Played a lot of EVE this weekend, which is definitely a good thing. I finally feel like my skills are catching up to me Ferox, and I’m getting more out of it. Perhaps in a day or two it will be time to give level 3 missions another go, which will speed up the process of gathering enough ISK for a battleship. Focusing primarily on gunnery right now, I’m aiming to get a Rohk, but that’s going to take some time, as I’m currently only sitting at around 30 million ISK, and the best price I’ve seen for a Rohk was around 130 million.

Speaking of ISK, I made a good deal of it on Sunday from the level 4 missions we ran as a corp. To be honest it was overkill, as we had 7-9 members in our gang, with I believe 4 flying battleships. If we had access to a level 5 agent, we would have given it a shot, but sadly no one has the standing for that just yet, although I think a few of us are getting close to the 8.6 standing needed.

Moving on, seems a lot of Warhammer news came out in the last few days, but I find myself somewhat uninterested. Not because I’m not looking forward to WAR, but simply because I’m just not going to get myself overworked with each tidbit released. We all know MMOs more than any other genre change rapidly, and often in dramatic ways, so whatever info is released now is likely to get changed up greatly even before open beta starts, let alone release or 6 months after. At this point, I know I’m going to buy Warhammer, and know I’ll at least enjoy it. Whether it becomes the next big thing for me is not going to be determined by a bit of new info released over the weekend, and I guess that is what makes me so ‘meh’ about the videos and such. That or the fact that I was crazy about Shadowbane before that game was released, literally combing over any bit of info that was released each week. The fact that the game was delayed made the waiting worse, and when the game finally came out… well it was terrible. But it was not terrible based on anything released, it was terrible because of how it all game together, or did not I guess. I think SB was the last game I was REALLY hyped for, and I guess I learned my lesson.

In a somewhat random note, I downloaded the demo of Gothic 3, as it was a game I was interested at when it neared release, and then it just fell off the radar. Well now I understand why. Simply put Gothic 3 is a poor mans Oblivion, with a whole bunch of bugs thrown in for fun. The game, while not ugly, is not nearly as good looking as Oblivion (both games turned to max), yet runs a good 5-10 FPS worse. Same with the controls, not terrible, but somehow they feel less responsive and natural compared to Oblivion’s. I will give it credit for having the main character voice responses to quest dialog, and the dialog is presented in a somewhat stylish way, with the camera jumping back and forth between characters. The fact that you could not pick a class/race/look really did not bother me, as I think that’s a somewhat overrated feature in a single player game. I encountered a rather crippling memory leak that would drop the game into slide show mode before finally crashing. I almost want to say the demo is some old version that has since been patched and improved, but that might be a long shot. If anyone has played the full version, I would love to hear about it.