Good Morning,
No idea why I'm up so early but going to take advantage of the few hours I've got before work, thinking either some posts or some gaming (maybe both). Wow I just remembered I did not update the 2012 Gaming Progress page yesterday, better get that done now before I forget again.
All sorted now so where was I, oh yeah I was about to talk about yesterday and my awesome day of gaming. Started the day off on Diablo 3 which seemed to run fine with no problems (probably jinxed myself now) so wondering if that small patch that I downloaded had fixed the problem or was the graphic issues to do with CO-OP play. Either way I did the introduction part to the game and now ready to get on with the first act which I might play in a bit.
After that I had a huge black on Dynasty Warriors 7 and finished the Shu campaign, was a lot closer to the ending then I originally thought. Two nice achievements for my trouble and I did the opening first mission for the Jing Campaign, so that's one goal for the week completed. I also tried out Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 which was one of my games I wanted to test out and I was shocked how much better it was compared to the first, still confusing in parts but least now you can repair your armour and even redeploy.
Finally I ended the day with two more levels done for Ghost Recon which I'm really enjoying right now, I find it hard to understand why it's getting negative reviews. It's a decent shooter and I love the sync targeting with the group, anyway I'm thinking that I must be close to the end since the missions are getting longer and the story is starting to wrap up so I might get this game done by the end of the week.
So that was my day so quite proud of myself for getting a lot done, ohh forgot I got one more trophy in Plants vs Zombies on the Vita, just three more to get the Platinum but one is time consuming and the last two are luck based so might be a while.
Anyway that's it for this post, going to go explore some Diablo 3 and see if I can make some progress on the first act. Playing a Barbarian again since I love the melee class, might try a Demon Hunter next time in the future although who I'm kidding I probably will try out all the classes in the end. When I get back from work I am considering doing a MMO night again since it's been nearly a month since the last one and waste of two game time cards. Talk to you later about it anyway and hopefully you all had a great day yesterday.
have a good one folks!
~Iznic
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Monday, 11 June 2012
End of my Holiday
Morning,
Well its the last day of my week off and actually it ended Saturday but my two days off for this week was well placed. Going to try and fit as much gaming in today as I can although deep down I know that won't happen since I've got a lot to do.
Just updated the challenge page since another four weeks as gone by and no shock I hit zero gamer score this week, too much Minecraft in the spare time I had but I'm not going to moan since I love the game. Of course this weeks challenge will probably jump higher then usually, hang on lets take a look.
Week 21 - This week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,163
Not a bad target this week considering I hit nothing last week, doubt I will hit it this week too but I will be playing quite a few different games this week. My plan for this week is to finish the Shu campaign on Dynasty Warriors 7 since I'm over half way through it now and start the new Jing campaign (looking forward to seeing this story line for the first time), would be brilliant if I could also finish that campaign as well since then it will be playing the Conquest mode left (most time consuming part of the game).
With the CO-OP online for Ghost Recon being really bugged for me and my mate I would like to work on the solo for the time, get a few missions done this week as well. Again it would be awesome if I finished this game so I can then work on some other titles, still got X-Men Destiny to work on from Lovefilm. Also have several games calling to me as well, plus there are several games sitting on my shelves that I want to try out to see if I will like them or not.
Plus throw some Minecraft in there and that's my list for the week, going to end this post here and get to it with the rest of my day! plenty to do, have a good week folks and keep your eyes open for more posts soon.
~Iznic
Well its the last day of my week off and actually it ended Saturday but my two days off for this week was well placed. Going to try and fit as much gaming in today as I can although deep down I know that won't happen since I've got a lot to do.
Just updated the challenge page since another four weeks as gone by and no shock I hit zero gamer score this week, too much Minecraft in the spare time I had but I'm not going to moan since I love the game. Of course this weeks challenge will probably jump higher then usually, hang on lets take a look.
Week 21 - This week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,163
Total So Far -
To Earn: 33,923
To Earn: 33,923
Achieved: 13,213
Difference: -20,710Not a bad target this week considering I hit nothing last week, doubt I will hit it this week too but I will be playing quite a few different games this week. My plan for this week is to finish the Shu campaign on Dynasty Warriors 7 since I'm over half way through it now and start the new Jing campaign (looking forward to seeing this story line for the first time), would be brilliant if I could also finish that campaign as well since then it will be playing the Conquest mode left (most time consuming part of the game).
With the CO-OP online for Ghost Recon being really bugged for me and my mate I would like to work on the solo for the time, get a few missions done this week as well. Again it would be awesome if I finished this game so I can then work on some other titles, still got X-Men Destiny to work on from Lovefilm. Also have several games calling to me as well, plus there are several games sitting on my shelves that I want to try out to see if I will like them or not.
Plus throw some Minecraft in there and that's my list for the week, going to end this post here and get to it with the rest of my day! plenty to do, have a good week folks and keep your eyes open for more posts soon.
~Iznic
Results: Week 17 - 20
Total So Far -
To Earn: 33,923
To Earn: 33,923
Achieved: 13,213
Difference: -20,710Week 20
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Minecraft Episode Three
Morning folks,
Really shocked that this is Episode Three of my Minecraft post series, I thought I was on four or five by now and only just found out when I went to double check the number before I started writing. Really need to keep up to date since I've done a lot more since the last post. I've been kicking myself lately since I keep creating different worlds to play in and got nothing really to show off for my time, where my friends have stuck to one world and built crazy houses.
My problem is I want to build huge things but without the threat of monsters because its just a pain having to keep worrying about attacks at night, then at the same time I do want to play survival. So I'm going to have two worlds on the go, one which will have my projects on set at peaceful so no attacks and a survival world.
Going to use my well I think its my sixth world for the peaceful one since I started building a giant floating fortress. Need to go back to it and finish it off, the only reason I've not bee on it for a while is the amount of time it takes to get the materials just build the one floor.
The world is full of mountains so I had built a giant house beside one then started to have a network of mines going into the mountain from the house. Then I started to build long bridges connecting the mountains so I could get around, so as you can see above when I started with the castle I just extended off one of the bridges.
I had to plant a ton of saplings below to create a small forest to help supply me with the wood for this project. The plan is to have a castle with about three-five floors, the roof will have a small garden that as small gazebo type building that stores water that creates a small waterfall that will drop down the centre of the castle into the basement.
Originally I wanted the basement to be a glass bowel that would fill up then have a few holes in it to cause waterfalls coming out to go into the lake below. But now I'm going to create a small island underneath using dirt and stone to give it that authentic look, still have a waterfall or two coming out of course.
Had to use wood a lot to work out where I wanted things before putting the stone down, since I had to put cobblestone into a furnace to get it to be brick stone again I did not want to waste any of it. Wooden planks can be picked up and put down again easily so as you can see above I was using blocks to find the middle and started cutting the shape out where I wanted the water to come through.
When it came to the gazebo I was in two minds about the design so once again I built it out of wood, I decided to have a lip on the top for the water so then I can have waterfalls on the top that go into the garden to make small streams and ponds. Glad I did build a rough wooden design because I forgot that there would be a second floor layer of dirt so had to move everything up one.
Even made a trip to the Netherworld to mine some glow blocks to use in my design, in the picture below you can see the roof taking shape and the final design of the gazebo. The golden looking blocks in the walls are the glow blocks so they light up at night, as I said the problem is time consuming getting all the blocks. Especially with having to put all the stone back into the furnace just to get the smooth looking block again.
For the time being I'm not building the walls just a rough out line, I want all the floors done so I can get the windows in the right place. Also thinking maybe adding a balcony or two later and I've merged the first two floors together to create a big hall way, the second floor is a balcony walkway that goes around the room so the centre is fully open.
In the picture on the left you can see my crazy wooden scaffolding that I had to use so I could make the lower floors, also the dirt stairs next it is so the grass can slowly grow up and spread into the garden on the top. Just takes a while for that to happen but once its done I can cut down everything.
So that's it so far for my castle world, I will be trying to finishing it off and have a laugh on this world. Thinking of building a underwater house nearby but we will see, anyway that's it for now. Hopefully in the next episode I will have some more final pictures for you to see along with the survival world up and running. Thinking of doing a ton of tunnels again like I did in my co-op world with my mates, that way I can work in the night without being attacked. Would be similar to a space base, in closed domes and walkways connecting everything, ohhh plans are starting to form in my head now.
Until next time folks have a good one!
~Iznic
P.S. Built anything fun on Minecraft? give a shout will love to see/hear what you built
Really shocked that this is Episode Three of my Minecraft post series, I thought I was on four or five by now and only just found out when I went to double check the number before I started writing. Really need to keep up to date since I've done a lot more since the last post. I've been kicking myself lately since I keep creating different worlds to play in and got nothing really to show off for my time, where my friends have stuck to one world and built crazy houses.
My problem is I want to build huge things but without the threat of monsters because its just a pain having to keep worrying about attacks at night, then at the same time I do want to play survival. So I'm going to have two worlds on the go, one which will have my projects on set at peaceful so no attacks and a survival world.
Going to use my well I think its my sixth world for the peaceful one since I started building a giant floating fortress. Need to go back to it and finish it off, the only reason I've not bee on it for a while is the amount of time it takes to get the materials just build the one floor.
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| Framework |
Originally I wanted the basement to be a glass bowel that would fill up then have a few holes in it to cause waterfalls coming out to go into the lake below. But now I'm going to create a small island underneath using dirt and stone to give it that authentic look, still have a waterfall or two coming out of course.
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| Measuring out the waterfall |
When it came to the gazebo I was in two minds about the design so once again I built it out of wood, I decided to have a lip on the top for the water so then I can have waterfalls on the top that go into the garden to make small streams and ponds. Glad I did build a rough wooden design because I forgot that there would be a second floor layer of dirt so had to move everything up one.
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| Gazebo Rough Design |
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| Roof Taking shape |
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| Taking Shape |
So that's it so far for my castle world, I will be trying to finishing it off and have a laugh on this world. Thinking of building a underwater house nearby but we will see, anyway that's it for now. Hopefully in the next episode I will have some more final pictures for you to see along with the survival world up and running. Thinking of doing a ton of tunnels again like I did in my co-op world with my mates, that way I can work in the night without being attacked. Would be similar to a space base, in closed domes and walkways connecting everything, ohhh plans are starting to form in my head now.
Until next time folks have a good one!
