Morning folks,
Really did not want to get out of bed this morning, so hope everyone is ok and having some great gaming time. I'm enjoy the British summer while gaming my evenings away, plenty of fun. Actually while I'm typing this I've got The Simpsons Tapped Out on the iPad playing.
It's not a bad game, basically its a free to play game for the iOS devices but has no become available on Andriod through google play.
Basically Homer has blown up Springfield so it's up to you to rebuild it with the help of Homer and Lisa. You place the buildings where you want, sign jobs to the characters which earns you money and XP. Buildings also generate XP and Money over time as well, the xp levels you up which unlocks more story quests which unlocks new characters, buildings etc which of course you use the money for to build.
It's pretty fun game but can get repetitive quite easily and there is a lot of premium items that costs donuts which you can get a few free but the rest you have to buy. That's where I draw the line because some of the pricing is ridiculous, one of the event items unlocked a wishing well with the Leprechaun character and that cost roughly £7. So yeah if you do start playing this game be careful what you buying through the premium service.
Anyway back to good things about the game, well the story is written by the shows writers and the voices are doing by the right actors/actresses. Holiday events having been occurring in the past year, we have had Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day, Saint Patricks Day, 4th July and so on. My verdict is worth playing, it's free so you cannot lose just be careful spending on the premium stuff.
Now I really should get back to the original post I wanted to write out, was not expecting to do a small review of the game. So yeah where was I, oh yeah I got the Platinum trophy for the retail version of Back to the Future. That's pretty much it for my gaming this week, reason being with Lovefilm turning off the game rentals I wanted to get as much out of my rental list as I can before the August deadline. I will be working on Phantasy Star Online again tonight, hopefully get a chapter or two out of the way. Got a few days off over the weekend so I'm hoping to get a small gaming marathon at one point, trying and get a few chapters done. Maybe even put some more time into the Last of Us as well finally.
In fact I could do with putting some into my MMO games since they have been sitting their for weeks. Maybe sort out a MMO night some time in the week and try to make it a regular thing, could be fun. Anyway folks on that note I'm going to shoot since I need to get a few jobs done before I head to work.
~Iznic
Showing posts with label MMO Night. Show all posts
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Friday, 12 July 2013
Monday, 20 August 2012
Fun Sunday Evening
Good Morning,
Yesterday I had a blast playing World of Warcraft pretty much all evening, I started the day with doing the most dangerous job in the world. Yes I was doing the cleaning under the bed, the things I saw under there. Anyway after a long ass day of tiding I really wanted to play some MMO's but I never got around to the Old Republic. I spent around three to four hours on my main Druid then about an hour on my new character.
Happy to say I got him up one level (seven) then nearly hit level eight, plus I got off the starting little island and now on the main island. Not long now before the area is done and I can join the main world finally, pick up my professions and start levelling them.
Anyway back to playing my main druid character, I had a blast and it was so much fun. Basically my plan was to finish levelling up my main leatherworker profession since I was on 503/525 with several hundred leather in the bank. It turned out a lot harder then I though since I forgot I needed to turn the leather into heavy leather first since all my recipes required that, for those that don't play Warcraft five leather makes just one heavy leather. So you can imagine that several hundred leather vanished quite quickly, I got up to 510 and I'm now stuck. I've got a guide that is showing me what's the best recipes to level up with but I need a ton of leather, I think I found a nice place to kill creatures and last night I did get 25 leather in about ten to twenty minutes. I will have to continue another night this week and maybe I can hit the max.
Levelling up my profession was not the only thing I was doing, I did a ton of quests in two zones and was really enjoying the story again. Plus I did go to the main PVP zone Tol Barad to do the daily quests there, I found out the faction that is based there as two mounts and a pet that I can buy from them. Need commendations from quest rewards to buy them but the problem is we talking like 400+ and only get 6 a day, plus the mobs there hit very hard to the point I'm healing after every fight and praying I don't get two mobs on me.
It was a great night and I'm getting ready for the expansion, I realised I got a lot more to do then I though. Levelling up my last professions, clear out my bags, need bigger bags since I never upgraded to the latest ones in Cataclysm. Plus I need to clear out my quest log ready to pick up all the nice new quests.
I do always want to get some more characters up to try out the other classes, plus there is a killing to be made on the auction house with the profession materials. Seriously they charging a fortune for leather and there is only two people selling, maybe make some profession alts.
Enough with the MMO night it's time to talk about my plans for this week, well not too much since I should be going on holiday this Sunday. I do have Spec Ops from Lovefilm so you might catch me playing that this week and I do want to put some more time into Warcraft and Old Republic. Saving my handheld games to take with me on Holiday for the night's and the trip there and back. So yeah that's it for me folks, I hope you had a good laugh on the weekend as well. Drop me a line with what you did I'm always up for hearing about it.
~Iznic
Yesterday I had a blast playing World of Warcraft pretty much all evening, I started the day with doing the most dangerous job in the world. Yes I was doing the cleaning under the bed, the things I saw under there. Anyway after a long ass day of tiding I really wanted to play some MMO's but I never got around to the Old Republic. I spent around three to four hours on my main Druid then about an hour on my new character.
Happy to say I got him up one level (seven) then nearly hit level eight, plus I got off the starting little island and now on the main island. Not long now before the area is done and I can join the main world finally, pick up my professions and start levelling them.
Anyway back to playing my main druid character, I had a blast and it was so much fun. Basically my plan was to finish levelling up my main leatherworker profession since I was on 503/525 with several hundred leather in the bank. It turned out a lot harder then I though since I forgot I needed to turn the leather into heavy leather first since all my recipes required that, for those that don't play Warcraft five leather makes just one heavy leather. So you can imagine that several hundred leather vanished quite quickly, I got up to 510 and I'm now stuck. I've got a guide that is showing me what's the best recipes to level up with but I need a ton of leather, I think I found a nice place to kill creatures and last night I did get 25 leather in about ten to twenty minutes. I will have to continue another night this week and maybe I can hit the max.
