Game Progress #3

I know I promised a post for last Monday, but I was in San Francisco for the week and got completely distracted. I do have some exciting news however, I beat two games!

Games Beat

Find Mii 2 for 3DS

Venture Forth!

As stated above I was in the lovely city of San Francisco last week. This gave me ample opportunity to collect Street Passes (though no where near the number I got during Denver Comic Con) and finally defeat the boss! I was very happy to finish this one. Next step get all the puzzle pieces!

I have already started a new version of Find Mii and Find Mii 2. So many more hats to collect!

Bioshock for PC

How sweet...

I completed the first Bioshock today. I decided two things, first person adventure shooter types aren't my favorite genre and I think it's time I take myself off of easy difficulty when I play shooters. I was happy to complete this game, but honestly the gritty depressing world got to me while playing. This is a game known for it's "awesome story" and frankly I think the world is well done, but I prefer more character development in my "awesome story" games. There were some fun twists, but by the time the final evil dude was revealed I had completely forgotten who he was and had to ask my boyfriend how he fit into the story. Ah well.

The question now is do I waste a game purchase on Bioshock 2 (which we don't own) or move directly onto Bioshock Infinite (which my boyfriend has on the PS3). I'm pretty sure Bioshock Infinite will win, because there are other games I would rather purchase.

Gameplay Recap of the Week 
So obviously I played Bioshock and Find Mii 2 but here is an update on the rest of the games I played while sitting in airports.

Pokemon HeartGold for DS

My egg hatched!

I defeated the first two gym leaders and my Togepi hatched! This is all I really have to report. Pokemon is a great game to grind in while everyone around you pulls out their iPhone and plays various games. This happened a couple times while drinking with the Backflip guys in San Francisco.

Persona 4 Golden for PSVita

Characters, so many characters

I love this game and forgot how much I did until I played it again on Friday during some free time. I hope this will become a game I beat soon. I won't talk about where I am in the story because I'm 40 hours in and it would be too spoily.

I did realize however that I sold a quest item and have no way of getting it back. Lucky for me Persona 4 let's you play through it again after you've beaten it once! Oh good, because you know this 100+ hour game wasn't long enough for a first play through... Must finish all quests though...

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy for 3DS

Not quite how the game really looks, but a cool image either way

I played this while sitting on the plane both to San Francisco and coming back to Denver. Makes a 2 hour long flight feel like 10 minutes. It's just a fun music game and features such great tracks! If you haven't picked this up yet for your 3DS I recommend doing so, it's just tons of fun.

If you don't have a 3DS, go buy one now and get this game to go with it. Then find me so we can Street Pass. I'll write more about how awesome Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is later in the week because it really deserves it's own post.

World of Warcraft for PC

Yes my Priest totally looks this cool in game

I hit level 86 on my newly transfered shadow priest Ninakas. I'm really enjoying playing through the Panda content from the Horde perspective. Why did I ever go Alliance anyway? FOR THE HORDE!

Desires the Game Tabletop

While in San Francisco the boyfriend and I decided to head over to our favorite hobby story GameScape for Monday Night Board Games. We were pleasantly surprised to be asked to play test Desires the Game. This is a work in progress game by Bay area designer Daniel Penny-Packer. Here is his introduction to the game.

"Desires: The Game takes place during the 1984 season of the hit TV show "Desires". You and the other players are members of the exclusive Club Desire, where the prestigious and powerful mingle and decide the fate of the city. You'll need to assemble a clique of characters who share your desires, and make sure that only certain plots succeed in changing the face of the city."

This is basically a simple card game. You start of with your secret goal and a minion (who are considered your crew, I'm going to call them minions). Your secret plot has your win conditions for the game which are a combination of symbols (Wealth, Glamour, Vice, Passion and Revenge). In order to win your minions and successful plots must match your secret goal. Plots are publicly shared (think Texas Hold'em) while your minions just count for you.

There are two randomly revealed plots and two random minions associated with them. The players take turns choosing a plot, picking a person, and then determining whether the plot succeeds or fails. Players each have a card which says Support on one side and Sabotage on the other. If both players select Support, the plot succeeds and they each get a minion. If one player chooses support and the other sabotage, the sabotaging player chooses one of the minions and the plot fails. If both players select sabotage they get nothing and the plot fails.