~Iznic
P.S. Built anything fun on Minecraft? give a shout will love to see/hear what you built
Friday, 8 June 2012
E3: Afterthoughts + E3 2013
All three conference posts are now up and I just got the ton of posts for the games to do now, before I jump into that though I though it be nice to do a post about what I thought in the end of E3 this year. I have to admit this year lost a lot of the spark for me, every year I'm usually jumping off the wall for the entire week then the second week just none stop talking about what we saw. This year I've not been that bothered to see the on floor stuff, in fact during the conferences I built a small Minecraft village because I was that bored (will be showing it off in a Minecraft Episode, when I get the time to do those posts).
I think it did not help with Microsoft and EA starting the week off badly, the rest pulled it back but I did feel it was not as good as the past. I was also shocked this year to have several friends ask why I did not tweet throughout the conferences, did not think people was that interested but over the last few days I've seen higher number of readers on the blog (even when there was no posts). So next year I will be doing a Twitter live feed as I watch the streams then after I might just copy and paste everything onto a blog post.
Personally I think the reason this E3 was not that big is because next year we will be seeing the next generation of consoles so I think everyone is holding back and waiting. What did you my readers think of this year? good? bad? post your thoughts in the comments or on the Facebook page, I do read everything.
You know what I think I'm going to post my thoughts for next year, I honestly think next year could be one of the biggest E3's we will ever see. Both Microsoft and Sony should be showing off the start of their new consoles, Nintendo should have Wii U and it will be showing off the line up for the first year. In fact it would not shock me if Nintendo release some big name stuff like Mario HD or Zelda HD since they will have some competition with the new consoles.
I believe that most companies will be moving over to the new consoles, so expecting to next generation from everyone. Maybe one or two games still coming out the current stuff but most will be next generation like COD, Assassin's Creed, Fifa, no doubt we will see another Battlefield but thinking Bad Company 3 this time.
It could be brilliant if done right and just maybe there will be a blue moon and Value will release Half-Life 2 Episode 3! although there would be a good chance the Four Horsemen will appear shortly after.
~Iznic
I think it did not help with Microsoft and EA starting the week off badly, the rest pulled it back but I did feel it was not as good as the past. I was also shocked this year to have several friends ask why I did not tweet throughout the conferences, did not think people was that interested but over the last few days I've seen higher number of readers on the blog (even when there was no posts). So next year I will be doing a Twitter live feed as I watch the streams then after I might just copy and paste everything onto a blog post.
Personally I think the reason this E3 was not that big is because next year we will be seeing the next generation of consoles so I think everyone is holding back and waiting. What did you my readers think of this year? good? bad? post your thoughts in the comments or on the Facebook page, I do read everything.
You know what I think I'm going to post my thoughts for next year, I honestly think next year could be one of the biggest E3's we will ever see. Both Microsoft and Sony should be showing off the start of their new consoles, Nintendo should have Wii U and it will be showing off the line up for the first year. In fact it would not shock me if Nintendo release some big name stuff like Mario HD or Zelda HD since they will have some competition with the new consoles.
I believe that most companies will be moving over to the new consoles, so expecting to next generation from everyone. Maybe one or two games still coming out the current stuff but most will be next generation like COD, Assassin's Creed, Fifa, no doubt we will see another Battlefield but thinking Bad Company 3 this time.
It could be brilliant if done right and just maybe there will be a blue moon and Value will release Half-Life 2 Episode 3! although there would be a good chance the Four Horsemen will appear shortly after.
~Iznic
E3: Nintendo Conference
Nintendo was tied in second place for me with Ubisoft this year, main reason Nintendo did take first place was the fact it seemed ... well last minute. Like they was not sure what to talk about, the whole conference they kept saying there was too much to talk about in the short time they got. Well stop saying that and use those minutes for more trailers! plus the 3DS was put into another conference the next day which was then missing most of the big games (Animal Crossing and Professor Layton to name a few).
Personally I was surprised they did not just turn the Wii U on, there was some great games shown but it would had been so much better if they picked up the game pad and shown us what happens when we switch it on then played those games.
As I mentioned just a minute ago there was some good games shown, Pikmin 3 looked amazing and in full HD as well. The water looked amazing which makes me chuckle since that line is always used to describe the HD in games. Anyway I was big fan of the first one but did not get much time in the second one, really looking forward to giving it a try and the pad features sound good. Was also surprised how awesome Super Mario Bro's U looks, not exactly a Marion fan myself but I might pick this one up. Love the features where you can get tips from other players appearing on the menu, reminds me sort of Demons Souls with the messages left on the floor.
I could not stop grinning also when they put up the details for Batman Arkham City Armoured edition, using the pad for detective mode!! omg! also they did everything I wanted with the fact all the menu, gadgets etc are on the pad and the TV being pure visual.
So overall they did good but it could had a been a lot better, right now I think I will be getting a Wii U but I really really want to see more footage. Show the menu off, put a game in, show us a fully working one instead of having it sit on a table. Need to see a lot more games too, they have a good start (Mass Effect 3!!) but I want to see the full line up for launch and the months after. Also 3DS!! don't forget this console again, where are the games!
That's it for me with this post and I don't forget to comment with what you though of this conference, good or bad I'm all ears!
~Iznic
Source: video stream thanks to gamespot.com
E3: Microsoft Conference
I have to say right now I was disappointed with Microsoft this year, it started off great with showing Halo 4 in action which looked great. Then doing the unveiling of Splinter Cell Black list, I was a happy gamer then after that it seemed to go down hill for the rest of the conference. I was really shocked that they only showed the small teaser trailer for Gears of Judgement and yet later that night there was announcements about the new multi player class system and story information. Then there huge announcement that Bling can now search by genre ... that was worthy to be shown off at E3?
Let's not forget the disaster of Dance Central 3 which we all knew was coming but having some music star say he will show it off then do a huge dance number without the game on, oh I'm sorry I though this was a game conference. If he was dancing to the game I would had accepted that even though its not my thing but it was clear he was just trying to promote himself, very disappointed in you Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong Microsoft could had been great, they showed off Tomb Raider and Black Ops 2. South Park looks amazing and Trey & Matt was a nice touch who clearly stole the show with their opening lines. The new Smartglass technology could be a great thing but I just don't see it being used properly, the Game of Thrones map I would probably use once then that's it. Halo 4 showing off the details of what you see now I would use that, that was sweet but as Peter Molyneux said on Spike TV how easy is it for developers to use? if its a nightmare to code for then it won't be used.
Overall they did ok but with too much time dedicated to the fail parts it left everyone upset and I would love to know what happened to the core updates that everyone was waiting for. Friends list extension? clan support, gamer score and achievements having more purpose with dedicated leaderboards and rewards. Actually I know where all this stuff is, they holding it off to put in the new Xbox along with the upgraded Kinect which makes sense I guess. So that's it for me on this conference, what was your thoughts on it? good or bad?
~Iznic
P.S. Video stream thanks to Gamespot.com
E3: Sony Conference
The clear winner in my eyes thanks to all the games they showed off, in my opinion E3 is about games and new consoles plus throw in a accessory or two in as well. Microsoft seemed to have forgot that and Nintendo could had a been a lot clearer, so Sony took the crown but they did deserve with what they showed off.
Starting off with that new IP Beyond Two Souls from the makers of Heavy Rain was the best decision they could had done, it looks amazing and I cannot wait to see more about it plus I would love to see some proper game footage (although I'm expecting the graphics in the trailer was game footage). Then you got near the end showing off a level being played of "Last of Us", brutal and amazing was all I could think of while watching. God of War still looks the same old hack and slash with brutal combos but it stills sucks me in, I think this year I will be putting more time into my PlayStation 3.
A nice touch was showing off the Ship battling for Assassin's Creed 3, been waiting for a game to get that right and seems Ubisoft did it. Plus Liberation for the Vita looks bang on, it looks like a proper game instead of the past handheld ones which had to sacrifice a lot.
Also the upgrade to PlayStation Plus was a nice touch with a ton of free games on their way, ten games are already up right now and my poor PS3 is trying to download 40/50gb+ worth.
Overall it was good conference but of course I would had liked to seen a lot more about the PlayStation Vita games, it was nice seeing the Assassin's Creed and confirming Black Ops 2 but what about the rest? two games is not enough. Oh well hopefully over the next few months we will see some announcements, so what did you think of Sony's Conference? good? bad?
~Iznic
Source: thanks to gamespot.com for the conference video
Starting off with that new IP Beyond Two Souls from the makers of Heavy Rain was the best decision they could had done, it looks amazing and I cannot wait to see more about it plus I would love to see some proper game footage (although I'm expecting the graphics in the trailer was game footage). Then you got near the end showing off a level being played of "Last of Us", brutal and amazing was all I could think of while watching. God of War still looks the same old hack and slash with brutal combos but it stills sucks me in, I think this year I will be putting more time into my PlayStation 3.
A nice touch was showing off the Ship battling for Assassin's Creed 3, been waiting for a game to get that right and seems Ubisoft did it. Plus Liberation for the Vita looks bang on, it looks like a proper game instead of the past handheld ones which had to sacrifice a lot.
Also the upgrade to PlayStation Plus was a nice touch with a ton of free games on their way, ten games are already up right now and my poor PS3 is trying to download 40/50gb+ worth.
Overall it was good conference but of course I would had liked to seen a lot more about the PlayStation Vita games, it was nice seeing the Assassin's Creed and confirming Black Ops 2 but what about the rest? two games is not enough. Oh well hopefully over the next few months we will see some announcements, so what did you think of Sony's Conference? good? bad?
~Iznic
Source: thanks to gamespot.com for the conference video
The Daily Grind E3 Edition
Good Morning Folks,
Last night just as I was just about to close my eyes I suddenly realised that I did not do my weekly update about the challenge. Of course it could not be helped since it was in fact E3 week plus I'm on holiday as well so I'm pretty busy having fun, anyway so I thought I would do this Daily Grind post to catch up with everything as well as start my E3 posting with. There is so much to talk about and such little time, where does one start?
Let's start with last week and my 200,000 gamer score challenge, I did actually earn some achievements last week but not enough of course to hit the target. My new rental game arrived which was X-men Destiny which I'm actually enjoying, quite a easy and fun game and the story is pretty good so far. Have to wait and see what the rest of the game is like later on before I pass judgement on it but so far the achievements are really easy.
Week 20 - this week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Dang! that was a low score for last week and I really did think I was past the 500 mark, must had been earning achievements in my sleep. Think this week will be a lot worse since I can say as of right now I'm on zero, will be doing some gaming today so hopefully I can get at least one achievement .... hopefully!!
So my plans for this week? well I have no idea what I will be playing sorry, what ever takes my fancy today but I am working on Plants vs Zombies still on my Vita. Think I've only got five trophies left to get the Platinum and I'm about to get two more in a few more levels. This will be second Vita Platinum so I am quite excited about it, so I have no doubts I will be on that this week especially with the fact the last trophies are time consuming luck based ones.
