Wish List

Christmas went by fast, I always love this time of year. It was a nice time spent with family and friends, and now we are already waiting for New Years Eve. Going a little too fast if you're asking me... I haven't really had any time off work this Christmas, but I have somehow managed to keep things from falling apart completely. I got a bunch of nice presents, some of which were gaming related. I got a super cool World of Warcraft pop-up book, and a big Lego figurine of the Lich King. Hopefully I have time to build it also, it seemed to have a lot of pieces.

I have been playing a bit of Dragonflight lately, I'm currently at lvl 64 with my DK. I can't say I dislike the expansion, I just think that I haven't really gotten a good grasp of it yet. I just need some more time to get used to everything, I am sure. I have only just entered the second questing zone. As I mentioned in some earlier post, in addition to the new continent Dragon Isles, there are also a bunch of UI things that have changed, as well as the whole talent system. So this expansion really rumbled things around. Lots of things to get used to. Especially for me, who has been playing only Classic for over a year now. So I think I have to play a bit more before I start talking about pros and cons.

I finally finished my Super Panda Adventures review, so now I can finally move on and pick some other game to play. I already bought some games on the Steam Winter Sale, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick one of those... I'll still let it be a surprise in case I change my mind though. I will also try to make at least one video out of this new game, I need to post something on the YouTube channel. Cya later!

Soft

As usual I have been extremely busy with literally everything lately, except playing games of course. I can probably count on one hand the times I have been able to log into WoW for this past month, so I can safely say that I have not been able to prepare for Dragonflight at all. Well, last night was the release here in Europe, and I just went to the Battle.net store and bought it. The ninth expansion I put my money on, I should really get a medal. Still disappointed that I can't have a physical copy, but pretty sure we won't see that phenomenon anymore. It would at least have felt like a little bit more, right now 50 euro feels too expensive and I'm pretty sure the previous expansion was cheaper. Anyway, I will soon find out if it was worth the price, I do have big plans on being able to boot it up later tonight. I will probably dedicate an entire post later on to this subject.

Another thing on the list of stuff I haven't done yet; write my Super Panda Adventures review. I have kinda finished the game already, but been way too busy otherwise. I also realized that I haven't uploaded any videos to the channel for quite some time, so I have to try to do that as well. I was thinking that the next game I pick up after Super Panda Adventures could have some playthrough videos or something. I have been trying really hard to organize things during the fall so that I could have a mildly stress-free December, but that plan hasn't really worked out perfectly. If I'm lucky though, maybe it will partly be true.

One thing that I could still mention, I have a new Advent calendar this year, and this time I mean a physical one. There was that one year where I made that Pokémon Advent calendar here on the blog, so I had in mind something similar this time, only with a real calendar. If I have time, that is. Maybe it will be a Christmas miracle?

One Step Closer

So now WotLK Classic is live, and I haven't even had time to log in a single time yet... Great. Well, the week has been exceptionally busy, so there's that, but I sure hope I will have a little bit of time on Saturday to sit down and play for a while. A few weeks ago I actually managed to play for a whole afternoon, which is clearly a record nowadays. The game I have been playing is Super Panda Adventures, and it's a cute little metroidvania where you play as Fu the panda, trying to save the world from evil robots.

I also just realized a totally random thing, next year it will be 10 years since I made my first post on this blog, February 18th to be exact. Oh dear, I would probably need to plan something until then... I will try to come up with something even mildly amusing. Or then I forget the whole thing, that is also a possibility. I'll let that be a surprise!

Cheese and cheese

Sooo, the whole summer has almost passed already. I have been busier than ever, and I can say that there has been fairly little gaming going on. Mostly it has been WoW of course, but I also managed to finish my Yakuza 0 game and write a review. So at least some small thing has been accomplished. This also means that I get to pick a new game from all the hundreds of unplayed games in my library. Just haven't figured out which one yet.

We also got a date for WotLK Classic now, it's September 26th. Waaaaay too early for me, I had a slight panic attack. I am currently at level 56 though, and we have also now received a traditional pre-expansion XP buff, so I will hopefully reach max level before the release. I had hoped to achieve this way before WotLK Classic, so that I could have time to play some Shadowlands in between, but that seems to not be the plan anymore.

