My Gaming experiences

My experiences in games, both online and offline as well as other things.

Author: Nytewolf2k7

I am not sure that I mentioned it, But I recently bought Dragon Age: Origins and Borderlands, will post a review for all to see later. My opinions and views on them both have been good so far, gameplay and to a degree, graphics wise as well - though I hate the loading times (yes I know I need to upgrade my PC, I've been procrastinating for months, I just have enough unused PC cases at the moment to build a small doghouse :-p )

Story in Borderlands, is, in my opinion less than DA:O from what I've seen so far - but still good.

Ok, In other news I did, about 1 week ago now, get the chance to check out Fallen Earth, and it is (so far - in my humble opinion) rather sweet - though buggy, which is to be expected, and I've seen worse - Neocron for instance ;-) and while buggy, Neocron is still *fairly* good for PVP...

I've yet to try PVP in Fallen Earth, as I am nowhere near plvl45 yet and although I am not really a PVP'er at heart I will still have a go. I've heard from forum posters that PVP wise, it's whoever stuns first wins, which doesn't sound good - but like I said earlier, I'll still have a go at being cannon fodder (what's the harm in trying?)

As I've mentioned in a previous post, I am in the process of writing a review of Fallen Earth, as well as Planet Calypso, but I am holding off a little in some areas, as they both (in this authors honest opinion) have bug lists as long as my arm, though in all fairness, FE seems to have fewer bugs than Planet Calypso - so make of that what you will.

(There's a rather long, community made list of active bugs/known issues as of VU10 for Entropia Universe/Planet Calypso on Entropia Forum)

I neglected to make a GO3 2009 posting in my blog earlier this month, so this one will do...

GO3 is a Gaming and Electronics expo held in Perth every year since 2006. For the last few years its been held at the convention centre... Anyhoo...

Earlier this month, at GO3, I tried my hand at the new game called "Borderlands", Borderlands is an upcoming science fiction first-person shooter with RPG elements that is currently in development by Gearbox Software.

At the expo they were giving away show-bags with shirts and various other goodies in them... I sadly wasn't able to get one as they'd run out...

I won't write a full review just yet, but suffice to say, it's "good".

I played the XBox 360 version, but I have the PC version on Pre-Order.

The other game I've pre-ordered is Dragon Age: Origins... I don't really know that much about it other than watching a few videos and a few things that have been said by magazines and the like, saying its a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate...

I hope it lives up to the hype...

Release Dates:

Borderlands (PC-AU) : 30th October 2009

Dragon Age: Origins (PC-AU) : 4th November 2009

Almost finished... Almost...

Taking a while to download, and still has 13 hours to go... =/

Will purchase a hard copy sometime in the next few weeks, just in case I lose the digital copy, which given my track record with usb thumb drives and external hard drives, seems likely...

Can't wait to try it out.

I've heard the GMs take their job seriously, which is good to see, and patches are a good thing to see as well... Reakktor could learn a thing or two...

Anyone who's read my blog should know that I play mostly WoW in my free time, however after reading articles about Fallen Earth , it's starting to look better than WoW.

I know Fallen Earth has deficiencies (and what game doesn't?)

I'm a fan (normally) of Post-apoc. settings, I'm a Neocron veteran and this looks like its right up my alley, at least till Project V13 ever gets off the ground due to law suits, etc.

Earthrise also looks good... But it might take a while.

A big factor in any decision I make is whether or not a game has local servers, if not, I generally don't play it, however I would make exceptions in the case of games that really catch my eye.

So thus, I'm torn between staying with WoW and experiencing the new Wotlk content and eventually Cataclysm content (The Worgen race appeals to me for some reason) , moving to Fallen Earth, even though its having some teething issues, or staying with one of the previous and moving to Earthrise once that is released....

Disclaimer: This post is a continuation of www.mmorpg.com/blogs/Nytewolf2k7/102008/2830_My-experiences-in-Entropia-Universe

2009 came and would eventually bring a new surprise in mid August: Version Update 10.0.

With the new update came with many new issues, such as taking ages to log into the game because the client kept losing connection to the server, regardless of connection strength.

The new graphics are 'nice' though they should have remade the textures for some areas, as they look liked they were ripped out of the previous version.

Some nice surprises arrived in the form of loots, but nothing really impressive. Loots have been pretty poor generally, with mining even worse - In my experiences.

I'm waiting for VU 10.1 - 10.3 to arrive so I can write a decent review. Doing one at the current time when things are slowly being brought back online doesn't really do it justice (which may be more than it deserves, to some)

June 4 is the day I begin paid training for my new job as a Shop Assistant for a company that I won't disclose the name of on a public forum, getting paid $20.50 an hour on weekdays and $21.75~ on weekends (you actually only have to work one weekend a fortnight, which is great)

At the moment it is casual, but it will move to full time after a period of three months. It means I'll be on call for a while, but I've done casual work before, namely fruit and veg, stocktaking, etc...

Done a bit of everything, hehe.

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For one of the first paychecks, I'll likely buy that XBox 360 I was after, the 60gb or 20gb model. (Thanks guys for your thoughts) the only thing I'm worried about are RRODs.

As for games for it, I'm not exactly sure yet, but FFXIII (Final Fantasy XIII) is on that list, as is Halo.

I'll have a look at an EB Games catalogue for others at a later time.

- N

With the world economy the way it is these days, It is an extremely bad time to deposit cash into any of these Real Cash Economy type games, or MMOCasinos as some seem to be styled, thus I highly recommend not depositing until all this economic uncertainty blows over. It may not blow over overnight, but it will happen over time.

In the same vein, I would not recommend to anyone not living in the US to consider the purchase of goods from the US online at this point in time, I would however recommend strengthening your local economy by buying locally ;)

However it is ultimately up to you what you do with your money, just think though about the money you could save by waiting though ;)

- Nytewolf

So I received a letter from a Registered Training Organisation today about the course I applied for last week, except they've sent me the completely wrong information. I enrolled in a Certificate II in Retail Operations, not a Certificate III in Customer Contact. I really don't see how the two could get confused, I remember exactly what I applied for... Anyway, I shall phone 'em up tomorrow morning and see what's up and if AI can get placed in the correct course.

They've sent me all the course materials and everything for the wrong course, I've even completed the first assessment, heh :D

Anyway, yeah, better get it sorted out.

- Nytewolf

Raid wise, I've been powering away in World of Warcraft, having cleared Heroic OS and 3 wings in heroic Naxxramas. Currently looking forward to running the normal 10 man versions of these, and maybe even doing a 10/25 man VoA...

Loving the new guild that I mentioned I joined in my last post. Nice people and overly generous with the loot o_O

Anyhoo, back to the ever addictive Sins of a Solar Empire.

And so I've been drafted into the ranks of 'Light of the Phoenix', a fairly large guild on the Oceanic server (who incidently, I had actually never heard of till last week) and so far I've completed the Plague Quarter in Naxx (Normal) and one of the Naxx bosses in Heroic mode.

Today I was scheduled to join in a OS raid, but due to pc overheating issues I had to pull out... The overheating issues were a result of the weather in my area, which reached nearly 42 degrees celcius this afternoon, though in the computer room it felt 10 degrees hotter, NOT pretty.

I really hate this perth weather sometimes, and incompetant public housing authorities who don't let you install (or have installed) air-con and/or insulation.

- Nytewolf