KANE LIVES

"Hey man where have you be-"
OH GOD THAT DOESN'T MATTER
"W-wha-"
SHUT UP THAT DOESN'T MATTER EITHER. NONE OF IT MATTERS, BECAUSE SOMETHING AWESOME WAS JUST RELEASED AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.

"Fine, stop yelling, God"

The game today? Renegade X. TIME FOR BACKSTORY. Way back in 2002, February 26th to be specific, Westwood Studios, spurned on by their slave masters at EA games released Command and Conquer: Renegade, a first person shooter, and the only C&C game that's played from the first person perspective (so far, lets hope EA doesn't get any ideas). What was the best part of C&C: Renegade was the multiplayer. "Command and Conquer mode" pitted a GDI team and a Brotherhood of Nod team against each other in a hybrid of FPS/RTS combat. Both sides had unique weaponry, from the RTS games, and each had their respective SUPERWEAPON which in some cases they could use to win a match instantly if they could pull it off.

Big difference ten years makes

 Then, in 2006, the team that would put together the updated remake Renegade X was assembled. Going by the name Totem Arts, they've put together Renegade X over years of work, and they've clearly put a lot of love and effort into this. But what IS Renegade X exactly? Lets see what the developers themselves have to say!
"Renegade X is a free Tactical Shooter that aims to brings the Command and Conquer FPS experience to the Unreal Engine 3. Players will be able to join up to 64-players and fight for two unique teams - the Global Defense Initiative (GDI), a UN international military force committed to world order and peacekeeping, and the Brotherhood of Nod, a messianic international terrorist network that aims to push humanity into the next stage of human evolution."
Wow, sound neat! BUT WAIT. DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME?

LOOK AT THAT. LOOK AT IT.

64 PLAYER MATCHES. 32 on 32 multiplayer! With team specific weapons and vehicles! There are fully priced games made by AAA publishers and development studios with multimillion dollar budgets coming out today that couldn't pull that off if their lives depended on it! AND THIS IS FOR FREE. Lets take a closer look at the game using this tutorial video with a voice over by someone who sounds like they're on Valium.

Base defense, resource management, multiple maps, side specific vehicles and weapons, multiple infantry classes. ALL FOR FREE? YES. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN WAITING FOR? GET OUT THERE SOLDIER THAT WAR WONT WIN ITSELF!

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH

You can get Renegade X from here, SO GET TO IT

YOU EVEN HAVE A HOOK FOR A HAND

You know what people should do more often? Have ADVENTURES. Seriously, there should be a surgeon general recommendation for one adventure per year. They keep you from being sedentary and getting fat, because you're too busy running away from rolling boulder traps and climbing up cliffs. Unfortunately most people either don't, or just can't get that adventure in, too busy with jobs or whatever to go spelunking or exploring. Today, I got a game that might fire up that ADVENTURE ENGINE everyone has inside them, and it's called Treasure Adventure Game.

They tell you everything the game has right in the title

At first, you take a look at Treasure Adventure Game and you think "Oh great, another 8-BIT INDIE PLATFORMER" and then you roll your eyes. But this isn't the case! TAG actually has quite a lot to it aside from platforms to jump on. Multiple dungeons to delve, treasures to find, islands to explore, and a whole ocean to sail. TAG has hours worth of content for you to play around with, an impressive feat for a studio (Robit Studios) that's basically one guy, Steven Orlando. It even won an award for "Best Indie Game" back in 2011.

Styx didn't do the soundtrack but they totally could have

Among TAG's neater features are a day night cycle, and NPCs that have their own schedules based around that cycle, a full soundtrack by a dude named Robert Ellis, an upgradeable boat, and boss fights! This game is a complete labor of love, and it shows. There have even been fan translations of it in Dutch, Polish, Brazlian Portuguese, Castilian Spanish, French, German, and Chinese.

Movie adaptation in the works

If any of this is drawing you in, or you just want something to play between ADVENTURES, then Treasure Adventure Game is for you, and you can snag it, and the translations here

What the hell is a Boshy anyway?

You know what this site has had enough of? Platformers that actively hate the the guts of the people playing them. Think back to I Want To Be The Guy, now we got I Want To The Boshy, something just as bizarre and frustrating. Come on, you know you want it, don't fight it.

"I don't really NEED it..."

IWTBTB has the same mechanics as IWTBTG (jumping, shooting, self destruct button (???)), with new stuff added, not the least of which is character selection and CUSTOM CHARACTER SUPPORT. It's all entirely cosmetic of course but still, CUSTOM CHARACTERS! You could make one of your cat or dog and no one could stop you!

Or you could go to darker, stranger places...

IWTBTB was created by Soulgryn back in 2010, and they also made a bunch of other games over the years and I'll probably get to them eventually. You can check out Soulgryn's website here, and download IWTBTB here