It's Been A While

So, today was my birthday and now I feel way too old. That's not the point though. I've slowed down with this blog but promise to resume posting more and more often. I ran into a tough spot and just plain haven't had time to update or post to the blog. Here's a quick update of some games I've been playing.

The most exciting thing that I've been doing is playing Hawken. Now before I say anything, there is a contract about not talking about anything in game, so sadly I can't tell anyone anything. Thankfully I can say I had a ton of fun playing the alpha and I can't wait for the beta to come around. I've always liked the whole Mech game genre like Armored Core and Front Mission. Anything to do with robots with machine guns and rockets gets my approval. Future Cop LAPD was awesomely fun when playing against a friend, or even co-op and this might be why I've been playing Supreme Commander a lot lately.

I recently bought Torchlight 2 and have been having a blast with it. As underwhelming of a release that Diablo 3 was, Torchlight 2 seems to do everything right and generally better. I have to say I truly missed putting my points into my stats like I should be able to do. Especially if I want a unique build. Though it has four classes, they're so varied with expansive skill trees that it doesn't matter. I've played as all the classes but the Berserker so far and they're all quite interesting. One thing that sets the game back a bit is the horrible time I've had trying to join games hosted by my friends. More often than not I'd get connection errors. They've apparently fixed this, but I've also had problems with crashing (which I eventually found out was due to anti aliasing being enabled) that I've sorted the problem to, but is a temporary fix. Hopefully there will be a patch in due time, till then it's a simple and reliable fix. I haven't beaten the game since I'm playing on elite difficulty and am waiting for friends to join in on the fun with me (since were soooo close in level now). Since I started my game with them I feel like I need to finish it with them.

I've been playing other games as well, but I'll mention them later and talk about much more later in the weekend. I'd also like to start on the topic of Dota 2 which I've gotten 300+ hours into already and still I feel like a new player. Anywho it's time I take my leave. It's getting late and I've got a bit of gaming to do before I rest.