The Guildmasters

Hi all,

Ok so i’ve got to the part where we are in the balandor castle, i’ve now just got to go into the past and am about to fight the black knight I believe. Trouble is i’m not quite at the level I want to be to carry on, really wanted to get to the point where I get my knight.

Still, it’s not too bad as I do have Yulie’s knight now which is a plus. I think i’ll go online for a little while to level up a bit more, would like to get to around level 60 before I carry on, i’m level 52 at the moment. Also I have to do some more bounties as I haven’t been doing many of those due to running around with all the errands, i’m about half way through the errands this time.

That’s about it really for now, still GR 14 but hope to get that to around GR 20 over the weekend and start playing with my guild again, must finish story first though as I really want to get Vell opened up again.

Tony 🙂

Well it’s been a while since i’ve really been playing games like I was, mainly due to the fact i’ve been snowed under with offline stuff, work etc…

Now i’m starting to catch up on some games but the trouble is i’ve got so many now it’s hard to spend any length of time on one particular game.

I usually don’t have this problem because when I get two or three games most times only one is great while the others are not so good.

At this moment i’ve got Gran Turismo 5 which is mainly being played by two of my sons, racing games aren’t usually what I would go for but my boys are slowly but surely getting me involved in this one. I must admit it seems more realistic than any other racing game i’ve ever seen, though that’s not too many,lol.

Another game i’ve been trying to platinum is Dragon Age, yes I know it’s an old game but I only found out about it recently due to Dragon Age 2 coming out in March.

Another rental game I have is Two Worlds 2 which again seems really good although i’m only just past the prologue, i’m a little worried about this one as it could be huge which could in turn take up most of my gaming time.

Other games that I own and are close to being platinumed are Heavy Rain, Bioshock 2 and I was disappointed that I had to send Infamous back before I got the chance to platinum that, will get it again when I have more time though as I know I can plat that one, and it’s a pretty good game.

Since closing the forum to new members I will be posting here more often now. The forum isn’t completely closed but i’ve had to disable registration to stop the hundreds of bogus signups so if you want to join just send me an email.

Basically now i’ll be using the forum to post about other games that i’m playing and trying to post useful info on each one. Once WKC 2 gets out then i’ll probably open it up again to the public.

Tony:)

For those who read the blog and haven’t yet joined the forum we have just started our quest to make videos of our in game and multiplayer gaming on some of the games we are playing.

Thanks to Wildcuffy and Death we managed to put together our first Guildmasters video of the Grave Matter quest. We are hoping to get one video of each quest for several reasons. Firstly to have some fun like we always do but this is an added extra as we can watch how we have managed to finish a quest and go over some tactics but more importantly it gives many of the newbies to the game a guide on how to complete a new quest that they haven’t yet done.

Helping others is what we do best at The Guildmasters and I want to thank cuffy and death for helping me out with the first video.

There is also an update on the free download content from Ubisoft for AC: Brotherhood which is available in december so don’t forget to check that out.

Tony:)

Have to apologise for not being here for the past week but i’ve been snowed under with some major offline real life problems that has to get sorted before I can resume my online interests, yes that includes gaming, I haven’t even turned my PS 3 on in nearly a week, a first for me.

Just wanted to let everyone know i’m not gone for good, I will be back as soon as it is possible for me to do so.

Tony:)

Obviously I have some time on my hands today. I’m probably more thinking out loud and writing rather than concentrating on being creative or informative but i’ve been trying to do a lot of research on what RPG’s are going to be hitting the market in 2011. In turn it started me thinking on what RPG’s i’d played in the past as well as the games i’m playing now and what I can expect in the future.

It’s quite amazing how tight lipped some gaming developers are, you think they would at least dangle the carrot, and the ones that do? well the carrot is so far away you don’t know what to expect.

One of my best RPG’s of all time has to be Morrowind, this was part of The Elder Scrolls, number 3 I believe, and yes even though I am a loyal Sony customer I actually went out and purchased an XBox solely for this game. In turn this got me onto Fable which again was a great game.

After playing Morrowind, and believe or not I still go back to it from time to time, I had to get Oblivion as soon as that came out on the PS3. At the risk of being run out of town for this opinion I actually was disappointed in Oblivion. It was still a great game but it lacked what I enjoyed the most in Morrowind, just little things that seemed to make all the difference, at least for me.

A big part of my experience with Morrowind was taking over different buildings and stashing my stuff, actually decorating the houses exactly how I wanted them, I had one house with all my glass weapons and armor, another house with all my daidric armor etc..and you could be so precise with the way you laid out your pads it was quite enjoyable, some of my boys got really carried away with that aspect of the game.

