Its June. And the heat wave is just warming up to visit the equator once again. To escape it for a week or so, a trip is due to haul everyone to the safety of some cool mountains. No idea where it will be but it has to be cool... as my boys would say it.
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One thing troubling me is that whenever you are back in any of the civilized city, you can entirely readjust whatever skill points you have earned to any of the skill areas you so please!
Though flexible, it kinda upset the system on logic and nature...
Posted in: Fun on Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 0 comments
In both scenario, you get a unique play environment buried full of evolving quests and story lines. In fact, It initially felt like another run-off-the-mill hack and slash game but it slowly unravels a sequence of "to-do" to outwit and turn conventional "search & destroy" logic upside down!
You simply cannot go head-on with the baddies every turn. So much for my initial assumption that its a simple game. Skills combination, second profession all follow suit thereafter and the rest of the game play appears linear for the first two hours or so.
One no-no I discovered while playing most online MMORPG is this - everyone is busy doing their "rat race", totally ignoring your existence! Very well, you can still recruit henchmen to cover for the lack of team members when the going gets tough. Having said that, what do you expect a 20 year old playing GW to do except being engrossed with the leveling up process?
To me, its more than fulfilling quests after quests but making some real people acquaintance during game play that makes it all worthwhile!
Posted in: Fun on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 0 comments
If you play it right, with a ton load of patience, without thinking too much about leveling up for the sake of leveling up, you should be able to reach level 6 with a full proficiency with your first character class.
I must admit an online guide or walk-through will help this along quite well instead of waddling on the map trying to make sense what each collector is looking for. Now, if you are like me, who bought the Game of the Year Edition of GW, there is a pleasant surprise installed for you the moment you start.
Well, I discovered this via an online forum - free customized weapons for your character. You get them by simply issuing the "/bonus" command on the dialog box. Voila! Powerful bows, hammer, scepter and axes fully customized for your character.
Cool!
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If you have played Dungeon runners or any other MMORPG, you know what i mean...
GW has spent many months perfecting their graphics quality and I guess playing games is almost, always about graphics. Just look at the character creation screens and you would agree with me. I have played quality but free MMORPG in my life and I consider MU Online to be decent. But GW simply blew it out of the water!
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Well, the boxed game I've got comes with two Discs, without a proper naming order inscription. It's anybody guess which is the first one to load into your PC. For convenience, I have tried installing two copies of the game on two of my laptops - one with the Discs and one from an online client. I prefer the latter as its faster.
The game key is the most important piece of information you need to get by your game installation. Keep it safe. Well, of course, GW also provides a few more trial keys to entice you to try out the newed evolution of Guild Wars.
I simply ignored them for the moment...
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Its no longer just a hype but I am led to believe I'd just found a rather entertaining yet non-addictive hobby for a long time since.
You know, being an IT person, gaming seems ingrain in me, with my first experience in using an Intel 80386 PC that costed over $2000! Those were the days of wolfenstein 2D and CGA monitors.
But as it turned out in the 21st Century, online games (which EA is attempting to move into) is the new hype and fire.
Just got a copy of Guild Wars Game of the Year Edition box today at $15. It's kind of game you play on a lazy weekend...and its turning out to be a rather sophisticated game!
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Well, as it turn out, my one week stay in Thailand is both physically rewarding to my taste bud and work.
The project went smoothly despite two power outages at the client site for several hours. Cars are like ants in formation along highway as congestion is built into the culture of every drivers. For the past few days, its restaurant after restaurant for meals and I am now on my way to one for dinner. The jam is so bad I could take the time to write this article!
Anyway, let's remember Daisy as she flew out on Tuesday back to the states. Jerrie's family has invited us over on Saturday evening for dinner and I sure look forward to some intreating dishes from south Africa.
One of my good friend has returned for two weeks as they seek to apply for long-term visa in the states. And he is now into full-time pastoral study there. We exchanged many views and biblical states of the two countries and it was indeed a blessed time! I have invited them over this Sunday for the 11am service and hope to see you guys at the second service.
We are almost there now...so update you guys more later. Stomach growling.
God bless.
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A perennial favorite, Netvibes (click the thumbnail for a full-size image) scores with its effortless customization, mammoth collection of feeds and modules, and all-around good looks.
To speed and simplify page setup, Netvibes provides a sidebar (which you can hide, of course) listing a couple dozen popular modules and a collapsible directory of feeds. Drag, drop, rearrange and you're good to go. Naturally, you can also search the site's thousands of cataloged modules, feeds, podcasts, events and user-built tabs (any tab can be published to the Netvibes directory). A recent update added the option to share your own tabs via e-mail, instant message or code embedded in a personal page like MySpace.
Netvibes offers a choice of 10 themes, though they're really just different colors for the page and module headers. You can also adorn each tab with any of a hundred cute little icons, or import one of your own.
Though I do wish for more color-customization options, Netvibes gets just about everything right. It's the page I want to see first when I fire up my browser.
Posted in: Fun on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 0 comments