Switchover

The blog update has begun.   It'll be a work in progress until the dust settles.   Expect to see City of Heroes odds and ends as I find them and post them.   After over 8 years of screenshots, covers, alternate characters, there is a lot of memories I'm filing away.  Add to that that I'll be replacing my computer shortly, and you'll find that I've got a lot of files I'll be going through as I preserve the memories.  Hopefully the good feelings will outweigh the bad feelings the shutdown caused.  Let the healing begin.

• I just picked up Need for Speed Most Wanted -- I'm having fun with it, even if controling the cars is a bit odd at times.   I do like the structure of the game.  Except for the elite 10 cars, you can find new vehicles rather easily.   I've not tried Multiplayer yet, but will, once I feel I've got the hang of it.  I've already beat my first elite vehicle.
• Skyrim is still calling me.  Other than City of Heroes, this has been my chief game over the past 8 months.  I think I finally picked it up in late spring.  It is such a vivid world, and the game system is robust enough to handle multiple character types.   I will admit to some altism on this.   My first major toon was a Nord, but he was a jack of all trades, which meant he mastered none.   Of late I've got a Nord Two-Handed Heavy Armor fighter going -- Almost no magic on this guy save for Enchanting.  Alduin has already fell, and I've got him in full Deadric armor.  Smithing is up into the 90s, so Dragonplate armor may be coming.   I prefer it to the Deadric in looks.  With the skill and bonuses he's running with nearly 200 damage per swing of his axe.   I've had Dragonscale on a light armor character before, but never dragon plate.   I've got a lizardman mage as well.   He's taken on the vampire lord but not Alduin.    Both are in their 30s, although the nord (Yngsmar the Cleaver) is at 39 I believe.  I'm anxious to have them ready as Dragonborn, the new DLC will be coming out on the 4th -- two days.
• I've got several characters in Champions so far --Including a tank version of the COH character Wild Deal,  a Hybrid force user version of Doctor Futura and others.   There is a heave COH presence in the Champions game now.   Even the SGs I'm seeing harken back to COH classics, or hint at City elements and Servers.  I've seen "Justice Girls ", "Shards of Virtue", "Survivors of the Apocolypse" and others of late, and there is a CoX chat channel that is abuzz with ex City players.  I suspect villain players might go DCUO, since so far Champions doesn't do villains.   It also doesn't do customizable SG bases, which seems to be a sore point for ex-CoX players.