I took a quick inventory of my entertainment activities in the last month and was a actually a bit surprised at what I have done.<\/p>\n
First, I played a month of retail Champions Online, I had fun but as I neared level 30 the game started to feel a bit stale. The worst part is I have not sat down and recorded all my feelings about the retail game, in an effort to narrow down why it started to feel stale to me.\u00c2 \u00c2 When I skip that step, I know that I have lost interest in it; at least for a time.\u00c2 I already have a time card already bought, so I know at some point I will come back to the game.\u00c2 My plan is to check back in four or five months and see how much it has improved.<\/p>\n
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I did take about more 10 days of WoW time just to wrap up the Brewfest achievements allowing me to get my Violet Protodrake, which was a goal I had in the game from a year ago.\u00c2 Now, other than logging in for the 5 year anniversary celebration, I don’t plan on playing a lot of WoW;\u00c2 well at least until just before Cataclysm comes out. \u00c2 Of course that siren may sing to me again drawing me back, but I really plan to take some time for other things.<\/p>\n
Things like taking a week to play and complete Batman: Arkham Asylum , and Call of Duty: World at War.\u00c2 \u00c2 Batman was fantastic, a really great game one I think every gamer should play at least a small bit of.\u00c2 \u00c2 Call of Duty: WaW, was ok.\u00c2 It had a few moments of close to greatness, and I did play any of the Multiplayer, so it could really shine there.\u00c2 But of what I played, compared to how great Modern Warfare was World at War paled.\u00c2 Still a fun game, and one I would recommend to any shooter fan.<\/p>\n
I also installed and played about four hours of Dungeons and Dragons Online: Unlimited, and I am impressed.\u00c2 This is a now a free to play, pay as want new junk, MMO one that has improved dramatically since I last played at its original retail launch.<\/p>\n
I have not really played enough to talk too much about it, but thus far I love that it is in many ways NOT world of warcraft.\u00c2 I love the the adventures, with the DM voice and text helping to craft the mood and setting, and the action-y combat feels really good.\u00c2 \u00c2 \u00c2 My next step is to try and hook up with a buddy and try running some of the adventures at harder difficulties.\u00c2 I suspect the combat is a lot more interesting with party members.<\/p>\n
Not playing WoW, has also allowed me to do a bit more reading.\u00c2 I finally finished Eye of the World and Gardens of the Moon, both books that I have tried to finish several times but could , for whatever reason, fail to complete.\u00c2 This time both entertained me rather well and I am looking forward to reading the next book in each series.\u00c2 \u00c2 I have also taken some time reading several stories out of various World War II books.\u00c2 I suspect it will take me a long time to actually complete the books, but I love jumping in and reading a chapter here and there.<\/p>\n
And Finally I should mention the Fall 2009 TV season.\u00c2 As always, we are still very behind on TV shows but I have checked out a few\u00c2 new shows and figured it would be smart to jot down some of what we watch.<\/p>\n
Mondays have; House, Lie to Me, and Castle (one of the best written shows we watch)<\/p>\n
Tuesday is NCIS and NCIS:LA.\u00c2 NCIS is a fairly standard and predictable show but for some reason we are sucked in by the characters. The new LA show, is just ok and if Fringe was still on Tuesdays I would not miss NCIS:LA at all.<\/p>\n
Wednesday until LOST comes back all I have on this night is CSI:NY.\u00c2 The only other show that I would watch Criminal Minds, but that show was a bit to ‘real’ for my wife.\u00c2 \u00c2 Although, I watched some GLEE online and for some reason that show has almost me, so it might get the the wed. tivo nod.<\/p>\n
Thursday is Bones and Fringe night.\u00c2 Fringe is a great show, one we have to let several episodes build up on tivo before we watch simply because we hate having to stop watching after one.<\/p>\n
Friday has Smallville, Stargate Universe\u00c2 Oct 2 (Fridays 8) and Numbers.\u00c2 Poor Smallville, I have 20+ episodes on my tivo right now, and I am not sure when I will ever get around to watching them.\u00c2 That show started so strong and then something happened and it lost its hook in us. Though not completely because I know I will<\/strong> watch them some day.<\/p>\n Well, I think that pretty much sums things up for now.\u00c2 Moving ahead I am looking forward to playing a bit of Sacred 2 with Randy, some Borderlands, then some Dragon Age.\u00c2 Those should keep me busy until the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took a quick inventory of my entertainment activities in the last month and was a actually a bit surprised at what I have done. First, I played a month of retail Champions Online, I had fun but as I neared level 30 the game started to feel a bit stale. The worst part is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,55,6],"tags":[73,111,109],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-musings","category-tv","tag-books","tag-games","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}