MMO burnout ?

Just realised i haven't been posting much on my blog lately.
Not that i've not been playing, those who follow me on Twitter/GamerDNA/Raptr probably saw me game quite a lot.

But when it comes to MMO's, well since Tabula Rasa went down i haven't played them much.
I adventured around a little bit in some of the MMO's i still have a sub for, like my (SOE) Station Access and lifetime sub for LOTRO, also been doing a bit of Beta (like Free Realms and...).

But most of my gaming was done on the PS2, PS3 and Xbox360.
I did finally give in and got a PS3, although i am still dissapointed in the fact that i can't play any PS2 games on it, i still like the PS3.
But my favourite is probably still the Xbox 360, don't know, probably because i feel everything works better or maybe i just like the way the Xbox 360 works better.

Anyway what have i been playing?

Well on the PS2 i have been playing Persona 3 and i have Persona 4 laying around for when i finish Persona 3, also tried to play Everquest Online Adventures but unfortianatly all PAL servers have been taking down and only countries with NTSC can still play this MMO.

On the PS3 i've been playing Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5 (still stuck in the first level, can't beat the big guy), Pain (loved this game, never thought one could have so much fun with a ragdoll physics based game), Siren: Blood Curse and i have Heavenly Sword still laying around to be played.

On the Xbox 360 i've been playing: Saints Row (finally picked it up again), Guitar Hero World Tour, Fable 2 (totally got into this game, great), Peggle, Bully Scholarship Edition and i decided to get Saints Row 2 after playing it mostly on the PC, still think Saints Row is a lot more fun than GTA4, also got the new DLC for it, which i guess is a bit dissapointing but does give a couple of very cool new rides and a new homie you can call straight from the start.

On the PC i have not been playing much the last few weeks but i did start playing Silent Hunter 3, some Fallout 3 and i have a couple of new games waiting to be played, like Zeno Clash and the new Fallout 3 DLC.
But i will probably be playing Saints Row 2 and Fable 2 for a while as i am totally loving these games, i especially like the open world/sandbox feeling in Saints Row 2, i guess this comes as close to an MMO feeling as possible while playing a single player game.

I even bought the strategy guide for Saints Row 2 (although i haven't used it yet, only browsed through it), i usually don't buy strategy guides and when i do it usually means i like the game a lot and want to try to get everything possible out of it.

So after all this console (and mostly single player) gaming i am beginning to wonder if i am burned out on MMO's, some of the upcoming MMO's that i was really excited for don't seem that exciting anymore.
I guess only time will tell, for now i am having lots of fun playing Saints Row 2 and Fable 2.

The Ultimate Quest - Update

Thought i'd give a little update on my "Ultimate Quest" project.
Have hardly finished any games (not as much as i would have liked) since the last few as i've mostly been playing MMO's.

So far the games i've finished are:
Starship Troopers, Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood and F.E.A.R.

I haven't mention finishing Brothers in Arms on my blog, when i loaded up the game from the last save, i noticed that it was actually the last mission (which i allready finished) so apperantly i had allready finished it but thought i didn't.

According to the rules i made up i can start a new game when i finish 3 games, but i haven't picked a new game to start yet, i feel like i didn't really finish 3 games yet and i really wanna get that list down a bit more.

The current playlist of games to be finished are:

- SpellForce 2
- Crysis
- Unreal Tournament 3
- Hellgate London
- Clive Barker's Jericho
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (incl. Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles)
- Prey
- The Witcher
- SWAT 4
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
- Combat Wings: Battle of Britain
- Freelancer
- The Lara Croft Tomb Raider Collection (incl. Tomb Raider Featuring Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 2 Golden Mask, Tomb Raider 3 Adventures of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider IV The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider V Chronicles, Tomb Raider VI The Angel of Darkness)
- Baldurs Gate (incl. Baldurs Gate, Sword of the Coast, Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal)
- Star Wars Republic Commando
- Farcry
- Bioshock
- World in Conflict
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
- The Godfather
- Tortuga: Two Treasures
- Darkstar One
- Jade Empire
- Overlord
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- Clive Barker's Undying
- The Hitman Collection (incl. Hitman Codename 47,Hitman 2 Silent Assassin and Hitman Contracts)
- The Longest Journey
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- Dreamfall
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Opposing Force
- Missing Since January
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

I allready started playing on SpellForce 2 (allready 9 hours into it), but i am thinking of removing that from my computer as i have the SpellForce Universe edition that includes SpellForce 2, but i'd like to start it from SpellForce 1, so i am going to be removing it from the playlist and count it as part of the SpellForce Universe (which includes all 5 games).

