Dragon Age 2

By Ben, on March 14th, 2011%

Now that I’ve finished Dragon Age 2 I’m prepared to share some of my thoughts. Keep in mind the following:

Played the role of the eternally good champion Had a relationship with Anders

I knew I was close to the end before my last post but it turns out I was at the final battle, . . . → Read More: Dragon Age 2

The Japanese earthquake/tsunami has sent both Final Fantasy XI & XIV offline for at least a week (it’s not like I was playing), the weeks episode of Fringe ended with a very peculiar Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) doing the voice of William Bell (Leonard Nimoy), and Dragon Age 2 destroys me with the realisation that . . . → Read More: My week

The Rort That Is ADSL

By Ben, on November 4th, 2010%

Having the sum of five hours of travel to and from work each day leaves me plenty of time to think when I’m not sleeping. The most recent thing I was thinking about was how the promise of fast ADSL speeds are used against consumers.

ADSL2+ speeds can be anything from 1.5Mb to not quite . . . → Read More: The Rort That Is ADSL

Final Fantasy XIV Update

By Ben, on October 20th, 2010%

If you haven’t heard, FF14 has been universally panned as a piece of garbage to the point that they’ve given an additional free month to everyone who bought it in the hope they won’t leave. They’ve also published a long list of expected fixes planned prior to the end of the year, which may possibly . . . → Read More: Final Fantasy XIV Update

How to break things

By Ben, on September 26th, 2010%

I was just reading a list of known issues for Final Fantasy XIV and laughed out loud at the last one:

-If a player has viewed the credits, the game may display the error message ” An update error has occurred. Error 20524″ and fail to update properly. *We apologize for the inconvenience, but if . . . → Read More: How to break things

Dealing with life

By Ben, on September 26th, 2010%

Last weeks Q&A, wherein they discussed Euthanasia, was one that I’ve been mulling over since. Most of the discussion was your usual crap that serves no purpose but one of the panellists briefly touched upon the informal euthanasia which is currently practised by hospitals.

This made me think of my mum.

My mum had cancer . . . → Read More: Dealing with life

Train Woes

By Ben, on September 13th, 2010%

On my way to work yesterday I accidentally got onto the wrong train and ended up at North Ryde station. The last time I was in the area was when I was working for Gateway and the train line was in the planning stages. What a sexy station though, it makes me want to live . . . → Read More: Train Woes

More Final Fantasy XIV

By Ben, on September 13th, 2010%

I’ve come to realise that the game expects that you will talk to every NPC available, similar to the single-player games by the same name. They think that visual indicators to know who gives quests, who sells equipment, and who will provide completely meaningless banter, are not needed and that discovering who gives what is . . . → Read More: More Final Fantasy XIV

Tron

By Ben, on September 8th, 2010%

I need you bad

Final Fantasy XIV

By Ben, on September 6th, 2010%

I downloaded the FFXIV open beta over the weekend to check it out and what a chore. Despite the updater using Bittorrent tech it was quicker to open the torrent files in uTorrent than to use their downloader.

I tried FFXI in the past and thought that it not only looked drab and ran like . . . → Read More: Final Fantasy XIV

Mai Me Arai

Dragon Age 2

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