It was an interesting little game, but still needs some work. You can follow the game's blog here. I'm planning on introducing the game to the board game players at Karliquin's Game Night later in the week.

Conclusion
And that's it for another week of gaming! Check back for more awesome game posts as I continue to slowly making my way through my massive game collection.

Game Progress #2

It's been two weeks since I last posted my game progress. Time to go over what I've been playing lately. This past weekend and week were surprisingly light on the gaming front. I did however finish my novel and started on the 2nd draft :)

Onto the games!

Borderlands for PC

Mordecai and Bloodwing

Last week my boyfriend and I played Defiance. We decided it wasn't a game worth buying, but it did inspire me to play Borderlands again. My BF even had an extra copy to gift on Steam so we no longer have to deal with the lousy split screen on the PS3.

We've been playing a little bit every night and it's a blast! Having my own screen makes this game much more enjoyable. I rolled Mordecai because the BF keeps saying snipers are easy mode, so instead of picking the girl (like I did last time) I decided to just start with the type of character who could ease me into shooters. My skillzors are improving faster than I thought they would. Who knows, maybe some competitive FPS over xbox live is in my future?

And hey if you want to jump in on some hot PC Borderlands action let us know. Maybe you can join us a couple times.


Rift for PC

Death Rift and a shiny sword

I'm logging onto Rift every day, mostly to do the Instant Adventure daily and buy and sell shinies on the auction house. I was hoping to be level 52 by Monday, but am still lingering at 51 (It's Friday O.o)

I'm almost done with the Freemarch achievements (which also would count as a game beat!! Achievement sets count as a game beat in the three game rule) The artifacts that I need to finish the achievement all average about 15 plat on the auction house, and I need about 9 of them, which is out of my price range T.T

Leveling is going slowly as well, mostly due to lack of time. I did swap from the Necromancer to Harbinger/Chloromancer/Archon, with the majority of my points in Harbinger. It's a fun spec, but I followed a guide and set up macros which makes combat a bit boring. Not that my rotation on the Necromancer was much more interesting. Things die faster now, so that's good.

I've also been rare hunting in Silverwood. Haven't found a single one, not going as well as Freemarch did. I think the trick is to just camp at one of the rare spots and do something else while glancing at Rift on occasion. Ah well, one of these days I'll kill some rares.

I think I want to play a Cleric next.



WoW for PC

Newbie Warlock

For whatever reason I've logged into WoW a couple times this week. I don't know if I'm burning out on Rift or what... This is my little Undead Warlock. FOR THE HORDE! I think my biggest problem with playing WoW was playing Alliance. I'm a lot more comfortable with Horde.

We will see how this goes, still not in the Colorado guild so perhaps my Draenei Mage will find herself becoming a Troll. My Mage is a high population server and the Colorado guild is on medium. I'd rather play on a high pop server than medium if I were to go back to playing, you know unless I actually had people to play with. Weird concept. Maybe the BF can be wrangled back into WoW... Oh the Mage is already level 90 and maxed out on professions, so.... no slow leveling grind if I converted her to Horde.

We will see. WoW is doing a character service sale, so if I decide the Mage should be a troll I should make that decision tomorrow and take advantage of the sale.



Pokemon Heart Gold for DS

ZERMERGERD A LIGHTNING SHEEP!

So I swapped Pokemon games. I recently beat Diamond so playing through Pearl was a little bit too similar. I never made it through Heart Gold and I really appreciate it being tuned for the DS more than Diamond/Pearl are.

I might be planning on buying Pokemon White when I get three game beats, and then play Pokemon White 2 (which I got as an Anniversary present I think, but haven't played). If I'm quick enough maybe, just maybe, I'll finish in time for Pokemon X/Y.

Oh I picked the Crocodile as my starter, because he's just too cute.

I want you to stay cute forever...

