Tomorrow See's the end of the Xbox Live Spring Easter sale that has been running for the last week, so last chance to get some of those bargains. Why do I mention this? well the Skyrim DLC is currently 50% which is a bargain and must get if you have Skyrim. I've barely scratched the surface of the game but could not resist the discount so I've finally picked up the missing DLC.
Dragonborn was 1,600 Microsoft Points - Now 800 Microsoft Points
Hearthfire was 400 Microsoft Points - Now 200 Microsoft Points
Dawnguard was 1,600 Microsoft Points - Now 800 Microsoft Points
You can get the full list of sale items on Major Nelsons blog which is linked here for your convience. Other good discounts to mention is Walking Dead Episode 1 is free again and the rest of the episodes at 50% off (200 Microsoft Points each).
With the Spring sale ending tomorrow there will be a April's Fool Sale for one day only like last year. Again Major Nelson has posted a small tease of some of the things on sale tomorrow, mostly Fallout 3 DLC at 75% off. If this tease is correct the 33% off the Assassin's Creed 3 season pass is a good bargain and the 60% off Dishonored Dunwell Trials DLC.
Will be on Xbox live tomorrow to see what will be discounted and should be a interesting day to see what April fools jokes go up, I'm expecting lots of consoles pictures going around and crazy games.
~Iznic
Source: Major Nelson Blog
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Battlefield 4 Reveal
Evening folks,
Happy Easter readers! sorry for the lack of posts recently but I've been very busy and not much time to do anything really (including gaming). Anyway I've got plenty to post about it so expect plenty this week as I try and catch up with everything. So to start things off let's talk Battlefield 4, for the last few weeks EA as been teasing with mini clips and images that a big reveal was coming. Then the website went live last week (or was it the week before, cannot remember) with a date marking the release of the trailer.
Well I was shocked that the trailer would be 17 minutes of game play footage, I was just expecting a mini thing saying the the launch window and consoles. The graphics look amazing but it as come out they was playing on a high-end spec PC but still should be good on the consoles. What did shock me though is that it's coming to the current generation consoles. Slight worry there because if they do announce it for next generation as well will it be just a port with a slight improvement on graphics yet a new console game price tag (extra £10-15).
Guess only time will tell and they probably holding off announcing the next generation versions since the new Xbox as not made an appearance yet. This game will be on my list to get since I love the Battlefield series, it's one of few games I actually like playing online. Lost count how many hours I poured into Bad Company 2 although to be fair I've not put the time into Battlefield 3 but the matches I did play was awesome.
Need to rectify that soon and start having a session every week, especially since I bought the premium service to get all the extra maps and modes. Anyway back to Battlefield 4, graphics look nice and the new story could be interesting so fingers crossed there. It's the one thing that usually fails for me is getting into the singleplayer story, Battlefield 3 was ok but could had been a lot better and the Medal of Honor series...well let's not go there.
Anyone else picking this up or is it not your cup of tea?
~Iznic
Happy Easter readers! sorry for the lack of posts recently but I've been very busy and not much time to do anything really (including gaming). Anyway I've got plenty to post about it so expect plenty this week as I try and catch up with everything. So to start things off let's talk Battlefield 4, for the last few weeks EA as been teasing with mini clips and images that a big reveal was coming. Then the website went live last week (or was it the week before, cannot remember) with a date marking the release of the trailer.
Well I was shocked that the trailer would be 17 minutes of game play footage, I was just expecting a mini thing saying the the launch window and consoles. The graphics look amazing but it as come out they was playing on a high-end spec PC but still should be good on the consoles. What did shock me though is that it's coming to the current generation consoles. Slight worry there because if they do announce it for next generation as well will it be just a port with a slight improvement on graphics yet a new console game price tag (extra £10-15).
Guess only time will tell and they probably holding off announcing the next generation versions since the new Xbox as not made an appearance yet. This game will be on my list to get since I love the Battlefield series, it's one of few games I actually like playing online. Lost count how many hours I poured into Bad Company 2 although to be fair I've not put the time into Battlefield 3 but the matches I did play was awesome.
Need to rectify that soon and start having a session every week, especially since I bought the premium service to get all the extra maps and modes. Anyway back to Battlefield 4, graphics look nice and the new story could be interesting so fingers crossed there. It's the one thing that usually fails for me is getting into the singleplayer story, Battlefield 3 was ok but could had been a lot better and the Medal of Honor series...well let's not go there.
Anyone else picking this up or is it not your cup of tea?
