Updating, at last.

Well, it's been a while since my last post, and I have to say that Wonderking didn't hold my interest for very long. I reached level 15, stopped playing, and never thought to turn the game back on.

I have always been a fan of games with more than two dimensions, and while I have to admit that certain aspects of Wonderking were addictive, the game and I simply didn't agree on what was considered 'fun'. I played an Archer during my short lived career in the game, and while I'll admit that the game itself is quite enjoyable, I don't see myself as ever going for a long-term commitment to play it.

Wonderking, in my opinion, is cute, but just not for me. Since I didn't play it enough to really give a fully detailed opinion on all the classes, I'll leave it right there.

In other news, I'm extremely pleased that Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released for the XBox 360. That means I won't have to purchase a Playstation 3 just to enjoy the next in the long line of RPG's I've been following since I first discovered them.

Which reminds me, I need to unpack my PS2 and replay the older games. Of course, I need to find those games first, but hey, them's the breaks. They just recently released the trailers on the XBox, and I've watched two of them so far - graphically, the game is very appealing to look at. But I'll reserve my judgment on it until I actually play it. The combat system is interesting, I'm not sure on the exact mechanics of it, but it reminds me of a mixture of FFXII, which was MMO reminiscent, and Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, which was uh, interesting. Still, I hope they release a demo of it before it actually releases.

Speaking of MMO's, Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood releases in 17 days. My husband and myself, along with some of my Kinmates from in the game are preparing for the long day ahead of us on December 1st. As if preparing for Christmas wasn't enough, we're getting geared up for an all day session of gaming on the 1st.

I eagerly await the release of the expansion. While following the forums I saw a lot of mixed reactions to the way that Mirkwood is being released, and while admittedly this is LOTRO's first digital expansion, I think that it isn't a bad idea, especially for those of us who are home bodies and don't want to have to run out to the store, or wait for delivery from an online website (ilu Amazon.com, for getting my Halo 3: ODST to me on the same day it was released).

The first character I'm planning on getting through the borders, and into Mirkwood, is of course my Minstrel, Mysticari. I've got her as geared as I possibly can without running Halls of Crafting, and getting the new Lady's Grace set from DN. We're going to have a decent mixture of classes, three minstrels, a champion, a rune-keeper, and a captain/hunter.

Speaking of Mirkwood, I was recently reading the new developer diary from lotro.com, and I like the layout of the new menu. I'm still incredibly sad that I wasn't able to get access into the beta, but these hints and sneak peaks through the Dev Diaries has been great for keeping me 'in the know'. Now I can only pray that the next / newer Minstrel skills don't suck.

I expect there to be full release notes for the expansion sometime just before it releases. Watch, though, they'll give us one day to process what's going to be changing before it actually hits the intarwebs.

I just recently started writing a Minstrel guide on my kin forum. Once I have it entirely finished, I'll post it up in this blog, so I can point people to it here, since the forum is private. For now, back to LOTRO!

Quick edit - just watched the 'Special Announcement' for Final Fantasy 13 on my XBox, and the release date is 3.9.2010.

I know where I'll be that day!