I have been looking for a space sim for a few days. Something similar to simcity but in space. Maybe a mission based sim. I have played an Atlantis sim long ago but no longer have the game.
I have Zoo Tycoon 2 and have played only a hour or so of it. I need to play more. Hopefully my search will return a few good games I can play as I take a break from Guild Wars.
A month or two ago I created a trial Guild Wars account for the hell of it. After the time ran out on it I did not bother with it until my Guild Leader went out and bought me the Guild Wars Trilogy for the trial account. Now I am playing through the game again because my main account has no more character slots. It gives me something to do.
I tend not to like PvP side of games. I am a person who enjoys a story line/take my time PvE type of guy. Though for the past few days a friend got me hooked on Jade Quary in Guild Wars. I have been playing my Necromancer with a Suicide Bomber. Cast my skills, shadow step in and 2 more skills and die and if done well I have now taken a quary or only 1-2 are left alive. It is very funny to watch warriors run up to me like they are going to stop me and I step past them right onto the shrine and now they are faced with my dead corpse and a new quary.
I even bought new armor just for the occasion of playing. Though since I was new to PvP I was not aware of the arbitrary rules of the Dishonor system. One match I spawn in with my guild lord and only 3 people are active. My Guild Leader, some random dude and myself. The rest of the 8 man team are all not moving. They did not move the entire match. So they are leaching of course. I report them for leaching but strange thing is unless a third of your team reports them then you get dishonor instead. What bullshit rule is that? It would be better to say that unless a third of your team reports then nothing happens. Maybe Guild Wars can check to see if the people who are being reported have moved or even cast a single skill. These people did not move one inch the entire 10 mins so maybe they should of auto got dishonor.
I doubt they will fix that but hey at least I am enjoying myself blowing things up. boom boom
I have been looking over the new update for Guild Wars. Some of the things I see are indeed good but it was not what I was expecting. To me it seems Arena Net wanted to bog us down with daily quests until GW2 comes out.
That is fine. It does indeed give us something to do. The only problem I have are the outrageous prices they have put on their storage panes and character customization changes. The whole phrase “Don’t like it then don’t buy it” is bullshit. Indeed it is true but wouldn’t it be better to offer these things at a fair price. Say $1 for character customization and maybe $5 for a storage pane. It would be cheaper to buy a new character slot for $10. With this you can get about 45 new slots “if you get the belt pouch and upgraded bags” versus the what 20 new slots for a storage pane.
It does cost Anet to to maintain servers but still.
Yesterday I was set free from my kidnapping. Some of the days were a blur and meshed together. I will give a summary to the best I can of my stay. I may have mixed around details of what happened on what day but these things did happen. I hope. . . blue or red pill.. ahhhh
Day 1 was very uneventful. I was taking to the hideout of the kidnappers. Very warm house in a good neighborhood. We played some Rock Band Legends of Rock. For my first time playing this game I did very well. Though someone kept setting a car on fire and I only got like 75 bucks for my concert shows. I could not get past the 7th set. The songs with Disturbed, so I skipped that part and watched some tv before laying down to sleep on the sofa.
Day 2 was ok. We went to Sonics for breakfast. Mmmm breakfast Burrito. We dropped one kidnapper off at work as the other one and myself drove around to his fathers house to pick up some items we were going to sell. About this time it was ready for lunch and good ole taco bell was open to ease our hunger. At least the kidnappers are feeding me decent. Though the slow torture of cholesterol might get me. We came home and for the most part just clowned around and watched tv. I got an itch to finish up the Rock Band game. After a few attempts I was able to get past the part and down to Hell I went. I quickly made work of the 3 songs required and what should I find but the devil himself ready to battle me. I road over the devil like he was not even there. I tore up the keys getting a 209 in a row before I made one mistake. The devil made have went down to Georgia but he go this ass kicked back to hell. I found it interesting that I could not beat slash at all but destroyed the devil easily. Could of just been the song that was playing. One of the kidnappers pointed it out to me that I did very well on songs that I liked and on the ones I didn’t I made more mistakes.
I went back after I beat the devil and finished up the kidnappers saved part. Again, I destroyed the devil in my first attempt. I did ok on the ending song. The Dragonforce one. It was not being rated so after the second time beating the game I just listening to the song instead of playing it.
We decided to get some gas before we picked up the female kidnapper. After pumping some gas I noticed something on top of the gas pump.
