I know it can be a bit rough finding good places to farm ingredients for cooking. I have been all over in search of good spots. Sadly I have only found a few so far and the majority of items are just found around. Though each is in the same spot and runs on a 23 hours timer, just for you! So here are a few places with good farming
This is what I have so far, I will add more as I find them!
Lettuce Farms-
Queensdale- South of Beetletun [8]
Caledon Forest- The Rowan Woods
Potatoe Farms-
Plains of Ashford- South of Loreclaw Waypoint [8]
Wayfarer Foothills- North of Osenfold Waypoint- Beware of Jotun guarding the Area [7]
Metrica Province- Akk Wilds on floating island [8]
I am very excited about GW2! Even more excited because I pre-purchased the collectors edition and get a 3 day headstart! After much thought and the poll that I put up on my facebook page [ http://www.facebook.com/LoveBiscuit ], I have decided to roll a Sylvari Elementalist as Love Biscuit. She will be the character I play first and post on my YouTube channel [ http://www.youtube.com/xxxlovebiscuitxxx ].
I hope that many of you will embark with me on my adventure with Love Biscuit, the Sylvari Elementalist. :)
Recently I made a video on Couch Co-op, you can see that here:
I really find Couch Co-op to be a good way to brings friends together and families as well. Its a nice thing to feel like you played the game together and were actually in the same room. I was reading the most recent Game Informer and I was reading an article and it basically said that Couch Co-op is hardly being done because developers feel it is not used enough.
I would like to know how they know this... do they sit in my living room and watch what I play? Know how often I play it? Do they do that to everyone BUT me? That is doubtful. It does require different coding to make sure everything runs smooth on both split screens, but it is worth it.
Look at what the Kinect games are doing lately? It is all about spending time with your family and friends playing games together. Many of them are 2 player games and you do the objectives TOGETHER. I find that to be an amazing way to bring gaming into a family dynamic.
One game I really recommend checking out is Little Big Planet. I find that it really gets families connected. You can sign in on your own account and play your own sack person, instead of playing the generic one UNLESS it is YOUR account. This really makes people want to play. I can play on my own and then when I decide to play with friends or family I can get on their account or they can get on mine, but still play as their sack person with their account.
Bringing families and friends together without them having to network their computers and play in seperate rooms... OR in the same room but on a different system, on a different tv. I think it brings a different feeling being in the same room as someone and playing the same game. I do not see why it is shunned... granted Split-Screen can be kinda troublesome on a smaller tv.
There really are not a ton of games that allow 2 player co-op, and I would love to see more of it. One thing I want to see more then anything.... is being able to sign into my own account and play multi-player split screen in a CoD game. Why has that not been done? If I am at a friends house and want to play with them, I either have to sign into my own account and they have to split as my double... or the other way around. I dislike that, and really wish they would change it. Think of the amount of people that would love that! Siblings can play together, spouses, and friends... WITHOUT being forced to be a (2).
When I started my YouTube Channel- http://www.youtube.com/XxXLoveBiscuitXxX I had intentions on doing commentary while playing CoD. I soon realized how AWFUL I was at MW3 so quickly started to branch out. I enjoy yammering on while I play video games, that was until I started playing Diablo 3.
The dungeons were long and took me forever to get through and I would run out of things to talk about. So I started cutting them up for just the good bits. I hate doing that, but for now... it is what it is. I am looking for other ideas on what to do with videos and am hoping to grow in what I do with my channel.
I hope in time I can grow my channel and get more confident with what I do. I love doing this, and for now it is a fun hobby I want to enjoy for a long time. :)
Please feel free to leave me ideas or thoughts on changes on my channel. I would love to hear from you.
It has been a while since my last Blog entry. I have just been busy catching up on my videos for the second Beta weekend that I completely slacked on and life in general that I have not kept up to date on my blog.
So August 28th we will be getting Guild Wars 2! Those of you who pre-purchased will get a 3 day headstarts! [Meaning me too! ;)] I am so very excited about it. I will be picking one class and race and making a character for my YT channel. I was debating giving my subs the chance to help me decide which race and which class. Thought it might be fun, since it is likely I will only have time for one character for my channel for a while. What do y'all think? Might put a poll up on my facebook page.
I find out new things all the time about the classes and just the way GW2 is set up. There is one final Beta weekend on July 20-22 which I plan to take full advantage of! They are also giving us the chance to try out Sylvari and Asura! Who could ask for anything better?
I will be doing 2 short playthroughs for the Beta event similar to what I did on the second beta weekend. I will be doing it differently so I can voice it while playing, and that means you guys will get the vids THE day I play it. Instead of when I have time to voice and edit. :)
I would share if I was not so embarassed... the fact I have been jumping up and down since they announced the release date! I already have my bells on and I am ready to play! ;) Thankfully the last beta weekend will tide me over.
Some of you who follow me, know I have been very vocal about the ending of ME3. I thought that the story as a whole was amazing and loved every minute... until the credits rolled, for what I thought was to soon. Perhaps because I did not want Shepard's story to ever end, but honestly there were many things lacking for me. So many questions that should have been answered and no closure to the story that BioWare had promised us.
