Juxtaposed Life

Category: Games

  • A short visit in the Old Republic.

    After playing Star Wars: The Old Republic for more hours than I expected, I figured I needed to collect my thoughts for the sake of my MMO history. As usual since I’m not much of a narrative writer, my thoughts will be in simple lists. What I played: Jedi Knight to level 10 Jedi Consular…

  • My Deus Ex Revolution

    Last night (actually it was very early this morning) I finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and overall I thought it was a lot of fun.   Three things that stood out after a night’s rest: 1. The music The music is FANTASTIC. Seriously the soundtrack from the opening logos to the very end cinematic are…

  • Ping

    Life has been very busy over the last month.  This means I’ve not taken the time to write a new post, but instead I’ve been quick firing thoughts to my friends via instant messenger, Twitter, or using in game chat.   So I wanted to write up something quick just to let myself know that during…

  • Weekend End

    Dear blog, Things have been real busy, as usual, and have several things I have wanted to talk to you about and just have not made the time to. World of Warcraft Blues I’m not talking item color but how I have been feeling about the game.  While I enjoyed the heck out of the…

  • Rifting on Classes and Souls

    First Choice Beta three was my first foray into Rift, and my plan was to try and stick to one character up to level cap. So as the game was loading up I was thinking that I really wanted to play a DPS character. Of course when faced with the class selection screen my healing…

  • 2010 Holiday Gaming Update

    Holiday Gaming Grab Over the holiday’s due to some great sales I acquired a few new (to me) games and I wanted to record their purchase: Fallout New Vegas  $30 Steam Call of Duty: Black Ops $30 Amazon The Witcher $5 Steam Prince of Persia (2008) $5 Steam Battlefield Bad Company 2 $5 Steam Uncharted:…

  • I Approve Shattering Azeroth

    As I do with most MMO discussions, I have strong opinions about the changed the Shattering of Azeroth wrought on quests. There have been several blog posts and twitter discussion about it and as usual I have not engaged in them.  I don’t engage, because I can’t seem to be succinct or quick enough to…

  • Thought Collection: Blizzcon 2010

    No I am not part of some secret plot to steal other people’s thoughts.  I am in fact collecting several of my own thoughts on various topics and storing them away, for future reference. Expectations and Announcements I am sick of hearing about how dull this year’s con was simply because Blizzard did not use…