A little bit different

This last week was kind of interesting. I don't even want to admit what games I played. I will start out with a little bit of justification. On Tuesday I had to take my wife to the doctor because she was sick. The doctor made her miss work all week. On wednesday I started feeling sick. I missed a couple days of work and we just relaxed all week. And finally my sisters play this really kind of pathetic in my opinion game called Evony. And my wife is always talking on the phone to my sisters cause they live all over the country. Soo.... I got sucked into this Evony game because of all the downtime that we had last week. It's like a real-time strategy game kind of like civilization or for me its kind of like Warcraft(not world of warcraft, that's very different). You start out with a small village and you have to build cottages to for your villagers to live in and you have to create farms so they can have food and jobs. And then you have mines and lumbermills and all kinds of things like that to build buildings and to make your village larger. And then when you get more into it you can build armies and form alliances and attack other villages. And then to top it off it actually takes a long time to build things. to start out it's between 5-15 minutes. but after a while it can take around 57 hours to build or upgrade a building. It didn't take my long to get sick of it. I almost went out and bought Warcraft 3 again so I could have something else to play. I also got to play some more Super Paper Mario which is still very amazing! It was definitely an interesting week in video games though...

Fall Break

So I had a goal for fall break. To beat three games. I didn't even get to beat one. I'm pretty pathetic I know. I did however get to start a game that I've been dying to play for quite a while. It's called. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. It's about a guy named Drake who is a treasure hunter and Sir Francis Drake is one of his ancestors. During his travels a finds a map to El Dorado which leads him on his next adventure. Unfortunately on the way to the island his plane gets shot down and the lady he's with gets lost in the jungle. He goes in search of her and slowly starts discovering things about the island he's on. I think I'm about a third of the way through the game. It is seriously very amazing. I'm excited to finish it up and continue on to the sequel that was released this last week. Even though I didn't meet my goal I did get to spend some time on a great game!

Finally

So this week I started playing the game Super Paper Mario. This is a game that i have been waiting to play for about a year. Its part of a series (if you can call it that) of Mario games that are all role playing games more than platformers like a normal mario game. It started with Mario and the legend of the seven stars on the super nintendo and has had games on nintendo 64 gamecube gameboy advance and ds and now its on the wii. This game is kind of revolutionary though because it combines the RPG elements in the other games with the platform elements in the original mario games. It also takes the sidescroll elements from the other paper mario games and adds an element of 3D where you can move the camera around mario and see things that you wouldn't normally be able to see (very cool). I just started it on friday and beat the first world today so I'm not that far into it, but so far there is a lot of potential for an awesome game. In the game it starts out with Bowser kidnapping the princess and trying to marry her when someone pops out of another dimension and kidnaps the whole lot of them including Luigi and Bowsers whole army of Minions. The only only left behind is Mario who sets off on an adventure to rescue the princess and Luigi. Shortway in on his quest mario finds out that he is actually the legendary hero who was predestined hundreds of years ago to save a bunch of worlds in a bunch of different directions. One of my favorite parts of the game as with all Mario RPG's is the humor. In this game they take a lot of things from classic RPG's to kind of poke fun at them like the intense dialog and things like that. I find it very humorous. It's a great game so far and I'm excited to see how it ends up being the more I get into it.