Its Been Awhile

Wow.

Seriously.  Wow.

It has been way too long since I worked on this.  Why have I been gone?

Kidnapped?  No.
Murdered? Clearly no.
Turned into a tree hugger and decided to give up all modern technology?  HAHAHAHAHAHAH.  No.


Its a mixture of reasons really.  I haven't felt a huge drive to really write about things.  I haven't really even played that many games really.  Mostly just FFXI until I played Diablo for a couple of hours yesterday.  That got me going again.  Got that urge flowing.  That need to escape.  I am such a damn junkie.

My computer had also been on the fritz for awhile as well.  I had a driver issue between iTunes, my game keyboard, and some other things so I ended up just redoing my windows 7 installation.  Now I have no problems.  I am soo damn happy for that.

The final reason has been things at work have been chaotic.  As of right now there is a good chance that I might not have a job come July 1st, and the stress level is insane.  And by insane I mean:

Things have started to look a little better on the job front, and there is a good chance that the wife and I (and of course Jacob) will be making a move somewhere, but that won't be decided until later.

With all that established I just want to quickly summarize things.  I have gotten quite a bit in FFIV.  I am currently underground, and I have discovered that Cid did not actually die.  So at least one less death.  HAHA

FFXI has gone well.  I went to town and I got my SAM up to level 60 and that is amazing.  I am really liking that job and will keep you updated on that.

I put much time into Diablo like I said and I made it to floor 5 with no problems.  Going to grind for awhile there and then will keep moving on down.

Sorry about the short post.  More will come.  I swear.

Checking In

Damn.

Just damn.

I am failing at keeping this updated.  I don't know exactly why either.  I haven't been keeping up with my gaming that much.  Been reading a lot.

Mostly though I have been spending a lot of quality time with my wonderful wife.  Its been amazing.  Definitely something that has helped destress myself and everything that is going on with my work.

I have thus not been working too much on things since we have been touring town and exploring the fun things around Savannah.

In downtime I have done some work on Diablo which I am proud of.  Gotten to lvl 9 for my Warrior, and to floor 3.  Got my ass almost handed to me by the King Lich.  Luckily I was able to town portal out of there and then log for the night.

Seems I will have to work on my lvling first, then go back in there.  I only have 65% hit rate, which is a suckfest.

I will update things (I promise) soon.  With my sports dying down at work now, and moving onto only one sport going to playoffs, things will be easier for me.  I won't have a damn soccer game every night (sooooo exhausted from that).

Hoping to get this going again as well.  Also, you can always track me on Backloggery.

Updates

So I made some changes to the blog today and going to change some of the ways I do things.

First, I changed the List Page and created a new page that will contain all the completed games on it.  I wanted to do this so it would make the list easier to read for me but also for you without having to scroll around looking at what is not crossed off.  I can also keep track what I have beaten to keep a count of how long until I can get a new game.

Second, I will be making "groups" of games to play.  It will be a way for me to make a course of what to play in what order.  I pick one game for each system, plus something to do on FFXI in terms of a mission pack.  I thought this might be easier than to just randomly pick games cause there are so many games that I want to play.  If I beat a handheld game I can either go to the next group, or wait to finish the group that I am in before I proceed.  However I can not go past the groups that I have planned.


Here are the Groups of I have so far:

Group I
1. Crisis Core PSP
2. Diablo PC
3. FFXIII-2 PS3
4. FFXI -Crystal Add-on/ZM

Group II
1. FFIV DS
2. Diablo II PC
3. Assassin's Creed PS3
4. FFXI - Moogle Add-on/ZM

Group III
1. FFVI still making a decision on the format
2. Diablo II: Lord of Detruction PC
3. Assassin's Creed: Revelations PS3
4. FFXI - Shantoto Add-on/WoTG

Diablo is spanish for Devil, asshole

So I know that in the past I said that I would limit myself to only 2-3 games going at one time.  I did this because I had only 3 available systems (PS3, handheld, Wii).  Now that I had my computer up and running again (besides the big piece of duct tape that is keeping that damn thing together) I am going to increase that number up to a maximum of 4.  I don't think that I could ever have 4 games going at one time.  That would totally drive me completely crazy.

Seriously.  I do more than that and I end up with a list of 70 something games I have never beaten.  CRAZY how that works.


Anyone here ever play Diablo?  Diablo II?  Diablo III (is so to DIII then send me a copy you selfish asshat).

Diablo is this great dark adventure game that helped to bring Blizzard to glory before WoW (the true Devil) helped to take it over the edge with much monies.

You play the game with the lights off, descending ever farther into the depths of the earth to go to Hell and find out why the town is all sorts of fucked up.  I mean seriously, there is a one legged kid selling you premium items.

How the hell did he end up with those items?  Probably stole them off the corpses of Heroes past that little shit.  Never trust him.  Waggling that little stump at you.  "Buy my wares" he says.  Blah to him.  Shun him all.  Shun him.


With that little rant over, Diablo helped to breed Diablo II which is the sequel if you couldn't figure it out.  I know so many people who have lost their lives to that game.  I remember in high school seeing so many kids bringing their laptops to athletic events just to play it.  Its just a game you would say.  Right???

No.  It has an amazing story to it as well, and the game play is greatly improved I believe in terms of gathering and storing items.  The thing that pissed me off so much on Diablo was you would have an item drop and you couldn't see anything cause it was supposed to be so "dark and brooding".  Shit, who cares.  Turn the damn light switch on for a second so I can see where the almighty sword of kill all fell.  Then Que the damn smoke machine and evil demons and the descent to Hell will continue.

I do think that Diablo was much darker than DII.  I can't completely validate that though since I stopped DI just as I got to Hell and my character was a massive weakling and could not continue.  DII presented me with the problem of losing interest after chapter 2.  Soooo now I have added them to the list of shit I gotta finish.

I think I just pissed myself in fear