Robots.. and other stuffs
Well today MrDruidKing was telling us about this robocode stuff, and we thought... hey... lets give it a try.
So we all downloaded the SDK thingy and started screwing around, i created a mighty robot called JIMMY HILL... When i say mighty, i acctually mean it was a bag of crap. It would rather skoot around shooting at thin air than acctually shoot another robot. By this time Alex had already created ChuckNorris the robot to own all robots. However by some fluke Jimmy managed to pull a win out of the fight... i think everyone else was a bit suspicious of what we were doing when we were screaming "GO CHUCK" at the screen.
Anyway we all had a big showdown and Jimmy died quite pathetically against Alex/Druids bots, so i gave up...
The Wii
Well ive got the day off in anticipation of its release so im hoping to go get one on the day of release without pre-ordering. I also want to get Zeldump so i can find out how many ways i can make Link die in this new chapter of the series.
If anyone has any ideas of where i can get one on day of release feel free to post in the comments as atm i only have one place in mind... good old PC World, no one ever buys stuff from there so they should have tons of spare Wii's to sell. When i wanted a gamecube on day of release without pre-ordering PC World never let me down!
Still playing Final Fantasy 12, although i died quite badly on some crazy flying ship thing because i was too lazy to control the characters myself. The Gambit System is fairly awesome in the way it allows you to just sit back and let everything just happen without you worrying about stuff... like HOLY CRAP THERES A BLOB OF SLIME EATING MY FACE... who cares let the Gambit System cope with it, while i go and take a dump or something...
Got Grandia III last night too, i love the awesome fighting system in it, its like Grandia II but with some fairly nice improvements... but WHERE THE HELL IS SKYE!. One other thing ive noticed about RPG games as of late, is the fact that they are not that exciting to start, its just like you have to work on the game for a few hours to get to the good stuff.
Final Fantasy VII was awesome, load it up... im on a train... some cool musics on... BAM ive got 2 guards trying to batter me for some unknown reason. Then im blowing up some reactor, and fighting some bosses, and doing more awesome stuff... Why cant more games have great game intros like that.
Jode did make a good point thought that if every game had an intro like that it would not be so awesome anymore, but even so... only Final Fantasy VII and Suikoden II have had fairly awesome intros. Final Fantasy XII wasn't too bad though to be fair, the CGI battle things were awesome and i was quite happy to run around town doing some crappy errands for a bit before i got some action.
Blingety Bling… or maybe not…
Well after Aud telling me to make more posts i thought i may as well do so or she may slap me or something.
Sooo WoW, i reactivated my account... and some dwarf was cheering, and some elf was dancing... and they were all loving it. Then i logged in on my crappy mage and was free from PM spam. Wandered around a bit and then Beldri came on... Beldri quit his EU account a bit before me to go play on the US servers, but hes come back for the patch. Then Jode followed us and reactivated his account, so it should be quite a blast when blizzard acctually apply the patch.
Not everything was so bling though, Jodes laptop was crashing randomly like a monkey on rollerskates since he got it. Then the other day after wondering what we should do about it. Decided to try test the memory sticks, and either both are defect, or something else is wrong. So we tried restoring the system, which crippled it even more.
Anyway hes sent it back so hes left with the craptop now which sounds like its a helicopter...
WoW Patch 2.0.1
Well after quitting WoW, ive been thinking alot about other MMOs and realised there is nothing worthwhile coming out anytime soon.
Then i looked at the new patch notes for WoW and realised that it may acctually become fairly entertaining playing the game again. For 1 there will be no DKs, i know this is a double edged sword and lots of newbies will lose their lives in secure areas, however this will make world PvP come alive again!
Also there will be arena PvP, and honour currency put in so its no longer a case of fighting aimlessly for no particular point. There is now a reason to PvP as the gear seems decent enough. Im hoping to group up with a few old friends and reign hell down on alot of horde players...
Still not 100% sure if im gonna go back, but i figure a month with the new patch will let me see if i want to play again!
New Template
Not that anyone has a choice in the matter, but ive just made a new template to make the site look a little more smooth, as before it was all kinda jagged and things, im going to try and smooth it still but i cant be bothered at the moment...
When i get more time i will have a template changing section or something...
Website Almost Finished
Just testing the news system as well as other junk on the site at the moment. Still need to add alot of content to here as well as throwing up some other templates, but im no designer so i cant be arsed.
More news to follow i guess, also set up the tag system, will document it more later...
Im sure once Jode is done with the PHPMorpg stuff and has done the core MacnJode site I will start updating this more...
(BF2142 && NWN2 && Baldurs Gate Collection)
OMG, the other day i was looking on amazon then BAM!, i saw the Baldurs Gate collection on DVD, which has just been re-released... omg how awesome is that...
For those of you who dont know what Baldurs Gate is, its an amazing RPG for the PC that was developed like 1998 or something crazy, and had great graphics for its day as well as a very good storyline and great characters and gameplay.
Even though I have recently bought NWN2 this game was one of the first the Jode and myself had a multiplayer bash on... NWN2 is a MASSIVE letdown, its got more things to complain about than to be happy about, although i can understand why alot of the thigns that i dont like are in there, and as a developer i know how much work must have been put into it, but it still seems like a pile of tripe, and about as stable as shaken can of coke...
BF2142 is an awesome game though, as its got lots of cool multiplayer stuff as well as the persistant element. Im almost silver seargent major i think, and its fun crashing my squad into trees and stuff...
Anyway going to vanish now, will post more soon...