~Iznic
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Minecraft Update 9
4JStudios have released a trailer for the upcoming update 9 which finally brings the Ender Dragon and "The End" to the game
You can find a patch note list just here on the Minecraft Wiki but of course this could change sine the patch as not been released yet. Most of the changes are bug fixes or improving new features, interesting to see the End since I never had chance on the PC to try it yet. Also it looks like they will be doing some changes for the console version, thing that stood out to me the most was an exit portal so I'm guessing you can still go back into your game once you done with the Dragon.
Anyway I really could do with jumping back onto Minecraft, got plenty of projects that I wanted to work on and I've not really been on since Update 8 which had creative mode. Plus seeing the Assassin's Creed and Claptrap skins just makes me want to go play right now, shame my TV has been taken over by the girlfriend.
~Iznic
You can find a patch note list just here on the Minecraft Wiki but of course this could change sine the patch as not been released yet. Most of the changes are bug fixes or improving new features, interesting to see the End since I never had chance on the PC to try it yet. Also it looks like they will be doing some changes for the console version, thing that stood out to me the most was an exit portal so I'm guessing you can still go back into your game once you done with the Dragon.
Anyway I really could do with jumping back onto Minecraft, got plenty of projects that I wanted to work on and I've not really been on since Update 8 which had creative mode. Plus seeing the Assassin's Creed and Claptrap skins just makes me want to go play right now, shame my TV has been taken over by the girlfriend.
~Iznic
Gears of War Weapon Skin
Evening folks,
Hopefully got a few posts for you tonight but will see how things go since so far everything I've planned this weekend keeps getting cancelled. This is a quick post about a free weapon skin for Gears of War Judgement, it is limited so don't delay it too long to try and get one.
Xbox is having a competition on their facebook where you given a chance to win a console, a Kinect and of course a copy of the game. You will need to login with your Facebook details but just for entering you do get the Window Web Skin for your lancer in multiplayer.
Link is here for the site or just check out xbox 360 on Facebook.
That's it for this post folks but stay tuned for a few more in a minute of too, by the way as anyone played the game yet? I loaded up mine at the start but had to rush out. Seemed ok but I'm not expecting anything amazing from it. Hopefully the game will surprise me and be great, anyway drop a line with what you think in the comments or on Facebook.
~Iznic
Hopefully got a few posts for you tonight but will see how things go since so far everything I've planned this weekend keeps getting cancelled. This is a quick post about a free weapon skin for Gears of War Judgement, it is limited so don't delay it too long to try and get one.
Xbox is having a competition on their facebook where you given a chance to win a console, a Kinect and of course a copy of the game. You will need to login with your Facebook details but just for entering you do get the Window Web Skin for your lancer in multiplayer.
Link is here for the site or just check out xbox 360 on Facebook.
That's it for this post folks but stay tuned for a few more in a minute of too, by the way as anyone played the game yet? I loaded up mine at the start but had to rush out. Seemed ok but I'm not expecting anything amazing from it. Hopefully the game will surprise me and be great, anyway drop a line with what you think in the comments or on Facebook.
~Iznic
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Meloetta Pokemon Event
Morning folks,
Just a reminder to any Pokemon fans out their in the UK, the Meloetta event will be starting tomorrow across the country. Pop into any GAME store with your DS and a copy of either Pokemon White 2/Black 2/White/Black to download Meloetta to your game.
As far as I am aware it will be the same one that America is currently doing so it should be level 50 with a PP Max. If you take it to Castelia City in your game it will be able to learn Relic Song which will allow it to change into it's Pirouette Form. Also been told in the versions White 2 and Black 2 it will unlock a FunFest Mission to play.
Check out serebii.net for all the details on how to do these unlocks and missions.
So don't miss out folks since the event will end April 19th 2013 so you have plenty of time to do it, for those in America the event is being run by Gamestop right now and ends on the 24th March 2013. Australia will be getting the event at EBGames starting April 19th with no information yet on end date, check your local store for information.
Will be popping in myself with all my copies of Pokemon tomorrow, still need to finish Pokemon Black 2 so really could do with adding it to my must play list. Oh by the way if you live in America did you see the good news about the Pikachu 3DS XL? yes you will be getting it finally, not information yet on which stores will be stocking it but I would have chat with your local retailers.
~Iznic
Source: GAME / Serebii.net / Official Nintendo Magazine (Picture)
Just a reminder to any Pokemon fans out their in the UK, the Meloetta event will be starting tomorrow across the country. Pop into any GAME store with your DS and a copy of either Pokemon White 2/Black 2/White/Black to download Meloetta to your game.
As far as I am aware it will be the same one that America is currently doing so it should be level 50 with a PP Max. If you take it to Castelia City in your game it will be able to learn Relic Song which will allow it to change into it's Pirouette Form. Also been told in the versions White 2 and Black 2 it will unlock a FunFest Mission to play.
