City lights

As you can notice, this last month has been a total roller coaster, and I haven't really had time for the website at all. This is unfortunate, but I hope it will get slightly better closer to summer. First of all, I have been on a two-week work trip to the north, and when I came home from there, it was almost straight away on a school-related trip for a few days. Now I'm finally home, but I still have another little trip to Germany planned next month. On top of that, it seems like I'll be starting a new job next week, so my stress levels have really been through the roof. I also have a few tests that I have to take next month before I can really leave school behind for this semester. So all in all, I have a little push left before I can finally relax for the summer, and start playing games again.

I haven't really been totally without gaming though, while on my two-week work trip I brought my laptop with me and was able to play a lot of Torchlight II for a change. I gathered some material from that, so I might be able to write some review about it later. I also had some time for WoW while being home between trips, and I got interested in the Loremaster achievement again. So I went back to where I left off in Icecrown, and now there's not many quests left before I get the achievement there, and also the Northrend achi on the same time. It feels good questing in the old zones again, I guess I just need a little brake from Zandalar.

One evening we also installed a new mat in our gaming room, so I took the opportunity to sit down and play some Super Smash Bros Melee. It really felt good playing that again, it just never gets really old and boring. Went through a few levels there and gathered some more trophies. I really hope I also have time for the old consoles in the summer. Now I have some stuff to do outside, it's starting to get really warm and nice now, which also means a lot of yard work...

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.