Video Games!

My BF says its a knock off of WOW-

*SNORT* Tell your boyfriend that Drakan the Ancient Gates came out in 2002 – 2 full years before WoW premiered! Who’s the knock off now? XD

I LOVE Drakan, I used to play it all the time. I now only play it to enter the cheat codes so I can run around killinating everything XD Arokh is great, and it always used to make me laugh when I’d call him, he’d land without me noticing so I’d call him again and you could hear him say “I’m right here..” in a semi-annoyed tone. The spiders in the basement in the first town used to creep me out a LOT! Great game 🙂

I’ll have to try the second one you mentioned, it looks really cool! I used to play the Silent Hill series until it just creeped me out a little too much XD

I’ve been playing around on Rift online recently, and then yesterday my friend directed me to a game called Minecraft. It’s got terrible graphics but it’s surprisingly fun – it’s a sandbox game, which means you can do whatever you want! You’re plopped down in a randomly generated (HUGE) world and you can run around gathering supplies and carving yourself a home in a mountain or underground or wherever, the only thing you need to know is to have shelter by nightfall, because that’s when the monsters come out! It’s surprisingly addicting! I’m currently working on building a house in the sky XD

You can check it out and see a preview here:

http://www.minecraft.net/

You can play the original for free (not as fun, but still entertaining), or you can buy the game for around $20.00. If anyone would like to try the real game, let me know and I’ll give you my user name and password. Games are saved on each individual computer that you use so there’s no fear of messing up my game 🙂

Currently in my video game tote is Portal 2 (freaking love this game), Borderlands, and Dead Space 2. I only wish I had more time to play video games, as I could play them hours on end, but at the moment I can only squeeze in a couple hours a week. I’m anxiously awaiting the release of Uncharted 3 and Dark Souls, and am mildly intrigued about Dead Island.

I no longer play online MMORPGs games (I once played Final Fantasy XI and WOW) as I find it too easy to get consumed and sink WAY to much time into them and neglect myself and the people and things around me. I don’t really like racing and sports games, and I have no interest in first person war shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield. Otherwise, I’m open to just about every other type of game. I particularly like tower defense games like Savage Moon and Fieldrunners.

I’ll have to look into Haunting Ground. I’ve never heard of it but I LOVE survival horror (Resident Evil 4 is my favorite game of all time).

My favorite game series will always be Legend of Zelda! I use to have a crush on link when I was a kid 😀

I think my favourite game series will forever be Monkey Island. 🙂

Recently though, I did splash out on a Nintendo DSi in order to catch up on the newest Pokemon releases. I got Pokemon Yellow when it was first released and loved it as a kid. Re-played it again recently and remembered why I was hooked the first time.

I like zombie shoot-ups, especially the big arcade ones. I have an arcade close to where I live and they normally get the up-to-date machines in. (I also love pinball.. not really in the video games category though).

Was also quite a big Final Fantasy fan but stopped at X for no particular reason.

Drakan looks really fun, I might have to go buy it. 🙂

The boyfriend and I both just got Minecraft, and it’s annoying the hell out of me that his computer runs it smoothly, and my computer freezes and lags when I play it, to the point where I can’t really play for more than 20 minutes. My computer sucks…it’s like 7 years old.

When I get frustrated with the lagginess of Minecraft, I go play Chocobo’s Dungeon 2. 🙂

Zelda is and always will be one of the best game series evah!

Leigha – it does that on my computer too sometimes, and I JUST bought it!! XD I think some of it can be attributed to the actual game itself, since the friend who introduced me to it told me he has the issue sometimes too. I think when it’s attempting to load the randomized content sometimes it freezes – mine generally stays that way for 30 seconds or so and then goes back to normal though ><

I just got Little Big Planet as part of Sony’s ‘Welcome Back’ deal; I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Mainly my PS3 is a BluRay player though. It’s the Wii and DS’s (DS, DSi and 3DS) that get most of the games and play time. I’ve just cleared Pokemon Black and White, and am eagerly awaiting the 3DS version of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in two weeks. My favorite series is Sonic the Hedgehog, but I’ve got a slew of Super Marios, Zeldas, and Pokemon. Also I love Okami (and Okamiden) and the Endless Ocean titles. On the computer, I do Sims 2, SimLife, and Zoo Tycoon.

I WISH I could find a suitable successor to SimLife, but there doesn’t seem to be one. Set the rules for a world (season temps and lengths, rain variation, percentage of ocean and mountains, gravity and food values), then design plants and animals to (hopefully) live in it. If they manage to survive, you can alter the conditions, or individual creatures, or whole species, and see who adapts and who goes extinct. The problem is, it’s rather old so both the graphics and game are limited compared to modern computers’ abilities. Also there’s no way to locate creatures with a given set of criteria, so when my gerbils mutated to eat my tigers, I had to track them all down individually (all 383 of them!) to smite the 12 that had mutated to carnivores. I’d hoped Spore might be similar, but I found that game as a whole very disappointing.