Check out serebii.net for all the details on how to do these unlocks and missions.
So don't miss out folks since the event will end April 19th 2013 so you have plenty of time to do it, for those in America the event is being run by Gamestop right now and ends on the 24th March 2013. Australia will be getting the event at EBGames starting April 19th with no information yet on end date, check your local store for information.
Will be popping in myself with all my copies of Pokemon tomorrow, still need to finish Pokemon Black 2 so really could do with adding it to my must play list. Oh by the way if you live in America did you see the good news about the Pikachu 3DS XL? yes you will be getting it finally, not information yet on which stores will be stocking it but I would have chat with your local retailers.
~Iznic
Source: GAME / Serebii.net / Official Nintendo Magazine (Picture)
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
More Collector Edition's for Splinter Cell Blacklist
Morning folks,
Last week Ubisoft announced several more collectors for their upcoming Splinter Cell game Blacklist, if you remember a few months back I did a post about two editions that had come to light which can be found here.
Well it seems the Paladin Aircraft Edition is looking to be a exclusive to North America now but the UK/Europe have their own edition now, The 5th Freedom Edition. Before I go into that let's start with the basic editions and move the way up, heads up folks this information is for the UK and I'm not sure on other countries but check out your local retailers to see if they have information for you.
First up is the Upper Echelon Edition which is an exclusive to the retailer GAME, this is a basic standard edition with a few extra goodies. Of course you get the game it self with an edited slevee plus the extra bonus map Dead Coast for singleplayer and co-op mode. Gold nightvision goggles and the upper echelon suit for Sam, HK416 Assault rifle for the game as well. There is also one more item "Elite Digital Ghillie Suit" but as you can tell from the picture there isn't an image of it yet.
So not a bad edition if you not into your big collector editions but you will have a tough choice between this and Amazon pre-order bonus with the steelbook. Anyway onto the first big collector edition for us which is the Ultimatum Edition and every retailer should be stocking this since there is no exclusive rights on it.
How cool does the digital watch look? I love the fact it's based on the signature nightvision goggles, my only worry is if it's cheaply made but I've pre-ordered it anyway so hopefully I can check it out before I buy. Anyway back to what you get inside this edition, well first a collectors box to hold it all in. The watch itself of course plus a 96 page graphic novel which is meant to lead into the story of the game. Bonus content for the game includes two bonus maps for singleplayer and co-op, Dead coast again and Billionaire's yacht (Bourne Identity anyone).
Of course you also get the golden goggles and upper echelon suit which seems to be in every edition so far, plus an extra set of ghost boots. So there you have it for this edition and I like the looks of it, I like how much effort is gone into the outer box because normally means they have put the time into the rest as well. As I said before though I am a little worried about the watch but have to wait for August to find out.
So we have one more edition but it comes in two variants, this it the Europe version of the Paladin Aircraft Edition also know as the 5th Freedom Edition.
This bad boy is another GAME exclusive in the UK market, you get the same graphics novel and two bonus maps. Different collectors outer box and you get the steelbook this time (funny since it was meant to be a Amazon exclusive), plus the awesome looking figurine for your collection. The digital content as also been increased with five different goggles, suits and weapons.
Now there is a second variant of this edition which is only currently being stocked by Ubisoft themselves on their site. The 5th Freedom Silver Edition which is pretty much all the same stuff except the figurine is silver with just the goggles being green, the steelbook is also lost most of it's colours and gone for the silver look as well. Also if you look closely at the image you can see the collectors outer box as a silver effect as well.
So that's it folks for Splinter Cell BlackList and any of you tempted for any of these editions? I've got an order down for both the Freedom and Ultimatum right now but I am tempted for the Silver Edition as well. Doubt I can afford all of them since I would love to get all three, trade the extra games of course and just keep the collectors stuff.
~Iznic
Last week Ubisoft announced several more collectors for their upcoming Splinter Cell game Blacklist, if you remember a few months back I did a post about two editions that had come to light which can be found here.
Well it seems the Paladin Aircraft Edition is looking to be a exclusive to North America now but the UK/Europe have their own edition now, The 5th Freedom Edition. Before I go into that let's start with the basic editions and move the way up, heads up folks this information is for the UK and I'm not sure on other countries but check out your local retailers to see if they have information for you.
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| GAME Exclusive Upper Echelon Edition |
So not a bad edition if you not into your big collector editions but you will have a tough choice between this and Amazon pre-order bonus with the steelbook. Anyway onto the first big collector edition for us which is the Ultimatum Edition and every retailer should be stocking this since there is no exclusive rights on it.