I missed using levitation spells too, but you didn’t need them in Oblivion and somehow the quests didn’t quite grab me like they did in Morrowind.

So will we see an Elder Scrolls V (5)? Of course, that much we know, and it’s a game I wait for with great anticipation, I really hope they take the best from Morrowind and Oblivion and come up with something a little bit special.

Another really good game on the Xbox was a game called Thief: Deadly Shadows, an amazing game you could really get into. Seriously if you haven’t played this game you should, and you should be able to get it cheap because it’s so old now. The reason I say play this game is because Thief 4 is in development and although that is all we know at the moment i’m sure this is going to be awesome. If they improve even a little on Deadly Shadows I will be amazed and I will buy this one.

Yet another game in the making is Final Fantasy XIV (14) and to be quite honest I have lost track of the Final Fantasy series. I was extremely hooked on FF7 and 8 and i’ve played FF 12 and I don’t know what it is about Final Fantasy but I just can’t bring myself to look into them much anymore.

I heard so many rumors about 13 and how good it was going to be but all i’ve read anywhere is how disappointed people are with it, some to the point of not even bothering to complete the game.

There has been information leaked apparently that there is another Tomb Raider in development for the PS3, XBox360 and PC but won’t be released until around Christmas 2011. I cannot confirm this but it wouldn’t surprise me. This is another series of games that i’m a bit addicted to, I played my first Tomb Raider way back when I owned a PS1 and back then there wasn’t much that could touch it, at that time the graphics were as good as you could expect, the gameplay was fantastic and the quests nearly impossible to complete, a lot of fun so i’ll be looking forward to a fresh Tomb Raider with new quests, as always with Tomb Raider games the locations were amazing and there is always extras that you just got to do like get all the trophies, artifacts etc..

One other game i’m looking forward to will be Resident Evil 6. Again I seem to flow the opposite to most as I really enjoyed RE5, I got so hooked on that one and I loved the online play too, yet many said they preferred the original ones. Personally I think they went the right way with RE5 although from what has been said it is going to change again in a big way with RE6. I think it might just be a good one for all resident evil fans.

Ok gone on long enough for now, what was/is your favourite RPG and what are you looking forward to?

Tony:)

My apologies for not being around for the last few days, not even on the game as my wife was taken ill and i’ve just spent the last two days and nights in the hospital with her.

I probably won’t be around for the next week or so but even if I am it will be sporadic. It doesn’t really matter how good a game is or how important a blog or website is when it comes time for family and emergencies, my top priority is always to be by my wife’s side at all times, especially when there is sickness. I know you understand this and would be the same so am just letting you know the reason for my absence.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon as we are waiting on test results. Take care everyone and happy questing, kill a monster or two for me.

Tony:)

Yes I indeed made it to GR13, spent from 9pm until 2:30am (about 5hrs) and hit the all important milestone of white knight chronicles. Well it was to me.

I was a little disappointed at first because it cost me 400K to upgrade my geotown and the small square it gave me was only able to hold another two small houses. Disappointment went away after realizing that they gave me two new houses available for purchase which allows you to house 3 residents instead of the usual 2.

I’m seeing many new types of armor now and even though I could get shadow armor before I never could get hold of the right stuff, now I have the shadow trousers and the main part of the shadow armor. I am looking for the whole shadow armor set and the strongest Katana in the game, these are not the most powerful items in the game but together they go with my character name ( assassin ), look cool and are pretty powerful once upgraded.

I now have two towns and this is a pretty cool tip if you didn’t realize it before : I set up my town with warriors, mages and miners, got the stats to 40-40-40 giving you most items possible in the general store, then uploaded this town to geonet.

Then I made another town with chefs, farmers and lumberjacks, got this town to 40-40-40 ish but didn’t upload this town. So now I have two towns, one online and one offline, this covers all six trades and gives you maximum items possible.

This also means you don’t have to visit other towns to get items you don’t have, saving you guilder because you always pay more in someone else’s town, cool eh?

Now i’m going to be concentrating on upgrading weapons and armor so I am more of an equal when supporting other players of the same rank and higher, at the moment for GR13 I am quite weak although I try to make up for this by healing when possible and adding speed and attack boosts to the party of 4

Will keep updating as I play along and work towards that final GR 15 and yes i’m still willing to drop down to lower grade quests to help get S ranks if you need the help so just let me know.

Tony 🙂