The Clean Up Continues (Part Two)

It's barely been 10-15 minutes since I posted up the last post with the games that I selected and already one game as gone to the trade in pile. Overture Guilty Gear was my first pick and if I'm to be honest I was not shocked, I was unsure about this game when I first bought it (after Christmas sale so no real money lose). It's meant to be sort like Dynasty Warriors Empires where you go around the map leading a small army and take over parts of the map to win.

So the disc went in and it brought up a opening trailer showing a demonstration and it put me off straight away, from the looks you can bring up a map and you have to summon the troops you want for the battle. I saw what looks like that anyway since they decided to go really fast for the demonstration but what confused me was he kept spawning some kind of robot trooper to help, then despawn him again which then happened four more times before he decided to finally leave the starting area.

After that he ran ahead and got into a battle with the enemy, well I guess it was the leader and started fighting with their troops too but nothing seemed to happen to the progress bar on the top. In the end I turned the video off and booted up the training, let's get the hands on approach and maybe it will be better.

I pick my character spawn on the map with the enemy leader in front of me, the training window appears in the bottom corner telling me to pause the game. So I pause and on the screen I get all the lovely game options like but in the top corner it tells me to resume the game to continue training. Ok no problem so go back into the game and it tells me to pause again, as you can imagine it got a bit confusing. So I try out some buttons and found the attack, jump and reset match all the while the enemy just stands and does nothing while I attack. I run around the map and cannot seem to capture anything, no buttons for the map to summon and still this box tells me to pause even though I have five times.

I'm ten minutes into the game and I just eject the disc and put it in my bag ready to trade it in next time I go to the shopping centre. I'm guess I must be doing something wrong and no doubt there are fans yelling what a newbie I am but oh well it's not for me. So onto my next game and I'm going with the Wii titles next which will be interesting since I think I'm going to have to dig around to find the controllers and reset the sensor bar back up.

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What was I thinking when I picked out those Wii games, the console as not been on in over a year and I had to decide to play it. So far I've had to search high and low for the sensor bar and controller, had to do some major tiding up for that. Of course the battery pack for the controller is fully flat so just put it on the charger (god that needs to be cleaned) and I'm not sure if it's charging or not since the light is flashing. Then I remembered I traded my second set of controllers since my girlfriend bought her own Wii, think I need to find some batteries out to use for now.

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Don't think I've ever swore so much in my entire life, well I found some batteries but then released I have no idea where the original battery cover is for the controller (the recharge battery comes with it's own cover that is glued to the batter). Then when I turned the Wii on and no picture came on so I checked to find it's not plugged into the tv, no problem just follow the wire and plug it in. Hmm what's it caught on, maybe give it a tug, yeah that's the PS3 that's making a banging sound. In my panic to stop tugging on the wire I nearly fall over and take out the TV with me, so five minute break to cool down and stop cursing.

The Wii is now on finally but I do wonder why I got a turtlebeach headset plugged into the composite ports, another problem to sort another day. Oh my god, last play date was 20th May 2010 according to the calendar and I was playing Wii Play which is still in the console. My god it's been over two years since this console as been used, I think my friend Lesley would have a fit.

Well first need to up date it and hook it back up to the Internet, dreading how long it will take to do two years of updates.

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System is up to date and it only took around ten minutes so I was surprised about that but did have a heart attack when I thought for a second that the eject had broken when I tried to get wii play out. It's all good though and now it's finally time to play some games, first up Sakura: So long, My Love!

Another game for the trade in pile since I'm over fifteen minutes into the game and still no game play, a lot of talking and cut scenes so far with just two chat selections. The story is really not my thing either, basically it's anime game which I normal love but this is not me. Basically starting to work for a crime fighting division for the Japanese government that works secretly under a theatre where the forces actually do singing and dance on the side to entertain the crowd to keep them calm. Steam punk setting with some mech fighting which I did not get close to trying, guess that will be the gameplay for later once I've settled into the base.

Bit disappointed so far since that's two for two now but I think the other games will be ok, but then again I never know and on that note it's time for Xenoblade.

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Fourteen minutes into Xenoblade and I'm in love, the games opening was a pretty sweet way to do it which involved you a few mates making a last stand against a mech army. Controls seemed a bit dodgy but I think it would be better played with the classic controller instead of the Wii Remote, anyway the story looks awesome and the gameplay was not bad so this is a keeper. It's that good I've not put it on my list to must play soon and I really want to continue but I must try the other games.

Xenoblade

Speaking of the other games I'm going to stop for now on this post and do the other games on part three, did not realise how long this post was and I'm only three games in with seven more to come. So far only one game to keep and two to trade in, bit disappointed but I'm glad Xenoblade turned out good. Stay tuned for part three which should be up later on since I'm still continuing to test the games.

~Iznic

Clean Up (Part One)

Like I mentioned in my last post I've decided to start testing out some of my games that I own. Too many times I've finally come back to a game after months/years of owning them to find it ... well rubbish. Dr Lautrec on the 3DS last week was the last game to turn out to be disappointing, I was really surprised since for all purposes it was mean't to be a game I would had loved. So I'm now pulling out games from my collection to try and when I say try, I mean like an hour or two to see what they are like.

So here is the first lot of games I've pulled out and as you can see there are quite a few games across different consoles. In fact this would be the first time my Wii as been turned on in over a year at least so this be will interesting. I will be doing more posts that relate to this one as I go through my collection, part two will cover what I think of these games and then part three will be another set of games etc.

Anyway for now I'm going to list the titles below then head off to go start playing.

• Hunted: The Demon's Forge (Xbox 360)
• Overture Guilty Gear 2 (Xbox 360)
• Two Worlds 2 (Xbox 360)
• Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (Wii)
• Warriors: Legends of Troy (Xbox 360)
• Dungeon Siege 3 (Xbox 360)
• Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)
• Divinity 2: Ego Draconis (Xbox 360)
• Agarest Generations of War Zero (PlayStation 3)
• Knights Contract (Xbox 360)

~Iznic

Halo 4 Limited Edition Console

I've been wondering since E3 would there be any special edition Xbox 360's this year and with Halo 4 coming out in November I had my vote's it would be there. I was thinking maybe a Call of Duty one as well but then I remembered so far only the Modern Warfare series have been given the console treatment.

I was not shocked when a few weeks back when the Halo 4 console was announced, but I was shocked on how good it looks.

Gone for a Forerunner look I've got to say I love it and the blue light's was a nice touch, shocking since Microsoft have always kept to the green with every console. This limited edition bundle comes with the following:

• One Xbox 360 console Halo 4 styled with blue lights, custom sounds when turned on and tray opened
• 2 Controllers (Rotating d-pad + blue lights + Halo 4 themed)
• 320gb Harddrive
• Halo 4 game
• Wired Headset
• DLC Codes

My deposit as already been put down ready but need to work into the budget, would love to see some information about the DLC that's included since nothing as been announced yet. Usually I would guess avatar gear but you never know they might break tradition.

