My favourite champs and why I hate meta’s

I like League of Legends and I play many different champs. I am in no way a pro at the game but neither would I consider myself a complete noob.

I have not yet reached the level to play ranked matches, so I can pretty much get away with using any champ in a normal match.

Once you reached ranked you have to play the meta (mostly) and this I see as a problem, as some of my favourite champs and items are not really viable at that level.

I hope that the next season will provide some balance so that less utilised champs can be played without being flamed out of a game.

Halloween Game Night 2014

As it is Halloween I thought I would do something horror related for my blog.

As you may have noticed I play a lot of board games. Amongst my collection are several horror themed games.

So we are planning a horror board game night while some of our favourite horror movies play in the back ground.

I would love to stream this event but sadly I don’t have access to a decent enough camera, yet!

My thoughts on League of Legends

I've been playing, and more importantly enjoying League of Legends (LoL) recently.

I'm only at level 12 and mostly been plying against bots. I feel that this is necessary until you find the champions that you're good at.

I realised in a recent game that I'm not that bad as I went against real players and had my teams highest damage output, most assists and second highest kills by 1. I was playing as Soraka who is a healer so was shocked to get that much. After the game I found I was the least experienced vs human opponents and I put my win down to honing my skills against the AI.

Enough bragging about my skills ;-P

A new card game (to me) that captures the feel of a video game - Anima

While there are a few board games out that are based on video games there are also those that feel like you are playing a video game.

We have Gears of War, Bioshock Infinite and the upcoming XCom and Witcher, which in some ways capture those games they are based on, we also have games that feel like a video game. Be it either their theme or even their mechanics.

My inspiration for this is due to playing a very JRPG game called Anima the Card Game, my hopefully soon arrival of the Video Game High School board game and the fantastic beat-em style game system Battlecon (another backed KickStarter project I should have before Christmas).

I'll talk about Anima a bit as it's not a new game, in fact the card game originally came out in 2006 with a revised edition a few years later and two follow up standalone add-ons.

Update of my nerdy purchases

Things have got busy in my life but my buying of all things nerdy has increased.

Kagami Taiga by Megahouse - Review

Even though I like to stay fit I've never really been into sports. AS a teen the only sport that really caught my attention was basketball, I watched Michael Jordan on TV back in his prime and ever since have enjoyed the sport to some degree.

Now that I'm older I enjoy a few more sports and like to watch and play them in various medium. For instance I enjoy watching sports anime, which judging from the title of this review will be obvious to some.

Kagami Taiga is from the manga and anime Kuroko no Basket. This is an anime which I have thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to any one who likes basketball or action animes. Kagami is the Michael Jordan/LeBron James of the show and as such a popular character.

Zombie 15' Review

The horde is coming will you survive.

I have backed a few Kickstarter projects in the last year and finally they're starting to be delivered. This week I was fortunate enough to get my copy of Zombie 15', a co-op, zombie, survival board game.

This is the first Zombie board game I have played (I'm not counting Zombie Dice). I have also been playing more and more cooperative games lately as MMO's or other multi-player video games don't provide that human element that a bunch of friends in the same room does.

Collecting is an Addiction

I love to collect; in fact I probably have slight OCD sometimes when I get into something. This could be anything from Yu-Gi-Oh cards to cake decorating tools (I have cutters for about 6 different flowers all in various sizes and several butterfly cutters, to name a few).

Once I get into something I will focus on it and obsess over it, before the next new thing catches my eye. I call it OCDADD. It's a problem but it also means I always have some cool new stuff to open, use or display.

Replacing your archaic board game collection

Boardgames are growing in popularity, with Wil Wheton's TableTop show and TableTop Day getting the word out to a different audience that boardgames aren't just for Sunday afternoons with your parents.

I like video games, in particular ones that I can play with friends in the same room. Unfortunately less and less companies are making these type of games so I now turn to board games. They provide many games for both competitive and cooperative play so that my friends and I can sit down and enjoy a game together.

The games that most people own are probably ones that you either don't enjoy playing any more or are so simple that they lack any competitive enjoyment. I hope to enlighten you with some alternative options to refresh your dusty old pile of games and to get you back into doing something that is both enjoyable and sociable.