Okay! Hey everyone, felt to write a new entry, so here I am. It has been a few days since I posted a new entry, mainly because I've been pretty busy and RL was slightly.. a mess. So, what has happened so far? First of all, I've received my grades. Since our school system is most probably quite different, I'm not going that much in the details. Shortly said, my grades are all well. So no problems ahead, and I better keep it that way.
We've had some major tests, of which I don't know the results yet, but I don't expect them to be *that* good, so.. I'm not really looking forward to the next weeks to see what things will come IRL. One big exception : Next Tuesday (Wednesday night) we fly to Italy, to do a complete travel through the country. We will stay for 9 days. I'm pretty excited for Italy. First reason is that I've studied Latin for 4 years. With all respect to the people who study Latin, or any other death languages, I simply didn't see the use of it, apart from studying TO study. But, during those 4 years, I've learned a lot about the culture of the Romans & Greeks. And I guess this is finally the moment I'll see things, for real.
Secondly, Assassins Creed. Yea, you'll find me returning this subject for a lot of times. If you didn't know yet, I'm a huge fan of these games, and Assassins Creed II (and Brotherhood, releasing the 18th November) is taking place in Italy. I've seen some beautiful buildings in these games, and it will be awesome to see and visit them for real. It's a school trip, so we will be guided by teachers, but.., as it's our final year, and we will have a lot of freedom. I'm wondering in what state we will return. As we have much freedom, I'm sure we will end up... well, drunk. Secondly, we won't have much sleep. We leave in the middle of the night, and it will be 24H before we are back in a bed, to get out of it again 7H later. Some patience, and I'll be back with hopefully an excellent story. To be continued! (In main while, you'll have to miss this blog too ;))
Now I'm talking about a PS3 game, I believe this is the right moment to share my PS3 nick. If you want to add me, my nick is : DarkIslands (Like pretty much everywhere). I'm not that much on PS3, don't have a mic or something to talk and game with you, but you're always free to send me messages on there, or something.
Ooh, I almost forgot that the birthday of my mum is this weekend. I'm horrible at remembering birthdays, and the only one I really know is my own. I think I'm going to an expensive restaurant or something together with her as my present. Kind of mother-son moment? Well, I think that, since I'm becoming 18, I'm reaching a moment in life where you should consider what is really important in your life and what isn't. The little game we are playing (RS), isn't. I'm rather a month F2P, don't go that much out, etc. to give my mum an excellent birthday. To show that she really is important for me, and has been so far, even though I haven't showed that during the age of 12-17. For her birthday, she's getting herself a puppy. So.. a second dog will be joining our home in around 6/7 weeks. Pictures will follow! But for now, let me introduce you to the current ruler of our home : Gibsy (it's a she, by the way)
Today I had a test about the Belgian court system. It was a pain to study, and the test itself was very difficult. I'm not sure if I have passed but I'm kind of nervous about it. We have a really strict teacher for this subject, and he's someone who wouldn't like me to fail, as he says I'm a quite smart guy. I hate it when people have expectations of you, which you need to fulfill or they get annoyed. Also one of the reasons schools annoy me, you can't develop what you *want* to develop. As example, I'm a quite artistic guy, so I really would love to train my drawing, editing, writing skills etc. but I don't have the chance for that because we have subjects like maths, French, ..., which hardly interest me. Since I'm in the final grade I've pretty much gained all the fundamental knowledge and the things we study now really feel unnecessary. Apart from languages, what you really can use in your later life. BUT, they make one big mistake. They still continue raising your KNOWLEDGE, while we really should move over to SKILLS. I'm rather able to speak fluent English instead of knowing all the irregular verbs. Don't you agree?
Maybe I should finally speak a bit about RuneScape. Since that's what this blog should be about, isn't it? :P So, recently I had one of these rages. That's a moment that I really need a break from the game, sell everything, and don't log in for days. I had it earlier this week, because I was kind of annoyed with my busy situation IRL. When I went online on RS, I really didn't want to do a farming run, and mine afterwards, etc. So I got even more annoyed and came to a point where I sold everything and just didn't log in for days. Don't worry, I have this err.. quite frequently. It more has to do with real life, as the actual game lol. BUT, I've returned, more on that below.
