Teh Gamings

So, as the little subtitle there says, this is also a blog about games, comics, and movies. Today I'm going to go over the vidjamagames I'm playing.


WoW
yeah, been playing since January of 2006. I figured "Ya know, I'm overloading on credits, in my final semester of my senior year. This seems like the perfect opportunity to start up a massive time sink."

My main is a holy specced troll priest (For the Horde!) and have been running with the guild's main raid team since Febuary of 2009. Did some 10 man runs back in the TBC days, but joined the big boy raid team last year.

Currently, kind of on burn out before the new expansion drops in December, but still playing around on alts to get a feel for the new mechanics that came with the latest patch.

For those of you that don't speak WoW, I'm playing on a secondary character to understand the recent changes to how the game is played that were implemented in the latest update.

I've been a lore nut since the beginning and I remember getting the game for Christmas after playing it at my best friend's house. Many times did we tie up the phone lines to play games on the original battle.net and even more often did one of our parents pick up the phones to simply get MODEM NOISE to the ear.

Try the 10 day subscription at worldofwarcraft.com. if it's for you, awesome, it's worth trying out. If not, well, nothing spent, nothing lost.

Transformers: War For Cybertron

Me? Playing a decent Transformers video game? Shocking, I know. I had never really been a huge fan of the third person shooters. In fact, till this came out the only shooters I ever owned were Goldeneye and Link's Crossbow Training. But, as I've found, if you take any game and put the right skin on it, people will buy it, even if it's outside of their comfort zone.

The basis of the game is a prequel to Transformers canon material. This is how Megatron got his following, how Optimus became Optimus Prime, THIS is the start of The Great War that spilled into that beloved cartoon and movie (the one from the 80's, not the recent ones that make my bwains hurt).

The story is decent, and I've found that depending on the faction I'm on, my play styles are a little different. During the Decepticon campaign, I didn't care what I ran into or how much ammo I used until the thing was dead. In the Autobot one, I'm more careful with my driving and make sure each shot counts. Dunno if it's the mentality of the faction, or if I care more about the 'bots.

If you watched the cartoon and have a 360 or a PS3, it's definitely worth picking up.

Monday Night Combat
Transformers: WFC opened me up to third person shooters, and I remembered seeing this game during PAX East. When I saw it available for download on the XBL Marketplace, I gave it a shot.

I have been immensely happy with this purchase.

It's a class based team 3rd person shooter. There is no pretense in this game. There's no alien enemies like in Teh Haloz. There's no rival spies stealing informational briefcases from TF2. You are a clone, killing other clones, for one reason;

$$$$$

The entire premise is it's a sporting event. You kill your opponents and are awarded straight up cash to level your skills in game. Out of game, it lets you buy titles or open up customizable classes. You customize them by signing up for puntastic endorsements to increase health, clip size, skill recharge time etc.

If you've ever popped down and wanted to just shoot someone with no pretense or story, MNC is definitely worth the download.