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| Ultimatum Edition |
Of course you also get the golden goggles and upper echelon suit which seems to be in every edition so far, plus an extra set of ghost boots. So there you have it for this edition and I like the looks of it, I like how much effort is gone into the outer box because normally means they have put the time into the rest as well. As I said before though I am a little worried about the watch but have to wait for August to find out.
So we have one more edition but it comes in two variants, this it the Europe version of the Paladin Aircraft Edition also know as the 5th Freedom Edition.
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| GAME Exclusive 5th Freedom Edition |
Now there is a second variant of this edition which is only currently being stocked by Ubisoft themselves on their site. The 5th Freedom Silver Edition which is pretty much all the same stuff except the figurine is silver with just the goggles being green, the steelbook is also lost most of it's colours and gone for the silver look as well. Also if you look closely at the image you can see the collectors outer box as a silver effect as well.
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| Ubisoft Exclusive 5th Freedom Silver Edition |
So that's it folks for Splinter Cell BlackList and any of you tempted for any of these editions? I've got an order down for both the Freedom and Ultimatum right now but I am tempted for the Silver Edition as well. Doubt I can afford all of them since I would love to get all three, trade the extra games of course and just keep the collectors stuff.
~Iznic
Monday, 18 March 2013
March Boss Fight
Afternoon folks,
Well my boss fight is going...well I'm going to say ok because it was terrible but yesterday was good, anyway I bet you wondering what the title of the post means and what boss fight. I've been treating this month games as a video game boss fight, each release being a new stage in the fight. So phase one was Tomb Raider so I was up against Lara Croft herself, very tough fight thanks to the awesome graphics in the game that make you stop to take in the beautiful scenery. Then lets not forget the collectibles add more time to the game because you just want to go looking for them. A very difficulty phase in this epic boss fight and it went badly for me since I was only 36% completed when Phase Two started.
Phase Two saw Kerrigan joining Lara (Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm), strategy game means long times especially for me since I like to take my time to build my base up before charging in. Of course the story is pretty sweet and plenty of side stuff to do so this phase would be tough since the amount of time it would take to win.
Unfortunately for me lady luck was both on my side and not, Phase Three started several days early since I was not expecting Amazon to deliver God of War last Saturday since they had quoted this Wednesday to me. So now I've got Kratos joining the fight making it 3v1 and the odds are not in my favour, especially with the God of War franchise being known for long ass games with tough boss fights at the end.
But not all is despair folks since I was granted the awesome power up "Day Off" yesterday which allowed me to duke it for five hours with Kerrigan and it ended with me winning. Another game for the completion list finally, been a while since I had clocked a game and I really need to start catching up.
Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm is pretty sweet but I did find it a lot easier compared to Wings of Liberty, not sure if it was me improving my skills since when I played Wings of Liberty that was the first time I've ever tried a Starcraft game. Story was not bad either but it did feel slightly like a filler in some ways since this is the second game in the trilogy, felt like a bit more of the story could be focused on the main story arc instead of the Kerrigan revenge arc. But still I would give the game a solid 8/9 out of the 10 if it was to grade it.
So where does that leave me now? well I'm around 60% done with Tomb Raider and God of War Ascension is sitting sealed by my TV. Going to take some photos when I unpack it for a unboxing blog post since I picked up the collectors edition. Fingers crossed I can take down Lara Croft before the weekend since Phase Four will begin and Gears of War Judgement hits.
Don't worry folks my posts will turn normal again soon and expect two unboxing blog posts in the week, God of War and Starcraft 2 HOTS.
~Iznic
Well my boss fight is going...well I'm going to say ok because it was terrible but yesterday was good, anyway I bet you wondering what the title of the post means and what boss fight. I've been treating this month games as a video game boss fight, each release being a new stage in the fight. So phase one was Tomb Raider so I was up against Lara Croft herself, very tough fight thanks to the awesome graphics in the game that make you stop to take in the beautiful scenery. Then lets not forget the collectibles add more time to the game because you just want to go looking for them. A very difficulty phase in this epic boss fight and it went badly for me since I was only 36% completed when Phase Two started.
Phase Two saw Kerrigan joining Lara (Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm), strategy game means long times especially for me since I like to take my time to build my base up before charging in. Of course the story is pretty sweet and plenty of side stuff to do so this phase would be tough since the amount of time it would take to win.
Unfortunately for me lady luck was both on my side and not, Phase Three started several days early since I was not expecting Amazon to deliver God of War last Saturday since they had quoted this Wednesday to me. So now I've got Kratos joining the fight making it 3v1 and the odds are not in my favour, especially with the God of War franchise being known for long ass games with tough boss fights at the end.
