Comments on: Free Middle Earth (US only)! Other single player games I wish I was playing.

By: Dril

Dril — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:11:26 +0000

I agree it’s not deliberate, but I really don’t understand the whole Seed issue. Are there really such vast, abyssal differences in our laws/eligibility that it takes something like 3 months (assuming we ever get to sign up) to fix? All things considered, would it really be that hard just to have a dedicated reporter or two on each of those sites who can just focus on European news/occurrences?

Although I’d rather have American-centric journalists than The Sun/News of the World journalists

By: repgrind

repgrind — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:55:40 +0000

*DND – distracted by text games for the rest of the afternoon*

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:27:19 +0000

I thought it felt ambitious too. It was an interesting setup, but I kind of fail through lack of interest in Southern US history. I think if it was somewhere I felt more engaged with, I’d have been more interested in the historical figures.

The romance one is funny though, it’s very very in genre. And I like that you can choose your gender and orientation a lot also.

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:24:34 +0000

Yes, american journalists and websites don’t really feel it’s major news if we have to wait a few weeks for patches. I find that increasingly places like massively and wow.com have become more american-centric too.

I don’t think it’s deliberate, but if Massively run an MMO night, they’ll do it on US timezones. And lets not talk about wow.com’s guest writer programme which is for americans only. I’d love a euro-centric MMO site, but until then, we’ll just have to foster our euro blogging comrades in arms. And whine a lot.

By: Dril

Dril — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:22:00 +0000

The thing that gets me about LOTRO F2P is that this would never happen the other way around. Can you IMAGINE the uproar there would be? Not to mention that more people (and hence more monies) for WoW come from Europe.

But then again, we take everything in our stride. Expenses scandal? No problem. Italian/French governments totally corrupt in basically everything? Meh, shit happens.

Of course, I am somewhat irked that Syp “Does Gaming Journalism Avoid Tough Questions?” completely avoided the tough question of why Europe was proverbially bent over once again, but hey.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:19:17 +0000

My preorder for Recettear registered today. I’ll be playing it a bit tonight if I can swing it. I’m definitely looking forward to it after playing the demo.

I hear Limbo on the XBox is solid, and will check it out someday. I keep meaning to play Battle for Wesnoth, too.

By: SpiritusRex

SpiritusRex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:50:50 +0000

AMG! I just checked out the trailer for Amnesia and think, yep confirmed, that I tinkled meself a little bit. Not too sure I want to be playing THAT one by myself at night when all the family is asleep.

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:31:34 +0000

I’m quite a big fan of Choice of Games – I didn’t think much of Choice of the Vampire (it’s ambitious certainly but feels incredibly linear sometimes, and I didn’t particularly welcome the restrictions placed on my ‘character’ – like I was apparently totally in Clotho even though the text did nothing to make her interesting) but I like their other stuff. Heh, speaking of gender matters I think the freedom to choose the gender of your cast, and your level of heteronormativity is rather cool. I keep meaning to attempt to write one but Choicescript is annoying compared to something like Inform.