Monday, January 24, 2011
January 24th, 2011
Actually, nothing today! Slept in late, and went to see WWE RAW, which rocked! I can occasionally sacrifice some gaming for Pro Wrestling.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 23rd, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, then moved on to Dyneamite where we finished up the Badlands. Got a neat little dragon whelp summon, so I'll have to do the quests on Cinnaris and get a "Delphyne." Then we did most of the Searing Gorge, but really only because we wanted to take on Chambermaid Pillaclencher and get some nice slowfall pillow trinkets! This tall dwarf lady - as tall as a human - was easier to beat this time around than it was on Cinnaris and Tamberly.
Had some frustrations early on as the Wikis - first WoWHead and then WoWWiki - mislead us on just how many quests we'd need to do to get to her. We ended up having to do just about all of them up till that point, including a bunch of allegedly optional ones!
We moved from there to the Blasted Lands and got a couple more levels to get us ready for the Outlands, but before going, I stopped to use "Enslave Demon" for the first time, on six-armed Shivan/Shivarra demon Shahandana. D'oh ho ho.
Did some Outlands from there, making it a few missions into Hellfire Peninsula. Good progress, but at last our triple Refer a Friend bonus ran out, having hit L60. Bummer! Additionally, my newer summons are only for a minute before they poof - so after the Felhunter, unbeknowst to me, I wasn't getting any more permanent minion choices.
"Enslave Demon" is missed potential, alas. You can only control a demon for five minutes, and it gets harder to re-enslave the same demon each successive time, and they also replace your currently summoned minion. So not only are minion choices limited, but Enslave is virtually worthless pre and post-Outlands, and your enslaved demons are only temporary and have their attack powers decreased.
I'd greatly prefer Enslave Demon to work like Hunter's Tame ability, and allow you to get a permanent, renameable minion. That would make it worth something even in the mostly-demon-less pre and post-Outlands areas, and give you a ton more variety. You CAN enslave Elite demons, which is nice, but I'd trade an occasionally super useful ability for a constantly useful and more permanent deal!
Had some frustrations early on as the Wikis - first WoWHead and then WoWWiki - mislead us on just how many quests we'd need to do to get to her. We ended up having to do just about all of them up till that point, including a bunch of allegedly optional ones!
We moved from there to the Blasted Lands and got a couple more levels to get us ready for the Outlands, but before going, I stopped to use "Enslave Demon" for the first time, on six-armed Shivan/Shivarra demon Shahandana. D'oh ho ho.
Did some Outlands from there, making it a few missions into Hellfire Peninsula. Good progress, but at last our triple Refer a Friend bonus ran out, having hit L60. Bummer! Additionally, my newer summons are only for a minute before they poof - so after the Felhunter, unbeknowst to me, I wasn't getting any more permanent minion choices.
"Enslave Demon" is missed potential, alas. You can only control a demon for five minutes, and it gets harder to re-enslave the same demon each successive time, and they also replace your currently summoned minion. So not only are minion choices limited, but Enslave is virtually worthless pre and post-Outlands, and your enslaved demons are only temporary and have their attack powers decreased.
I'd greatly prefer Enslave Demon to work like Hunter's Tame ability, and allow you to get a permanent, renameable minion. That would make it worth something even in the mostly-demon-less pre and post-Outlands areas, and give you a ton more variety. You CAN enslave Elite demons, which is nice, but I'd trade an occasionally super useful ability for a constantly useful and more permanent deal!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January 22nd, 2011
Watched one of the four "Film Crew" episodes today. Funny stuff, and I like how they have actual skits! I LOVE Rifftrax, but I do miss the skits from MST3k. (On the other hand, Rifftrax Live is the perfect combination of past and present!)
Beach Bubbles (360): Played around for a bit without much success! Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, and we discussed how trolls are constantly the bad guys, all over the world, followed by humans, and that Draenei are almost never random bad guys, followed by Tauren. Wonder why?
Beach Bubbles (360): Played around for a bit without much success! Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, and we discussed how trolls are constantly the bad guys, all over the world, followed by humans, and that Draenei are almost never random bad guys, followed by Tauren. Wonder why?
Friday, January 21, 2011
January 21st, 2011
Beach Bubbles (360): For some odd reason I bought one of those dumb cheesecake games that involves puzzles to reveal pretty anime girls, and immediately regretted it. The puzzles are half-decent, involving moving a poorly-animated girl around the screen to pop bubbles while avoiding enemies, but the girls are, as they always are (allegedly, this is my first game of this nature!), but it really was not worth the three dollar price of admission. I mean, the girls are cute, but it's stuff I could find in seconds, for free and of comparable quality, on Deviantart.
