Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Leveling, leveling, leveling! Well, and main quests.
But hey, I unlocked Dragoon and Tarina unlocked Scholar!
The game is growing on me more as I get used to the idea that it's simply going to play rather archaically. That doesn't excuse it playing like an MMO from a decade and change ago, but the initial shock is gone.
Tarina changed Tarryn into a Hyur female, and will eventually turn her into Tamberly. While Cinnaris and Tamberly are the traditional traveling buddies, it's still a bit of a bummer.
Oh, and I did find all of my 1.0 holiday stuff! The game (and myself) had both forgotten that I had a second retainer, "Lamianumbertwo". I hired a new one, named her Cleary ("Clearite" was taken), and voila, all my old stuff! Hooray!
Minor Entries: Sword of Chaos (iOS).
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PC): We didn't play as much today since Tarina and Kenna were out at her cheer practice. But that's all right! A little progress. Slowly but surely (and I mean slowly, since it's FFXIV!).
Super Mario All-Stars + World (SNES): I played through like... a stage. Too bad it doesn't save everywhere, so I lost that progress!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online, Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Super Mario All-Stars + World (SNES): I played through like... a stage. Too bad it doesn't save everywhere, so I lost that progress!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online, Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PC): We continued with the main questline, duoing a couple of lowbie dungeons we needed to get through. No help from Duty Finder today!
Alas, it was a shorter day of gaming than I would have liked!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online, Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Alas, it was a shorter day of gaming than I would have liked!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online, Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018
Final Fantasy XIV: I had a ton of catch-up to do on FFXIV. Tarina had apparently pushed ahead of me in it during our original go at A Realm Reborn, so I had to repeat quests I just did the previous day on Azureus to catch up and get together on the main quests.
And, because I have priorities, I found our old FFXIV friends, the poachers!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online (PC), Sword of Chaos (iOS).
And, because I have priorities, I found our old FFXIV friends, the poachers!
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online (PC), Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Monday, May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PC): We continued forth! Azureus and Trisse pushed onward into the mid-teens, and then, somewhere in the evening, we decided to go ahead and pay our discounted Legacy price ($10) to restart our main accounts. Heheh. Foresight!
We did do some dungeon runs and such on Azureus and Trisse, and it was fun enough. The problem we kept having was having to break the party apart to do solo ventures, then find someone to rejoin us afterward. Seriously, we can't remain in a party during certain parts of our quests? Make us solo it, fine, but why split the party up? Just another instance of archaic design.
That being said, it was rather nice and nostalgic to bring back Cinnaris and Tarryn. We have a lot of fun old items, and apparently a Fat Chocobo mount was retroactively added!
Gargoyle's Quest 2 (SNES): I gave it a good go this time, pushing up to the first save--er, password--point. It's just as fun as I recall the first game being, but with the added bonus of being more colorful, with a wider and taller image! Much less cramped.
Super Mario All-Stars + World (SNES): World again! I started the saves fresh and pushed through the first world. Such good times.
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online (PC), Sword of Chaos (iOS).
We did do some dungeon runs and such on Azureus and Trisse, and it was fun enough. The problem we kept having was having to break the party apart to do solo ventures, then find someone to rejoin us afterward. Seriously, we can't remain in a party during certain parts of our quests? Make us solo it, fine, but why split the party up? Just another instance of archaic design.
That being said, it was rather nice and nostalgic to bring back Cinnaris and Tarryn. We have a lot of fun old items, and apparently a Fat Chocobo mount was retroactively added!
Gargoyle's Quest 2 (SNES): I gave it a good go this time, pushing up to the first save--er, password--point. It's just as fun as I recall the first game being, but with the added bonus of being more colorful, with a wider and taller image! Much less cramped.
Super Mario All-Stars + World (SNES): World again! I started the saves fresh and pushed through the first world. Such good times.
Minor Entries: Black Desert Online (PC), Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Sunday, May 13, 2018
May 13, 2018
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PC): We set up Trial accounts on FFXIV (since we can't play to 35 on existing accounts--get with the times, SE!) and played for a bit. I made Azureus Allegretto and Tarina went with Trisse, and we went with Archer and Conjurer, respectively. I think we made it to about L15 each.
