• 28Sep 08

  Warhammer, Wii's and a little HD

  This one will be another quickie, I'm busy going crazy as my PC is in the shop getting upgraded

  So to begin with I picked up the Warhammer collectors edition not to long ago, I had already gotten the head start of about 4 days so I was already lvl 10 by the time I logged in. I play a Dark Elf Sorcerer, I'm level 15 now, I would be level 18 or even 20 but as I said my computer is in the shop. I have to say as a man who has played many different MMO's including WoW, Guild Wars and even AoC, this is the best yet, though there is a little bias in that comment, I have been playing warhammer and warhammer 40K since I was 5.

  Also I chopped my way through Star Wars: Force Unleashed, it was incredibly frustrating at times but incredibly awesome at others, I have a feeling that another month or two in development to iron out the bugs would have been a great help to the game. I think if they keep making games like that for Star Wars they may end up winning some depressed fans back after the pissy prick that was Anakin Skywalker.

  Unfortunately I have not picked up Crysis: Warhead yet, but I do plan to very soon as once my computer is back from the shop I can install the drivers and software for my new Radeon 4870HD video card, which replaces my two 7600 GTs, unfortunately the reason it is in the shop is because it needs a new power supply of 500w, rather then the 400w that I had previously.

  Also this week I picked up my fantastic, and more importantely free, Wii this week, my arms are already swollen and sore from playing Wii boxing, I should be picking up Brawl soonish and maybe No More Heroes if I can find a place that sells it.

  All in all it has been an eventful week

  Happy gaming

  • Posted Sep 28, 2008 3:04 am PT
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• 6Sep 08

  Mass Genocide = fun?!?!

  I'll make this one a quickie, which means about 2 paragraphs by my standards.

  SO as you may know I now have Spore, and I have to say it's pretty spiff, it's very addictive but it's also easy to take a break from, I think I'm finally understanding the idea of a casual game. The acheivments are great and each stage has its own certain charm, I do have some nit picks about it, but I'll save that for the review, my favourite stage would be the space and creature, followed by the cell, and then tribe, civ stage would unfortunately come last. I'm basing all these judgments on a warlike race I created, there called the Lazarnids if you see them, if I remember correctly my username is NjaqX99 or something. Luckily for my innocence I haven't encounter a huge amount of sexual organs waddling around.

  On another note I may also be getting a Wii soon, as it turns out my Uncle was going to give it to my cousin, buthe didn't want it, so its been sitting in a filing cabnet in his surgery for about two years, he couldn't return it because he lost the stand, and no one wanted it on Ebay. I have some games I want to grab for it already, principle amongst them being Brawl, Twilight Princess, No More Heroes (violence on the Wii), Metroid Prime Corruption, still 50/50 on getting Galaxy and also I want to get Mad World, I'm a fan of Sin City so it seems logical to get it when it's out. Anymore suggestions would be good, I'm open to most games.

  Peace out y'all, happy gaming

  • Posted Sep 6, 2008 5:02 pm PT
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• 3Sep 08

  A day before I go Godly

  well my friends, it is literally one day before I march down to my local gametraders (which handly opened a block from my house last year) and will be buying my very own copy of Spore, I have waited since the games announcment way back in 05 for this, and I am about to explode with excitment.

  But I'm sure if your reading this then u haven't been living under a rock and therefore would already be loudly lamenting on how long you now have to wait to get the game, I now its a struggle but resist the urge to rob your nearest store and hold in your glee for tommorow.

  Unfortunetly my glee for Spore comes with my intense dissapointment i Mercs 2, long have I waited for a game which could top the original destructive mayhem of Mercs 1, and in the terms of destruction Mercs 2 seems to have got it made, though after reading reviews this game seems simply too hollow and buggy for me, even if I can level an embassy with a tac nuke in the opening 10 minutes of the game I still want some form of story rather then just chasing after some drug dealer who shot me in the arse.

  On thet topic of MGS4 and my possible review of it I have decided not to do it, to put it simply I don't feel that I could accurately show my love and adoration for this game, Solid Snake, Hideo Kojima and the rest of the series by simply writing a review, it would end up being a novel that would make every Omnibus quake in fear. So I will state this simply, MGS4 is the best game I have ever played, I love every aspect of it, I love the acheivments, I love the challenge, I love the stealth, I especially love the story. Even writing that felt hollow because it still isn't big enough, I'd have to invent a new name for the emotion I feel for this game. I'm still trying t unlock all the acheivments I'm 1/2 way there, though I can forsee some hardships in getting the Big Boss emblem (beat the game on Big Boss Extreme with no kills, no alerts, no continues, no healing items used and finish in less then 5 hrs).

  I still play SCIV every now and then which I must say is one of the best fighting games I've ever played, and I got a new Dualshock 3 controller as my new 1st controller, which also adds a lot to the MGS4 experiance as well. SCIV is great fun especially when u like to fool around with mates, though combos are a little harder to pull off then before and some characters are even more abusive then before (Lizardman in particular), as I have the PS3 version I am without Yoda, but Vader and the Starkiller are perfectly balanced, well not so much the starkiller, actually just Vader is balanced. I must say breast animation has come a long way since Lara Croft stabbed our eyes out with those sword like thing they called a chest, I'm pretty sure Ivy and Sophitia belong in GTAIV rather then SCIV.

  I'm eager to see if SFIV will live up to its potential, my only realy SF experiance has been at arcades so this console version will be interesting to try when it eventually comes out.

  Most eagerly awaited game for though is not in fact Spore, but Warhammer ONline: The Age of Reckoning, I have waited for a proper Warhammer fantasy game for so long, I have already pre-ordered the collectors edition and got into the closed beta, and after playing many different mmo's in the past I can honestly say that this is the best, it's obvious that there were some things that needed to be fixed, but as a closed beta it still felt more complete then any other mmo I've ever played and it perfectly captures the gritty dark world of warhammer that I, as a long time (12 years) player of warhammer fantasy and 40K tabletop, have wanted to see for a long time.

  Luckily for I learnt a thing or two about power leveling from playing WOW all that time, so I'll be able to juggle WAR, Spore, Crysis Warhead (when I eventually get enough money for it), Force Unleashed and Far Cry 2, theres probably something else I'm forgetting to mention, but hey it is September so if I'm not blogging it will probably mean I'm playin.

  On a hardware note I will be upgrading my computer shortly, I have selected what I want, the Radeon 4870 and will be getting it delivered from a stoer, advised to me by my PC nutter (more so then me even) of a cousin, the store is called PC case Gear or PCCG, ordering from their website takes about 2 days delivery if you live in good ol Victoria, and they seem to have everything. So hopefully I'll be playing Spore on some nice crystal clear and more importantly high settings.

  Happy Gaming and if you haven't already see the Dark Knight, its awesome (not leaving out Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder, and Hellboy 2 if you want to see some truly weird crap)

  • Posted Sep 3, 2008 12:44 am PT
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