Um, Online game much?

Now I know it has been a long time since I've done a blog relating to new technologies but really, I cant say I have been keeping up to date with new stuff recently anyway. Recently I have been encountering many close encounters of the WoW kind. Yeap it looks like after 4 months of having not played a single minute of the game , it appears to me that my body needs a fix. New patches and one of my best mates talking about how he did Kara last night and what dropped, has been fueling my desire to start my relationship up with Meltor again. (my level 70 fire mage)

However.
Whilst nearly buying a new wow time card and reawakening the wow nerd within me. I got into a conversation with one of the EB employees about how his boss was invited to play test a new MMORPG, Warhammer Online. Age of Reckoning or just WAR. He told me that his boss up until the Beta invite for WAR was a massive wow nerd, level 70's for each class, fully epic gear blah blah blah, but when he started playing WAR he was fully blown away about how childish wow looks in comparison not just graphical but apparently everything that wow does war does ten times better. 
At this statement I was a little bit skeptical but then I read up a little bit and went over the few small years of when I was interested in the Warhammer franchise. 
Firstly I already know how huge Warhammer is and I would safely say that there would be a few million subscribers just joining for their love of all things warhammer-ry. 
Also for the people whom say that there are too few class's avalanche in wow they will be happy to learn that there are at least 5 class for each race and there are apparently there are at least 3 races for each army. 
PVP is meant to be much bigger in WAR and actually decide events in real time, like storming a enemy's castle or raiding a port. 
When I think of wow I tend to think of massive griding marathons which bore me to tears.
In war apparently they want to try and rid the game of as much unnecessary grinding as possible. So as I just mentioned the pvp aspect will not just be for honor badges or points, it could be for new territory , siege weapons, mounts, and of course quests. With this said the pvp aspect of war seems much more inviting than wow.
Also in wow it kind of annoyed me that there was very little collision detection.
Warhammer Online features collision detection, a feature that is meant to stop players from moving through other player characters. So this will enhances the role played by heavily armored characters because it helps them become far more efficient at holding choke points and protecting weaker players in their group such as healers and casters which would be a very welcome feature in wow. For me at least.

Yet the biggest , interesting feature is that the game seems to promise itself on being about nothing but combat with the enemy, none of this “I'm going to grind the same 8 hour raid for months so I can finally get my epic weapon/gear so I can just use it in boring auto combat just like I was doing 40 levels ago for exactly the same reason and to use it in a imaginary war that we never fight and the enemy never actually does anything against us”, stance that wow does.
However saying that I guess it comes down to the fact that while wow is really nothing new in terms of game play at all it does have a certain charm to it. I must say that I have played a fair few computer games and a few of them have been mmorpg's nothing has touched wow on terms of epicness and nothing has kept me playing for longer.

Blah blah 
losing track, 
brain shuting down 
11:30 pm
wake up time at 7 30 am

OK
My final thoughts about how WAR could dethrone WoW.
Realm vs Realm Combat.
Very few quests involving non combat with your racial/army enemy.
Much larger interactive storyline. WAR defienlty will have a much larger scale to it story wise.
(Think of the amount of fanboys just waiting to get into this game).
Characters and class's will be much more customizable (think of wearing a skull of your slaughtered enemies as a trophy, as said before all the class will be about combat even the support class's(think warrior priests)

More To come with this I guess, my brain has left me.
Sorry for the horrible grammar and spelling.
BED




Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmTsNAJIsc&feature=related
http://www.warhammeronline.com/gamedescription/index.php

IT project

The IT project Aidan, Jeff and I are doing is titled  the "Evolution and Progression of Online Gaming". As the title says its pretty much a description of all the  milestone throughout the history of online gaming. From the past to the present to the future. It will all be covered.All going well it should be ready for Tuesday.

Ill get some pictures up of some slides very soon.

HATERD IN PICTURE FORM

So tempted 

Look at the bastard not shutting down or doing anything at all, for the last 7 hours!

HATE

             RIGHT NOW I AM REALLY ANGRY AND SHOUTING IN MY BRAIN.



Ok so I now have just another bloody chapter in my saga of buying a mp3 player, which for most people would be a pretty easy thing to do, easy for everyone APART from me.!!! Let me explain,

Right so on last Friday (4th) I went into town with the idea of looking to buy a player. So in I go into the first store which was JB HI FI and went straight to the mp3 player section where I saw the generic stock of Ipods which ive never really wanted, some other microscopic players which are just stupid and some decent players mainly the Iriver e100 and the Creative Zen.

However at the this time I was pretty certain I was going to get the E100 4 gig model, so I ask Mr JB HI FI man to see if I could have a look at the 4 gig one and he said, after searching ONE cabinet for 20 MINUTES, he returned to me and said in a heavy Australian bloke accent "Naaaah sorry mate , looks like we don't have any mate, sorry about that mate"," We only have the 2 and 8 gig models at the moment cobber" , to this my reply was just simply Ok fair enough, with a slight frown.  

I went home to cry.



