Week in Review - 8/3/2012

DS

• Pokémon Conquest

Kotaro & Zoruark

 I’m still pushing through Hideyoshi’s episode. I had spent a lot of time evolving Pokémon and their Warlords. All the while Kotaro and Nobunaga were dueling it out on the east coast. As a result of many triumphs over Nobunaga, Kotaro was incredibly difficult to defeat. I tried to lure his army into Terrera which is very easy to capture without battling head to head, but he would have none of it. Eventually, I took my newly evolved Yoshihiro with a fully evolved Conkeldurr to take down Kotaro’s monstrous Dark Pokémon. Now only Nobunaga remains and I push him back to Dragnor.

 PC

• Civilization V

My military is over 9,000!

I’m fighting off the impulse to buy “Gods & Kings” for Civilization V. I want to get it when it goes on sale or the price lowers, but I want it pretty badly. The game now feels incomplete when I read about the tales of religious intrigue and espionage from other players. At any rate, I finally loaded up the (incomplete) game in an attempt to rule on high as Arabian sultan. It didn’t work out. I lost by score to the unbelievable Egyptian empire. At one point a military rating came out which placed me around 2000 and the Ottomans (my closest rivals, but allies) at 4000. Egypt was at 15,000. I’ve never seen anything like that before. 

• Final Fantasy XIV

Shai, Nimla & Elden as White Mage

Final Fantasy XIV has been a lot of fun the last two weeks. I’ve been working really hard at getting all the new jobs unlocked. Completing those quests isn’t a small feat. Just yesterday, I joined (and later re-organized) a pick-up group into Dzemael Darkhold in order to get White Mage and Monk artifact armor. I’ve been plugging away at side-quests and camp achievements when I’m solo. Pretty soon, though, I’m going to need to set my sights higher. I need to defeat some pretty fierce bosses, and conquer some dungeons. The relic weapons loom beyond my reach as well.