Only a month to go

E3 2014 is just around the corner and I cannot wait to see what happens. I will admit this year I'm a little worried that we will see lots of great games only to be told next year or 2016. Disappointed will not describe me if that happens, the line up since the release of the new consoles has been a bit quiet so it needs a good boost soon, glad that in twenty days we have Watch_Dogs to dig into.

Right now for me I have three games I really want to see this year and they are, Uncharted 4, Battlefront and Mass Effect 4.

EA confirmed yesterday that Battlefront will be making appearance this year at the show, really hoping it will be their shooter this year since Battlefield only came out last Christmas and Medal of Honor was shelved. I loved the first two games and I really hope they can bring that greatness to their version.

Uncharted 4, you don't need me to describe why I want to see this game! the series is awesome and to be honest I was shocked we did not get this game in the launch window for the PlayStation 4. It would had done really well but I'm guessing the time factor got in the way plus all the employees that left didn't help. So I'm hoping we will see this game finally at E3 and get a date for it, again I would love to see it this year.

Finally Mass Effect 4 which just needs to come out! another one of my favourite games series up there with Assassin's Creed. Over the last year we have seen plenty of teasers pictures and I think it's time we saw a trailer and a date.

Come on folks make this Quarter 4/Christmas one of the best gaming launches ever!
~Iznic

P.S. Expect some more posts about E3 leading up to the event

Saturday Update

So after the excitement of the new Assassin's Creed reveal I've not really done much in the way of gaming this week. Mostly because my work pattern is all over the place so my free hours went out of the window again. I'm still trying to get the achievement challenge for Titan Fall which is to get to level 50 by the end of the month. Got roughly around nine days to do it and I'm level 29 at the moment, still very doable but I need the time to sit down and play. Hopefully this weekend I will able to get to level 40+ but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Still working also on my second playthrough of South Park Stick of Truth, going for the full platinum and working my way through the check list of collectibles. Again I'm hoping to make some head way today and tomorrow since I want to trade it in on Tuesday for the Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls Collectors Edition. I will be re picking up South Park again later on the Xbox 360 to get the full 1,000 gamerscore and to keep it for my collection, yes it's that good and worth several playthroughs.

That's my goals anyway for the week to hit level 50 and to clock a platinum trophy for South Park. I do have some other games I want to work on but at this moment I'm trying to get these two done first. On the topic of upcoming games it's got a small flourish of games over the next few weeks then dies down for the rest of April and May. Blessing really since it was getting very expensive, next week we have Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls and Professor Layton x Phoenix Wright. Then several weeks into April sees the Lego Hobbit releasing then the last game is not until the end of March and that's Watch_Dogs.

It's good really since with all that time I can actually start working my way through some games, finish some and work on some marathons I've been wanting to do but not had the time. Like for example I want to do the entire Mass Effect series again (I have the PlayStation version not been touched) then the entire Assassin's Creed saga from the start. Refresh my memory on the full story plus I do have the entire range on PlayStation untouched so I have plenty of trophies to get. Has you can see I have plenty to play on the books plus there is plenty of past games I would like to pick up for a playthrough so hopefully I will see some deal of the weeks soon on them.

So yeah I have plenty to keep me occupied for the next few months, about you my readers? working on good or got plans for a marathon or two?

On that note I'm going to head off and get myself ready for work, so have a good one folks and don't forget to leave a comment or two. Would love to hear from you all.
~Iznic

Thoughts for the day

Good morning readers,
Have to laugh right now because I made to get ready for work in advance so I could have some time before I go to write a post or two for the blog. I had good hour before I need to leave when I sat but yet some how I've now only got less then twenty minutes before I need to pack up and I've only just started typing. How did that happen? but oh well I can continue writing when I get back since I'm only doing a short shift today.