On Sunday I decided to ring the store to see if I could put on hold one of the 8 gig models , however the evil little bastards at JB HI FI decided otherwise, I spoke to 3 people in the one call, one told me that she didn't have any in stock at the current moment in time, but she gave me to someone else after I told her what I was told on Friday. The second person I spoke to said to me that he only had to 2 gig models in stock, which to that reply I also said that I was told that both the 2 & 8 gig models were still available on Friday, so he handed me yet other guy who was the Big Boss of the Electronic dep and he said finally that there were actually none of any of the models and that they haven't had any in of any model for roughly 2 weeks.!! So I 4 people all gave me totally wrong info, as if none of them would actually check with the Boss! So anyway, the Boss told me that a shipment of all the models should be in Wednesday so I should come in then. I said thanks and hung up

I went to my room and cried.

So Wednesday comes and I'm happy that I might be able to buy a gosh darn player!!!

BUT once again I get there and the original guy who served on the 4th helped me once again , by spend another 10 minutes searching a empty cabinet and to my shock he told me that there were still none. He also said, again that there should be more in soon. So once again I said ok.

I went to Donut King and got a Chocolate Thickshake to try and hide my tears.

Yet there was still hope left in the day! Jethro suggested that I just ask to buy the demo model. So I did and I got a whole 10$. At first I turned down the 3 year warranty, which was stupid because 10 minutes after I bought it i realized that I should have taken it , what can I say I'm not very smart. So I go back and get the warranty. Happy as can be I went home.

TO DISCOVER REAL HORROR!

After a few minutes charging I went up to an old mates place to make use of his cd drive (my dvd drive is waiting to be replaced atm , old story)....But I slowly realize just how slow his computer is and spent maybe two hours just waiting for about 5 tracks to copy to the computer and install iriver+3 which required a reboot which took about 5 mins shutting down and booting back up!!!Up grading the firmware took most of the 2 hours time..Bad bad times. I didn't get a single song on there either :(

So I get home and I download the iriver+3 software which all worked fine until.....after several hours of working without any problems whatsoever It decides that when I try to turn it back on AND AND AND WHAT DOES IT DO..........................

GETS TO THE LOADING LOGO AND DOESNT DO ANYTHING AT ALL IT WON"T EVEN TURN OFF!!!!!!!!!!!. ......It just hangs there doing nothing at all. Even after several hits of the reset button and holding in every single combination of buttons. Its been like this for since about 6pm , (Time of writing this ,12:24 am) Odin only knows how long the battery life has left in it! my guess a few days!!

Well then tomorrow I'm storming into JB HI FI with my warranty and will kindly ask for a brand new one. May Thor have mercy on them if I have to wait more than a week or two at max for it , because apparently there is still that new shipment on its way. 

                                   RANT RANT RANT

My new MP3 Player OMG OMG OMG

Well its time I did a selfish little bloody diary post (acording to Dimmie).
I am currently searching around for a mp3 player beacuase I want to listen to music on the bus, and so far I have decided I will getting a Iriver E100 (http://www.iriver.com/product/p_detail.asp?pidx=87) or a Creative Zen (http://www.creative.com/products/mp3/zen/) both models come in the 8gig size.

Because I don't save that much and am still trying to save for the upcoming Judas Priest concert I can only really spend 150-200$ so I wont be getting anything amazing but I don't really want or need a mp3 from space. As long as it has a nice screen and can hold a fair chunk of stuff I don't care. This said once I get one I will be probably using the video and photo things they have just because I can. This also means that I can watch Harvey Birdman wherever I go.


Both models have pretty much the same specs so I'm not really missing out on anything if I choose the Iriver or the Zen.

Blizzard lend me some money.

I think that with the titles that Blizzard will be releasing in the next  year or so that they are bloody more than rich enough to  lend me some moneeeh. 5 million would be grand.

Think how many millions of people will be buying the next WoW exp pack (me included) Meltor is a fire mage that melts things!

Starcraft 2 continues to give millions of Koreans erections everytime a new screencap is released and will no doubt breed a new generation of teenage boys that never had a childhood

Diablo 3 will just rape life . It should  anyway if Blizzard do not want a army of pissed off nerds on a bloody rampage coming down to their offices wanting there money back for completely destroying the greatness that was D2.

Bye

New bits.

Well with the help of Jeff and Zac, we managed to chuck some nice new(ish) parts in my old clunker of a pc. The "new" parts are nothing special but they are a pretty "prime" upgrade according to Zac. I'm not too fussed that I'm not running a state of the art pc, but I am happy that I'm comfortably sitting on a nice amount of ram (3gb) nice new mobo (GA-M59SLI-S4 GIGABYTE) and some random AMD Athlo X2 Dual-Core. Also threw in a 6800 gs which isn't much at all but still for the time being does ok. IF anyone reads this and has a go at my "new" parts being not so new and that there are better things out there (of course) , its about time i said that i got all that for a measly 100$ so its a bargain. However i still need a new psu for all this cause my old one is simply not enough.

At the time of writing I have already begun to think of the future , which hopefully will include a ATI Radeon HD 4850 or a Inno 3d 512 8800Gt and nice new 620w corsair psu(which i need this very second to play games!!) and oh yeah i need a sata dvd drive cause my mobo has only 2 ide slots and i have 2 ide hard drives and a ide dvd drive.

So currently I can't play most of my games at an acceptable frame rate for me, because of insufficeint power and I cant play old games off the cd's because i dont have a dvd drive.

So yeah I'm going to go make some penis monsters on Spore.