Token Female Gamer

Ready Player One is the latest geeky book phenomenon by Ernest Cline and also the January book for the Geek Girl Book Club.

Set in a dystopian future; economic and environmental catastrophes have resulted in a huge worldwide resource shortage. Anyone who can afford it escapes his or her poverty stricken existence by plugging into the virtual OASIS, an immersive Massively Multiplayer Online Game.

Upon his death, the creator of OASIS, wills his entire fortune, billions of dollars and controlling shares in the OASIS Company, to the first person that can find the three virtual keys he has hidden inside the game. Massive treasure hunting fever sweeps the world.

Five years later, not a single key has been found. Until Wade, a young man who, like most of his peers, grew up plugged into the OASIS simulation. He discovers, through luck, tenacity and a bit of brains, the first of the three keys. Pandemonium ensues and we get to come along for the ride.

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Felicia Day is my heroine!! If I were a famous actress, this is exactly the sort of thing I would want to do. Running around pretending to be a heroic elf, awesome!

And she wrote this!!!

The show is actually really well done and so worth the ten minutes it takes to watch the first three episodes. Watch it and support the awesomeness that is Felicia Day. =)

Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 1
Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 2
Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 3

Dragon Age: Redemption 1st Episode
This is Felicia Day’s Dragon Age web series and the first episode was just released on youtube. I was pleasantly surprised, as these fantasy shows can end up a bit cheap looking. She did a great job making it fun, engaging, and feasible. In fact I might just go try Dragon Age. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-093SQo9NWM&feature=share&noredirect=1

Avengers Movie official Trailer
This movie series that Marvel has pulled off is incredible. Although The Hulk tanked, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor all did well enough to warrant an Avengers Movie. Hopefully it will come together, with the help of Joss Whedon, and astound us with its magnificence.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/avengers/

Zombie debate – Two zombies discuss what a REAL zombie should be like. Really well done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcrXH0ytIc8&feature=player_embedded

Portal Super Mario – seems like an obvious combo. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WtcGiZelPfk

How did I ever find out about stuff before Facebook?

This dastardly tale begins in a rather well lit game store – a surprisingly clean and well-organized game store, which is probably why our fair heroin enjoys shopping there. Though only on days when she can afford too, as every trip into the well organized and friendly game store results in purchases.

This particular day is no different as she discovers a new wonder, a miracle, a fabulous gem of a game and thus cannot leave the store without it. ‘Dungeons and Dragons – the Wrath of Ashardalon’ calls to her like a siren and she is helpless to resist. (See why she avoids going into the store?!!?)

Giddy with anticipation, she hauls the gigantic box to the counter. The weighty game promises not only cooperative game play, but also loads of figures and tokens and tiles and cards; all wrapped up with a nice Dungeons and Dragons bow.

Long has our heroin mourned the loss of a regular pen and paper RPG night. Might this game fill some of this void? Mayhap the friendly clerk at the store spoke the truth by calling the game a simplified Dungeon and Dragons for busy people.

Thus she called together her fair adventurers (yup, three dudes) and they set forth on their journey to vanquish Ashardalon, with a detour to Castle Ravenloft.

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The single iPad in our house really belongs to my husband. This has never posed a problem, as I haven’t found much use for it. Then he shared Battleheart with me. This addictive little game is almost good enough to cause iPad fights.

Although Battleheart is a very accomplished game, the few items of great annoyance have tempered my addiction enough to save us from having to purchase iPad #2. =)

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Castlevania, though one of the longest and most glorified franchises, has never really been on my radar. It’s a bit of a drawback really, because I don’t have any warm gushy nostalgia surrounding this franchise, to soften any of its rough edges. In short, I’m less forgiving.

This also means I am not usually drawn to any new Castlevania releases, but a friend of mine insisted that this was the greatest game to evAr walk to the earth, so it had to be tried.

Let the slandering begin.

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Oh, Final Fantasy! So many great memories!! What a Legacy!!

This is 13 after all!! What other game series has come out with this many titles and remains as successful? It’s quite incredible really.

And yet, after playing this version, I wonder how the franchise has managed to hang on this long. Legacy coattails?

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Overlord: Raising Hell has been sitting on my shelf for the past two years, patiently waiting for it’s PS3 turn.

Having been a very large fan of the Overlord game, I had been waiting until just the perfect moment to bust it out, a moment that arrived this past weekend.

With bated breath I booted up the game, well, I tried. It turns out the PS3 hard drive was full. So about 30 minutes was lost trying to figure out how to get that all cleared up. But then finally it was time! I watched the intro scene giddy with delight and made it through the tutorial. At this point I was stubbornly ignoring my feelings of deja vu, but when I started running through the quests I cried foul.

The game wasn’t just similar to the original Overlord, it was exactly the same. But wasn’t this the sequel??

That’s right folks, I thought that it was Overlord 2. Don’t ask me why I thought this, because it doesn’t say Overlord 2 on the box. Seems kind of obvious, NOW.

After looking it up I found out that Overlord: Raising Hell is the PS3 release version of the original game combined with the Raising Hell expansion pack.

It is not the sequel. Fail.

The first time I met Lara Croft was in Tomb Raider 2. She kicked some serious ass and I loved her for it. The whole game made such an impression that I have been following Lara’s trials and tribulations ever since. And though I have hung in there, the quality of the Lara Croft titles has been in steady decline.

That is until ‘Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light’ came along.

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September’s reading challenge is a bit hefty in the description so I am listing the books first.

Selecting the books for this challenge was quite entertaining as the idea was the utilize all the Goodreads features. But then the selecting process has always been half the fun.

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