Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Champions: Pick Your Powers!
A quote from Champions dev Randy Mosiondz caught my eye today: There’s currently 18 power themes, 12 different movement powers. The new Earth movement power rocks! And if those numbers scream anything to me, it’s “SYP! MAKE US INTO A LIST!” I can’t ignore the voices, I just can’t! They’ll murder my cat if I …
Star Wars: Breaking the Trinity
I’m going to quickly piggyback on top of an article by Frank over at Overly Positive, in which he discusses how or even if The Old Republic will have the “holy trinity” of Tank-Healer-DPS. My two cents? It’s not going that way. I’m 97.5% sure it’s not. I think that the MMOscape at large is …
Star Wars: There Are Four Pillars!
Sometimes I come across a great article or interview that I flag for future dissection when I have the time, and this four-page interview with The Old Republic’s devs is worth some serious crunching, chewing and digestion. If you haven’t read it, make some time — this would be one of the first places I’d …
Quote of the Day
MMOs have become all about the egos of the designers and the quest writers. They are the drummers and you the player must march to their beat. – Wolfshead
LOTRO: Checking Off The List
After last night’s disasterous DDO outing, I spent a couple precious free hours this morning with Cap’n Crunch, who was aching to be thrown into combat after three or so days of inactivity (plus all that yummy rested XP!). None of my kinnies were on — after all, it was a Thursday morning — so …
Champions: Testing Powers
I know I haven’t been talking Champions Online much lately — it’s still high on my radar, I’m still psyched, but I’m just surviving the summer first. That said, the first public “State of the Game” is out on Champions Online’s site (previous SotG’s were beta views only), and it contains one of the cooler …
Completely Losing It
Part of me doesn’t even want to write this article, because it’s not going to put me in a good light. But blogging about MMOs, to me, is about an honest experience, the good along with the bad, and so I’m not going to gloss over a rather unfortunate and noteworthy experience. I totally lost …
Isn’t That How It Goes?
A day after I resubbed for DDO, I got my DDO Unlimited beta key in the mail. Don’t want to play the beta, since the characters are temporary, but I do want to see the new stuff… choices, choices.
DDO: Back Into The Breach
I couldn’t resist. I mean, I tried. I really did. I lasted almost a week, which shouldn’t have been difficult, considering that I’ve had next to no spare gaming time whatsoever as I’m in the midst of planning a rather large mission trip with our church. But ever since I heard the news that Dungeons …
WAR: Boneheaded
The two bones that Mythic sent me have been occupying a disturbing corner in my office — which itself is a magical playground that includings sights such as Taz wearing a yellow wig, a statue made of slinkys, a giant pirate flag and Darth Tater. As I read all the other blogs that were also …
