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.