The list continues...
PS2
1- Resident Evil 4
2- Manhunt
3- Haunting Ground
4- Resident Evil - Code Veronica X

PSP
1- Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy
2- Star Wars Lethal Alliance
3- Jeanne D'Arc
4- Silent Hill Origins

Xbox 360
1- Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga
2- Mass Effect
3- Test Drive Unlimited
4- Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

My current list of new (unplayed) games are:
PC
- Evidence: The Last Ritual
- Atari Anniversary Edition
- SpellForce Universe (incl. The Order of Dawn, The Breath of Winter, Shadow of the Phoenix, Shadow Wars, Dragon Storm)
- eXperience 112
- Gothic 3
- Timeshift
- F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
- F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate

Xbox 360
- Crackdown
- Burnout Revenge
- Saints Row

My new games list is getting quite big, so i am hoping to get some more games finished in the near future so i can start working on the new games before that list gets out of hands :)

The Ultimate Quest: Finish games

I have a (bad) habit of not finishing games, i am not talking about MMO's or games that have multiplayer or games like Guitar Hero (i did finish it on easy mode though), i am mostly talking about finishing them in singleplayer.

Usually i'll start a game and play it until i get a new game and i'll start playing that and "forget" about previous games. It's not that i don't like them, i just never get around to finishing them and always tell myself that i will finish them later.

I started putting a list together of games that i never really finished, my goal with this is to finish all the games on this list before opening or starting to play a new game, it's probably going to be hard but to not play any new games but the list is getting ridiculously long and i really need to finish them.
I am not sure on how i am going to do this but i think it's at least a good start by not playing any new games until i finish the list..

Anyway here's the list of games i still have to finish:

PC
1- SpellForce 2
2- Crysis
3- Unreal Tournament 3
4- Hellgate London
5- Clive Barker's Jericho
6- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (incl. Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles)
7- Prey
8- The Witcher
9- SWAT 4
10- Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
11- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
12- Combat Wings: Battle of Britain
13- Freelancer
14- The Lara Croft Tomb Raider Collection (incl. Tomb Raider Featuring Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 2 Golden Mask, Tomb Raider 3 Adventures of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider IV The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider V Chronicles, Tomb Raider VI The Angel of Darkness)
15- Baldurs Gate (incl. Baldurs Gate, Sword of the Coast, Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal)
16- Star Wars Republic Commando
17- Farcry
18- Bioshock
19- World in Conflict
20- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
21- The Godfather
22- Tortuga: Two Treasures
23- Darkstar One
24- Jade Empire
25- Overlord
26- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
27- Clive Barker's Undying
28- The Hitman Collection (incl. Hitman Codename 47,Hitman 2 Silent Assassin and Hitman Contracts)
29- The Longest Journey
30- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
31- Dreamfall
32- Half-Life: Blue Shift
33- Opposing Force
34- Missing Since January
35- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

PS2
1- Resident Evil 4
2- Manhunt
3- Haunting Ground
4- Resident Evil - Code Veronica X

PSP
1- Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy
2- Star Wars Lethal Alliance
3- Jeanne D'Arc
4- Silent Hill Origins

Xbox 360
1- Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga
2- Mass Effect
3- Test Drive Unlimited
4- Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

This is a list of new games i have not played/started yet:

PC
- Evidence: The Last Ritual
- Atari Anniversary Edition
- SpellForce Universe (incl. The Order of Dawn, The Breath of Winter, Shadow of the Phoenix, Shadow Wars, Dragon Storm)
- eXperience 112

Xbox 360
- Crackdown
- Burnout Revenge

Looking at this list... well i almost wanne give up before i even started :)
Of course it's always nice to have a few games to choose from when you want to play a game, but this list is just ridiculous, there are games in this list that i haven't touched in months.
So my first step is to get the list down to an acceptable number and first of all finish those games that i haven't touched in months (or longer in some cases).

