Got A Question About Modding? This Is For You!by Kyrios in Articles | 2017-05-15 Let's talk about modding. No, I don't mean stuff like Skyrim or New Vegas mods, I mean the kind of stuff we host here on NGPlus: modified versions of your favorite old school games. Modding isn't simple, but it's not impossible either, as the downloads section shows. I've been seeing a lot of threads pop up lately, each with their own misconceptions about how modding is ... [Read more]
What Makes A Good Mod?by Kyrios in Articles | 2017-05-15 We've talked about what modding a game involves, but another huge misconception I find is what constitutes a good mod. For the sake of this article, we're going to be restricting this largely to difficulty mods, for obvious reasons. To create a good difficulty mod, you have to look at the following: Difficulty Curve Difficulty Type Content Tedium Technical Limitations Each of these must be managed and/or worked around appropriately in order to ... [Read more]
BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (Vita) Reviewby Kyrios in Articles | 2017-05-15 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma is the third installment in the BlazBlue series, following Calamity Trigger and Contimuum Shift. BlazBlue is the spiritual successor to the Guilty Gear franchise, and, as such, is also developed by Aksys Games (also known as Arc System Works in Japan). As a fighting game, Phantasma is in a class all its own. I don't mean it's the best fighting game out there, but I ... [Read more]
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (Vita) Reviewby Kyrios in Articles | 2017-05-15 Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (henceforth referred to as "Battle Royale" for obvious reasons), a game made by SuperBot Entertainment in conjunction with SCE Santa Monica Studio, is constantly being compared to Nintendo's hit franchise Super Smash Bros, and for good reason -- it's inspired by it. Most of the reviews out there that I've read for this game either compare it to Smash or complain that it ... [Read more]
FUSE Reviewby Kyrios in Articles | 2017-05-15 FUSE is a tactical third person shooter developed by Insomniac Games for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It's rather new; it just came out last month. I'd heard a lot about it from my friends, and the demo wasn't too bad, so I figured why not? FUSE isn't amazing, but it's not piss poor either. Let's take a deeper look at the title. Gameplay Mechanics Movement, ... [Read more]