Also announced along side the console was the controller separately but get this, it's not the same one in the box. This time around the controllers included in the box are in fact exclusive to the bundle, the separate controller is a special edition.

The design is similar but instead is themed on the UNSC in the game and again comes with the blue lights instead of the green. No word yet about any DLC but so far every limited edition controller as come with some kind.

So far I've picked up pretty much all the new themed limited edition controllers so I probably will be picking one of these up too, but again it's all about the money and if I have it.

Anyone else interested in the console or the pad?
~Iznic

A New Month

Good Morning...no sorry Good Afternoon,
I swear time is flying by right now for me but anyway it's time for another update on my adventures in the gaming scene. I'm happy to announce I've finally sat down and finished the story campaign for Resistance 3, I don't think it was good as the past ones but still an OK shooter. I'm glad that I did stick with it since I've completed all the other games in the series so far, felt a bit wrong not to finish the last one.

Anyway will have to wait and see what Lovefilm will send me next but I did sort out my rental list, there was quite a few games on there that I was not in the mood to play right now. In fact I think the list now consists of only two games, Lego Batman for the PS3 and Vita. No doubt I will get a message saying they cannot send them since there is no stock right now and that I need to add more games to my rental list.

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So what are my plans for this week? well I'm going to work on my collection, last week I was disappointed that Dr Lautrec turned out to be rubbish for me. Especially after all the information and trailers made it out to be a good game for me. So this week I want to go through my collection and play an hour or two on most of the games to see what they are like. There are plenty of games still sitting on the shelf sealed or not touched, like Dr Lautrec I'm under the impression they will be great when I do play them.

Any games I don't like can be traded in towards the Christmas fund which by the way I've started working on the list of games I want. At first it was quite small and I was proud of myself then yesterday I remembered a ton of games I forgot about plus I had completely forgot about the Wii U might be out this year. So I will be needed to go back to that list this week and see how bad it will be this year.

Back to the original topic of what I will be playing, so yeah I will be going through my collection to sort it out but there are some games I want to play as well. I need to put more time into the MMO's still, I was shocked to hear that Old Republic will be free-to-play soon since the low subscribes. It's a brilliant game but it was really was designed for singleplayer, still I want to get more time into it and get some group questing on the go.

World of Warcraft is going to need a lot of time as well now that the expansion is out in less that two months. Need to clear out my bags, sort my characters out ready and level up my professions so I'm all set for the new stuff. Plus the fact I've started my new Goblin character although I am worried they will do some big changes to the classes so I'm wondering if I should just hold off on my new character. That way when the expansion is out start then so I'm learning the new stuff instead of have to learn the current build then have to relearn the new stuff when it's out. Does that that make sense?

Way too much to stuff to do right now and I have no idea where to start, plus I think this post is just me rambling on about this different subjects. Think I will call it for now and continue later on, hopefully you guys are having a great time gaming and I will catch you all later.
~Iznic

Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition

This September was my break period where I could save up some money ready for the Christmas rush, so you can imagine I was banging my head on the desk when I read the other day that the new expansion for World of Warcraft was coming out on the 25th September.

It's funny though because I did take a quick look at the release dates and there are few games out that month so I really need to sit down and plan out what I want so I can see when they come out, anyway back to the topic.

So Mists of Pandaria is finally coming out which does not shock me since the Beta is pretty much finished but I was banking on it coming out November/December in time for Christmas. At the time of the announcement there was only the standard edition and the digital collectors edition which is the first time that's ever been done. This edition comes with all the in game content that you would normally get with the collectors edition, anyway next day while I was in work I saw a message saying the collectors would be website only. As you can imagine I was straight onto my phone ordering it, Blizzard make some of the best collectors edition and so far I've had all of them for World of Warcraft except the original game. In fact I need to do a unboxing of them all before Mists of Pandaria comes out, I will add that to the list of things to do this week.

On the right is a picture of the Collector's Edition box which is the same as the others, the box is a giant slevee where you can pull out the inner box which holds all the contents.

But what's made me happy is the in-game content, for the first time we also getting a mount! The Imperial Quilen flying Mount plus the puppy pet as well. Normally the collector editions only have a pet in them but seems Blizzard have decided to add more this time around. Also like normal there are Starcraft 2 Portraits and a new banner sigial and accent for Diablo 3 themed around the new expansion. Anyway check out the full list below to see whats included in the box.

• Copy of the game
• Behind the Scenes DVD & Blu-ray
• Soundtrack (20 tracks)
• Hardback Art Book (208 pages)
• Mousepad (Chen Stormstout Brewmaster Artwork)
• Diablo 3 Banner Sigil & Accent
• Starcraft 2 Battle.net Portraits
• In-game Flying Mount (Imperial Quilen)
• In-game Pet (Lucky Quilen Cub)

Anyway that's it for this post but I cannot wait for September and to get my hands on this expansion. Of course expect a unboxing post when it does arrive and plenty of posts of my tales when I'm playing it but for now have a good one folks.

~Iznic

P.S. Check out the in-game pet and mount, very cool looking!

 

Too Early

Morning Folks,
Really did not want to get out of bed this morning, even if it was 8.30am it's still early for my liking but got work soon so I guess I better get up. Anyway I thought since I do have a bit of time before work that I would spend it updating the blog again, this would had been done sooner but the Olympics have kept me busy the last few days. To say I'm not a sports fan I've really got into the spirit of the game and I'm hoping for a gold today for Team GB.

So onto my gaming news and I'm happy to announce I actually played World of Warcraft yesterday, I went on to check my in-game mail since my characters needed to pick up the Diablo 3 Collector's Edition pet. Plus my new Goblin Shaman character needs to pick up all his pets out of the mail, every time I start a new character I will get all the collector editions pet sent to me by mail. Unfortunately when I did login into I had missed out by a day or two so they where all deleted, mail only lasts 30 days before it's deleted.

After a quick curse I restarted my character which was luckily that I had only got up to level 5, anyway I got back up to level 5 and left the starting zone to the new ship wrecked island so I'm only slightly ahead from last time. But least I still got my pets back now which are still sitting in the mail but I'm determined to put more time over the next week so I will open the mail next time.

Oh dear

Need to get some more gaming time in the week along with Old Republic so I can get my money's worth. I just remembered that I forgot to mention about my last post, I did not get too far with my gaming plans the other day but I did finish the first act of Diablo 3. The Skeleton King went down and I'm now on to Act Two which is awesome, I've been busy with the blacksmith making some cool armour for my Barbarian and I'm all set for what ever comes next.

