Last Week

Morning folks,

It’s been a while since I’ve really last posted on here but the last few months have been chaos for me. It was coming to the point getting spare time to write out a blog post was becoming impossible. It’s even made it a struggle to get game time in the last few weeks as well. 

Anyway good news I will try harder to at least get one post done each week to keep you folks up to date, plus I really do enjoy talking about games here.

So I’m not sure what to cover in this post or where to start since there has been a ton of new announcements since the last time we spoke. In the end I’ve decided to focus on what my thoughts have been this week concerning my gaming life and go from there.

Of course this week is all about GAMESCON which has pretty much all I’ve been talking about this week with the new announcements. Started off with the Tomb Raider 2 announcement about it being exclusive to the Xbox next holiday season. That really shocked me and I was floored by the news, of course with the wording “holiday exclusive” it was crystal clear that it was a timed exclusive but still shocking. Keep hearing Crystal Dynamics was scared of Uncharted being released so it does make sense to target the Xbox market while Uncharted comes out then do a second release later on for the PlayStation fans.

Also on that day another item was added to my buy list and that was the amazing limited edition Xbox One console in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare theme. I love the three colour scheme with the gold trim and to be honest it doesn’t really look like a Call of Duty theme which is probably why I like it so much. Plus the added bonus of a 1TB hard drive is a must since I found out the day that my Xbox One hard drive is at 41% full. I’ve barely got anything on it and with so many games coming out in the next few months I think I will need the upgrade.

I’ve put the order down anyway and I can decide closer to the date if I need to cancel but right now I want to upgrade. After Tomb Raider and the Xbox One the last thing on my mind this week was the World of Warcraft announcement. Think every fan has been awaiting for the announcement for the release date and finally on Thursday we had it. 13^th November we will see the release of Warlords of Draenor along with the awesome looking cinematic trailer for the expansion.

All through the video I was shouting “you cannot do that”, so many questions to be answers and could we be seeing a full alternate timeline to play around with. Blizzard could go full force with this and bring the Burning Legion into it in the next expansion, messing around with time opens up so much stuff to play with for the future expansions I just cannot wait to see what happens.

Shortly after announcing all this the physical collector’s edition was put up finally after months of waiting, everyone knew it was coming but of course we had to wait. Although we did have to wait nearly a day to confirm that collector’s box matches the rest in the series. Check it out below but I will be picking this up on day of launch.

That’s it for me today folks so have a good one folks,

Iznic

Very soon...Patch 5.4

The new cinematic trailer for patch 5.4 for World of Warcraft is up and I'm very excited, really need to get myself a team together to try out the raid. 



I have started to get back into Warcraft this week when I heard that 5.3 was a pre-event for this new event, so I did the introduction quests and got myself a shiny new title/achievement along with the exclusive pet as well. Did not want to miss out on that but it did rekindle that spark so hopefully over the weekend I can pour a few more hours into the game and start getting my character back on track.

Anyway on that note I'm ending this post since it was just meant to be a quick update with the new trailer, will do a proper blog post soon enough though.
Iznic

Plans for the evening

Morning folks,
Will be rushing off in a second to head to work but I thought it was about time I got a general post up, I was planning to type this up after work but the more time I got later the better. Over the last week I've not really done much gaming, the only thing to report was I finished the last two-three levels of Defence Grid and that was it.

So yesterday I finally sat down and finish chapter four off for Phantasy Star Universe and then finished Episode 3 of Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations. Not a bad way to end the day to be honest but anyway I decided I wanted to do a gaming evening tonight. Planning to try and get the fifth chapter completed for Phantasy Star, well depends on how the boss battle turns out. Then I'm going to jump onto World of Warcraft, my timecard ran out a few weeks back and my new one has just been sitting on my desk since. No doubt I've lost a ton of items in my mail box again, really need to be more organised with that. So yeah anyway I want to reboot it up and do a few quests, see what the new patches have brought.

After that going to take it as it goes, thinking either to jump onto Star Wars Old Republic or watch a movie. Not sure at this point but depends on how the first two games go, might get wrapped up into them and lose all my time.

