Guild Wars 2 BWE last weekend was awesome, only got disconnected once when they applied an update on Saturday. Very smooth experience overall. I didn't try out any PVP again, but I did hear about some issues with it during the weekend, but that they got it up and running by Sunday. It should be pretty close to release, here's hoping for one more BWE to try out Sylvari and Asuran classes!
Diablo 3 is still pretty awesome, I've got 2 characters to Nightmare and the fun is only just beginning. Starting to see unique and champion monsters with a wide variety of dangerous tactics and skills, its making adventuring dangerous! Already died 6 times in Act 1. :)
I sold an old laptop that I wasn't using and used that money to finally buy a PSP 3000, I'm not sure why I waited so long, this is by far the best hand-held system I have ever used. The DS was great, but it's tiny size was cumbersome and cramping. The stylus mechanic only made my Carpal Tunnel worse so it was very hard to even play it. The 3DS was pretty much the same, and the 3D gimmick made my eyes sore. The PSP is awesome with many many games that I missed out and want to play! Plus it serves extremely well as a multimedia device for music and movies for long trips! Much better and bigger than my old Droid that the wife is now using.
Speaking of hand-helds, the Xperia PLAY is starting to get on my nerves. More specifically the support for the device is non-existent and promises are being broken. The hardware and the android experience are absolutely fine, I'm still amazed at the smoothness and responsiveness of the experience. But if it weren't for the broken promises by Sony (bought Sony Ericsson) I could very well skip the next gen phones and be comfortable.
For one thing, the Playstation Suite/Shop does not exist in the US. You can buy PS1 games everywhere else, except for US... this doesn't make ANY sense. And they wonder why the phone isn't selling well? Seriously? So I bought an awesome gaming phone that can only play Android crap from the same company trying to market it as a Playstation Phone? Not to mention the phone went free with 2 year contract a MONTH after I bought it...
So, the XP in the US is forced underground, doomed forever to live a life of ancient emulation. Wait, what? Yes!! Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Master Drive, Playstation and even old MS-DOS games through 3rd party emulators. Yeah this is aweseome!
But really, Sony, I was READY to throw money at you! But you failed us.
My next phone will be a smartphone, I have a PSP and the XP will still be around, maybe on awesome custom firmwares by then. Thinking of going to Samsung or HTC, I'm a little leary of Motorola since they were acquired by Google. But I'm seriously looking at companies that have a good track record for updates and supporting phones, I will NEVER again buy a phone based on promises, if a phone doesn't currently have what I'm looking for, then I'm not interested.
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