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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Plots with feeling
I suspect I’m a bit biased when writing EQ2 posts at the moment, but that said I realised after uploading my last post why I’m enjoying the game so much. It comes down to the feeling of RPG having been … Continue reading
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EQ2
I’m really rather fascinated by this game. It’s full on standard theme-park fare of course: gathering quests, kill quests, use item quests etc. But there are layers of depth that you don’t find in all games, such as: Languages to … Continue reading
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So many games…
I’m actually a bit torn at the moment of which game to play when. WoW is still there for grouping with long-term guildmates. LoTRO still holds a lot for me to achieve, especially with my main close to entering Moria … Continue reading
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Thoughts on WoW changes
Very interesting post on Do Not Try This at Home about Blizzard’s commercial approach to the more recent design changes in WoW and how this has affected guilds. I feel the same shift in focus as is stated in the … Continue reading
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EQ2 druid dilemma
A family holiday meant time away from home and gaming. However before I left I did manage to grab a few precious minutes trying out a druid (Warden) in EQ2. The recent compensation package offered by SOE includes a month … Continue reading
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GW2 and damage meters
Just read a Guild Wars 2 article over on Massively, in which the comments dip into the damage meter issue, i.e. whether in-built or 3rd party damage meters should exist. The devs weighed in on this issue in an interview: … Continue reading
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The Deeprun tram
For a bit of variety I’ve decided to move my Shaman to Ironforge to do his cooking and fishing dailies. Since he has the inscription dailies that need handing in to someone in Stormwind so I’m occasionally having to take … Continue reading
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The target of targets
I’ve read today a few posts about the ongoing situation with all of SoE’s MMOs being offline. There’s some predictions of doom for SoE of course, plus many shades of grey over what it’ll mean for the development studio and … Continue reading
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Exploration and excitement in one very polished package
More thoughts on Rift. Played a great session with two friends last night and it really does bring a lot to the genre. We played a quick levelling dungeon run on WoW (Lost City on normal) before we swapped over … Continue reading
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder…
I have to admit that I really want to play EQ2X now it and the rest of Sony’s gaming network is offline. Typical timing for me as I’d just started making decent progress on two characters! It did make me … Continue reading
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