Backlogs and Settling In
By teekomeeko 1 Comments
Magicka
Man, this game would be so awesome if if had ANY kind of checkpoint system (well it has one, but it's one of the worst I've ever seen). I got tired of the whole replay a whole level or massive chunk of one when aspect of gaming after I could afford to buy my own games. As addicting, funny, and bad-ass as it is, it is nearly unplayable to me. I may come back, but as of tonight I'm done with Magicka for some time.Portal
I got this game for free (Valve gave it away for a bit to celebrate Steam Mac support) and just now got around to it, and I definitely see what most of the fuss was about. I was not disappointed despite years of "oh my God, this game is amazing!" comments, but maybe that's because I got the game for zilch. It was so short that if I had paid more than $10 for it I'd have been livid, especially since I'm not a speed-run or achievement-hunt type of person, so now that I finished Portal I'll likely never play it again. Still, it was incredible and totally worth the handful of short bouts of nausea I had to endure.Final Fantasy XIV
I finally figured out my plan with this game, and that it to focus on crafting (arguably the best and most polished system the game has going for it in its current state) so that when the PS3 version launches I'm actually useful. I remember starting FFXI and being helped along by very cool people, some who were playing it in other countries - teachers in Japan, soldiers wherever, and so on - and that's what I want to be: a player who is helpful, reliable, and unselfish. It's harder to achieve that since XIV is already out in the US, but hopefully when the PS3 version arrives and the game is 99% different than the original launch I can be of use to new players by being able to make cheap gear and other stuff for newcomers.Wiki Work
I also want to fix up GiantBomb's wiki page for FFXIV. It's clear that this community gives no fucks at all about that game, and I'd like to at least do something along the lines of paraphrase the changes that are coming. When the recent list of combat mechanics changes was released, I was in shock at the number of things they are doing, and all by the end of Summer. I'd at least like to chronicle the changes and make some formatting / image changes to that wiki page. Another page I'd like to give some love to is the PSN one, specifically the store section; it's out of date as hell, especially images and game references.I had a fun working on the Killzone 3 page, and it was well worth it to look at the end results of my work, so showing the same love to FFXIV is something I look forward to.