There are plenty of fun video games out there, but almost all of them have something, even if it's only one thing, that you dislike. Something that feels more like a chore than a game, but something you more than likely push through anyway. The Spore Creature Creator doesn't have anything like that, and it opens the window to show you what the rest of the game will be like. Absolutely perfected. Pure fun.
The tool itself is just about perfect - rarely glitchy, overall extremely tolerant to even the most wild imagination. I've already made several creatures that I wish to share with you. Click the links below to see the creature, as well as read a description about it on the right side of the page.
Carnivores
Crocoscale
Genkiscale
Hydra
Carnihorse
Kirin
Lesser Antlion
Standard Yellow Antlion
Standard Black Antlion
Standard Red Antlion
Herbivores
Moleye
Eleep
Great Crested Songbird
Spherether
Swinelk
Boartank
Omnivores
Greater Antlion
Colossal Antlion
Yetily
Royal Carnihorse
A very, very fun tool. It's also only $10 to download from www.spore.com. Get crackin'! :D
In other news, I applied for a job at Wal-Mart. If I get it, it'll be my first "real" job away from home, so, it should be good for me. And more importantly, I'll have some money coming in. As much as I may loathe my fellow man, the thought of the money I'll be making is sure to keep me sane...and from biting anyone's face off.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Bein' Great Must Suck
Whoops, I've been neglecting the blog. :O Fixing! Fixing!
For the past few days, my computer's been acting odd. I compressed some files and got rid of a few games and programs I didn't use, and everything seems OK again. So, I don't have an excuse not to blog anymore. XD
I recently got my hands on a game for the DS called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2: Explorers of Time. Three days later and I'd beaten the game, or at least the two main storylines. You can easily get 20+hours of gameplay just from the storylines, and I was pleasantly surprised by the story itself. Rarely do you find a deep and involving story (not to mention outright dark at times) in a Pokemon game, but Explorers of Time decided to throw a wrench into that by having one of the best Pokemon stories I've heard, if not the best, and that's including the movies.
Explorers of Time has a counterpart, Explorers of Darkness, which I plan to get my hands on as soon as I have the money.
In WoW, my warrior respecc'd fury so she could have an easier time doing her dailies. It's quite refreshing to go from a tank to "horrible dual-wielding rape", and she definitely gets her dailies done faster, which means she makes plenty of money to swap back and forth between fury and protection depending on the situation. However, it does come at a cost - as a tank doing my dailies, I tend to get a lot of sympathy from enemy players, who leave me alone in favor of killing the warlock a few yards away. As a perfectly capable DPS warrior though, I'm no longer spared the blade and am a frequent target of attacks from the Alliance. Every rose has it's thorn I suppose.
Another advantage though is more of an aesthetic one. Rynja looks a lot better in her fury gear than she does in her prot gear. Now, I'm not the kind of player who forsakes better gear because it doesn't look as good, but it's still nice to finally have armor that matches somewhat. (Click for a bigger image)
Her weapons could still use some work. I mean, the one on the right hand is drooling and blinking. That ain't normal.
After finishing my dailies, I got back to work on my now 62 draenei hunter, Kallindra. I'm hoping to have a level 70 Alliance character to level alongside my two 70 Horde characters by the time the expansion is released. I'm all about experiencing content from both factions, and besides, Alliance is my preferred faction, so I feel very much in my element when I'm playing Kallindra.
Being a hunter, particularly a beast mastery (or BM) hunter, Kallindra has insanely high survivability. A one-on-one fight with a monster is usually a simple affair. I send in my frostsaber, Cheshire, to claw and bite and keep the beast's attention away from me, while I fire a few well-aimed arrows into it's spine. Sometimes though, Cheshire has a hard time keeping the creature still, and it'll realize, "Hey, these arrows kinda hurt", and it'll turn to face me. Then all I have to do is feign death, and it goes back to Cheshire. Apparently, monsters in WoW are stupid as hell to fall for that, I mean, it didn't even hit me before I "died". That or it thinks I had heart-failure from it's sheer awesomeness.
If you couldn't tell, this makes hunters the single easiest class to level and play in WoW, taking little to no skill to scrape by. A majority of the hunter population are "huntards", so on a PvP server, a lot of people target hunters as an easy kill, or as I like to call 'em, "gank fodder".
Occasionally though, the stars and planets all align, and the light shines down upon one of these seemingly unsuspecting targets, as the nearby undead warrior readies his greatsword for the kill. However, the hunter isn't oblivious to his presence at all. Because this hunter is smart enough to be tracking humanoids. She's known he's been following her for about three full minutes now. She doesn't pay him any mind though, continuing to slaughter her way through hoards of helboars, and smiles to herself as the warrior charges at her...and right into a freezing trap. Frozen in a block of ice, the warrior can only watch helplessly as this smug hunter finishes killing the helboar, and then turns her full attention to him. As her battle-cat leaps at him for a stunning blow, and the hunter turns and runs, readying her arrows, the warrior feels this sense of dread. That sense of dread anyone feels when they realize they just pissed of a really, really good hunter.
