日常生活

Ok so it's rumored to be released November 2, so "around the corner" may be a bit of a stretch, but it's getting closer. I'm a happy puppy! :-)

A few things I'm looking forward to:

New quests

I don't raid much and I don't pvp. When I run out of quests, there's not enough to do. (I also suck at leveling alts)..

Worgen

Nuff said.

Smaller Talent-trees

They're currently a little too big for my liking. Smaller means easier to manage.

Flying in Azeroth

Fcking finally, this. Trecking the old land is a bitch. Flying will be win!

My brothers and I started playing Magic: The Gathering some 8-9 years ago and it was great fun. The problem we had was we didn't fully understand all the rules which made the game a little tough to play at times.

On top of that we made up some house-rules which led to ridiculous armies being produced and we completely disregarded that there are no official rules on playing more than two teams; playing with 3 or 4 people, all against each other, makes for some silly combat indeed. We played for a good while, but eventually strayed away from Magic. I think the biggest reason was not knowing the rules well enough.

Now, we've recently started playing again. Both with our old cards and a bunch of

new ones; I bought a Magic 2011 Fat Pack that came with some rather nicely dangerous cards and my brother have been raiding auctions for vast amounts of cheap cards. We've built a bunch of different decks in various colours and strengths that we randomly pick and play one another. Every now and then a friend joins in to play and we team up for "epic" 2 vs 2 battles.

I also bought the game Duels of the Planes- walkers for the Xbox360 which has helped immensely with sorting out the rules for us as well as explaining a lot of the cards abillities. Not to mention that it's fun and super-easy to play it while sitting relaxed in a couch in front of the tv. :-]

I suck at finishing games. I really do. For instance, I bought Super Paper Mario just shortly after it was released back in -07 and I loved it, but for some reason I stopped playing after only a few hours into the game. Now whenever I try to pick up from where I left off I have no clue what to do, or how, and usually end up turning it off again.

Another example is LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the sequel to LostWinds (which I wrote a little about here). The game is awesome in almost every aspect but I simply can't sit down and just relax and play the game.

Sadly, this holds true for a lot of games I own.. :-|

When Mega Man 9 was released I was thrilled. I love the Mega Man games, especially the first games for the Nes. Mega Man 9 is hella hard though, and I have yet to beat more than one boss! o___o;

Mega Man 10 comes with the option to select an easier difficulty. Extra platforms are added to help the player along and some enemies have been swapped out or removed completely. That makes my life so much easier. In fact, a little too easy; it didn't take me very long to play through the game. But it has made me confident that I can play through on the normal difficulty this time around. :-]

There we have it -- the fruit of my labour, finally beeing reaped. It's been a long strange journey that's lasted over 4 years. (If only I had been more devoted to completing the old quests when I started playing...)

Along with the Loremaster title, I got a tabard. I'm not a huge fan of tabards (except when I started doing Heroics and they granted reputation for the various factions), but this one looks pretty cool. Look how happy Moriam is now. :D

...Yeah she don't look awfully happy there, but I assure you; she is! :D

Ffffinally! I have been questing like a mad man in both Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor the past weeks, trying to reach 700 completed quests on each continent. The quests are far apart and the travel between each "node" is insane. Not to mention there's no use of flying mounts apart from the "taxi" gryphons - I'm forced to ride a land-mount wherever I need to go. It's like being level 60 all over again.

I finished the last quest needed in Eastern Kingdoms some week back, and finally... Finally!!..The Kalimdor quests has been dealt with. I beat the quests needed in Outland roughly two months ago, which now leaves me with two zones in Northrend to clear. ~30 quests in each zone. Shouldn't take too long...

Beating these last 60ish quests will result in the (rather obvious) Loremaster achievement, as well as the Loremaster title. *glee* :-]

I played through the first game a while back, loving it all the way through to the end. The missions got a bit repetative, but the incredibly fun gameplay made up for it all. When stores finally got the sequel up for pre-order I decided to get the "White" limited edition. I'm too cheap to buy the Black limited edition, but it will at least be cooler than the regular version. :D

After losing myself in some of the lore (reading the War of the Ancients trilogy) and listening to the WoW soundtracks (separate post about those, eventually), I decided to activate my account again. Screw waiting for the release of Cataclysm! :3

My first task was fiddling with the UI - a few addons were outdated and/or broken and had to be replaced. I even went some lengths to add support between two of them, trying to restore order. Pretty damn impressed with myself for pulling that off. :D

The other day Blizzard revealed the third expansion to World of Warcraft; Cataclysm, and I can't wait to play it.

I had actually almost given up on ever playing WoW again. I haven't played in a while (not counting when I logged in for an hour to witness a trial on my friends RP-server). My subscription runs out in about three weeks and I didn't plan on renewing it. Hearing about the expansion and its new content changed my mind though - when Cataclysm hits the shelves, I'm coming back to you, Azeroth. Rest asured.

The new Alliance race Worgen looks really cool. I never really got into playing the Death Knight that was introduced in WotLK, but I'll definitely take a closer look at these feral wolf-beasts.

I'm starting the third week of my four-week vacation tomorrow. Can't say I've done a lot of creative stuff, other than my recently started hobby: cubeecrafting - even though I've only done two models so far; Kermit (which I made for my mum) and Domo-kun.

Most of my time has been spent in front of the tv; some movies and some series, but mostly playing games. My 360's in the dangerzone of overheating. (It's really not, it's nice and cool even when we've been at it for a few hours)..

We've played through a couple of games, many of which have been co-op with my brother. Played through Assassin's Creed and Gears of War. Grabbed all achievements in Resident Evil 5 (and we will probably never ever play that game again due to the long hours we've spent on it). Just an hour ago we finished Gears of War 2, which in my opinion was a much nicer (and longer?) game than the first.

Well, to break the trend of breaking my back (hurr hurr, though I think it will hurt beyond time) we're going on a trip to Stockholm on wednesday. Picking up a friend on the way there, we're not reeeeally sure what we're gonna do once we're up there -- nothing's been planned apart from the actual going-there. Think we'll stroll the city some, though, it's been ages since I was there last. Good company and a movie or two wont hurt (too much) either! :-]