Twitching

Servers are back up for Hellgate London. I finally got to play some. I'm very happy. Ran into some problems, but finally got to play.

Alright this is what happened. I go to the Hellgate London Beta forums, which you have to be part of the beta to view, and checked up on the server. Nothing new. So just kinda searching around, and a couple of minutes later, I see a post on the server update page, and notice an update about 3 minutes old. I'm like, "yes it's up." and it was. Holy crap people don't have a life. It already had 3 pages of posts.

There were problems. There was an update, and that froze up for people, only one person can log in at a time (meaning when you type in your username and password and click enter, only one person at a time can push enter at that very second. You had to type in your username several times before it'd work usually.). I got lucky and got logged in the first try.

Started downloading and it froze at a file called Launcher.exe. I go back to the forum (about 5 minutes later and 30 pages of posts later) and discover that lots of people are having troubles with that file. Some people completed the update successfully and were playing, but others like me were frozen. So I retry, and same thing.

I had to work so I decided i'd try later that night. After work, about 11, I try'd and it did the same thing.

Went to the forums and they had put the launcher.exe file on the forums to manually download. I did that route and it updated correctly and was able to log in. I played about 3 minutes last night and went to bed.

Today I did some quests and killed this big boss thingy (shown in the picture), and I just hecked the crap out of it. I finally kill it, but right as I kill him, one of his freaky explodey bugs kill me. I was sad. I had to pay 40 moneys (i forget the name. It's like palidinia or whatever) to get resurected on the spot. I made a headstone on the boss corpse's belly. And I got Wart's leg (reference anyone?).

I also got a chance to play some Halo 3 with a friend of mine. Wasn't impressed. Yes, I've played the first two. They were good games, just overhyped. Same thing with Halo 3. Basically, it's Halo 2, with better graphics. They also balanced the weapons better, which i think they did a good job with.

About the graphics, they're good, but I expected better from a big title. Bioshock, and Gears of War look outstanding, and better then Halo 3. I didn't play it on a High def tv, but I've seen Gears of War, Bioshock, and Halo 3 on the same TV.

So my view on the game: I'm not going to buy an Xbox 360 for this game, but I'll probably mooch some multiplayer action with friends. That's how I feel.

I do however want to read the books for a more in depth story. I'm thinking the games only scratched the surfice of the story. My friend gave me an overview of the history of the Spartans and what not.

I'm getting out of that hole before I get a hit goes out for me from Halo fanatics. Um, let's end on a less offensive note. Dragon Blade. Still haven't found it. Probably not going to be at Target, cause according to their site, it says available online, but not in stores. Best buy still says October 2. Gamestop store search says our store has 1-3. So maybe I'll double check there. Walmart website has it. Doesn't say anything about stores. I'll probably not even check there. More good reviews from people who've bought it. No online video game site has reviewed it yet. I'm kinda sad.

What I've got is awesome controls with the Wii, decent graphics, great story (Richard Knaak wrote the story and he did the Diablo books and what not), about 18 hours of game play, which i think is about right for a game.

Let me compare game play to other games: Zelda Windwaker, 40 hours. Zelda Twilight princess, 55 hours. God of War, 8 hours. Those are aprox times. I thought Twilight Princess was awesome, even though it was long. I thought God of War was short, but awesome.

Speaking of Zelda, Phantom Hourglass comes out on October 1.