Below is a list of games that i finished since i started with this:
This list will be updated whenever i finish a game (it will also be removed from the list above.

Finished games:
1- Starship Troopers (PC)
2- F.E.A.R. (PC)

Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s

Been playing Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s, managed to get 5 stars on all but 2 songs on easy: Bathroom Wall and Los Angeles, just can't get 5 stars on those songs..
Also started playing on medium, a bit more difficult but fun, also after playing songs on medium for a while i noticed that the songs were getting a lot easier on easy, so it's good practice doing them on medium.

Guitar Hero 2

Been playing more Guitar Hero, beat Guitar Hero2 on easy, have to say career mode is a lot more fun in GH3.
Now to get more 5 gold stars on the songs, so far only have 2 in GH2 and i think 4 in GH3, and than (hopefully) move up to medium..

Guitar Hero 3

Finally managed to finish Guitar Hero 3 on easy mode, have to admit, so far i did not manage to finish Reign in Blood (i just can't get this one done) but i did manage to beat Lou (the end boss) in the guitar battle with the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia, what an awesome song to play (personally think it's probably the best song in the game), really wish you could play that song without having to go through that battle again as that battle is a major pain in the ass.

Since i can't get enough of the song here it is :)

 Steve Ouimette - The devil went down to georgia Guitar hero III version

Guitar Hero 2

Finally got it, got a perfect score on the song Woman, finally got that last note, yay :)

Guitar Hero 2

Playing Guitar Hero 2 on the PS2, almost got my first perfect song...
Only missed one note on the song Woman, major bummer.

Guitar Hero

Still having lots of fun playing Guitar Hero on the PS2.
Loving it so much that i've also ordered Guitar Hero Rocks the 80's and Guitar Hero 2 & 3.

Rock on !!

Guitar Hero

After hearing and reading so much about it i thought of giving it a go, so i bought Guitar Hero for my PS2...
This is way to adictive, i am allready starting to get blisters on my fingers, just like i did years ago when i was still playing guitar :)
Have to admit i am only playing on easy, but it's still hard enough to time the notes right, but i am getting better...... i think..

F.E.A.R.

Been playing F.E.A.R. and Resident Evil 4 (on PS2).
F.E.A.R. has some fun little "scary" moments, so i was having fun until the game freezed up on me..

More Far Cry

Been playing some more Far Cry, having a "blast":)

Other than that i've been compiling a list of the games i still have to play/finish..... it's getting huge...
But then again, still lots of fun to go :)

Anyway, here's the list:
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
Overlord
Jade Empire
Darkstar One
Baldur's Gate (including: Sword of the Coast, Shadows of Amn, Throne of Bhaal)
Tortuga Two Treasures
The Godfather
Tomb Raider 1 to 6
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Far Cry
Starship Troopers
World in Conflict
Bioshock
Hitman: Codename 47
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Contracts
Clive Barker's Undying
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine
Unreal
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
Haunting Ground (PS2)
Manhunt (PS2)
Resident Evil - Code Veronica X (PS2)
Resident Evil 4 (PS2)

The list is getting very long and there will be more added soon..

Haunting Fun

Played a bit of Haunting Ground on the PS2, looks like a nice game.
Decided to get some games for my PS2 as i haven't used or played it for i don't know how long and there seem to be some really good games out there for it and Haunting Ground is one of the first i got, i also got Manhunt to play.
The only bad thing is that over time my controller seems to have broken, so i'll have to get myself a new controller first :(

And i've been playing a bit of Clive Barker's Undying, on the pc ofcourse :)

Ordering more :)

Just a little list of games i currently have on order/pre-order.

Haunting Ground (PS2)
Clive Barker's Undying
Starship Troopers
Unreal Anthology
Crysis
Lost Planet
Bioshock
Oblivion The Elder Scrolls 4
Oblivion The Elder Scrolls 4 - Knights of the Nine
Clive Barker's Jericho
Hellgate London
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Tabula Rasa - Collectors Edition

Lots of gaming to do :)