I believe that you keep your religious beliefs to yourself. You do preach or proselytize outside your home or church. Definitely do not indoctrinate children. I am open to new ideas but bullshit is bullshit no matter how much spin you put on it. I am not sure if this is a Poe or not but if this cd is real then someone is smoking some crack. “If anyone wants a copy just let me know.”
I kind of left off the gas cap so we had to back up so I can put it back on. Oppsie. We picked up the female kidnapper and stopped off over at CiCi’s Pizza. Had a good pizza meal and some conversation. We let our full bellies rest and played some arcade games they had there before eating another slice or two. After this, we just headed home and talked for a bit before we went to bed.
Day 3 I thought was going to be uneventful.
We drove down to a car show to sell some rags. The flier said that vendors can setup for free but they wanted to charge 45 dollars so we left. After this we headed to a few stores. Mike’s Warehouse where I found a few movies I should of bought for a good price but did not. We left Mike’s and drove for about an hour to a store called Little Lots. Shopped their for a few hours before heading home.
We stopped off at a Dollar General store to pick up some items but upon leaving the store I found a penny. Though this is just not some ordinary penny. If you remember seeing some CiCi’s commercial on tv lately about them dropping pennies on sidewalks and get a free buffet if you find one.
I found one. I did not turn it in but gave it to the kidnappers cause I was not going to CiCi’s before the due date.
Day 4 we had planned to get up very early and set up at a large market to sell some items. Did not go as planned for when we got up we had to rush to get all the items into the house before all the boxes were soaked. It was pouring out. Our trip was canceled but I was relieved cause I was tired and wanted to go back to bed. So today we slept in till noon. It was raining off and on so we did not get much done. The rain stopped for a few so we headed down to play some slots at a few casinos. I am a very conservative person towards myself but liberal in ideals and liberties. Hard mesh to go through since I consider myself a moderate person. Mouth full uh? I don’t mind gambling but I do not like to gamble with my own money. Although since I was gambling with their money I had a little bit of fun. I walked away with above of what they gave me. I wanted to head home around 10pm but the male kidnapper kept dragging us to another casino. After a bit of more fun we finally left and creaked into the house around midnight.
Day 5 was jammed packed full of driving. We drove over to another town and visited a few malls. Jammed packed but we were able to manage ourselves in the onslaught. We had lunch as a place called Bison’s in the Mall. I had some BBQ Nachos that was damn tasty. Though either the cooks or the waiter kept messing up our order so we got a few things for free.
First place after lunch we went to was the arcade. Come on who can pass up the arcade? We won about 1300 tickets so we got a small soccer ball, some cat bobble head doll and some fury little creature known as a gremlin. I be sure not to feed him after midnight. -evil grin-
We walked around a bit. I went into Hot Topic to find anything interesting when the girl behind the counter squealed and asked where I got the gremlin. I finished up my browsing and we all decided to go to another mall that was in that area as well. This mall was suppose to be fancier but all I think they meant was same items just more expensive. We quickly left this mall because their was nothing of interest to us.
Instead of heading straight home we drove to a Super Target. I decided to spend some of my money and I bought Hellboy 2 for 10 dollars and Underworld 1 & 2 in a Combo deal for 10 dollars. I found a few other items I wanted but I decided to save my money.
Very fun day but we were all beat from that walking so we headed home.
Day 6 is the day I was released. It was a fun kidnapping and another one will take place in a few months. Maybe this time it will be over a single girls house. -bats eyelashes-
I spent most of my day helping a friend get through factions. Was kind of stop and go there for a bit because of the lagspikes and her being called away so much. We finely made it to Cavalon though. 
The weekend was ok. It was St. Patrick’s day this week so in Guild Wars was dropping Four-Leaf-Clovers and Shamrock Ales. I already have my drunkard title so I will most likely sell the 100+ I got or give them to a friend. I also got 100+ of the shamrocks as well. I will most likely keep these for when I explore.
Today I was remembering old games I use to play and I thought of Darkstone. A pc game back in the 90′s. One of the main parts I remember is this song.
I really enjoyed this song. I never finished the game though. I got to the last boss and could never figure out how to kill it. I learned some year later how to kill the boss but by that time I lost my pc copy of the game.
There is also another part that I enjoy and think of. Is one of the opening cinamatics of the game where Drac the boss transforms into a dragon. I’m such a geek :/