viernes, 29 de julio de 2011

A weekend is about to start...

And it is a strange weekend, in fact... First of all, I must say that I'm not a person who loves the beach, not only because of the sand, the ocean or the sun... also for the people that I usually meet in there. Like my characters in Lotro, I like to spent time alone, wandering and saving the world... well, mostly looking how to save the world from my chair, in my writings or draws...

This weekend, I have to face one of my worst enemies... The evil coast of Higuerote... It's like the Wounded Coast but without Qunaris, dead bodys... Well... not so sure about that... sand, sun and ocean... But I'm the one to blame about for this. Why? Well, I decided that we (A group of friends) need to go there to get a bit of relax time and fun... Three weeks ago.

It's funny how sometimes I think about the future like is not gonna be true and suddenly, in a blink of a eye... there you are, three weeks later, half of your plans not completed and a weekend in the beach while you know that you love the mountains and you could have planned the trip there. But well, I'm not going to stepback, I have to face this and certainly, I'm being more dramatic that I actually feel like. I know that I'm gonn ahave a terrific time there, everything is going to be great, I'm gonna get some sunburn (I'm quite.. pale... QUITE place) and when the time is over I'm going to say that I want to stay there for more time.

But, because fate is horrible evil, today I felt like I should have a great time writing in my house...

Anyway... I know that I could fix that, I just need to take out my laptop there and problem solved! Yet... There's another thing... Since I have no connection in my home (Maybe the ISP company hates me a lot or something) I decided to spent my time doing something else... yesterday I did some excercises and it was "funny" but I also was looking some episodes of Naruto (Yeeeeees... I know, the Anime, this is the part in where you stop reading this) and I was more focused on Naruto than the excercise routine... so well... I barely did something worthy. And today I have zero intentions of doing that again, nor even Naruto's episodes or excercises.

I bought a Book and Cd to learn French... This is the slogan of the book: "Start talking in french in the very first day!"

It's a lie.

A big lie. I mean, I can say the usual stuff, but I dont need the "usual" stuff... I need the verbs, how to make the same sentence in many different times, words (Lots of them)... Not only: "A quelle heure est la séance?" (I think that is something like "At what time is the show?" now I dont trust in the book nor the Cd.. I mean, this book is good to defend yourself in French yet, only in some especific moments that we know that are common, but some of them are not going to be frequent...

Well, I guess that I'll have to bug someone to go with me to some French clases on saturday (Week days for me is nearly imposible)

See? This is why I need Lotro and such... without it I'm always doing weird things :D Well, not when I'm writing, that seriously (And some of them are incomplete, but that because I'm lazy as a rock) but others are weird...

I only want to Wish you all a great Weekend! WO HOOOOO!!! I'll see you on thursday :D which is when I'm returning from the coast *dances trying to forget about the sand, the ocean and the sun, thinking only in the pool and the tenis court* Great hunting friends of mine! and good luck!

martes, 26 de julio de 2011

And today...

I dont know were to start... maybe the fact that I dont have, actually, nothing to post could be a great idea of... I mean, yesterday I was quite bored at home after 6 pm, hoping for time to go fast to I could reach the non-traffic hour and go home.

Dont blame me, I'm not lazy at all, it's just that spent 1 hour and a half or 2 hours in a traffic just to reach to my home is not the perfect way to end a working day, honestly *nod nod* so I usually wait that time sitting at my office, watching some youtube videos maybe, sending mails, gathering stuff for posts or even posting them... Well, yesterday I saw that my boss left his Dungeon Compendium of World of Warcraft, the one from Burning Crusade so I decided to give it a look and remember old, happy times when the game used to be something else different.

But, the funny part is that the time not only went fast... It went really fast and in a blink, it was already 9 pm... Yes, I know... horrible, right? I reached my home at 9.45 or so and I went directly to eat something and watch some Tv. Nothing good really, well, at leats nothng good enought to keep me awake so I felt asleep in like 30 minutes or so with my cat's paw in my face. that freaking cat thinks that I'm a pillow sometimes...

As is easy to see, I didnt do anythign worthy to post so I dont know what I'm going to do now :) Well, I guess that I can retake the zones of Lotro for a bit :)

The only thing that is left for me to say is that I wish that you get a great day and an awesome hunting as well!

One day... I will come to work with something like that...
just to see the faces of the clients...
...
And for personal fun, too.

lunes, 25 de julio de 2011

And I got one ending...

Spoilers ahead... Proceed with caution.

