{"id":886,"date":"2010-04-04T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2010-04-04T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T20:14:16","slug":"what-ive-been-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first new &#8220;What I&#8217;ve Been Playing&#8221; update. The first of I what I hope many regular updated, but we shall see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everquest 2<br \/>\n <\/strong>While I have several characters on two accounts, I am still a very casual player.\u00a0 I have one pair of characters, a conjurer and Templar, that I play most of the time and have almost up to level 40.\u00a0 Most of the other characters I started have been either sat idle or are only active to craft.\u00a0\u00a0 I am taking it slow , playing maybe an hour a night and enjoying the world and all the activities it provides.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 have to thank all the awesome members of The Halasian Empire.\u00a0 Four months ago they took me, an EQ2 noob, in and they have aided and supported me as I move, ever so slowly, through content.\u00a0\u00a0 They are good people!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dragon Age Orgins<\/strong><br \/>\n Yes, I am still playing and working to finish up my first play through.\u00a0 I believe I am finally close to the end, I am facing off against a large dragon on a rooftop.\u00a0 I suspect next time I play I will finish the game.\u00a0 This was a fun game, I love the banter between the characters and hate that my character does not have a voice.\u00a0 It feels extra odd after playing through Mass Effect 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Fantasy XIII<\/strong><br \/>\n I have put around 20 hours into this and find myself in the middle of chapter 9.\u00a0 Up until now it is has played like watching an anime interrupted by a string of combats.\u00a0 I enjoy the combats and enjoy the movies, but the in MY face linearity is a bit off-putting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heavy Rain<\/strong><br \/>\n This was the 3rd game I bought for my PS3 and not only first that I finished (twice) but I think the first game my wife watched me play all of. We both enjoyed the experience and I would recommend it to any of my gaming friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allods Online<\/strong><br \/>\n It has been a very short amount of time, but some of my favorite recent gaming moments.\u00a0 For a few minutes each night before bedtime my daughter and I have been putting some time into this game.\u00a0\u00a0 I had her help me make a character, and I let her operate some of the controls as we\u00a0 run around and blast fight baddies.\u00a0 It has been some great fun, and the fact that&#8217;s its F2P means I don&#8217;t have to worry about a monthly sub. for a game we play only about hour a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first new &#8220;What I&#8217;ve Been Playing&#8221; 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.\u00a0 I have one pair of characters, a conjurer and Templar, that I play most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,111],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-gamejournal","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}