Think that's enough ramblings about my challenge for a week and before I wrap this post up I think it would be a good time to announce my winner of E3. Could do with a drum roll but oh well, winner as to be Sony in my opinion. The conference was everything I wanted, games and guess what more games! they took my breath away with how amazing Last of Us looks then adding a new IP Beyond Two souls. I really need to play Heavy Rain because I know I'm missing out but I will be playing Beyond on day one that's for sure, then lets not forget showing off Assassin's Creed 3 ship battling which really shocked me (big fan of Pirates and I have been waiting a while for a good game with ships).
Assassins Creed Liberation looks amazing on the Vita and let's not forget God of War, the whole conference was great and ohhh don't forget the ton of free games for PlayStation Plus members which is about time!. Of course there was things missing in my opinion but no conference is perfect but anyway Sony won followed by Ubisoft and Nintendo joint second then Microsoft and EA last. I will be doing a series of posts talking about the conferences and of course the games will be up separately as well so stick around for all that, in the mean time what was your favourite conference? I would love to hear!
~Iznic
Last night just as I was just about to close my eyes I suddenly realised that I did not do my weekly update about the challenge. Of course it could not be helped since it was in fact E3 week plus I'm on holiday as well so I'm pretty busy having fun, anyway so I thought I would do this Daily Grind post to catch up with everything as well as start my E3 posting with. There is so much to talk about and such little time, where does one start?
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Let's start with last week and my 200,000 gamer score challenge, I did actually earn some achievements last week but not enough of course to hit the target. My new rental game arrived which was X-men Destiny which I'm actually enjoying, quite a easy and fun game and the story is pretty good so far. Have to wait and see what the rest of the game is like later on before I pass judgement on it but so far the achievements are really easy.
Week 20 - this week
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,128
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,128
Week 19
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 325
Difference: -1,705
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 31,795
To Earn: 31,795
Achieved: 11,085
Difference: -20,710Dang! that was a low score for last week and I really did think I was past the 500 mark, must had been earning achievements in my sleep. Think this week will be a lot worse since I can say as of right now I'm on zero, will be doing some gaming today so hopefully I can get at least one achievement .... hopefully!!
So my plans for this week? well I have no idea what I will be playing sorry, what ever takes my fancy today but I am working on Plants vs Zombies still on my Vita. Think I've only got five trophies left to get the Platinum and I'm about to get two more in a few more levels. This will be second Vita Platinum so I am quite excited about it, so I have no doubts I will be on that this week especially with the fact the last trophies are time consuming luck based ones.
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Think that's enough ramblings about my challenge for a week and before I wrap this post up I think it would be a good time to announce my winner of E3. Could do with a drum roll but oh well, winner as to be Sony in my opinion. The conference was everything I wanted, games and guess what more games! they took my breath away with how amazing Last of Us looks then adding a new IP Beyond Two souls. I really need to play Heavy Rain because I know I'm missing out but I will be playing Beyond on day one that's for sure, then lets not forget showing off Assassin's Creed 3 ship battling which really shocked me (big fan of Pirates and I have been waiting a while for a good game with ships).
Assassins Creed Liberation looks amazing on the Vita and let's not forget God of War, the whole conference was great and ohhh don't forget the ton of free games for PlayStation Plus members which is about time!. Of course there was things missing in my opinion but no conference is perfect but anyway Sony won followed by Ubisoft and Nintendo joint second then Microsoft and EA last. I will be doing a series of posts talking about the conferences and of course the games will be up separately as well so stick around for all that, in the mean time what was your favourite conference? I would love to hear!
~Iznic
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
E3: Baird's Goggles for your Avatar Free!
Afternoon folks,
I will be posting quite a bit in the next few with all the E3 goodies and talking about what I thought and what I want but for now you have to wait. This had to be posted up A.S.A.P in my opinion, with the announcement of Gears of War Judgement you can watch the teaser trailer on their new facebook page but if you also share it on your wall you unlock a code for Baird's Goggles for your avatar.
So what you waiting for?! check out this link and get sharing, its free!
~Iznic
Source: Big thanks to my good friend Carpo_1987 for making me aware of this offer
I will be posting quite a bit in the next few with all the E3 goodies and talking about what I thought and what I want but for now you have to wait. This had to be posted up A.S.A.P in my opinion, with the announcement of Gears of War Judgement you can watch the teaser trailer on their new facebook page but if you also share it on your wall you unlock a code for Baird's Goggles for your avatar.
So what you waiting for?! check out this link and get sharing, its free!
~Iznic
Source: Big thanks to my good friend Carpo_1987 for making me aware of this offer
Monday, 4 June 2012
Pre-E3: Lego Lord of the Rings
It's finally been confirmed and they are now making the Lego Lord of the Rings video game, whats even better there is a teaser trailer for it as well.
I'm excited for it but still not sure about having voices now, especially with the voices sounding so serious when the Lego games are meant to be fun. It would had been really funny if the Balrog was charging a long then stops since Gandalf was tapping a no Balrog entry sign, the Balrog pouting and throws a tantrum breaking the bridge. See works with out the voices! anyway still going to get it since its Lego and you can never go wrong with it.
~Iznic
Source: WB Games Twitter for the Story, Community Games for the Trailer
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Pre-E3 Rumour: Final Fantasy XV
Another rumour concerning Square Enix as popped up over on the website MCV, a well known site for UK Gaming Business news. This time it shows a behind closed doors video of a conference announcing Final Fantasy XV and that in fact Versus XIII was the code name for it, this would explain why there as been no news in ages about the illusive Versus game.
Check out the source link below to watch the trailer on their website and see what you think, if this is a fake they did a good job of it that's for sure. Anyway guess the answers will be clear on Monday along with the Hitman HD collection.
I would buy the next Final Fantasy game but then I remember I still got to finish XIII and start XIII-2.
~Iznic
Source: MCV
Check out the source link below to watch the trailer on their website and see what you think, if this is a fake they did a good job of it that's for sure. Anyway guess the answers will be clear on Monday along with the Hitman HD collection.
I would buy the next Final Fantasy game but then I remember I still got to finish XIII and start XIII-2.
~Iznic
Source: MCV
Pre-E3 Rumour: Hitman HD Collection
Over on CVG they have posted up that a retailer is listing a HD Collection for the past Hitman games for the PlayStation 3, games include Hitman Blood Money which I really enjoyed. Hitman Contracts which as to be my most favourite game of the series and the one that got me into the Hitman games and the second Hitman game Silent Assassin.
Of course this is just a rumour with out Square Enix's confirmation but I really do hope its true, guess have to wait for the conference on Monday. I will gladly pick this up if they do make it though, having Contacts in HD on the consoles would be excellent.
~Iznic
Source: CVG
Of course this is just a rumour with out Square Enix's confirmation but I really do hope its true, guess have to wait for the conference on Monday. I will gladly pick this up if they do make it though, having Contacts in HD on the consoles would be excellent.
~Iznic
Source: CVG
Pre-E3: Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2
Never really been into the Castlevania games and they never really got my attention until I saw a trailer a few years back for the Lords of Shadows on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I did pick it up in the end one Christmas since it gone into the bargain sales and I could not resist, it's currently gathering dust on my shelf still in the wrapper. I keep saying to myself that I will get around to it but now I really need too..
Was a bit of a surprise at the end to see the sequel announced and it looked amazing, although I had no clue on the plot elements that was going on. Guess I really do need to play the first one so I can understand it better and I've got to now since I want the sequel. Anyone else looking to get this? or you not impressed?
~Iznic
Was a bit of a surprise at the end to see the sequel announced and it looked amazing, although I had no clue on the plot elements that was going on. Guess I really do need to play the first one so I can understand it better and I've got to now since I want the sequel. Anyone else looking to get this? or you not impressed?
~Iznic
Pre-E3: Skyrim Dawnguard
It's amazing when you talk about a game then come home to find the new information waiting for you. Me and a friend at work was talking about Dawnguard and wondering what it could be about and my words where they would announce the details at E3. Instead I came home to find this nice trailer link on my Twitter waiting for me...
Don't see any Snow Elves though from the leaked data mined information users found but still looks awesome, the whole flying Vampire lord from the developers video being added was a nice touch. Crossbows finally as well! not sure which side I will choose yet but then again I really need to start Skyrim properly! last point I got up to was killing the first Dragon with the city guard, so at the start really.
~Iznic
Don't see any Snow Elves though from the leaked data mined information users found but still looks awesome, the whole flying Vampire lord from the developers video being added was a nice touch. Crossbows finally as well! not sure which side I will choose yet but then again I really need to start Skyrim properly! last point I got up to was killing the first Dragon with the city guard, so at the start really.
~Iznic
Pre-E3: Tomb Raider
The great team over at Gametrailers have posted up an exclusive video of the new Tomb Raider, my god does it look amazing. I love the fact we are now getting more matured themed games, I hate when games get dumbed down so they can aim it at kids. Anyway check it out below...
Well what do you think? you got to feel for her, talk about a bad day and that scene with the bone stuck in her side. Shame its been pushed back until next year but I can understand with the fact that there is way too much coming out this year. This will be a must buy on launch for me and I'm hoping for a cool collectors edition, I am wondering what they will show off next week though.
~Iznic
Well what do you think? you got to feel for her, talk about a bad day and that scene with the bone stuck in her side. Shame its been pushed back until next year but I can understand with the fact that there is way too much coming out this year. This will be a must buy on launch for me and I'm hoping for a cool collectors edition, I am wondering what they will show off next week though.
~Iznic
Friday, 1 June 2012
Pre-E3: Konami Conference
Well it's fully official now with Konami doing their second pre conference last night, just like last year it covers several of their top games with plenty of beautiful trailers and lots of information to take in. There will be several more announcements as well next week according to the video so they still got plenty up their slevees left. Video is below for you my lovely readers thanks to G4TV and I will be doing posts later on each of the games I'm interested in, might even update this post with a series of links too.
Anyway enjoy the conference!
~Iznic
Other Posts Related:
- Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2
Anyway enjoy the conference!
~Iznic
Other Posts Related:
- Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2
Pre-E3: Random Information
Evening folks,
Just taking a break from gaming since my hands still hurt from the epic Minecraft session I had on the weekend, really need to learn to not grip the controllers so hard. Anyway I thought I better clear up something about my posts on E3 this year, I will only be posting about games I'm interested in so don't expect to see every game appearing here. For example today there is information about Dead Space 3 and Aliens Marines Collector Edition but I'm not a horror fan so I won't be getting these so not going to be posting about them.
