This week, I’ve been playing a variety of older games, or games which are built around unfashionable playing styles. Starcraft 1 (THE old school RTS) Dragon Quest IX (old school RPG, you wander around and kill stuff and get xp) Thief 3 (picked up from the last big Steam Sale) WoW/LOTRO (may be popular but [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Thought of the Day: Why do games go out of fashion?
Posted in general mmo, single player games, tagged fashion, games on July 31, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Why I’m not playing SC2
Posted in general mmo, tagged how to pick your race, norad ii, protoss, starcraft 1, starcraft 2, terran, zerg on July 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Thanks to all who commented on my SC2 post last week in which I explained why the beta had put me off. I’m definitely intrigued by the game now (which is good because it’s taking over the internet) but decided to buy the original Starcraft and play through that first. My hapless minions lurch from [...]
Deja Vue. Haven’t I seen this content somewhere before?
Posted in general mmo, tagged deja vue, four year itch, mmo, new players, old players, reusing old content on July 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There is nothing that will make you feel like an old MMO grouch more than hearing people get excited about the prospect of reusing content you saw enough of the first time around. Naxxramas! Onyxia! Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang! All the monster models that get recoloured, renamed, and reused! Scaling instances in LOTRO! I don’t [...]
Everquest 2 goes Free to Play (sort of), and keeps the rabble out
Posted in general mmo, tagged eq2, eq2x, free to play, limited classes, limited races, rabble on July 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Following in the footsteps of LOTRO, Sony Online Entertainment announced yesterday that they are unveiling a new type of server for EQ2. They call it EQ2 Extra (EQ2X) and it includes a free to play option with a cut down choice of classes and races, no access to send mail or use the auctions, restricted [...]
Comic Con Day 4: The Final Day
Posted in general mmo, tagged comic con, day 4, ipad, kinect, smallville, supernatural on July 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
4.5 days of insane geekery is over and done for another year for me, as I lie in my hotel bed thinking about yesterday’s events. Sundays tend to be a bit lighter than other full days at Comic Con, mostly because people are planning to and heading home. But the streets are still packed and [...]
To addon, or not to addon?
Posted in general mmo, lotro, warcraft, tagged addons, argument, bloggers, codi, lotro, miss medicine, no true scotsman, tam, wow on July 27, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Last week saw some very heated arguments around the WoW blogs on the subject of addons. Codi presented her ‘no healing addon experiment’ and explained why it had become permanent, as well as her philosophy on addons. Tam was one of many to respond. As was Miss Medicina with a thoughtful overview (Sorry for bringing [...]
Comic Con Day 3: Star-spotting, and sitting. A lot of sitting.
Posted in geekery, general mmo, tagged chuck, comic con, day 3, leverage on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 3 of Comic Con and there were big choices to make. Everyone and their dog wanted to see Chuck, but doing so meant probably missing Leverage and a few other things. Still, we bailed on Chuck last year for Lost, so honour had to be restored. And it was well worth the long queue [...]
Dragon Quest IX and some musings on wandering monsters
Posted in general mmo, single player games, tagged celestrian, dragon quest 9, dragon quest ix, pre-order, quests, review, rpg, slime, wandering monsters on July 26, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Dragon Quest IX arrived on my DS this weekend, so if the posts this week are a little slow, you can blame the slimes. I have barely had a chance to scratch the surface of this game but I already love it dearly. Twitter (140 word) review so far: DQ9 will make RPG fans very [...]
Comic Con PanelFAIL
Posted in geekery, general mmo, tagged comic con, flynn's arcade, hawaii five-o, panel, train, walking dead on July 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Comic Con Day 1 Comic Con Dragon Age 2 Panel First an admission – I probably like TV more than I like playing games. Secondly, I didn’t make it to the SW:TOR or Fallout 3 panels. The second is somewhat due to the first, except I did leave a little time between panels to try [...]
Gaming News: Free Steam Game, Comic Con MMO News, GTA Rothbury, Women spend more on virtual goods, 38 Studios big reveal, Starcraft did not cost $100m
Posted in general mmo, tagged $100m, 38 studios, alien swarm, comic con, dcuo, free steam game, gaming news, gta rothbury, space battles, starcraft 2, swtor, virtual goods on July 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Happy Sunday! This week brings lots of announcements from Comic Con, including new trailers. EA/ Maxis also announced that they are producing a game called Darkspore which seems to have nothing at all to do with Spore, except that they claim that they were inspired by the Spore character creator. Perhaps they realised that people [...]
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