A Spore Nerd Corner

So Star Trek Online F2P (free to play) has finally gone live. I've always been a big Star Trek fan but I wasn't going to play this one. I downloaded it and thought and now all I can think is, oh look free to play...isn't even going to save this. First the good part. The character creation is great. It has a ton of different race choices and probably one of the most in depth actually creations methods I've ever seen in an mmo anywhere. While you can play a great deal of races some are still missing. Now  for everything else. I found the combat boring. At first I was using the original combat format keep pressing a number to fire the phaser, kill the Borg isn't that nice... well boring. I switched to the new combat system that was meant to be more of a 3rd person action shooter. Still I found myself clicking and waiting for the phaser to fire over and over again killed the Borg and moved onto the next sitting target. I never actually got hit and everything was dea...

So everybody has been waiting for the release date to diablo 3 to finally be released to us. Recently bestbuy leaked a poster for diablo 3 saying the release date wad going to be February 1, but we soon found out that it was wrong and the blizzard fanbase sighed in disgust. BUT while I was down at the local GameStop I found out that originally that February 1 was the original date of release and that the new date is March 2! So we can all officially start holding our breath, replaying the past games in preparation and dancing our jigs of glee. Lets just hope this is the right date.

Last night with the super amazing find a raid tool I defeated Deathwing, after the cheers and dancing around and the grim realization that this is the only way I'm ever going to be able to beat him him, I've decided to start yet another alt.  This time a human Priest, I thought the spirit bonus would help out. I wont be using any Boa's, since I've decided to boycott them. So after a little bit of play I've come to the first set of great decisions.  Professions and Talent tree. the choices are for you that don't know: Shadow: Strictly Dps  Holy: Healing, lots and lots of healing. Discipline: Usually what people call Disc. This class can heal and dps, but while Holy is all about healing damage that has been done, Disc is more about preventing the damage from ever being done.  So what do you think would be a good set of choices?

So the great week of patches has come and gone with both ups and downs. The first WoW came out with the long awaited 4.3 patch. The patch included transmogrification, void storage, a raid finder, 3 new 5-man dungeons, new raid content including the defeat of Deathwing, and last but not least The Darkmoon Faire. The new 5-mans I thought were a blast and I've enjoyed them a lot more than the Zul dungeons. I haven't had a chance to use the raid finder or run the new raids because of my lack of gear but should be able to by the end of the week, not that I'm very good at the entire world of raiding but oh well, right. As for the Darkmoon Faire I've had a lot of fun running around playing all the little mini games. It's also a great place to level everything every profession you can think of. There have been some problems however. I made a warlock for giggles and can't delete him, it tells me that he has a heirloom or important item on him even though his mailbox, i...

That's right the time we've all been waiting for the mystical, magical, 4.3 patch will be launching tomorrow, I dance a jig of glee. On a completely separate note I've made a store online showing off some of my art work and the best way to tell the world is threw my blog! Here's a Link take your time and check it out. You'll have the time WoW is going to be down for awhile with the patch coming out.

I started to play WoW just before Burning Crusade was release, just to give a point of reference. I recently decided to start another alt, I get the craving every couple of months. This time I made an Orc warlock. I've only ever had a little experience with locks back in the day.  I quickly wound up at level 10 even with no boa's, I bought my skills and went back to questing but had this feeling that something was missing. Eventually it all came to me.  Everything so far was just given to me. Flashback a couple expansions. In order to pick up the next summon, their was a quest. Yup a person had a story, his story included me completing a task for him and what would he do? Grant me the knowledge for this summon.  The whole experience made me feel more apart of the world around me and most of all, I had fun. Everything is now handed to us now. Where their used to be quests for  new spells and gear now it's just handed to us. Where we used to have to go find quests ...

That's right the new WoW commercial is here for our enjoyment. When they got Mr. T to come out with his commercial the people cheered, so who could be next? Who could top Mr. T, oh that's right you know you were thinking it, CHUCK NORRIS! If you want to check out the commercial here's a link to the youtube page with it. Wow commercial link   So now that we've had a commercial with Chuck Norris, who do you want to see next? As always I look forward to your comments, that is if somebody left one I'm sure I would like it.

So everybody is on the edge of their seat waiting for patch 4.3 to finally get released but it's still not here. I was really thought it would be here by now but hey I can't be right all the time. So by now you've run those pesky raids and TB is just a memory, what's left to do? Here's a list of things I've been up to. Finishing those extra professions. Fishing, first aid, archeology, cooking are all things that I was always planning on doing at some point and just never got around to it. Mount and Pet collecting. Their are tons of pet and mounts to collect all over the world.  Most of them take mind numbing amount of time and will having you beating your head against the keyboard to get but it's all worth it when that stranger comes up to you says " you must be crazy to go fishing for that long for a turtle." Gathering old raid gear. Since we are getting that transmogrification, now's the time to pick up all that super slick gear from days...

On November 6th the Steam service relised that the hacking the happened didn't just effect their forums but may have gotten into the actual steam client. Steam released this post: Message from Gabe to Steam Community Announcement - Valve Yesterday, on November 10, 2011, the following message was sent to all users via a Steam message. Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users: Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums. We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was...

Maybe I'm biased but I've been playing Elder Scroll games since way back in Morrowind and I've loved each and every one. This game is no different. Skyrim moves the Elder Scrolls world ahead since our last adventure in Oblivion 200 years. We are now far to the north in the land of Skyrim. The graphics are stunning , but only if you have the system of run them. I have a mediocre laptop to run it and even with everything running on it's lowest setting  I still experience random bouts of lag. I'm not sure about this because I can run Rage and Deus Ex without any problems at all.  Just incase somebody has ideas on how this might be stopped my system specs are : Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU  2.53GHz 2.53GHz 6GB Ram GeForce GTX 260M Still the first time a dragon lands in front of you, you can almost feel the fire blowing over the top you. The combat has changed since that last game as well. You can now assign a weapon to each hand or a spe...

A lot of people have recently been commenting about how WoW has been looking a little empty lately, and for a good reason too. Close to 2 million people have left the game. Is this a sign of the death of WoW?  After all those people left before the major content patch of 4.3 and after Blizzcons announcement of the next expansion pack Mists of Pandaria. Do people really hate pandas that much?   I personally don't think so. I really don't think all the people that have left will stay gone. I've always found it amazing how many people "quit" and a month later they are waiting for a FL run. Another reason people could be leaving is because they are tired of paying a monthly fee. WoW now has a lot of competition, not by content standards,WoW still rules the roost, but by the simple fact that their are so many free to play games now.  DC Universe , Lord of the Rings are two big examples that recently have gone free, and companies like Nexon , Perfect World , and GPo...