Another problem I've spoken about and I still didn't solute completely is the economical aspect of maxing out. Some skills require huge amounts of cash to train somewhat effectively, so I really need to figure out pretty soon how I'm going to make money as I finish the cheap skills. Now, I could hope for an update which includes new moneymaking methods, but I'm not really hoping for that. Barrows is something which jumps through my mind now, as, when you do it effectively, you really can make a lots of cash out of it. Ah well, I still got some skills to go, so I'm gonna try and avoid the money problem until I really need the cash, and hopefully, I'll have found a suitable method by then.
The Halloween event of RuneScape was kind of interesting (didn't got bored!). But, I wonder if we still will see another update this month. I can't remember anything from Behind the Scenes and we still have a week before the end of the month. No update week, or does Jagex wants to surprise us? The event itself was excellent, and I loved all the references in it. But, it was quite of 'weak' content. I was finished in about 10-20 minutes and could return to my regular play style. Now, I know that RS is a game which gets updated awfully a lot, so they can't create huge expansions to make you play for hours, but in all honesty, with each update I should be able to busy myself for at least an hour. I understand that they want to make the game more.. social, or fit the time of the year, but further I don't see really the use of releasing holiday events. Because it's fun, because it's tradition? Well, it's a fairly good tradition since RSC, but I got the feeling they are running out of ideas, and I'm wondering how the holiday events will evolve. Basically, I got always the feeling that I'm doing the same each year. It's always the same packet, just it's always slightly different.
Mm, it's difficult to bring under words. I think they should either remove the holiday aspect all together, or do it better. Bring not just an event, bring community events, update whole parts of RuneScape to fit the time of the year. I think, they can do better if they put more effort in it. However, they did a good job, I just believe they can do better. Kudos Jagex.
I got another negative point. The sound updates. Now, I know that whenever there is an update, people always hate and complain, but I think this time it's justified. I didn't have a problem with the HP updates, etc. but now I'm quite annoyed. The changes to woodcutting & mining are actually good, and this update really opens space for better sound effects and to have voiced encounters (GWD!) soon. But.. have you guys heard overloads, or combat yourself? If I didn't know someone was playing RS, I surely would say they were doing something QUITE different. I'm going to stop about it, but I've read some hilarious comments on the RSOF. To keep it short, I really like the fact they want to make the game more realistic, but less drama please, before my parents tell me to close my browsers screen and to behave.
What am I up to on RS now? Well, I've quit with doing daily farm runs for a start. Sorry farmers, but it really isn't my type of thing. I'm someone who rather concentrates on one thing, and really goes for it. For now, farming will have to wait, but I will get back to it someday, and I'll concentrate on that skill, to get it 99. Probably will combine regular farming with vinesweeper to concentrate. Now I'm back to mining. Current progress is 88/99. So I still have to train a while, and I'm sure it will be a month or two (probably more, see below), but you can AFK it and I'm having fun. Rather take the slow & fun method instead of 'killing' the skill by overtraining it and never touch it again. RS isn't your job :) (except if you work at Jagex). By the way, I think I've purchased a dpickaxe on the right moment, if you check the graphs. Another positive point of AFK skills is that you can play little browser arcade games in mainwhile, which I'm doing on Kongregate now. A great site, excellent community, and excellent features. In my opinion, it's far better as Funorb, but Funorb still has a lot of room to expand.
Before I forget (Slipknot, haha), it's almost weekend! So.. enjoy Friday and have a lot more fun this weekend. For me, that will be slightly difficult as I have an annoying test tomorrow, which I didn't study and probably won't anymore today. I'll learn it tomorrow throughout the day and everything will be alright *hopefully*. By typing this, it makes me realize again how lazy I am, lol.
To end, I'm sharing the beautiful new Assassins Creed Brotherhood trailer. And as said before, I can't wait. I'm sure November & December will be months with a lot less RuneScape just because of this game. As it has multiplayer features, I'm considering to take a few months a break from RuneScape to restart my maxing goal with a fresh mind. Of course, we will see how it turns along. But don't worry, I keep blogging. I'm not going to speak that much of Assassins Creed Brotherhood (yet), as I noticed I've written fairly a lot already. So I'm going to end here, and I promise you you'll receive a full entry about AC:B some day later. (Review, etc.)
Now, have a great Friday and enjoy that weekend what is coming your way. See ya next time! (As always, feel free to comment and give feedback, or even speak to me in game)
Sven
(Psst, if you enjoyed this one, the Burn My Shadows & E3 trailer are AWESOMENESS also)
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