Unfortunately, it's just an archaic-feeling MMO in terms of gameplay and UI (objectively--whether you like it or not is where the opinion part comes in), even for the time it released. I could go on for a while, but eh.
It is fun enough, as is any decent MMO!
And not being able to party in Trial is absurd. I know they want you to buy the full game, but the best way to hook people is to get them into the community. The Trial does not allow that.
Even so, we may or may not reup our main accounts in the near future--ditto for picking up the expansions. And we might not--we both want Pillars of Eternity 2, and Battle for Azeroth is a must in a couple of months.
Minor Entries: Sword of Chaos (iOS).
Unfortunately, it's just an archaic-feeling MMO in terms of gameplay and UI (objectively--whether you like it or not is where the opinion part comes in), even for the time it released. I could go on for a while, but eh.
It is fun enough, as is any decent MMO!
And not being able to party in Trial is absurd. I know they want you to buy the full game, but the best way to hook people is to get them into the community. The Trial does not allow that.
Even so, we may or may not reup our main accounts in the near future--ditto for picking up the expansions. And we might not--we both want Pillars of Eternity 2, and Battle for Azeroth is a must in a couple of months.
Minor Entries: Sword of Chaos (iOS).
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!
Monday, January 17, 2011
January 17th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Botanist 12, PGL 19, Physical Rank 20! I then did my first L20 leve, only to find myself struggling on the second (which involved human opponents, a rarity in the FF MMO style!). Without MP, it woulda been tough to finish, and I had no way to restore it. Tarryn hopped on, but didn't have the camp warp, so I warped to her and killed the level, oops! Something told me it porting was a bad idea!
So we tried my third leve, and after a few mobs, I got lost and went too far away, ending that leve! Ack! After that, Tam officially quit, and for the third time within a year, I was left alone in an MMO world! Alas.
World of Warcraft (PC): Briefly assisted with some PvP when the Horde attempted to attack the front gates of Stormwind and briefly again in Old Town, then hit up Dyne and did some Plaguelands questing there with Trinta. Zen'Kiki the druid was kinda awesome, turning into a cat and then leaping all over, shouting, "Leap! Meow! Attack!" and such, all the while not even looking at the mob. Ended up L39 - not bad at all, as Dyne's getting without shooting distance of Litian, my second-highest character, a Death Knight, at L58.
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Got on for just a few minutes, saw I had my 10k gold that was supposed to come with my Silver VIP package (yay, fast and polite service!)
So we tried my third leve, and after a few mobs, I got lost and went too far away, ending that leve! Ack! After that, Tam officially quit, and for the third time within a year, I was left alone in an MMO world! Alas.
World of Warcraft (PC): Briefly assisted with some PvP when the Horde attempted to attack the front gates of Stormwind and briefly again in Old Town, then hit up Dyne and did some Plaguelands questing there with Trinta. Zen'Kiki the druid was kinda awesome, turning into a cat and then leaping all over, shouting, "Leap! Meow! Attack!" and such, all the while not even looking at the mob. Ended up L39 - not bad at all, as Dyne's getting without shooting distance of Litian, my second-highest character, a Death Knight, at L58.
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Got on for just a few minutes, saw I had my 10k gold that was supposed to come with my Silver VIP package (yay, fast and polite service!)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
January 15th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Hit PGL 18 and did some shopping for some pinks! Too bad my leggings cover up my pants, making it look like I'm wearing assless chaps and pink underwear, hah.
World of Warcraft (PC): Started my orc, Omphale, but only got to level two before switching to Dyneamite. Hooked up with Tam's character Trinta to abuse our 3x Refer-A-Friend bonus, did some of Duskwood, some of Stranglethorn, and made it up to L29. Later, after church and dinner and hanging out watching Most Shocking, came back to duh internets and we did a few more Strangethorn missions to hit 33.
Got my Felhunter dog thingy, with the dumb auto-name of Khuufum, and called it a night!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started my orc, Omphale, but only got to level two before switching to Dyneamite. Hooked up with Tam's character Trinta to abuse our 3x Refer-A-Friend bonus, did some of Duskwood, some of Stranglethorn, and made it up to L29. Later, after church and dinner and hanging out watching Most Shocking, came back to duh internets and we did a few more Strangethorn missions to hit 33.