Ah well, I actually unlocked a couple pictures, we'll see if I finish up all eight!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some farming and archaeology on Cinnaris, checking out Kalimdor for the latter. Did some more duoing on Dyne in Tanaris, then we skipped over the Southsea pirates and headed for the Badlands. Caught wrasslin' on TV, came back for some farming, then hit the Badlands again.
Did a couple quests I thought were really fun, unlike most of WoW's lately, and Tam of course hated them, jokingly implying I'm trying to be contrary. /sigh Ah well, did make good progress. Oddly, Eric the Swift followed us when we warped back to Stormwind, and didn't seem to want to go away! We even kept our helmets, hah.
Ah well, I actually unlocked a couple pictures, we'll see if I finish up all eight!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some farming and archaeology on Cinnaris, checking out Kalimdor for the latter. Did some more duoing on Dyne in Tanaris, then we skipped over the Southsea pirates and headed for the Badlands. Caught wrasslin' on TV, came back for some farming, then hit the Badlands again.
Did a couple quests I thought were really fun, unlike most of WoW's lately, and Tam of course hated them, jokingly implying I'm trying to be contrary. /sigh Ah well, did make good progress. Oddly, Eric the Swift followed us when we warped back to Stormwind, and didn't seem to want to go away! We even kept our helmets, hah.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
January 20th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Hit PGL L20! Slowly but surely!
Vindictus (PC): Gave it a little go, creating a character that was Natsu-esque who I for some reason named Omphale. Oops, wasn't thinking, no wonder it didn't seem right! Anyway, the game seems neat, but I have two major complaints thus far.
First, and worst, it's a Nexon game, so it's free to play, but many of the little things cost. For example, your character creator only has about 1/4th of the total number of items available, and you've got to purchase the rest individually. Worse yet, you can't simply "buy" the game and have everything available. I haaaate stuff like that - let me just buy the game as a whole and have everything available!
Second, the controls are really weird. With the settings I choose, one of the two defaults, you move around with the keyboard and mouse, and targetting is weird. You have to swing the camera behind you to attack in a given direction. That is, you can't just turn your PC and make them attack in a given direction, they always attack where the camera is facing, not where the PC is. But this assumedly will get better with practice and tweaking, would love to use a controller for this!
Anyway, graphics are gorgeous and conducive to making a Natsu, so I may give it another shot soon!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a quick quest on Dyne, then hit up Obme and did some of the newer deals in Darkshore and did up to where I had to kill a few Darkscale Priestesses before I threw in the towel there. Did some brief farming on Cinnaris and got an Elementium Geode, a lil companion thingy I have yet to use. Tam's kinda wanted one - maybe I should send it to her?
Later, after some FFXIV and Vindictus, I did some farming as Cinnaris, then checked out Tol Barad. Did a quest or two, but rather failed at the objective, directly attacking the Orc encampment instead of the individual locations. Whoops!
Hung out with T, she had some potions of illusion that turned her into her target or something, so Cinnaris got to dance with himself, hah. Did some more archaeology, scouted the Scarlet Monastery (even the Scarlet Converts are gone from Tirisfal!), and it turns out you don't need a key anymore to get to the next two areas, which might save some SC death later!
Sadly, I still need 3x Scarlet pieces, and a tabard!
Hit up Dyne, and we went to move to Kalimdor, only to find I can't do the Thousand Needles quests like Tam can - she apparently did some quests to lead up to 'em that we didn't know we needed to do! So I swam down to Tanaris, and we did a couple quests there.
Vindictus (PC): Gave it a little go, creating a character that was Natsu-esque who I for some reason named Omphale. Oops, wasn't thinking, no wonder it didn't seem right! Anyway, the game seems neat, but I have two major complaints thus far.
First, and worst, it's a Nexon game, so it's free to play, but many of the little things cost. For example, your character creator only has about 1/4th of the total number of items available, and you've got to purchase the rest individually. Worse yet, you can't simply "buy" the game and have everything available. I haaaate stuff like that - let me just buy the game as a whole and have everything available!
Second, the controls are really weird. With the settings I choose, one of the two defaults, you move around with the keyboard and mouse, and targetting is weird. You have to swing the camera behind you to attack in a given direction. That is, you can't just turn your PC and make them attack in a given direction, they always attack where the camera is facing, not where the PC is. But this assumedly will get better with practice and tweaking, would love to use a controller for this!