Levelling up my profession was not the only thing I was doing, I did a ton of quests in two zones and was really enjoying the story again. Plus I did go to the main PVP zone Tol Barad to do the daily quests there, I found out the faction that is based there as two mounts and a pet that I can buy from them. Need commendations from quest rewards to buy them but the problem is we talking like 400+ and only get 6 a day, plus the mobs there hit very hard to the point I'm healing after every fight and praying I don't get two mobs on me.
It was a great night and I'm getting ready for the expansion, I realised I got a lot more to do then I though. Levelling up my last professions, clear out my bags, need bigger bags since I never upgraded to the latest ones in Cataclysm. Plus I need to clear out my quest log ready to pick up all the nice new quests.
I do always want to get some more characters up to try out the other classes, plus there is a killing to be made on the auction house with the profession materials. Seriously they charging a fortune for leather and there is only two people selling, maybe make some profession alts.
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Enough with the MMO night it's time to talk about my plans for this week, well not too much since I should be going on holiday this Sunday. I do have Spec Ops from Lovefilm so you might catch me playing that this week and I do want to put some more time into Warcraft and Old Republic. Saving my handheld games to take with me on Holiday for the night's and the trip there and back. So yeah that's it for me folks, I hope you had a good laugh on the weekend as well. Drop me a line with what you did I'm always up for hearing about it.
~Iznic
Friday, 10 August 2012
Not to Plan
Morning folks,
Sorry about the lack of posts but thing's came up that kept me busy, seems I've woken up to Blizzard being hacked and that was not how I wanted to start my day. Seriously why do people do this, seems the EU only had e-mail compromised but still going to go change all the passwords in a minute.
Apart from that bad news it's been great the last few days since the last post, first up the patch finally downloaded and installed on it's second attempt (error message on the first). Took an over night download to get it done in the end, so I will be trying out the games again this evening as long as nothing comes up.
While the patch was downloading I did some MMO gaming and man was it great, first up I jumped onto Warcraft to play my main druid character. The Darkmoon monthly faire was running so I did a few quests and bing! achievement unlocked for archaeology, I just hit the 300 mark in it's progress. For those that don't play WOW each profession as stages that you can learn up to then you have to get trained in the advance version, max is 525 right now (until Pandaria). Since I need to get my character sorted for the new expansion, profession levelling is one of the things I need to do. I was chuffed to see I had hit 300 since it takes forever to level archaeology, plus with hitting 300 I can now go to Outland and do new dig sites.
Anyway when that popped up I thought I would check to see how the other professions are, Fishing done, First Aid done and Cooking done so only archaeology was left in the secondary sets (each play can have two main professions and as many secondary professions as they want). My character is leatherworker and skinner for his mains, skinning was max before I even hit max level and I found out I'm only 500/525 on leatherwork. Must had been working on it in the past so very happy with that, plus I got 600+ leather sitting on my alt character.
So all I need to do with my druid is level up leatherwork, archaeology and clear out space in his inventory. Oh yeah I also need to clear some of the quests out of my journal to make space ready for the new ones. Not as bad as I thought it was and nearly forgot my mate put some more game time onto his account, good news for me since he was using a scroll of resurrection from me which means I get the new special spectral mount.
How cool is that!? was doing a little happy dance when I realised I had finally got it. I did not do much with my new Shaman character, think I did one more level so he's now level six and that was it. I was pushing for time and really want to play some Star Wars so I jumped over, had some fun there as well. Did some quests and a group quest which was great, grouped up with another bounty hunter and Sith to take some rebels down. Really want to play a Sith since the lightsabre animations look so cool, want to play a Jedi as well.
That was it for my MMO night and I had a blast, just need to get some more time on them both though hopefully this weekend but we will see.
Apart from that I did some gaming yesterday on Lego Batman 2 for the Vita, it's OK but not great still got plenty of problems but I will review it soon. Really stuck on the Justice area challenges so might need to look up what I'm doing wrong since I'm getting very frustrated with it.
Last thing my Nintendo Club leaf trophy arrived yesterday and I was over the moon with it, was a bit worried it would be cheap looking but as you can see by the picture it turned out great. I was a little disappointed to find out the shell trophy went up the day after I ordered this but no regrets, it's going to sit next my Old Republic statue soon.
Anyway that's it folks for now, I will catch up with you all later so have a good one!
~Iznic
Sorry about the lack of posts but thing's came up that kept me busy, seems I've woken up to Blizzard being hacked and that was not how I wanted to start my day. Seriously why do people do this, seems the EU only had e-mail compromised but still going to go change all the passwords in a minute.
Apart from that bad news it's been great the last few days since the last post, first up the patch finally downloaded and installed on it's second attempt (error message on the first). Took an over night download to get it done in the end, so I will be trying out the games again this evening as long as nothing comes up.
While the patch was downloading I did some MMO gaming and man was it great, first up I jumped onto Warcraft to play my main druid character. The Darkmoon monthly faire was running so I did a few quests and bing! achievement unlocked for archaeology, I just hit the 300 mark in it's progress. For those that don't play WOW each profession as stages that you can learn up to then you have to get trained in the advance version, max is 525 right now (until Pandaria). Since I need to get my character sorted for the new expansion, profession levelling is one of the things I need to do. I was chuffed to see I had hit 300 since it takes forever to level archaeology, plus with hitting 300 I can now go to Outland and do new dig sites.
Anyway when that popped up I thought I would check to see how the other professions are, Fishing done, First Aid done and Cooking done so only archaeology was left in the secondary sets (each play can have two main professions and as many secondary professions as they want). My character is leatherworker and skinner for his mains, skinning was max before I even hit max level and I found out I'm only 500/525 on leatherwork. Must had been working on it in the past so very happy with that, plus I got 600+ leather sitting on my alt character.