But not all is despair folks since I was granted the awesome power up "Day Off" yesterday which allowed me to duke it for five hours with Kerrigan and it ended with me winning. Another game for the completion list finally, been a while since I had clocked a game and I really need to start catching up.
Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm is pretty sweet but I did find it a lot easier compared to Wings of Liberty, not sure if it was me improving my skills since when I played Wings of Liberty that was the first time I've ever tried a Starcraft game. Story was not bad either but it did feel slightly like a filler in some ways since this is the second game in the trilogy, felt like a bit more of the story could be focused on the main story arc instead of the Kerrigan revenge arc. But still I would give the game a solid 8/9 out of the 10 if it was to grade it.
So where does that leave me now? well I'm around 60% done with Tomb Raider and God of War Ascension is sitting sealed by my TV. Going to take some photos when I unpack it for a unboxing blog post since I picked up the collectors edition. Fingers crossed I can take down Lara Croft before the weekend since Phase Four will begin and Gears of War Judgement hits.
Don't worry folks my posts will turn normal again soon and expect two unboxing blog posts in the week, God of War and Starcraft 2 HOTS.
~Iznic
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Games, Games and More Games
Good Morning Folks,
I know it's been a while since my last post but last week was nothing short of being chaos for me and what little time I had spare went to playing Tomb Raider and World of Warcraft. Currently sitting on 58% complete according to my save file for Tomb Raider and I got to say it's one of the best games I've played in a long time.
If you not picked up it yet then go buy it right now, this is one of those rare moments where I will recommend this game to everyone. The graphics, gameplay and story just work perfectly, it's like Batman Arkham Asylum meets Uncharted with a tiny bit of Assassin's Creed 3 all blended together to make this game great. I really want to finish it soon so one I've not got too many games on the go and two I really want to write out a review for it, I know shocking right? me writing a review. So I will go into more details about the game when I do the review, soon as I finish first and played some of the multiplayer. Not expecting anything great from that part and not really sure why they put in a multiplayer part.
Anyway other then Tomb Raider I have been doing the new daily quests in World of Warcraft for the Island of Thunder war effort. Phase two unlocked yesterday afternoon to my great annoyance, wanted to play Starcraft more but I had to get the quests out of the way first. As you can guess I did pick up Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm yesterday, so far it's brilliant but trying to get use to playing the Zerg since my play style is usually build a base then make a small powerful army to crush my foe. Zerg is more like making a huge army and swarming the enemy with numbers while their base engulfs the land. Think I'm getting the hang of it so far anyway, will post up a unboxing for it soon since I picked up the collectors edition which is very sweet looking.
So yeah my plans for this week will be those three games, Starcraft, Warcraft and Tomb Raider. God of War Ascension is out on Friday but Amazon won't be delivering mine until Monday-Wednesday due to the fact I picked the free delivery. Seems I have to pay extra to get it on day one, shocking since everyone will post it early to make sure it arrives in time. Shame Amazon was the cheapest for the collectors edition, got it a bargain price of £61 instead of the £80+ marker that it went too later on.
On that note I better go get ready for work since I only wanted to do a quick update for you folks, I promise I will try and get some more posts up soon but you know how it is with all these new games coming out. Hard to stop playing them but I will try my best for you and until then have a good one.
~Iznic
I know it's been a while since my last post but last week was nothing short of being chaos for me and what little time I had spare went to playing Tomb Raider and World of Warcraft. Currently sitting on 58% complete according to my save file for Tomb Raider and I got to say it's one of the best games I've played in a long time.
If you not picked up it yet then go buy it right now, this is one of those rare moments where I will recommend this game to everyone. The graphics, gameplay and story just work perfectly, it's like Batman Arkham Asylum meets Uncharted with a tiny bit of Assassin's Creed 3 all blended together to make this game great. I really want to finish it soon so one I've not got too many games on the go and two I really want to write out a review for it, I know shocking right? me writing a review. So I will go into more details about the game when I do the review, soon as I finish first and played some of the multiplayer. Not expecting anything great from that part and not really sure why they put in a multiplayer part.
Anyway other then Tomb Raider I have been doing the new daily quests in World of Warcraft for the Island of Thunder war effort. Phase two unlocked yesterday afternoon to my great annoyance, wanted to play Starcraft more but I had to get the quests out of the way first. As you can guess I did pick up Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm yesterday, so far it's brilliant but trying to get use to playing the Zerg since my play style is usually build a base then make a small powerful army to crush my foe. Zerg is more like making a huge army and swarming the enemy with numbers while their base engulfs the land. Think I'm getting the hang of it so far anyway, will post up a unboxing for it soon since I picked up the collectors edition which is very sweet looking.
