Australia Post

I ordered a lovely collectors edition of Diablo 3, mainly because I have a shelf sitting above my computer desk that looks a little bare.
I collect many things, coins, limited items, expensive oddities and the latest being a bust of Geralt de Rivia and a statuette of Darth Malgus.
I plan to add to this collection of gaming, the next to be the Diablo 3 little thingie, then the new Assassin from Assassin’s Creed 3.

However! I ordered said CE from MightyApe. I normally order off Amazon or other cheaper variations, however I’d be only saving $1 or so, add in currency conversion + the 5% fee banks charge for said conversion.
So I buy it from an online Australian retailer. Add the $3 postage price, and there we go.

It being posted on the 14th of May, I expect it no later than maybe Monday the 21st. What I don’t expect however, is absolutely NO SCANS since the day it was posted. I mean seriously, if I ordered it off the USA, it’d be here, given the 1 day it takes to fly from PA all the way to Hawaii and then down to Newcastle and delivered to my door by say Friday or Thursday. All the while having scans in transit, at the depos and what not.

I ring them up, they also have no data as to where in Australia it is. This is terrible. No hate on MightyApe, they’re a great company, but please allow Express Postage, that way we can know where it is, and get it within a guaranteed 2 business days. For a game with as much hype as Diablo 3, it may be worth it. If you can play it, that is.

By the time I get it, the errors and downtime and what not (touch wood) may have blown over.

That’s all for now. Skyrim and Game of Thrones awaits my very valuable time.

So Um… Yeh…

I’m not posting much because there really isn’t much to say. GOT S2, Borgias S2, Touch, OUAT, etc etc. They’re all very good shows.

But movies I’d like to watch:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

Anything else? Nothing that’s released. The Avengers is a possibility, but not on the list right now.

I just looked at the stats of this website. 3 VISITS THIS MONTH LOL. Hello Internet!

So…

I’ve been playing Skyrim religiously.

It’s the best. I’m also burnt out of SWTOR. It’s kinda shit now.

The Three Musketeers: shit.
The Rite: EXCELLENT.
Touch (TV): WOOO KIEFER.
Game of Thrones Season 2: FINALLY!
The Legend of Korra: about time. Decent for a kids show, but still, fills in the time between waiting for Touch and GOT S2 episodes to come out

What I suggest: get all of the above, except the three musketeers, and play Skyrim. Then maybe (perhaps) mod it to the point of no return, and profit from that.

Also, The Witcher 2 EE is now out on Xbox 360, and the patch has been released AND turned on for all PC owners of the game. You can also get a free digital backup copy of the game from GOG.com who happen to be a division of CD Projekt RED. Who possibly, is the best developer in the world. Not possibly, they ARE.

SW:TOR And PVP

SWTOR made one huge mistake – stun locks.
The thing everyone hates, yet they add in in this game which is meant to be fresh.

Don’t get me started on how one side always wins.

Sherlock

While playing games, I also like watching TV.

I recently read somewhere, I wont quote where, because I don’t know where I read it. But take my work that I did read it.
Why does the UK copy everything the US does?

Now, the amount of comments was staggering. While I’m sure both parties have copied the other in some way or another. But either way I will list what I do know:
The Office UK. USA copied it with their own version.
Kath and Kim Australia. USA copied it (I think).
Skins UK. USA copied it, and it ran for 1 season, then flopped.
The Weakest Link UK. USA copied it.
Probably more.
Now Sherlock is being copied by the USA. Which mind you is probably a bad idea. Sherlock is purely British. The USA could not possibly copy an even decent version.
Series 2 of Sherlock just concluded, and there’s going to be a season 3 in 2013, or sooner. Both lead actors play movie roles which will probably justify them doing  Sherlock later.

And there you have it.

Now on to more pressing matters.
Sherlock series 1 – 10/10
Series 2 – 10/10
Probably the best “crime” shows I’ll ever watch. I’m seriously grumpy about cop, crime and detective shows. I’m sick of them. But this isn’t the only genre it falls into, there’s more, which I wont list.

It’s an excellent show, worth your time, and a spot on your shelf where you hopefully have Rome Season 1 and 2, as well as Game of Thrones next to it.

On Australian Prices And Shit

The only reason I’m posting here is because SW:ToR is down until about 1 and a half hours from now.
Oh BTW, review on SW:ToR to come. Until then your appetite is sated with “It’s Good”.

So anyway, Harvey has finally got with the times and is now offering games for a cheaper price, online only. Directly imported from the UK probably, but either way, it’s a whole lot better than retail.
Skyrim for $59, Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $26, and Battlefield 3 for $62. With a flat fee per game postage of something like $3.

Some prices are not better than OzGameShop, some might be, I honestly don’t care right now because I’m wallowing in the depression that is Internode got bought out by iiNet.