So all I need to do with my druid is level up leatherwork, archaeology and clear out space in his inventory. Oh yeah I also need to clear some of the quests out of my journal to make space ready for the new ones. Not as bad as I thought it was and nearly forgot my mate put some more game time onto his account, good news for me since he was using a scroll of resurrection from me which means I get the new special spectral mount.
How cool is that!? was doing a little happy dance when I realised I had finally got it. I did not do much with my new Shaman character, think I did one more level so he's now level six and that was it. I was pushing for time and really want to play some Star Wars so I jumped over, had some fun there as well. Did some quests and a group quest which was great, grouped up with another bounty hunter and Sith to take some rebels down. Really want to play a Sith since the lightsabre animations look so cool, want to play a Jedi as well.
That was it for my MMO night and I had a blast, just need to get some more time on them both though hopefully this weekend but we will see.
Apart from that I did some gaming yesterday on Lego Batman 2 for the Vita, it's OK but not great still got plenty of problems but I will review it soon. Really stuck on the Justice area challenges so might need to look up what I'm doing wrong since I'm getting very frustrated with it.
Last thing my Nintendo Club leaf trophy arrived yesterday and I was over the moon with it, was a bit worried it would be cheap looking but as you can see by the picture it turned out great. I was a little disappointed to find out the shell trophy went up the day after I ordered this but no regrets, it's going to sit next my Old Republic statue soon.
Anyway that's it folks for now, I will catch up with you all later so have a good one!
~Iznic
Saturday, 30 June 2012
A New Beginning
I had forgotten that this post did not up Thursday morning, for some reason I was under the impression that I had already put it up and not sure how I got confused but anyway here was my MMO Night last Wednesday night.
Like all MMO Nights as soon as I said it was planned everything decided to go wrong, first up I did not realise it took me an hour and half to write the "MMO Night 2.0". So that pretty much cancelled my quick Lego Batman 2 session so I thought I would just get straight into Star Wars first. Yeah that went well since I had missed placed my new time card that I had bought, so another 20 minutes lost while I hunted around my room to find it under my Futurama box set that I was watching the night before.
So time card activated time for some gam...no got to wait for the patches to download and install, should not take too long right? Yeah famous last words and no idea why I jinxed myself. It took a while and in that time I watched one episode of South Park, one episode of Family Guy and cooked tea. Well by that point most of my night had gone so my plans turned into two quick small sessions, there was a lot of cursing from me when it finally finished.
Star Wars I only did about three quests on the main Imperial Planet, had my companion Meko gather me some resources for crafting. Did have fun with bomb defusing in the square because I had forgot to read the section on how to defuse the bomb, so there I was running around the square with a bomb in my hand that was ticking down with no clue what to do.
Ohhh I did level up to 16 as well since I been very close for a while now so the three quests tipped me over.
So it was time for Warcraft and this time there was no patches since I had been on every day for the past week doing the Midsummer Festival events. Of course tonight I was really hoping to start my new character and get some good progress on it, but with all the time pretty much gone I'm only going to get a few levels if I'm lucky.
Well I lost another half an hour trying to come up with a name for my character and what I wanted to play, I was stuck between Shaman and Paladin but I had Horde in mind so I can see the other side of the war. In the end I came up with Izjin the Goblin Shaman and then I remembered I had not done the Lord Ahune fight today on my main, so quick login and I queued up for the event only to find out was a 15 minute wait (estimated).
I was very annoyed at the start but it did turn out ok since I started doing todays daily quests for cooking and fishing. Why was that good? Well I maxed out Fishing and got a lovely new achievement for the trouble, quite chuffed that I got it maxed now.
Anyway 15 minutes later Lord Ahune is dead, no pet still but I did get some justice points for my trouble so it was finally time to start playing my new character.
The thing I like the most about Goblins and Worgen is there new starting zones are really good, all themed around a great story that leads into the war between Horde and Alliance. Anyway my new character can be seen on the right, did not bother sorting out the hair since there is achievement for going to the in game hair dressers. Anyway it starts off on this small island which is meant to be a paradise for Goblins who love to build things plus destroy things as well, to me it's a industrial nightmare but that's Goblins for you.
So yeah the quests just involve you going around town showing off yourself, basically you run one of the main coporations in the area and pushing to become a Trade Prince. Quests involve going to the mines to make sure your work force are actually working, riding around in your awesome new hot rod car and of course since it's your birthday have a giant party that gets crashed by pirates. Oh and let's not forget a Dragon called Deathwing appearing who decides to make the dormant volcano active so now you need to get a Billion money so you can pay your way off the island.
That was my night in a summary really and I did not get as far as I wanted, I'm level four and about to hit five but least I've nearly finished the first zone and will be soon on the shipwrecked island. Hopefully next week will be a lot longer with more in-game time, cannot believe how much trouble it was just to get an hour or two on a game.
I need to start making sure I get time in both games on my MMO Nights because right now wasting my time cards. For 60 days I'm only getting around 5-6 hours' worth of gaming and I cannot keep justifying this so either I make time or I won't be renewing the games when it runs out. World of Warcraft will last a lot longer since I've got 60 days plus I will be getting 3-4 months off the Diablo CE code when I enter it but again when that runs out if I didn't make the most it's gone.
So with that depressing note over with it's time to end this post, sorry it wasn't that much fun but hopefully next week will have a huge updated post for you with plenty of adventures. So until then folks have a good one,
~Iznic
Like all MMO Nights as soon as I said it was planned everything decided to go wrong, first up I did not realise it took me an hour and half to write the "MMO Night 2.0". So that pretty much cancelled my quick Lego Batman 2 session so I thought I would just get straight into Star Wars first. Yeah that went well since I had missed placed my new time card that I had bought, so another 20 minutes lost while I hunted around my room to find it under my Futurama box set that I was watching the night before.