Got my Felhunter dog thingy, with the dumb auto-name of Khuufum, and called it a night!
Friday, January 14, 2011
January 14th, 2011
A fairly successful week of studying and working out! I feel like I've learned from the former and I'm sore from the latter! Just gotta keep at it a week at a time.
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang for gifts, then hit up the Cinsational One. Did some leves in Ul'dah, getting Cinnaris PGL up to L17. Tried to get one of those coatees from an Oak something lumberjack (er, botanist) leve, without luck. Ah well, eventually I'll get one for Lamianumbertwo!
World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (PC): Mostly just playing around with, er, Detestia, my dumb Forsaken girl. Found the Scarlet guys - apparently I missed the early on Scarlet Convert quest. Did a lil leveling, some questing, not bad, slow progress. Saw someone slaughtering the Monastery. Can't move into the Plaguelands yet, they're way too strong. Ah well!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang for gifts, then hit up the Cinsational One. Did some leves in Ul'dah, getting Cinnaris PGL up to L17. Tried to get one of those coatees from an Oak something lumberjack (er, botanist) leve, without luck. Ah well, eventually I'll get one for Lamianumbertwo!
World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (PC): Mostly just playing around with, er, Detestia, my dumb Forsaken girl. Found the Scarlet guys - apparently I missed the early on Scarlet Convert quest. Did a lil leveling, some questing, not bad, slow progress. Saw someone slaughtering the Monastery. Can't move into the Plaguelands yet, they're way too strong. Ah well!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
January 12th, 2011
I'm bidding on some of Dane's games up for sale on eBay, just to be silly. He insists he'll make me pay shipping. Pff, yeah right!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris to PUG 16 and his physical level to 19. Slowly but surely! Did some leves outside of Ul'dah, just for the change of pace.
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Did a brief run of a few levels. Pretty fun, actually! A fast action side-scroller, seems to capture the same feel of the game. Maybe I'll keep at it, but it's hard to focus on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not a whole ton. Actually did not do Argents today, but did several quests in the Twilight Highlands, opening the portal to and from Stormwind, as well as getting over 50% toward L85.
There were a couple isolated Blackscale naga quests that we picked up, and despite my initial attempts at getting out of doing them, Tam actually started, and only killed the males, even retreating from female naga aggro. Since Tam was nice enough to try and meet me halfway on the whole naga thing, I assisted in defeating the males (even though she insisted on doing an extra one to make up for the one I missed), and again assisted in putting the females temporarily to sleep to allow for our escape.
So not a bad deal at all, and pretty thoughtful of her, even though I'm half-tempted to just abandon the quests entirely, tee-hee. We'll see what happens when we get to the next set of naga quests here!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris to PUG 16 and his physical level to 19. Slowly but surely! Did some leves outside of Ul'dah, just for the change of pace.
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Did a brief run of a few levels. Pretty fun, actually! A fast action side-scroller, seems to capture the same feel of the game. Maybe I'll keep at it, but it's hard to focus on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not a whole ton. Actually did not do Argents today, but did several quests in the Twilight Highlands, opening the portal to and from Stormwind, as well as getting over 50% toward L85.
There were a couple isolated Blackscale naga quests that we picked up, and despite my initial attempts at getting out of doing them, Tam actually started, and only killed the males, even retreating from female naga aggro. Since Tam was nice enough to try and meet me halfway on the whole naga thing, I assisted in defeating the males (even though she insisted on doing an extra one to make up for the one I missed), and again assisted in putting the females temporarily to sleep to allow for our escape.
So not a bad deal at all, and pretty thoughtful of her, even though I'm half-tempted to just abandon the quests entirely, tee-hee. We'll see what happens when we get to the next set of naga quests here!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
January 11th, 2011
Today was Chinese and Design Concepts for Websites... interesting, but Chinese is hard! Lots of weird overlap with Japanese, but in an arbitrary way. Like the same symbols mean "man" in both languages, but the pronunciation is entirely different. Then, the word for tea uses a different symbol, however, this time the pronunciation is the same! Argh!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang bells, then did a leve on Cinnaris. Went to get a second Retainer, and in typical SE-asinine fashion, different templates appear in different cities. So I had to warp to Ul'dah just to get the one I wanted. I took a Duskwright Elezen with gray skin and named her "Lamianumbertwo." D'oh ho ho, XI humor!