That's my plans for today and for the rest of the week will be pretty much the same with me trying to finish off Phantasy Star. I'm also tempted to try out a new game that I was looking into last night, Planetside 2. SOE new FPS MMO that is free-to-play, watched a few videos last night and I am really tempted. Reminds me a lot of Battlefield in most ways.



Might try and download the client this week, give it a few hours try but not sure yet since I've got plenty to play already. We will see and on that note I better go run since I will be late for work, have a good one folks and I will try to post soon again.

~Iznic

P.S. On a finally note I will leave you with a gameplay video

Summer Heat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Games, Games and More Games

Good Morning Folks,
I know it's been a while since my last post but last week was nothing short of being chaos for me and what little time I had spare went to playing Tomb Raider and World of Warcraft. Currently sitting on 58% complete according to my save file for Tomb Raider and I got to say it's one of the best games I've played in a long time.

If you not picked up it yet then go buy it right now, this is one of those rare moments where I will recommend this game to everyone. The graphics, gameplay and story just work perfectly, it's like Batman Arkham Asylum meets Uncharted with a tiny bit of Assassin's Creed 3 all blended together to make this game great. I really want to finish it soon so one I've not got too many games on the go and two I really want to write out a review for it, I know shocking right? me writing a review. So I will go into more details about the game when I do the review, soon as I finish first and played some of the multiplayer. Not expecting anything great from that part and not really sure why they put in a multiplayer part.

Anyway other then Tomb Raider I have been doing the new daily quests in World of Warcraft for the Island of Thunder war effort. Phase two unlocked yesterday afternoon to my great annoyance, wanted to play Starcraft more but I had to get the quests out of the way first. As you can guess I did pick up Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm yesterday, so far it's brilliant but trying to get use to playing the Zerg since my play style is usually build a base then make a small powerful army to crush my foe. Zerg is more like making a huge army and swarming the enemy with numbers while their base engulfs the land. Think I'm getting the hang of it so far anyway, will post up a unboxing for it soon since I picked up the collectors edition which is very sweet looking.

So yeah my plans for this week will be those three games, Starcraft, Warcraft and Tomb Raider. God of War Ascension is out on Friday but Amazon won't be delivering mine until Monday-Wednesday due to the fact I picked the free delivery. Seems I have to pay extra to get it on day one, shocking since everyone will post it early to make sure it arrives in time. Shame Amazon was the cheapest for the collectors edition, got it a bargain price of £61 instead of the £80+ marker that it went too later on.

On that note I better go get ready for work since I only wanted to do a quick update for you folks, I promise I will try and get some more posts up soon but you know how it is with all these new games coming out. Hard to stop playing them but I will try my best for you and until then have a good one.
~Iznic

Patch Day

Morning folks,
It's been one of those week's so far but I'm thinking today will change that, well after I get out of work first since I got a huge list of jobs to do when I go in. Anyway you not here to read about that, your here for games! well welcome to the start of the March madness. How is everyone? did you pick up Tomb Raider? what a game and I've only spent two hours on it last night. Seriously folks this is a game you need to pick up, think of it like Uncharted meets Batman with a hint of Assassin's Creed 3. The game really does get to you and you cannot help but feel for Lara and this very bad day, poor girl should not had got out of bed that morning.

I am annoyed though because this morning I checked out the achievement list which is quite poor to be honest for such a great game, 50% multi-player, 30% collectibles, 25% kill x with Y, 4% other secret and only one achievement for the game it self which is finishing the story. Anyway I'm annoyed because I found out there are seven achievements miss able meaning having to redo the game again and I've missed the start of one already. With the others if you miss them you can just restart and not play the full game but this one seems I would have to redo pretty much the entire game. So I am thinking of restarting now while I'm still at the start, not sure yet but we will see later.