Well, at least there hasn't been any exact date for Dragonflight yet, just that it will be before the end of the year. They can take how much time they want, I will allow this. It would be super if it would release somewhere close to Christmas, so I could maybe use the holidays to play properly. But we'll see how that turns out later, now I have to go, byebye!

The downfall

So, I just watched the announcement video for the next WoW expansion, and I just have to talk about all of this. First of all, we have the next new expansion, Dragonflight. I have always liked the dragons in every way, so for me this was a pleasant surprise. The Dragon Isles seemed very nice, and offered quite the standard set of zones that we are used to see. There will be a new race, the Dracthyr, which I wasn't too excited about, since I think we have enough races already. They will also do a complete overhaul on the UI, as well as making changes to professions and talent trees. Overall I got a good feeling from the reveal, and I think I will enjoy the next expansion even more than Shadowlands.

Then we got another announcement, which really wasn't a big surprise, but just felt kind of overwhelming at this point; Wrath of the Lich King Classic. I was so nostalgic watching that trailer, just because it feels like some kind of loop is closing up. Since WotLK is the expansion where I started playing WoW over 12 years ago, all of this just brought up so much. I knew this was coming, but I'm worried it is too soon for me personally. I have been working so hard to level my BCC character to max level, while also wanting to go back to Shadowlands at the same time. Now we have these two expansions coming up, and I just feel like I'm not quite ready for any of them. WotLK Classic is scheduled for this year some time, so I suppose I still have to continue leveling my BCC priest so that I could at least be max level when the time comes. Since Dragonflight didn't have a release date yet, I am assuming it will be pushed to next year, or at least to the very end of this year. That maybe gives me a bit more time to go back and play some more Shadowlands later on in the fall.

I also have to say that I picked up Yakuza 0 again after a few months break, and now I have gotten as far as the final battle. This seems to be quite a tough one, so I'll see when I have time to go through with it, but after that I can finally write the review I was talking about earlier. I am already excited to pick up a new game after this, haven't decided yet which one though. Well, gotta go now, it's May Day evening today.

Tutti-frutti

February went by extremely fast and now it's March already. A lot of stuff has happened in just a few months. First of all, I'm starting a new job on Monday, and I honestly don't know what to expect. I will probably have just as little free time as before, but hopefully I won't be as exhausted after each workday as I have been so far. I really can't tell yet, so we'll see I guess...

I have mostly been playing WoW again, getting closer to level 50 now. I am currently questing in Searing Gorge, but soon I have probably done all the quests there as well. I actually managed to make a video of my solo run in Shadowfang Keep, and it is already uploaded on the channel. I thought I really needed to make a WoW-related video, it has been far too long since last time. It also seems Blizzard is going to announce the next WoW-expansion on April 19th. Of course I'm excited, and I also hope I could have time to go back to playing retail again. It just seems leveling to 70 in BCC has taken me an extremely long time(it has), but I wouldn't want to "give up" at this point anymore. I'm getting this priest to 70, and that's it. It's just soo slow, especially when I don't really have time for those really long gaming sessions anymore.

Oh well, it's not like I can do much about how things are at the moment, so I'll just try to roll along and not go completely insane. The situation in the world right now(Slava Ukraini!)makes everything heavier, and it raises a lot of questions and uncertainty. Anyway, this day is full of stuff to do again, so gotta go now, cya laterz.

Massive headtrauma

I noticed it has been almost 6 years since I uploaded my playthrough of Starshine Legacy episode 1, so that inspired me to finally pick up the second episode. These games are not very long, so even though I died a bunch of times during jumping sequences, I finished the game in just a few hours. I made a video of the playthrough that is available on my Youtube-page. So, let's see how long it takes before I play the other games in the series. These first two I actually have as physical copies, but the other ones I would need to find somewhere else.

I have also continued on Yakuza 0, at the moment I'm about 40 hours in. There has been so many plot twists that I can barely keep up, but otherwise the game has been moving steadily forward. I haven't checked how many chapters there are in this game, so I have no idea if I'm even close to the end or what is going on. I guess I'll leave it as a surprise.

I have managed to play a bit of WoW as well, doing some more leveling. Currently I'm questing in Badlands, which is quite interesting since I can't really remember doing any quests there before. One negative thing though is the lack of flight points, there isn't a single one in this zone. I don't have a mount yet, so there has been a lot of walking... Anyway, I have to go now, so much to do this evening and so little time.