Max Brooks
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My name is Max, English teacher in Japan, lover of video games, RPGs and miniature painting.
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9 Hours To Beat?
I've mentioned before that Howlongtobeat has been one of my go-to sources when I start a new game. Some people will be saying it takes the fun out of the game, I know how long it takes. Say if I'm playing a six hour long game, and three hours in it seems like the big climax, then I might know that this isn't it.
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Gamers
Primal Path: The Tormented
I play a lot of D&D (arguably too much.) I also play a lot of Warframe (definitely too much.) Now Warframe already has some pretty obvious D&D influences (and that's just Chroma!) so I felt that a good way to get back into homebrewing would be to combine two of my favourite things together.
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Gamers
One. Big. Playlist.
There's two reasons I've not entered the Quarantine Playlist challenge. One is that I don't have a Vocal Plus account, for reasons that I'm half-tempted to write down just to see if this article would still get published. (That's an experiment for another time).
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Geeks
Come Back Safe
I have a few friends working in the NHS. And I'm getting scared for them now. Like actually, properly scared. I'm not going to pretend I know everything about COVID-19, but I do know that it's thrown everything through a loop, given me an extra week for some of my assignments (the only good thing to come out of it) has forced all my meetings, classes and plans to take place over Zoom (a program I'm almost 100% sure didn't exist until this whole thing started and people realised Skype is a garbage fire).
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Longevity
Scarlet Spear is Scarlet Here
I'm stuck in the house, nothing to do, slowly going mad from essays when Warframe's first major event of 2020 arrives! The New War begins as the Sentient launch fleet upon fleet of Murex warships towards the Earth! And it's up to us (and Little Duck, apparently?) to fight them off before the Sentient attack the Earth! It's Operation: Scarlet Spear!
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Gamers
A Review About A Game 'About Love, Hate And The Other Ones'
Tobias Bilgery’s About Love Hate And The Other Ones is, alphabetically, the first game in my steam library. It also requires very little hard-drive space to run and I assumed it would take very little time to complete.
By Max Brooks6 years ago in Gamers
Best Out of 10,000,000?
10,000,000. Even the name is intimidating. I was never any good at maths in school, so I see the title and I'm immediately reading it as "ten-thousand-thousand" and feel like a fool. First released in January 2013, and has been sat in my Steam library until a few months ago. The aim of the game? To score 10,000,000 points in one run.
By Max Brooks7 years ago in Gamers
Why You Should Give 'Halo: New Blood' a Shot
I believe I mentioned in my first ever blog post on this site that I finished the original Halo trilogy in December last year. This also included the other Bungie Halo games; Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST. Without a doubt ODST was one of my favourite games, maybe my favourite Halo game full stop. Because of this (well because of my constant squealing about how I loved ODST's tone, music, aesthetic, plot and characters), a friend of mine decided to gift me Matt Forbeck's Halo novel New Blood for my birthday.
By Max Brooks7 years ago in Geeks