So time card activated time for some gam...no got to wait for the patches to download and install, should not take too long right? Yeah famous last words and no idea why I jinxed myself. It took a while and in that time I watched one episode of South Park, one episode of Family Guy and cooked tea. Well by that point most of my night had gone so my plans turned into two quick small sessions, there was a lot of cursing from me when it finally finished.
Star Wars I only did about three quests on the main Imperial Planet, had my companion Meko gather me some resources for crafting. Did have fun with bomb defusing in the square because I had forgot to read the section on how to defuse the bomb, so there I was running around the square with a bomb in my hand that was ticking down with no clue what to do.
Ohhh I did level up to 16 as well since I been very close for a while now so the three quests tipped me over.
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So it was time for Warcraft and this time there was no patches since I had been on every day for the past week doing the Midsummer Festival events. Of course tonight I was really hoping to start my new character and get some good progress on it, but with all the time pretty much gone I'm only going to get a few levels if I'm lucky.
Well I lost another half an hour trying to come up with a name for my character and what I wanted to play, I was stuck between Shaman and Paladin but I had Horde in mind so I can see the other side of the war. In the end I came up with Izjin the Goblin Shaman and then I remembered I had not done the Lord Ahune fight today on my main, so quick login and I queued up for the event only to find out was a 15 minute wait (estimated).
I was very annoyed at the start but it did turn out ok since I started doing todays daily quests for cooking and fishing. Why was that good? Well I maxed out Fishing and got a lovely new achievement for the trouble, quite chuffed that I got it maxed now.
Anyway 15 minutes later Lord Ahune is dead, no pet still but I did get some justice points for my trouble so it was finally time to start playing my new character.
The thing I like the most about Goblins and Worgen is there new starting zones are really good, all themed around a great story that leads into the war between Horde and Alliance. Anyway my new character can be seen on the right, did not bother sorting out the hair since there is achievement for going to the in game hair dressers. Anyway it starts off on this small island which is meant to be a paradise for Goblins who love to build things plus destroy things as well, to me it's a industrial nightmare but that's Goblins for you.
So yeah the quests just involve you going around town showing off yourself, basically you run one of the main coporations in the area and pushing to become a Trade Prince. Quests involve going to the mines to make sure your work force are actually working, riding around in your awesome new hot rod car and of course since it's your birthday have a giant party that gets crashed by pirates. Oh and let's not forget a Dragon called Deathwing appearing who decides to make the dormant volcano active so now you need to get a Billion money so you can pay your way off the island.
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| Now this is a mount |
I need to start making sure I get time in both games on my MMO Nights because right now wasting my time cards. For 60 days I'm only getting around 5-6 hours' worth of gaming and I cannot keep justifying this so either I make time or I won't be renewing the games when it runs out. World of Warcraft will last a lot longer since I've got 60 days plus I will be getting 3-4 months off the Diablo CE code when I enter it but again when that runs out if I didn't make the most it's gone.
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| Goblin Paradise |
So with that depressing note over with it's time to end this post, sorry it wasn't that much fun but hopefully next week will have a huge updated post for you with plenty of adventures. So until then folks have a good one,
~Iznic
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
MMO Night 2.0
MMO Night will be making a return tonight after several weeks of being absent thanks to my schedule being all over the place. I have a new Star Wars Old Republic timecard sitting on the desk ready to be inputted and there will be something new tonight, I'm making a new character on World of Warcraft. While I've being the daily quests to kill Lord Ahune I realised the new expansion could not be that far off, especially with how the beta is coming along so I started to question why should I spend tons of time getting all new gear that will be wiped out by the first quest reward in the new expansion. Of course I can still work on reputation and try out the zones I've missed to catch up with the story but I have been wanting to play some other classes for a while now.
What made me go for it was a post the other day on MMO-Champion where it was confirmed that quite a few mounts will now be account wide shared. I want the Jewelcrafter new Panther mounts and the Sand Dragon mount from Alchemy but my Druid is a leatherworker which I don't want to give up. So I will be doing a new character tonight with one of those professions and it will be a Horde character as well so I can see the other side's story.
Although tonight I will be starting of with Star Wars because you know what I'm like I will get into Warcraft and run out of time. So yeah make sure to check back later for a MMO Night post and I will be entering the Diablo Collector's Edition code so I will run around with the Witch Doctor Pet. For now though I might pop onto Lego Batman 2 for a tiny bit just to work on clearing up the game since I've finished the story now.
Oh and I forgot to mention Lovefilm have sent me another game since I had a free credit thanks to a competition entry, so now got Resistance Fall of Man 3 sitting on my desk with X-men Destiny. Starting to get a little overwhelmed with the amount of games I need to work on, does anyone else have this problem?
Anyway I better shoot since I will run out of time at this rate, have a good evening folks and I will catch you all later!
~Iznic
P.S. Also I have noticed the layout for my Diablo 3 Unboxing post as messed up slightly, I did have trouble posting it so I think something happened. I will look into it when I update it with the new pictures.
P.S.S Pokemon Conquest next month for the UK!! Finally have a date for it but gutted about it being next month since I got two holidays to pay for, was hoping after like September/October time. Bah too many good games and not enough money.
What made me go for it was a post the other day on MMO-Champion where it was confirmed that quite a few mounts will now be account wide shared. I want the Jewelcrafter new Panther mounts and the Sand Dragon mount from Alchemy but my Druid is a leatherworker which I don't want to give up. So I will be doing a new character tonight with one of those professions and it will be a Horde character as well so I can see the other side's story.