Apart from that not much to report in the ways of games, oh wait actually that is a lie since I did not come back on Sunday. Remember I planned that huge gaming day with lots of games, well the plan was scrapped. I decided to start with Star Wars Old Republic to give it another try since the time is running out this week, thought give it an hour then go onto World of Warcraft. Yeah well that hour turned into three, no idea what happened but I just could not stop playing. Was really getting into my Bounty Hunter with the main story, was amazed when I realised the time spent on it. So yeah I will be renewing the time card well if I can find one, if not I will just buy a month from the site. I checked out the difference between Free-To-Play and premium, it's not good. XP is halved, character slots down to two, loss of one of the crafting professions, no high end loot, restrictions on messaging and so on. It's like you only get 10% of the game and the rest you have need to buy, thought the Free-to-Play was meant to tempt people into the game but all that would scare me away if I've never played the game before.

After that I did do a small session on Warcraft then continued with two levels on Hitman Contracts HD, working my way through on Professional difficulty and getting Silent Assassin Ranks. Probably going to be shelving that for a few weeks since I suspect Tomb Raider will keep me busy this week then next Tuesday is Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm launch. I knew I hard forgot something this morning, it's patch day for World of Warcraft so 5.2 is going live. There is a huge quest based island being added where players take part every day with daily quests to help unlock further stages in the war effort, so for example first week you start the invasion and land on the island. Quests will be based on making a beach head, then after a week or until a certain criteria is meet the second stage starts which is the beach head made and progress into the island and so on.

I love these kinda of quests so I will be making sure to spend a session each night to do the daily quests and help out. Oh wow there is a single-player scenario added that lets you loot a tomb for loads of treasure, of course plenty of traps and a timer but sounds awesome. Second island nearby called the Island of Giants, lots of quests there to get awesome new mounts. Oh man this patch sounds awesome, think Tomb Raider will not be hogging all my time this week.

Reading through the patch guide on wowhead.com and I got to say there is too much to take in, so many changes and new things. It's like a whole new game as been added and I just realised how much there is to do at level 90, I had no idea there was legendary quest line and I had forgot about the pet battles (think Pokemon). Lot's of new achievements have been added as well and looks like some of the holidays will be upgraded for the new expansion which is good. Professions have a lot of new stuff as well, could do with working on those soon.

Right I better stop with this post now since I need to have breakfast and go to work, safe to say I will be busy gaming when I get back. Hope you all having a great week and enjoying all the new games, catch you soon!
~Iznic

March Weekend

Afternoon folks,
Well it's my day off finally so I'm planning to game all day with a few blog posts thrown in when I have a minute spare. Thinking it will mostly be a multi-player day today since I don't want to really get into any game right now since Tomb Raider should arrive tomorrow or Tuesday. Really excited to play it which I am shocked about since I've never really been a huge fan of the Lara Croft series. I only got into by playing Legends a few years back and Underworld which I still say is one of my favourite games.

So since I don't want to get into anything new today I will be focusing on games I need to clean up and playing multi-player matches later. Currently working on Hitman Contracts HD the last few days trying to get all the achievements, I just need two more Silent Assassin ranks on Professional and I will get two achievements for that (difficulty achievements stack). Will then continue my second run through on professional to unlock the last difficulty achievements and then that just leaves me with collecting all the weapons achievements. So I will be focusing on that at some point this afternoon plus I might jump onto Saints Row the Third for the PS3, last time I went on I had finished Act One and was part way through the second act plus working on the challenges.

For the multi-player games this evening I'm thinking some Battlefield 3 and Black Ops 2 matches for some fun, been a week or two since my last session. Very tempted to pick up the Black Ops 2 season pass lately since I was really enjoying myself and having some more maps would be great. Plus I've heard Microsoft are giving Microsoft Points away when you buy the season pass, 400 back so you could say it's on sale right now. See how tonight's session goes anyway before I decide to buy it.

Finally the major games I want to play today is the MMO's, World of Warcraft and Old Republic. Last week of my time card for Old Republic so if I don't get into it then I will not be renewing it and let it slip to free-to-play. I have picked up a new card for Warcraft so my plans for that today is to focus on the zones I've not quested in and start looking into upgrading my gear, plus I could do with levelling some of my professions.

