Games I have managed to play the last couple of weeks

Ok so Real Life is still kicking my ass when it comes to gaming.  With me deploying to Afghanistan iive got to jam in a lot of training before I go not to mention that the workload is already massive meaning when I get home at night im too tired to even log in to anything.

Saying that, ive managed to at least play a couple of games whilst been swamped:

1. Fable – I downloaded this from Xbox live and had a bash at it, I own the PC version but cant find it anywhere and had a blast with it, its such an awesome game and I even managed to finish it last weekend, Jack of Blades, your ass was mine!

2. Halo 3 – Played the single player a little but the main reason I got it was some guys at work were playing it together so I went and played with them, beat them both, stopped playing

3. Call of Duty 4 – OH MY GOD WHAT A SHORT GAME, Enough said

4. Psychonauts – This is the game im currently playing and again it comes from XBOX live and hell its a lot of fun even if the levels are horrendously long, but the story and funny one liners are great

5. Singstar – yup SINGSTAR its great, mostly play it while drunk

6. Guitar Hero 1, 2, 3: Been playing these again too since I can dip in, do a song and dip out, Still trying to finish GH3 on hard at the mo.

7. WoW – Yup had a couple of raids on WoW, its getting my attention again but im giving it the minimum I have to, I log in 2 days a week at the mo to lead raids, but this will increase to 4. That basically leaves me with 2 evenings and two days to play other things

So what so I WANT to play then?
Well I really am looking forward to getting back into Vanguard when I have time, I miss the place to tell you the truth. I also intend to finish Halo 3 just to say ive done it, its not hard, I should do it soon enough.

So there we are then!

XBloX 360

Last night I finally purchased an XBOX 360.  I was on the lookout for a while for which console I wanted and in the end the wife made the choice for me…

So XBOX 360 it is, time for Gears of War, Rock Band and the likes to keep me entertained when on some downtime from Vanguard. 

 Vanguard is still rocking in my eyes, except both Mrs Borgio and I have both been a bit ill and have been going out at night so not much play.  This weekend there will be though and we should get some more of the URT quests done for some nice gear.

Rock on all!!!!

Vanguard: Customer Service A+!

Vanguard have placed into the game the “Veteren” Rewards that so many other games now offer to long term players. I, having actually been registered with the game since beta, qualify for all of the rewards they currently offer.

One choice you have is for a bag, there are three to choose from:

All three are pretty awesome and all three are worthy to be taken. I decided to plum for Avarems Messenger bag on the grounds that I had 4 slot bags and it would be awesome. It wasnt till I actually started crafting that I realised my folly!

That crafting bag is teh shizznit! Swearing myself a little I figured I may as well petition a GM see if they would be willing to change it for me.
Lo and behold about 2 hours later (this was the only bad thing about the experience) a GM messages me and says that its possible!!!!!
Not only that but he has a good joke at my expense. He tells me to delete the old bag, tell him when its done and he will give me the new one. The instant I said “Ok its done” he goes “Thanks for your time” and POOFS off….. then comes abck and says “Only kidding”
It was the small human touches from this guy which made me appreciate the customer service that the Vanguard staff are pushing out. I can only hope it continues in the vein!

Heres a screeny for giggles! (Click for full size!)

Rock on Telon!

Forward Focus!

Mrs Borgio has gone away for a few days leaving me on my lonesome in and out of game.  Its times like this which make you realise how much you miss someone!  Anyhoo  So last night was mostly spent in Telon, I say mostly as I did log into EQ2 to check my broker, I really want to carry on with my Epic but ill wait for the wife for that.
So Vanguard then, small things starting to gripe me one being the pure scale of the world, yes a large world is great, but not when im on the level 10 steed and have to traverse for 20 mins to get back to town just to craft!

So what did I manage to do last night then?  Well actually hardly anything, spoke to Stargrace about crafting and guilds and things and actually applied to her guild!  Crafting wise I managed to knock up some A grade weapons, which I have now listed for sale.  If they make money then ill look at maybe putting a couple up a day (To make sure I dont flood the market).

I made my first gold piece last night too!!!!  Not a big thing really but as im finding cash hard to come by then its great.   I dont want to spend it though!  This is a good thing for me seeing as im usually the guy who blows all his cash as soon as he gets it.  It might be because I have no clue what im looking at gear wise so that I dont buy anything, I think my biggest expense is crafting supplies and even that is a few copper here and there.

So aye some forward thinking from me means I might be doing something in Vanguard tonight, depends on how I feel.