Comments on: If you were a time-traveller…

By: mollige

mollige — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:29:50 +0000

idd learn every species the knowledge of space and time on that world so they can be a god in a world of their own givin them they love the things they need as the thing the leading timetraveller in this world is doin all along idd just do the same but learn everyone of the thruth …
Why?
noone deserves to suffer and everyone should be able to live a normal decent life therefor every specie should be made gods so they all live happely ever after in the end of every story that is what its all about live happily ever after so in order to have that u need knowledge and as on this earth u need the lead and us others to gain that power but in the end i dont wanna end up destroyin the ones that leaded me to that point to have gained me that same knowledge idd rather end up lettin every one of em end up in the same idd have reached then immortallity in an everlasting world

By: If you could do it all over :How To Play Warhammer Online

If you could do it all over :How To Play Warhammer Online — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:22:22 +0000

[...] Spinks asks the question – if you could go back in time, what would you change? [...]

By: Kess

Kess — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:35:46 +0000

Hey y’all,

I would have made more alts in TBC, back when levelling was still a challenge and everything was still new and fun. Probly not have levelled as a 20/20/20 something druid or tanked in kitty form, hehe.

but biggest regret was my easy loss of temper when back I was a druid tank, pretty much pissed off most of the people in the realm.

Of course I should have chose Horde and levelled my Belf warlock as a Forsaken though.

But yeah you live and learn, and I’m loving tanking on my Death Knight with an obscure in character history.

By: PeterD

PeterD — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:07:50 +0000

1st I’d stop myself from pre-ordering the WAR collector’s edition. Then I’d tell myself to say NO when a friend wanted to start over in WoW on his brother’s server, causing me to abandon my character in a big guild. Brother’s server was east coast while I live in CA. Missed out on so much due to the time difference, and his brother didn’t play much. Sigh.

By: Tier

Tier — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:53:22 +0000

I am somewhere in the middle of spinks and you with DAO.

At the start I was hardly on wow at all apart from raids and it was great. Then I got my wow head on and started to think too much about min/max which spoiled some of the immersion. Then I found some of the areas, dwarfs and mountain cult espcially, to be a bit of a slog and a new wow patch hit and I haven’t loaded it since. Keep meaning to go back but now I have 2 alts at 80 ( new one being SK as well!) and don’t have the time for all the daily heriocs. Will probably go back when this patch on WoW gets a little old.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:27:32 +0000

I had fun levelling and gearing up my DK alt on a server where I didn’t know anyone! (But once I finished that and got her into a few raids …. yeah, bored with it now.)

By: Uzi

Uzi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:32:19 +0000

Thats intresting:- I’m finding DA:O a huge let down. Now I admit I’m in the minority as my wife, Spinks and several other people who’s opinions I trust are raving about it. But for me the motivation to complete quests, explore new areas, gear up is so I can interact with folk. Not characters in a game. People. Okay may exploring isnt quite there. So I’m getting very little payback from DA:0. Doing the old STV Fishing champions ship the other day (2 fish off winning GAH!) I bumped into a fellow fisherman pre-event and there was some friendly in character banter about favorite fishing corners made me smile. Never met the chap before. I had much more fun leveling my DK and then gearing him than in any single player game…even though I mostly solo’ed to 80. Odd.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:18:29 +0000

I would abuse the ever-loving hell out of the old reckoning bomb.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:28:21 +0000

Not backward. The game I want to play hasn’t been invented yet but I think it’ll look very much like a holodeck.

In all seriousness, I’ve played only a handful of MMO’s and none of the come close to resembling Dragon Age Origin in making me care about my character or my allies. Obviously, DAO is an unfair standard today, but I hope that is the direction that designers are headed in.

You wrote recently about the connection between BWL and Onyxia, the crafting that was a cost of entry, and the joy of heading in with an army of 39 others and using areas that had been conquered (alchemist table?). Those are wonderful memories well told, but you also noted that BWL also required Onyxia Scale Cloaks and I wonder how many weeks I would have been willing to farm Onyxia. (Even at 4 a week, it would be 10 weeks.)

Green Armadillo (Player v Developer) came across an advertisement for EQII maybe two months ago. It described an incredibly unforgiving “hardcore” game. I missed UO, EQ, and vanilla WoW. I’m not sure I missed much.

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My best moments have been social. Standing on top of Minotaur in City of Heroes chatting with a friend. Getting my non-raiding friend into Gruul’s Lair and seeing her win the T4 pants (I still call her “fancy pants”).

Okay, here is a real answer: I don’t know how the opening of the gates of Ahn Quiraj was handled, but I can imagine how it could have been epic.

By: Hinenuitepo

Hinenuitepo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:57:19 +0000

No regrets in MMOs, really,
but a time machine?

Oh yeah, I’d have the winning lottery numbers for sure!
And, um, yeah, end hunger and all that….