That’s funny! I wonder will McCain start doing the same thing. I wonder what the game players’ reaction to the ads are. I wonder is they can even see the ad while zipping around the city. I wonder if those were McCain ads would gamers try to destroy the objects by crashing into them. ;p Haha! Well, if the audience isn’t watching TV, then get them where their eyes really are. I think it would have been fun if the campaign had put out a gamer centric message, like Obama’s stance on Net Neutrality and decency in entertainment.
Here’s blog entry from CNET about the new XBox Live experience. This is supposed to be the UI big update from the XBox360 this is coming sometime for Christmas. They are planning to add avatars and to include some community building aspects to the XBox 360 in an effort to attract more casual gamers. I don’t know if this going to make those folks that may be casual gamers buy the XBox360 because the platform already has a solid reputation of being hard-core gaming platform. Perhaps it may hook the non-gamers in a gamer household — the household gamer already has an XBox360. It isn’t like the Wii, which was designed for casual gaming in the first place. Well, I suppose the message here is that the software is the experience rather than the hardware. I think in this case, though, the ease of use of the wii-mote complements the wii interface and facilitates casual gaming. I can’t say that about the multi-button 360 controller.
As a hard-core gamer, I’m not sure I care about the XBox360 UI update. For the most part when I want to play a video game, I want to get to the game as quickly as possible. When I want to play with an avatar, then I sit down with that intention. Now I have used the Wii for non-gaming purposes. The Wii has some functionality that facilitates curiousity like news, weather, and the Wii vote channel. This is in the context of the wii, though, which feels exceeding friendly and gives me warm fuzzies. I’m not sure if I want warm-fuzzies before sitting down to a typical game I’d play on the XBox360 like “Devil May Cry 4” or “Dead or Alive.” Sigh … well, I am looking forward to the community aspects. I am greatly enjoying the community within “Warhammer Online” and it would be nice to play and chat with some of the people I meet within a game on XBox360 too.
Yep, I’ve earned the title the Fashionable … sigh … I hate to be so typical, but a the same time, I can’t help myself. It’s important that my character look cool. Anyhow, here she is:
I finally managed to get a hat tonight. I won some legendary bracers for my Sword Master too. They alone provide 216 armor. I was positively giddy over these bracers. Anyhow, my Sword Master is dressed in all white with gold, pink, and blue accents. She looks shiny and regal like a sword wielding princess — so pretty!. I’ve made a nice tank to guard my husband’s squishy fire mage (kinda reminds of the battle concept behind “Shizuka” from “Angelic Layer” — lots of armor and lots of strength). It’s quite a contrast to my Witch Hunter. My witch hunter looks like a stylish pilgrim. I wonder if there’s some black dye out there. I would love to clad my witch hunter in all black or maybe black and red or orange. I’ve been concentrating on strength and ballistics for her. What’s funny to me is the way I’ve built my characters and clad them are all different reflections of my personality. For the most part I like melee battle, but I like to be able to stand back from the battle and plink away with my gun or ax when I’m too injured to be in the middle of the fray. I’ve never been good as a supporting character like a healer. My husband laughs because I always end up making characters with so much strength they chunk other characters in battle. I haven’t seen any chunkage yet in Warhammer, but I will be aiming for that result.
I found out today, if I don’t venture in the RvR regoins of the map, then I won’t be flagged. There is also an option to unflag yourself when you click on your character’s icon in the upper left corner of the UI. I haven’t tried this yet though. Anyhow, I was able to resume my questing without bullies bothering me tonight. I also did a couple of instances and I’m getting better at player vs player. Most of my improvement has come from getting used to moving my character with the mouse only in a mode that is like an FPS (hold down both mouse buttons to move). Now I just choose an emeny and stay on the enemy swinging and shooting until one of us dies. I usually die because the enemy runs back to their home base and I get pulverized by a large group of players. But maybe 25% of the time my persistance pays off and I manage to score a kill before they make it to safety.
It seems that I have a passion for extinguishing “gits.” You see, towards the very beginning of the game, some “git” and his/her squig decided to cross over into the human home territory on one of the beaches. I kicked his or her behind along with the squig and continued questing — stupid git!. A few minutes later, the “git” returned with a stronger enemy (a higher level orc) and that stronger guy kicked my behind while the git looked on — what a git!. Since then, my brain auto targets any “gits” as kill on sight. So, if you have given your little green guy the subtitle “git” look out for me because I’m hunting for you.
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