It's safe to say I've got plenty to keep me busy with today so on this note I'm going to head off and start, oh by the way did any of you catch the Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags trailer yesterday? yeah it got leaked for like an hour. Really feel for Ubisoft right now since pretty much everything has been leaked about the game. But on the positive side the trailer was awesome and it's going to be a great game from the looks.

~Iznic

Warcraft and Starcraft

Good Morning,
Last night the official trailer for the new World of Warcraft patch went live, say hello to 5.2 The Thunder King.



Shame I'm not in a guild because I would love to have ago at that raid, the bosses shown look amazing and fun. Got to love the part where the army of trolls march along with the giant dinosaurs, anyway the patch is meant to be huge and adding entire new zone with plenty to do. Think it's hitting next week if I can remember right.

Speaking of Blizzard as well a new trailer went up for the upcoming Starcraft game, Heart of the Swarm. Nicknamed Vengeance it's once again showing hints at the continuing story but this video is a little different, included is a developer talk where they talk about the game and answer questions from fans. Then at the end is a showcase match showing off Heart of the Swarm multi-player between Grubby and Crazymoving two famous pro players. It's a pretty sweet match to watch and gives you an idea of things to come, check out the video below.


Watch live video from Starcraft on TwitchTV 
So plenty to keep you busy with you are a Blizzard fan, to me it's brilliant but I am worried with so much happening at once how am I going to play it all.
~Iznic

Start of the Week

Monday morning, I should hate it being the fact it's the start of another week but I usually get today off so it kinda gets balanced out. Anyway hope you all had a fun filled weekend of gaming, I really did not get up to much myself, had a small session of Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires and one game of League of Legends. Was too busy tiding up and doing odd jobs, plus had a small movie marathon last night since I spend way too much time on my gaming and neglect my movies and books.

Had a bit of a shock loading up Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires though, it's subtitled this time around so I need to try and get use to reading the notification messages during battle. Before I would just listen out and still be able to pay attention to what was happening, now I keep having to glance to read which is costing me in a fight. Need to learn to balance that out but it's a fun game anyway, seems more in depth compared to the last ones so I think this platinum trophy will be a lot more challenging. Worth a check out if you into these type of strategy/action games.

So as I said not much this weekend for gaming, did do a lot of thinking and planning though. Oh actually before I go into that I did find something amusing during my tiding. My HD DVD player for the Xbox 360, picked up one last year really cheap, think it was something like £2.50 and when I got it home found a copy of Van Helsing left inside the disc tray. Bargain of the year that was and such a shame the format did not kick off, if they had put the drive into the Xbox like Sony did with the Blu-ray and PlayStation 3 it might be still here. Nothing really different between the two formats except HD DVD are all region free, that was the massive positive in my book. Anyway wonder if we will see a Blu-ray player in the new Xbox this year, hope so since they need to take advantage of the bigger disc space.

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Anyway back to the original subject of me thinking, well I was thinking about of multiple things. First MMO's and more specifically the ones I'm currently playing, World of Warcraft and Old Republic. If you been a long time reader of my blog you know one of my bad points is wasting money on time cards that I do not get my worth out of, one three hour session for a 60 day time card is not a good thing. Well the end of the time is coming up for Warcraft and I'm sure Old Republic will be soon too, so I was wondering is it worth reinvesting into another card for each. Of course this will all depend on did I get plenty of time out the current ones. World of Warcraft I would say without a doubt since I hit level 90, was on every day for the last two weeks doing the Valentines dungeons and spent quite a few sessions levelling up and questing. In fact I will just check out Raptr to see what the time was and it says in the last month I've clocked twelve hours, well the time card is two months so not bad. Especially when you fork out £40 for a console game and get around six hours game play.

