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Killing Rebels For Fun and Profit
May. 7th, 2012 05:50 pmFirst of all, thank you to everyone who wished me well with the unemployment situation. Apart from that whole making me redundant via e-mail thing (which turns out to have been down to incompetence rather than malice) my former employers were good about it. I got a generous redundancy payment, so I have a bit of leeway in regard to finding a new job. There's one thing I've applied for that I think I have a fair chance of getting, so I'm waiting to see how that pans out before I look too hard for something else. In the meantime, I am engaging in that great traditional pass-time of the unemployed: playing videogames.
I've finished Dragon Age 2 for the sixth time, which was a bittersweet achievement. It wasn't until I was taking Gideon Hawke through Legacy (my favourite part of the game) that I realised that I would probably never play him again after I was finished. While I do plan to replay once more with my first Hawke, I'm pretty much done until DA3 comes out. While I'm looking forward to that, I'm sad about the Exalted March expansion getting cancelled :(. DA3 is probably the best part of a year away, at the least. It could be a lot longer than that if they decide to hold off and put it out on the next generation of consoles.
Luckily, I have another BioWare RPG to be going on with. I've never been very interested in MMOs, but when I heard that Star Wars: The Old Republic was going to have a STORY and COMPANIONS and VOICING and ROMANCES ... well, I caved. As it turns out, the timing is perfect, since it's not like I have a lot else to do right now.
Currently I am a Level 17 Sith Inquisitor who has just received her very own spaceship. Amazingly, I do not suck! Well, not now that I have Khem Val. Melee combat without a pause button is way too confusing for me, but it turns out that shooting Force Lightning at people and healing is something I'm OK at. I've even teamed up with some total strangers for some Heroic missions, only fifty percent of which have involved my party getting facerolled. (And the second time was so not my fault! The DPS pulled aggro. See, I have totally learned the lingo through years of WOW osmosis.)
I love Khem, although he affection for me is not too high because I keep telling him not to eat people. Sadly, the gift vendor I found did not have an expendable Force user for sale, so I bought him a skull instead. He seemed to like it.
I've finished Dragon Age 2 for the sixth time, which was a bittersweet achievement. It wasn't until I was taking Gideon Hawke through Legacy (my favourite part of the game) that I realised that I would probably never play him again after I was finished. While I do plan to replay once more with my first Hawke, I'm pretty much done until DA3 comes out. While I'm looking forward to that, I'm sad about the Exalted March expansion getting cancelled :(. DA3 is probably the best part of a year away, at the least. It could be a lot longer than that if they decide to hold off and put it out on the next generation of consoles.
Luckily, I have another BioWare RPG to be going on with. I've never been very interested in MMOs, but when I heard that Star Wars: The Old Republic was going to have a STORY and COMPANIONS and VOICING and ROMANCES ... well, I caved. As it turns out, the timing is perfect, since it's not like I have a lot else to do right now.
Currently I am a Level 17 Sith Inquisitor who has just received her very own spaceship. Amazingly, I do not suck! Well, not now that I have Khem Val. Melee combat without a pause button is way too confusing for me, but it turns out that shooting Force Lightning at people and healing is something I'm OK at. I've even teamed up with some total strangers for some Heroic missions, only fifty percent of which have involved my party getting facerolled. (And the second time was so not my fault! The DPS pulled aggro. See, I have totally learned the lingo through years of WOW osmosis.)
I love Khem, although he affection for me is not too high because I keep telling him not to eat people. Sadly, the gift vendor I found did not have an expendable Force user for sale, so I bought him a skull instead. He seemed to like it.