10 Things I Love: Video Games

I logged into my Wordpress dashboard the other day and realized I was only ten entries away from my 1,000th blog. I’ve been busy with life and haven’t had the motivation to post lately, even so much as letting the fifth anniversary of the website come and go without a mention.

Since 10 is such an easy number to work into blog entries, I thought I’d do a “10 Things” list, but break it into ten separate entries with more content than a typical top ten list does.

The topics discussed are in no particular order, except for the 1000th entry.

10 Things I Love: VIDEO GAMES

It’s no surprise to people who know me and for the regular readers of this website that I’m a big fan of video games.

It all started when I was a small child and my granddad let me play his Colecovision for the first time. Playing with those blocky characters and obnoxious tweets and chirps that passed for video game sound effects opened me up to a whole other world that I had never seen before.

My next great adventure in video games came with the release of the most perfect toy in the world for a boy in 1988: The Nintendo Entertainment System. I wasn’t fortunate enough to have one myself, but luckily I had a friend who was terrible at it and asked me to beat Legend of Zelda while he watched. I was over at his house every weekend for like two months exploring the first version of Hyrule, occasionally breaking to jump on Koopas dressed like an Italian plumber.

If the Colecovision was my gateway drug into video games, then Nintendo was the crack that got me hooked for a lifetime. The addiction only got worse as I grew older.

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Posted by Haggis on March 6th, 2008 @ 2:55 pm.

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The Long Road to 70

My name is Haggis. I live in San Antonio, Texas, and I’m an Orc Warrior. For the HORDE!

Of course it’s no secret that i’m an avid addict player of the Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game World of Warcraft. In fact I’ve been playing the MMO off and on since it came out.

I am attempting a milestone in the game, a first for me. The games level cap, or maximum level, is 70. I am currently 1/3 the way through level 69, so I decided to live blog the event.

I have vowed to reach level 70 before the new year, which is as the start of this article, 20 hours away. Since the company I work for is so awesome, I’ve got the next two days off to do nothing but play this game and ring in the New Year.

I stopped at the store and got a 24oz Mocha Cappuccino, a bag of Doritos, two bags of peanut M&M’s, some Sour Nerds (which are awesome, by the way), and a 12 pack of Coca-Cola.

If I don’t die from lack of sleep or go into a diabetic coma, I should be able to achieve this modest goal.

So here goes.

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Posted by Haggis on December 31st, 2007 @ 2:01 am.

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This Is Why I Love This Game

I know I’m a nut when it comes to World of Warcraft, but the above video and the matching live action is one of the many reasons why I love this game: the dancing.

Even if you’re not a player or even mildly familiar with the game, check out the video above which details most of the dances each race in the game can perform. The classic Dancin’ Fever dance is the first one featured, and I actually had no idea about the crazy Tunak Tunak Tun dance the Dranaei race performs.

Nothing beats Peanut Butter Jelly Time though.

Bonus: Even more after the break!
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Posted by Haggis on December 14th, 2007 @ 12:58 am.

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Lord of the Rings meets World of Warcraft

Yes, I’m a huge nerd and also a World of Warcraft addict.

And if you’ve never played the game (or any MMO, for that matter) you won’t get the jokes in the animated image above.

N00b.

My favorite part has to be that they suspect Boromir of being a ninja. “I get plate drops kk?”

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Posted by Haggis on November 20th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm.

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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

After 12 months, numerous phone calls, several weekend huntings, and in incredible amount of frustration, I have done what seemed like the impossible:

I now own my very own Nintendo Wii.

The adventure began Saturday afternoon.

I went to Best Buy to grab a Gaming Headset for voice chat on World of Warcraft (you’re welcome, Ack), and while in the checkout I got the fairly standard “Did you find everything you needed today?” question from the clerk, which I followed up with “Yeah, unless you have a Nintendo Wii stashed in the back somewhere.”

He paused, looked around, and then whispered “They’re getting in a shipment tomorrow morning. We’re not supposed to tell anyone but I overheard them talking about it.”

My eyes went wide with happiness, and I thanked him profusely. I left and immediately got on the phone to my neighbors and friends ML & X and told them about it, and we planned on a group effort to Best Buy at 9:30am Sunday morning.

At 9:45am we were in line outside the Best Buy when the clerk came out and announced “There are 14 people in line, and we have 10 Wii’s in stock. Sorry.”

Not ready to give up, we went across the parking lot to the Circuit City where we discovered (along with the crazy talkative lady that had been there since 5am or something), that they only had ONE to sell.

At this point we were getting frustrated and a little defeated, so we decided to make one more pit stop at another Best Buy across town, and lo and behold we were able to each grab one. I spent the entire day yesterday playing Wii Sports, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime 3.

The best? The three-person Wii Tennis tournament.

Any Daily Haggis readers have a Nintendo Wii that’s hooked up to the internet? Add me to your Wii Friends!

Here’s my Wii Console Number: 2491 3501 5181 4878

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Posted by Haggis on October 15th, 2007 @ 10:12 am.

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If Real Life Were Like An MMO

While musing with a co-worker on integrating terminology and actions from constantly playing massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft, our conversation inspired me to create a comparison of real life versus MMO life, and what it would be like if the two were mutually exclusive.

If Real Life Were Like An MMO:

• While waiting for friends to show up, you spontaneously break into dance with no accompanying music, although it’s just the same dance move over and over.
• Every time you go walking, you are forced off your path every minute because you need to go dig up a flower or hammer at some rocks.
• You are constantly pestered by teenagers asking you for money or if they’ll take you through an area too scary for their age. Oh wait, this is called parenting.
• You can sleep anywhere, and stop right in the middle of the road for a snack or to read a book.
• The local mall will become an area for smaller groups yelling “Looking for more to shop at Old Navy! Please send text!” They may also walk around wearing a sign that says “LFG ON. PST” and you would know exactly what it meant.
• People will laugh and cheer if a random person decides to stand in a public area in their underwear dancing. Usually this is reserved for private establishments by the airport.
• Sometimes when you ask for a strangers’ help, they may just stand by the door and take credit for your work until you kick them out.
• You can fight someone until almost death, and afterwards they will only reply “good match!”
• Every few months the government will make a massive change to every profession, requiring you to learn all your skills over again–but for free!
• Any store you go into will buy anything you have to sell, but the really good and expensive items are sold on eBay. (Auction house, get it?)

Feel free to add your own in the comments section!

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Posted by Haggis on September 10th, 2007 @ 1:22 pm.

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Red vs Blue: Episode 100 - The End of an Era

The end is here, and it’s damn funny.

The Austin based machinima creators Rooster Teeth released the final episode of Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles late last night. Culminating in 100 total episodes, plus several Public Service Announcements, the series has gone from a relatively unknown web series to a featured spotlight on Microsoft’s XBox Live service and the funny bastard children of Bungie, the creators of Halo.

I’ll save any spoilers for after the jump, and as soon as they release the embeddable version of the episode I’ll put it at the bottom of the article, but for now:

Click here to watch the series finale of Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles.

NOTE: There are actually THREE different endings to the episode, all available through the different links at the top. “Red vs. Blue” takes you to the first cut, “Episode” takes you to the second cut (and my personal favorite ending), and “100″ takes you to the third ending.

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Posted by Haggis on June 28th, 2007 @ 6:20 pm.

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