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

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

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

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

The Epic Weekend – Part 1

By Ben, on August 29th, 2010%

I knew going into last weekend that it would be a busy one. Saturday morning I we were straight off to watch my nephew play soccer in the grand final. It was a tense game with neither team scoring and even after an extra 5 minutes each way they still couldn’t break each others defences so it . . . → Read More: The Epic Weekend – Part 1

The Console Wars Rage On

By Ben, on August 18th, 2010%

Ars Technica posted an opinion piece today stating that Sony’s Playstation Move is better than Microsoft’s Kinect (link) which in itself wasn’t exactly eye-opening. What was interesting was the third comment, posted by ArcaneAmoeba:

For two players with 2 Move navigation controllers, I believe the price is far above Kinect. Even though Move has far . . . → Read More: The Console Wars Rage On

Life and Everything

By Ben, on August 11th, 2010%

I got myself a job finally and it’s turned out quite nice. The company is sort of small and deals with software consulting, my role being support. The trip to work is about as long as I had feared but hasn’t turned out to be the nightmare I had imagined. Having an hour each way . . . → Read More: Life and Everything

Steam

By Ben, on June 26th, 2010%

I’m really loving the latest Steam sale, further proof that PC gaming is alive and well, but I vaguely recall that they had instituted a system some time ago the end result of which was that Australians were paying more for games once again. As I was in Thailand for a long period I have . . . → Read More: Steam

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Dragon Age 2

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