Entries from October 2007 ↓

“The Mad King is coming!” At least that’s what I was told when I first reached Lion’s Arch yesterday afternoon. I realized earlier in the day that my entire moving fiasco had seriously cut into the time I was trying to spend continuing my way through Guild Wars. I knew from past Halloween events the King would be making his way to Lion’s Arch so, I checked the map to see where I was in relation. Thankfully, I was not too far away and figured I should make the trek from the Gates of Kryta since they are right next to each other. I haven’t had the time to sit and play the last week or so but I figured an hour or two wouldn’t hurt. So, after trekking over I checked out the town and the ghosts - which was all I had time for before logging off.

This morning I arrived in Lion’s Arch just before noon and proceed to wait around with a large number of people for the king to arrive. Having people call out the minutes to arrival made the wait seem to take forever. After what seemed like forever, he finally turned up and the ‘party’ began. There was much rejoicing. After receiving 25 or so Trick or Treat bags for taking part in the festivities the Mad King gave everyone a nice new mask.
It’s too bad I don’t have a Nightfall account then I could head over to Kamadan and see if there is an alternate mask. Oh well. Actually, on a side note I noticed today that Shindakun Koji had received his second birthday present. Which wasn’t there yesterday so I guess the 31st is his ‘birthday’. I’ll have to check /age next time I log on - which might be just before 3 PM.

The Orange Box has been out for six days now - and I still don’t have a copy.  Part of the problem I can’t decide what to buy it for.  Should I go with PC or Xbox 360?  At the moment I’m leaning toward the 360 since my computer hasn’t been upgraded in a little while.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s still more then powerful enough to play the games just not with the graphics pushed all the way up.  However, I’ve just learned that there are lag issues when playing Team Fortress 2 over Xbox Live, a title patch is reportedly on the way though.

I need to get on the ball and make a decision.  Of course once I do I then need to tear myself away from Halo 3 in order to play.

Last Friday a few of us gathered over Xbox Live with the goal of “finishing the fight” on Legendary difficulty. We were all very excited. The battles were intense but, our enemies were no match for us - approximately six hours later the credits began to roll. It would have been shorter had we not been held up a couple times with no idea what to do or where to go.

Now, I’m not here to bitch - Halo 3 is a fantastic game, it knows what it wants to do and it does it well - very well. There is just one issue that I can’t seem to get past: the four player co-op mode. It’s so tacked on that the cut scenes do not even have the two Elites (who we came to call Huey and Duey) in them! Surely, Bungie/Microsoft has the server resources for some last minute re-renders. It’s just sloppy and will surely be over looked by everyone and their mother - I just can’t seem to forgive it. Blargh!

Anyway, the real fun of the game is the on-line multi-player… The saved film/hi-rez screen shot feature is just what I needed. Now, I can waste time replaying films trying to get perfect angle screen shots for all my kills. Yay! I had a very hard time this past week trying to keep myself from playing. After all, I don’t need to unpack anything after the Xbox 360 is hooked up. Right? In fact, I’m going to get in my car and drive home now it’s time for a long weekend… See you on-line.