So this week I want to make time for the MMO's, be very cool if I could start the second act for Diablo and I need to work on Resistance 3 my rental. I did do another level the other day and I'm struggling, it's not a hard game it's more wanting to play it. I'm finding that the game is starting to become boring to me but I keep hoping that it will turn around. I think I will give it another hour or two before I give up, speaking of giving up on games I did send back Neverdead.

Very weird game that does not really explain the story very well at the opening and I found the sword controls to be wrong. Basically you swing your sword with the right analog stick but it as to be in the direction your sword is aiming on the screen. Yeah it gets annoying really fast and the problem is the sword is pretty much the best weapon for dealing with the demons. So I really could not be bothered with giving it a chance so I sent back, rather spend my time on games I will really enjoy.

Well that's it for today's rant, I'm off to get ready for work so have a good one folks and I will try to get the site stats updated this evening.
~Iznic

Weekend Gameplay

Morning Folks,
Got plenty of plans for today involving Lot's of gaming, going to be heading over to Diablo 3 in a bit since it's been a while. Also I registered my collection edition codes in the week so I can now around with my angel wings, also my Warcraft time is now up to December. Later on I want to get back on Resistance 3 since I've had that game on rent now for a month so really could do with finishing it, think I was on level 10 the last time I looked. So far it's not been a bad game but I was expecting something a lot better, hopefully it will pick up for the last half.

Also I do have a second rental which is Neverdead, still unsure what to think about this game and I'm very close to finishing the first level. Some of the controls feel very awkward and the story is not that gripping, since the first boss fight is about to begin I'm going to attempt it later and let that be my deciding factor on if I should stick with playing it or send it back.

Really could do with sorting out my rental list because there are quite a few games on it that I'm not in the mood right to work on and knowing my luck they would be the next games to be sent. Anyway apart from that I need to find some time for Old Republic and Warcraft because it's been a few weeks now since my last session.

Speaking of Warcraft they announced the release date for Mists of Pandaria and it's the 25th September world wide, put my pre-order down for the Collectors Edition which was a no brainier since I have the last three expansion collector editions. Although I hate the date for it since it's right bang at the start of the Christmas line up and September was meant to be the quite month so I could save up.

Going to have to sit down and start working out what I want this year and what I can wait for, there is way too much stuff. So yeah plenty to do today and to be honest I think the days need to be longer so I can fit it all in, I've also got Minecraft on PC as well in the week so I want to get some time on that and I picked up Pokemon Conquest so I really want to start that as well. I think it's safe to say I'm currently screwed right now, at this rate I'm going to burn myself out.

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Well I lost pretty much all morning and most of the afternoon watching the Judo Olympics then the Cycling at the end, cheered my heart out at the end when we got the Silver. Thank god for Lizzie getting our are first medal for Great Britain.

Anyway time I get on with some gaming, so first up Diablo 3 and time to take down the Skeleton King Solo. I did it with a friend co-op a few weeks back but because he had done it before it was kinda rushed so I want to see the story pan out properly.

So catch you all later and have a good weekend folks
~Iznic

Long Time No See

Hello folks,
It's a lovely summer morning here today which is unusual for England although personally I prefer the winter. So I better start with saying I'm sorry for the lack of posts over the last week and a half but it was my Birthday last week so I went on holiday for a few days. It was nice having a break but I'm back now and I got quite a few things I need to catch up on with the blog.

First up the big news which in a way should not be a shock if you read my blog regularly, I'm stopping my 200,000 gamerscore challenge. I've known and you guys should have known too for the last several months that hitting the 200,000 mark by end of the year was now impossible unless a miracle happened. At the start of this year I did say I would not do a challenge because it usually took over my gaming and I would not play anything else because I needed to get achievements. When I started the 200,000 challenge I promised myself I would not let this happen, well over a week ago I realised I was letting the challenge take over.

I cancelled a MMO Night because I needed to earn some achievements for the week and it was the day after that I realised I needed to cancel the challenge. This of course does not mean I won't stop getting achievements, it's still a passion of mine to keep getting them but I do want to play other games on other consoles.

The 2012 Gaming Progress will be kept going and in fact I just updated the page yesterday, I'm happy to announce I finished Uncharted Golden Abyss on the Vita yesterday. Another great addition to the series and I hope they do more for the Vita, of course I want to go back and platinum all the Uncharted games. They all brilliant and you cannot beat a good treasure hunter story, I'm sucker for them.

This week my plans are to work on my rental games since I have two now, Resistance 3 which I did start before my holiday and got quite far into it. It's good but I'm not getting into it like the last lot, not sure why but I just don't seem to care about the story so far. Hopefully the story will pick up in the later game and give it a good ending.

The second game is Neverdead and I'm not really sure what to expect from this game, guess time will tell and I will post my thoughts once I've tried it. Not sure how a game with the main character being immortal works, how do you fail if you cannot die.

Also got the new patch for Minecraft (Xbox) which as added pistons to the work so I really want to muck about with it, I did start a new game yesterday and made a lovely one floor house with a giant moat around. Going to expand it soon and start hunting down slimes so I can make sticky pistons, that's going to be fun since I've never come across slimes before. My friends have started picking up the PC version since it's more advance and you can do a lot more with it, I'm very tempted and especially with the creative mode. Argh! there is too much coming out, I got Pokemon Conquest this week and I need to renew my Playstation Plus since it ran out a few days ago and the new free stuff as just gone up. Plus in a few weeks the 2012 lineup begins with Borderlands 2, why does everything have to cost so much.

On that note I'm going to end this post since I got quite a few things to do before work, I will try and get a few more posts up later or tomorrow since I've still got quite a few things I want to talk about.

So until then have a good one folks,
~Iznic

Unboxing: Uncharted 3 Explorers Edition

Several days late I know but I finally got around to it so welcome one and all to another Unboxing post, as promised this week I will be showing off the Uncharted 3 Explorers Edition (UK edition). This is one of my favourite collector editions in my collection due to the fact how awesome the chest is. I still remember it arriving on my door step and spending the first thirty minutes just staring at the packaging thinking how awesome, I was really shocked how much effort went into everything. The packaging as you can see is well decorated and it's one of the few outer boxes I've kept since they are normally too bulky and well just plain looking.

Explorer's Edition

How awesome is this!

The chest as got to the best part of the entire thing and it's not cheap material either. The entire thing is wooden and well decorated on the outside with atlas of the world and art sketches of Nathan on the sides. Leather straps and handle as well which have buttons to shut the lid plus the small metal lock as well.


