So, Final Fantasy XIII has been on the lips of everyone around the old geek watering hole. From the semi-suprised showing at E3 to the videogame mags continuing coverage, it is fast becoming a ultra best seller...while still being over a year away. With Final Fantasy XII, S-E long awaited continuation of the series finally hitting the shelves in October, it s
The Xbox 360 will be celebrating a anniversary the day that Sony finally launches it's Playstation 3. In the year that Microsoft has had against last generations giant, has it gotten far enough ahead in the numbers that Sony will have to make some amazing sales numbers? Probably not. If you watch the gaming market as much as me, having worked in it for s
If you play WoW, and I know at least some of you do, you might have been a little thrown off with announcment that Player Vs Player will be redefined when the expansion comes out. What exactly does that mean? Over the last few patches, there have been drastic changes in the PvP battlegrounds system. Everything from nerfing certain class equipment to intro
THe 360 made it's debute to a lot of groaning and complaining, not to mention underwhelming numbers of units that weren't sent out. Within it's first week, people started coming out of the woodwork with a list of issues, and the media went nuts. " My system scratches discs." " My system melted discs." " The machine is too loud." " THe games glitch
I agree. I was making 14,000 a year last year, and still had a lot of money to spend. It is all about how you live and how you spend. I used to be horrible, wanting everything. Now I make careful purchases and don't try and spend every penny. BTW, that is 14,000 CND
So, I have returned to the World of Warcraft. It is not like I didn't try to find a alternative to this game. I even went back to Final Fantasy XI, partially because I found that most of my old friends from that game were there, and partially to try it on the 360. 1. Final Fantasy XI and the Now: Let's be honest. As soon as I logged on, I
I just logged into my Livejournal account for the first time since April 27th. I had nothing really new to say but decided to read all the entries for friends to see what I missed. Wow, I missed a lot. Too much to make me comfortable. I have noticed that as I spend my time trying to be a better techie and gamer, working multiple jobs which now includes wr
Final Fantasy XI is a good game..for 12 lvls....the whole thing is party based, and unless you are a white mage, bard, or another much needed class, you will spend a lot of time lookng for parties to lvl and quest with. The soloing aspect is possible, with beasttamers, but that is about it.
I quit because life had a way of making me quit. For those that read about it, my friends had a intervention to stop me playing WoW. I don't think that it is a total split, but I haven't played in the last little while, about 16 days, where I would forego sleep to lvl or do arathi basin. I might go back, but with the Christmas season, work being evil, and the Xbox 360 ( I love mine), there are other things that have dragged me away. While I k
How do you tell someone that you love that it is over? Do they get suspicious if you stop paying attention to them, even neglecting them? Well, I think WoW knows that I am done. It is more complicated than that, and in this case, it really is "It's not you it's me". While we had some fun, some laughs, sometimes we cried. You helped me t
Yes, you have read it all before. I understand that there are some people out there that are getting sick of the subject of the 360 'scandal' that is going on. No more so than I, where I work in a gaming store that has recieved not only angry people calling about their pre-orders, or asking whne more will come in. First question, did Microsoft intentionally p
The real reason I am buying a Xbox 360 has been delayed. While the release date for Elder Scrolls IV has been up in the air recently, I have been told that the new release date will be sometime in Dec. December! I pre-ordered the game and was whole-heartidly waiting for it to come around to launch day so I can call in sick and play the crap out of it. Now...
My two cents: I agree and disagree. As someone that my friends felt that I needed a intervention for WoW, I have had to think on some things. First off, telling people that WoW is not for kids is really putting all kids into the same category. Like adults, some kids are better at controlling what they do and how long they do it. To say that all kids shouldn't play is unfair to the kids. Brad's son plays WoW, and he has it under control. True,
Again, exactly. When I said addicted, I was joking in a way. I play it because I enjoy it, it is my hobby. As a adult, I choose my entertainment, and that was the whole reason for the article. If WoW is interfering with school and things that are important, then by all means, take it away. There are times when I don't play, I want to make that clear. It isn't a everyday thing, but for some people it is.