StreetPass Mii Plaza for 3DS
Denver Comic Con was last weekend, and thanks to the loving BF reminding me, I brought my 3DS along. The 3DS has a neat feature called StreetPass and your 3DS comes with two mini-games built in using StreetPasses. Basically a StreetPass happens when you and someone else have 3DSes that get within a certain range of each other. Their Mii comes and plays on your 3DS and yours goes over to theirs. Some 3DS games also have StreetPass functionality, but I'm not going to go into that today.

The two mini games are a puzzle game called Puzzle Swap, and a very simple dungeon crawler called Find Mii (they also released Find Mii 2 to add more fun!) The reward for Puzzle Swap is completing 3D images from various games. Find Mii awards hats for your Mii to customize their look.

I know this sounds a little bit silly, but it's pretty much awesome. So if you don't have a 3DS go buy one now.

Did you do it? Did you go buy one? Good, I need more people to StreetPass with. If you didn't buy one, well... uh... poo on you.


So this weekend I was hoping to my first game beat since reviving this blog by beating Find Mii 2.
The following contains a spoiler, if you have not beaten Find Mii 2 and are planning on it in the future do not scroll ahead.

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Ya so I beat the two bosses at the end, just like you do in Find Mii. I know what's up Nintendo it's cool. Or at least I thought there were only two bosses until this guy appeared.

Bloody hell where did this guy come from?

I was so excited to get a game beat, but alas they threw another boss at me. At least he looks really cool. He's about halfway dead right now, but I don't have anyone to consistently StreetPass with, so ugh. We're going to San Francisco next week, so hopefully I'll get enough StreetPasses to beat him and have my first game beat in a long long while.


Dune the board game

We were playing a version from 1979. This picture pretty much looks the same

I decided to go to board game night at my local hobby store (which happens to be across the parking lot from where I live, super handy). I've never read or seen the Dune books or movies. I didn't know anything about the world, but I learned while playing this game!

You play this game as one of the factions battling over Dune. These include, the Spacing Guild, the Emperor, House Atreides, the Bene Gesserit, the Fremen, and House Harkonnen. Each faction (except the Emperor) has a special way to win the game unique to them, or anyone can win by controlling three cities.

I played the Spacing Guild. Mostly I was the asshole who sat back and collected spice, eventually bankrupting the bank and preventing the other players from seriously accumulating any spice. As the Spacing Guild the other players have to pay you to send their units to the planet.

The game lasted roughly three hours, and by the end everyone was tired of playing. I won. Apparently inhibiting everyone else's spice accural was a good way to go.

I plan on going back for the board game night after we get back from San Francisco. I had a great time and the people were really nice.

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Wow I ended up rambling a lot about games. If you made it to the bottom of this page, congrats you get a virtual cookie!

OMG WANT! Candy Corn and Cookie?!?! What an awesome combination

Ok Monday there will be a post with goals for the week! Which *spoilers* will probably be handheld games since we're in San Francisco and I'm not bringing my gaming laptop.

Denver Comic Con

This post is coming a little bit later than I expected. I thought I would post something Monday, but then work attacked me and now it's Thursday... Anyway, Denver Comic Con was awesome and I want to post some pics from it. So sit back and enjoy.

Felicia Day marveling at my friend Erin's Codex costume

Same friend Erin cosplaying as Calhoun from Wreck It Ralph

It's a Dino!

I know it's hard to tell but this is the Guild panel. We showed up 15 minutes before it started so had to sit in the back. Panel was hilarious, hope they're at Pax too!

Thor v Cloud. FIGHT!

Tim's Thor is much better

Cloud and Tifa

Warehouse 13 panel. I was sitting a little bit closer this time, but it was still hard to get a good picture. These guys are hilarious. #Warehousemovie!

In case you didn't know Warehouse 13 has been cancelled, but Saul Rubinek encouraged us to get a movement going for the Warehouse 13 movie! Go forth tweat #warehousemovie and maybe we can continue this awesome story some more!

Denver Comic Con was a blast. I can't wait til PAX!

I'll post a gaming update tomorrow. I got really really close to beating a game at Denver Comic Con, but alas no game beats for Susi yet! Tune in tomorrow!

Week #2 Goals

A new week has dawned! And with it some new goals!