Yes, a weekend was enough for me to reach my objective: End Dragon age 2. I ended the game on the night of Saturday and I'm not so sure if I got a happy ending yet I know that the ending was not the one that I was expecting for. It took me a lot of time to make that Merrill finally looked back at me, I had to kill some demons and help her on her personal quests and yet she was quite not a Romance option, which leaved me only with Isabel... Until I did something and she decided to had a Romance with my Warrior. But at the end, the game only recognize me Isabel as my true love. Dont know why...

The game, as a simple overview of all the things that I had to go through, is not as bad as people usually say, in fact, I had a great time and I found the main plot quite interesting. Yes, Wardens are not as important as the first game, not even the darkspawns as well, but, who really cares about that? It's a different tale, not everything int the world has something to do with the Wardens and the Darkspawns... I mean, there are a lot of different things going on besides of the evil stuff and that, for example, political stuff or even religious stuff.. This game dont have too much of "political" yet it has a lot about slavery and the true about the mages and that, even a bit of religion is going on too, but not the strong point. This game was all about a rebellion and how this started.

My champion... :)

A way to end the troubles in the game... just to start others.

At the beginning the plot is centered in many dizzy things, like for example the short adventure inside the underground which, in Nathaniel's words is "quite a long trip that no one has done it before"... Obviuosly this guy dont have any idea about my first trip inside those ways with my Hero of Ferelden... Well, he is from awakening, what else I could say... the the game seems to go for something political when the Qunari arrive the city but, as fast it starts... horrible it ends...

Well... again this city is on fire... this city is not the best place to live it.

A Grey Warden. They were the stars at the first game, and in this game
they have a little acting time.
I dont balme this, few of my friends does, but I dont. It's like real world, for example: Each country have their own national troubles, yet, they dont have the SAME trouble. Well.. Wardens are NOT in every game because they DONT need to stay in every trouble. In fact,t his Warden explains that: "We Wardens are not allow to enter in political conflicts, I'm sorry that I'm not be able to help you, yet I can sent word to another city so they can help"... Perfect! Great! in fact, it's quite awesome that, if the Warden were going to do something in here, it would be like: Wait a sec.. What about the fact that you CAN'T stick your nose inside political stuff? you should be looking for evil dudes to kill... I mean, Blight-related evil dudes.

So, we dont have the Wardens, yet, they gave us the Templars, which I'm not happy with... I do really hate the Templars, the fact that mages can't be free it's not what I like most.

Meredith... I finally see you in the game.

Ok.. I know that I said "No more bloody screens"... but.. but...
So, the Second part of the game is based on the Qunaris, as I was saying, and their brutal way to see the things in the city and their intent (At least, in my game-line) to take control over the city. I know that i got this character exceptional neutral and kind, in fact, at the end, in the final battle, everyone (Except Fenris coz I didnt got it for my group) were fighting at my side, even if my battle was against their believe. Even Aveline Vallen :)

I was a Lady warrior with a noble heart :) and a tow handed mace, or sword or even axe... but all of them: Two handed. Noble and respectful. That's it.

The Qunaris. the look fearful.... yet, they are "onweable".

Another character of Strengh in the game: The First Enchanter of the Circle Orsino.

And his awesome fireball.
At this point you could feel the real plot in the game getting ready, meredith and Orsino appears in the same trouble, from the nothing, and both are decided to help. And if you look at the loading screens, you can see a horrible, horrible spoiler... Sadly I saw it... and I got the basic idea of how this was going to end.

The friendly Arishok... and his humble words....

His fight was a pain, I ended running like 40 minutes while my
Stamina was depleted... but I won at the end :)

"I know, right?"
After the Qunari stuff, I had the idea that I was gonna end with a dumb plot quest, yet the spoiler in the loading screens and the fact that someone got a new, brand, and evil look sword, helped me to believe that there was something else... and also, the fact that I was still getting quests, but this time, in my own awesome Hightown state, muahahahah I'm rich!

Suddenly, the real plot started to stain my game table, the cards were unfolded, someone moved the pieces and, for some reason, I was all the time in the middle. as Flemeth said: Fate or chance...? I can't never decided... Maybe curiosity works too,

The Grand Cleric... Honestly, I loved this character.

While I didnt like this one... Even after all the did for Merrill.

Oh... by the way.. she is Merrill...

Merrill's personal quests is full of traps, whatever I decided to do, even if I were kind or not, this ended with a entire Dalish massacre... Minutes after I were running, only with my warrior, trying to not getting killed by the awesome Dalish hunters and some Darkspawns that for some reason where near a cave... I found out that there's a way to stop this slaughter... too bad for them, I'm the winner.

Killing elves was never so funny... and stressing...
After that, Merrill decided to love me, everything was great and the real plot started...

