Chilling with the Lich King whilst he hangs with his many Val’kyr hos .
Patching things up with Baron Rivendare. He apologized for the many, many times his minions made me fail my 45 minute Baron run.
Hanging out with Mayor Quimby.
Surveying the land with some pretty tight wheels.
Showing the folks at Light’s Hope Chapel what’s-what. Wait? We got our butt’s kicked? But didn’t they see the massive army of ghouls and abominations?! What about Highlord Mograine? Oh right, father issues. Oh well.
Fine, well then I’m going to go have a little talk with Van Cleef. Hey Edward! Have you seen corpse explosion?!
Reasons the beta is awesome.
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I’m sure than most everyone already knows the events of the past week; but now I’ve taken some time to digest everything and breath…and blog.
Last week began with my parents finding their way out from Ohio. I drug them everywhere interesting I could think of and made them eat at a lot of places they generally wouldn’t have. Sorry dad. Somewhere in the mist of that I turned 25 and spent a good portion of that day at the beach. I enjoy low-key birthdays. Two days later I was awoken to the cats playing “run-over-jes’-face” and got up to find that Ian had PRESUMABLY gone to work early. Thinking not much of it, I gave him a call to make sure he INTENDED to go in early. After ensuring everything was fine, Dad and I headed to Lowe’s for some home improvement items. I got home and went to my computer to get directions to our next destination only to find a message from Ian letting my know there was a late birthday present game on my computer. I opened it and started playing, thinking I was playing a build of a project he’s been working on with friends. The little 8bit avatar of me should have made me suspicious. The alarmingly specific events in the game should have made me suspicious. When the final boss bugged and Ian had to remake the build and put it back on through the network I finally admitted that I wasn’t just playing a random game. Before I knew it 8bit Ian had a question for me and I turned to find flesh Ian walking toward me. I’m sure everyone knows what happened next and I said yes.
I’m not really a fan art type of gal, let alone super good at photoshop; but I conjured this up on my couple of days off. Go play Whirled, then play Brawler in Whirled. It’s an amazing game done by an amazing guy.
Puzzle Pirates has some cool things happening this holiday season and created new ways to show off your awesome pirateness. Check it out!
Many gamers will boast that they are true gamers because they’ve played all three Halos and Mario. While I would tend to agree with standard-jock-stereotype that the Halo legacy seems to be the gamer marker these days, I would also mentally *pffft* at him, because disagreeing in real life and calling myself a true gamer would grant me a hearty laugh and a butt kicking. The more I look around at our shelves though, the more I believe I’m right. Many benchmark games have released in this past week leaving me to riffle through all my old games and sigh. I still have all my old games for the simple fact that I tend toward nostalgia frequently and would randomly like to be able to play Sonic or Rampage without scanning Ebay. Why do I need a GBA when I have a DS Lite? Why do I need a GameCube, a PS1, or an Xbox when I have all their respective upgrades? And not only do I have them; but they’re all plugged into the TV. Simple, they’re neat and give me a sense of time and progression. Decades of systems sit before me, decades of games, decades of saved games and memory cards. It’s the same reason your parents have kept every little thing you’ve done since age 0.
Earlier, though, I found myself going through my screen shots folder for World of Warcraft and was startled by my sighs. Has the game really been out that long that I can look at an image and go “Oh I remember when Slackers took Deviant Delight, turned themselves into pirates and raided Freewind Post. Good times, good time.”? Or “Oh wow, I remember the first time we tried to do Deadmines and couldn’t because it was too hard.” The best thing about going back through all the screenshots was seeing my armor progression. I lack a lot of images from my low levels; but the shots I found should suffice.
Not my most ellegant post ever; but check this out and you’ll make the same face.
I apologize about my lack of updates. I’ve been enjoying some time with my mom here in San Francisco, then took a mini vacation back to Ohio to see the rest of the family.
Of course, I had a great time and it was bittersweet to return to the other side of the continent.