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| Sandstone Drake - Alchemy Mount |
Although tonight I will be starting of with Star Wars because you know what I'm like I will get into Warcraft and run out of time. So yeah make sure to check back later for a MMO Night post and I will be entering the Diablo Collector's Edition code so I will run around with the Witch Doctor Pet. For now though I might pop onto Lego Batman 2 for a tiny bit just to work on clearing up the game since I've finished the story now.
Oh and I forgot to mention Lovefilm have sent me another game since I had a free credit thanks to a competition entry, so now got Resistance Fall of Man 3 sitting on my desk with X-men Destiny. Starting to get a little overwhelmed with the amount of games I need to work on, does anyone else have this problem?
Anyway I better shoot since I will run out of time at this rate, have a good evening folks and I will catch you all later!
~Iznic
P.S. Also I have noticed the layout for my Diablo 3 Unboxing post as messed up slightly, I did have trouble posting it so I think something happened. I will look into it when I update it with the new pictures.
P.S.S Pokemon Conquest next month for the UK!! Finally have a date for it but gutted about it being next month since I got two holidays to pay for, was hoping after like September/October time. Bah too many good games and not enough money.
Saturday, 5 May 2012
The Daily Grind - Catching Up Edition
Good Morning Folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days but been busy with some gaming and of course work, thought I would start this post off with whats been happening with the week.
Heading back to last Wednesday my "MMO Night" did not really go to plan like I had hoped, once again I was not 100% but I did get some time on World of Warcraft. But after a few hours I was too tired to continue so I missed out on Star Wars in the end. I spent most of my hours doing the Childrens Week holiday event which involves taking a orphan around Azeroth to see the amazing sights, buy treats and play with toys. Each quest ends with a in game pet reward with several to choose from which lucky for me I have now finished all of them and completed the collection, all I need was the pet rat and the Wolvar pup which I both got. Hopefully next year they will update the quest line with the release of the new expansion, if not they did add pet biscuits which make the pet grow several sizes if you already have all the pet rewards and the gold is not bad for the amount of work you have to do either.
So that was it really for my MMO Night but since then I have been busy with my gaming and I'm happy to say I've clocked Kinectimals on my Windows Phone (the full 200 gamer score). Then last night I finally did the ending for Mass Effect 3, at first I was like everyone else with me nearly shouting "WTF?!?! is this nonsense". But after watching a few very impressive theory youtube videos I've calmed down, if they are true then I'm very very impressed with what Bioware have pulled off. It's unlike them to make such a bad ending but we will see what happens with the extra stuff coming for the ending later on.
With that done and dusted for the time being all I have left now is to finish of Batman Arkham City on the PC which would mean I've done the three games I wanted to start off with. I have the day off today so I'm thinking a giant marathon although I did pick up Sniper V2 so I do want some time on that later since I promised myself if I was to buy it then I had to play it.
I've also picked up Pure Chess for the Vita which so far I'm really enjoying, the graphics and details of the chess pieces/board are amazing, worth the £5 price tag which to me is very cheap for what you getting. If anyone as this game on their Vita give me a shout so we can play the chess by mail feature.
So that's it really for me folks, nothing special to report this week other then the few games clocked. I will be heading off now to go update some of my stats and lists, think it will be safe to say this is part one of many today.
Anyway for the time being have a good one folks!
~Iznic
Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days but been busy with some gaming and of course work, thought I would start this post off with whats been happening with the week.
Heading back to last Wednesday my "MMO Night" did not really go to plan like I had hoped, once again I was not 100% but I did get some time on World of Warcraft. But after a few hours I was too tired to continue so I missed out on Star Wars in the end. I spent most of my hours doing the Childrens Week holiday event which involves taking a orphan around Azeroth to see the amazing sights, buy treats and play with toys. Each quest ends with a in game pet reward with several to choose from which lucky for me I have now finished all of them and completed the collection, all I need was the pet rat and the Wolvar pup which I both got. Hopefully next year they will update the quest line with the release of the new expansion, if not they did add pet biscuits which make the pet grow several sizes if you already have all the pet rewards and the gold is not bad for the amount of work you have to do either.
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So that was it really for my MMO Night but since then I have been busy with my gaming and I'm happy to say I've clocked Kinectimals on my Windows Phone (the full 200 gamer score). Then last night I finally did the ending for Mass Effect 3, at first I was like everyone else with me nearly shouting "WTF?!?! is this nonsense". But after watching a few very impressive theory youtube videos I've calmed down, if they are true then I'm very very impressed with what Bioware have pulled off. It's unlike them to make such a bad ending but we will see what happens with the extra stuff coming for the ending later on.
With that done and dusted for the time being all I have left now is to finish of Batman Arkham City on the PC which would mean I've done the three games I wanted to start off with. I have the day off today so I'm thinking a giant marathon although I did pick up Sniper V2 so I do want some time on that later since I promised myself if I was to buy it then I had to play it.
I've also picked up Pure Chess for the Vita which so far I'm really enjoying, the graphics and details of the chess pieces/board are amazing, worth the £5 price tag which to me is very cheap for what you getting. If anyone as this game on their Vita give me a shout so we can play the chess by mail feature.
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So that's it really for me folks, nothing special to report this week other then the few games clocked. I will be heading off now to go update some of my stats and lists, think it will be safe to say this is part one of many today.
Anyway for the time being have a good one folks!
~Iznic
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Back to Normal
Evening folks,
Just currently waiting for the Old Republic to finish patching then I'm starting MMO night early, got a few hours extra compared to normal so it should be a better night and make up for last week. Going to start with Star Wars this time around since normally I do Warcraft then get too wrapped up in it leaving a small amount time left.
Plans for tonight is to finish all the old quests I missed on Star Wars and after who knows, see where my Starship takes me. On Warcraft I will do the normal round of daily quests then I'm going to the Twilight Highlands for the first time to start questing there and opening up the Wildhammers Faction since I need to work on them too.
