deaths: 12 Total Deaths: 37 Bosses Beaten: 1 (Titanite Demon) Current Level: 24 Sweet Loot: Dragon Scale, Grass Crest Shield, Elite Knight Armor Set, Partisan, Black Leather Armor Set, Long Bow The Titanite Demon has shuffled off his immortal coil–and I helped him shuffle. Muwhahaha. And how did I kill the Titanite Demon? Well, …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 5 Daily Deaths: 3 Total Deaths: 25 Bosses Beaten: 2 Mini-bosses (Steel Boar and Black Knight) Current Level: 19 Sweet Loot: Drake Sword Okay, so last night I crushed it. Two plus hours of gaming a meager three deaths, two mini-bosses downed, and the Drake Sword acquired. I even managed to level up my strength to …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 4 Daily Deaths: 4 Total Deaths: 22 Bosses Beaten: 1 Current Level: 18 Sweet Loot: None… but I did kill my first Silver Salamander! Yep, I killed me a boss! Woo Wee! The Taurus Demon to be precise, beware of impending bull puns… *Ahem* Killing the Taurus Demon set the right moo-d for the rest of …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 3 Daily Deaths: 12 Total Deaths: 18 Bosses Beaten: 0 Current Level: 16 Sweet Loot: Soul Arrow Spell After my second diary entry I was feeling pretty cocky. The stats from Diary Entry 2 say it all–2 Deaths. Secretly, I thought I was going to roll over Dark Souls. Hubris my friends hubris. Dark Souls does …
