Gaming on Og Maciel's Journal

Away From My Desk

Wed, 11 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Starting today I will be stuck attending some training class for work. These “classes” start at 9am and end at 4:30pm, all through Friday! Hopefully I’ll get a chance to grab a cup of coffee in the next 5 minutes. Managed to update this blog to WordPress 1.5.1. Since this was a bux-fixing release, don’t expect to find anything changed here.

As a side note, am looking forward to some WoW playing time with Vinny tonight! Go, Ghost Force, Go!

Beware of Crabs When Fishing

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Last night I decided to work on my plan of racking up World of Warcraft hours in order to beef up my character but since my friend Vinny was busy with his own quests, I decided to try my newly learned skill: fishing! As stupid as this may sound, I never thought that fishing in a game could be so… relaxing! I switched my character’s sword for a fishing pole and spent a good 15 minutes casting the line and watching the bobber. There was nobody around and I completely lost track of time… Soon enough I had 4 mackerels in my bag. That’s when I noticed some “clipping” sounds and my vital signal decreasing: a couple of crab-looking creatures came from behind me and started attacking me! It took me several seconds to realize what had just happened and even then my brain was still in fishing mode. I attempted to fend the creatures off with the fishing pole (I completely forgot to switch back to my sword) but ended up minced to pieces. The good thing was that I was able to return to the same spot, kill the evil creatures and am planning on using my also new skill of cooking to eat my mackerels! I wonder if they’ll spoil and start to smell???

Game Night

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Last night was my weekly night to play games with my friend Vinny. I have been playing Enemy Territory every Wednesday night since last Summer with a few cancellations here and there. Earlier this year Vinny convinced me to try World of Warcraft, a very addictive online multiplayer game. I was hooked from the start but not being able to “dedicate” to more than a couple of hours a week I eventually lost interest. I guess a big factor for my lack of interest was the fact that the people I knew online just kept racking up levels and moved on to different realms and tougher quests, while I was still stuck at level 4!

Enemy Territory Night

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Every Wednesday night has been “Enemy Territory Night” for Vinny and I for quite some time now. I’m a confessed E.T. addict and have been known for taking just any free second I can squeeze out of my tight daily agenda just so I can play a little bit. Tonight is the only time during the week when I can forego my house chores so I can solely concentrate on the game. I even bought a cool headphone so that I wouldn’t bother my wife and daughter (but the main reason why I really bought it is so I can hear the sneaky covert-ops bastards trying to knife me from behind). I usually play as an engineer and try to build all the objectives so my team can win the game but I do sometimes roll up my cyber sleeves and make use of the MG42 every now and then. I have tried other games (I also own MoH and CoD) but the WWII motif is what brings me back to E.T., to the desperation of Vinny who has been trying to get me to play something else for quite some time now. He did get me to try WoW and I was addicted to it from the start but once my 10-day trial expired I chose not to buy my own license due to my very restrict schedule. However, seeing him play the game on his brand-spanking-new 19" monitor has started an itch that “tells me” to buy one and get my own copy of Wow! Time will tell…