Anyway onto gaming news and I've got plenty to talk about today so to start off with let's talk about what I've been playing. Well over the weekend I finally started League of Legends, when my computer was down a friend at work kept telling me about it so I started watching a few live streams and well it looked amazing. Reminded me of Warcraft with the art style and skill trees but with tower defence game play, so since I rebuilt my PC I've been wanting to play it and I did download the game on the first day but just never got around to it. Getting off topic here but yeah I've started getting into it although I've not done any player vs player yet, just been doing full bot matches to get some practise in. The one problem I keep hearing is that League of Legends is terrible for trolls, bad language and unsporting behaviour. Amazing enough a post appeared the other day about the developers banning two pro players for having to many complaints against them, the words "again" was used so they not the first pro players to get banned.

So yeah I really want to get some practise in before I have to throw myself into the deep end with some of the worst gamers out there. Have to say though the bot matches are hard, you be amazed how life like they play. After watching the streams and how people play you really cannot tell the difference and the difficulty setting is set low as well.

The picture above is the Champion Ashe a snow ranger and my favourite character so far, I had to unlock her with some of my points. Good news is you don't have to keep paying for points to unlock the extra content, there is a second set of points that you earn from playing games that can be used as well. Takes a lot longer but saves on the pennies none the less and right now I'm not really wanting to be spending anything on extra content just yet. Anyway I unlocked her and loving her play style, long range with slow down abilities equals a win in my book. Her defence is a bit terrible but I make that up with getting specific items in the match, that's what I'm still learning since there are tons of items you can buy during the match to boost your champion up with. A lot of trial and error to be honest but as you can see League of Legends as pretty much sucked me in, although in my defence I have had two days without playing. Trying to be a little good but I did destroy my MMO time last weekend, I did nothing on Warcraft which I'm kicking myself for. I did get time on Star Wars the Old Republic and cleaned up a few more quests and levelled up to 18, I had to laugh though I found out I had over twenty new skills waiting at my trainer which explains why I been struggling with certain fights.

Because I've been playing the game on and off I kept forgetting to visit the trainer when I levelled so they just built up, had a ton of new improved damage skills and self heals! could had done with those so many times. But I'm now sorted and back up to date, will be playing again on my next day off with the mission to finish my last group quest in my log which has been bugging me for a while. Although my main plans for my next day off is to make up for lost time with Warcraft, I'm only one level away from 90 and I've still not done any dungeons since I've had my PC back. So that will be my main goal for my next day, couple of dungeons and hit level 90!.

So that's it for my PC adventures but I have been playing one more game, well I did dabble on some other games but I'm now one hundred percent focused on Mass Effect one for the PlayStation 3. Been wanting to replay the series for a while so the trilogy was a great excuse plus I get trophies for my trouble as well. I had a three hour plus marathon session yesterday evening and unlocked my Spectre status and rescued Liara from the Geth.

I'm currently playing the Engineer class for the first time since there are quite a few trophies linked to the abilities so thought it would be good to go with that first. Decided on my squad being Liara and Tali since when I first played the game they seemed the weakest two characters, right now I'm playing on a normal difficulty so I can enjoy the game and clock a ton of trophies at the same time. Plus the insane difficulty will not unlock until I've done one play through at least. Really enjoying the game so far and it's brought back a lot of memories but I got to say there is a lot of bugs, more so then I can remember in the Xbox original version. Freezing when moving, visual problems, lag jumps and sometimes even voices out of sync with character lips. Had a nightmare last night where the camera de-synced with the talking, so while the commander was talking my camera was stuck focused behind his head so I could not see anything.

Hoping for a patch or two to fix some of these errors since it seems this was a bad port over but at least they don't happen all the time, just a little too often for my liking though.

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Well that's it for what I've been playing and this as got to be one of my longest posts I've done in a long time, it's nice because I usually struggle to get a post done. Now the thing is I still got a lot I want to talk about so not sure if to continue with this post or split them up to make it a little more easier to read. Ok I just previewed the post to see what it would like and yeah it's a bit long so I will end this section here and continue in a second post, fingers crossed I will stick to my word and get a second post done. You know what I'm like with these things but anyway take care folks and don't forget to drop a line with what you been playing, I'm always up for hearing about your adventures.

~Iznic