I've been a bit lazy this summer with posting and commenting, especially on some of my favorite blogs. I still read way too many- on my android. I just have had less time with it being summer. Plus, I'm getting over a yucky cold. A cold in summer!? Anyhow I thought I'd just ramble on about a few things today.
Lately my husband and I don't play any MMOs together. He plays a lot of golf online, which I think is boring but he plays it with my stepfather and they are crazy about it. Maybe a bit too crazy ;) However, he is working almost seventy hours a week and hopping into a MMO isn't what he feels like doing, being so tired. So, I've been keeping an eye out for something we could play casually together very casually. Something where levels won't make a huge difference, between us, where we can quest and do stuff together in a short amount of time. It seems EQ has too much setting up involved so we're not playing that much at all. I'm trying to get him interested in Vanguard.... slowly. Hopefully he'll take the bait sooner or later!
I have been playing Little Big Planet with my son on the PS3. I knew he would like it a lot, I told him he should grab that for one of our free welcome back games. He also grabbed Dead Nation, which he thought was underwhelming. LBP is quite cute and I really wish I had some screenshots to share, hehe. It is fun with two players too, you have to work together for certain parts. Plus I love playing dress-up and the stickers.
E3 has come and gone, I really didn't say anything about it. I suppose nothing really excited me much. I did follow it though. I think SW:TOR had some interesting stuff showcased, but the game is still a ways off and I am not big on hype. I remember writing about all the hype almost exactly one year ago... With this very game. I am looking forward to it, but I'm not really thinking about it much.
I was a bit let down that Fable: The Journey was strictly console, with Kinect. One of these days I suppose I'll get another 360 so I can get excited about those games. Right now I am a bit burnt with the xbox live customer service and excess charges, having to cancel a credit card and all. I'm still wary of those jerks and their terri-bad customer service.
Jade Dynasty and Battle of The Immortals have events going on now. Double XP and quests. I just haven't had too much time for logging in with my free time lately. I want to pop in this evening though to see what it's all about.
Everquest mounts just got an update: '- Mount control has been tightened up considerably. When using a mount you will reach top speed much faster than before, and stop even faster. While in combat, the movement is still tighter than before, but not as responsive as when out of combat.
- All mounts available in the marketplace are now Heirloom. This is retroactive to those already purchased.'
I am very glad! I need to poke in there and see how these changes feel. That is always one thing that bothered me about EQ mounts, they took forever to stop! You could use an insta click item and they would stop on a dime, still will. But who feels like clicking on their AoN every time they want to stop! Plus heirloom mounts make it much nicer to buy one and share it with alts.
Today Pirus opens up the cash shop. Oh keep me away from it please!! I have got to log in and check it out. I want to see how it will fare in this game, or rather how this game will fare with it. So far the game has been fine without the need for any cash shop items. I've just been a carebear and sort of not playing it as much, dreading the PvP levels. Though many PvPers are complaining about the harsh penalties. Hahahaha! *cough*...That is all.
And, last but not least Eden Eternal went into open beta today. I had gotten a CB key from Massively and tried it out. A nice and cute game, maybe a bit too cutesy for me actually, combined with looking like the characters popped out of a Saturday morning cartoon, it is a bit much for me. Game play is nice though but I couldn't find any sort of quest tracker. They had some neat mounts and pets. All around it looked like a nice game.
That's about it for today, catch ya on the flip side ;)
-kaozz
