Songs of Doom » Games

Zug Zug :’(

Kev — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:34:14 +0000

Still no WoW. Three different people have now failed to acquire copies for me.
I shall cry in the corner.
Cath is now well trained though, when I right-click her (prod her left shoulder) she now says “Zug Zug”, “More work?” “I’m not that kind of orc”, “What do you want?” quite well.
It’s not the same though

WoW, NEED WoW

Kev — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:59 +0000

I sit here waiting for a CD key for World of Warcraft to appear so I can play.
I *need* my WoW fix.
*twitches.

World Of Warcraft

Kev — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:27:20 +0000

Been playing a great deal of the open beta of World of Warcraft this last week or so, and it’s the greatest thing since pre-cut baked products.
Reason I’ve had so much time: Managed to pick up a strain in training and haven’t trained in a week, and had a filthy cold so have been off work. ‘Great’.

Electrical Goodies.

Kev — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:57:03 +0000

Well, last night I finally ordered my Digital Camera and Digital Video Camera. I paid for Next Day Deliver on Sunday. Amazon’s estimated delivery date: Wednesday/Thursday. I’m hoping they’re lieing and they’re really more competent than that, although I’ve been noticing them getting less competent over the last few months.
Also. yes; I’ve started playing The Sims 2 a little.

Asheron’s Call 2

Kev — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:33:05 +0000

Signed up for the free trial of Asheron’s Call last night, after abusing work’s bandwidth to download it. Seems quite reasonable, missions are nice, experience system seems to be competent. You get both skill points and experience with levels. The skill points buy new skills, the experience improves old ones. Much better first impression than Ryzom

Bibi Ryzom

Kev — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:24:32 +0000

Oh well, Ryzom beta’s over, and it appears the developers/publishers are not sufficiently competent to get it released in the UK. This looks like a call for another MMO. Asheron’s Call(2), here I come.
Have also ascertained that it is indeed the lab that gives me headaches. Haven’t worked out what to do about it yet, although asking to be moved as Alex was seems to be an option.

More Ryzom

Kev — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:24:43 +0000

Ok, and after deciding to give it one last try, I sat playing it for 6 hours. Seems it has *something* going for it. Another patch is being delivered about now, which is good I suppose. There’s not many people, presumably because it’s beta, but having found a couple of interesting people the game suddenly seemed more appealing. Perhaps it’s worth a go for a month or so, who knows.

Kev — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:07:19 +0000

Well, I got the SoR client, played it for about 24 hours. It has potential. The various things that frustrate me about City of Heroes seem to be better here for the most part. The big downfall though is that it’s still *so buggy*. A great many strings are just missing, some of the online help is still in French, items disappear from your inventory, and your keys are remapped every time you login to the quite retarded defaults. It’s supposedly better once you get to “the mainland” so I might have another attempt to enjoy it today, but this looks like an MMO I won’t be paying for. Bring on World of Warcraft.

The Saga Of Ryzom

Kev — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:15:07 +0000

Well, I’m getting a bit fed up of City of Heroes at the moment, so thought I’d try something different. Saga of Ryzom is in open beta for a couple of days until release, so I thought I’d try that. 700k/s download at work for the 1.1Gig client. Fine, I thought. Pre-patched client, neat touch. Then I try and log in (after the installer froze everything). 68 patches to download. Could be some time before I’ve tried the game