A Gaming Diary
PC
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 24th
Still can’t do the poisons quest. I can’t even kill one enemy in the tower. Not a single one. I can’t sneak up on them. They see me if I get within six feet of them. It’s highly annoying.
Went to Ashenvale to deliver some reports. Got ganked several times. Made a night elf run away though by attacking him while he was having some food, though, so that was nice. Ended up only delivering one report then called it a day.
Too. Much. Running.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 23rd
A quick go at lunchtime. Indulged in some Summer Festival activities, then went and stole some plans from some goblins up in Windshear Crag. Also reached level twenty-two, but I don’t think there’s any point flying off to get my new skills until I’ve completed the poisons quest in The Barrens. The enemies are all level twenty-five, so I’m not sure I’m quite ready even now, despite it being a quest you’re meant to do at level twenty.
Sid Meier’s SimGolf (PC)
Jun 21st
A blast from the past. All the Civilization stuff lately has got me thinking about other Sid Meier games, so I dug this out and played it for an hour so. It was fun and I designed some nice holes, but money comes in far too slowly for my liking.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 20th
So I was wandering around Silvermoon when a Tauren gave me a quest, which was win a match in Warsong Gulch. So I decided to give it a try. All I knew was that it was some sort of PvP thing. Turns out it’s a Capture the Flag gam, played between teams of Alliance and Horde. Jumped into a match that we lost within a couple of minutes of me joining. Then I joined another match from the start. I couldn’t do much, as I’m only level 21 and everyone else was 28/29, but I helped on quite a few kills. We won that match and I completed my quest and got a lot of honor points. Not quite sure what they are or what they do, but I think it might be something to do with the guys I’ve seen in cities with blue question marks over their heads. Not sure. Anyway, it’s good fun, if appallingly laggy.
Oh, and I got up to Exalted status in Tranquillien and got my posh cloak.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 20th
Right, yes.
Today I spent most of lunchtime travelling or dead. I did get a couple of quests done in Deatholme, but it was a highly frustrating hour or so.
I only seem to have two quests left in Tranquilien, both of which require groups, so I won’t be doing them. Annoyingly, I’m only 750 points off reaching Exalted status and being able to buy a special cloak. Maybe I need to farm some more rotting hearts and spinal dust.
Not sure what to do next. My rogue poisons quest seems to be impossible to do at my level and the only other quest I’ve got takes me from The Barrens into contested territory, where I’m sure to be ganked every couple of steps.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 18th
A somewhat frustrating lunchtime spent teamed up with someone who didn’t speak English and didn’t share a quest.
Still, I got one of my quests done and got up to level twenty, so it wasn’t wasted time at all.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 16th
This lunchtime I killed a lot of trolls. And then poisoned their food for good measure.
But they were bad trolls, so that’s okay.
Civilization IV (PC)
Jun 14th
I certainly didn’t mean to play this until half past three in the morning. But the Americans needed conquering and then the Egyptians got in the way and I couldn’t find their final city and then it was so near the end of the game that it didn’t make sense stopping…
I won a Time Victory in the end. That seems to be based on who has the most points in 2050AD. Hurrah, I guess.
(Culture seems to be a bit different in this game compared to Civ 3. I only had two small cities revolt and join my civilization due to culture and I’d been pumping out wonders and temples and libraries like nobody’s business.)
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 14th
Somehow, logging on to check my auctions saw me run around Silverpine Forest for an hour or so completing a couple of quests. That wasn’t meant to happen.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 13th
Quick session today got me sent off to the Undercity to deliver a necklace.
Now I have the choice of going back and doing missions in Tranquillien or doing some quests in the Forsaken areas.
The Forsaken quests look a bit too easy – i.e. will get me no XP – but I’m struggling with the Blood Elf quests I’ve got left. Tricky.
