A Spore Nerd Corner

So we've all heard all the reviews about how the new mmo 3rd person shooter just isn't so great with only a 6 rating on meta critic, but how accurate is that really? Well it couldn't be very much because as of April 2 Defiance has over one million registered players. Other interesting numbers over 500,000,000 hellbugs have been killed, over 50,000,000 miles have been driven, and a million arkfalls have been completed. How's the TV show going? Well it's broken SyFy records with over 2.7 million viewers for the premiere episode. This also makes Defiance the most-watched scripted series debut on SyFy in seven year. So what do I think? I've loved both the series and show so far. Well except the horrible remakes of songs at the end of each show, yuck. But other than that both have been a total blast and I can't wait to see where they all end up.

I wasn't sure if I was going to even pick up Defiance. I thought it was over advertised and usually when something gets that many commercials it's not going to be pretty. Then just before the game was officially released we started getting reviews, and they weren't all that great either.  Don't get me wrong some people really liked the game, but a lot of people were, to put it nicely less than happy.  Problems included popping textures, problems with physics, falling threw the ground, server crashes, updating crashes, corrupted files, just to name a few. Bugs aside some thought the textures were muddy, the quests were repetitive, the voice acting was bad, and the A.I. was stupid. Anyway in the end I picked up the game all the same and I love it! I love the combat, I love just driving around in my vehicle, I love the arc falls where dozens of people come together to blast bugs.  The combat is dynamic, you aren't going to be standing around just pressing a couple ...