This is the only thing I played recently other than a few WoW sessions. Even so, I only played it a little bit and completed a single level of the Scourge campaign. I really hope to get more time for gaming after these exams. By the way, Arthas is a bitch!
It’s been a while again, hasn’t it? I could make up hundreds of excuses for not writing, but in reality, it just happened. There was that 2 week exam period where I didn’t game much, there was a Windows reinstall, and there was laziness. I did play lots of games, but I also tried to do other things and I’ve been swamped with various assignments in school.
I also decided to make a change. Since this blog is mostly about completing games, I really don’t think World of Warcraft should have anything to do with it. This is why I decided to make a separate blog dedicated entirely to my WoW characters. You can find the link for this one on the sidebar.
Now to try and remember all the things I did regarding gaming during the last month and a half…
I don’t think I will be playing this one to completion. I had to take a brake right after my last post due to exams, so I haven’t played it at all. Long story short, it’s hard to continue after such a long break. I might start a new game at one point and try to complete that one, but for now, it’s on hold.
Same story here. I tried the level I was stuck on for a few more times, but it got boring a bit. After the break, again I’m having trouble making myself continue the game. This one to, is on hold.
I installed it a bit after the exams and I love it. The game looks and plays amazing. The story is interesting and the gameplay is fun. I went through the starting areas, fought the Scarecrow and saved the commissioner. Last time I played I was in the sewers and just had my first encounter with the Croc. I haven’t played it in a while ‘cause of WoW but I definitely plan to play this one allot more.
A fun little Diablo style game from the makers of the original. What can I say? I like it! I went for the alchemist class and finished the first 2 or 3 chapters as well as a few side quests. All the characters feel really powerful, as you have no problem killing dozens of enemies at once. These types of games really aren’t made to ever be completed, but I’m hoping it won’t be long before killing the final boss. Then I can try the harder difficulties and the other two classes.
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for Gothic style games. This one has all the fun of Gothic 1-3 with the graphics of the third game and without the crappy engine. I installed the game and played it exclusively until completion. It has its quirks, but all in all it was a great experience. Hopefully this won’t be the last of the genre.
No idea what to say about this one. It’s a 2D RTS of a sort. You start with a few seeds and a tree on an asteroid or a meteor or something and then you grow more seeds, colonize other asteroids and fight other seeds. It’s a really simple game, but for now it looks fun and the story seems kind of interesting. Also, the game looks stunning. The simple vector style graphics make it feel more like art than a real game. I don’t know about completing it, but I will definitely play some more.
Since Cataclysm is coming out, I decided to refresh my mind regarding the lore of the series. I don’t really feel like fighting with the archaic engine of the first 2 games, so I decided to read books and other stuff on those. As for the third game, I plan to complete both the original and the expansion.
For now, I completed the Prologue, the Human campaign and the first level of the Undead campaign. I will try to complete the Undead campaign tomorrow. Not much to say about the game otherwise. Everyone knows it’s great.
I played this one allot today and I still like it, so it must be pretty good. I recruited an amazon warrior in my group. She helped me kill a bear in the nearby cave, save a wizard that got lost there and also kill a pack of wolves. After that, we went on to find a guy that stole his girlfriends diadem. It turns out he did it in order to save her life and now he’s in trouble, so we helped him and he joined our group to.
Since we had a rogue now, I went back to all the places I’ve already been to unlock some chests I couldn’t before. I also learned Alchemy, Blacksmithing and Bowyer skills and finally, after clearing everything I can in the starting area, went on to the town I’ve actually been trying to get to. I was attacked by wolves on the way there, but they were easy to dispose of. Before entering the town, I found out that our rogue is wanted by the guards so he needs to sneak in. We agreed to meet him inside.
Brewfest is ON! I went to the Ironforge beer garden and did the introduction quests. Then I did a few beer runs, an add service and helped defend the beer from the Dark Iron Dwarves. After that, I got a quest to go kill Direbrew who was responsible for the attack. I got a group of 3 other people and we went to Blackrock Depths to find him. He wasn’t hard to kill, and we did it four times, but he didn’t drop any mounts. I really want the kodo mount, so I will be killing him every day.
I did get 2 nice trinkets. One is basically a copy of the Mirror of Truth, but it’s named differently so I can carry two now. The second is a nice trinket that grants 175 stamina, which isn’t that important to me, but it can also summon a female dwarf that heals my entire group over time. Hopefully, he will drop different stuff tomorrow. I need to gather a total of 550 emblems in order to get the meta achievement, so I will be busy for the next few days.
I must admit, I’m stuck. Most of the levels I completed with no trouble and now I have five of them left. The only one I can access is The Eternal Love where there’s a Skeletal King Boss. I tried slowly building up my army and it does work, but after a while the boss just waltzes in my town and destroys everything. Enemies attack from all sides, so I really don’t have time to build up my economy properly and train my heroes to a high enough level. I’m guessing I need to rush some areas, but I’m surrounded by temple grounds guarded by elementals, so I need to pay close attention to my heroes to keep them from dying. Anyway, I’m to tired for another try now, so I will continue again tomorrow if I get the time.