Aside from the $91.00 parking fee at SFO, I was also greeted with a spiffy legendary copy of Halo 3. No, I don’t really play the game all that well; but it came with a very awesome Master Chief Helmet, previously thought to be cat-sized. While we have large cats, this helmet is no where near their size.
I was also greeted with My Sims for the Wii and I couldn’t be more excited. I had the opportunity to play this while still in the works over at EA and I can only say that it’s more fun than I had hoped. I love games like Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon and My Sims just gave me the ability to play the same way as the others, only with building blocks. Being a massive fan of Legos as well, this game is just my cup of tea. Oh, and did I mention that it’s adorable? Well it really, really is.
More news later, for now here are a few pictures. One of the non-cat-sized helmet and the others taken while flying.
On most Saturdays we head over to Dom’s place to play some Dungeons and Dragons (v3.5 by the way). Dom is running our campaign and doing a really fantastic job (though he should make me say O.O.C. every time I open my mouth).
Our party consists of:
Albert the Gnome Illusionist
Myself the Elf Swashbuckler
Cliff the Human Rogue
Ian the Hafling Scout
Matt the Raptoran Ranger
I think we were suppose to be escorting the new king to school yesterday. I assume we did cause then we had to go kick the butts of the guys that blockaded themselves in the school with the librarian elf hostage and barrels of spears. Some illusions occurred, as well as some stabbing, a lot of missing, and a lot of beef jerky eating. Then we went and beat up some people on a boat with fish on spears.
Here are some better quotes from the night (courtesy of Albert):
Me:”There’s a guy bleeding in the pantry! That’s SO unsanitary!”
Matt:”… The Elf, in the library, with the candlestick, and Professor Plum.”
Dom:”What do you need, besides a barrel of spears?! TWO barrels of spears!”
Cliff:”*Rolls 20* I have TOTALLY faked this guy out. *Rolls 5* I have TOTALLY missed!”
Dom:”Why are you always eating?! Me:I have a high metabolism! We’re at threat level orange! Dom:You’re at threat level JERKY, apparently!”
Dom:”Meanwhile, Matt… excuse me, let me call you by your proper name: RA, GOD OF THE SUN!”
Matt:”I would like to know about the birds, because I’m big and full of feathers.”
Dom:”It’s named like… “The Momma’s Boy,” I dunno. Me: Spelled “B-U-O-Y”?”
And now some pictures, because your brain doesn’t hurt enough.
It’s been so long since I played a good RPG. I had such high hopes for Shining Tears and Radiata Stories, neither was able to satiate my need for a beautiful, turn-based RPG; mainly because I couldn’t handle their cut scenes and load screens. If I wanted to spend that much time not playing a game, well….I’d play many of the Xenosaga games I own. Alas, the last game I was able to sink my teeth into was Viva Pinata and that game just brings out the OCD in me.
*sigh*
Wait…is that light at the end of the tunnel? No, no it’s better! It’s Blue Dragon from the Microsoft Game Studios and the acclaimed Akira Toriyama! I’ve only played the game for a little over 2 hours now and I’m very pleased. The combat style and HUD are easily navigated, the voice acting is great, and is that an enemy called a Poo Monster? Awesome, just awesome. You’re first real boss battle features some awesomely inspiring buttrock that will leave you giggling (from wondering what is actaully being said. Did they just say “break your hand on silly string”?) and humming the tune for hours. The game has a feature that will test your will to just get stuff done or screw around. Did you slice every bush in Zelda? Did you hump every wall in Wolfenstein 3-D to find hidden doors? Well then Blue Dragon wants you to play it. You can kick, push, open every rock and tree. If you’re a player like me, you’ll just do that for hours.
Combat is very satisfying with a good range of abilities from the get go…well not right away; but at least after you swallow the strange voice’s blue balls……
…you heard me.
The only down side of the game…..it’s 3 disks long. Maybe I was fated to quit my job just so I could have the time to play. The timing makes me wonder. Either way, Lisseromen and Dacquoise are just going to have to chill for awhile.