The main questions I wanted answered were-
Why was Joker and the Normandy off in BFE?- ANSWERED
Why were the squadmates who were with me on the final push, on the Normandy? ANSWERED
Where is my closure? -ANSWERED... good enough lol
The closure bit was good enough for me, I got to see who actually lived and died and some of the things that happened due to my decisions.
I thought that the added dialog from the AI at the end was weird and I did not really need it, but I suppose some people did and that is why it was there.
The prologue I got was by Anderson, but I hear it all depends on your ending. I look forward to finding them all out in due time... the Extended Cut makes me WANT to play ME3 again so I mist say:
THANK YOU BIOWARE, for listening to the fans and fixing what was obviously flawed! :)
Today is jammed pack of things to do! DLC for ME3 hit... the one I have been waiting for! Though the only thing I wanted answered, I can not find. *sigh* Anyone know if you have to build your EMS rating up again or if the save is with your previous EMS? I guess I will play some Multi-Player just incase.
Though not just the ME3 Extended Cut DLC... but we are getting Dawnguard for Skyrim! Many more hours of entertainment to be had there! Not sure if I will get it tonight, but I will get it soon! :)
Now add the excitement of ME3 & Skyrim DLC and add in that SWTOR dropped their Allies patch today! YAY! I am not looking forward to the level cap being higher, because I have 3 characters around 20-30 range. I should just pick one and go. lol
So I thought all of that dropped today, wouldn't it be cool if The Walking Dead game finally decided to come out? I mean... it is the end of June and it was supposed to be here last month! lol Though I still see no Release date in sight... they have less then a week till the "End of June" is gone. At this rate I may lose all my want to play it if I have to wait 3 months in between episodes. Wasn't it supposed to be on a monthly basis? I get that it takes time for programing, design, and writing... so please do not think me an "Entitled Gamer" I just think they say they are going to do something, and they should do it!
So I hope you all are having fun with the day full of DLC and patches! :)
For those of you who know me, you know I am very PATIENTLY waiting for GW2. I also have pre-purchased the collectors edition so I can be part of all the Beta weekends. I missed out on the first one, but got to take part in a stress test and the second beta weekend that was about a week ago. I thought I would give you guys my thoughts on this last beta weekend.
I found that it was very well done. I found very few bugs, and each I found I made sure to report... as this was a Beta. The sole purpose is for us to report those things so they can fix it. If it was a live game, these small bugs would not have even bothered me to much at all. It would not have taken away from my enjoyment of the game.
I feel that it is very polished and has to be nearly finished. The Dynamic events were fun and I also found that the quests around the world in making friends were different, like the time I had to throw snowballs at little kids... or perhaps when I had to keep feed away from some crazy rabbits. I had so much fun I hated to see it end, and it makes me want the game even more then I wanted it before.
I had high expectations for GW2, as I have been waiting for it for about 4 years. The expectations I had were passed by a ton. The game has truly come far and I had so much fun playing it, and for me that is what it is about. I hate those pay to play games where you get almost NOTHING with huge amounts of 'WORK'... if more games were FUN over all instead, I may pay for more games. As they do not, I rather not pay anymore.
So for me I recommend GW2 to those who are not even into MMOs and perhaps just like RPGs, because you do not have to group up and the stories are engaging and fun. Plus the combat system... it is awesome. Each class I tried, I loved! I spent the whole weekend not grouped at all and had a BLAST! So for me, I could see those who just like RPGs getting into the story and the combat of the game.
So yesterday the Wiki got me excited by having a list of release dates. They appear to be wrong. I was reading on the Telltale Games blog and found they plan to bring it out in June. The list from the Wiki I found was saying 3 was out late June, but if 2 is coming out then 3 would not also. Check out the blog, we can be looking for Episode 2 in early June at least! :)
This is the release for Episode 1 & 2. The other dates I have here, are based off of what we saw between 1 & 2.
PS3-
Episode 1: A New Day - April 27th, 2012
Episode 2: Starved for Help - June 29th, 2012
Episode 3: Long Road Ahead - August 25th, 2012
Episode 4: Around Every Corner - October 27th, 2012
Episode 5: No Time Left - December 29th, 2012
Last night I was checking my channel and noticed that I had 99 videos up! I know, weird time to catch it. So for my 100th video I wanted to do something a bit different and maybe slightly funny! If I see a ton of people enjoying Morton videos I will try to make more with him in them. I want to thank all of you who have been with me since I started [Not that long] and watched my videos and given me support along the way. I would not continue without all of you, so thank you tons!
I also hit 3,000 views on my channel this evening so again a big THANK YOU!!
So for those interested, check out my 100th video below!
You all are so lucky, getting 2 blog posts from me in one day! Lucky, lucky! lol
So tomorrow I will be posting my 100th video for my channel. I actually did not notice till today that I had even gotten that close. So I was thinking of doing something special, but no idea what... for my 100th video. Not like I gave myself a lot of time for this.