For the full coverage of every announcement I would recommend trying out of any these sites, these are the ones I use on a regular basis.
Video Game Interactive
Xbox360achievements
PS3trophies
Gamespot
IGN
MCV
Just one more thing also to clear up, don't think I will be doing a full post for each conference like last year. I will probably do a overall post to cover all three conferences saying who I thought was the best and worst, plus any small announcements will be included. Then I will have separate posts with trailers for each big game I'm interested in.
So that's it folks, think I've covered everything...ohhh before I forget again, Shopto as posted up the full schedule for all the events (times and even links to some of the sites providing videos). They did seem to forget to mention that IGN and Gamespot usually cover live streams as well, G4TV is usually a big one too.
Anyway that's it for now so take care all,
~Iznic
Just taking a break from gaming since my hands still hurt from the epic Minecraft session I had on the weekend, really need to learn to not grip the controllers so hard. Anyway I thought I better clear up something about my posts on E3 this year, I will only be posting about games I'm interested in so don't expect to see every game appearing here. For example today there is information about Dead Space 3 and Aliens Marines Collector Edition but I'm not a horror fan so I won't be getting these so not going to be posting about them.
For the full coverage of every announcement I would recommend trying out of any these sites, these are the ones I use on a regular basis.
Video Game Interactive
Xbox360achievements
PS3trophies
Gamespot
IGN
MCV
Just one more thing also to clear up, don't think I will be doing a full post for each conference like last year. I will probably do a overall post to cover all three conferences saying who I thought was the best and worst, plus any small announcements will be included. Then I will have separate posts with trailers for each big game I'm interested in.
So that's it folks, think I've covered everything...ohhh before I forget again, Shopto as posted up the full schedule for all the events (times and even links to some of the sites providing videos). They did seem to forget to mention that IGN and Gamespot usually cover live streams as well, G4TV is usually a big one too.
Anyway that's it for now so take care all,
~Iznic
Pre-E3 Van Helsing
I remember hearing about a new Van Helsing game in the works and that the style would be a lot different compared to the usual take. That was several months ago and since then not heard about it again until this morning, as I will checking through the mass piles of Twitter messages I came across a link to a teaser trailer. So here it is, the teaser for "The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing"...
Hopefully next week we will see some information about this game but I do like the art style so far, especially the classic old school vampire look. Not sure what to think of the Final Fantasy style Van Helsing though, anyway its listed to be coming out Christmas time this year so I will be keeping my eyes open and I will post anything I find.
What are your views on it? good? bad? wait and see?
~Iznic
Hopefully next week we will see some information about this game but I do like the art style so far, especially the classic old school vampire look. Not sure what to think of the Final Fantasy style Van Helsing though, anyway its listed to be coming out Christmas time this year so I will be keeping my eyes open and I will post anything I find.
What are your views on it? good? bad? wait and see?
~Iznic
Pre-E3: Hitman Absolution Trailer
Couple of days ago the E3 trailer was posted up for the new Hitman Absolution game, not sure how it can be a E3 trailer when its a week early but anyway have a look below.
When I saw the Agency tatoo on her arm I was jumping for joy with the idea that we will be taking on other Assassin's. Really want the game to end at the Agency H.Q. which would be a great last level to end it on, although they could keep that for another game and end it somewhere else, or it's revealed in a teaser that there are multiple branches of the Agency. Either way I'm looking forward to next week and hoping to see a lot of game play footage so I can see the new system in action.
~Iznic
When I saw the Agency tatoo on her arm I was jumping for joy with the idea that we will be taking on other Assassin's. Really want the game to end at the Agency H.Q. which would be a great last level to end it on, although they could keep that for another game and end it somewhere else, or it's revealed in a teaser that there are multiple branches of the Agency. Either way I'm looking forward to next week and hoping to see a lot of game play footage so I can see the new system in action.
~Iznic
Pre-E3: Gears of War
I'm like a kid at Christmas last night and especially this morning since there is a ton of more announcements. Anyway last night this appeared and I will let it speak for me!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
Yes that's right a new chapter for Gears of War and according to VGI it will be announced on Monday at the E3 conference for Microsoft. So excited about it and from the looks its a prequel since in the back ground you can clearly see burning buildings with Reavers flying past. Also the figure with the handcuffs is probably Marcus, but we will find out on Monday for sure anyway.
Ohhhh can imagine if this would be ready for Christmas or early next year, omg! I'm so excited that I'm practically jumping off the walls. Going to attempt to write the next couple of posts now, well if I can calm down long enough! surprising how much energy I've got to say I had a rough night of barely any sleep. Anyway I'm off and if you want to see a larger image of the cover check out the source below on VGI.
~Iznic
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Facebook Trouble
Afternoon all,
Just finished work and had some dinner so it's time for a small rant before I get into any gaming, so if you follow my blog on Facebook you would had seen my panicking messages this morning. If not then well here is the full story, Facebook as blocked blogspot.co.uk along with a few other country versions (hearing Canda version is blocked too). So when I tried to link my new post this morning I was shocked to see a blocked warning come up saying blogspot.co.uk is blocked because and I quote "its spammy".
So someone must had spammed links to their blog and they decided to block the entire blogspot community for it? I would clap but I don't want waste any time of them, also "spammy"??? really??? that's a really professional error message you got there. So I quickly sent a report off which actually made me laugh when it asked why I think it shouldn't be blocked, I was tempted to say stop being petite and blocking Google products but I was not in the mood for that can of worms today.
Anyway what made me really interested was the fact my blog is not .co.uk but in fact .com, so a quick look up on good old Google and I found others are having the same problem to the point that it was deleting any old messages on their Facebook page that contained the blocked links. Checked mine out to find all of my April and May posts gone, the words "Rage Quit" come to mind when I saw everything was gone.
There was a nice few people on the message forum who explained what had happened, seems blogger will change the URL when you looking at the blog to your country specific address. So even though my blog is .com since I'm in the UK I will see .co.uk, of course when I post my links I just copy and paste. Now for some reason over the last few days Facebook as been blocking the country specific ones but leaving America alone (.com) but they did have a few work arounds which includes editing the link before posting which I did this morning for my new post. Worked like a charm, woohoo! have that Facebook.
Plus if I click the share button that would work too, I did not have chance to check that out since I was late for work nearly *grumble*. But my good mate Wes from VGI did a test earlier and was able to share the post link so that's confirmed to worked as well.
So overall everything is kinda of sorted for now, still lost two months worth of posts plus all your comments gone but least ... well I don't know how to end that sentence, still peeved off with Facebook and that sums it up.
I'm off to go do some gaming now and let some steam off
~Iznic
Just finished work and had some dinner so it's time for a small rant before I get into any gaming, so if you follow my blog on Facebook you would had seen my panicking messages this morning. If not then well here is the full story, Facebook as blocked blogspot.co.uk along with a few other country versions (hearing Canda version is blocked too). So when I tried to link my new post this morning I was shocked to see a blocked warning come up saying blogspot.co.uk is blocked because and I quote "its spammy".
So someone must had spammed links to their blog and they decided to block the entire blogspot community for it? I would clap but I don't want waste any time of them, also "spammy"??? really??? that's a really professional error message you got there. So I quickly sent a report off which actually made me laugh when it asked why I think it shouldn't be blocked, I was tempted to say stop being petite and blocking Google products but I was not in the mood for that can of worms today.
Anyway what made me really interested was the fact my blog is not .co.uk but in fact .com, so a quick look up on good old Google and I found others are having the same problem to the point that it was deleting any old messages on their Facebook page that contained the blocked links. Checked mine out to find all of my April and May posts gone, the words "Rage Quit" come to mind when I saw everything was gone.
There was a nice few people on the message forum who explained what had happened, seems blogger will change the URL when you looking at the blog to your country specific address. So even though my blog is .com since I'm in the UK I will see .co.uk, of course when I post my links I just copy and paste. Now for some reason over the last few days Facebook as been blocking the country specific ones but leaving America alone (.com) but they did have a few work arounds which includes editing the link before posting which I did this morning for my new post. Worked like a charm, woohoo! have that Facebook.
Plus if I click the share button that would work too, I did not have chance to check that out since I was late for work nearly *grumble*. But my good mate Wes from VGI did a test earlier and was able to share the post link so that's confirmed to worked as well.
So overall everything is kinda of sorted for now, still lost two months worth of posts plus all your comments gone but least ... well I don't know how to end that sentence, still peeved off with Facebook and that sums it up.
I'm off to go do some gaming now and let some steam off
~Iznic
Almost Time
Good Morning Folks,
Thought I do a nice post before I rush off to work, got a nice cushy shift mid-day which then leaves me with rest of the afternoon/evening off along with tomorrow. Looking forward to next week with E3 and very excited to see what's left to announce, especially since everyone seems to be putting up the trailers early and giving out all the details now.
Added bonus to next week is I've got the week off! nice full week of chilling, would like to say it's a gaming week but don't think that will go down with my girlfriend. Also on Sunday it will be five years we been going out, achievement unlocked right there!.
So this week news, hmmm Minecraft, followed by some Minecraft and finally a pinch of Minecraft. Nah just kidding, well only slightly kidding since I have been on Minecraft a lot but there was other games too. Yesterday I had a co-op night on Ghost Recon Future Soldier which turned out to be a huge pain in the ass, only got the prologue and first level done. My friend kept getting kicked out of the game same the server as disconnected which means we had to start the level over, last one was at 11.30pm so we gave up especially when we was 10 minutes away from finishing the level. Hopefully the next time we try it will turn out to be better and this time we can do more then a level.
Also I forgot that the DLC for Batman Arkham City was out, as you can imagine I dropped everything to go play. Story was not bad and I love all the little easter eggs they added and I cannot wait to see if they do a sequel now, maybe a E3 announcement? yeah I know it's unlikely but one can hope. While I remember I will go add the DLC to my complete list, wow that was number 30 for the year! score!. Getting there folks and I mean I'm hoping to do better then last year although I'm still sticking to the philosophy of just playing for fun.
Rest of the week is going to be playing Minecraft, Dynasty Warriors 7, Ghost Recon and if I can find time I will do some more Diablo 3. Ah feck I just realised when was the last time I did a MMO night, actually that really is the truth I don't remember the last time so hang on going to check out my post history to see the date. Good lord it was the 5th May and I did not do Star Wars so I've gone nearly a full month without playing so that was a real waste of money. Think I still got time left on my time cards so need to check that out and sort it, think I will do that later in fact and just make a note to remind myself.
Also I will be posting another Minecraft Episode post very soon I promise, especially since I'm sticking with one world right now and begun a giant project which involves a floating castle in the sky. Dang did not realise the time and I better go get sorted for work, right folks I will catch you later and I promise to update more since I want to get a few things done before E3.
