Summer Heat

Well it's finally cooled down in the UK today and less of a heatwave compared to the last few days. Since I'm no longer suffering I thought it would be a good time to do a update for the blog and to remind you I'm still alive.

So onwards to my gaming progress which is not a lot to report about this week, did a few levels of Company of Heroes 2. So far I'm really enjoying it but I don't feel the spark like I did with the first game, although the current mission I'm playing right now has opened more gameplay features so my mind might be changed soon.

Other then that I have put a few more hours into XCOM for the PS3, working my way through so far but man I'm struggling trying to keep one of my team all way through every mission I play. Started with four candidates and now I'm down to two, plus I'm not even close to half way through the game yet.

Final game I've been playing is Defense Grid the tower defence game on the Xbox Live Arcade, yes it was a free game for several weeks but I had purchased it years ago (just never got around to playing it). I have to say it's one of the best tower defence games I've played in a long time, really stuck into it and I'm about three to four levels to go from completing the story. I probably will go back and work on getting gold medals for every level but right now I'm just making my progress through the game.

That is it for my gaming progress, not a lot really but I have been busy and my spare time that I do have has been taken up trying to stay cold during the heat. My action plan for this week is, well ... I don't know really. I guess work on these games some more and see if I can clock something, I need to continue with Phantasy Star as well. I was really doing well with that but I stopped some time last week half way through a level, really should get back onto that before I forget the controls and need to start over.

Could do with some Warcraft time as well since I've got a brand new time card sitting on my desk waiting to be used, no doubt I've lost some items that I had in my mail. Really need to be a bit more organised with that. Actually speaking of Warcraft I wanted to talk about the new figurine sets and micro transactions that was announced this week.

This awesome figurine has turned up at Comic con this year and I really want it, I know from the size this thing will cost a small fortune but it would be so worth it. For those who don't play Warcraft this is Deathwing one of my the main bad guys in the lore, anyway I'm looking forward to seeing the painted outcome. Also announced was the first line of new micro transactions for the game, cosmetic armour helmets.

I like all of them but the Eternal Winter looks the best in my books, although they do look awesome the cost is not. £10 each is a ridiculous price for what you getting, it is cool that every character you own and any future ones you make will get this item. It's just hard to imagine paying £30 for all three which is the cost of the expansion at full price on day of launch. I really do wonder how many people have forked out the money for these items.

Anyway on that note let's change the topic to one more announcement before I end this post and that's a new game has been announced, well sort of anyway. Angry Birds Star Wars is finally coming to the consoles, took long enough to port it over. I'm really excited because it was announced that the PlayStation Vita will be getting it as well, this will be perfect for the Vita touch screen. Plus it's finally another game to get on the Vita but of course there is a bad side to this announcement. Europe release date is the 1st November 2013, yeah they launching it on the same day as Assassin's Creed 4 and Battlefield 4. Plus a few days after is Call of Duty Ghosts and any time around there the next-generation consoles. What a bad time to release a casual game like that, you would think they would aim for September/October or even wait until January/February next year. I would had got it on day one but since of the time it's going onto the wait list for now.


That's it folks for today so thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts, have a good one and I will catch up with you soon.
~Iznic

Summer is here

Morning folks,
Blimey it's hot in the UK right now and I'm not a fan, hay fever has been playing me up rotten although I have now got some tablets that seem to work. So prefer the winter where it's so much easier to get yourself wrapped up to be warm, much harder to get cool.

Anyway enough of me ranting about the good weather and time for an update on the gaming side of my life. Well I'm currently playing quite a few games right now, first up I have the retail disc version of Back to the Future from lovefilm. Currently playing that on the side so I'm slowly working my way towards the platinum trophy, in fact I'm a bit annoyed with Lovefilm right now. It was announced last week they will be dropping games rental soon, then it was announced the other day it stops on August 8th. Talk about a short notice and no reason why, although there is a lot speculation it has to do with the next-generation games. Why can the whole thing I have no idea since the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be still getting games for a long time. Shame though since I rental quite a lot of games through, either to try something I'm not sure on or to play something on a different format. 

Side from that bad news I have started Phantasy Star Universe, if you remember in my last post I had three games to choose from. So far I've completed the first three chapters and I'm actually enjoying it, still won't keep it once I'm done but it's not as bad as I thought it would be. The chapters are like anime episodes with opening songs and closing songs, plus previews for the next episode. Gameplay is massively repetitive with you just running through rooms/fields and corridors, kill x amount of bad guys to get a key to open the next area. Then either a mini boss or boss fight at the end, then that's it really.

Also some good news folks I did put a little into The Last of Us yesterday and I've finally got a bit further into the game, think it's about to open up now so hurray for that. I will be trying to put some more time into it over the next few days as well.

Finally I've pretty much back to where I was with Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations, in the middle of the third episode. Usually play handheld games on the weekend when I'm out and about but I've not worked on it the last two weeks since I've been busy. Well last Saturday I spent a few hours on it and now I'm onto new story that I don't recognise. Again will be working on this in the future and trying to get it completed so I can work on Apollo Justice.

That's it folks in the ways of my gaming, not much really exciting just slowly making my way through the collection. Oh I did nearly forget to say I finished the story for Bulletstorm on PS3, couple of more trophies for my collection. Did delete it the other day so I've now got some space on my hard drive, well did have since I've downloaded X-COM to play. Really love that game and wanted to play it again, started up the first two missions again so yeah another game to play on the side. Yeah I'm one of those people who play a ton of games at the same time, it's very rare I will just play one unless it's amazing beyond words.

Anyway that's it for my gaming today but I do want to speak about a few things, first up have you seen the list of upcoming games at the end of the year yet?. I checked last night and I think from the end of October to the end of November there is a game every week I want. Last year all over again but this time all the games are triple A in my books and pretty much all coming with collector editions I want. Plus add in the fact there are two next-generation consoles to be released around the same time as well. Dreading it to be honest and not sure where I'm going to get the time to play all this stuff.

Speaking of future games I will be doing the changes to the Upcoming Games and Next-Generation pages on my blog over the next few days. I will post up once everything starts along with some details on what I'm doing with them so keep an eye out for that.

Ok think that is it for me today, I'm going to go enjoy my day so have a good one folks and I will catch up with you soon.
~Iznic