Game Over: Final Thoughts on Earthworm Jim HD (BadaOS)

I am a slightly proud owner of the first gen Samsung Wave. While it boasts of a gorgeous Super AMOLED screen wrapped in a very sophisticated looking body, its BadaOS still leaves a lot to be desired. It is functional, yes, but the different niggles can be quite grating at times.

My precioussssss

WoW Naman - Holy Paladin-ing Revisited

Out of morbid curiosity, I tried out my holy paladin spec, the healing paladin specialization, just to see how much more complicated it is now than it was before. I did not want to make random people suffer by getting into a random dungeon, so I tried my luck in PVP using the random battlegrounds where dying is more the rule rather than an exception.

Holy. Paladin. Skulls. I swear, there's a healer there somewhere

I fell in love. I used to think that Alliance PVP sucks, but since I entered as a Holy Paladin, around 8 or so groups so far, the winning rate is a smidgen above 50%. That's more than I ever experienced PVPing with my other specs/characters. It is also a joy imagining the frustration of players trying to kill me, unless ganged up on by two or more, in futility.

I would like to think I made a difference. Di naman mayabang no?

One Small Step (again) - Initial impressions on The Dig (PC)

Last December, at Steam's Christmas sale, the Lucasarts Adventure Bundle, a collection of classic adventure games went up. It had The Dig, which was, aside from Grim Fandango, one of the last classic adventure games I've been dying to play my whole life.

Ang Sims: Tagalog Version

That would be extremely corny, no? Sims speaking in Tagalog instead of the gobbledygook that is Simlish. Pshaw!

Baduuuuy!

I may be extremely late to the party, but I just found out today that the meaningless gibberish your characters in The Sims mutter could have been Tagalog instead!

IGN + 1UP = ?

I really do not know. And hold me, I'm scared.

The two biggest videogaming websites have joined forces/merged/swallowed each other up.

WoW Naman - Zul'Aman (hee!)

I'm not sure what I ate last night that made me queue up my paladin for a random Zul-something dungeon. My only 5-man memories of Zul'Aman for me so far has been dying countless of times to that bird boss and quitting the group afterwards, either due to healer incompetence, or my PC spazzing out.

Hello!

I was hoping for Zul'Gurub since I at least have seen that to completion. But no.

DOOOOOOOOOOOM!

To my surprise, though, it was the most unbelievably great random group I have ever joined. I was probably the most incompetent player in that group, which was made even more evident when I was the only one who received the achievement after killing the final boss.

We only wiped once, to that group of trash leading to the bear boss, so not even to a boss. I didn't know the tactics for the bosses after the bear one, but I managed to stay mostly alive. We even decided to just burn down the dragonhawk boss because we were gunning for a timed run, and we were successful. Done in just a bit over an hour.

To top that, I got a sweet new pair of boots, a 24-slot bag, and got myself exalted to the Hyjal peeps and scored the plate DPS belt.

Reforging my gear for perfect hit and expertise was more troublesome than the run, imagine.

Oh Sony! Redux

I am sorry. Again.

The fun never stops for Sony. We all thought that the worst was over for Sony. Well, it probably is, but Sony's online gaming subsidiary, Sony Online Entertainment has turned off their services due to more hacking. Supposedly, this was part of the massive hack attack they had more than a week ago and was just found out just a day or two ago. More personal information, credit card numbers, and expiration dates in the wild!

For those keeping count, among the massively-multiplayer online games affected are Everquest, Everquest 2, DC Universe Online, and Star Wars Galaxies.

Welcome Back, Love Sony

I mentioned in a post last week some news regarding the Playstation Network hacking issue. This afternoon, Sony Computer Entertainment held a press conference with updates on the whole fiasco.

The most important thing to note is that they are giving away a free 30-day subscription to their premier Playstation Plus service to all existing Playstation Network users as part of their "Welcome Back" Appreciation program.

Well I didn't even really step foot but hey, I'm not gonna complain. Hello discounted downloadable titles! Hello free PSOne games (for 30 days)!

WoW Naman - Patch 4.1

So, Hi!

After 4 months of staying away from videogame crack, my MMO itch just became too unbearable during the Holy Week. While I always wanted to try out Rift, the patcher was just too unfriendly. So, it's back to World of Warcraft for me, and what great timing too: Patch 4.1 came out a few days after to hopefully alleviate the boredom I experienced the last few days of my previous subscription.

So what's in Patch 4.1? Nothing much, actually. The only "new" content added were the conversion of the two old troll raids, Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman, to heroic 5-man level 85 dungeons. I think it's Blizzard's way of apologizing for the lack of troll content in the previous expansion.

Relive the frustration of taking 9/19 guildmates to a night of wipes! This time, with 4 total strangers, all with dubious playing abilities!

Did you miss me?

The new dungeons are DIFFICULT, and it's no wonder that you need an average item level of 346, basically fully-decked out with gear from the old heroic dungeons. Despite my attempts of trying to gear my retribution paladin, I was one level shy from entering the dungeon with my guildies. Fortunately, due to Blizzard's "insightfulness", I was able to eke a point by buying a high item level tanking cloak and just let it sit there in my inventory. I didn't even have to wear it!

My ticket to Zul-whatever

I was having fun again. Running difficult dungeons with guildies is a whole lot better than trusting your luck to a random group. Curse you restoration druid without the talent to make your Cleanse-like spell remove magic! *shakes fist*