Oddly, Tam said the Raimille template looked more my style - a Wildwood Elezen with dark skin and blonde hair and goggles, almost ganguro-style. Hmm...
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Just did the very first area, having discussed Mirror's Edge with Patti earlier! Eventually I'll play through the console one. Really neat to hear the theme song "Still Alive" playing. I'm still getting used to hearing CD-quality audio, music and voice on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Finished up my Argent stuff for Exodar, then hit up Uldum with Tam. There was a Katamari-esque rolling ball quest that ended up causalities in the quadruple digits for the bad guys, and some more Jones-esque Schnotz (read: Nazi parody) quests that weren't too bad. I saved another Blood Elf much to Tam's chagrin, too, and Icon, the guild we're gonna leave, hit L3, and before crashing after WWE Raw I got Master Flying, which really isn't as much of an increase as I had hoped. Oh well!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang bells, then did a leve on Cinnaris. Went to get a second Retainer, and in typical SE-asinine fashion, different templates appear in different cities. So I had to warp to Ul'dah just to get the one I wanted. I took a Duskwright Elezen with gray skin and named her "Lamianumbertwo." D'oh ho ho, XI humor!
Oddly, Tam said the Raimille template looked more my style - a Wildwood Elezen with dark skin and blonde hair and goggles, almost ganguro-style. Hmm...
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Just did the very first area, having discussed Mirror's Edge with Patti earlier! Eventually I'll play through the console one. Really neat to hear the theme song "Still Alive" playing. I'm still getting used to hearing CD-quality audio, music and voice on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Finished up my Argent stuff for Exodar, then hit up Uldum with Tam. There was a Katamari-esque rolling ball quest that ended up causalities in the quadruple digits for the bad guys, and some more Jones-esque Schnotz (read: Nazi parody) quests that weren't too bad. I saved another Blood Elf much to Tam's chagrin, too, and Icon, the guild we're gonna leave, hit L3, and before crashing after WWE Raw I got Master Flying, which really isn't as much of an increase as I had hoped. Oh well!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
January 9th, 2011
Final Fantasy XI (PC): So that Besieged I specifically checked for yesterday and forgot about? We LOST THE ASTAL CANDESCENCE. To the Swarm, no less, so I could've got my AC-loss cutscene, and to my favorite mobs, no less! Soooooooo mad at myself!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang the bells for my gifts... AND did a couple leves as Cinnaris! He's now a Pug L15. Seems to be getting quite a chunk of EXP on these levels, he went from about 1/3 into 14 to halfway through 15! Gotta get my butt into gear.
Sadly, the frame rate seems to shoot up to 40s-50s at the highest settings while I'm rocking 720p. I haaaate using that much smaller a resolution, but it is infinitely more playable that way, and at this point I might as well play it at a lower res than not at all!
Game Room (360): Didn't actually play anything, just goofed around and got it updated. The prices just seem too much. $3 for an Atari 2600 game I can download for a buck, or free, elsewhere? Sega games I can get on a $20 Sega Genesis Collection with several dozen others?
Neat concept, just too expensive!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (360): Played through much of the first area as Sonic, got the first emerald (yay! Blue Spheres is fun!) and then saved right before accidentally failing at my second shoot at one. Whoops!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did my AT stuff, then hit up Uldum - whoa, there's a strategy mini-game in WoW. What a novel idea, making Warcraft into a realtime strategy game! Before leaving, just to get some levels, we finished up the Indiana Jones parody, which included a scene where a "Schnotz" guy, beating up Harrison Jones, got sliced up by the propeller on a plane. Classic!
Did the Twilight Highlands opening campaign, only to find out that I need to be *85* for most of the recipes, and that I need to buy them at TWENTY elementium bars a piece. There's big competition for elementium right now since it's an endgame mat. That was all pretty demoralizing, so I did some mining, did some archaeology, then chunked the deuces!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang the bells for my gifts... AND did a couple leves as Cinnaris! He's now a Pug L15. Seems to be getting quite a chunk of EXP on these levels, he went from about 1/3 into 14 to halfway through 15! Gotta get my butt into gear.
