Showing posts with label Smite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smite. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

SMITE | A God Among Free-To-Play

Smite, for me has been an interesting off and on journey. From the beta on the PS4 to today on the same console I've dipped in, and out of the experience. Sometimes actually playing, and other times just logging in daily (in proper OCD fashion) to reap the daily login rewards. To date I have accrued over 40 gods and goddess as well as over 110 god/goddess skins. None of which I paid real money for. I even cashed in some gems at one point to participate in a season, and capitalize on the exclusive skin that was to be had there. The game is very generous to freeloaders like myself, and for that fact alone I find it highly attractive. Despite being one of the more lucrative free-to-play experiences though the game does have it's fair share of downsides as well. In fact the one key reason I kept turning from gameplay was, because of the cheaters and hackers playing it. That, and the times Hi-Rez both offered player reporting options, and took them away before reissuing said feature at a later date. The cheating, and hacks in the PS4 port of Smite are, and have been fairly serious. I'm not talking about DDOS'ing, or lagswitching, but actual hacks. The kind you'd see from PC gamers. Not a day ago I actually encountered one such hacker who changed the game's features and functions in such a way as to wholly change the game's updated format. Not only that, but they gifted the entire team within the lobby free skins. It was major.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Future Reviews & Smite Impressions (Xbox One)

While you wait for my next three review posts I thought I'd go ahead, and let you in on what's up. Recently, and possibly by good fortune I was able to secure three games/items for review including the latest Zen Pinball 2 "Balls of Glory" tables, 'Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Ed.', and 'Rodea the Sky Soldier'. It honestly seems like it's been ages since my last review posting, and I cannot express how excited I am to be able to get back to work. As far as said work goes I'll be doing some serious multi-tasking since the games I've received were ones that were all slated to be released around the same time of month. All three games, though on different consoles come in at an order of importance close to one another due to their release dates, and accompanying embargoes, so you can expect them sooner rather than later. In fact two of the game items have already been released, and only Rodea is yet to be out to the public making it all the more important for me to get the job done ASAP. Speaking of Rodea, my nephew is going to get a sneak peek of it this evening while I begin my playthrough. It's one of the perks of being related to me, lol! He saw the word "soldier", and got super excited. I can't blame him. I don't think he knows what it's about though. My guess, since he is into that G.I.JOE toy phase is that he thinks it's an army type of game. Hopefully he'll enjoy it regardless as he's working hard at his school work just to be able to watch me play.