One Small Step

I didn't do much as far as gaming goes yesterday. What I did do was go to bed early and get the first decent amount of sleep in like 2 weeks. I also started Blogsothoth Gaming.
     Much to my chagrin Eve online servers were down for the Incursion 1.4 update. After the tedious update process all I had the patience to do was go online update my character's appearance and add a few skills to my training queue. I changed my character because CPP, the creators of Eve, made me. They added some features like body piercings and tattoos. It was more of a chore than a treat because the character creator is so finely rendered that it runs slowly even on my fancy (relatively) new computer. The training queue previously mentioned is a daily task to perform because abilities in the game are improved via a queue of skills that upgrade in real time whether you are online or not. Thus, I was able to upgrade some skills while I slept the night away.
     I also played a bit of Dead Space 2 on 360. I'd lent it out to a friend for awhile. I've already finished the game but was midway through the ever popular second-play. I hate coming back to a game midway through after a long hiatus because of the inevitable disorientation. This was no exception. After about 20 minutes of play I got tired of being moderately stressed out by the "scary" game. So I did a bit of the multiplayer. I moved up from rank 7 to 9 and got bonus damage to the Spitter. Spitter is one of the monsters you can play in multiplayer. The Dead Space 2 multiplayer is interesting to me. You get 2 teams of people playing, humans vs. monsters(necromorphs). The humans have some objective to fulfill like assemble a bomb, or activate an escape route, etc. The necromorphs objective to to stop the humans from succeeding. So it's not just your standard death-match. But what's most alluring is that the necromorphs are pretty unique enemies and it's incumbent upon the players to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the 4 necromorphs you can choose from, and also learn the role in a party each one should hold. Inevitably people fail to play them as a team and everyone dies, but I like the idea at least.
     Today's agenda involves screwing around for a few hours (read: probably play Eve), go to school, then tonight I've got a date to play some Last Night on Earth with a friend. It's a zombie board game that partially bridges the gap between board games and role-playinig games. Read more here!