Weekend Wrapup: Training A Newbie Gamer Edition

It finally happened! I found a few games that my fiancé could get into, and now the slow transition into Gamer has begun ;) We picked up a PS3 the other day, and as such needed to get a few games to go with it, natch. So he spent most of the weekend and (practically) all day yesterday running around in one of the games we picked up, which made me a proud geek. Also, it gave me some time to play around with a few Facebook games I haven't given enough attention to and a certain PC game as well. So what did I get into this weekend? Here's the break down:

World of Warcraft

While my man was gleefully slaying in his console game, I was happily hunting out new daily quests and poking around Zul'Drak to see what that zone has to offer. Turns out there is a nifty quest line where you get to dress up like a scourge ghoul and ends with another appearance of the Lich King himself, which is quite nifty. I'm slowly getting my jewel crafting up to speed and have been working on my fishing as well, but I suppose that leaves cooking as my only other crafting skill that I should work up. Also, my Druid hit 78. I like that he's getting up the level ladder at a steady pace, I'm just not sure I want to get to 80 because I'm just not sure I care for the Heroics grind, but we'll see what happens when I get there.

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

I gushed about this game a few days ago and my assessment still holds. The game is pure fun! I've been doing the Tony Prince quests almost exclusively up to this point, but it might be time to branch out and work on some quests for the character's Mom and a few of the other side stories. It is great to hear the main character continue to defend his boss' sexuality to the other less-accepting characters in the game. And, as is always the case for a GTA title, random destruction and violence is always a nice little side activity to keep me interested and engaged!

MyTribe

This is a new Facebook game that I heard about from Cuppy's blog, and I have to say that it is kind of fun. It's a simple Sims-like game, but it is great to fill a few minutes of your downtime. I have an aversion to the 1,200 pound Gorilla of Facebook games Farmville, either because the idea doesn't interest me or because it's so dang popular it doesn't need my help, but I just can't get into it.

God of War Collection

This is the game that has completely consumed my boyfriend. I downloaded the God of War III demo on our PS3, but he ended up playing it. Then he played it again. And again. And then we were at Gamestop because I mentioned that the first two titles were amazing and that they were out on the PS3 and he had to have them. Even though God of War I is more or less a straight port, it looks and runs great because they made the code native to the PS3 and added HD to the mix. But he started playing yesterday around 1 or 2 in the afternoon and quite playing around 3 am, with only a couple breaks in between to watch some TV while we ate dinner and a few other random breaks.

What Did You Play?

I know many people had nicer weather this weekend, but if you're anything like me, that just meant a walk outside and then open windows while your gaming away ;) So what games did you sink your teeth into this weekend?

- Dickie