Inside everything is stored and there was bubble wrap around everything to keep it all safe, very impressed since most don't seem to care once it's left the warehouse. The chest can also store 19 games by the way but I can never see myself using it for that, when I get my own place I'm going to have my own gaming shelf showing all these cool things (maybe a gaming room? wonder if Lynn will let me get away with it)

Plenty of Goodies Inside

Starting with the main game itself as you can see in the picture above it was the special edition of the game which the case is entirely cardboard. The reason for this is because the entire thing is designed to be the journal from the game, there are several pages with printed notes/pictures to match the real one from the game. While this is a very cool feature I hated the fact the disc is stored in just a slip page at the back, just glad blu-ray discs are harder to scratch. Also inside was all the multiplayer bonus dlc that came included (golden weapons, exp boosts, extra skins etc) although I'm not a huge fan of multiplayer.

Journal Case

I would love to see a full edition done for Nathan's journal one day, it's one of the first things I fell in love with when I started playing this series. I bet there are quite a few fans out there who would also buy it as well, although by now that journal would be pretty big since of the four games. Maybe do a set of them so there is one for each game, I would buy it anyway.




Sorry to say I did not get the statue out of the protective box and I know I promised that my future unboxing posts would show everything. Reason being I just have no space to store the statue right now so I rather keep it safe until I can, you can still make it out perfectly though.

Nathan Statue

Drake's Ring

Think the face could had been done a little better but oh well still looks cool and cannot wait to finally get it on display with everything else. So what's left to talk about in the box, well how about some cosplay items in the form of Drake's ring and his lucky belt buckle which I hear changes for every game.

Lucky Belt Buckle

If they announce another game and I'm still working in the Video game industry I will dress up as Nathan next time for the launch. Will even get some pictures up on blog if I do, hmm in fact maybe Halloween would be another good time as well. Anyway they are both very cool looking and they made up my mind when I was trying to decide if this explorers edition was worth buying.


The final item in the box is a 3D art card of Nathan Drake which can be seen below, it's quite big and dwarfs the PS3 case. To be honest I had forgotten about it until I started taking the photos for the Unboxing so I might get this into a frame on my wall, think it would go nicely above my desk.

So that's it for this post folks and I hope you enjoyed this Unboxing, I would love if you could leave some feedback on what you think and what improvements you would like to see. Next week I will be doing another Unboxing but this time I'm going to allow you my readers to pick which game I should put up, don't worry in the end I will do all of them but for now just leave a comment here or on Facebook/Twitter with which game you want next.

Assassin's Creed Revelations Animus Edition
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Codex Edition
Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty Special Edition

~Iznic

Knockout

Afternoon folks,
Well I just decided to start my latest rental game from Lovefilm "Resistance 3" and was told I need to download the latest update, not a problem I thought until it came up with "1/4" and as been stuck on 20% for the last 30 minutes. So in the meantime hello folks! Have you missed me? No? Oh well I'm back anyway.

Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week but well it was one of those weeks in which I wished I stayed in bed, swear this year as to many of those weeks so far. Putting the bad week to the side I do have my holiday next week and I cannot wait for some time off, popping to Chester for a few days to go see the Zoo there and of course chill out. Also added bonus I will be levelling up to 27 and for those who don't get that it means my birthday next week, feel right old and that dreaded 30 is coming up closer.

Anyway you are not hear for that so time for some gaming updates, well how about two games completed?. Sat down with Resistance Burning Skies last week and got the Platinum trophy in two days without trying, the levels are a decent length but the game as only six levels so it doesn't last that long. Even with that I would still recommend it to everyone since the controls work! I mean they really work for a FPS which shocked me. Uncharted is a great game  but some of the aiming for me just annoys the **** out of me so I was shocked how Resistance seems to get it right and I really do hope everyone other shooting game takes notice.

After that I did finish the story for X-men Destiny finally, been saying for the last month I would sit down and play it. Well I got my ass into gear when I realised the disc had arrived back in May so I needed to get it down, I was shocked how fast I flew through the game to be honest. The levels are not that long but the entire game is the perfect length, the only down side had for the game was the story. I just could not get into it or want to care about the characters and I think it's because the story did relied heavily on people knowing the X-men Universe which I don't other than the newest movies. Anyway I cleared up the last of the achievements this morning but of course they don't count to last week's score but it does mean another game 1,000g.

On that note I think it's time to dig out the stats for my challenge:

Week 21
Starting Total: 139,434
To Earn: 2,422
Achieved: 215
Difference: -2,207

Total So Far -
To Earn: 42,981

Achieved: 15,283

Difference: -27,698

Honestly it was a good week last week with just hitting over 600 gamer score (see the challenge page for the archived results) but I'm getting to the point that I really don't care any more. Don't get me wrong I still love my achievement hunting and getting that 200k milestone but the challenge is longer possible. Also add in the fact I'm starting to get annoyed with myself that I'm putting other consoles because I need to get some achievements this week, so don't be surprised if I end this challenge soon.

So what will I be playing this week and that's a good question, well Resistance 3 of course since that is my latest rental and I'm thinking Castlevania Lord of Shadows on the Xbox 360. I did say I want to get this started since the second one was announced at E3 so why not, also need to sort out a handheld game to take on holiday with me. Might take Uncharted Golden Abyss since I've still not finished it off yet which is a sin in itself. Oh that reminds me I did pick up Theatrhthym for the 3DS, it was ok but I really did not see myself playing it enough. I did several series songs (basically it picks a game and does 3-5 songs from it in a row) then did some of the challenges and after a couple of hours I just could not see myself sticking to it so I've just traded it in yesterday with Resistance as well.

On that note I'm going to end this post off but I do have the pictures ready for my next unboxing post and my download is only at 64% on the first part so expect another post in a minute. Until then have a good one folks and I hope you all had a great week of gaming.
~Iznic

P.S. The Knockout title is reference to the fact I've clocked both Resistance and X-men, about time I got some gaming done.

Results: Week 21-24

Week 24
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 675
Difference: -1,684

Week 23
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511

Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960

Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833

Total So Far -
To Earn: 42,981

Achieved: 15,283

Difference: -27,698

Short Notice

I almost forgot myself until last night when I realised today is 4th July and of course America are celebrating Independence day, to all my American readers have a great day!

Anyway back to my point I remembered it was also the Calendar Man event as well in Batman Arkham City. So sorry for the lack of early reminders but still got until the end of the day to go visit him and listen to his latest gruesome story.

If you not done this before basically you need to speak to Calendar Man in the game on twelve separate days, one for each month of the year to earn the achievement/trophy. He can be found locked up in the court house basement, access can be gained by going through a door outside at the back of the court house. Speak to him to listen to his story then when he sits back down go find a checkpoint to save up, there is one if you leave the court house. Also there is a wall calendar by the cell which will cross out the months that you have done so far to help keep track plus all the dates are circled of when you need to visit him but just talking to him again and he will give you clues to the next day.

