WARHAMMER Chronicles: Episode 1 - Which class?!?!?

I first started as a marauder. I figured that since I loved playing a fury warrior in WoW I would love the similarities between them. Well, I was wrong. The marauder is decently fun to play. I enjoyed it a lot, but all the glaring innefficiencies that fury warriors had, the marauder exaggerates tenfold. A 3 second snare doesn't do anything when it's on a 10 second cooldown. No ability to break a snare means that the range classes can effectively kite me without me laying a hit on them. And with wearing the equivalent of leather armor makes me more into a rogue that cannot stealth. I plan on picking him up again later, but for now, I'm gonna try a different class.

But which one? I wanted to play Destruction with Toby, but nothing else really had my fancy. I decided to try out a shaman. Almost immediately, I was having fun again. The starting zone and graphics are much more appealing to me than the Chaos. The idea that doing more damage increases my heal effectiveness and that doing more healing increases my damage is a very appealing structure to a class. I am thoroughly enjoying it.

I did a PQ (party quest) with Toby as a black orc and I think this toon will be my main. Yeah, I've heard they get harder to play later, but for now I'll stick with him and see what's up. I haven't played a healer yet so that'll be a great new aspect. I'll keep you posted, as this will be the first in many series of episodes from WAR. Look forward to having Josiah, Pat, Micah, JCrap and Ryan playing with us all and getting a guild going.

~J

Fusion Frenzy 2

I played this over the weekend some. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, this one has something very obviously lacking in it and I can't explain it. Most of the problem stems from feeling like you're pushing buttons in water. All the controls are sluggish and are hard to maneuver.

The characters are much the same, some of the minigames are the same. They added a few fun ones as well. But all in all I can't say I enjoyed this game. Definitely not as much as the first one where I had hours of fun. Maybe if would help if my roommates actually played with me instead of no longer playing as soon as I get decent. I don't want to be THAT guy, but you guys can't expect me to not beat you if you suck at video games to begin with.

I'll give this a 6.3 or so. Completely arbitrary. It was not good enough to rent or buy, maybe not even borrow. In fact, unless you played the first one, don't play this one. And if you did play the first on then go play the first one some more. It was a better game. Play this one for novelty. Then go play something else.

~J