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Sunday, May 02 2010 @ 08:53 PM |
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 I dusted off the old Wii today, and got started a bit on Capcom's Monster Hunter Tri. The series is hugely popular in Japan, and Tim Buckley had a series of humorous comics depicting the gameplay recently (Monster Hunter Guide).
So far the game has been pretty fun, and the graphics have been nice. I've killed herbivores, insects, and carnivores. I've also mined for iron ore, dug up herbs, and caught insects in a net. I have not played enough to get to the underwater hunting yet.
I'll have to wait and see if the lack of real story will be boon or bust for me, but so far it feels a bit like a Phantasy Star crossed with MMO gathering / crafting.
If you like action combat and don't mind a steep learning curve, this might be worth a look.
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 Well, I was asleep for quite a few of those 24 hours, but that is beside the point.
So far, I am quite happy with my purchase. I've read email, browsed the web, played some games, listened to Pandora, watched an episode of the Colbert Report, did part of a crossword, updated my Vacation spreadsheet, and generally just played around.
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All of the books for this month were liked by those who read them. Yay!
A note: if you get the ebook version of Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler, I found the formatting in the eReader version from fictionwise.com to be horrendous, and I was unable to read it. Ellen on the other hand had the Kindle version and it was fine.
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Also, added link to Amazon Kindle version of Strange Brew that is now available. Still not available in eReader format.
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There is a nice writeup on the updates and features on the release version 1.5 over on Kotaku.
Although I've enjoyed the game and will play it when it arrives, I've been playing a lot of WoW again lately. I've got one character out in one of the WotLK beginning expansion areas, and that has been a lot of fun. I guess what I'm saying is that so far, the one MMO that I keep on going back to seems to be WoW. Everything else has been fun for a while, but then my interest tapers off. And if I go back, re-learning the game seems to be too much work (whereas WoW seems very easy to me to return to). So, I guess we'll see how Aion does, and see if it can become another long-term alternate for me alongside of WoW.
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Brian read Midnight's Daughter and liked it. He commented that it was better written than then first three Cassandra books by the same author, the main character wasn't whiny, and it tied in well with story references to the other books.
Ditto read and Tracey "Elained" Red-headed Stepchild. Ditto liked it better than Tracey and gave it a minimal recommendation. He thought the author's twist on vamps was different enough to set it apart a bit despite mediocre plot and writing. Tracey got distracted along the way, but was at least interested enough to read the end to find out what happened.
Ditto also read Gabriel's Ghost and Tracey had just started it. Both thought the Sci-Fi world was very well done, especially for an author who is primarily romance. Ditto pointed out that there is sex in the book. He also mentioned that he would probably read the other books in the series.
Tracey called for members to come up with a quote or favorite line from each meeting's books and "bring" to book club next time to share along with the book's discussion.
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