Had a bit of a shock loading up Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires though, it's subtitled this time around so I need to try and get use to reading the notification messages during battle. Before I would just listen out and still be able to pay attention to what was happening, now I keep having to glance to read which is costing me in a fight. Need to learn to balance that out but it's a fun game anyway, seems more in depth compared to the last ones so I think this platinum trophy will be a lot more challenging. Worth a check out if you into these type of strategy/action games.
So as I said not much this weekend for gaming, did do a lot of thinking and planning though. Oh actually before I go into that I did find something amusing during my tiding. My HD DVD player for the Xbox 360, picked up one last year really cheap, think it was something like £2.50 and when I got it home found a copy of Van Helsing left inside the disc tray. Bargain of the year that was and such a shame the format did not kick off, if they had put the drive into the Xbox like Sony did with the Blu-ray and PlayStation 3 it might be still here. Nothing really different between the two formats except HD DVD are all region free, that was the massive positive in my book. Anyway wonder if we will see a Blu-ray player in the new Xbox this year, hope so since they need to take advantage of the bigger disc space.
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Anyway back to the original subject of me thinking, well I was thinking about of multiple things. First MMO's and more specifically the ones I'm currently playing, World of Warcraft and Old Republic. If you been a long time reader of my blog you know one of my bad points is wasting money on time cards that I do not get my worth out of, one three hour session for a 60 day time card is not a good thing. Well the end of the time is coming up for Warcraft and I'm sure Old Republic will be soon too, so I was wondering is it worth reinvesting into another card for each. Of course this will all depend on did I get plenty of time out the current ones. World of Warcraft I would say without a doubt since I hit level 90, was on every day for the last two weeks doing the Valentines dungeons and spent quite a few sessions levelling up and questing. In fact I will just check out Raptr to see what the time was and it says in the last month I've clocked twelve hours, well the time card is two months so not bad. Especially when you fork out £40 for a console game and get around six hours game play.
Old Republic is another story in it's self and in fact Raptr as no data for the last month of me playing, if I did it would be less then an hour. Found it! Raptr blog activity last post was 11th February for 44 minutes, I will admit I don't think I've got my moneys worth. I started off well but the last few weeks I've not been on, the game is good but I don't know it's like I don't have a reason to sit down and play it. It's not gripping me I guess and I really don't know, I have wondered if playing a different class might help since they all different stories and game styles.
I've just checked and I've got twelve days left of my time card so I'm going to try a different character, the thing is that the game is free-to-play now of course you lose a lot of bonus for not being a premium member (cannot remember what). So I could still technically play it after my time runs out just with lots of penalties, see what happens with the next twelve days anyway.
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So that was my thoughts on the MMO's and I did think about console games as well with the same subject line of moneys worth. My pile of shame is huge and now with possibility of seeing the next generation of consoles this year the pressure is on really. I do feel like kicking myself for not playing some of these games, there are lot of amazing games this generation that I've not touched like Heavy Rain, Dark Souls, Demons Souls etc and plenty of games I've started and not finished. Over the last few weeks and in fact since the start of this year I have realise with so many games coming out and buying so many at the same time it does become hard to decide on what to play. A lot get shelved and a lot of time is wasted trying to decide on what to play, in fact I can say I've spent at least one night trying to decide on what to play then giving up for a film because there was too many choices.
In the old days when I was kid I barely bought any games, but when I did my god would I get my times worth out of them. I would love to see how many hours was spent on Ages of Empires 2 and Jedi Knight 2, I would easily say 200+ hours if not more. Now I be lucky to give them one hour so yeah I was thinking about that and of course the costs. In fact with the PlayStation 4 announcement I wrote down all the titles I wanted and rough guessed the price plus the console price. Guessing at £400 for the console and £50 per game, my want list came to nearly £1,000! so as you can imagine I nearly spat my drink out.
This is where this thought started, say all those games came out on the launch day how would I play them all? some would get pushed to the side or even shelved. So why buy them all if I'm not going to play them and that was it, I started with all this thinking and started to look at the Pile of Shame. You probably wondering where I'm going with all this rambling, well I don't know really. I think I need to cut back on my spending, maybe just buy one game at time and I don't buy the next until I've finished the last. Would make life simpler but then I only have to look at my challenge to see I cannot even do that right.
Food for thought anyway and on this note I'm going to go get ready because I suppose to be leaving soon for the Cinema to see Die Hard 5. I did not realise the time and spent way too much time writing this so take care all and I will see you soon.
~Iznic
