To lead us into the new year, we’ll be counting down the most popular comic strips from 2011! Everyday between now and New Years will showcase this year’s best.

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#9

To lead us into the new year, we’ll be counting down the most popular comic strips from 2011! Everyday between now and New Years will showcase this year’s best.

Let’s start from the top! Click the image for the larger version:

#10

It’s the Holiday Season again and, to celebrate, Massive Pwnage is taking a week off! Hurray! For me!

Unfortunately, that means there will not be any new comics for you all next week. However, I will be showcasing this year’s top comic strips starting this Thursday the 22nd all the way to the new year. If you want, you could even check out the most popular strips from last year. I actually have no idea which comics are going to be on the list this time around. I’m so excited to find out!

I love the Knights of the Old Republic games. I’ve played through them countless times and I always found something new. But I never found everything! I never even got the best ending for the second game. But the gameplay, the worlds, the detail, and the characters were all top notch and ahead of their time. All of these things are in The Old Republic.

I played several characters during the beta over Thanksgiving weekend. I only got up to around level ten with each of them, but I did get to see the entirety of the prologue worlds. Every class gets the own story, goals, and companions. They’re all unique and immersive. The Bounty Hunter and Sith Inquisiter storylines, for example, really pulled me into their stories and compelled me to keep playing.

I’m going to be treating SWTOR as a singleplayer game instead of an MMO. I’m going to let myself get completely immersed in the story and the universe and not let myself get distracted by the multiplayer aspects. It’s going to be the best!

My voyages into the land of Skyrim are still young, but I’d like to give some of my thoughts on the game.

With so many big name titles coming out, there’s a lot of hype flying around these days. Does Skyrim meet the hype? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it’s not the best game ever, but it definitely isn’t the worst. Skyrim is a ton of fun and delivers on what the series is known for.

The Elder Scrolls games have, in some ways, become more and more simplified over time, mostly when it comes to skills and attributes. Many skills, such as blunt and mercantile, have been encorporated into other skills. Some skills have even been dropped entirely, like athletics and acrobatics. However, you could say that athletics has been replaced by the new sprint system. Whether the simplifying of the game is good or bad is up to your personal opinion, but I don’t believe it hurts the game. The core gameplay is still there.

Skyrim has the best combat system in the series to date. Morrowind’s combat was based almost entirely on dice rolls. Your sword would just pass through your enemies if you failed your dice roll and “misssed”. Oblivion introduced a much more intereactive and physically satisfying combat system, and Skyrim improved on it. I’m a mage, and I love the new spell system.

So there’s my short, basic review. I’m sure there’s a million of them out there, but what’s my opinion? I’ve been playing it almost non-stop since its midnight release, if that’s any indication. It’s hard to compete for my nostalgia of Morrowind and Oblivion, but Skyrim is still a ton of fun. I LOVE the dragon fights and I think they’re a huge improvement over the Oblivion Gates from the last game. Things like the glitches, simplified skills and menus, and sometimes poor voice acting don’t bother me. Skyrim’s gameplay has me gripped and it won’t let me go.