Hunter is not hard to play. Be it in PvP or PvE. I recently had an experience in the latter field, where I was killing flayer whelps in a gorge. Suddenly, two more whelps appear next to me. Ok, no problem, I freeze one, and send Cheshire to gather the second. I resume my shooting. Then a worm burst from the earth behind me, spitting poison. I keep shooting and freezing, while Cheshire runs left and right trying to keep all, or at least most, of the creatures on him. Whenever one or two would fall, another would rise up to take it's place. In the background, where I have iTunes pulled up, Line and Sinker by Billy Talent kicks in. I'm feeling absolutely badass as I kill hoards of enemy NPCs, until finally, as the song dies down, their corpses lay strewn at my feet, and I loot my prizes.
During this time, a tauren druid had been giving me some grief. Or at least trying. He was horrible. A smart hunter has a very unfair advantage against feral druids, and I'm the type of gamer who leaps at every advantage she has for total overkill. This tauren was in his cat form, trying to maul me. All I had to do was use scare beast to send him running, and a few seconds and several arrows later, it was all over. Due to his stupidity, I'd kill him every time I stumbled across him that day (two more times). Unfortunately, the second time I found him, he had friends - two blood elves. A shadow priest, and a prot paladin.
Keep in mind they're same-level characters as me. No problem, right? OK, actually, I was panicking a bit. I kill the druid, freeze the paladin, and start kiting the shadow priest around, which is easier said than done. It's hard to keep a caster at bay. The paladin was thankfully stupid enough to keep running into my freezing traps. I eventually killed the priest, and turned to the paladin. We were both out of mana, and he seemed content with just attacking my pet. Idiot. Oh wait, no, he just killed Cheshire. Shit-cakes. Oh well, at least he's just about dead. Oh wait. He just used Lay on Hands. He's at full HP...oh hey, the shadow priest is back.
I'm in the middle of Hellfire Peninsula. I see in the distance the nearest Alliance base, and start running towards it. I see and opening, and get on my mount to put more distance between myself and the two very, very angry elves, who quickly mount up to continue the chase.
I make it safe and sound into my town. But these guys were ballsy, and they wanted my ass dead. They run right into the middle of the Temple of Telhamat. The guards were about their level, so the paladin managed to keep them distracted while the shadow priest ran for me. Luckily for me though, more and more guards kept appearing to attack the elves, who had to back out of the base. I wasn't about to let this slide though. I, with the guards, chase them right into the dirt and kill them. I strut back into town, feeling smug, and start selling my loot from a previous fight. I turn around, and see them in the distance, having respawned. As they try and heal and discuss a new strategy, the paladin becomes uncomfortably aware that there's now an arrow sticking out of his priest friend's forehead. He turns around to see that damned draenei notching another arrow and aiming for him.
It was a rich, full day.
And now for something completely different!
For the past few days, my computer's been acting odd. I compressed some files and got rid of a few games and programs I didn't use, and everything seems OK again. So, I don't have an excuse not to blog anymore. XD
I recently got my hands on a game for the DS called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2: Explorers of Time. Three days later and I'd beaten the game, or at least the two main storylines. You can easily get 20+hours of gameplay just from the storylines, and I was pleasantly surprised by the story itself. Rarely do you find a deep and involving story (not to mention outright dark at times) in a Pokemon game, but Explorers of Time decided to throw a wrench into that by having one of the best Pokemon stories I've heard, if not the best, and that's including the movies.
Explorers of Time has a counterpart, Explorers of Darkness, which I plan to get my hands on as soon as I have the money.
In WoW, my warrior respecc'd fury so she could have an easier time doing her dailies. It's quite refreshing to go from a tank to "horrible dual-wielding rape", and she definitely gets her dailies done faster, which means she makes plenty of money to swap back and forth between fury and protection depending on the situation. However, it does come at a cost - as a tank doing my dailies, I tend to get a lot of sympathy from enemy players, who leave me alone in favor of killing the warlock a few yards away. As a perfectly capable DPS warrior though, I'm no longer spared the blade and am a frequent target of attacks from the Alliance. Every rose has it's thorn I suppose.
Another advantage though is more of an aesthetic one. Rynja looks a lot better in her fury gear than she does in her prot gear. Now, I'm not the kind of player who forsakes better gear because it doesn't look as good, but it's still nice to finally have armor that matches somewhat. (Click for a bigger image)
Her weapons could still use some work. I mean, the one on the right hand is drooling and blinking. That ain't normal.
