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shastastwin wrote:I'm actually playing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for the DS right now. ... I'm familiar with the style of gameplay from the GameBoy Advance version of LotR: The Third Age, though that game had the option to keep your characters that died in battle.

I'm kind of surprised Shadow Dragon doesn't because Awakening does. Of course I'm the kind of person that if one of my characters dies, I immediately reset the battle.

I don't know that there are very many gamers left on Nweb that go for the new games the moment they release, but I'll ask anyways... is anybody going to get Destiny on Tuesday? My brother actually took all of next week off of work so he could play it. I guess it's supposed to be like a cross between Halo and World of Warcraft? I haven't looked into it much because I don't have the time for mmos anymore, but it still kind of intrigued me.

SL, you may be interested to know that my husband fired up WoW again. I think only for a month or so, and he did so just to level his paladin to 90 to see if he could solo the old classic instances like Molten Core and Black Wing Lair.

Ohh? How did that go? It's really worth it to go hit up Pandaria. I thought Northrend was fun but Pandaria brings a whole new level to the game.

PS: You can own your own little farm now and grow crops, use them in different recipes (each boosts certain stats of course), turn them in for faction rewards, or just sell them and make piles of money.

Well, I was wrong in my above statement, my husband is now lvl 100 with his big ol' castle and personal squadron of heroes. I have to admit, Warlords of Draenor is pretty darn cool. Definitely better than Cataclysm and a billion times better than Pandarea. The storyline is pretty cool, though I'm curious to see where it goes. It's got that whole "I'm my own grandpa" thing going on.
I've been playing about one set of quests a day (maybe an hour?) and my own paladin is up to lvl 20. I'm just having fun following the quests to see the new storyline. I played a bit with Cataclysm, but that was a long enough time ago that I've forgotten what happened and it's been updated even more since then. And is it just me or has the land healed up since then?

Out of curiosity what server are you on? I've been working on my garrison and it's still level 2. I'm level 98.

Our old server that my husband still plays on, is Daggerspine. On the rare occasion I play, I'm on Drenden. It's a non-pvp server cause I only have so much time, I don't want to deal with gankage.

Who here dabbles in MOBAs? I got into Infinite Crisis for a while now. Took me a while to get used to the genre, but I'm becoming quite good if I do say so myself. Great starter MOBA for anyone interested, as it does a good job of teaching you the ropes since the big update a couple months ago.

In other gaming news, Wolfy and I are still going strong in LOTRO, and started playing DC Universe online a couple of months ago. I was also the lucky recipient of a WiiU this Christmas, so I will definitely be checking out a few games there. Can't wait to pick up Smash.

If I can get my mitts on an extra copy of any of the WW2 Call of Duty games you better believe we'll be playing head to head on that, SA. Me and my trusty Garand will make mincemeat out of my foes! MWahahahaha!

Oh, sorry, had a moment there. *ahem*

I finished off Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and am almost done with KotOR 2. They're both excellent games, although #2 was initially released buggy and unfinished. I ended up downloading a patch to implement all the cut material so it pads out to a longer length of game and it's a much better game for the readded material! Once those are done....back to Civ IV. It's digital heroin.

I've been meaning to pop back in here, now that i've finished Watch_Dogs for the PS3.

A hit-and-miss game for me in a couple ways, though it kept me engaged enough that i focused on it to the exclusion of the Internet and the Sims .

It was adequate, story-wise, though it didn't cover anything that hadn't already been touched on by other stories of revenge-driven vigilantes. Still, it felt like it managed to make the story "big enough" without making it unbelievably complex.

I've seen people say the side characters were more interesting than Aiden, the main character, and that's a fair assessment. Some of them irritated me by doing things that didn't make sense, and one died a pointless death, but i liked most of the interactions between Aiden and his sister.

The most frustrating part was Aiden's inability to hold still while behind cover -- try and aim the gun, and he would move instead. Mostly staying behind cover, but it got really annoying when i wanted to shoot something.

One element i really liked about it, though, was the amount of side content available. None of it is necessary to the main plot, and almost all of it can be done before, during, and after the main plot -- no worries about passing some threshold whereupon everything previous becomes inaccessible. It's also more varied than the side quests in, say, Skyrim or Mass Effect: some are hack-into-this-building, some are car races, you can play chess, track down a serial killer, or play some truly bizarre mini-games completely unrelated to the story.

Content-wise, the violence isn't too horrible (i don't think), but uh, i would advise not watching too many of the videos you can see by hacking into the city servers. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Really unnecessary.

I could go on in a disconnected ramble about the other elements of the game, but i think i've hit the high points. This is why i don't post too often. Organizing my thoughts is hard.