Today was Pirate Day, so I went to Booty Bay and joined a pirate crew. I got a cool pirate outfit, but it only lasts for 12 hours. I guess I still have to get on the good side of the Bloodsail Buccaneers. That’s pretty much all that happened today. The Brewfest starts tomorrow so I’m looking forward to that.
I installed it last night just to try it out, but I think I will be playing more of it. It’s nice and complex, and it reminds me of the classic CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate. You can get experience trough dialogs, and it’s not all just hack & slash which is why I like it so much. Hopefully, it’s not just the intro of the game that’s nice like that.
I installed it this morning and I love it! It’s just like Majesty, except with better graphics and interface. It also seems a bit easier than the first game, but I don’t mind. I completed about half of the missions already, so it will probably get completed soon. By now I killed a baron who was working for the demon lord, some evil mage guy, a dragon, and an ogre. It’s just pure fun.
I’m still on trial in Burning Aether. We are constantly raiding and I love it. DKP are going up so I will get plenty of loot once I get accepted permanently (hopefully). I’m also trying to complete the Loremaster achievement. I got Loremaster of Northrend a few months ago and I got Loremaster of Outland a few weeks ago, so I’m concentrating on Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. I still need 31 out of 700 quests in Eastern Kingdoms as well as about 400 quests in Kalimdor so I still have plenty to go.
So I installed this one after I completed Braid. It seemed like a fun little action-platformer with stealth elements. The enemies are funny and the game looks great in a cartoony sort of way. I played trough the tutorial, found Futo and reached a checkpoint where I decided to exit the game and take a break.
About an hour later, I try to load my game and it loads fine but the frame rate is below five and there are artifacts all over the screen. So I go online, scan trough the forums, any other related message boards, google and I find nothing. It’s like no one even plays this one on the PC. I start experimenting and discover that if I change resolution in the main menu before loading the game, everything is ok. I decide to give the game a chance even though it smells of bad port and, to be honest, I really enjoyed it until a few minutes ago. I went through all 4 bosses like a breeze, got all of my ninja friends and escaped the avalanche. Since I got all but one magic scrolls, I assume I’m extremely nearing the end of the game. So I find the passage to the next level, go through it and the game crashes. I run the game again, go to the main menu, change the resolution as usual and try to continue where I started. Guess what? Since the game forces a stupid single-slot auto-save method, the save got corrupted and now it crashes on loading. Now I’m stuck with an uncompleted game and mad as hell. I am deleting this one from the hard drive and I’m not looking back.
Sadly, Eternal Myst broke up. Due to a personal problem, most of the leadership had to move to another server, so the rest of us decided to part ways. I consider some of these people my friends so it was a sad moment. Luckily, I got accepted on a trial basis to Burning Aether, one of the top guilds on Azuremyst. They raid actively, but also have a social aspect so there is not much pressure to play. I hope to do well on the trial and get accepted permanently.
After a few weeks of emblem farming I managed to acquire my T9 shoulders and a very nice libram. My dps is pretty high now compared to the old guild, but nowhere near the top in the new one. Since I’m on trial, I can’t get any loot from the raids yet, but I do collect DKP so I will be able to get more once and if they accept me permanently. Larthas’ future in this game is very bright.
I got and installed this one a few days after Half-Life. By playing an hour or so almost every day, I managed to complete it yesterday. It’s a very nice FPS. The game brings nothing new to the genre, but it does the tried out things very well. I did have one problem though. It seems I was supposed to get a new power in the Hospital level which is a level about ¾ into the game. However, the game didn’t advise me to get it, nor did it stop me to complete the level without getting it. Since there are now manual saves and the game uses only one auto save slot, I got stuck at the last boss of the game. It seems this ability was necessary here to kill the boss. Sadly, I had to edit my save game to add the ability. I added it on its base level and without any upgrades so it didn’t give me any advantage, but it still felt a bit like cheating. Sadly, the only other option I could think of was to start the game from the beginning. I don’t think this is a common issue as I’ve been googling it and have found nothing, so I still very much recommend the game to any shooter or Wolfenstein fans.
Since I completed Wolfenstein yesterday, I installed this game today and managed to complete it about an hour ago. It’s a nice little puzzle platformer with some excellent graphics and a great and interesting story, although I don’t think I understood the story part completely. Anyway, I don’t want to spoil anyone so I will not talk about it. I think by now pretty much anyone knows about the game so there’s no need to say much.
Since I completed Wolfenstein yesterday, I installed this game today and managed to complete it about an hour ago. It’s a nice little puzzle platformer with some excellent graphics and a great and interesting story, although I don’t think I understood the story part completely. Anyway, I don’t want to spoil anyone so I will not talk about it. I think by now pretty much anyone knows about the game so there’s no need to say much.