Great seems my friends have moved out of the guild and into a bigger one with a note saying to the rest of us to give a shout for a invite, would help if you they actually came online and not sure they even play anymore. Apart from that just got my cool new Tauntaun Ram pet (came with the latest giant patch) so got that following me around now, as I said before I loaded I want to clean up all the old quests on my starting planet (Hutta). I did miss quite a few since I was hurrying to get off planet so I could finally get my ship.
One feature I do love about this game is being able to send my companion off to sell all the junk items I've looted, lost count how many times I've filled my inventory so far tonight. I'm currently gunning my way through factories and swamps, it's not bad but as started to get a bit boring.
Wow I did not realise because I've got the scavenger profession I can loot items from droid/turret corpses, what luck that this factory is full of security droids.
Last week I left myself at Ironforge the Dwarf capital which I'm glad I did now, soon as I logged in I could jump straight onto the fishing and cooking daily quest. Been some interesting things so far, cooking wise I just had to hand out packed lunches of bear and meat for the local guards. Last week had me doing a keg run from the small town outside before the time limit was up, they wanted it fresh lol.
In the ways of fishing I had to make a new prototype Gnome lore that consited of a bear trap, poor fish had no chance. This week saw me trying to catch the local legend Old Ironjaw offspring Young Ironjaw, which was then put on display in the local muesuem (it was a slow month for them).
So after that it was portal to the elemental plane of earth to do the daily quests for Therazane then off to the Twilight Highlands for the first time.
Loved the opening quest which involved taking a sea plane from the dock to the new zone, was told since we need to get there fast that the pilot had taken out seatbelts and parachutes to lighten the load. That was the first worry, then we took off and the engine died so we nearly crashed into the city wall lol. Then he decided to burn up all the fuel at once for a boost and was told not to black out, course that happened and I wake up with the plane crashed into the mast of a ship and the horde attacking us. It's one of those days from the looks of things, scratch that just got worse. Involves me, a cannon, lots of gun powder and trying to board a zipplin, this Dwarf pilot will be the death of me!
Just currently waiting for the Old Republic to finish patching then I'm starting MMO night early, got a few hours extra compared to normal so it should be a better night and make up for last week. Going to start with Star Wars this time around since normally I do Warcraft then get too wrapped up in it leaving a small amount time left.
Plans for tonight is to finish all the old quests I missed on Star Wars and after who knows, see where my Starship takes me. On Warcraft I will do the normal round of daily quests then I'm going to the Twilight Highlands for the first time to start questing there and opening up the Wildhammers Faction since I need to work on them too.
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Great seems my friends have moved out of the guild and into a bigger one with a note saying to the rest of us to give a shout for a invite, would help if you they actually came online and not sure they even play anymore. Apart from that just got my cool new Tauntaun Ram pet (came with the latest giant patch) so got that following me around now, as I said before I loaded I want to clean up all the old quests on my starting planet (Hutta). I did miss quite a few since I was hurrying to get off planet so I could finally get my ship.
One feature I do love about this game is being able to send my companion off to sell all the junk items I've looted, lost count how many times I've filled my inventory so far tonight. I'm currently gunning my way through factories and swamps, it's not bad but as started to get a bit boring.
Wow I did not realise because I've got the scavenger profession I can loot items from droid/turret corpses, what luck that this factory is full of security droids.
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Think I found something super rare, I was currently working my way through an underground tunnel that links some of the factories through the swamp and discovered a datacron. Was all flashy and shiny looking, clicked the bugger and was told I got some kind of shard that goes toward a matrix or something?
Also unlocked an achievement codex entry telling me a story of the first humans on Coruscant, it's amazing how much I don't know about this game. I could sit for hours just reading through the codex entries I've been getting, Bioware as gone to town on the lore. Anyway guessing I need to make a note to look up datacrons before my next MMO night but that's it for now I've done about 5-10 quests and cleared hutta so I can now continue back onto the normal quests and continue my story next week.
Time for a cuppa then heading on over to Warcraft.
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Last week I left myself at Ironforge the Dwarf capital which I'm glad I did now, soon as I logged in I could jump straight onto the fishing and cooking daily quest. Been some interesting things so far, cooking wise I just had to hand out packed lunches of bear and meat for the local guards. Last week had me doing a keg run from the small town outside before the time limit was up, they wanted it fresh lol.
In the ways of fishing I had to make a new prototype Gnome lore that consited of a bear trap, poor fish had no chance. This week saw me trying to catch the local legend Old Ironjaw offspring Young Ironjaw, which was then put on display in the local muesuem (it was a slow month for them).
So after that it was portal to the elemental plane of earth to do the daily quests for Therazane then off to the Twilight Highlands for the first time.
Loved the opening quest which involved taking a sea plane from the dock to the new zone, was told since we need to get there fast that the pilot had taken out seatbelts and parachutes to lighten the load. That was the first worry, then we took off and the engine died so we nearly crashed into the city wall lol. Then he decided to burn up all the fuel at once for a boost and was told not to black out, course that happened and I wake up with the plane crashed into the mast of a ship and the horde attacking us. It's one of those days from the looks of things, scratch that just got worse. Involves me, a cannon, lots of gun powder and trying to board a zipplin, this Dwarf pilot will be the death of me!
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It was a fun night and I got to admit the opening quests for this zone where not bad, repel the invading forces then help take over a beach head to help bring in forces to the zone. I stopped there mostly because I need to hit the sack early tonight and I want an hour to finish off two games I've nearly completed.
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
Friday, 20 April 2012
Weekend at Last
Afternoon all,
I do apologise for the lack of messages the last few days and especially for the lack of MMO Night on Wednesday. I had a huge marathon planned since I was only working the morning shift but when I finished I suddenly had, well I can only describe it as a migraine and so I pretty much spent the rest of the day sleeping it off. Even Thursday morning my head was still sore and I could barely look at a screen without it hurting.