I do want to take the time and thank my 21 awesome subscribers for... well... subscribing and keeping me going. I love my channel and making my videos, but it is not worth it if no one is watching them. :) So a big thank you to all of you.
So... yea, I guess that was all I wanted to post about. So YAY to 100 videos! :)
So I am working on getting all of Diablo finished... SLOWLY of course. I am running out of room on my PC so have to stop and put the video together render it and then toss the HUGE Fraps to make more room. I have a little external hard drive now, and yes it is pink and awesome. I just use that for pictures though and it is not nearly large enough for what I need it for.
So I think I need to break down and get a awesome external hard drive or get another onboard hard drive to put all my videos on when I am between rendering and capping. I have 917Gb and run out so quickly, thank you Fraps.
Mind you I love the quality of Fraps, but my goodness they are HUGE! Yea, I really am fairly boring and thinking of getting a Hard Drive was the highlight of my day. :)
So this afternoon we were outside blowing bubbles and my daughter asked if we could get a trampoline or a waterslide... I had to nicely tell her no, because we do not have the money for that. She looked at me sadly and asked me why not when I am obviously working so hard on my youtube channel.
That was when I had to tell her that I was not making money off my channel. I told her that if I made money off my channel that I really enjoy doing, then that would be amazingly awesome. For now though, I am not making anything, it is just for fun.
This is where the promise came in. I had to promise that IF I ever actually made money off my videos, the first thing I would put it towards was a waterslide and a trampoline.
So if you have a Battle.net account for WoW or Diablo 3 you might want to worry about your account possibly being hacked. It seems to have a huge amount right now with the release of Diablo 3. I made a video about it on my youtube channel. Watch it for some info and maybe helpful hints to help keep your account safe.
So I went to the midnight release at my favorite gamestop and got my copy of Diablo 3! I was so excited and came home and did a really dumb video of my unboxing. Hopefully some found it mildly entertaining... and if not, oh well.
I was exhausted when I made it and then I still stayed up to download everything and get one video done... that actually turned into 2 because I spent over 20 minutes on it so broke it into 2 parts!
Hopefully I can get one of them up tonight [This morning], I plan to render both before I go to bed. I actually was having a blast and hoping to probably do another video as well.
Now aside from the weird looks from the guys at the no-female midnight release it was very enjoyable!
I also wanted to take the time to say how much I am enjoying my YouTube channel! I am having so much fun, and I hope some people are enjoying some of my content. I plan to do even more in the future! I also look for any advice or ideas on how to make things better on my youtube channel.
So today I got on for the Stress Test of the servers and such... and I was actually blown away. I love the combat system it is amazing. I have to say I am so used to bioware games, namely SWTOR, where you get to choose the interaction to take in the cutscenes. Though just the same they were well done and I enjoyed watching them.
The combat system is awesome and I loved it! I think the only issue I had was the voice for the female norn... I know something silly to have bother you right? Well just think about it here for a moment. For the norn you look very girlie girl... or maybe the best way to say it is very final fantasy-ish, but yet you have a very deep and brutal female voice. Just did not make sense to me, and as much as I love the build and thoughts of the Norn with the whole shape shifting thing... it bothered me so much I am not sure I can play it.
though on the whole the few hours I had on GW2 for the first time... I was blown away and really enjoyed myself. I can not wait for the next GW2 weekend... I will not be leaving my computer room!
I am debating starting a guild in Guild Wars 2. I co-ran a guild in AoC [age of conan] and I learned from that what will not work. We went from 2008-2011. The guild pretty much died around the first of the year in 2012.
I loved that we were about having fun, but we never got to do the really hard stuff as a guild because we did not have a good structure past the council.... the actually guild lead did not really enforce things and it came down just on me.... Once I took time off of the game because of some drama mixed with the fact I was homeschooling my daughter, the guild died. It was sad, but I did not see the point in putting in all that time.
SO I was really leaning towards maybe starting up a guild again. I had fun with it when we all worked together.
[Typing on a wireless keyboard in my 'gaming room' so apologies for any technical difficulties]
When I downloaded The Walking Dead gam e I did not have high expectations. I assumed for $20 it was something worth atleast trying, plus I loved the tv show. I put it in and immediatly saw the influence my choices made. I also found myself becoming very protective of the person that came under my charge.
I really got into it as the end of the Episode hit. Feelings of 'owning' my choices and longing to see what would come of the choices I made along the way. I was not really expecting this as I had for ME3 [but was slighly upset with that ending]. To see your choices matter and influence the way it is played takes a good writing team. I am very much looking forward to Episode 2 when that comes out.
So would I tell people to be sure to download this game and anticipate the other 4 parts? I already have! So what are you waiting for?
I may take my hand at reviewing video games again. I first attempted it and then just got frustrated... with youtube actually. It then caused me to "rage quit" lol So I think it is time to do it once more. Hopefully this time I can do it.
I am still working on what sort of system I will use to review, but hopefully I will have some reviews up soon. As I am only one person I will not be able to review EVERYTHING, but I will review what I play. I can not go long without a new game so I am sure there will be enough to keep some people happy.