Sadly, the frame rate seems to shoot up to 40s-50s at the highest settings while I'm rocking 720p. I haaaate using that much smaller a resolution, but it is infinitely more playable that way, and at this point I might as well play it at a lower res than not at all!
Game Room (360): Didn't actually play anything, just goofed around and got it updated. The prices just seem too much. $3 for an Atari 2600 game I can download for a buck, or free, elsewhere? Sega games I can get on a $20 Sega Genesis Collection with several dozen others?
Neat concept, just too expensive!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (360): Played through much of the first area as Sonic, got the first emerald (yay! Blue Spheres is fun!) and then saved right before accidentally failing at my second shoot at one. Whoops!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did my AT stuff, then hit up Uldum - whoa, there's a strategy mini-game in WoW. What a novel idea, making Warcraft into a realtime strategy game! Before leaving, just to get some levels, we finished up the Indiana Jones parody, which included a scene where a "Schnotz" guy, beating up Harrison Jones, got sliced up by the propeller on a plane. Classic!
Did the Twilight Highlands opening campaign, only to find out that I need to be *85* for most of the recipes, and that I need to buy them at TWENTY elementium bars a piece. There's big competition for elementium right now since it's an endgame mat. That was all pretty demoralizing, so I did some mining, did some archaeology, then chunked the deuces!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
January 6th, 2010
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Nothing but ringing the bells for free gifts, heheh. Not that I don't have a million samurai helmets already, and that I don't have the skills to make the white and black ones. Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started the day by doing some mining in Hyjal, then hit up the Argent Tournament area to be ready after Smackdown. After the show, did my Tournament dailies and finished up Gnomeregan, and made my biggest sale ever at 240 gold for a Hardened Obsidium Helm. Finished up a couple quests in the Icecrown/Crystalsong area, bought some glyphs, then moved on to assist Tam in Hyjal quests.
We basically took care of them all, everything from freeing godlike creatures to pretending to be Twilight to eventually defeating them and the boss in a big ol', rather neat fight. Some of the quests were odd, like chucking scared bear cubs from a tree onto a trampoline below, some where annoying, like having to kill Twilight failures, some were cute, like leading around baby turtles (mine died >_<), and some were neat, like one that involved giving a speech by choosing responses based on crowd reaction. There was also dressing up as ogres and flying dragons, so it was pretty varied.
As a side note, Twilight Augurs look cool, and they remind me of Theresa from Fable, particularly the first one, as they wear a bandannas over her eyes.
From there, headed back north, did the new day's Argent dailies (this time for Darnassus), and called it a night, finally!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started the day by doing some mining in Hyjal, then hit up the Argent Tournament area to be ready after Smackdown. After the show, did my Tournament dailies and finished up Gnomeregan, and made my biggest sale ever at 240 gold for a Hardened Obsidium Helm. Finished up a couple quests in the Icecrown/Crystalsong area, bought some glyphs, then moved on to assist Tam in Hyjal quests.
We basically took care of them all, everything from freeing godlike creatures to pretending to be Twilight to eventually defeating them and the boss in a big ol', rather neat fight. Some of the quests were odd, like chucking scared bear cubs from a tree onto a trampoline below, some where annoying, like having to kill Twilight failures, some were cute, like leading around baby turtles (mine died >_<), and some were neat, like one that involved giving a speech by choosing responses based on crowd reaction. There was also dressing up as ogres and flying dragons, so it was pretty varied.
As a side note, Twilight Augurs look cool, and they remind me of Theresa from Fable, particularly the first one, as they wear a bandannas over her eyes.
From there, headed back north, did the new day's Argent dailies (this time for Darnassus), and called it a night, finally!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
January 4th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Um, rang the New Year's bells for gifts!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some more exploring, including going through the insect-infested Silithus zone populated by Twilight and Cenarion, the former of which is forceably a bad faction, and the latter of which is one of those not-really-good-hypocritical-type "good guy" factions, yay.
One thing I really dislike about how is how you can only "At War" certain factions. I think the whole Cenarion thing is really shady from the start, from questionable rationale for wholesale racial slaughter ("They're hurting the environment. Somehow we have the technology to know this, and we're also sure it's worth killing hundreds and thousands of people to save this little piece of land from not being what we consider an ideal ecosystem.") to supporting outright eco-terrorism (D.E.H.T.A., a violent terroristic PETA parody that actually scores you rewards and positive reputation for assisting).