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
P.S. Don't forget to comment on the blog or the facebook page with what you been up to, always up for hearing what my readers are up to. Plus any feedback about the blog good or bad is welcome.
Thought I do a nice post before I rush off to work, got a nice cushy shift mid-day which then leaves me with rest of the afternoon/evening off along with tomorrow. Looking forward to next week with E3 and very excited to see what's left to announce, especially since everyone seems to be putting up the trailers early and giving out all the details now.
Added bonus to next week is I've got the week off! nice full week of chilling, would like to say it's a gaming week but don't think that will go down with my girlfriend. Also on Sunday it will be five years we been going out, achievement unlocked right there!.
So this week news, hmmm Minecraft, followed by some Minecraft and finally a pinch of Minecraft. Nah just kidding, well only slightly kidding since I have been on Minecraft a lot but there was other games too. Yesterday I had a co-op night on Ghost Recon Future Soldier which turned out to be a huge pain in the ass, only got the prologue and first level done. My friend kept getting kicked out of the game same the server as disconnected which means we had to start the level over, last one was at 11.30pm so we gave up especially when we was 10 minutes away from finishing the level. Hopefully the next time we try it will turn out to be better and this time we can do more then a level.
Also I forgot that the DLC for Batman Arkham City was out, as you can imagine I dropped everything to go play. Story was not bad and I love all the little easter eggs they added and I cannot wait to see if they do a sequel now, maybe a E3 announcement? yeah I know it's unlikely but one can hope. While I remember I will go add the DLC to my complete list, wow that was number 30 for the year! score!. Getting there folks and I mean I'm hoping to do better then last year although I'm still sticking to the philosophy of just playing for fun.
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Rest of the week is going to be playing Minecraft, Dynasty Warriors 7, Ghost Recon and if I can find time I will do some more Diablo 3. Ah feck I just realised when was the last time I did a MMO night, actually that really is the truth I don't remember the last time so hang on going to check out my post history to see the date. Good lord it was the 5th May and I did not do Star Wars so I've gone nearly a full month without playing so that was a real waste of money. Think I still got time left on my time cards so need to check that out and sort it, think I will do that later in fact and just make a note to remind myself.
Also I will be posting another Minecraft Episode post very soon I promise, especially since I'm sticking with one world right now and begun a giant project which involves a floating castle in the sky. Dang did not realise the time and I better go get sorted for work, right folks I will catch you later and I promise to update more since I want to get a few things done before E3.
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
P.S. Don't forget to comment on the blog or the facebook page with what you been up to, always up for hearing what my readers are up to. Plus any feedback about the blog good or bad is welcome.
Monday, 28 May 2012
Not Fully Awake
Morning Readers,
Seriously struggling to stay away right now since I stayed up playing games last night, I had one epic co-op session yesterday that involved Minecraft and Diablo 3. I would like to post up some pictures of what we built but we didn't really make anything other then explore the world and dig a huge mine with a mine cart going into it. It was fun non the less and we now have plenty of resources from the mines to build what ever we want, once decided that is.
Diablo 3 is awesome! mind blowing good but I had a ton of problems on my machine, according to "Can I run it?" my machine can only do minimum and not recommended. CPU/Motherboard and my Graphics Card need upgrading, I was right annoyed until I remembered that my last big upgrade was over four years ago so yeah it's been a long time needed. So need to look into saving some cash so I can do a new upgrade and when I do expect blog posts of me building my nice new gaming machine. Anyway I got most of the bugs sorted but now and again I do get a black screen for a second with a freeze then it jumps back into the game, I can bare with it for the time being since its not that often.
Was playing a Barbarian and got up to level 10, as I said I'm really hooked and need to start a solo character to play on so I can enjoy the story line since it was rushing through the dialogue. I do have regrets now for not getting the collectors edition, especially when my mate is running around with the angel wings on that you get in the box.
Apart from that nothing else to announce, actually wait that's a lie right there I forgot I never posted on Friday or Saturday about the new releases. Yeah I blew my entire amount of my gift cards to pick up all these lovely goodies, think it cost me 12p in cash after my gift cards was used.
So far I've only started Ghost Recon which so far I'm really enjoying, I've got to the third mission and I do have to admit that it as got a lot more linear compared to the past ones. But the graphics, story and game play make up for it in the ways that is awesome, I love the tagging system where you mark enemies and your squad lines up the shot and await your command to fire. Makes life a lot more easier and I am getting into the story, won't spoilt it but it is good so far and easier to follow.
Need to try out the multi player since that is what I bought it for, the Ghost Recon series was one of the games that got me into co-op. In fact it was Splinter Cell Pandora's box that really started it off, playing co-op with my mate Adam. Anyway I'm determined this week to get some time on Dragons Dogma and Rune Factory so stay tuned to see some information about them later this week.
On that note I think its time to update the blog stats and see how I'm doing on my challenge this week, don't expect anything amazing but I did get a few achievements in Ghost Recon and I did start Dynasty Warriors 7 too.
Oh my god I forgot to say I clocked Captain America in the week, yes my rental is finally done woot! so another Platinum for my collection. Cannot believe I forgot all about that, so yeah that was my fourth Platinum trophy for the year and xx for all time, also it brings my score up to 29 games completed this year so getting there. Although one of my friends on twitter posted up they just did their 54th game, seriously how much free time they must have ... actually probably more like no Minecraft addiction lol.
Time for the week 18 stats to be done then and I'm expecting this week will finally hit the 2,000 gamer score a week mark.
Week 19 - This week
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,030
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Ouch! knew I would hit it this week but was still dreading to see it, I'm getting close to ending this challenge and just continue to play and enjoy games while trying to get some completed. Next week should see me behind by at least 20,000 gamer score as well, just getting crazy now lol.
So my plans for this week is to play my new releases, least put an hour on each one then I think my focus will be split across a multiple of games. I would go into detail but not sure what will happen so keep an eye out for future posts, although it probably will be Ghost Recon and some Dynasty Warriors 7 at least.
Anyway on that note I'm going to shoot and finish updating my stats page then going to play around on some games, have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great weekend.
~Iznic
Seriously struggling to stay away right now since I stayed up playing games last night, I had one epic co-op session yesterday that involved Minecraft and Diablo 3. I would like to post up some pictures of what we built but we didn't really make anything other then explore the world and dig a huge mine with a mine cart going into it. It was fun non the less and we now have plenty of resources from the mines to build what ever we want, once decided that is.
Diablo 3 is awesome! mind blowing good but I had a ton of problems on my machine, according to "Can I run it?" my machine can only do minimum and not recommended. CPU/Motherboard and my Graphics Card need upgrading, I was right annoyed until I remembered that my last big upgrade was over four years ago so yeah it's been a long time needed. So need to look into saving some cash so I can do a new upgrade and when I do expect blog posts of me building my nice new gaming machine. Anyway I got most of the bugs sorted but now and again I do get a black screen for a second with a freeze then it jumps back into the game, I can bare with it for the time being since its not that often.
Was playing a Barbarian and got up to level 10, as I said I'm really hooked and need to start a solo character to play on so I can enjoy the story line since it was rushing through the dialogue. I do have regrets now for not getting the collectors edition, especially when my mate is running around with the angel wings on that you get in the box.
Apart from that nothing else to announce, actually wait that's a lie right there I forgot I never posted on Friday or Saturday about the new releases. Yeah I blew my entire amount of my gift cards to pick up all these lovely goodies, think it cost me 12p in cash after my gift cards was used.
So far I've only started Ghost Recon which so far I'm really enjoying, I've got to the third mission and I do have to admit that it as got a lot more linear compared to the past ones. But the graphics, story and game play make up for it in the ways that is awesome, I love the tagging system where you mark enemies and your squad lines up the shot and await your command to fire. Makes life a lot more easier and I am getting into the story, won't spoilt it but it is good so far and easier to follow.
Need to try out the multi player since that is what I bought it for, the Ghost Recon series was one of the games that got me into co-op. In fact it was Splinter Cell Pandora's box that really started it off, playing co-op with my mate Adam. Anyway I'm determined this week to get some time on Dragons Dogma and Rune Factory so stay tuned to see some information about them later this week.
On that note I think its time to update the blog stats and see how I'm doing on my challenge this week, don't expect anything amazing but I did get a few achievements in Ghost Recon and I did start Dynasty Warriors 7 too.
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Gutting I forgot to add Diablo 3 to the 2012 list next so with these three as well now I'm up to twenty games bought for the year, dropped down to 30% completed so far from 38%. Not worried yet since still got over half a year to clean up, of course November will kill me like normal lol.
Oh my god I forgot to say I clocked Captain America in the week, yes my rental is finally done woot! so another Platinum for my collection. Cannot believe I forgot all about that, so yeah that was my fourth Platinum trophy for the year and xx for all time, also it brings my score up to 29 games completed this year so getting there. Although one of my friends on twitter posted up they just did their 54th game, seriously how much free time they must have ... actually probably more like no Minecraft addiction lol.
Time for the week 18 stats to be done then and I'm expecting this week will finally hit the 2,000 gamer score a week mark.
Week 19 - This week
Starting Total: 137,039
To Earn: 2,030
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,030
Week 18
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,809
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 29,765
To Earn: 29,765
Achieved: 10,760
Difference: -19,005Ouch! knew I would hit it this week but was still dreading to see it, I'm getting close to ending this challenge and just continue to play and enjoy games while trying to get some completed. Next week should see me behind by at least 20,000 gamer score as well, just getting crazy now lol.
So my plans for this week is to play my new releases, least put an hour on each one then I think my focus will be split across a multiple of games. I would go into detail but not sure what will happen so keep an eye out for future posts, although it probably will be Ghost Recon and some Dynasty Warriors 7 at least.
Anyway on that note I'm going to shoot and finish updating my stats page then going to play around on some games, have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great weekend.
~Iznic
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Thought it was about time I talked about the announcement, don't think I need to really go into much detail that the game was announced a few weeks back. Think everyone and their dog knows it was announced with the amount of advertising going on.
Got to say I am impressed so far with what they are doing with the game, nice to see they trying some new things instead of keep doing the same thing over and over again. I'm hearing the single player story is not linear and you given a slight choice with the progress, very interesting to see how that will turn out.
I'm also a fan of the future setting but got to laugh at the people who are not buying it because it as horses in the future, maybe they should replay Black Ops and remember the flash backs then read the announcement about the 1980 setting.
