I'd like to say I stayed up all night playing Dragon Age: Origins. Alas, I did not. I fail, epically. --most f'd up way to spell epic-ly imaginable. But apparently it's proper. --

However, I'm writing this post because I noticed a huge screw up in my last post. I meant to mention th eother game that currently is racing like a drug in my veins, and completely forgot to in my DA:O Excitement.

League of Legends is a Defense of the Ancients style game created by *gasp* the DoTA creators & Riot Games. For those of you who don't know, Defense of the Ancients was a custom WarCraft III map that is absolutely wicked and got such huge acclaim that Blizzard even had DoTA tournaments at Blizzcon in previous years. I never played DoTA much, but in all fairness, I've not played a whole lot of multiplayer WC III with anyone outside of my family, and unfortunately most of them didn't have time for DoTA.

Anyways, I am thoroughly addicted to LoL in ways I can't describe. Which is rather funny because I knew NOTHING about the game a few weeks ago. Didn't know the DoTA guys were working on anything, let alone their own game, etc.

To be honest, I found the game basically on accident. I saw the login screen on my brother's computer, didn't even bother to ask him what it was, went home, Googled it for some reason or another that I don't understand since I have NEVER given a damn what my brother was playing, since he has...well, not the greatest of tastes in games at times.

Considering I run mostly in MMORPG, Console RPG, & RTS circles when it comes to gaming friends, I'm still kind of going WTF, how did I *NOT* hear about this until about two weeks ago? O_O

But I digress. The game is currently in open beta, and while there are going to be some paid-for options in the future, the game at it's core is free. There is no reason for you not to go try it -- NOW.

And to be perfectly honest, the chances are highly probable that you will see me playing a very feisty, mouthy, explosives orientated Megling Gunner alongside (or against) you if you decide to play against something other than the computers at some point in your LoL career.

Anyways, consider that my PSA for the month. Ya'll know my handle. Add me to your friends list or just randomly try to massacre me. Either way, it'll be fun!

Oh, that reminds me, 360 owners feel free to add me if you like. I've had a couple people message me from here to ask if it's okay --- of course it is. I wouldn't post my gamertag if it wasn't. Promise.

To be honest, when I begged my mother to let me pay her back a week later so we could pre-order Dragon Age: Origins, it was more for DragonFlyy, my hubby. It seemed like a game he'd enjoy more than I would, and really the gore made me go "Meh". It seemed like it had a good story, and i loved the Grey Warden motto, but I just didn't expect "TOTALLY WICKED BEYOND ALL REASON".

However, after watching DragonFlyy play for an hour or so before he went to bed, I was itching to make my character and see where the game took me. Well, I had to be DRUG to bed at 6:30 in the morning (I started playing at like, 10pm, maybe 11...but I'm pretty sure it was 10).....so that should say something.

When I wrote about the game in my pen and paper journal, I actually started the entry with "Holy F...... S... (replace the ...'s and take a hint). It's just THAT good.

To be honest, I'm not even that far into it, and it's definitely up there next to my other favorite expansive, semi-customizable RPG....Fable II. I see these games as being a great deal different from say, Final Fantasy, Zelda, etc.

Anyways, I will post more about this. I can't help it, it's just so awesome.

I feel like a slacker for not posting more, especially since I've played some great games lately, such as Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box which was ASTRONOMICAL. I honestly feel the only thing they could have done better is making it longer. Which isn't saying much because I'm a horrible addict who obsessed over it for days and days and played non-stop, so I burned through it faster than a normal human being would.

I also need to play Pokemon Platinum waaaaaaaaaaay more. I feel like such a slacker for not being farther in it, but I think that might have something to do with the 400+ hours I have logged on Pearl. *Whistles Innocently*

That reminds me, I'll be driving almost two hours away just to get Arceus in a few days, lol. Yeah, I'm a junkie. I can't help it.

It occurred to me that a lot of people will look at the games I have reviewed and rated and think my perspective skewed because it seems like almost every game I've reviewed has a 10.

I wanted to explain that while I do have a few games that are in the high-end but not quite 10 area and one or two that are low, it's not because I think every game I play is the greatest game ever.

It's because most of the games I play, I can't be bothered to review or rate. I honestly should go through and rate all the games I've played, but heaven only knows if I'll find the time. I really, really don't have the time to review every single game I play. So, I review the ones that are excellent or terrible, to either encourage or discourage players from playing these games, based on their merits or godawful stature.