Monthly Archives: July, 2009
Star Wars: Questions Sort Of Answered
IGN nailed down a couple TOR producers to ask them questions about the game, with a few notable quotes: IGN: A lot of people wanted to know about the healing system. Will The Old Republic use a trinity system; the tank, healer, and the DPS class. Will the healer play a massive role, or will …
DDO: Respeccing
I have a pretty solid philosophy when it comes to playing MMOs — I play what’s fun and appealing to me, not what is widely considered to be the “best” class or the “best” build or whatnot. Sometimes the two converge, but more often not. This is not a philosophy I’ve had for my entire …
Putting A Break On Leveling
One of the better guild ideas I’ve seen over the years are the guilds that have a program deliberately designed to level an entire group of players together without getting level spread to hell and back. This could be a guild specifically made for this purpose, or just a subset of alts, but the concept …
Quote of the Day
“The upcoming World of Warcraft flick also likely has a built-in audience, starting with millions of fans of the game… First released in 1994, it’s by far the dominant video game of its kind, with 11.5 million monthly subscribers.” ~ Olivia Smith, Daily News And I waited until 2004 to log in… I’m such a …
Fiddyment
One of the little details I appreciate about DDO is that there’s no piecemeal clown outfit mismatching going on. The only visual parts of your gear — that show up on your avatar — are your main piece of armor, your helmet (which can be toggled off with the “/showhelmet off” command) and weapons. Although …
Short Stuff
When I was in third grade, I got in a fight with someone who called me “shortie” (yeah yeah, everyone is short in the third grade, but that’s beside the point — I was very sensitive about my height). The principal called me in, and seeing how despodent I was over being less-than-average height, gave …
WoW: Da Movie!
Want to see geeks everywhere explode when two massive geek fixtures team up? Then tune in to today’s “big news”, as nerds everywhere spit out their fake teeth as it was revealed that Sam Raimi is going to direct Warcraft: The Movie. No matter what my feelings on WoW may be, it is absolutely amazing …
I… Play?
‘Tis true… once in a while around these here parts I actually scrape together a few hours to actually play MMOs instead of just pick over them like a salad. If you can’t tell, I’m pretty buzzed for DDO Unlimited after the past month or so back in the game. I played my cleric up …
Quote of the Day
“I really want to catch up with [Paul Barnett] this year if I can, if he’s got the time. I want to know what it’s like to design a game that makes millions of dollars a month, millions, and is still considered a failure.” ~ Tycho, Penny Arcade
(Never)End(ing) Game
**This post is now the winner of the most unnecessary parenthesis in a blog post title award!** My attention was captivated recently by a trio of posts over at IncGamers, in which the author makes the bold — if not isolated — claim that World of Warcraft is dying, and he knows why. A very …