So yeah my plans for this week will be those three games, Starcraft, Warcraft and Tomb Raider. God of War Ascension is out on Friday but Amazon won't be delivering mine until Monday-Wednesday due to the fact I picked the free delivery. Seems I have to pay extra to get it on day one, shocking since everyone will post it early to make sure it arrives in time. Shame Amazon was the cheapest for the collectors edition, got it a bargain price of £61 instead of the £80+ marker that it went too later on.
On that note I better go get ready for work since I only wanted to do a quick update for you folks, I promise I will try and get some more posts up soon but you know how it is with all these new games coming out. Hard to stop playing them but I will try my best for you and until then have a good one.
~Iznic
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Patch Day
Morning folks,
It's been one of those week's so far but I'm thinking today will change that, well after I get out of work first since I got a huge list of jobs to do when I go in. Anyway you not here to read about that, your here for games! well welcome to the start of the March madness. How is everyone? did you pick up Tomb Raider? what a game and I've only spent two hours on it last night. Seriously folks this is a game you need to pick up, think of it like Uncharted meets Batman with a hint of Assassin's Creed 3. The game really does get to you and you cannot help but feel for Lara and this very bad day, poor girl should not had got out of bed that morning.
I am annoyed though because this morning I checked out the achievement list which is quite poor to be honest for such a great game, 50% multi-player, 30% collectibles, 25% kill x with Y, 4% other secret and only one achievement for the game it self which is finishing the story. Anyway I'm annoyed because I found out there are seven achievements miss able meaning having to redo the game again and I've missed the start of one already. With the others if you miss them you can just restart and not play the full game but this one seems I would have to redo pretty much the entire game. So I am thinking of restarting now while I'm still at the start, not sure yet but we will see later.
Apart from that not much to report in the ways of games, oh wait actually that is a lie since I did not come back on Sunday. Remember I planned that huge gaming day with lots of games, well the plan was scrapped. I decided to start with Star Wars Old Republic to give it another try since the time is running out this week, thought give it an hour then go onto World of Warcraft. Yeah well that hour turned into three, no idea what happened but I just could not stop playing. Was really getting into my Bounty Hunter with the main story, was amazed when I realised the time spent on it. So yeah I will be renewing the time card well if I can find one, if not I will just buy a month from the site. I checked out the difference between Free-To-Play and premium, it's not good. XP is halved, character slots down to two, loss of one of the crafting professions, no high end loot, restrictions on messaging and so on. It's like you only get 10% of the game and the rest you have need to buy, thought the Free-to-Play was meant to tempt people into the game but all that would scare me away if I've never played the game before.
After that I did do a small session on Warcraft then continued with two levels on Hitman Contracts HD, working my way through on Professional difficulty and getting Silent Assassin Ranks. Probably going to be shelving that for a few weeks since I suspect Tomb Raider will keep me busy this week then next Tuesday is Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm launch. I knew I hard forgot something this morning, it's patch day for World of Warcraft so 5.2 is going live. There is a huge quest based island being added where players take part every day with daily quests to help unlock further stages in the war effort, so for example first week you start the invasion and land on the island. Quests will be based on making a beach head, then after a week or until a certain criteria is meet the second stage starts which is the beach head made and progress into the island and so on.
I love these kinda of quests so I will be making sure to spend a session each night to do the daily quests and help out. Oh wow there is a single-player scenario added that lets you loot a tomb for loads of treasure, of course plenty of traps and a timer but sounds awesome. Second island nearby called the Island of Giants, lots of quests there to get awesome new mounts. Oh man this patch sounds awesome, think Tomb Raider will not be hogging all my time this week.
Reading through the patch guide on wowhead.com and I got to say there is too much to take in, so many changes and new things. It's like a whole new game as been added and I just realised how much there is to do at level 90, I had no idea there was legendary quest line and I had forgot about the pet battles (think Pokemon). Lot's of new achievements have been added as well and looks like some of the holidays will be upgraded for the new expansion which is good. Professions have a lot of new stuff as well, could do with working on those soon.
Right I better stop with this post now since I need to have breakfast and go to work, safe to say I will be busy gaming when I get back. Hope you all having a great week and enjoying all the new games, catch you soon!
~Iznic
It's been one of those week's so far but I'm thinking today will change that, well after I get out of work first since I got a huge list of jobs to do when I go in. Anyway you not here to read about that, your here for games! well welcome to the start of the March madness. How is everyone? did you pick up Tomb Raider? what a game and I've only spent two hours on it last night. Seriously folks this is a game you need to pick up, think of it like Uncharted meets Batman with a hint of Assassin's Creed 3. The game really does get to you and you cannot help but feel for Lara and this very bad day, poor girl should not had got out of bed that morning.