Old Republic is another story in it's self and in fact Raptr as no data for the last month of me playing, if I did it would be less then an hour. Found it! Raptr blog activity last post was 11th February for 44 minutes, I will admit I don't think I've got my moneys worth. I started off well but the last few weeks I've not been on, the game is good but I don't know it's like I don't have a reason to sit down and play it. It's not gripping me I guess and I really don't know, I have wondered if playing a different class might help since they all different stories and game styles.

I've just checked and I've got twelve days left of my time card so I'm going to try a different character, the thing is that the game is free-to-play now of course you lose a lot of bonus for not being a premium member (cannot remember what). So I could still technically play it after my time runs out just with lots of penalties, see what happens with the next twelve days anyway.

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So that was my thoughts on the MMO's and I did think about console games as well with the same subject line of moneys worth. My pile of shame is huge and now with possibility of seeing the next generation of consoles this year the pressure is on really. I do feel like kicking myself for not playing some of these games, there are lot of amazing games this generation that I've not touched like Heavy Rain, Dark Souls, Demons Souls etc and plenty of games I've started and not finished. Over the last few weeks and in fact since the start of this year I have realise with so many games coming out and buying so many at the same time it does become hard to decide on what to play. A lot get shelved and a lot of time is wasted trying to decide on what to play, in fact I can say I've spent at least one night trying to decide on what to play then giving up for a film because there was too many choices.

In the old days when I was kid I barely bought any games, but when I did my god would I get my times worth out of them. I would love to see how many hours was spent on Ages of Empires 2 and Jedi Knight 2, I would easily say 200+ hours if not more. Now I be lucky to give them one hour so yeah I was thinking about that and of course the costs. In fact with the PlayStation 4 announcement I wrote down all the titles I wanted and rough guessed the price plus the console price. Guessing at £400 for the console and £50 per game, my want list came to nearly £1,000! so as you can imagine I nearly spat my drink out.

This is where this thought started, say all those games came out on the launch day how would I play them all? some would get pushed to the side or even shelved. So why buy them all if I'm not going to play them and that was it, I started with all this thinking and started to look at the Pile of Shame. You probably wondering where I'm going with all this rambling, well I don't know really. I think I need to cut back on my spending, maybe just buy one game at time and I don't buy the next until I've finished the last. Would make life simpler but then I only have to look at my challenge to see I cannot even do that right.

Food for thought anyway and on this note I'm going to go get ready because I suppose to be leaving soon for the Cinema to see Die Hard 5. I did not realise the time and spent way too much time writing this so take care all and I will see you soon.
~Iznic

Early Morning

No idea why I woke up at 6.50am this morning, I do have to go out early this morning but I have plenty of time to get ready. Anyway thought it would be a good time as any to update the blog with my weekend adventures. Well the big thing yesterday was finally hitting level 90 in World of Warcraft, I was aiming for it since I had only 30% to go and then forgot. Trying to get a dungeon group was a pain all day, people kept quiting mid fight or would be put in a group who was already half way done. So yeah I was surprised when the level 90 hit half way through a boss fight, nearly got myself killed because I was jumping for joy.

Other then that I did have a huge blast on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, completed another four levels maybe more. Might try and finish that today since I think I got be at the end game now plus once it's done I can post it back to Lovefilm for another game. That was it really other then a few multiplayer matches in Battlefield 3, oh man was that awesome. Got myself into an awesome squad and team, four of the five matches we won. Clocked a few achievements and got to level 3/4 so it was a great session, also I love the base jump map. I had no clue what was happening since we took the base and there was no one around and the markers for the next attack was below. Bit scary when you walk to the edge and look down, proper "oh shit" moment although it was funny because I looked down then next thing I know one of my team drives his tank right off the edge and jumps out mid fall. Got to be the best base jump I've seen so far and I cannot wait to play that level again.

So anyway that was my weekend in a nut shell, I did lose a few hours yesterday evening due to the Destiny reveal but I was expecting that. So plans for today is to try and clock Call of Duty and everything else is just a bonus. I want to say I will get some more blog posts up since I do owe you guys a few but no promises. I will update the blog stats a little later but for now I'm off to go get ready so have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Patch 5.2 Teaser

Blizzard have posted up the teaser trailer for the new upcoming patch 5.2 The Thunder King. The dinosaur mounts look amazing and I'm assuming the boss monsters for the new raid/dungeon? although I really do feel out of sync with Warcraft right now. Two months with out the computer and there's a new big patch coming up and I can honestly say not sure whats it about or what to expect, well other then dinosaur mounts.