Exactly Baker. I would say I play alot, but that isn't true, true. I work 7 days a week most weeks, have social time. THe funny thing is, some of the people that intervention also play WoW. I have a lv 60 priest, and working on a lv 47 Rogue. That is about it. I know people that are all about getting all classes to 60 and such. The time I spend is not as much as some people I know. I too played EQ for 5 years, and no one complained then....
I got off my shift yesterday with only one thing on my mind: playing some World of Warcraft. It is my hobby. Some people may scoff at that, considering that I deal with computers and games every day of my life. If that is the case, how could I go home and sit in front of the computer and play for five or six hours? Easy. It is an addiction, pure and simple.
So, everyone who plays World of Warcraft held their breaths when Blizzard announced that they would be showing the new expansion for the wildly popular MMORPG. Instead of displaying it somewhere the consumer could get their hands on it, they showed it at their convention event, Blizzcon. Friday, Oct 29th, the people at the event got to play hands on the lower gri
So, Grand Thieft Auto: San Andreas, has hit stores again. Hundreds of thousands of copies of Rockstar's massive game were recalled due to a unlocking of a scene with the help of the Action Replay code device for the Xbox. Called the 'Hot Coffee' mod, when unlocking the code, you can watch a adult scene with your character and his girlfriend. Ironically enoug
EXACTLY! Thank you for making the statement that I thought I made, but clearer. You can't learn to kill anyone with a videogame. Like the body of the article says, in my opinion, blaming videogames is a scapegoat for real motive. It is easy to point to a videogame, something that a lot of the older generations don't understand, and say 'It made me do it'. That is the crux of the issue I have witrh Jack Thompson, claiming that these videogames, especial
While that is true in Korea, statistics of global broadband growth shows that most Asian and European countries are lacking penetration in this area, but expect huge growth by 2008. It still seems silly that they are introducing a broadband system at all. As noted in 7 years with of articles, there is no want for such a system. Being able to port a lot of old PC games for a price is a good idea from a prospective of company that will reap some profit f
Well, I like Thomas Haden Church, don't get me wrong. It isn't about the actor, it is the fact that it is the Sandman. Like most people, I was expecting the Hobgoblin, and kind of disappointed that they weren't following the story arc. But, the Spiderman movies have had a couple of potential villians introduced, most namely the Lizard. I remember when the rumor going around that the villian for the third movie was going to be the Vulture. Whi
Well, what about games like Medal of Honor where you use real-life weapons in a game setting? Of course they do. Maybe not to the point where you will be a military-trained weaponsmaster, but to the point where you are familiar with such weapons. Of course it takes training to use any type of wespon, and there is a great point: IF there is no depth of weapon training in such games, then how could they be used ot take a normal kid and turn him into a ki
So, I was lounging around with my roomate the other night and we got to talking about the Xbox 360. I truely thought about this for a long time. I am a fanboy, yes, for Sony. But, I weighted the pros and cons about getting a 360 or waiting for the PS3. First things first, there is take that the PS3 won't be released until 2007. Wow. I mean, I underst
Halloween! 4TW! Seriously, I am a horror movie fanatic. Halloween, Halloween II are still at the top of the panthelon of horror movies. I feel that newer movies like the Ring, Grudge, and the such, tend to be to visual, too in your face. Though I did enjoy the Ring. I think that a lot of movies that go for the psychological edge tend to be better. But, that isn't to say that some of the movies that came out in years past weren't bad.
So, I just read the incredible article by greywar about the letter the Seattle police received from Jack Thompson, everyone's favorite retarded Lawyer that opposes videogame violence. For sakes, this is getting out of control. I really wonder if Thompson has all his facilities to be continuing on like this. I finally got around to writing him a e-mail on wha
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