And yet, I can't battle with more than half of the Cenarion group, because the one mentioned above you can't "At War" with and attack. So eventually, over time, just by playing I'll gain reputation with them to the point where I'm revered amongst nature-first humanoids-second extremists.
Anyway, we started duoing the Hyjal missions, and they're not bad. Twilight, but at least the faction we're working for I don't dislike. I had brilliant moments, like destroying a camp on foot when the quest name was specifically, "Flames from Above," but that's nothing new. Also lolled at the Twilight guys wearing armor that exposed their abs and sides, remarking that Tam and Twilight must shop at the same place!
Went through some caves with some non-aggro Twilight who of course got tore up till I made it a point to run far ahead, leaving Tam solo. We ended up freeing some slaves, but they and their captor had a crazy fast respawn time, making it hard to get all the drops we needed from them before getting attacked (eventually we just split duties between drops and fighting).
Kristoff Manheim was funny.
I was solo for a bit after that, so I finished up exploring everything I needed for the "Explorer" title, outside of Deepholm, which I can't yet access, then did my Argent Tournament things before returning to Hyjal to do some mining. I had a close call with three Twilight Stormcallers at one point, and escaped without bloodshed... only for Tavia to return, and me realize they were next on our victims list. x_x
We did some dungeons and questing, and eventually got to a "harpy" quest. We took down the first few, then ended up capturing their leader, where we were given the option to "soften her up" or just ask for info. She gave the info freely. And then Tam, the person who wouldn't do a torture quest earlier, had the woman killed instead of freed, despite the option to allow her to go.
So I abandoned since it counted for me, and was pretty displeased with how the whole thing went down. I did some mining, did some archaeology, changed his chair to make Cinnaris more Cinnarisy, and got him to 82, so I finally hit Deepholm and got my first title. "Cinnaris the Explorer" in the house!
I did play around with some WoW and XI model viewers and make a scene of Tam beating up a buncha mobs, heheh, and took a screen from Zangarmarsh, but ended up not using it and making a quicky background. Quite a productive, if at times highly frustrating, day!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some more exploring, including going through the insect-infested Silithus zone populated by Twilight and Cenarion, the former of which is forceably a bad faction, and the latter of which is one of those not-really-good-hypocritical-type "good guy" factions, yay.
One thing I really dislike about how is how you can only "At War" certain factions. I think the whole Cenarion thing is really shady from the start, from questionable rationale for wholesale racial slaughter ("They're hurting the environment. Somehow we have the technology to know this, and we're also sure it's worth killing hundreds and thousands of people to save this little piece of land from not being what we consider an ideal ecosystem.") to supporting outright eco-terrorism (D.E.H.T.A., a violent terroristic PETA parody that actually scores you rewards and positive reputation for assisting).
And yet, I can't battle with more than half of the Cenarion group, because the one mentioned above you can't "At War" with and attack. So eventually, over time, just by playing I'll gain reputation with them to the point where I'm revered amongst nature-first humanoids-second extremists.
Anyway, we started duoing the Hyjal missions, and they're not bad. Twilight, but at least the faction we're working for I don't dislike. I had brilliant moments, like destroying a camp on foot when the quest name was specifically, "Flames from Above," but that's nothing new. Also lolled at the Twilight guys wearing armor that exposed their abs and sides, remarking that Tam and Twilight must shop at the same place!
Went through some caves with some non-aggro Twilight who of course got tore up till I made it a point to run far ahead, leaving Tam solo. We ended up freeing some slaves, but they and their captor had a crazy fast respawn time, making it hard to get all the drops we needed from them before getting attacked (eventually we just split duties between drops and fighting).
Kristoff Manheim was funny.
I was solo for a bit after that, so I finished up exploring everything I needed for the "Explorer" title, outside of Deepholm, which I can't yet access, then did my Argent Tournament things before returning to Hyjal to do some mining. I had a close call with three Twilight Stormcallers at one point, and escaped without bloodshed... only for Tavia to return, and me realize they were next on our victims list. x_x
We did some dungeons and questing, and eventually got to a "harpy" quest. We took down the first few, then ended up capturing their leader, where we were given the option to "soften her up" or just ask for info. She gave the info freely. And then Tam, the person who wouldn't do a torture quest earlier, had the woman killed instead of freed, despite the option to allow her to go.