Anyway enough ranting, I like the idea of the robots, drones, mechs etc and the fact control is lost, think the setting could lead to a very good story if done right. Also I am fan of the fact its the future but not that far away plus nice to see the guns using bullets still and not lasers like most people want. Don't think it would be right if they did it like that, I can accept experimental laser weapons now and again but the whole game nah just not right.
Going to wait and see how the E3 stuff goes, hopefully see a lot more information about the story and see some game footage. Also hearing multiplayer is revamped and a complete new zombie game done from the ground up. That being said I did pre-order it from game and got this very cool double sided poster, took a photo of both sides so you guys can see it.
Also got a prestige token for Modern Warfare 3 which I still not done any multiplayer on yet, still got my bonus pre-order exp for it and Call of Duty Elite not used with the maps waiting to be downloaded. Really need to sort that out but I can do that another day, anyway who's picking it up? or you on the fence?
~Iznic
Got to say I am impressed so far with what they are doing with the game, nice to see they trying some new things instead of keep doing the same thing over and over again. I'm hearing the single player story is not linear and you given a slight choice with the progress, very interesting to see how that will turn out.
I'm also a fan of the future setting but got to laugh at the people who are not buying it because it as horses in the future, maybe they should replay Black Ops and remember the flash backs then read the announcement about the 1980 setting.
Anyway enough ranting, I like the idea of the robots, drones, mechs etc and the fact control is lost, think the setting could lead to a very good story if done right. Also I am fan of the fact its the future but not that far away plus nice to see the guns using bullets still and not lasers like most people want. Don't think it would be right if they did it like that, I can accept experimental laser weapons now and again but the whole game nah just not right.
Going to wait and see how the E3 stuff goes, hopefully see a lot more information about the story and see some game footage. Also hearing multiplayer is revamped and a complete new zombie game done from the ground up. That being said I did pre-order it from game and got this very cool double sided poster, took a photo of both sides so you guys can see it.
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| My favourite picture |
~Iznic
Minecraft Episode 2
Where to begin this post, it was probably one of the most epic co-op sessions I've ever done! me and two friends for nearly eleven hours of Minecraft fun. The plan was to play on Easy mode and survive the monster attacks while building anything we want, we had already worked on the map before and built a small house on top of a mountain.
The idea was to build a giant tower with a platform on the top where we could build without fear of attack, so that's what we did! I spent most of the time working on the platform while my mate Mike made a huge ass mine and then my other friend Jay decided to build a giant bridge to our old house which happened to be on the other side of the map. Reason being if we died we would spawn back over there then it took nearly a day to travel back to where we was working.
It was a lot of fun and my god we had some strange things happening, Jay's bridge is crazily long and takes several minutes to cross. Think he was planning to add a rail way to it so it would take less time to cross but the lack of Iron ore got to him in the end so I'm guessing that will be for another night.
Mike's mine goes right down to the bed rock and expands out, includes plenty of lava pools too! To make it easier I built a huge wooden tunnel in the air that covers the entrance then connects to the roof of the house we was working from. That way we could travel at any time without attack and then since it worked so well I had a second tunnel built to connect the tower to the house. In fact I did start a third tunnel on the platform that travels to a nearby mountain and started working on a second mine, funny story I thought I had found a natural cavern so had the lads come back me up but turned out it was just a small cave with nothing to worry about. As we turned to leave two creepers appeared on the stairs, the words "Panic" came to mind lol.
As you can see in the picture above how it turned out,the lava came from under the platform is connects to Mike's lava tower house thingy (no idea what to call it) which I will put a picture below. You can see the mine tunnel on the left side in the air that connects to the mine. Oh yeah and that's Jay super tree on the top, a lot of threats where made when lava was mentioned with that tree lol.
This is the start of my Wizards tower which caused quite a few problems. Original the waterfalls where lava and yeah I set fire to most of the trees below. Then when I put water down it turned the lava into cobblestone so the water went over it and expanded so it flash flooded the area. Yeah I was not a good person for the environment, I really thought Mike would be the one to cause that much trouble.
Anyway the giant balcony is the future sight of my new greenhouse since the old was too small and not producing enough wheat, going to create some water tunnels inside using glass but that's for another night. Oh yeah just left of the picture is a water fountain that keeps getting squids spawning in, also had several mid air floating ones thanks to it as well. Thought the lava fumes where starting to get to me when one floated by.
That's is the lava tower thingy that Mike was making, as I said no idea what he was doing with it other then its cool looking and very close to the super tree. Also how the hell did a Sheep get up here! yeah we keep getting random spawns and we did get a few Creepers magically spawn as well, that was fun since the platform floor is very thin so it involved us running around shouting "don't let it blow up!".
Finally we have Jay's glass castle which is very impressive and think he will be adding water or lava in the top at a later date. It was one hell of a marathon and great fun, we did do a Nether portal in the end (reverted the save file back) but that ended up with fireball throwing ghosts and zombie pigmen trying to kill us with gold swords. Scratch that they did kill us and we put the save file back to before the portal was built, need to decide on what we doing with that.
So that was it folks, plenty of creeper attacks, thousands of blocks mined, random buildings, floods, fires and everything in between plus a sheep! cannot wait for the next co-op game now.
~Iznic
The idea was to build a giant tower with a platform on the top where we could build without fear of attack, so that's what we did! I spent most of the time working on the platform while my mate Mike made a huge ass mine and then my other friend Jay decided to build a giant bridge to our old house which happened to be on the other side of the map. Reason being if we died we would spawn back over there then it took nearly a day to travel back to where we was working.
It was a lot of fun and my god we had some strange things happening, Jay's bridge is crazily long and takes several minutes to cross. Think he was planning to add a rail way to it so it would take less time to cross but the lack of Iron ore got to him in the end so I'm guessing that will be for another night.
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| The Long Bridge |
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| The Platform, Mining Tunnel and House |
Anyway the giant balcony is the future sight of my new greenhouse since the old was too small and not producing enough wheat, going to create some water tunnels inside using glass but that's for another night. Oh yeah just left of the picture is a water fountain that keeps getting squids spawning in, also had several mid air floating ones thanks to it as well. Thought the lava fumes where starting to get to me when one floated by.
That's is the lava tower thingy that Mike was making, as I said no idea what he was doing with it other then its cool looking and very close to the super tree. Also how the hell did a Sheep get up here! yeah we keep getting random spawns and we did get a few Creepers magically spawn as well, that was fun since the platform floor is very thin so it involved us running around shouting "don't let it blow up!".
Finally we have Jay's glass castle which is very impressive and think he will be adding water or lava in the top at a later date. It was one hell of a marathon and great fun, we did do a Nether portal in the end (reverted the save file back) but that ended up with fireball throwing ghosts and zombie pigmen trying to kill us with gold swords. Scratch that they did kill us and we put the save file back to before the portal was built, need to decide on what we doing with that.
So that was it folks, plenty of creeper attacks, thousands of blocks mined, random buildings, floods, fires and everything in between plus a sheep! cannot wait for the next co-op game now.
~Iznic
Weekly Roundup
Morning folks,
Well looks like blogspot is back to normal so I can now get on with the posts finally, got at least two today since I had a epic 10 hour marathon of Minecraft with some friends on Sunday so I'm going to cover that next. Currently trying to update the challenge stats but I just this second noticed that the TrueAchievements website was not up to date and in fact the last recording was 15th May. I use that website to keep track of my progress for the year and it comes back with the average gamer score I need to earn each day which I use to work out my weekly target. So with it being out of date for so long this means the stats I did on Thursday where out of date in the ways of what I need to earn, oh well lesson learnt I just need to pay attention more and anyway I think the scan is done so going to take a look now.
Week 18 - This week
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.974
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Yup it was out of date but not by much, the average before was 284 a day and its now 282 so only a small drop but it does add up overall in the long run. Last weeks points mostly came from finishing the story of Sniper V2 and doing a few of the Plants vs Zombies achievements, have to say it's a lot harder on the main consoles compared to the Vita version.
Hmm not sure where my achievements will come from this week since I have no Xbox game lined up, still playing Captain America on the PS3 and trying to do a level or two a day. Might see some achievements at the end of the week with Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Dragon's Dogma since I'm picking them both up. Might go through my collection in a bit and see if I can pick something to work over the next few days, although I have been thinking about starting Dynasty Warriors 7. I will not get that done by Friday since its a very long game but I could start getting the ball rolling on it.
Oh yeah I should be starting Diablo 3 this week finally, still not tried it yet just installed it and that was that. Friend of mine is picking it up so we going to do some co-op on it, in fact think we planned for tomorrow so I need to re-organise MMO Night and get that back on track.
Well looks like blogspot is back to normal so I can now get on with the posts finally, got at least two today since I had a epic 10 hour marathon of Minecraft with some friends on Sunday so I'm going to cover that next. Currently trying to update the challenge stats but I just this second noticed that the TrueAchievements website was not up to date and in fact the last recording was 15th May. I use that website to keep track of my progress for the year and it comes back with the average gamer score I need to earn each day which I use to work out my weekly target. So with it being out of date for so long this means the stats I did on Thursday where out of date in the ways of what I need to earn, oh well lesson learnt I just need to pay attention more and anyway I think the scan is done so going to take a look now.
Week 18 - This week
Starting Total 136,874
To Earn: 1,974
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.974
Week 17
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 370
Difference: -1,583
Total So Far -
To Earn: 27,791
To Earn: 27,791
Achieved: 10,595
Difference: -17,196Yup it was out of date but not by much, the average before was 284 a day and its now 282 so only a small drop but it does add up overall in the long run. Last weeks points mostly came from finishing the story of Sniper V2 and doing a few of the Plants vs Zombies achievements, have to say it's a lot harder on the main consoles compared to the Vita version.
Hmm not sure where my achievements will come from this week since I have no Xbox game lined up, still playing Captain America on the PS3 and trying to do a level or two a day. Might see some achievements at the end of the week with Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Dragon's Dogma since I'm picking them both up. Might go through my collection in a bit and see if I can pick something to work over the next few days, although I have been thinking about starting Dynasty Warriors 7. I will not get that done by Friday since its a very long game but I could start getting the ball rolling on it.
Oh yeah I should be starting Diablo 3 this week finally, still not tried it yet just installed it and that was that. Friend of mine is picking it up so we going to do some co-op on it, in fact think we planned for tomorrow so I need to re-organise MMO Night and get that back on track.
Apart from that folks not much else to talk about other then not long now for E3, think I'm going to call it for now and get on with my Minecraft Episode post.
Have a good one folks,
~Iznic
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Darkrai Download
Morning Folks,
Something I nearly forgot again but there is another Legendary Pokemon to download through the Wi-fi. This time it's Darkrai and for Europe Pokemon Black and White, so make sure to download it A.S.A.P since there is no end time been announced yet.