Of course this did ruin my core time off that I had planned for several gaming marathons, I'm off for two days now (still waiting to find out about Sunday) but I got a ton of jobs to take care of first before I can even do any gaming. Will have to make up for it next week with a couple of marathons if I got some time off, anyway on to the gaming news in my life.
I treated myself to Pandora's Tower and the Last Story collectors editions, originally I was not going to get them until I had the time to play. In fact I was originally against Pandora's Tower but after seeing the reviews and watching the game play trailers I was very tempted, then I saw the detail gone into the artwork and collector editions box/steel book I could not resist. Also looks like I will be getting the coin set from Nintendo, if you register all three new rpg games on Club Nintendo (Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower and The Last Story) you are in for a chance for this.
Well hopefully I will get them, my message appeared when I entered the last game on the web page while most had a e-mail arrive saying so, fingers crossed anyway.
Of course with all this buying that does mean now my 2012 games bought list as risen a lot and dropped my completion percent down to 11%. I would say I need to work on that but after looking around my room at all the games waiting to be played, well it's depressing and I need a time machine or something to stop time.
Kinda panicing about May since the list of games coming out that month is turning into Christmas 2, will be doing a post with the list later on.
Anyway I'm going to shoot since I need to get on with my jobs, so have a good weekend folks and I will catch you all later.
~Iznic
I do apologise for the lack of messages the last few days and especially for the lack of MMO Night on Wednesday. I had a huge marathon planned since I was only working the morning shift but when I finished I suddenly had, well I can only describe it as a migraine and so I pretty much spent the rest of the day sleeping it off. Even Thursday morning my head was still sore and I could barely look at a screen without it hurting.
Of course this did ruin my core time off that I had planned for several gaming marathons, I'm off for two days now (still waiting to find out about Sunday) but I got a ton of jobs to take care of first before I can even do any gaming. Will have to make up for it next week with a couple of marathons if I got some time off, anyway on to the gaming news in my life.
I treated myself to Pandora's Tower and the Last Story collectors editions, originally I was not going to get them until I had the time to play. In fact I was originally against Pandora's Tower but after seeing the reviews and watching the game play trailers I was very tempted, then I saw the detail gone into the artwork and collector editions box/steel book I could not resist. Also looks like I will be getting the coin set from Nintendo, if you register all three new rpg games on Club Nintendo (Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower and The Last Story) you are in for a chance for this.
Well hopefully I will get them, my message appeared when I entered the last game on the web page while most had a e-mail arrive saying so, fingers crossed anyway.
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Of course with all this buying that does mean now my 2012 games bought list as risen a lot and dropped my completion percent down to 11%. I would say I need to work on that but after looking around my room at all the games waiting to be played, well it's depressing and I need a time machine or something to stop time.
Kinda panicing about May since the list of games coming out that month is turning into Christmas 2, will be doing a post with the list later on.
Anyway I'm going to shoot since I need to get on with my jobs, so have a good weekend folks and I will catch you all later.
~Iznic
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
MMO Night
The first MMO night is over and it was a blast, really found myself getting back into these games finally. Started off the night with World of Warcraft and decided that my task for the night was start clearing space in my bags so I can loot then take a look at my gear since I knew full well it needs sorting.
Well that plan went straight out the window, I do have a bit of space in one of my bags but I did not even bother to start looking into make space since I realised it was the first full of April which means the Dark Moon Faire event is on. For those who don't play the game basically the Faire appears on the first full week of the month, outside the major player cities portals appear which take you to the Dark Moon island. The Faire as all sorts of carnival games, weird pet zoo's and a concert (yup you heard me right).
During the week there are daily quests for the carnival games that can only be done once a day to earn tokens, games including everything from whack-a-gnoll, shoot the target and one of my favourites shooting yourself out of a cannon in the hope to hit a bullseye target in the sea.). Reputation is also earned from the quests which unlocks rewards for you to spend your tokens on, some of the cooler rewards are Bear mounts and vanity pets.
The Faire also as monthly quests which can only be done once per month (so once per Faire) that boost up your professions stats which is great quick cheap way to help level up, plus reputation and tokens too. Anyway back to the point I did today's quests and will be jumping back on every day to do the quests, of course the major levelling and questing will still have to wait until MMO night next week. Also noticed that this Sunday sees the Easter event going live, now normally I would not bother with it since I've already done it before and got all the rewards but since the Cataclysm expansions all the events have been revamped with new stuff so I'm expecting to see some cool changes for Easter (well hopefully anyway).
With the quests done I pretty much spent researching on guides for my class and seeing whats new, planning out what I want to do. Did pick up some new pieces of equipment too to help me get started into getting back on track so very chuffed, next week I'm planning to level up with some factions to unlock some cool enchants which will buff my stats up as well.
God I bet this sounds boring to people who don't play World of Warcraft, sorry folks maybe it's best to stay away from my MMO night posts.
Anyway I stopped myself since at the rate I was going at I would have no time for Star Wars, luckily for me today is the last day of my old time card so using that up first instead of paying for a month subscription. Going to order another time card in a bit and hopefully that will arrive in time for next weeks MMO night.
So my plan for Star Wars was to do my first Flash Point which is basically a group dungeon, was a rough start waiting for a group but after ten minutes grouped up with a nice Intelligence officer. Have to say it was one of my fun group quests ever, all the loot was for my class and the guy let me have it all so now got a nice set of armour and blasters so my Bounty Hunter is pretty pimped out right now.
The Flash Point was Black Talon, basically a simple transporter ship taking us to our destination which then involved us taking it over to use it to intercept a Republic Battleship with a traitor general on board. Plenty of fun but won't spoil anything with what happened during the fights, as I said I walked away with plenty of loot. Calling it a night now and next week my plan is to start clearing up some of my old quests and maybe have ago at PVP for the first time.