I am annoyed though because this morning I checked out the achievement list which is quite poor to be honest for such a great game, 50% multi-player, 30% collectibles, 25% kill x with Y, 4% other secret and only one achievement for the game it self which is finishing the story. Anyway I'm annoyed because I found out there are seven achievements miss able meaning having to redo the game again and I've missed the start of one already. With the others if you miss them you can just restart and not play the full game but this one seems I would have to redo pretty much the entire game. So I am thinking of restarting now while I'm still at the start, not sure yet but we will see later.
Apart from that not much to report in the ways of games, oh wait actually that is a lie since I did not come back on Sunday. Remember I planned that huge gaming day with lots of games, well the plan was scrapped. I decided to start with Star Wars Old Republic to give it another try since the time is running out this week, thought give it an hour then go onto World of Warcraft. Yeah well that hour turned into three, no idea what happened but I just could not stop playing. Was really getting into my Bounty Hunter with the main story, was amazed when I realised the time spent on it. So yeah I will be renewing the time card well if I can find one, if not I will just buy a month from the site. I checked out the difference between Free-To-Play and premium, it's not good. XP is halved, character slots down to two, loss of one of the crafting professions, no high end loot, restrictions on messaging and so on. It's like you only get 10% of the game and the rest you have need to buy, thought the Free-to-Play was meant to tempt people into the game but all that would scare me away if I've never played the game before.
After that I did do a small session on Warcraft then continued with two levels on Hitman Contracts HD, working my way through on Professional difficulty and getting Silent Assassin Ranks. Probably going to be shelving that for a few weeks since I suspect Tomb Raider will keep me busy this week then next Tuesday is Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm launch. I knew I hard forgot something this morning, it's patch day for World of Warcraft so 5.2 is going live. There is a huge quest based island being added where players take part every day with daily quests to help unlock further stages in the war effort, so for example first week you start the invasion and land on the island. Quests will be based on making a beach head, then after a week or until a certain criteria is meet the second stage starts which is the beach head made and progress into the island and so on.
I love these kinda of quests so I will be making sure to spend a session each night to do the daily quests and help out. Oh wow there is a single-player scenario added that lets you loot a tomb for loads of treasure, of course plenty of traps and a timer but sounds awesome. Second island nearby called the Island of Giants, lots of quests there to get awesome new mounts. Oh man this patch sounds awesome, think Tomb Raider will not be hogging all my time this week.
Reading through the patch guide on wowhead.com and I got to say there is too much to take in, so many changes and new things. It's like a whole new game as been added and I just realised how much there is to do at level 90, I had no idea there was legendary quest line and I had forgot about the pet battles (think Pokemon). Lot's of new achievements have been added as well and looks like some of the holidays will be upgraded for the new expansion which is good. Professions have a lot of new stuff as well, could do with working on those soon.
Right I better stop with this post now since I need to have breakfast and go to work, safe to say I will be busy gaming when I get back. Hope you all having a great week and enjoying all the new games, catch you soon!
~Iznic
Sunday, 3 March 2013
March Weekend
Afternoon folks,
Well it's my day off finally so I'm planning to game all day with a few blog posts thrown in when I have a minute spare. Thinking it will mostly be a multi-player day today since I don't want to really get into any game right now since Tomb Raider should arrive tomorrow or Tuesday. Really excited to play it which I am shocked about since I've never really been a huge fan of the Lara Croft series. I only got into by playing Legends a few years back and Underworld which I still say is one of my favourite games.
So since I don't want to get into anything new today I will be focusing on games I need to clean up and playing multi-player matches later. Currently working on Hitman Contracts HD the last few days trying to get all the achievements, I just need two more Silent Assassin ranks on Professional and I will get two achievements for that (difficulty achievements stack). Will then continue my second run through on professional to unlock the last difficulty achievements and then that just leaves me with collecting all the weapons achievements. So I will be focusing on that at some point this afternoon plus I might jump onto Saints Row the Third for the PS3, last time I went on I had finished Act One and was part way through the second act plus working on the challenges.
For the multi-player games this evening I'm thinking some Battlefield 3 and Black Ops 2 matches for some fun, been a week or two since my last session. Very tempted to pick up the Black Ops 2 season pass lately since I was really enjoying myself and having some more maps would be great. Plus I've heard Microsoft are giving Microsoft Points away when you buy the season pass, 400 back so you could say it's on sale right now. See how tonight's session goes anyway before I decide to buy it.