Thrask and the ungrateful Grace...

Anders... or Anders.. why?
Anders... You really have to play Awakening to understand this character. I can't say that I'm against him or that his feelings about the Templars are away from mines... but.. dude... there are PLENTY of way to solve this... you dont have to do that....

Still, I forgive him at the end. My character is a kind two handed wielder... not a butcher... With friends, I mean.

So the real troubles started...

Not gonna say many things about this... thing.

And just when I thought that this could not get even bloodier...
Sadly, I ended the game without killing the high Dragon that killed me twice in the Bone pit so I decided to avoid that and play it again, this time, getting better gear for everyone and some dragon head to hang upon my dinner room wall.

One of the most dangerous fights in the game... 

But the Champion of Kirkwall is the Champion of Kirkwall.
I got the Champion warplate from the dragon and now I had all the Champion set complete! Wohoo! so, I could end the game again... this time in the right way. If you want an advice: End all the quests in the game before you go further with the quest called "The Last Straw"... many quests end in the gallows and if you end all of them and also with the Last Straw, you wont be able to turn them all.

"Yes, may I help you Sir?"
After you own that... thing.. or stuff... of whatever it is... you go with the final boss, which is not in fact the final boss, I got the idea that the entire fight from the Gallows is the last boss. A chain of things that happens in any order and become a real pain. anyway, the last boss is quite a amazing fight, even better than the.. thing, up ahead posted... In fact, that "Thing" was quite boring...

BURN! BURN! BUUUUURN!
Anyway, This is the last part of my post. I said that I was gonna spoil a lot of things, yet, not the last plot of the game. I'm just gonna say: Play it, you wont regret that.

All the games and their sequels are not meant to have the same goal, remember that all the tales have two sides: The "script" (Sorry, I can't find a better word) and the story that you want to say. While the "script" of lord of the Rings is about the fellowship taking the ring to Mordor so they can destroy it and beat Sauron forever... the Story that Tolkien (In my humble point of view) wanted to tell is about Friendship, loyalty and courage.

This game goes in the same way, The Script is basically about how the Champion of Kirkwall makes something important in the city and gains a notable name while many believes are destroyed... Yet, the Story (Again, my humble believe) is about freedom and perseverance. 

True it is that this game, in my opinion, can't beat the first one. Many things I saw in the game that I were not happy with, like for example all the houses were the same design, or the caves had the same design... i felt like running them once and again, and that was boring and creepy. Also the fact that everything happens in one place was not what I expected, but this I wont judge so hard, after all, this game is about the Champion of Kirkwall... not the Champion of Thedas or the Free Marches.

Well, I wrote too much, right? yeeeeah, I know, good luck everyone! have a great end of the day and I'll see you tomorrow with another new post to... post... I guess :)




viernes, 22 de julio de 2011

Yesterday Part II

After all that messy moment with my mother, the Qunari and Anders yelling at Merrill because she was using blood magic and blood magic is for demons and demons are evil and we are not evil and justice is angry for that and with the templars and blah, blah, blah, blah. i decided to hunt down the Invisible sister guild that has been giving me hell in the last nights in the Hightown for no reason at all.

Hard to explain how this all started, I barely remember that I was walking in the streets of the Hightown when several of them, and when I say several I really mean several of them, jump over me and started to attack like goblins. The worse part os, that the initial group had like at least 12 ladies full armed ready to kill me, and when I killed some of them, like 5 or 6 fall from the roofs and started a new fight. Ok, I got it, I'm the champion of Kirkwall, or at least I'm going to be the Champion of Kirkwall, but is this really necessary?

If I had a clan, my last option would be waiting for a seasoned group of adventurers with shinies armors, a dwarf with a huge balista, 2 apostates (One of them know very well for being a rebel Warden while the other its a elf... a pretty, little innocent elf, which makes me feel more fear than usual)... And I mean as "last" option more like "Not even in dreams" option.

So well, I went for that group and killed them all, I think. and if they were not "all" I think, then, that I killed at least a 78% that reminded after I killed the 20% of them in previous fight... so almost none of them should be alive and expecting that they are going to succeed in where the other ailed.

This was just the beginning of the fight...

The sister were located in a abandoned house in the hightown district and that entire house was a fight so I have no screen from that. I killed someone who I think it was the boss, I think that was called Gillian or something, and she was a archer. After that, there were no reward at all, only that when I step out of that house a suddenly who-knows-who lady come out from nowhere saying that she was happy to see that someone (Me) have dealt with the group and if I was interested in getting new jobs like that, I visit her in the Hanged man in the lowtown. Work is easy to find in this game, I wonder why there are so many unemployed ppl in the game lately...