The download is to celebrate the release of the new trading card series "Dark Explorers" and he comes with the moves Dark Void, Ominous Wind, Faint Attack and Nightmare. Also comes as Level 50 with the item Engima Berry.
Just downloading mine now since I missed out on my Pokemon White last time, even bought the game to do it! just forgot the end time was a week away and though I had to unlock the mystery gift which you don't *sigh*.
Anyway that's it for this post folks, catch you all soon!
~Iznic
Source: Thanks to serebii.net for the information
Something I nearly forgot again but there is another Legendary Pokemon to download through the Wi-fi. This time it's Darkrai and for Europe Pokemon Black and White, so make sure to download it A.S.A.P since there is no end time been announced yet.
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| Darkrai |
Just downloading mine now since I missed out on my Pokemon White last time, even bought the game to do it! just forgot the end time was a week away and though I had to unlock the mystery gift which you don't *sigh*.
Anyway that's it for this post folks, catch you all soon!
~Iznic
Source: Thanks to serebii.net for the information
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Minecraft Episode One
Afternoon all,
Instead of gaming just before work I thought it was about time to try and catch up with some posting. One thing I been wanting to do all week is chat with you about Minecraft which is my latest addiction, I really never thought I would get into it this much. I remember seeing things for the PC version think that's cool but not so keen on the graphics and now I just know it gives that awesome old style touch. Reminds me a lot of Dungeon Keeper 2 which I spent hours on building huge dungeons then would explore using the possession spell.
Only problem I've got with this game is the fact there is too much I want to do with it, I have several projects on the go and plenty I want to do. I've been exploring google and youtube checking out the amazing projects people have done on the PC and it's given me so many ideas, it's unreal whats been made.
Anyway I want to talk about what I done so far then chat about my future projects and I will be doing a post series on the blog keeping you guys up to date with everything. Of course if you are on my friends list the worlds will be open so you can always come have a look and explore.
My first world is where I spent most of my time and got most of my achievements, I nicknamed it the learning world since everything I built there was to see how things worked. Got a huge mining network on the beach and a giant tower that splits off into smaller one that kind float.
It was also where I found out about Creepers for the first time, at the time I was running on easy difficulty since I never realised there was a peaceful setting (without monsters). Unfortunately one morning I stepped out to find a Creeper below my house, so I quickly ran back inside but the bugger gave chase and waited outside my door and would not move.
So in the end I realised I would have to fight it and of course I did not know they exploded! it was good thing I jumped back when I heard the hissing noise but I did lose the entire front of my house.
Since then I have learnt they disappear at noon so next time I will wait to then or create a back door to escape. After my experience I decided that I would attempt a second world and was very lucky to get a great mountain range. I wanted to build a giant keep on the top then a wizards tower on the large pillar of rock (See the picture below). But I don't know what happened really since in the end all I did was make the base floor and deleted the save. Think I had too many ideas and just gave up on that one, also I was starting my third world which I was going to make into my main world.
World Three was going to be it for me, I wanted to do the hardest achievement in the game and that's the 500 block railway. So I spent an evening reading up on how the rails worked and watched several youtube tutorials. The day before I attempted this world I went on a friends house which I got to say was amazing, he had this giant tree house with a great looking home with a proper huge mining network system that was done up. So with some of his ideas I got to work on my third world, my plan was to make a giant two floor house with a balcony. It would have a fenced garden so I could grow food so I can switch the difficulty up later.
Also planned to make a giant rail network around the world so I could explore the place quickly, this idea then turned into having a train station with several levels. Finally the last plan was to attempt building a Saurens Tower from lord of the rings using glass and lava for the eye.
As I said this world would be my main one so I was going to have several projects being build on it but in the end it did not go to plan.
I built the house and a giant watch tower so I could see across the land, I did quite a large mining network but the problem was the resources did not appear. To make the rail way for the achievement I needed around 190 Iron Ore, 18 Gold and plenty of Red Stone. So in the end I did a massive open mine in the mountains which turned out to be lucky since I stumbled across the biggest natural cavern I've seen to date which gave me plenty of resources.
So the track was made and I even got it to loop back to the house so I was chuffed about that and I learnt a lot on how it worked. I did start to make the train station but I gave up since I found something else I wanted to make, few days after finishing the track I saw a great Minecraft Castle picture. It was a dark looking castle that was floating in the air with waterfalls coming off it, of course I wanted to give it a go. World four was born and with it my plans to make a giant floating keep, but I did not delete world three since I can let friends login into it to ride the rail way for the achievement and I can dig up the tracks to use in different experiments.
Anyway back to World Four, I spent way too long building a giant house to work from and began construction on the castle. I wanted to start from the top down so I started with the throne room, plan was to have the throne room in a glass dome on the top so the king/queen could see the world.
All the time was spent having to put cobble stone and sand in the furnace so it turned back to stone instead of cobblestone since it looked better and of course glass. Took hours but I did get it done in the end as you can see in the picture below.
But I hit a dead end when I started digging out underneath which would be the Royal Chambers, it was too small! then when I started to think what else rooms I wanted I realised I should had started from the bottom up. So World Four is now currently sitting in my save files untouched for the time being and World Five was born, this time around all I built was a bed (so I can get the day faster), two furnaces and a work bench. Right now it's going well with the grand entrance stair case done and the kitchen made, the upstairs banquet room is currently being worked on plus the entrance hall.
And that's what I've been up to so far in Minecraft, I do have a co-op save which I'm working on with two friends. Got a nice medium size house on a mountain but nothing major to speak of, I do have a plan I want to run past them but I have been thinking about doing it solo as well since the results will be different. So stay tuned for another episode very soon if I can pry myself from playing long enough.
~Iznic
P.S. Would love to see anything you guys been working on if you have Minecraft, both xbox and PC
Instead of gaming just before work I thought it was about time to try and catch up with some posting. One thing I been wanting to do all week is chat with you about Minecraft which is my latest addiction, I really never thought I would get into it this much. I remember seeing things for the PC version think that's cool but not so keen on the graphics and now I just know it gives that awesome old style touch. Reminds me a lot of Dungeon Keeper 2 which I spent hours on building huge dungeons then would explore using the possession spell.
Only problem I've got with this game is the fact there is too much I want to do with it, I have several projects on the go and plenty I want to do. I've been exploring google and youtube checking out the amazing projects people have done on the PC and it's given me so many ideas, it's unreal whats been made.
Anyway I want to talk about what I done so far then chat about my future projects and I will be doing a post series on the blog keeping you guys up to date with everything. Of course if you are on my friends list the worlds will be open so you can always come have a look and explore.
My first world is where I spent most of my time and got most of my achievements, I nicknamed it the learning world since everything I built there was to see how things worked. Got a huge mining network on the beach and a giant tower that splits off into smaller one that kind float.
It was also where I found out about Creepers for the first time, at the time I was running on easy difficulty since I never realised there was a peaceful setting (without monsters). Unfortunately one morning I stepped out to find a Creeper below my house, so I quickly ran back inside but the bugger gave chase and waited outside my door and would not move.
So in the end I realised I would have to fight it and of course I did not know they exploded! it was good thing I jumped back when I heard the hissing noise but I did lose the entire front of my house.
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| Creeper Attack |
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| World Two - Wanted the tower on the left and keep on the right |
Also planned to make a giant rail network around the world so I could explore the place quickly, this idea then turned into having a train station with several levels. Finally the last plan was to attempt building a Saurens Tower from lord of the rings using glass and lava for the eye.
As I said this world would be my main one so I was going to have several projects being build on it but in the end it did not go to plan.
I built the house and a giant watch tower so I could see across the land, I did quite a large mining network but the problem was the resources did not appear. To make the rail way for the achievement I needed around 190 Iron Ore, 18 Gold and plenty of Red Stone. So in the end I did a massive open mine in the mountains which turned out to be lucky since I stumbled across the biggest natural cavern I've seen to date which gave me plenty of resources.
So the track was made and I even got it to loop back to the house so I was chuffed about that and I learnt a lot on how it worked. I did start to make the train station but I gave up since I found something else I wanted to make, few days after finishing the track I saw a great Minecraft Castle picture. It was a dark looking castle that was floating in the air with waterfalls coming off it, of course I wanted to give it a go. World four was born and with it my plans to make a giant floating keep, but I did not delete world three since I can let friends login into it to ride the rail way for the achievement and I can dig up the tracks to use in different experiments.
Anyway back to World Four, I spent way too long building a giant house to work from and began construction on the castle. I wanted to start from the top down so I started with the throne room, plan was to have the throne room in a glass dome on the top so the king/queen could see the world.
All the time was spent having to put cobble stone and sand in the furnace so it turned back to stone instead of cobblestone since it looked better and of course glass. Took hours but I did get it done in the end as you can see in the picture below.
But I hit a dead end when I started digging out underneath which would be the Royal Chambers, it was too small! then when I started to think what else rooms I wanted I realised I should had started from the bottom up. So World Four is now currently sitting in my save files untouched for the time being and World Five was born, this time around all I built was a bed (so I can get the day faster), two furnaces and a work bench. Right now it's going well with the grand entrance stair case done and the kitchen made, the upstairs banquet room is currently being worked on plus the entrance hall.
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| Early Picture, most of the back is done now |
And that's what I've been up to so far in Minecraft, I do have a co-op save which I'm working on with two friends. Got a nice medium size house on a mountain but nothing major to speak of, I do have a plan I want to run past them but I have been thinking about doing it solo as well since the results will be different. So stay tuned for another episode very soon if I can pry myself from playing long enough.
~Iznic
P.S. Would love to see anything you guys been working on if you have Minecraft, both xbox and PC
Friday, 18 May 2012
Harley Quinn's Revenge
Oh my god how good does this look? I was worried about playing as Robin since I'm not a big fan of Catwoman but this trailer just made all my doubt disappear. Love the combat moves and especially where he stealth takes down two guys using his staff.
This bad boy is arriving on the 29th May so around two week to go! so anyone getting on day one? I know I will be.
~Iznic
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Running Late
Morning,
So I'm nearly a week overdue with my post but I got here in the end, my Minecraft addiction took over but it's under control for now. Of course thanks to my week of non stop gaming on Minecraft and the chaos of my social life the week before that I'm really behind with ... well ... everything!
My Captain America (PS3) rental is still in it's unopened envelope that I had a few weeks back so that's costing me right now, still not got any further with Sniper V2 and I want to trade that in next week for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Also not done a MMO night in over two weeks now and still not got onto the beta for World of Warcraft Mists of Panderia.