Finally the major games I want to play today is the MMO's, World of Warcraft and Old Republic. Last week of my time card for Old Republic so if I don't get into it then I will not be renewing it and let it slip to free-to-play. I have picked up a new card for Warcraft so my plans for that today is to focus on the zones I've not quested in and start looking into upgrading my gear, plus I could do with levelling some of my professions.
It's safe to say I've got plenty to keep me busy with today so on this note I'm going to head off and start, oh by the way did any of you catch the Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags trailer yesterday? yeah it got leaked for like an hour. Really feel for Ubisoft right now since pretty much everything has been leaked about the game. But on the positive side the trailer was awesome and it's going to be a great game from the looks.
~Iznic
Well it's my day off finally so I'm planning to game all day with a few blog posts thrown in when I have a minute spare. Thinking it will mostly be a multi-player day today since I don't want to really get into any game right now since Tomb Raider should arrive tomorrow or Tuesday. Really excited to play it which I am shocked about since I've never really been a huge fan of the Lara Croft series. I only got into by playing Legends a few years back and Underworld which I still say is one of my favourite games.
So since I don't want to get into anything new today I will be focusing on games I need to clean up and playing multi-player matches later. Currently working on Hitman Contracts HD the last few days trying to get all the achievements, I just need two more Silent Assassin ranks on Professional and I will get two achievements for that (difficulty achievements stack). Will then continue my second run through on professional to unlock the last difficulty achievements and then that just leaves me with collecting all the weapons achievements. So I will be focusing on that at some point this afternoon plus I might jump onto Saints Row the Third for the PS3, last time I went on I had finished Act One and was part way through the second act plus working on the challenges.
For the multi-player games this evening I'm thinking some Battlefield 3 and Black Ops 2 matches for some fun, been a week or two since my last session. Very tempted to pick up the Black Ops 2 season pass lately since I was really enjoying myself and having some more maps would be great. Plus I've heard Microsoft are giving Microsoft Points away when you buy the season pass, 400 back so you could say it's on sale right now. See how tonight's session goes anyway before I decide to buy it.
Finally the major games I want to play today is the MMO's, World of Warcraft and Old Republic. Last week of my time card for Old Republic so if I don't get into it then I will not be renewing it and let it slip to free-to-play. I have picked up a new card for Warcraft so my plans for that today is to focus on the zones I've not quested in and start looking into upgrading my gear, plus I could do with levelling some of my professions.
It's safe to say I've got plenty to keep me busy with today so on this note I'm going to head off and start, oh by the way did any of you catch the Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags trailer yesterday? yeah it got leaked for like an hour. Really feel for Ubisoft right now since pretty much everything has been leaked about the game. But on the positive side the trailer was awesome and it's going to be a great game from the looks.
~Iznic
Friday, 1 March 2013
Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags
Morning,
Well I was not expecting to come home from work yesterday to find Ubisoft had confirmed the rumours was true and that Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags is the next game in the series. The box art shown yesterday morning in my rumour post is the real box (see below) and that the full details will be out on Monday 4th March.
Interesting thing is the full box artwork that they put up did show the PS3 version will get an extra 60 minutes of game play like last year with AC3. Also they have confirmed it's for current generations since both artwork going around is for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Anyway the official Facebook page for Assassin's Creed confirmed late last night there will be a trailer on Monday for the new game.
So thing's will be exciting on Monday, cannot wait to see the new game. I've been wanting a great pirate game for a long time and the Assassin's Creed 3 naval combat features where the best around so this could be awesome on a new level. Any of you tempted yourself for it?
~Iznic
P.S. Rumour Alert - VG24/7 Just posted up saying there was a slip up on the official website giving a release date for the game as 29th October. But here is the interesting point though it says "Coming to next-generation consoles October 29th", so this could be on next generation consoles and we could be seeing the new consoles in late October? time will tell.
Check out the full story on VG24/7 right here.
Well I was not expecting to come home from work yesterday to find Ubisoft had confirmed the rumours was true and that Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags is the next game in the series. The box art shown yesterday morning in my rumour post is the real box (see below) and that the full details will be out on Monday 4th March.
So thing's will be exciting on Monday, cannot wait to see the new game. I've been wanting a great pirate game for a long time and the Assassin's Creed 3 naval combat features where the best around so this could be awesome on a new level. Any of you tempted yourself for it?
~Iznic
P.S. Rumour Alert - VG24/7 Just posted up saying there was a slip up on the official website giving a release date for the game as 29th October. But here is the interesting point though it says "Coming to next-generation consoles October 29th", so this could be on next generation consoles and we could be seeing the new consoles in late October? time will tell.
Check out the full story on VG24/7 right here.
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