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WTB Minions, Cheap

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Not too much progress in Overlord today, just a mana powerup and some more havoc-wreaking in Heaven’s Peak. A bit of a setback actually, as I lost a ton of minions trying different ways to take down the silent cultists. They constantly resurrect each other, so maybe I just need overwhelming force to take them down en masse before they have a chance…

I also got in preorders on Halo 3, Eternal Sonata, and The Orange Box today. One of the preorder bonuses for the latter is a Valve-themed version of Peggle, and if you think the screenshots are creepy, the sound effect on the main menu is downright disturbing…

Forgery

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Managed to finish off most of the rest of the Dwarven areas in Overlord today and set up the ‘Trojan Statue’, except the brewery, for which I think I have to come back later. Despite the seeming non-linear layout, there are many steps which have to be done in a certain order, switching between specific areas to do so. The ability to roam freely is mostly just to clear out monsters ahead of time and find powerups.

I finished off by clearing out the Understreets in Heaven’s Peak, finally netting the next forge upgrade in the process. I now have a shiny new set of armour and a more ominous-looking axe, but they’re not enchanted yet. You have to sacrifice minions to add enchantments to them, and I’ve been afraid to do so for fear of finding the next forge too quickly and having wasted minions on obsolete equipment. There’s only one more forge upgrade though, so once I get that, it’s sacrificin’ time.

Dwarves Suck

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They may be tougher to kill, but the beer-swilling bastards are considerably poorer now after I wandered through their gold mine. Ha! I don’t really have anything to spend gold on until I get better smelters, though.

I’m not sure how many more areas I have left to go through in Overlord, but I know there’s still at least the Heaven’s Peak area that’s still mostly unfinished and a desert area, so hopefully it’s not too close to being done already.

My Bad

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A bit more progress in Overlord, as I now have the blue minions, killed Oberon, got a few more powerups, and burned the Elves’ orchard to the ground. That last one was actually accidental, and thanks to it autosaving into a single slot when you return to the tower, I can’t go back to before that point. So much for my 0% corruption run. Oh well, it’s not really that big a deal.

(The whiny elves deserved it anyway.)

I’ve also started preparing to finally get back to playing Oblivion. Why do I need to prepare just to play a video game? Well, it might take a little while to choose between the thousands of mods available… I think I’ll avoid most of the ones that make significant gameplay or quest changes to start off though, and just stick with ones that fix UI problems, improve graphics, etc.

“For Youuuu…”

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As hinted at, today I finally got back to Overlord, which is one of those games I installed, played for an hour, and then never touched again. Far too many games fall into that category for me, and it’s not because they weren’t fun; I just get easily distracted by something else that comes along. I’m going to try focusing on completing a smaller set of games first, though.

I managed to make pretty good progress, finding the red and green minion hives, taking out Melvin, recruiting a mistress for the castle, and getting my first forge. I accidentally wasted money on the forge by using it to buy steel armour though, when up to that point the game hadn’t really made it clear that you’re already wearing steel equipment…

And I finally finished the Level 10 Normal puzzles in Picross DS, and the unlock did indeed make me happy. I’m only about halfway done though, as now I have most of the Free mode puzzles to go.

Me, Cheat?

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Not much progress today, aside from a couple more Picross DS puzzles. Instead I finally picked up an Action Replay MAX disc and fiddled with it for a bit.

Normally it’s used to apply cheat codes to games, but that’s actually not what I wanted it for. What I’ve been looking for is a way to back up the save games on my PS2 memory cards, since I’m running low on room on them, don’t really want to buy any more, and am becoming a bit wary of losing my games after seeing reports of cards go bad. Fortunately it looks like AR MAX will work just fine for that, as it’ll let me copy the saves to a USB thumb drive. I apparently just have to watch out for the ‘delete’ and compression options, which can supposedly corrupt the card, but plain copying is fine.

The only problem with it so far is that going into the memory card manager part of the program causes the video to roll vertically on my TV, which makes it somewhat hard to use. I’m not sure if it’s assuming my TV can take progressive scan (it can’t) or what. It works when hooked up to the composite input on my LCD monitor, but it’s still an annoyance.

It Begins

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I finished a few more Picross DS puzzles!

Okay, that’s not exactly the most thrilling start… I just finished BioShock a couple days ago though, so I’m kind of between games now. I need to figure out which other ones I’m still in the middle of and focus on completing them first. Hmmm, my Overlord disc is still sitting on the desk…

In the meantime though, Picross DS is what I’ve been using to kill short bursts of spare time, as puzzles can usually be done in 10-20 minutes or so. I’m working my way through Level 10 Normal, after which I should unlock the ‘secret’ Level 11 puzzles, which are supposed to be a special treat. I’m guessing they’ll be of popular Nintendo icons. And after that there’s still most of the Free mode puzzles and the downloadable packs to go.