So that's it folks and I will be catching up with him later myself once I've finished work and yes I will be doing a MMO night as long as everything goes to plan (famous last words).
~Iznic

Busy Week

Afternoon folks,
Been busy all morning playing Resistance Burning Skies, if you have a Vita then you need to pick this game up. I'm shock how well it's turned out with the controls, it works perfectly so far and I'm enjoying every minute of it but from the looks the game is short though with only around six/seven levels. Although the levels are pretty decent length hopefully the the last few will add more time, would hate to finish the game on the first day.

Anyway I've updated the stats on the blog and I'm happy to say this week I earned a decent amount of gamer score, of course I did not hit the week target but we all knew that from the beginning. I did finish off Lego Batman 2 yesterday and I got to say it's the best Lego game in the series so far, the voices work and I'm happy about that because I had my doubts to the point I thought it would ruin the game. Only problem I had through out was the amount of glitches in the game, several times it froze mid-game and I had to restart my Xbox plus characters getting stuck or levels not loading. I would had thought a lot of this would had been caught in the Beta since there quite a few people on the forums having the same problems. Oh well I guess you cannot get everything perfect but anyway that was 33 game for the year so far.


Week 24 - This week
Starting Total: 138,759
To Earn: 2,359
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,359

Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 785
Difference: -1,511

Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960

Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833

Total So Far -
To Earn: 40,622

Achieved: 14,608

Difference: -26,014


As you can see the increase this week is not too bad compared to the last few weeks although I think I will be taking a hit this week, well it depends on how short Resistance is. Once I've finished the game I will be finally working on X-men Destiny and yeah I know I've been saying that for the past month.

That's it really in the ways of this post I do have some new games I want to talk about but I will be saving those thoughts for separate posts, I also do have a MMO night planned for this week but still not decided if it will be on Wednesday like normal or tomorrow (tomorrow I would get a lot more time).

I will be getting the next unboxing post up as well probably around mid-week or end of the week in time for the weekend, have to see where I can get the time from. Still need to make a few hours spare so I can continue working on the blog and to do the E3 posts that I've been promising for the last month.

So much to do and yet so little time to do it, I better get on with it so have a good one folks and don't forget to drop a line with how your week's been.
~Iznic

A New Beginning

I had forgotten that this post did not up Thursday morning, for some reason I was under the impression that I had already put it up and not sure how I got confused but anyway here was my MMO Night last Wednesday night.

Like all MMO Nights as soon as I said it was planned everything decided to go wrong, first up I did not realise it took me an hour and half to write the "MMO Night 2.0". So that pretty much cancelled my quick Lego Batman 2 session so I thought I would just get straight into Star Wars first. Yeah that went well since I had missed placed my new time card that I had bought, so another 20 minutes lost while I hunted around my room to find it under my Futurama box set that I was watching the night before.

So time card activated time for some gam...no got to wait for the patches to download and install, should not take too long right? Yeah famous last words and no idea why I jinxed myself. It took a while and in that time I watched one episode of South Park, one episode of Family Guy and cooked tea. Well by that point most of my night had gone so my plans turned into two quick small sessions, there was a lot of cursing from me when it finally finished.

Star Wars I only did about three quests on the main Imperial Planet, had my companion Meko gather me some resources for crafting. Did have fun with bomb defusing in the square because I had forgot to read the section on how to defuse the bomb, so there I was running around the square with a bomb in my hand that was ticking down with no clue what to do.

Ohhh I did level up to 16 as well since I been very close for a while now so the three quests tipped me over.

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So it was time for Warcraft and this time there was no patches since I had been on every day for the past week doing the Midsummer Festival events. Of course tonight I was really hoping to start my new character and get some good progress on it, but with all the time pretty much gone I'm only going to get a few levels if I'm lucky.

Well I lost another half an hour trying to come up with a name for my character and what I wanted to play, I was stuck between Shaman and Paladin but I had Horde in mind so I can see the other side of the war. In the end I came up with Izjin the Goblin Shaman and then I remembered I had not done the Lord Ahune fight today on my main, so quick login and I queued up for the event only to find out was a 15 minute wait (estimated).

I was very annoyed at the start but it did turn out ok since I started doing todays daily quests for cooking and fishing. Why was that good? Well I maxed out Fishing and got a lovely new achievement for the trouble, quite chuffed that I got it maxed now.

Anyway 15 minutes later Lord Ahune is dead, no pet still but I did get some justice points for my trouble so it was finally time to start playing my new character.

The thing I like the most about Goblins and Worgen is there new starting zones are really good, all themed around a great story that leads into the war between Horde and Alliance. Anyway my new character can be seen on the right, did not bother sorting out the hair since there is achievement for going to the in game hair dressers. Anyway it starts off on this small island which is meant to be a paradise for Goblins who love to build things plus destroy things as well, to me it's a industrial nightmare but that's Goblins for you.

So yeah the quests just involve you going around town showing off yourself, basically you run one of the main coporations in the area and pushing to become a Trade Prince. Quests involve going to the mines to make sure your work force are actually working, riding around in your awesome new hot rod car and of course since it's your birthday have a giant party that gets crashed by pirates. Oh and let's not forget a Dragon called Deathwing appearing who decides to make the dormant volcano active so now you need to get a Billion money so you can pay your way off the island.

Now this is a mount

That was my night in a summary really and I did not get as far as I wanted, I'm level four and about to hit five but least I've nearly finished the first zone and will be soon on the shipwrecked island. Hopefully next week will be a lot longer with more in-game time, cannot believe how much trouble it was just to get an hour or two on a game.

I need to start making sure I get time in both games on my MMO Nights because right now wasting my time cards. For 60 days I'm only getting around 5-6 hours' worth of gaming and I cannot keep justifying this so either I make time or I won't be renewing the games when it runs out. World of Warcraft will last a lot longer since I've got 60 days plus I will be getting 3-4 months off the Diablo CE code when I enter it but again when that runs out if I didn't make the most it's gone.

Goblin Paradise

So with that depressing note over with it's time to end this post, sorry it wasn't that much fun but hopefully next week will have a huge updated post for you with plenty of adventures. So until then folks have a good one,
~Iznic

MMO Night 2.0

MMO Night will be making a return tonight after several weeks of being absent thanks to my schedule being all over the place. I have a new Star Wars Old Republic timecard sitting on the desk ready to be inputted and there will be something new tonight, I'm making a new character on World of Warcraft. While I've being the daily quests to kill Lord Ahune I realised the new expansion could not be that far off, especially with how the beta is coming along so I started to question why should I spend tons of time getting all new gear that will be wiped out by the first quest reward in the new expansion. Of course I can still work on reputation and try out the zones I've missed to catch up with the story but I have been wanting to play some other classes for a while now.

