Hey y’all, it’s Friday! Yay! What are y’all playing this weekend? For this blog thing here, I’m gonna be playing Star Merchant, and hopefully get a bit further in TIE Fighter. Got some great tips after my last failed mission attempt, so I can’t wait to put ’em in motion. I also hope to finish… Read More »
In this final episode of Hardwar (welcome by the way!), I try the lifestyle of a trader, thinking it’ll be a bit more sedate than entries past! Well I find it’s anything BUT, as I encounter the bee butt alien again, see conspiracies being thrown left and right and get SHOW DOWN for…I don’t know… Read More »
Welcome back to Hardwar my friends! In this entry, I try a couple of times at combat, both again as an aggressor and then as a godfather, and get my butt kicked both times. Like, seriously, it’s embarrassing. I might try trading next just to see what that’s like since I’m apparently abysmal at combat.… Read More »
Welcome back to Hardwar my friends! In this entry, I try some salvaging again, and it kinda works this time! I find a dogfight, wait for it to end, and then salvage some scrap metal as a result! Neat. I then thought I’d make my own salvage by shooting at a low-level criminal, not only… Read More »
Welcome back to Hardwar my friends! In this entry, I switch careers and try my hand at an aggressor, which means basically a bounty hunter. This is a much more straightforward career as you basically find enemies of local factions or the police and target them directly. I took down maybe 3-4 perps in this… Read More »
Welcome to Hardwar my friends! Now before you say, “Wait, Brian, this isn’t a space game!” WELL IT’S CLOSE ENOUGH DAMN YOUR EYES. ;) Seriously though, this has all the elements of other space games like Elite and Privateer, plus it’s just sci-fi ENOUGH that I’m including it. Plus it’s awesome. Anyway, this fantastic 1998 game… Read More »