Hiatus - Cataclysm (slight spoilers) and various other games

Hey everyone, It's been a while but for good reason!

Well maybe not... I sort of got sucked into a lot of games at once and put my blogging on hold. ANYWAYS. To the games I was playing and how awesome they are.

First off was playing the new WoW expansion. Took a few days off from work (That's dedication!) and hit 85 on my main, still a druid, but is now a Troll(olololol).

 The picture below is me in my completely awesome troll cat-form. Pretty epic, I know.

This expansion feels great. Almost a "back to basics" if you will. The heroics don't throw epic level gear at you, you have to actually think (which is pretty shocking to most people just hitting 85) and they have some pretty amazing quest chains especially in Twilight Highlands.

I have also created a character of both new races (worgen and goblin) so that I could check our their starting areas. So far I vastly prefer the worgen. You are in a Victorian era-esque town, plagued by werewolves. Pretty awesome.

The goblin area starts as a thriving, polluted, roadway filled gangster paradise. I'm thinking America. Anyways, that goes downhill pretty fast as the island "paradise" you're living on erupts into a violent volcano.

Speaking of WoW, I also want to say something about their real ID system. I think it's amazing. The ability to give your real life friends access to you regardless of your race/faction/server or even game that you're playing (as long as it's a Blizzard game) is pretty fantastic. The only think I would like to see Blizzard implement is  an "appear offline" feature. I have a friend who hates his other friends, and doesn't like it when they see him online all the time, so the ability to block other people from seeing you would be pretty nice.

In other gaming news, Maple Story had a HUGE update, in which they added 2 new classes (One I'm in love with...Battle Mage :] ) and greatly increased the experience you gain. The game (for me) started to drag around level 50 because of the sheer ammount of monsters you had to kill in order to gain a level. The recent update takes a HUGE step in the right direction allowing you to enjoy more of the game, with less of the mindless grinding/questing (which normally involved a fantastic goal of "Kill 1,000 of these monsters").

As it stands now, I'm having a pretty hard time deciding which characters to play, my girlfriend and I have quite a few of them. I can see myself sinking a legit amount of time into this game as well.

And for this, I'll do a greater post later, but I was just giving an AMAZING mega-man game from my girlfriend for Christmas. Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker x Ninja . Yea, it's a mouth full. I link the gamespot link because, quite frankly, I think they are completely wrong in their review. This game, at least to me, is a fun-fresh new take on megaman.While yes, it's not side scrolling with the 9 bosses you pick which level you go to, I think it's pretty amazing. It's an adventure game, in which you play a human who can fuse with an electronic "spirit" to become megaman. The battle sequences are fun, you fight enemies by attacking them and dodging their attacks in a third person platform.

You use a "deck" of cards to select your attacks from, using either ranged weapons, weapon boosters, or melee attacks. Needless to say, I'm not incredibly far in at this point, but I love what I've played so far.

Anyways, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays and I hope to be back to posting regularly before long!