Being a Bum

Posted by Stropp on May 23, 2008

It’s a pity that my favorite games don’t have a Lazy Bum class. Or maybe that’s a good thing or I might have spent the whole week playing it.

I’ve spent a goodly part of the week recovering from my recent trip sitting in front of the television, doing a bit of reading, and of course, playing games. It’s a good thing I’ve got this time off. I usually finish my vacation holidays moments before I go back to work and spent the next two weeks at work recovering.

The big thing about this week is that it’s been the calm before the storm.

Age of Conan has been released in the US. (I know. You’re sick of hearing about AoC.) And it appears that Funcom has not vanguarded the game. There have been a few teething problems, especially with the early access program, and there have been a few oddly timed server downtimes, but all up it appears the release has gone well.

I mentioned that I was called when I was on holiday by the game store with the news that my preorder card has come in. I picked that up a couple of days ago.

At the time I was given an update on the date the box would be arriving in the store. Apparently it was supposed to come in today (Thursday 22nd) for sale tomorrow. The shop was going to phone me when it came in.

Well, it hasn’t arrived. Apparently the local EB Games were inundated with calls asking when it was coming in, so they preempted my call and phoned me telling me the game wasn’t in.

I feel strangely calm.

I’m not worried.

I have an interview for a new contract tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, and it’s my Mums birthday tomorrow too, so there’s a birthday dinner planned for tomorrow night. And there are plans afoot to see the new Indiana Jones on Saturday evening with a visit to the obligatory Indian restaurant before hand. Oh, and I’m scheduled for Lasik surgery on Monday so my eyes will be out of action for a couple of days after that.

As you can see, there’s a lot happening. And I feel strangely calm about Age of Conan. I’ll get to it when I get to it.

Don’t get me wrong I want to play it. I’m excited about playing it, especially with all the positive news. I’m also a bit nervous. I really want it to live up to all the hype and expectations of the last year. I don’t want to get a month into it and get bored.

In the meantime, I spent much of this weeks gaming back in LotRO. One of my real life friends told me a few weeks ago that he subscribed to Lord of the Rings Online. It’s his first MMORPG so I created a Hobbit Hunter called Stroppo Swiftfoot on his server this week and started the leveling.

I reached 16 this afternoon and joined up with my friend when he logged in this evening. He has a 18 Guardian and handles it very well. We ended up running through the Strider quests together and, just the two of us, entered the Great Barrow. Needless to say, two isn’t enough for the end of the instance. We managed to get most of the way through, but the multiple elites got us. This instance really needs a Minstrel. Never mind. Next time.

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