What made me go for it was a post the other day on MMO-Champion where it was confirmed that quite a few mounts will now be account wide shared. I want the Jewelcrafter new Panther mounts and the Sand Dragon mount from Alchemy but my Druid is a leatherworker which I don't want to give up. So I will be doing a new character tonight with one of those professions and it will be a Horde character as well so I can see the other side's story.

Sandstone Drake - Alchemy Mount

Although tonight I will be starting of with Star Wars because you know what I'm like I will get into Warcraft and run out of time. So yeah make sure to check back later for a MMO Night post and I will be entering the Diablo Collector's Edition code so I will run around with the Witch Doctor Pet. For now though I might pop onto Lego Batman 2 for a tiny bit just to work on clearing up the game since I've finished the story now.

Oh and I forgot to mention Lovefilm have sent me another game since I had a free credit thanks to a competition entry, so now got Resistance Fall of Man 3 sitting on my desk with X-men Destiny. Starting to get a little overwhelmed with the amount of games I need to work on, does anyone else have this problem?


Anyway I better shoot since I will run out of time at this rate, have a good evening folks and I will catch you all later!
~Iznic


P.S. Also I have noticed the layout for my Diablo 3 Unboxing post as messed up slightly, I did have trouble posting it so I think something happened. I will look into it when I update it with the new pictures.

P.S.S Pokemon Conquest next month for the UK!! Finally have a date for it but gutted about it being next month since I got two holidays to pay for, was hoping after like September/October time. Bah too many good games and not enough money.

Unboxing: Diablo 3 Collectors Edition

Morning folks,
Welcome to the first ever unboxing post for my blog and hopefully it will be something I do quite regularly when I pick up any collector/limited editions. So anyway thought it is wise to start with the latest collectors edition in my collection and that's the new Diablo 3 game. If you read my blog you will already know but for those who don't I actually cancelled this originally because I could not justify the price and to be honest I should be cutting back.

Well I regretted it big time especially with the fact I'm a huge Blizzard fan, I did get the game free with the World of Warcraft Annual Pass and I was loving the game (another reason I did not pick up the collector's edition was because I was not sure I would like Diablo since I've never played the older ones). I did do some CO-OP with a friend who had picked up the Collector's edition and watching his avatar run around with the angel wings pretty much put me down in the dumps. Of course everywhere had sold out and Ebay goes for around £180 so it was a flat out no for getting it but one lucky morning, still not sure why it happened but I checked the GAME website and would you believe it back in stock. My order was placed before I had a chance to shout "oh my god" and luck would have it two hours later they sold out again.

Main Box

So that's my little back story to it and here it is, one thing I love about Blizzard is they do not cheap out on their games. It's just slightly taller than A4 and a lot wider, weigh's quite a bit too thanks to the art book inside. I love the artwork around the edges and the game logo in the middle, the box is made of high quality card and you can tell it's made to last.

Inside

The whole top section comes off and you get this lovely view on the left. From what I can gather so far that picture is a Diablo skull, one of the main demons which I'm looking forward to fighting. Anyway everything is packed neatly in the box and there is a plastic holder at the bottom of the box which keeps everything in place.

USB and Holder

How amazing is the USB with it's holder above, the box is decorated like a small chest and the card is high quality again. Basically the crystal on the left is the USB and it also contains the full game for Diablo 2 and the expansion as well for the game, both of those cost around £15 together. I love the detail gone into the Diablo skull holder though and soon as my desk is tidy (estimated date 12/12/3012) it can sit next to my Halo 3 helmet.

Art Book

Next up is the very impressive hardback art book which sorry to say folks I have not opened yet! trying to keep it safe in its wrapper for the time being. I will open it soon I promise and will update this post with some pictures; also I will do a general post to say when it's happened so you won't miss out. Reason why I haven't opened? Well room is a tip right now and when I open it I want to store it on my book shelf which currently as no space.

Judging just by the cover it's going to be awesome, I love the fact it's not a flimsy paperback book like most games give with 10 pages of small art prints.

There is also two dvd cases which I did not bother taking a picture of, did not think you would be interested in seeing the normal game case and making of dvd case. If you are I can update the post later with a picture but yeah there is a documentary dvd showing how they made the game, which I might actually watch this time around. Normally I do not bother on that type of stuff but the game is amazing so it would be interesting to see how it was done. Also I have got some codes for World of Warcraft guest passes and the code for the collector edition bonus items. This will give me the angel wings in the game, a witch doctor pet for World of Warcraft and some Diablo theme decal for Starcraft 2. I've not entered anything yet but again when I do I will add some screenshots below for your viewing pleasure.

Soundtrack

So final picture is the soundtrack which I am a little disappointed about, basically the sleeve is one of those fold out cardboard ones which I always find gets damaged quite easy. Not sure why they did not put it in a CD case, like how they did with the World of Warcraft ones. Again sorry to say it's not opened, I really should had thought this ahead but it's my first unboxing and I do have work in a bit so forgive me this time.





So overall I'm a fan! very impressed with what Blizzard as done and it makes me wonder when all this costs only £69.99 yet you got companies like say Square Enix who bring out their limited edition which is basically a flimsy outer cardboard box that olds four postcards and a sticker for the same price (FFXIII and FFXIII-2). So great value for money in my books and no regrets here! What do you guys think about it? Cool looking? Not your thing?

Next week I will be doing another unboxing involving the Uncharted 3 Explorer's Edition, hopefully this will be a weekly thing as I go through my collection. Give a shout with your thoughts about this post too, anything I could had done better like maybe open everything in advance sorry!.
~Iznic

Limited Edition 3DS "Toad"

Jumping back to last Christmas there was a competition in the UK (maybe else where as well but not sure) with the Club Nintendo where if you enter two codes from selected new 3DS games you would be entered for a chance to win a limited edition 3DS. Three choices where available and they was Mario, Toad and Peach. Mario and Peach did not look good in my opinion since the Peach was just a pink colour with a small gem design in the middle and Mario was red with a blue trouser like design with two buttons (sounds good but it wasn't to me). So I picked the Toad edition which was red with white spots and that was that, several months later after deciding to check my e-mails finally I was shocked to find I was one of the lucky winners.

Now after months of waiting it arrived last week!! it was funny because the week before I had sent a e-mail to Nintendo to see what was happening since the quote was May. The reply had come the morning of delivery saying there had been delays from Japan since how rare the designs was. Was very shocked when I came home to find a parcel waiting for me, at first I thought I had messed up and forgot a pre-order.

The 3DS as turned out better then I thought and I'm happy Nintendo did not slack on it, I was expecting some kind of sticker to be honest. Anyway the 3DS is white with the top red with white spots, its also got the shiny finish on the top with the slight glitter look like the other 3DS's. I've also found the buttons more responsive compared to my old red design, were if I wanted to switch off I would have to hold the power button down for several seconds. With this one just a simple click and the turn off screen appears.