That's it for this MMO night, was a blast and it as sparked my passion for MMO's again! really looking forward to next week. Might even do a session on Sunday since it's easter and work is closed, until then anyway have a good one.
~Iznic
P.S. Will try to word my MMO night posts better next time and make it more enjoyable to read, will try and explain things better for those who don't play to.
Well that plan went straight out the window, I do have a bit of space in one of my bags but I did not even bother to start looking into make space since I realised it was the first full of April which means the Dark Moon Faire event is on. For those who don't play the game basically the Faire appears on the first full week of the month, outside the major player cities portals appear which take you to the Dark Moon island. The Faire as all sorts of carnival games, weird pet zoo's and a concert (yup you heard me right).
During the week there are daily quests for the carnival games that can only be done once a day to earn tokens, games including everything from whack-a-gnoll, shoot the target and one of my favourites shooting yourself out of a cannon in the hope to hit a bullseye target in the sea.). Reputation is also earned from the quests which unlocks rewards for you to spend your tokens on, some of the cooler rewards are Bear mounts and vanity pets.
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| Dark Moon Faire |
With the quests done I pretty much spent researching on guides for my class and seeing whats new, planning out what I want to do. Did pick up some new pieces of equipment too to help me get started into getting back on track so very chuffed, next week I'm planning to level up with some factions to unlock some cool enchants which will buff my stats up as well.
God I bet this sounds boring to people who don't play World of Warcraft, sorry folks maybe it's best to stay away from my MMO night posts.
Anyway I stopped myself since at the rate I was going at I would have no time for Star Wars, luckily for me today is the last day of my old time card so using that up first instead of paying for a month subscription. Going to order another time card in a bit and hopefully that will arrive in time for next weeks MMO night.
So my plan for Star Wars was to do my first Flash Point which is basically a group dungeon, was a rough start waiting for a group but after ten minutes grouped up with a nice Intelligence officer. Have to say it was one of my fun group quests ever, all the loot was for my class and the guy let me have it all so now got a nice set of armour and blasters so my Bounty Hunter is pretty pimped out right now.
The Flash Point was Black Talon, basically a simple transporter ship taking us to our destination which then involved us taking it over to use it to intercept a Republic Battleship with a traitor general on board. Plenty of fun but won't spoil anything with what happened during the fights, as I said I walked away with plenty of loot. Calling it a night now and next week my plan is to start clearing up some of my old quests and maybe have ago at PVP for the first time.
That's it for this MMO night, was a blast and it as sparked my passion for MMO's again! really looking forward to next week. Might even do a session on Sunday since it's easter and work is closed, until then anyway have a good one.
~Iznic
P.S. Will try to word my MMO night posts better next time and make it more enjoyable to read, will try and explain things better for those who don't play to.
The Start of Something Beautiful
Evening folks,
Starting this a little later then I hoped but I am pretty tired from work but going to have a blast tonight, why you ask? well I've decided I'm starting a new regular gaming night for myself. MMO night will be happening on a weekly basis, preferably Wednesday night unless something comes up (like this week so it's today instead of tomorrow). Reason I've decided on this is because once again I wasted two time cards, yup Star Wars the Old Republic ran out today and I worked out I probably only got six hours out of the 60 days. Very disappointed with myself and World of Warcraft is nearly the same, I did do a few extra hours thanks to the last holiday event but it was still not enough to make the purchase of the time card seem worth it in the end.
So back to the matter on hand and less ranting, I've decided that every week I would do a MMO night where I would spend several hours on World of Warcraft and Star Wars the Old Republic. Do you watch "The Big Bang Theory"? well think of it like their Halo night. Anyway after work I was able to pick up a time card for WOW but found I could not get a Star Wars one, so I'm going to pay for a month then order a time card off the net to replace the subscription after.
Don't expect anything massive from tonight's session since on Warcraft I need to sort out my Druid, all his bags are full and he's level 85 with green/blue items. So need to sort him out and get him ready for some dungeons, in fact I think I only tried out one dungeon in Cataclysm. See what I mean by not giving the games enough time, anyway in the way of Star Wars I'm hoping to do my first Flash point so wish me luck.
So on that note I'm off to go game my night away and I will not doubt catch up with you either later or tomorrow, will do a post about how it went so until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic
Starting this a little later then I hoped but I am pretty tired from work but going to have a blast tonight, why you ask? well I've decided I'm starting a new regular gaming night for myself. MMO night will be happening on a weekly basis, preferably Wednesday night unless something comes up (like this week so it's today instead of tomorrow). Reason I've decided on this is because once again I wasted two time cards, yup Star Wars the Old Republic ran out today and I worked out I probably only got six hours out of the 60 days. Very disappointed with myself and World of Warcraft is nearly the same, I did do a few extra hours thanks to the last holiday event but it was still not enough to make the purchase of the time card seem worth it in the end.
So back to the matter on hand and less ranting, I've decided that every week I would do a MMO night where I would spend several hours on World of Warcraft and Star Wars the Old Republic. Do you watch "The Big Bang Theory"? well think of it like their Halo night. Anyway after work I was able to pick up a time card for WOW but found I could not get a Star Wars one, so I'm going to pay for a month then order a time card off the net to replace the subscription after.
Don't expect anything massive from tonight's session since on Warcraft I need to sort out my Druid, all his bags are full and he's level 85 with green/blue items. So need to sort him out and get him ready for some dungeons, in fact I think I only tried out one dungeon in Cataclysm. See what I mean by not giving the games enough time, anyway in the way of Star Wars I'm hoping to do my first Flash point so wish me luck.
So on that note I'm off to go game my night away and I will not doubt catch up with you either later or tomorrow, will do a post about how it went so until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic
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