Cosine's Corner

As I'm closing in on level 80 on my first toon in Guild Wars 2, I've become increasingly worried about the end game content. What's going to keep me playing after I hit 80 besides trying out another class? ArenaNet is constantly stating that the entire 1-80 process is the endgame and in some ways they're right. When you do World vs. World PvP (WvW) or structured PvP (sPvP) your level, stats, and skills are all scaled up to level 80 to provide an even playing field. Your character has a semi-personalized story campaign (based on decisions made during character creation) that is a pretty cool story albeit a little corny or loose at times.

OUYA is probably something a lot of people have yet to hear about since it's still fairly new and isn't even on the market yet. I don't remember how I heard about it but it was probably somewhere on reddit . The ideas behind the console really give me hope for the home game console market and I really, genuinely, hope it does well on the market instead of becoming a niche product. OUYA (yes, it's cruisin') is a small Android-powered gaming console designed/aimed to open up the home gaming console market. I very much like the idea behind OUYA to the point that I dropped $100 into its Kickstarter a while back despite being unemployed and having to juggle some money around. The good thing is I'll be getting an OUYA console before it's officially available in retail. They're really pushing the "open console" movement and have some big names onboard with them (Square-Enix being a huge  one).

Of the list I posted some time last year, I've cleared out a lot of titles. Not by playing them, but by getting rid of the systems they were for. Truth be told, I really got tired of having to swap media back and forth for games. I'm really loving digital distribution of games and opt for versions of games over hard copies now. Of the games I had started, I got bored of a bunch of them and traded them in to GameStop. For posterity's sake, I'll update my original list below. If it's been removed then I don't intend to play it right now. Some of the games I have completed but I don't intend to write anything about them (as of right now) due to finishing them so long ago. Significantly shortening my list. I've also recently stopped playing WoW and got into Guild Wars 2. Excellent game, really. I'll be adding PS3 to this list since I have one now. I got rid of my PSP and Xbox 360 due to simply not using them.