I multi-task. No, I single task multiple things.
Two new games in my life. Mike and I play online for a few hours, most weeks, on Saturday. We’ve played many different games, but for the last couple years we’ve played WoW with two alternative toons. We’ve picked up a new racing game, GTR2. It’s not our first racing game. Mike accuses me of quitting the other because he was getting good. I maintain it was boring going around in a circle (oval) for hours every week.
We played GTR2 this weekend and it’s good. We aren’t, but it was entertaining. We play with fancy joy sticks Mike came up with some time back. It would be better with steering wheels. Have you looked at the price of steering wheels lately? They are on the expensive side. I’m not sure we’ll be playing the game long enough for the investment. Just long enough for Mike to get good, probably.
Mike is going away on a long vacation soon. I’ve talked Mark into trying Guild Wars - Nightfall during the interim. We’d probably have played WoW if Mark hadn’t lost his account recently. Starting two new WoW toons isn’t as much fun as it once was.
I’ve poked around in Nightfall a little and they have made some changes. No longer do you feel like you are on a rail moving from one encounter to the next. You are free to roam. I’m not sure it’s better. You knew which way you were supposed to go before.
I’m not sure if I like the Hero thing. I’m supposed to equip and run multiple toons? I have enough trouble keeping my guy equipped. So far, I’ve just let him do his thing. He seems happy with that. Except when I got him killed. He re-popped when I entered town.
I started a Ranger. I like to stand over here while the fight’s going on over there. I picked up the skill to tame and control a pet, but I haven’t ran into anything I could tame yet. In the original game, taming your pet was one of the rails a young Ranger would ride as the game took you to the future pet and pointed him out to you. Having a pet, a Hero, a couple of henchmen and myself to run sounds a little busy anyway.