Snowfall

The year is almost over, but there is still an infinite amount of games left to be played. I have played some more WoW Classic, just one more level and I can finally get out of Outland. I was also finally able to afford flying skill and a mount, yay me. Kind of in a hurry now though, I noticed that Cataclysm Classic is scheduled for late spring 2024, and I haven't even started on WotLK yet... Typical. Oh well, I will try my best and see where that takes me.

During the holidays I also did a co-op playthrough in Octodad: Dadliest Catch, a game that I have had for a long time already. I would also like to try it as single player at some point, but it really was a lot of fun as co-op. It was maybe a little too short, but there seems to be a whole bunch of different achievements to get, so that is probably meant to cover most of the game time. I also recently started a playthrough of Overlord II, a game that I have wanted to do a review on for a while now. I loved the first game, so let's see if the second one is great as well.

For Christmas I also got Pokémon Legends: Arceus for the Switch. Now that is going to be interesting, I haven't played a "new" Pokémon game in ages..! Let's see when I have time to boot that up, probably sometime in January. I guess I'll end my last post of the year here, see you next year then. I know there has been way too few posts this year, I will try my best to fix that in 2024...

The Slayer

I sure thought I would have had time for a little more gaming during my little "vacation", but it turns out that even breaking your leg doesn't automatically mean that you would be able to check off everything on your to-do-list. At least not if you're me. I managed to finish two games though, Alice: Madness Returns, and American McGee's Alice. Those two reviews are finished, and I also uploaded some new screenshots. Yay me.

I have also played some WoW, just continuing the level grind in WotLK Classic. I'm not even close to getting out of Outland yet, but at least I was able to progress to the next zone, Blade's Edge Mountains. The progress feels quite slow, but at least the quests haven't been too boring yet, it has been a while since I last quested in Outland.

I was kind of planning to do another advent calendar this year, only this time it is a real, physical calendar and not a virtual one. Haven't really figured out yet how to execute this in best possible way, but maybe I'll come up with something before December starts. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, yo...

Break A Leg

The last month or so I have been playing mostly Diablo IV, which I of course went and bought the first time it was on sale. It is a game that you can easily just jump in and out of, which is great for me who don't have time to play very regularly. I am not regretting buying it, it just felt like a big sum at that very moment. I have just started to get past the content that I already played in the beta, so now it feels extra interesting to see where the story will lead you.

Unfortunately, a week ago, I managed to break my leg, and I have a nice, big cast on it at this very moment. That means I have not attempted to sit by my computer yet, since I am supposed to lie down and elevate the leg as much as possible right now. This has led me to playing console games instead, since I can do that while lying down on the sofa. Currently I am playing Alice: Madness Returns, and this is actually not my first time playing this particular game. Back in 2011 when it was first released, I played the game on the laptop I had at the time. I remember finding it difficult to play with keyboard and mouse, and I stopped playing even before the first chapter was completed. I really liked the atmosphere and characters, but I really didn't have the proper equipment to enjoy it at the time. This time around I am really enjoying the game so far, even though I have to say it has been pretty challenging at certain points. I am sure to make a review of this game, right now I am technically "forced" to have time to play some games because of the leg.

Maybe all of this bad luck still means that I would have a little more time for this blog. I guess you always have to try to look at things in a positive way, no matter how bad it is.

Standards

Yeah, so I have been kind of sailing through the summer here and not really had much time for games... I managed to get to max level with my DK in retail WoW, so that was one good thing. Afterwards I started feeling a bit empty though, and I realized I missed classic WoW. So now I have been playing that for the most of the summer, trying to get to level 80 there with my priest.

I have been pondering all summer if I should buy Diablo IV or not, and so far I have not really decided. Seeing how little time I have to play it right now, it would feel a little silly. I'm also kinda waiting for the small possibility that it would be on sale at some point, but knowing Blizzard that's probably not gonna happen any time soon. I also remembered I still haven't finished that video I was gonna make from the open beta in the spring... Meh, I'm probably going to upload it anyway when I get it done, I don't care that the beta was ages ago.

I just played some AoE II again after quite some time, always nice to return to that game. I played a standard game this time, just to unwind a little bit, but I noticed there is still quite a lot of the campaigns that I haven't played yet. Guess I would need to do that also, on top of everything else.

The best adventure yet?

The first two months of the year went by in a blink, and here we are in March already. As usual I have been mostly working and not really had time for gaming, but I have been able to squeeze in a little WoW here and there. Only a couple of levels left and my DK will be max level. Then I'll finally be able to see what the Dragonflight content really is like.

On another note, one day I was cleaning at my parents house, and I found my old Tamagotchi that I used to love so much as a kid. Although, when I saw the thing again after so many years, I realized that it is not an actual Tamagotchi, but a similar virtual pet that is called Dinkie Dino, or RakuRaku Dinokun in Japanese. I found a lot of these on the internet, but very little actual info about the history of these things, so I can't say for sure if these were made by the same company as the Tamagotchis or not. Anyway, I wanted to start it up of course, and after a bit of disassembling and cleaning and thinking, it suddenly started working. It was super cool to see that little dino again after 20+ years, and I cared for it for a day or so, when suddenly it started randomly shutting off and on and finally dying completely... I guess after so many years you can't expect these old things to work perfectly. I am sure someone who understands electronics would be able to tell what the problem is, but that is not me unfortunately, I can only tell when something is clearly visibly broken or burnt and that's about it. So I was a bit disappointed of course, but I immediately went and bought three new ones on Ebay, hoping that at least one of them will work. I already know that they are not authentic ones, therefore the cheap price for the lot, but I don't really care as long as I have a working one. I will just keep the real Dinkie Dino safely in my collection, and play the fake ones instead, maybe that is for the best. Let's see what happens when they arrive..!

Another thing I'm looking forward to is the Diablo IV open beta weekend this month, it will hopefully be a great opportunity to try out the game. I can honestly say I have never actually played Diablo at all, so I thought this could be a great opportunity to try it out. Hopefully I'll also get some good content out of that weekend as well. Gotta go now, byebye!