Update Time - July 28th

After playing some more City of Heroes/Villains, I feel like I have hit a rut. It's fun playing those (which doesn't help that I'm starting to get addicted to it), but I'm losing interest in my other games. I have found myself going back to play Metal Gear Ac!d 2 for the lack of something "better" to play.

... It also doesn't help when my Xbox is being used by others part of the time.

I did add a blogroll to the side of the page. It's small right now, got a couple of gaming sites and a blog my friend just started. If you want to be added on, let me know and I will check out your page.
Other than that, it's just finding something to break out of my rut and get back into wasting time and power on something other than music.

Oh well, for now, back to my gaming.

City of Heroes/Villans - My MMO introduction

Well, with the help of my friend (and his account), I finally have a chance to play an MMO without having to load it on my system. I watched him play COH/COV before (along with seeing him play Star Wars Galaxies,) but I never really have had a chance to play them.

My one biggest thing has always been interacting with people. I have heard/seen a few things that would normally make me not want to play. Especially when the people you team up with do nothing but stand around, or some dick runs in from nowhere and kills you in one shot. Luckily, with the City of Heroes and City of Villans, most of that isn't too bad. I didn't have many people trying to talk to me (for what I could tell, since I closed my window,) and for the most part I was left alone, probably since I was level 7 by the time I stopped.

With my friend's help, I decided to create a villain that sneaks around and has enhanced criticals. Unfortunately, I spent 5 minutes trying to find a name referencing shadows that WASN'T used already. Even an obscure Angry Beavers reference wouldn't oblige me (the Silent Wind of Doom... wooosh.)

The controls confused me honestly. I didn't want to mess with settings (since it is on HIS computer, and his account.) And without him around, I would have had no clue what to do with things I pick up. Well, "pick up" is the wrong phrase; since there is no loot to be dropped. You gain enhancements and stuff from combat, but no one can steal them from you. They can steal kills though.

My quests were pretty much all about clearing out huge snakes so far. I can't complain when I am standing up to them pretty efficiently. But it is starting to get repetitive. "Go here, clear out enemies, come back, Go here, clear out enemies, come back, ..."

So far it hasn't been too bad, but I still don't think I could convince myself to pay $15 a month to only play one game. City of Heroes/Villans is cool (especially with how you can create your hero almost completely at the beginning), but I don't think I will get an MMO unless it completely wows me. Maybe KOTOR online if it turns out good enough, or even Diablo 3 if they decide to make it more like WOW in that sense.

Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 - Road to Elite

Well, after much time, I have finally made it to elite on R6V2. I went through A LOT of the single player to get there, but that is beside the point.

The past couple of days, have been really good to me in terms of XP. I have found some really good matches, despite Ubisoft breaking the search function again when the update came out. I got a bunch of ACEs points, and was able to get a lot of kills in a few matches (one, I got 19 on.)

But, all of it doesn't mean much. I got the achievements, and now I feel like I don't know what to do now. If my friend would want to play, then I could use my character to help him out; but otherwise there isn't much to do other than work on higher ranked elite status.

Now, all I need to do is want to play Lost Odyssey again, and finish up Mass Effect on the hardest difficulty. But, I have a feeling that it won't happen any time soon.

Achievement Progress - Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
29 of 47 Achievements
720 Gamerscore

New Achievements - Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Machine Gunner - 20 GS
Eye of the Sniper - 30 GS
Royal Flush - 30 GS
Elite - 50 GS
Haute Couture - 10 GS

Lost Odyssey - Day 7

God, I am getting such a bad headache from playing this game so much. And I don't mean I'm getting tired of it, I mean I'm getting a F'n migraine.

At least I'm getting closer and closer. I have gotten almost every accessory that I need to master skills left to learn. I just got Tolten's final skill (that doesn't factor into the skill mastery achievement.) And, I have almost all the spells.

I just hope that I didn't skip a couple of seeds for the 99 seeds. I'm sitting at 97, and I know that those pipots have an accessory that I need, and if I can't either find the seeds, or buy them from the auction house. Or, I will seriously be swearing the WHOLE time since I wasted so much time, to never get the final 4 skill mastery achievements.

Guess I will go check the auction house tomorrow, assuming I still want to play Lost Odyssey after I get done at work.

Achievement Progress - Lost Odyssey
27 of 42 Achievements
735 Gamerscore

New Achievements - Lost Odyssey
Skill Master Jansen - 20 GS
Skill Master Sed - 20 GS
Defeated Holy Beast - 10 GS
Middle Class Master - 10 GS
Defeated King Kelolon - 10 GS
Reached Conference Area 5B - 10 GS
Reached Conference Area 10B - 10 GS
Reached Conference Area 15B - 10 GS
Reached Conference Area 20B - 10 GS
Reached Conference Area 25B - 10 GS
Defeated Golden Knight - 10 GS