Monthly Archives: June, 2010
LOTRO: Beyond the Veil of Shadow
I’ve had an interesting week. My wife and daughter have been out in California visiting family, which would normally mean that I’d spent an abnormal amount of free time playing games to fill the silence. Of course, this happened to coincide with E3 week, so I’ve probably spent far more time writing for Massively plus …
A Fashionable Mass Murderer Am I
I’ll admit it, I’m pretty nuts over creating the perfect outfit for my LOTRO characters. So much so that I chafe under the two-outfit restriction that the game currently has. Anyway, in addition to my armor and an outfit that incorporates a long trenchcoat and a duster, today I created the little number you see …
Quote of the Day
“This is, of course, the one thing that I really dislike about item shops – when the developer identifies an aspect of the game that is not fun, their incentive is to create a consumable cash shop item instead of actually fixing the problem.” ~ PvD
LOTRO’s Great DDO Hope
To paraphrase a Groundhog Day quote, “Déjà vu? I’ll check with the kitchen to see if we have that.” In riding out the player reactions to the F2P-hybrid model change, it feels as though we’ve done this all before — and not too long ago, at that. The “RAWR!” of players against F2P and newbies …
Steam Punk’d
I’m not really what you might call an “early adapter” of technology. Unlike some of my friends and relatives, I almost never have the latest gadget, I don’t opt in for betas (outside of the occasional MMO, and even that’s extremely rare), and I will resist hopping on board the latest goofy social network (hey, …
Picture of the Day
Too… many… jokes…
Quote of the Day
“There’s this huge group of people who play games, but hate them. E3 comes around and they immediately start responding to every piece of content with snark or condescension or disgust. They (apparently) hate everything they see. And yet they play games. I just don’t get it. People with other interests don’t do this.” ~ …
Ugly People
A quick question: is it actually possible, with Bethesda’s character creation tool (Fallout 3, Oblivion), to make a character who doesn’t look like they were beaten severely with an ugly stick? I’m not against, erhm, “character” in my avatar’s faces, but I’d at least like the option to make them look semi-human and attractive. Just …
Quote of the Day
“Man. I hope The Old Republic beats the crap out of WoW.” ~ my WoW-playing brother-in-law, after watching the latest TOR cinematic
Ship Up or Shape Out
I. Get. My. Own. Ship. There. That wasn’t so hard, was it BioWare? That’s all I needed — my own ship-slash-player-housing. And you, wonder of wonders, delivered. From IGN UK: Every player, regardless of their chosen class, will get their own starship to command across the galaxy. SWEET. Oh, there’s more? BioWare has created a …
