Juxtaposed Life

Tag: Games

  • I’ve Been Playin’

    Welcome to another episode of “What I’ve been playing.” The last few weeks have been full of World of Warcraft goodness.  Its been a lot of fun to be back in and chatting with old friends, and just enjoying the game.  The key to this has been not raiding. Sure I would love to see…

  • What I’ve Been Playing

    Last week our family had to face the death of our long time canine companion, and that event weighed me down a lot.  In response this week consisted of a bit less “playing” and a bit more sleeping, though here is my quick list of things I played last week. Everquest 2 I toyed around…

  • What I’ve Been Playing

    This is my first new “What I’ve Been Playing” update. The first of I what I hope many regular updated, but we shall see. Everquest 2 While I have several characters on two accounts, I am still a very casual player.  I have one pair of characters, a conjurer and Templar, that I play most…

  • PS3 Outage

    Last week I realized there are finally enough exclusive PS3 game that I want to play to make me I decided it was time to get one.   So check at my local Best Buy while I was there picking up some printer ink; OUT OF STOCK.   The next day I check Target; OUT OF STOCK. …

  • Seven Bruises of STO Beta

    This past weekend I gave a few more hours of time to playing the Star Trek Online open beta.  While I have enjoyed some parts of the game, there is an uncanny valley between the game Cryptic is offering and the Trek game I would love. Anyhow, there are a few things I encountered  over…

  • Gaming SitRep

    The Situation Returning to limited play time that comes with work was a bit jarring.   Over the holidays I could slip off almost anytime and sneak some play time in, while being at work for 10-12 hours a day limits that dramatically.  I have settled back into a good routine and am wonderfully grateful for…

  • EQ2 “ugly” and “good”

    After three weeks of playing I have found several items that have struck me as much better than my previous impressions led me to believe. Though before I start that list I wanted to re-iterate the three items I feel EQ2 is most ‘hurt’ by.  These items are subjective, of course but I wanted to…

  • My look back at 2009

    I thought a lot this week about my 2009 games of the year, as I saw gaming sites all over the internet posting their lists in various different formats.   I was going to skip the whole thing, because I did not want to be a “me too” poster.  Then I took a pause today and…