Anyway, graphics are gorgeous and conducive to making a Natsu, so I may give it another shot soon!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a quick quest on Dyne, then hit up Obme and did some of the newer deals in Darkshore and did up to where I had to kill a few Darkscale Priestesses before I threw in the towel there. Did some brief farming on Cinnaris and got an Elementium Geode, a lil companion thingy I have yet to use. Tam's kinda wanted one - maybe I should send it to her?
Later, after some FFXIV and Vindictus, I did some farming as Cinnaris, then checked out Tol Barad. Did a quest or two, but rather failed at the objective, directly attacking the Orc encampment instead of the individual locations. Whoops!
Hung out with T, she had some potions of illusion that turned her into her target or something, so Cinnaris got to dance with himself, hah. Did some more archaeology, scouted the Scarlet Monastery (even the Scarlet Converts are gone from Tirisfal!), and it turns out you don't need a key anymore to get to the next two areas, which might save some SC death later!
Sadly, I still need 3x Scarlet pieces, and a tabard!
Hit up Dyne, and we went to move to Kalimdor, only to find I can't do the Thousand Needles quests like Tam can - she apparently did some quests to lead up to 'em that we didn't know we needed to do! So I swam down to Tanaris, and we did a couple quests there.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
January 19th, 2011
Saw the Warrior's Way today with Mom, and it was surprisingly good! Considering the reviews it received and, more importantly, the brief time it spent in theaters, we weren't expecting much, and while the line we were chuckling about (when the grizzled cowboy, played by Geoffrey Rush, says seconds before an ambush, "Damn... ninjas."), it was surprisingly neat. Really inspired setpieces during the final battle, and the Asian/Old West hybrid music was pretty inventive.
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Did a few more leves, including all three level twenties, which is a good feeling! Unfortunately, the level ten quests seem to have worn out their worth, so in the future I'ma just warp around to do all L20 missions. No levels today, but I'll definitely hit PGL 20 tomorrow!
World of Warcraft (PC): Some farming on Cinnaris, some questing as Obme and saw the ruins of Auberdine, also getting her high enough to use an L22 shotgun. The sound is pathetically weak, and it changes with each shot, so it's disappointing. Got Cinnaris' smithing to 525, capping two professions, something Tam had only done on a single character before. Neat.
Eventually did some questing as my warlock, Dyneamite, in the Plaguelands. Actually remember doing the first few quests in EPL before as Cinnaris, but this was the most of both Plaguelands I've ever done.
I threw in the towel when we reached a quest where you're supposed to help the spirit of a young girl find her doll. I love stuff like that, helping ghosts on the other side find rest, and I also like how there's no controversy, one of the few WoW quests where you're a) not killing anyone, and b) there's no potential for moral ambiguity.
But apparently other quests that involve killing without discrimination over trifling matters are easier to swallow for some than ones that are unarguably morally upright and entirely noble. <_<; Welcome to the mentality WoW fosters, I guess!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Did a few more leves, including all three level twenties, which is a good feeling! Unfortunately, the level ten quests seem to have worn out their worth, so in the future I'ma just warp around to do all L20 missions. No levels today, but I'll definitely hit PGL 20 tomorrow!
World of Warcraft (PC): Some farming on Cinnaris, some questing as Obme and saw the ruins of Auberdine, also getting her high enough to use an L22 shotgun. The sound is pathetically weak, and it changes with each shot, so it's disappointing. Got Cinnaris' smithing to 525, capping two professions, something Tam had only done on a single character before. Neat.
Eventually did some questing as my warlock, Dyneamite, in the Plaguelands. Actually remember doing the first few quests in EPL before as Cinnaris, but this was the most of both Plaguelands I've ever done.
I threw in the towel when we reached a quest where you're supposed to help the spirit of a young girl find her doll. I love stuff like that, helping ghosts on the other side find rest, and I also like how there's no controversy, one of the few WoW quests where you're a) not killing anyone, and b) there's no potential for moral ambiguity.
But apparently other quests that involve killing without discrimination over trifling matters are easier to swallow for some than ones that are unarguably morally upright and entirely noble. <_<; Welcome to the mentality WoW fosters, I guess!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
January 18th, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a lot of skinning as Obme, reaching seventy-something, and did some leatherworking as well. From there, did some leveling as Megumii, my Priest, along with Tam's Paladin. A bit of a change of pace, but increasingly more fun! Tam hooked me up with some Elementium, got smithing up to 524, one short of max, then did more skinning as Obme, hit 110 or so, and knocked out a couple quests in Kalimdor.
Back to Meg, got her to 20, and we nabbed her a mount, then briefly hit up the warlock! Fairly productive!
Back to Meg, got her to 20, and we nabbed her a mount, then briefly hit up the warlock! Fairly productive!
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