Of course, just when I went out of the house and after I talked with the lady, I found myself in troubles... I walked directly to meet someone in a open space and results to be a Templar, I thought that, maybe like Thrasks, this lady templar was good... but...

By the maker...

This Templar has been following me since I killed the corrupted templar who wanted to kill the apostates in the cave, that was like 2 nights ago! or maybe one night ago but still, its been a long time from that. Anyways, I never said that I killed the Templar, even if I did it of course, I just asked what would she do IF I were the killer... her answer was simple...

By the power of Greyskull! eeer... I mean... die!

You know, this fight made me wonder how many Darkspawns I killed before... could be like 70, between the intro and the ones hiding in the underground. how many spiders? perhaps 40 in total... Walking corpses? could be 60 perhaps... Brigands? Well, maybe they are more than 100, only with the invisible sisters... but Templars... Like 50... No wonder why everyone in this place wants me dead.

Merrill asked me, later, that she wanted my help retrieving the... I forgot it's name, but I think that its a shard of something like a shard to reconstruct the mirror that she had in her home. I knew that it was not a good idea, but it would offer me a great storyline aside of mine. That mirror is nasty and she, in her personal past, has something to do a lot with the Hero of Ferelden and Tamlem so... Something good have to come out from this.

We went to the Dalish tribe, I still had Anders in the group for that moment, to ask for the item and the Keeper told us to go inside a cave and kill the Ver-whatever, to prove that we can be the owners of the item. Anders were all the time complaining about, bothering Merrill and making assumptions that were not good at all... After this place I had to kick him out of the group to welcome Isabel. At least Ander's magic helped me a lot in here, some of the spiders in here spits and attack as real demons... and the last boss was just quite insane, easy, but insane.

Part of the last boss fight, fighting against adds...

The boss and some, dead, elf in the floor... he was running away from us...

my enemy... a closer look.

When the guy was about to die I think :)
Merril felt guilty for the death of that elven in the floor and all the way out she was saying how wrong was all of this and stuff. I wont blame her but I need to say that anders was right: Blood Magic can scared people easily. At the end of the quest the keeper gave ME the item that Merrill was looking for, of course I handle it to Merrill and Anders went angry against me.

This boss was not a hard one, you only need to be careful with the slime o the floor and the adds when they got aggro from the rest of the group. keep your friends away one from another since this slime, is like a AoE stunning-that-yet- can't stuns you and is hard to be evaded easily once you are there...

Well, after that I noticed the hour in the real life and i was to log of but after I had to take dominion of my part of the mine that, as Humbert (or something like that) says, it was having troubles. and after killing the raiders and getting the loot, I got this:

I dont like maces.. but this one is quite nice...

Well, also I made a rogue for the game, a male rogue (Human of course) to answer all the ways in a funny and roguish way, so far haven't got inside me any type or troubles... Well, that's another post, luckily it woudl be funny :)

Yesterday...

Yesterday in Dragon age II was really interesting. many things happened in almost no time and I was confused, filled with anger and ready to swing my sword forward and backward, from left to right, without looking who was in the middle... Well, in this game having a two handed weapon is like having a eternal AeO attack, every swing that goes from left to right or right to left, hurts everyone in the way.

Starting with the fact that the Qunari are becoming, step by step, a pain in my back... I mean, In Dragon Age 1 you had a Qunari friend, but now, they all seems to have darker plans and they are always looking everything from the bad side. I had no problem with this unless they bad behavior touches me. I do not have anything to do with them, except, perhaps, some quests from the main plot... When I meet them and when they, for no reason, ask my assistance with something. Yet, the Chantry, in the other hand, I could say that I hate it... well, not the chantry, but one Sister or Mother who I forgot her name. When I confronted her in the first time she almost wanted to kill me as colateral damage but I left her go, this second time, she told me that his bodyguard, a templar, is killing Qunaries all the time so I went to stop him.

By any mean.

Guess what happaned? We ended in a fight. Sadly, I didnt took many screens, only like two of them, and it were in the same moment, seconds between each one...

Come closer! The show is about to begin!

Staggered and hurted with my awesome sword... love this strategy.
The Templar, in my storyline, has been a murderous guy and this is making the Qunari a bit anger with us, someone had to stop this and it was my duty, and pleasure, to do it. Sadly, Maybe because of my lack of action and need of fight, the Qunari were not saved...

In the other hand, after this, I went to my home to get my silly clothes and read some dumb letters, ask for potions and for runes and watch the enchantments that I can make but troubles were expecting me there. My mother went missing and the assassin with the white lilies had something to do with that. The game was starting to become darker and evil.