You know it just came to that I was on Patch 5.0 since Mists of Pandaria had just come out so I need to look up 5.1 as well. Blimey plenty to keep me busy for the next few weeks from the looks, anyway Warcraft readers are you excited for the new patch? the mounts look amazing.

~Iznic

End of October

Good Morning,
Just updated the blog stats for the progress this year and you be happy to know there is a new game on the completed list. Thanks to my friend Mike I was able to finish off the CO-OP on Portal 2 for the PS3 so the Platinum trophy was mine last night. Brings me up to seven platinum's this year and nineteen in total overall, so not a bad run really and hopefully number twenty soon once I've got a game to play.

So hows things for everyone? are you busy with all the new releases so far or as your game not come out?

Me well I'm swamped with games and I'm trying my best not to sink right now, currently working on Warcraft since the Halloween event is live. Of course they added a new Trick or Treat achievement for the new zone so I'm trying to level up so I can visit all the areas to get it (I have all the achievements for the holiday events except one). Currently hit level 88 the other day and around 70% towards level 89, think I have three zones to work on so fingers crossed I can get it done by end of Wednesday. Well I'm out Wednesday night so I need to get it done by end of tomorrow or I will have to wait another year to finish it off.

Apart from Warcraft I'm really getting into XCOM and I got to say it's one of those games you must play this year. I just had to revert my save since three missions pretty much took out all my squads and it was a disaster. For those who have not played XCOM its a strategy game where you control a squad of troops fighting an alien invasion, it's turned based and I'm not sure how else to describe it other then it's amazing. I will warn you it can be hard since you have to run the finances of the Home base, choose research projects and manage the planets panic levels. You given choices on what missions to take and of course the ones you don't go to cause panic in that country, if the level gets too high they drop out of the project and you loose funding. It can get very overwhelming at certain parts, especially when things hit the fan and you got three problems all at once. Will be jumping back on that game in a minute but check out the trailer below and the website for more information on the game.



Holy feck! that's the first time I've watched the trailer and a lot of the aliens in it I've never seen before, cannot wait to get back into it now.

So where was I? oh yeah talking about the new releases that have come out, well I've shelved a lot of games and I'm struggling with all the releases. I know I know, why in the world do I buy them if I'm not going to play them and I have no answer other then I'm an idiot. I did take back Pokemon White 2 since I've only played one hour of Black 2 on the launch day and that was it. The money went towards deposits for upcoming games and Professor Layton which came out this week. I've started the first chapter and I'm determined to finish it since I love the series but I am worried it will get shelved when Assassins comes out Wednesday. Speaking of which I'm still waiting for a order sent email from Ubisoft, I really hope I do get it on launch day.

This is the quarter four list I've purchased and the status so far:

1. Borderlands 2 - Shelved
2. Angry Birds Trilogy - Shelved
3. Dishonored - Completed
4. Pokemon Black 2 - Shelved
5. XCOM Enemy Unknown - Playing
6. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask - Playing
7. Pokemon White 2 - Returned

I have plenty to do if I want to clock all these games and I need to stop buying games if they going to just get shelved. Easier said then done since I'm addicted to my gaming but fingers crossed that soon I will be posting that I've completed XCOM and Professor Layton, well I can hope anyway.

On that note take care folks since I'm off to do some gaming, have a good one and don't get swamped like me with the new releases.
~Iznic

Hello October

Seems there was a glitch with my Lovefilm app on my iPad so Lego Batman 2 for the PlayStation 3 did not arrive after all. Instead Portal 2 was sent and it's took over my life this week, every other game as pretty much been shelved thanks to it. Yes I know I said I would work had this week on all my new games that I picked up but it's Portal 2, have you played it? then you would know why I'm addicted to it again. If you not played then you need to stop reading this post and go get it! go on shoo! go buy/rent and play it.