After finishing my dailies, I got back to work on my now 62 draenei hunter, Kallindra. I'm hoping to have a level 70 Alliance character to level alongside my two 70 Horde characters by the time the expansion is released. I'm all about experiencing content from both factions, and besides, Alliance is my preferred faction, so I feel very much in my element when I'm playing Kallindra.
Being a hunter, particularly a beast mastery (or BM) hunter, Kallindra has insanely high survivability. A one-on-one fight with a monster is usually a simple affair. I send in my frostsaber, Cheshire, to claw and bite and keep the beast's attention away from me, while I fire a few well-aimed arrows into it's spine. Sometimes though, Cheshire has a hard time keeping the creature still, and it'll realize, "Hey, these arrows kinda hurt", and it'll turn to face me. Then all I have to do is feign death, and it goes back to Cheshire. Apparently, monsters in WoW are stupid as hell to fall for that, I mean, it didn't even hit me before I "died". That or it thinks I had heart-failure from it's sheer awesomeness.
If you couldn't tell, this makes hunters the single easiest class to level and play in WoW, taking little to no skill to scrape by. A majority of the hunter population are "huntards", so on a PvP server, a lot of people target hunters as an easy kill, or as I like to call 'em, "gank fodder".
Occasionally though, the stars and planets all align, and the light shines down upon one of these seemingly unsuspecting targets, as the nearby undead warrior readies his greatsword for the kill. However, the hunter isn't oblivious to his presence at all. Because this hunter is smart enough to be tracking humanoids. She's known he's been following her for about three full minutes now. She doesn't pay him any mind though, continuing to slaughter her way through hoards of helboars, and smiles to herself as the warrior charges at her...and right into a freezing trap. Frozen in a block of ice, the warrior can only watch helplessly as this smug hunter finishes killing the helboar, and then turns her full attention to him. As her battle-cat leaps at him for a stunning blow, and the hunter turns and runs, readying her arrows, the warrior feels this sense of dread. That sense of dread anyone feels when they realize they just pissed of a really, really good hunter.
Hunter is not hard to play. Be it in PvP or PvE. I recently had an experience in the latter field, where I was killing flayer whelps in a gorge. Suddenly, two more whelps appear next to me. Ok, no problem, I freeze one, and send Cheshire to gather the second. I resume my shooting. Then a worm burst from the earth behind me, spitting poison. I keep shooting and freezing, while Cheshire runs left and right trying to keep all, or at least most, of the creatures on him. Whenever one or two would fall, another would rise up to take it's place. In the background, where I have iTunes pulled up, Line and Sinker by Billy Talent kicks in. I'm feeling absolutely badass as I kill hoards of enemy NPCs, until finally, as the song dies down, their corpses lay strewn at my feet, and I loot my prizes.
During this time, a tauren druid had been giving me some grief. Or at least trying. He was horrible. A smart hunter has a very unfair advantage against feral druids, and I'm the type of gamer who leaps at every advantage she has for total overkill. This tauren was in his cat form, trying to maul me. All I had to do was use scare beast to send him running, and a few seconds and several arrows later, it was all over. Due to his stupidity, I'd kill him every time I stumbled across him that day (two more times). Unfortunately, the second time I found him, he had friends - two blood elves. A shadow priest, and a prot paladin.
Keep in mind they're same-level characters as me. No problem, right? OK, actually, I was panicking a bit. I kill the druid, freeze the paladin, and start kiting the shadow priest around, which is easier said than done. It's hard to keep a caster at bay. The paladin was thankfully stupid enough to keep running into my freezing traps. I eventually killed the priest, and turned to the paladin. We were both out of mana, and he seemed content with just attacking my pet. Idiot. Oh wait, no, he just killed Cheshire. Shit-cakes. Oh well, at least he's just about dead. Oh wait. He just used Lay on Hands. He's at full HP...oh hey, the shadow priest is back.
I'm in the middle of Hellfire Peninsula. I see in the distance the nearest Alliance base, and start running towards it. I see and opening, and get on my mount to put more distance between myself and the two very, very angry elves, who quickly mount up to continue the chase.
I make it safe and sound into my town. But these guys were ballsy, and they wanted my ass dead. They run right into the middle of the Temple of Telhamat. The guards were about their level, so the paladin managed to keep them distracted while the shadow priest ran for me. Luckily for me though, more and more guards kept appearing to attack the elves, who had to back out of the base. I wasn't about to let this slide though. I, with the guards, chase them right into the dirt and kill them. I strut back into town, feeling smug, and start selling my loot from a previous fight. I turn around, and see them in the distance, having respawned. As they try and heal and discuss a new strategy, the paladin becomes uncomfortably aware that there's now an arrow sticking out of his priest friend's forehead. He turns around to see that damned draenei notching another arrow and aiming for him.
It was a rich, full day.
And now for something completely different!
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