It's been a tense couple of weeks, and I nearly started to lose grip there. Looking back I can't even realise why that happened, but the good thing is that I'm back on track now. I didn't have much time to update, so here's quick tour of what went on.
No sure verdict on LOTRO
I played LOTRO with 3 character so far: an elf, a hobbit and a dwarf. I like the game, and I must admit it gets a little addictive. To be honest, after playing it for a while I see it with new eyes: it's not the grind-loot-grind type of MMORPG that Lineage II got me used to, nor the boring PvP-less MMORPG that beta tasted like. The game is quite relaxing: there are lots of nice quests, some even innovative.
What I love most about this game so far is grouping. In LOTRO I found grouping that really proves useful. It's amasing to see how a fellowship's power grows by the number of people joining, farther than just adding up! The way the characters are build makes for very nice fellowship combos.
More on these in a soon to come review.
Magic: The Gathering Morningtide release
This weekend marks the release of the Morningtide expansion set for the Lorwyn block. Not give then time nor financial resources I couldn't attend the release events in Bucharest that took place yesterday. However, judging by what I did at the pre-release, maybe I should just play some more before showing up at a new sanctioned tournament.
Diesel and I played 5 of 6 rounds two weeks ago at the pre-release event. I didn't win any rounds. Diesel, however, won just one—the one agains me, lucky bastard! Anyway, we didn't go there for anything: I can had the Morningtide pre-release card, plus three more complimentary DCI folied cards.
More on Magic: The Gathering soon, I hope.
TV broke half-season
No, it's not my TV set that broke... It's the TV in general. With the writer guild on strike it's only now that we can see the real effects of what happened back then. Mid-January is usually half-season for TV, and there are after-holiday comebacks. And there were comebacks: there was 30 Rock with a pretty nice episode, there was Family Guy with a nice episode, and there were there were a handful of Prison Break episodes. Alas, some of them hit season finale prematurely, like Heroes and 30 Rock. Prison Break will still run for a while, and will hopefully have a decent season finale. Family Guy seems to have a lot planned ahead, but will it commit?
I feared that Lost might get canceled aswell, but it seems it hasn't: Lost season 4 is underway. There are 13 webisodes that aired during the downtime, and I'll watch them all soonish. A special episode and the season premiere have also aired last Thursday, so there is hope.
More on TV soon to come!
2 comments:
Curse the prohibitive lack of money & time that kept us away from our second DCI sanctioned game!! :D
I'm rather upset, because we really stood a good chance of winning this second tournament, I could feel it!
Well, maybe next time.
Diesel, the Merfolk herder :D
Merfolk dreams are quite deceiving, friend... Indeed it would have been a good thing to participate in that second tournament, but I do not consider we would have stood anything near a chance to win. :)
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