Anyway

There has been so much school work these last few weeks, that I haven’t really had too much time for gaming. I did, however, finally get that Pathfinder achievement, so I’m really glad that’s over. After this I have mostly been leveling my warlock, so that I can finally get a few more max level characters. Besides WoW I have been continuing on Disciples II, and I have soon played enough to make a review of it. It’s really not an easy game, but it has still felt interesting enough to continue playing. I can’t say it’s the best strategy game I have ever played, but it’s not the worst either. If I have time later in the Spring, I thought about making a how-to-play video. I would probably just show how to get started with the game efficiently, and give a lot of tips and tricks on how to actually get through the maps. I kind of missed this when I started out with the game myself, it was hard to find any decent guides. Or there is a lot of player-made content available for Disciples II, but unfortunately the majority is in Russian, since the game apparently has a huge fan base over there.

I have also been playing more Pokémon Crystal again, I’m in the last city now before Kanto. I am also at the point where I need to catch Suicune, so I’ll need to stock up on some Ultra Balls. I can’t really remember anymore if Suicune actually was a powerful Pokémon to keep in your party, but I guess I’ll have to kick out some other one in that case, because I have a full party at the moment. On another note, I really hoped I would have had time to play some more Harry Potter on Gamecube as I mentioned earlier, but unfortunately that project has dropped for now. I did record some material for a potential video earlier, so I really hope I’ll have the opportunity to continue this later in the Spring.

Well, now I would maybe need to go back to concentrating on the lecture. I am that student that does just enough work to get through the courses, but not more than that. Maybe not the optimal way to go, but I have so much other things to do as well, like this for example. Cya laterz..!

Beat me out of me

This month has gone by so fast. I have been doing a lot of other things besides gaming, so there has not been too much of that. I finished the Crash Bandicoot review though, so that's a plus point. We also finally put up the shelves in our gaming room, they have been lying on the floor since we moved in. Then I brought the rest of my old Pokémon stuff from my parents, and now it's all decorated and things are in right places. Feels good man, and then I of course had to sit down and play for a while. Decided to pick up Harry Potter 2 on Gamecube, it's a game that I bought used just a few years ago, so it's not a game from my childhood. I have the first Harry Potter game for PC though, and I have played that A LOT. So, I also decided to try some recording, and I kind of got my setup working. I have this really cheap video grabber that hooks up to a laptop, and it's not the best system ever. This means my console is basically hooked up to the laptop, and shows gameplay only inside the actual recording software. So in order to get the gameplay shown on the TV, I then have to hook up the laptop to the TV and fullscreen the recording software. In a way this is totally fine by me, I'm not that picky, but unfortunately this makes the graphics a bit more blurry and weird looking on the TV. Oh well, that's what you get when you buy really cheap stuff, I shouldn't complain.

I have been playing more WoW of course, no Pathfinder yet, but it's so incredibly close now. Then I also started playing this older strategy game on PC, called Disciples II: Rise of the Elves. It's a turn-based game, and even though I have put in some hours on it already, I still can't decide if I like it or not. I guess I'm going to have to finish a few campaigns before I really can tell. It seems a bit difficult, but it might also just be me being stupid. Everything was a bit confusing in the beginning, and I had to watch some tutorials before I actually got the hang of it, but let's see now what this game can do.

I played some more Pokémon Crystal, I'm getting closer to the end of Johto, so then it's Kanto that awaits. I have a kind of balanced team going on now, so I'm quite happy with the choices I made in the beginning. Now I just have to kick Team Rockets ass once again in Goldenrod, they are such a nuisance. Anyways, it's time for breakfast now, cya laterz.

Moldy cheese

So, I finally took some action today and started playing Crash Bandicoot 2 on my PS1 emulator. It's just as good as I remembered, my cousins had this game when I was a kid, and I played it almost every time I went over to their house. Later on I also got The Wrath of Cortex for Gamecube, but sadly my little brother lost the game disc somewhere, so I can no longer play it. Anyway, Crash Bandicoot 2 is still a very solid platformer, and it's not terribly long if you don't aim for collecting all the crystals in the game. There are many good games for the PS1, as well as a huge amount of really shitty ones, but this is definitely on the good list. I'll write a review on it later, when I got time.

I have also played more WoW as usual, I'm currently only two factions away from getting that Pathfinder achievement. I also leveled my warlock a bit more. Getting better gear has turned out to be a really slow process, and I still can't enter that new raid. Otherwise I have been continuing on Pokémon Crystal a bit, I plan on playing a lot more tomorrow when I'll go on a little car trip. I'm currently kind of stuck, meaning my pokémon are too low level to defeat the gym leader. This only means that I'll have to level them up before trying again, but it's not the fastest process. Well, pokémon games are supposed to be a little grindy at times, I'm not complaining.

I borrowed the latest Super Smash Bros today, so I hope I'll have time to try it out this weekend. I'm still pissed off at Nintendo though, since I found out that there is no other way to back up your save files in the Switch other than a paid cloud service. I just can't believe Nintendo would do something so fucking stupid, and just act like it's for some kind of "safety reasons". I really hope someone will come up with an easy way around this, but that might take a long time. Anyway, now I really have to go to bed, stayed up way too late once again.