I was hoping to finish the story for Pokemon White this week so I was ready for the sequels on Friday, it could still be possible since I just arrived in Nimbasa City yesterday which is the fourth gym. Funny thing is I think this is where I got to in Pokemon Black then I stopped, think I got stuck with a Team Plasma battle since my party was not high enough level to take them on. Anyway so yeah it could be possible to finish if I put the hours in this week, but you all know what I'm like that probably will not happen.

I've also not played Warcraft or Borderlands 2 this week either, not since last Sunday session so I really could do with making some time for them both. I promised myself that I would get the news games completed when I buy them and not just shelve them. I've got pretty far with Borderlands 2 so I really do not want to forget the story and controls, which would mean having to start over again which I hate doing. Plus in Warcraft I just did my first couple of Dungeons and hit level 87, I was well on my way with the progress plus I just found out you can run your own farm so I was working on that.

Really could do with some more time and I've got Pokemon White 2 and Black 2 this week coming out as well, plus Dishonored which I'm still not one hundred percent sure on just yet. Think I will just have a small scream and bang my head against the wall, anyone got any spare time to sell to me? could do with Lot's.

Ok enough with the moaning and complaining, my goal this week is to try and clock Pokemon White, put some hours into Warcraft and Borderlands 2. On that note I'm going to go play some games, don't forget to drop a comment with what you guys are playing.

Until then have a good one folks
~Iznic

One day to go

Good morning folks,
As you probably read the title you going to wonder what I mean by just one day to go, well tomorrow is the launch date for Borderlands 2 in the UK. This game to me signals the start of the huge end of year line up of game launches. Starting with tomorrow we have Borderlands 2 then next Tuesday Mists of Pandaria hits the shelves  and will be keeping me busy for a while. Saturday sees Angry Birds Trilogy coming to the main consoles as well, I'm very addicted to that game and adding achievements just screams to me to get on day one.

Goes slightly quiet for a week then it goes to hell in October and November, in fact there is one to two games a week coming out in most parts. I've had all the launches that I know of so far into my calendar and it's shocking how little time is between each one. I wonder if any of you guys have a long list of "must buy" games this year.

Anyway I need to go through some of my gaming and get some more trade-ins sorted, thinking some of the games I said I would play need to go. I did like most of the games but since doing the test posts I've not bothered with them and I don't see myself playing them this year now with all the new stuff coming out which will take up all my time. Plus it would save me some money which is always a good thing in my books.

Completely going off topic I did try out the pre-event for Mists of Pandaria (World of Warcraft) last night, well I tried to anyway since I found to my horror that my gear is too low level so the event was locked to me. I thought I could upgrade a few of my items and that would be enough to get me in but to my horror my complete set is massively out of date. It need a full brand new set which would take some time to do and since it's like five or six days to the launch it won't happen. Will miss out on the feat of strength achievement and tabard reward but oh well, my own fault for not playing properly.

This is what happens when you pile up too many games and don't give them the proper time, you miss out on a lot of stuff. Another good example is I'm working on Borderlands right now since I've never really got past level 7 before, currently playing four player co-op on the PlayStation with some mates and single player on the Xbox 360. I want the second one tomorrow but I cannot play it until I'm done which is annoying because no doubt someone will try to ruin the story for me. I know I really should wait to buy Borderlands 2 since I've not finished the first but I really want all the nice pre-order bonus items, the extra class and golden key stuff looks awesome.

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So yeah not sure what else to talk about now other then I plan to play Warcraft to get a few things ready for the launch of the expansion, also work on Borderlands on the side as well. Oh yeah the Tokyo game show is currently happening and I'm seeing a lot of game announcements that I'm interested in so I will be posting about that soon so stay tuned for that. Think I will end this post now and go take a look at whats happening, see if anything else is coming out at Christmas.

Have a good one folks,
~Iznic