To be brief, I tried to reach to the end of this faster but I Think that there's no chance for it... I arrived late and my mother was... well, not "dead" but was not "her" anymore. This mage, who I'm not going to name, I'm trying to spoil the less possible, wanted to re-create her wife and he needed parts of another women, you know, like Frankstein style or maybe that quest from WoW in Duskwood... anyway... Things went just to creepy... and awesome.

Hmmm... This is not going very well...

At this point i had to pick: Or Ander or Merrill... Since I want to make
my warrior and Merrill fell in love, I had in mind to take out
Anders at the end of the quest...

"So... Who else thinks that this is starting to get wrong... just wrong..."

Me and my new gloves... and my party....
Basically, this place is mostly Shades and corpses which makes me wonder... There's a lot of evil in the same CITY and no one had notice anything? I think that everyone knows everything except me, reason why there's no war in here and there's a lot of ppl not fighting like me... Ignorance is a bliss sometimes... in this case, all the time.

Short story:

"I'm Evil!"

"Mglulu.. fruglulu mgluuu" (Sorry, Zombish was never my strong)

"Oh no! you fiend!"

"Attack them my minions! Follow the Evil one!"

(No matter what... this is gonna hurt...)

"DIEEEEEEE!!!"

"Mother.. no... hang on..."

"Yeah, I love you, but go, I want to be alone..."
Short story... What does isabel in the story if she was not part of the fight? Easy... I dont know. I guess that since she is my "two flirt Girlfriend" she thinks that she had to say something about all this weird plot... No worries Isabel, I love you yet... let me be alone for a while, I need to take screen and fix them.

I was thinking in making only one post today, I have been full at my work but I have many other screens that I wont be mixing here, to many different stories to be told in the same moment... Good luck for now my friends! I'll see you in a bit later :)

jueves, 21 de julio de 2011

Her... who is her?

I really dont want to know right now exactly, but I have that question inside my head flying around like a crazy dragon. I mean, She seems to be important (Not only because she is interrogating Varrick, who knows how to tell a story, by the way, sometimes, some things are just awesome, like when he explains how we entered into his Brother house. Or the very beginning of the game and my tale about killing Darkspawns) but also becuase she is called "The seeker of the Chantry", she looks awesome in her awesome, is qite pretty and... Well, can't be sure, but she says that I'm the biggest trouble on earth or somethign like that...

Varrick is a good fellow... He always want to explain everything
in the right way...

And she (looking good, right?) can't understand that...

I wonder if I could get her armor some day... coz I know that she wont be
on my group, anyways... 
So far, I only know that I did something horrible, something wrong, something cataclysmic and she is hunger of justice and revenge... What I did? hard to say, This tale is telled by Varrick and he only knows, in fact, she also knows but she wont tell you a simple thing, since she loves to play with the questions and with feelings. maybe, that makes her more sexier... Nah, it can't be, must be the armor...

Would be awesome if you explain that to me...

SPOILER! SPOILER! *alarm* 
This game its getting better as I go further into it. Kinda dark and sometimes a bit predictible, I'm pretty sure that if you are in a trouble and answer everything with the neutral position, you can get both good and bad, half and half proportion, results.

Well, gotta admit that the game is quite good, and sometimes good enough to make me forget to get screens to post, today I'll be more diligent with that, for now, I have few posts... Yet, yesterday I got Varrick's brother, I flirted too much with Isabel and we ended in the bed... well, not too much, only 2 flirts... Can't be sure if that makes her a easy lady or makes my character a easy lady... And I was looking forward to make my character fall in love with the blood mage elf, she looks funnier.

I'll guess that I'll make a Archer male and I will flirt with her...
She reminds me to that Geek researcher from No Ordinary Family...
No reason in fact.. she dont even look alike.

ANYWAY... I helped Anders with some troubles with the Templars... actuall, that was funny, everyone died and I applied the old samurai tecnique: Run and make the bug, so you can kill them one by one.

I got a new, brand sword that look better than my Mace:


The oath-breaker! Quite a great mace, kinda nasty and stuff...
But it's a mace...

NOW... this... a bit weaker, but looks good. Good enough for me.
What would bring dragon age II today? Can't be sure, maybe a bit more of my dark tale, maybe I will go and erradicate al the "sister of silence" or "invisible sisters", whom, to be honest, are becoming a pain. Yesterday I killed like 50 of them and they were all the time waiting for me in the hightown at night. Good thing is that I got the Quest to go into her base and seek answers or at least to erradicate them as well. :)

Well, have a good night friends! I gotta go! enjoy the time and good hunting!