So yes I'm very happy and it's one of the few good things to happen this year which is about time. I've transferred everything over from my old red one which was a lot of fun, did not realise the progress bar for the transfer consisted of Pikmin carrying the data over.

I traded my red one in for a decent price and picked up some new games, yeah who did not see that coming. Picked up Gravity Rush, Resistance Burning Skies, Lego Batman 2 and a time card for Star Wars Old Republic. So I'm sorted for the time being now and ohh I played the demo for Gravity Rush, it was brilliant and I'm very pleased that I have now got a unique game for the year.

Was quite upset when nothing was announced at E3 this year, in the past I've always been able to find a unique weird handheld game that was a diamond in the rough. Timehollow, Ghost Trick, Phoenix Wright and Another Code just to name a few that blew me away with their great stories and gameplay. Was really hoping for something for the 3DS this year but nothing so far but least now I have a game for the Vita, I will go into more detail about it when I get a chance.

Anyway back to the topic and finish this post off, how cool is that 3DS! so on that note I will catch you all later folks and have a good one.
~Iznic

Gaming Weekend

Morning,
Had a blast yesterday by spending the entire day with plenty of games, started off with World of Warcraft since the Midsummer Festival as started. Main part of the festival is Lord Ahune a giant ice lord trying to destroy Azeroth, every day you given one loot bag if you kill him which can give a rare item or two. I'm trying to get the last rare pet that I'm missing but so far no luck, but I have been racking up the justice points which I can use to buy new gear.

Followed by that I jumped onto the weekend event for Gears of War 3, another match of "team work" which really annoys me since they all bugger off to try and attempt the cool shoots which they always fail on. Yet if they just stuck together we could push the enemy back but no, they rather lose the game.

Anyway after that I finally sat down and played the multi player of Kid Icarus with my friend Lesley, the game is brilliant just a shame the camera is terrible for it. Think we did about five matches and my god it was a laugh, first few matches I spent pressing every button in attempt to learn the game. Got myself this nice new giant Black Club which can shoot a giant metal ball now and again, once I got it I was in the zone. Even had a turn playing as Pit which was comical since I took on the Dark Pit which did turn out well, I was down to 30% and he was on 5% then somehow he got some health back and I was down to 5%. Spent the next minute running around the map being chased with me shouting "don't kill me, oh god don't kill me", lucky Lesley and the CPU finished him off and we won. The whole game was brilliant and I cannot wait to get another session on the go.

After that well I played a bit of everything to be honest, I do have Lego Batman 2 now which is amazing! probably the best Lego so far and I cannot wait to see what they do with the Lord of the Rings one. My worries about voices was thrown out the window, it works really well and you have to laugh at some of the jokes.

Ended the night with some CO-OP with my friend Mike playing Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 on hard, it was really hard and frustrating with most of the levels. Wish you could have a save point in the middle of the game because it was getting annoying when we lost having to go back and do everything all over again. Especially this one level which was broken up into three long parts, think we died four times at least so was getting a little bit sick of doing everything over and over.

Anyway enough ramblings for me, I had a blast yesterday as you can tell and now it's time to see where I stand with my challenge for the year. Probably not good since I don't think I really did any achievement hunting at the start of the week.

Week 23 - This week
Starting Total: 137,974
To Earn: 2,296
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,296

Week 22
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 280
Difference: -1,960

Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833

Total So Far -
To Earn: 38,326

Achieved: 13,823

Difference: -22,543

Dang that was a bad week for me with only 280 earned, OK this week will be good since I have Lego Batman 2 on the go and I should be working on X-men Destiny this week as well (my rental). So fingers crossed to see over a 1,000 hit this week, would love to think that I would clock both games but I'm going to be realistic about it. Also need to get back on Dynasty Warriors 7 Conquest Mode so I can clean up the game.

Before I end this post what do you guys think of the new look so far? thought I would go with the Dungeon like look since of the name and I love Minecraft. Still got plenty to do since I want to clean up the layout concerning the right hand side panel and I want to work on the different pages I've got as well. Also I will be looking at the facebook page and getting a proper logo picture sorted for it, might even get a Google+ page set up for the blog as well.

Anyway any thoughts, feedback, comments just post them below or on the Facebook page. Hope you all had a great weekend like I did, talk to you soon
~Iznic

Under Construction

Morning again folks,
Did you see? yes it was a post! I know I actually put something up finally and now trying to get out of this lazy period I've found myself in. Unfortunately folks this post will be short one since I have to leave for work in twenty minutes so that does not help really. Anyway back to the point of this post and that's to give you guys an heads up, I will be starting the make over for the blog finally since I've promised it for about a year now. It will not be something done over night so don't be shocked if you find things moved about or the blog slightly broken at certain points in the day. There will be a warning message up to remind everyone.

Also I will get the E3 posts up soon as well and I am sorry they are so late, as I said if I'm not busy working or playing games I'm being lazy. Will also be posting up later images of my limited edition 3DS that I won in the Christmas competition since it arrived yesterday plus I will be talking about few new games I picked up as well. So got a lot to post about over the next few weeks, just need to keep motivated about it.

Anyway that is it for this post since I really need to get ready for work, but before I go I would love to hear from you readers about the blog. Is there something you would like changed or added? something that should not be changed? post your thoughts in the comments or on the facebook page and I will take everything in when I'm working on the new design.

~Iznic

Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm

Morning folks,
Time to get on with some of those posts I've been promising for the last several weeks. First up is Blizzards new standalone expansion for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm which will be based pretty much on the Zerg. Couple weeks back the Blizzard youtube channel was updated with two battle reports showing off the new units in multi player.

Personally I'm not much for the multi player side of Starcraft 2, I'm too slow when it comes to the building so I keep away from the ass kicking. I do sometimes play the Versus A.I. in a skirmish battle but nothing major anyway but I do love watching the tournament streams. It as to be only E-Sport I love watching the most, the battles are awesome and watching the professionals is mind blowing how skilled they are.

So I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the tournaments with these new units since both battle reports where great, one moment you think its all over then out of the blue they make this awesome come back. Check out the Protoss fight that was amazing for the come back and also check out Terran at the start with the Widow mines.









With no Blizzcon this year since they want to focus on finishing their games off I do wonder if we will see this game before Christmas. They keep saying that the stuff they showing can be changed but it looks quite finished but on the other hand we also have the World of Warcraft expansion almost done Mists of Panderia. Three games this year? doubt it but it would be awesome, my thoughts are one will come out November/December then the next will hit February/March next year. Have to wait and see anyway, anyone else a Blizzard fan?