Picked up Kid Icarus last week to give it a shot and that is now currently sitting on my desk sealed along with Dynasty Warriors Next for the Vita. Oh and just before I got into Minecraft I was getting quite far into working towards the Platinum trophy for Plants vs Zombies on the Vita, was doing all the side games etc.
Think I need to go bang my head against the wall for a bit since I got too much to do in such a little time. First I think it's about time I updated last week stats which should only be the 400g I got for clocking Minecraft, yeah it's not shocking I got that finished last week but it was nice to have my first 400g arcade game.
Week 17 - This Week
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,953
Just archived the last four weeks stats and they can be found on the challenges page. Last week did see me hit just short of 500 gamer score so not too bad I guess but I can see next week hitting 2k to earn each week. But I be more happy if I can catch up on my gaming and oh dear lord I forgot I got Diablo 3 to play as well, told you I was massively behind!!
So I guess it would be wise to do a battle plan for what's left of this week, think my focus will be on finishing Sniper V2 ready for next week. After that I have no doubts in my mind that I will be on Minecraft since I got several projects on the go currently. Building a giant fortress in world one, world two is co-op survival fun and world three is survival solo.
Right I'm off, going to go update my stats pages then hit Sniper and hopefully I can report later that I did at least two levels.
Have a good one folks
~Iznic
So I'm nearly a week overdue with my post but I got here in the end, my Minecraft addiction took over but it's under control for now. Of course thanks to my week of non stop gaming on Minecraft and the chaos of my social life the week before that I'm really behind with ... well ... everything!
My Captain America (PS3) rental is still in it's unopened envelope that I had a few weeks back so that's costing me right now, still not got any further with Sniper V2 and I want to trade that in next week for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Also not done a MMO night in over two weeks now and still not got onto the beta for World of Warcraft Mists of Panderia.
Picked up Kid Icarus last week to give it a shot and that is now currently sitting on my desk sealed along with Dynasty Warriors Next for the Vita. Oh and just before I got into Minecraft I was getting quite far into working towards the Platinum trophy for Plants vs Zombies on the Vita, was doing all the side games etc.
Think I need to go bang my head against the wall for a bit since I got too much to do in such a little time. First I think it's about time I updated last week stats which should only be the 400g I got for clocking Minecraft, yeah it's not shocking I got that finished last week but it was nice to have my first 400g arcade game.
Week 17 - This Week
Starting Total: 136,504
To Earn: 1,953
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,953
Total So Far -
To Earn: 25,838
To Earn: 25,838
Achieved: 10,225
Difference: -15,613Just archived the last four weeks stats and they can be found on the challenges page. Last week did see me hit just short of 500 gamer score so not too bad I guess but I can see next week hitting 2k to earn each week. But I be more happy if I can catch up on my gaming and oh dear lord I forgot I got Diablo 3 to play as well, told you I was massively behind!!
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So I guess it would be wise to do a battle plan for what's left of this week, think my focus will be on finishing Sniper V2 ready for next week. After that I have no doubts in my mind that I will be on Minecraft since I got several projects on the go currently. Building a giant fortress in world one, world two is co-op survival fun and world three is survival solo.
Right I'm off, going to go update my stats pages then hit Sniper and hopefully I can report later that I did at least two levels.
Have a good one folks
~Iznic
Results: Week 13-16
Total So Far -
Week 16
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 495
Difference: -1.409
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
To Earn: 25,838
Achieved: 10,225
Difference: -15,613 Week 16
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 495
Difference: -1.409
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Weekend Events
Morning folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts this week but I've been addicted to Minecraft on the Xbox 360, in fact I will be on there again in a bit but first I need to take care of a few things. I will have some posts up in the week talking about my adventures and plenty of screenshots as well, anyway lets get back on topic and its the fun pact weekend today.
First up its Calendar Man day again in Batman Arkham City (Mothers Day in America), so don't forget to visit him in the basement of the court house. That's one more date done towards the achievement or trophy and the next one is June 17th Fathers Day (America) so make sure to mark your calendars after you done listening to his tale.
Next up is the last multiplayer operation in Mass Effect 3, this time the community goal is to kill 3 million Banshee's which will unlock a pack in the week. The personal goal is once again complete a gold challenge map which I don't see myself doing so I'm not going to bother (took me 10 hours plus with a friend just to do a silver). I'm also hearing the PlayStation 3 users can take part in this one but I'm not sure if that is true or not.
Finally Gears of War 3 weekend event is Torque Bow Tag under the versus Forces of Nature list, you will need to have the forces of nature dlc maps to play this event. It's team deathmatch and only one round long so it won't take too long to get the ribbon, just play until the end.
So that's it for now and I'm off for Minecraft, have a good one everyone
~Iznic
P.S. Just heard Battlefield 3 is having a double experience weekend, wish I had time to give it a go but no doubt I will be in Minecraft.
Sorry for the lack of posts this week but I've been addicted to Minecraft on the Xbox 360, in fact I will be on there again in a bit but first I need to take care of a few things. I will have some posts up in the week talking about my adventures and plenty of screenshots as well, anyway lets get back on topic and its the fun pact weekend today.
First up its Calendar Man day again in Batman Arkham City (Mothers Day in America), so don't forget to visit him in the basement of the court house. That's one more date done towards the achievement or trophy and the next one is June 17th Fathers Day (America) so make sure to mark your calendars after you done listening to his tale.
Next up is the last multiplayer operation in Mass Effect 3, this time the community goal is to kill 3 million Banshee's which will unlock a pack in the week. The personal goal is once again complete a gold challenge map which I don't see myself doing so I'm not going to bother (took me 10 hours plus with a friend just to do a silver). I'm also hearing the PlayStation 3 users can take part in this one but I'm not sure if that is true or not.
Finally Gears of War 3 weekend event is Torque Bow Tag under the versus Forces of Nature list, you will need to have the forces of nature dlc maps to play this event. It's team deathmatch and only one round long so it won't take too long to get the ribbon, just play until the end.
So that's it for now and I'm off for Minecraft, have a good one everyone
~Iznic
P.S. Just heard Battlefield 3 is having a double experience weekend, wish I had time to give it a go but no doubt I will be in Minecraft.
Monday, 7 May 2012
The Daily Grind - End of a Week
Morning Folks,
I swear these weeks are going by too fast and I still cannot believe I'm doing my weekly Monday post again. Been another busy week but this time I did get a lot more gaming which you all should know from reading my posts. Very proud of myself for finishing of Mass Effect 3 and Batman Arkham City (PC) this week, they where part of the three games I wanted to finish off before I did anything else. Right now my attention is on Sniper V2 which just came out last Friday, it's not a bad game but does a few annoying game mechanics. Anyway my focus is to clock it this week and probably do all the co-op with my mate, after that I will either go for the full 1,000 gamer score or trade it in while it's still high trade in value.
Think it's time to update the stats for my challenge and this year's progress page, so with Kinectimals (WP7) also been clocked this week it means I've done three more games this week so I'm now up to twenty six games completed for the year. Not bad so far and I am now just at the half way point to matching last year for the games completed. Also thanks to Mass Effect 3 I'm now up to four of the 2012 games releases completed but I did add two more to the purchase list, so now on 31% so again not a bad number.
Week 16 - This week
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.904
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
I am shocked with this weeks results due to the fact I thought the score would be a lot higher with the fact I clocked three games this week, was expecting around the 800 marker. Oh well it's not the end of the world, anyway time for me to shoot since I need to get ready for work. Would like to say I will be posting later but no promises, until then have a good one folks!
~Iznic
I swear these weeks are going by too fast and I still cannot believe I'm doing my weekly Monday post again. Been another busy week but this time I did get a lot more gaming which you all should know from reading my posts. Very proud of myself for finishing of Mass Effect 3 and Batman Arkham City (PC) this week, they where part of the three games I wanted to finish off before I did anything else. Right now my attention is on Sniper V2 which just came out last Friday, it's not a bad game but does a few annoying game mechanics. Anyway my focus is to clock it this week and probably do all the co-op with my mate, after that I will either go for the full 1,000 gamer score or trade it in while it's still high trade in value.
Think it's time to update the stats for my challenge and this year's progress page, so with Kinectimals (WP7) also been clocked this week it means I've done three more games this week so I'm now up to twenty six games completed for the year. Not bad so far and I am now just at the half way point to matching last year for the games completed. Also thanks to Mass Effect 3 I'm now up to four of the 2012 games releases completed but I did add two more to the purchase list, so now on 31% so again not a bad number.
Week 16 - This week
Starting Total: 136,009
To Earn: 1,904
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1.904
Week 15
Starting Total: 135,364
To Earn: 1,848
Achieved: 645
Difference: -1,203
Week 14
Starting Total: 134,699
To Earn: 1,820
Achieved: 665
Difference: -1.155
Week 13
Starting Total: 134,359
To Earn: 1,778
Achieved: 340
Difference: -1,438
Total So Far -
To Earn: 23,934
To Earn: 23,934
Achieved:9,730
Difference: -14,204I am shocked with this weeks results due to the fact I thought the score would be a lot higher with the fact I clocked three games this week, was expecting around the 800 marker. Oh well it's not the end of the world, anyway time for me to shoot since I need to get ready for work. Would like to say I will be posting later but no promises, until then have a good one folks!
~Iznic
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
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
New 3DS Colour
Very early good morning folks,
Seems Nintendo are releasing a new colour for the 3DS in America, Midnight Purple and my god does it look beautiful. Doesn't help with the fact it's one of my favourite colours as well, seriously if they announce this for the UK I would probably buy it straight away. Would I keep my red as well? probably yes since I love the metallic red colour, no idea what I'm going to do when the Limited edition Toad one comes (won the Christmas competition).
What's worse when I looked into the images for the purple 3DS there is a orange version and a green version as well, both very nice although I think the green is the better looking of the two. The orange one I think I would need to see in person to judge it.
Anyway hopefully the Purple 3DS will be announced soon for the Europe/UK Market because I want it, what are your thoughts on the new colour?
~Iznic
Seems Nintendo are releasing a new colour for the 3DS in America, Midnight Purple and my god does it look beautiful. Doesn't help with the fact it's one of my favourite colours as well, seriously if they announce this for the UK I would probably buy it straight away. Would I keep my red as well? probably yes since I love the metallic red colour, no idea what I'm going to do when the Limited edition Toad one comes (won the Christmas competition).
What's worse when I looked into the images for the purple 3DS there is a orange version and a green version as well, both very nice although I think the green is the better looking of the two. The orange one I think I would need to see in person to judge it.
Anyway hopefully the Purple 3DS will be announced soon for the Europe/UK Market because I want it, what are your thoughts on the new colour?
~Iznic
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