So Harveys fancy new slightly better priced website is super long and is is is: http://www.harveynormandirectimport.com/

And just for shits and giggles OzGameshop is: www.ozgameshop.com

Personally, I buy from whatever is the cheapest. Zavvi, Play-Asia, OzGameshop, whatever. Usually the shipping takes a long time. But at least you save yourself money. Play-Asia fortunately has choices, I usually ship via FedEx, and still save myself a healthy amount. In the process, Play-Asia gives you coupons with literally (really) every order for $5 off. Last time I got a sticker. Yes it’s awesome.

So there you have it. A shitty article, in my usual style.

SW:TOR

It launches in about 2 – 3 weeks. Less if you preordered (2 weeks, 5ish days).

My main gripe is the graphics and character customisation.
The story is somewhat good. The bonus quests are annoying (like killing 45 of x, kill leader, turn in) and the main quests are nothing new. Though you have a class storyline that rocks.

It is a beta, yes. But I seriously hope quests are something new, and graphics are a lot better than what they are. I can suffer with everyone looking the same, but quests are a big thing for an MMO. Graphics also play a major role.

I kinda enjoy it. Though a Jedi tank is a pretty shit class to play. I might try inquisitor or the Jedi dual-wielding DPS class-thingy.

For a 100 million or more costing game, it looks depressing. I hope it improves. If not, I’ll have a good statuette to put on my shelf with the other collector editions I have bought, and I’ll go back to playing single-player RPG’s and the one MMO I will ever play for a prolonged period of time (EVE, though I’m unsubbed atm due to boredom.)

Fingers crossed, I hope it will improve in the next 2-ish weeks.

Meh…

Ok so Arkham City gets really boring after a time. It’s a good game and all, but to be frank the side missions are somewhat annoying.. For example, I can’t find Fries’ wife for the life of me. And The Riddler missions I gotta find more people to beat up and get information out of.

I’m basically at the end of the game, and I only have something silly like 10% completion… Really? The fuck is that meant to mean?
The fact that you can’t complete -ALL- of the side missions at the end of the game also pisses me off. So I’m going to have to restart the game, complete side missions as they come along.

I highly doubt I’d get any replay ability out of it at all, that’s basically what [RPG] games are these days, good for once, not for any more.

On other points, I like Revelations, playing as Al’tair when he’s an old dude is fun. And Ezio’s later life really intrigues me. Though to be honest, I kind of hate the 100% synch thing, but it’s a nice touch if you like to crack at these things over and over and get it right then and there. I probably wont see the point in doing it again, but who knows – it may be the last in the franchise, which I sincerely hope it isn’t.

Either way though, it’s a fucking awesome game and I like it.

Onto another point, SW:TOR is nearing release date, and I really, really, REA-FUCKING-LLY hope it’s a game worthy of my money and thus my monthly subscription. MMO’s have been pretty shitty releases, not to mention other games that have been hyped to hell in recent years have released with an overall lack-lustre reception come the levels that the big reviewers didn’t bother to get to (and sometimes the starting levels too).

I’m seriously looking for a decent PC game to download, I think I might get The First Templar, despite what people say about the voice acting. I mean hell, The Witcher number one people said the voice acting was shite, but hey, I quite liked it, it was a great game in my books, and still is. Which brings me to my next point, I’m probably gunna play Assassin’s of King’s again just to try the new patch thingmies, and mods.

Blah blah blah, so on and so forth.

Batman: Arkham City. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

First off, I apologise. I’m still playing through these. But I will review them.

I for one am terribly excited for Revelations, which is on it’s way to my doorstep. I should get it this week. In the meantime I get to play Batman Arkham City lots.
And by lots I mean I’ll have to replay it every single time it decides to wipe my save games. I’ve had it happen twice already now, so, so depressing.

I’m still baffled as to why Rocksteady haven’t fixed it within the first week of it being released. I mean seriously, it took 2 weeks to get to me from the UK.

If it wipes my save again, I’ll burn it, then post it to Rocksteady and ask very nicely for a refund.

Though so far, the game is pretty good. But I haven’t played it all.

As for Revelations, I hope it isn’t the last game in the franchise. Though I probably am wishing for too much at this point. A lot of people aren’t too happy with the fact it’s much of the same old. It’s a decent finish to the story of Ezio – this much I do know. But I really do like the series.

Apart from those 2 games, I myself scored a beta to TOR, like everyone else – it’s a weekend test. This is another game I have a hard-on for, despite the graphics not being too orgasmic (i.e BF3).

Now in other news, Intel’s 2011 CPU’s are listed in a few stores. The 3960X going for $1,249 at one particular store. I’m tossing up whether to spend spare money on a generator. Or just blow it all on an upgrade.
Yes, I need a generator as unfortunately I run a business and need to have access to the Internet everywhere I go. Having an Internet aerial in itself doesn’t exactly allow me to run my laptop 24/7. And the bastard thing takes 165 watts, :HP:.

Just Posting To Say Something

Hasn’t been anything news-worthy worth writing about lately.

EVE is the same-old… Some war in Geminate. Not much headway by the RMT Coalition etc…

Uh, other games, movies – again nothing much really. Working with NC-Radio to get license money to make it all legit.

Bout it really.