Rift

The face I pretty much never see

I hit level 50 today, very exciting. I zipped over to the new continent just to realize my skinning wasn't up to paar. So back to Droughtlands I went to continue working on finishing the quest and improve my skinning a couple points. I hope by the end of the week to be about 53, but we'll see.

Ni No Kuni

So pretty...

I would like to put in a handful more hours and finish whatever tasks I can find. I think I'm at about 83% completion on tasks and I will finish them before I beat the game.

Neverwinter

I might have been too lazy to take a screenshot... shh don't tell anyone ;)

We have a bunch of friends who are wanting to play this with us, so hopefully get some hours with said friends.

Bioshock

Fear me!

Maybe an hour or two on this one? Hopefully? We'll see if there is time with work and other games.

Denver Comic Con

Yay Comic Con!

Coming to you this weekend! I'm super excited and will hopefully have some pictures at the end of the week.

And thus we start the week whee! More games!

Ni No Kuni and a surprise! *SPOILERS*

So I played a bit more of Ni No Kuni and had a very interesting moment. Now if you've finished the game, you know what's coming. If you haven't stop reading now because this will spoil it all for you.

Seriously stop reading if you haven't finished Ni No Kuni

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I reached the point in Ni No Kuni where you finally get to battle Shadar. The battle is in three parts and I'm glad I saved pretty much all of my SP items and had stocked up on coffee and cappuccinos before I started. The entire time I was thinking "Ok, this game is well funded and we all know the White Witch is the true villan here. I betchya anything the story will pretend to end then just continue." Sure enough that's exactly what happens.

Seriously, I've made omelettes before, I saw this coming. If you understand this reference kudos to you.


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I'm excited to see how Ni No Kuni actually ends. I'm having a blast playing it and am glad to see the story start to finally come together.

Weekly Progress #1

Every Friday I'm going to do a recap of how I've been progressing on my three game rule journey. Here are a couple highlights from this week.


Ni No Kuni for PS3

Everyone needs a faithful dragon companion

I've put in a couple hours of Ni No Kuni this week. I feel I'm getting close to the end which really means I have 20 or 30 hours to go. The big plot twist has been revealed and the main character Oliver is becoming a very powerful wizard. I'm not going to spoil any plot for you, but if you haven't played this game I highly recommend it. Image the love child of FFX, Pokemon, and Study Ghibli and you have Ni No Kuni.

Rift for PC

I got my Raptr pet!

I'm still achievement hunting and doing a couple dailies. Leveling is going slowly.

World of Warcraft for PC

I think I would like to be an Undead Warlock if I played again...

I found a Colorado guild through Meetup so popped into WoW to see if I could talk to an officer. After being in for about 10 minutes I decided I really don't feel like playing WoW anymore and promptly logged out. The magic just isn't there anymore, and even though raiding is still appealing to me, I'd rather try it out in Rift

Neverwinter for PC

Spider mount is epic!

The servers have been pretty laggy for me this week, which discourages play. It's a shame, it's really a fun game to play, regardless of all the whining about the cash shop. I haven't run into any issues with the cash shop and thoroughly enjoy playing player-created content through the Foundry.

Pokemon Pearl for Nintendo DS

This little guy was my starter this time around. So CUTE!

I beat Pokemon Diamond sometime in 2012 so replaying the same story is very meh for me right now. My boyfriend and I are kind of playing together (he's playing my version of Diamond) so we're taking it slowly and enjoying catching 'em all. He's making the game more fun to play.

Bioshock for PC

Yes I'm playing the first one. Yes it's slow going for me. I think I'm about 6 hours in and did about an hour this week... while Defiance was downloading.

Defiance for PC

I don't know where all my screenshots were saved too. BEHOLD random photo from the internet

We played a couple hours in the free to play weekend of this game. I actually thought it was a lot of fun, Kyle thought it was pretty meh for a shooter. I don't know if this is really worth buying...

Don't Starve for PC

Must.....Survive....

Addictive. You die a lot. Just go buy it, it's lots of fun.


Wow, I'm so spread on games it's no wonder I don't finish anything. I didn't even touch Assassin's Creed 2 this week as I planned. I think I'll finish Ni No Kuni first.

Back to gaming I go!

Screenshot of the week

Rifts are neat