~Iznic

A Great Week

Morning,
Last week was 100% without a doubt awesome, why do you ask? well not only did I finish the Shu Campaign in Dynasty Warriors 7 like I wanted to. But I also started and finished the Jin Campaign as well, so I've now finished all the story campaigns in the game. That makes it game number 31 for the year and I'm really happy with that result since my goal for the was just to get Shu done and start with the hopes of finishing. I will now be working on the Conquest Mode so I can try and wrap up the rest of the achievements that I'm missing which is worth about 80% of the gamer score.

Beside that I also clocked Ghost Recon as well which I really did not think would happen, when I posted last week I thought I was near the end only to find out I was barely half way through the game. I had a huge blast on Saturday and Sunday which was when I finished Dynasty Warrior as well. So that was another hopefully goal completed for the week so I hit everything I wanted too plus I can also now trade in Ghost Recon ready for Lego Batman 2. Don't get me wrong Ghost Recon is a good game but the online/co-op is really buggy for me and my mate so it's going to be a while before we do a co-op campaign together. Can pick it up again at a later date when I need it.

So time to update my challenge stats plus the year progress so far, I'm now up to 32 games on my list and one more to the 2012 new releases so on 35% done in that area as well.

Week 22 - This week
Starting Total: 137,694
To Earn: 2,240
Achieved: 0
Difference: -2,240

Week 21
Starting Total: 137,364
To Earn: 2,163
Achieved: 330
Difference: -1,833

Total So Far -
To Earn: 36,086

Achieved: 13,543

Difference: -22,543


Just had to laugh at Trueachievements since it says I'm only 15% done with my challenge and 43% of the time as gone, behind is a understatement at this point. But I think this week will turn out better since I will be working on my current rental X-men Destiny which I'm hearing is a good 1,000 gamer score plus so far I'm enjoying the game. Then end of the week See's the release of Lego Batman 2 which I cannot wait for, woot!! only down side is I just heard the Vita version is another port again so very disappointed to hear that. Going to rent it instead of buying because if it's like Harry Potter then  I really do not want to waste my money on it.

Anyway that's it for my plans for the week well add in some Minecraft and Diablo 3 (really need to get a session this week), plus I want to kick start the MMO night back up again so keep your eyes open for that. I think that is it for me for this post, hope you all had a blast this week and don't forget to leave a comment on this post or facebook. Always up for hearing what you been upto! until next time folks have a good one.

~Iznic

The Journey Begins

Morning,
It's time for the Journey to begin for my character Lily, with the Victini download back up I need to pick it up on my Pokemon White Version but I'm sure I have a legendary Pokemon waiting at the Pokemart already so I need to pick that up first. So in the last Journal entry I had picked my character and first Pokemon, if you forgot well I picked a female character named Lily (influenced from Harry Potter) and Tepig for my starter since you got to love the fire type.

Just loaded up and my room at the home town is trashed, completely forgot I had only done the introduction fight. Not even left yet and my Pokemon is level six so far, damn talk about just starting off. Ah good old Mom with the healing and I have now got my Xtransceiver, hmm lol think my game could not make it's mind up first it came up with that's it Spring then switched to Summer. Unless that's how it tells you the season as changed but I really thought it would show that when you booted the game up.

Anyway I just realised I was going to only work on one Pokemon with this version, had to re-read my first Journal entry and I had forgot I was going with the all powerful one Pokemon. Thought it was odd that I spent so much time trying to decide on the starter, so I'm about to learn to catch a Pokemon from Professor Juniper. Got my town map and Pokedex so far so I'm doing ok just wished you could turn off the tutorial.

Finally over well I hope so anyway but I do now have some Pokeballs and can head to Accumula Town, if there is a Pokemart there I will end this entry there once I've sorted out my Legendary downloads. Doh! first Wild Pokemon Battle with a Lillipup, was going to catch it but critical hit owned it with a one shot. Ohhh Ember! finally some fire moves in the arsenal and now Level Seven as well. Hmmm my rival friends are having a competition who as the most Pokemon, bah need to catch some then.

Just caught a Patrat and Lillipup but had to laugh since I kept going to press down and B when the Pokeball was thrown, ah the good old days of Pokemon Red. Wow Accumula Town was very close and dang it another tutorial about important buildings. I had forgot they had merged the Pokecentre and Pokemart together in these games, I can see the delivery guy in the corner but stupid tutorial won't me have control yet. Ah ha! Darkrai was waiting for me and I've now freed up space so I can download Victini as well now.

 
Ok that's weird why does Darkrai not appear in my Pokedex now that I have in my party?? how odd. Well that's it folks anyway for this entry and I promise I will do more entries soon and much longer. But for the time being thanks for reading!
~Iznic 

Quick Weekend Update

Good Morning,
Thought I would give a few posts done this morning while I wait for my TV to stop recording, although I am thinking about doing some PC gaming and playing Pokemon on the DS. Sorry about the lack of posts lately but I've tried to put as much as my spare time into gaming so I can get some games completed finally. Still got all the E3 posts to go up along with the redesign of the blog that I have in mind, plus several other smaller posts that I want to do, plenty to do with little time to do it.

Don't forget folks to jump on Batman Arkham City for Calendar Man today, don't want to wait another year to do it legit. So my plans for today are Minecraft followed by trying to finish off the Jin campaign in Dynasty Warriors 7 and maybe another mission in Ghost Recon Future Soldier. I do really want to play Starcraft 2 on the PC since I've been watching several tournament videos but will have to see on the time.

So that is really it folks for me today, I might attempt to get some of those posts up today but will have to see. Hopefully you all have a great Sunday planned out with plenty of gaming involved, until next time have a good one!

~Iznic

Reminder Two Events

Morning Folks,
Nearly forgot again myself but this Sunday is Father's Day and also another date with Calendar Man on Batman Arkham City.

So if you working towards the achievement or trophy make sure to set a reminder, if you never done this before you can find Calendar Man in the basement of the courthouse. Access to the basement can be found through the back door outside. You need to visit him once a month on specific dates for one year, there is a calendar on the wall next to his cell with the dates circled. Just make sure to talk him on those dates to hear a hear story from him which will be related to that date (the date usually falls on a event like Valentines day or Christmas) then once hes done make sure to hit a save point (going through the back door to the outside will do a auto save). When you come back on different days as well, the wall calendar should have the month scribbled out to show you have done it and once you done all twelve the achievement/trophy will be given and that's it.

The second event is for Pokemon Black and White, the original Victini download is back up again, its for the English version of the game only. Also if you downloaded Victini back in December then you cannot do it again, comes with the special moves V-Create and Fusion Flare/Fusion Bolt too. You have until June the 26th to download it so don't delay, I will be doing it later for Pokemon White although I just realised I've barely started the game so expect another entry in the Pokemon Journal soon.




So that's it folks for now so have a good one!
~Iznic