Non-WoW Gaming Update
I have reached the point in WoW where there is not much more to do for my main character outside of raids. Sure, there are a bunch of achievements I could finally finish (such as loremaster or the cooking achievements) but I find that more often than not, I just lack any desire to play outside of raiding. I am sure this will all change for a while after 3.1. There will be raiding of Ulduar that will take up quite a bit of time as well as the Argent Tournament for new dailies. The big boon for me will be dual specs since I will be able to spec ret and then go grind out things (like finishing Maghar or getting exalted Timbermaw) but I do not want to pay to be specing back and forth between holy and ret right now.
Outside of WoW, I have not really been playing much on my computer and have been turning instead to my 360. When I replaced my 360 at the beginning of this month, I picked up four games with it: Fable 2 (which I had beaten as a rental before the console was stolen), Grand Theft Auto 4, Culdcept Saga and Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad.
Grand Theft Auto is very meh for me. I have played maybe three hours of it and I do not feel myself attached to the game at all and just am not finding the game enjoyable at all. This is a pity because I LOVED Vice City. I cannot even begin to fathom how many hours I dumped into that game.
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad is not a good game and the only reason I purchased it is because it is called "Bikini Samurai Squad". It is a pure slasher where you go around killing hordes of zombies. Except the zombies move slow and are not hard to kill and you can usually just run past them all to the end of the stage.
Culdcept Saga is the only game I have put more than three hours into. I have really enjoyed this game because this game has on multiple occasions made me so angry I have wanted to throw my controller. It is best described as a mixture of Monopoly, Yu-gi-oh, and Risk. You move along the game board dropping monster cards on squares and using monster cards and spell cards to take over enemy squares. When I first started, I lost to the very first battle in the game four times. The problem is that they do not do well to explain the game before throwing you into a full unrestrained match and at first the dice rolls (movement is all based on dice rolls) can seem a bit rigged so that the computer is rolling a bit better than you. Luckily, a loss is not a game over and you walk away with some consolation cards and can try the fight again. After picking up some "better luck next time cards" I rebuilt my deck and started holding my own in the game.
Rynala has done a fair share of game playing herself. Her new laptop is a beauty and more powerful than my desktop (yes, I am jealous of it). Before we took the trip home, I loaded Bioshock and Mass Effect on her computer (both run max resolution with all settings maxxed). She beat Bioshock while we were back home and just beat Mass Effect today. Now I just need to get her to play The Witcher.
Anyway, hopefully I will have more to talk about this week. I hope to maybe take a look back into Runes of Magic and get Rynala to join me but we will see how that goes.