So I abandoned since it counted for me, and was pretty displeased with how the whole thing went down. I did some mining, did some archaeology, changed his chair to make Cinnaris more Cinnarisy, and got him to 82, so I finally hit Deepholm and got my first title. "Cinnaris the Explorer" in the house!
I did play around with some WoW and XI model viewers and make a scene of Tam beating up a buncha mobs, heheh, and took a screen from Zangarmarsh, but ended up not using it and making a quicky background. Quite a productive, if at times highly frustrating, day!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
January 1st, 2011
So I slept most of the New Year's, but I totally stayed up and gamed anyway! Naturally!
Resolutions, less gaming, but more quality! Huge console backlog!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Just rang the bells on my characters to get the gift timers started.
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a chunk of blacksmithing, knocked out some Argent dailies (cultists again, argh!), and then did some mining... only to realize Fel Iron Ore and above requires TWO ores to smelt a single bar. Blarg! Gonna take a little longer than I hoped to get blacksmithing done, and I'm almost outta cash! So it goes!
Resolutions, less gaming, but more quality! Huge console backlog!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Just rang the bells on my characters to get the gift timers started.
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a chunk of blacksmithing, knocked out some Argent dailies (cultists again, argh!), and then did some mining... only to realize Fel Iron Ore and above requires TWO ores to smelt a single bar. Blarg! Gonna take a little longer than I hoped to get blacksmithing done, and I'm almost outta cash! So it goes!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
December 30th, 2010
Final Fantasy XI (PC): XI, last on the list, ended up being quite a long adventure, and I quite enjoyed it! Tam helped for the first part of things. We got cards to trade for stoves and costumes and did the Beginner Smilebringer run to get ourselves a Jeuno Christmas tree each, then did some Cassiopeia card trading, traveling around all three major cities.
Tam chunked the deuces, so I finished up, getting my holiday fame to max and getting a Dream Hat +1, then did the Intermediate and Advanced runs to get bunny hats, so by the end of it I had every item of furniture and clothing.
But it didn't end there! Since Eireen was in Jeuno, I ran her through the Batallia course (at level five!) to get her a cute hat with a practical speed buff, then took her back to her hometown in Windy. Got her a Dream Hat and Robe, nabbed a Jeuno tree, and then did a page so she'd have enough to repat from Jeuno again when needed. Productive!
Did read over the recent patch notes... wow! Some nice changes! Some are vague (allied campaign NPCs strength "bolstered"), but there's some neat new job abilities, and you can have 20 instead of just 10 merit points stored. Looking forward to getting back into XI a bit!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang the bells for all four characters, got crap for Christmas - er, Starlight - gifts, but Tam already had a full Santa outfit for me, so I figured I was good there!
Sonic & Knuckles with Sonic 3 (360): As the last day of Sega's digital sale, Sonic 3 was dropped to $2.50, and S&K to $1.50! So I nabbed them, and played about two seconds into them locked together. I coulda swore I picked "Knuckles" but it started me as Tails. Has it been that long since I played?
Tam chunked the deuces, so I finished up, getting my holiday fame to max and getting a Dream Hat +1, then did the Intermediate and Advanced runs to get bunny hats, so by the end of it I had every item of furniture and clothing.
But it didn't end there! Since Eireen was in Jeuno, I ran her through the Batallia course (at level five!) to get her a cute hat with a practical speed buff, then took her back to her hometown in Windy. Got her a Dream Hat and Robe, nabbed a Jeuno tree, and then did a page so she'd have enough to repat from Jeuno again when needed. Productive!
Did read over the recent patch notes... wow! Some nice changes! Some are vague (allied campaign NPCs strength "bolstered"), but there's some neat new job abilities, and you can have 20 instead of just 10 merit points stored. Looking forward to getting back into XI a bit!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang the bells for all four characters, got crap for Christmas - er, Starlight - gifts, but Tam already had a full Santa outfit for me, so I figured I was good there!
