07.04.08

Relapse

Posted in Games at 12:35

I bought World of Warcraft yesterday. Again. This time online, so I can play on American servers. I bought Burning Crusade as well, and since I doubt I’ll ever reach level 60, I’m going to be playing a Blood Elf mage with Jewelcrafting so I know I’ll get my money’s worth. And so I’ll see the nice Blood Elf starting area, because the fantastic environments is what I love most about WoW.

WoW GUI with addonsThere are two reasons I’ve decided to give WoW another shot. First of all, I never played with people I know the last time. Sure, I picked the same server as Kathrine from Greenpeace, but I had no job and no education to look after at that time, and she had full time work at GP, so I out-levelled her pretty fast and then I had to team up with random people, which always seemed to mean elementary schoolers who could barely spell their own names. Secondly, I missed an important point the last time around: You’re not supposed to do every quest.

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  • Game: World of Warcraft
  • Music: Limp Bizkit - My Way

07.02.08

Perfect Dark Zero

Posted in Game design, Games at 15:54

Joanna DarkWhoops, looks like I have temporarily failed at blogging. It’s not that I’ve been insanely busy, just that I’ve been a little low on energy recently. I have had time to play games as always, of course: Mainly Titan Quest, but also Perfect Dark Zero which I played in co-op with my friend Torsten. I’ve played it a bit in solo and as with most other games, it is far better with two players. It’s a decent enough action game, but it has at least one major weakness.

As far as I can tell, Rare tried to make a stealth action game. In my opinion they failed, and as a bit of a stealth game connoisseur, I’ve been trying to figure out why.

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  • Game: Perfect Dark Zero
  • Music: Sons & Daughters - Darling

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