Games, Games and more Games…

As you might guess from the title of this post, I play games. Lots of games. Not as many as I’d like to have the time to play, but I still play quite a bit. And probably the biggest chunk of the time that I do have is devoted to Everquest 2, my current “flavour of the month”. EQ2 is by far the most immersive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) I’ve played. Ever. And I’ve played a few in my time. Rather than just firing up and logging in, I actually find myself planning what to do with my character with EQ2. I fell very involved in his progression (he’s a lizard by the way!!), and I play him with a view to trying to keep him alive. I’m hooked and try to get a few hours in each week (which is enough to see progress IMO), but not enough to burn out in the game (something I’ve suffered from in the past). As far as I’m concerned there is no game on the market to match EQ2 (and I know I might get some stick for that but that’s what I believe), and I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about my EQ2 antics in future posts..

So where else does my gaming time take me?? Well at the moment pretty much onto the Everybody’s Golf course on my PSP. I love my PSP. It is by far my best purchase for a long time (although I think come December 2nd my shiny new XBOX360 will take on this title). Everybody’s Golf is so easy to pick up and play a few holes and then put back down again. I’ve even played it against my brother over Wi-fi, and it was a blast (even if I did get hammered). If Everybody’s Golf leaves my PSP it tends to get replaced with Lumines which is a thing of wonder. Imagine the first time you ever played Tetris. Remember that?? Remember the wonder of “How will I ever get better at this??”. Remember the first time you got a 4 line combo on Tetris?? Now bring that feeling with you into a slightly different game. In this you have to make blocks of 2×2 of the same colour/pattern. And you only have 2 different colours/patterns to play with so it must be really easy right?? Dead wrong. If you haven’t played it you don’t know what you’re missing out on. It’s the reason to buy a PSP in my opinion. It’s scarily addictive and far too easy to kill a whole evening with.

I will post more about games. I will post lots more about games. For now, suffice to say that I’ve already got the rest of my progression to level 41 in EQ2 planned out in my head, and then we’ll see where my adventures take me.