Sonic & Knuckles with Sonic 3 (360): As the last day of Sega's digital sale, Sonic 3 was dropped to $2.50, and S&K to $1.50! So I nabbed them, and played about two seconds into them locked together. I coulda swore I picked "Knuckles" but it started me as Tails. Has it been that long since I played?
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
December 28th, 2010
Dead Rising: Case West (360): Just started, only a little into it. It's neat to see Frank again, but unfortunately, I have yet to get to PLAY as him! There's also no save data that transfers over, so you start at L40, and the factory setting thus far is pretty bland.
I guess you could say I'm not overly impressed, especially considering this was 800 MS points - er, ten bucks - as opposed to Case Zero being a mere $5. But I'll play through it and beat it regardless, and hopefully at some point get a chance to control Frank.
Dead Rising 3 is confirmed anyway, and I hear Case West is really just a bridge for 2 to 3.
Final Fantasy XI (PC): Not much, opened a few Starlight boxes and got WAR a level. If I stick with XI, it'll probably eventually become a sub for DRG when more firepower is needed.
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris his gifts, got Temporarea-whatever her gift and timer started, then "bought" all the rest of the character slots. Made a male galka named "Xmas Giftguyforcinna" and a female lalafell named "Cinnariss Xmasmidget" and got both their initial gifts and timers started too!
Maids with Balloons (360): The game is horrible, but there's a handful of cutscenes with real life maids, looking like they were pulled right from an anime convention, spouting generic, awful anime dialog. And yet, I paid the $1 for it.
Hey, the girls are cute!
Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (360): Both refreshing to be back to PSU and frustrating that everything I knew about it is gone. Did do a quick run of the Absolute Zero event and got some new music outta it. I'm telling myself I need to level hard now during the even and get back to the S, S2 and S3 ranks, but we'll see! A lot on my gaming plate lately!
I guess you could say I'm not overly impressed, especially considering this was 800 MS points - er, ten bucks - as opposed to Case Zero being a mere $5. But I'll play through it and beat it regardless, and hopefully at some point get a chance to control Frank.
Dead Rising 3 is confirmed anyway, and I hear Case West is really just a bridge for 2 to 3.
Final Fantasy XI (PC): Not much, opened a few Starlight boxes and got WAR a level. If I stick with XI, it'll probably eventually become a sub for DRG when more firepower is needed.
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris his gifts, got Temporarea-whatever her gift and timer started, then "bought" all the rest of the character slots. Made a male galka named "Xmas Giftguyforcinna" and a female lalafell named "Cinnariss Xmasmidget" and got both their initial gifts and timers started too!
Maids with Balloons (360): The game is horrible, but there's a handful of cutscenes with real life maids, looking like they were pulled right from an anime convention, spouting generic, awful anime dialog. And yet, I paid the $1 for it.
Hey, the girls are cute!
Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (360): Both refreshing to be back to PSU and frustrating that everything I knew about it is gone. Did do a quick run of the Absolute Zero event and got some new music outta it. I'm telling myself I need to level hard now during the even and get back to the S, S2 and S3 ranks, but we'll see! A lot on my gaming plate lately!
Monday, December 27, 2010
December 27th, 2010
Final Fantasy XI (PC): The most successful gaming today, I did the little quest to get my Dragoon job emote. It's fairly neat, blue wings appear, and I can run around with 'em for a few seconds. I have a DRK and a WHM quest available to me, I should do those too!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Not much at all! Simply got Cinnaris to the Starlight Celebration bells to get my present-timer counting. EIGHT HOURS between gifts, was only an hour in XI, yikes!
Shenmue (Dreamcast): Not a ton here either, just ran a bit around Dobuita, fed the kitten, did the first QTE, all that good stuff!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not much! Did the Argent Tournament dailies, and that's about it! Almost had forgotten, too!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Not much at all! Simply got Cinnaris to the Starlight Celebration bells to get my present-timer counting. EIGHT HOURS between gifts, was only an hour in XI, yikes!
Shenmue (Dreamcast): Not a ton here either, just ran a bit around Dobuita, fed the kitten, did the first QTE, all that good stuff!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not much! Did the Argent Tournament dailies, and that's about it! Almost had forgotten, too!
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