{"id":1994,"date":"2010-02-06T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/06\/eclectic-night-of-gaming-%e2%80%93-featuring-white-knight-chronicles-international\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:03:45","slug":"eclectic-night-of-gaming-%e2%80%93-featuring-white-knight-chronicles-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/06\/eclectic-night-of-gaming-%e2%80%93-featuring-white-knight-chronicles-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclectic Night of Gaming \u2013 Featuring White Knight Chronicles International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a rather strange night for gaming.  When I got hope I popped in <em>White Knight Chronicles:  International Edition<\/em>, but I really did not have much time to spend with the game before supper.  I created my avator \u2013 looks sort of like a freak Asian kung-fu fighter, so I named him Ming-Fu.  That is actually the middle name on the papers of my Shih Tzu, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a few minutes watching the story unfold, exploring the city (I think it was called Balandor).  This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/03\/white-knight-chronicles-launch-dlc-ready-to-go\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/03\/white-knight-chronicles-launch-dlc-ready-to-go\/', 'very JRPG type game');\" target=\"_blank\">very JRPG type game<\/a> \u2013 you know the drill; if you do not like JRPGs you need not try this one out.  Early on I decided that I may as well use Leonard (starting character; looks like story will revolve around him) because Ming-Fu is irrelevant.  He stands around, nodding his head, looking stupid, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped for supper, and jumped back into the game.  After leaving the city I lost my third or fourth battle because I could not tell WTF was attacking me.  I am sure that as I understand the battle system I can tell what is going on; I blamed it to distractions from my youngest son and turned off the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1942: Joint Strike<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI jumped over to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2008\/07\/1942-joint-strike-coming-to-psn-today-and-a-bionic-commando-rearmed-update\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2008\/07\/1942-joint-strike-coming-to-psn-today-and-a-bionic-commando-rearmed-update\/', '1942: Joint Strike');\" target=\"_blank\">1942: Joint Strike<\/a><\/em> because sometimes I just need a rapid fire shooter.  I only play this game occasionally; I chalk it up to my dotage \u2013 I just do not have the dexterity to dodge, duck, memorize patterns, all while pressing buttons.  This is one PSN game I regret purchasing; not really worth $9.99.  I never thought I would say this, but I would probably play more <a href=\"http:\/\/playstation.joystiq.com\/2008\/07\/10\/sorry-no-trophies-for-1942-or-bionic-commando\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstation.joystiq.com\/2008\/07\/10\/sorry-no-trophies-for-1942-or-bionic-commando\/', 'if the game included trophy support');\" target=\"_blank\">if the game included trophy support<\/a>.  Not that I am a <a href=\"http:\/\/faqs.ign.com\/articles\/895\/895226p1.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/faqs.ign.com\/articles\/895\/895226p1.html', 'trophy whore');\" target=\"_blank\">trophy whore<\/a>, but some incentive would be nice.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>High Velocity Bowling (HVB)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFor my night cap I pulled out <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/PS3\/Games\/High_Velocity_Bowling\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/PS3\/Games\/High_Velocity_Bowling', 'HVB');\" target=\"_blank\">HVB<\/a><\/em>.  It has been a while since I played this one, and interestingly enough, it is one of the few game I actually enjoy playing online.  I played a few off-line games before calling it a night; really just practice to get re-acclimated before going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps3trophies.org\/game\/high-velocity-bowling\/trophies\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ps3trophies.org\/game\/high-velocity-bowling\/trophies\/', 'trophy hunting');\" target=\"_blank\">trophy hunting<\/a> today.\u00a0 [OK, color me a trophy whore; I am just not very educated!]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a rather strange night for gaming. When I got hope I popped in White Knight Chronicles: International Edition, but I really did not have much time to spend with the game before supper. I created my avator \u2013 looks sort of like a freak Asian kung-fu fighter, so I named him Ming-Fu. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/06\/eclectic-night-of-gaming-%e2%80%93-featuring-white-knight-chronicles-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eclectic Night of Gaming \u2013 Featuring White Knight Chronicles International<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,26,11,28,17],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-psn","tag-rpg","tag-trophy","tag-wkci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}