Token Female Gamer

Yup, I finally got a gold membership. I feel like I’m slowly being sucked into a Microsoft pit of doom. First a new Xbox, now a gold membership and downloading games!

What prompted this conversion to the dark side? Friends.

Last night, I sat down to finally finish portal 2, when I noticed that I had a friend online. Never having seen a friend online before, I had to send a message (oh the novelty). Big mistake. Turns out other friends were online and Dungeon Defenders was on the docket and how could I not go play with them? Clearly all it takes for me to overcome my dislike of throwing money at Microsoft is pier pressure. Ten minutes later, I’m chatting with my buddies over a game of Dungeon Defenders.

Turns out the Dark Side is where all the fun is. Though I do feel a little dirty.

January always inspires thoughts of new years resolutions. Whilst contemplating this year’s set of goals, it became apparent to me that my lists are very much the same from year to year, write more, get out more, dance more, play more, same old same old (boring!)

So I scrapped that idea, and thought, well what about a ‘bigger picture’ take on the whole thing. Which of course bogged me down into the realm of world peace, cure cancer, fight depression, and end world hunger. Scrapped that list also. These vital problems are too large and important for a mere January resolution list.

On the verge of abandoning the whole idea, it occurred to me that maybe I should think of this as a wish list. Pick ten really geeky and totally frivolous things I would love to see happen, however unlikely.

And so, with this post, I release my top ten picks into the geekaverse. May they show up on someone’s to do list, preferably someone who can make shit happen.

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Always a bummer when I can’t play the words I would like to play. Doesn’t keep me from trying.

Happy 2012 Everyone!

Ringing in the new year with warm chocolate chip cookies, champagne, and the new World of Warcraft TCG Dungeon Decks. Playing the Goblin Shaman in Shadowfang Keep. Really great cooperative play, makes this a really fun game experience.

<3 TFG

SWTOR was released yesterday. The official ‘buy it in the store’ version; the beta has been floating around a while now. Never had the time to play it in beta, even though I got a few invites.

A new MMORG always has me hesitating. It’s a big commitment and most of them are just so disappointing, its better to set expectations low to avoid total heartbreak. But the husband wanted to try it, so I went out and picked up two copies yesterday.

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One of the most irritating things about Words with Friends is that it doesn’t care about what sorts of words get played. This means that when fabulously awesome words pop up there isn’t much incentive to play them. Point wise its all about placement on the board, not word composition.

But since I don’t care all that much about winning I mostly just get irritated when I get a fun word like “Matrix” and can’t find a single place to play it.

That one just happened recently. But I could not find a single place to play it. Sooooo frustrating! And this is probably the only time I will ever have the chance to play it!

So I glowered at my phone for a few days in a row and then went for a different tactic. I played my left over letters until I found an opening.

It certainly wasn’t a power play, but it was incredibly satisfying to finally play it. =D

My highest Words with Friends word yet! 153 points is not too shabby. =)

Played ‘Mistake’ my previous turn and thought myself quite clever as the word nestled right in between two Triple Word bonuses. My fabulous opponent didn’t take advantage, so I had the chance to play Zeps on the Triple Word bonus with the Z landing on a Triple Letter bonus.

Zep, BTW, is the name of a large sandwich, and yes I had to look it  up. =P

I’ve gone and done it again. This time I weigh in on the Diablo 3 beta, reveal how much I suck at Deus Ex, and fall asleep for the rest. =)

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<3 TFG

Thanks to my fellow Diablo 3 beta-ite, my game is finally fixed and playable. Turns out that Comcast users are getting DNS errors after logging into battle.net, which looks like a crash trying to load the character selection/creation screen.

Took advantage of my fixedness last night and played with some buddies online. Polished off the entire beta in an hour and a half and got my Demon Hunter to level 8.

(Just checked too see about the NDA for the beta, turns out it’s not being enforced so I can blab all I want!!)

First impressions – Liked that I can play a female version of any character. Really liked the teleport instantly to party member. Liked the instant selling. Graphic seem bland and ridiculously dark. Ranged game play is almost all the same and the only way to go. Gold is abundant. Redundant game play, like health bubbles and health potions, or two types of mana.

Going to play more and get a better feel for the game. Also try out single player and the crafting system. So far having a good time playing, but it’s not hooking me. Feels like something is missing. Am hoping this is just due to beta.

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This past weekend my World of Warcraft guild got together for a BBQ, in real life. No we didn’t all sit around playing WoW on our laptops. We hung out, enjoyed good food and good company.

Lots of World of Warcraft discussions (aka warstories), even got some Everquest squeezed in there. EQ provides the much needed ‘I walked to school uphill in the snow both ways’ perspective for all the new and ‘easy’ MMOs of recent times.

I have to say it was a treat having something to talk about with every single person there. No matter what else, we all had WoW in common, but even more, we actually play together.

Which just reaffirms that our goal of inviting only real life friends and family into the guild was a good plan.

Thanks to all of my guild mates and their spouses for being awesome! <3