Raiders of the Lost Arcade

Dr Bob's blog about modern videogames , retrogaming and Irish gaming in general.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

ah so THATS what my password was...

Ok , so I probably cant get away with that as an excuse.
Yeah , its been a bit too long since I've updated.
So what's new?
Well I got married in October , and in the interim months just about got used to saying my wife instead of my girlfriend, and remembering to wear my ring,instead of leaving it at home by mistake.I got to go to New Zealand (with my wife:)not girlfriend ..keep saying that to myself ) , and do mad stuff like binge jumping and white water rafting.Somehow I survived all this.
Anyway you don't care about that stuff , "raiders.." is all about the games ,the sci fi ,y'know the geeky stuff,.

Right first to Warcraft . Here's what I've come to realize , if you want to give up playing games , take up World of Warcraft.
Its true , after a while time spent playing other games,isn't time spent enjoying a good videogame it becomes time you could be leveling.
I've bought 4 games in the past 6 months ..and I've only played these during downtime in WoW.
And worse still is that you will have become so obsessed with leveling up that half the time you'll just be killing creatures over and over.
That all said the other half of the time you'll be having a blast
A good guild helps , and my one Ronin is one of the best you could hope for.With them lads , and the lads from the sister guild "theHoffs" usually theres someone knocking about to do instances with , raid the horde , or just to have a laugh with .
We've a decent ventrilo server setup now so its possible just to have a chinwag while you kill murlocs
Since I last posted I've crawled up to level 44 , its taken me a while , but I'm very slowly catching up with my mate zanderwhan who's hit the heady heights of 60.
I've get my own horsey too , having a mount makes a huge difference in the game, in that you can zip between areas very quickly increasing the amount of time you have to actually do stuff.
I've also switched to a new server (well along wih my guild) Mazrigos .
Things have started slow there ,as it was fairly low population at first , but thanks to some other server relocations theres a good mix on both factions .
Anyway thats all for now ..gonna try and update a bit more frequently than up to now,although dont be suprised if you dont see one till some time in ...September ..:)