I shot the last bad guy today. From point blank range with an AK-47. Right between the eyes. Still the progress meter only shows about 67%! What gives!?
Of course I’m talking about a game here, and not just any game. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing Grand Theft Auto IV and it has been an entertaining experience. Great graphics, excellent story line, incredible details everywhere and of course you got to love a sandbox game. Tired of following the story line? What about creating a car pileup and dropping a hand grenade in the middle? Great fun. Did it make me want to throw hand grenades in public in real life? Not really, no.
I don’t think will ever go for a 100% game completion, hunting down every single pigeon in the city, completing every stunt jump. Perhaps I’ll go back to playing EVE Online again. Lately I’ve only logged whenever a skill training has completed to start a new one.
Checking the EVE Online site just now, I realized that a new expansion, “Empyrean Age” has just been released. Interesting…
Yes, I’m at it again, selling stuff off my site. This time I’m letting go of my Xbox 360, all the extra hardware I’ve bought for it and every single game!
This is what you’ll get:
Xbox 360 console with 20GB harddrive, wireless controller, headset with microphone and all the cables you need to hook the console up to your TV and stereo.
Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kit with one rechargeable battery that’ll fit in both the racing wheel and the wireless controller.
You’ll also get these 14 high quality games:
Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock (with guitar - this game is bought at Platekompaniet and still sealed, so you can go to the store and exchange it for something else if you want to).
Battlefield 2 Modern Combat
Need for Speed ProStreet
Need for Speed Carbon
Kane & Lynch Dead Men
NASCAR 08
Test Drive Unlimited
Project Gotham Racing 3
Project Gotham Racing 4
Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars
Saints Row
Forza 2 Motorsport
Colin McRae Dirt
The Orange Box
All this is yours for a mere 6995 NOK! That’s over 500 NOK off the price I’m advertising elsewhere on the interweb. Why? Special price for you, my friend.
Because of the size of the bundle it’s preferable that you can come pick up everything in the Oslo area, but I can of course ship worldwide at the buyer’s expense.
Ever since I got my Commodore 64 I’ve been programming. I was just a kid so it wasn’t very complicated stuff at the time, just simple text based adventure games with creative names like The Great Game III. I never got the hang of anything advanced, like sprites - it involved math and math was not my strongest skill at the time. Never was and never will be.
The closest I ever got to graphics was creative usage of the extended character set supported by the C64. With that I made, among other things, a game called Teacher Killer. Some of you might even remember it. It involved a stick man (the teacher) running over the screen from left to right and at the right time you hit space and a bullet would shoot from the bottom of the screen. Your score was based on how well you hit the stick teacher. Continue reading "Games From the Past."
Yes, I’m still playing EVE. Yesterday I joined my first non-NPC corporation, Phoenix Industries, and they seem like a fine bunch of people. I moved all my stuff to one of their offices in .5, and all in all it was a good 100 manual jumps before I had moved everything to the Ebo system.
To be hones, I’m not sure how clever it was to leave .6 and fly to .5 because I can’t mine solo there with my current equipment and skills. Even though joining a corp means more team play, I enjoy the solitude of solo mining. Just not when I run the risk of being blown to piece by Blood Riders.
If you, like me, enjoy EVE, you probably also want to keep track of what skill book you’re currently reading to avoid wasting precious training time. There are tools for available for all platforms that help you with this, but they all have to be installed and that’s not always something you can do. Take the iPhone, for instance. Therefore, I took advantage of the EVE Online API and created the EVE Online (Basic) Character Sheet. Simply enter your User ID and API Key and you’re good to go. Use del.icio.us to bookmark the page when you’ve entered all your info and you should be able to check your training status whenever you have web access.
