Monthly Archives: August, 2010
PAX Prep
This is a tremendously weird week for me. In my pastoral duties, I’m gearing up for the single biggest date of the year, the kickoff of our school year youth ministry program on September 12. This means cleaning everything, organizing, scheduling, calling, writing, and stocking up on lots and lots of silly string. Yet I’m …
Turbine Kills Horses, Video at 11
It seems as if the controversial rep mounts may be out of the equation for LOTRO: “Reputation mounts were removed based on beta player feedback.” All I got to say about this is: way to listen to the playerbase over your wallet, Turbine. I don’t think the game would’ve been irreparably harmed if the purchasable …
A Game Master is You!
The general rule of thumb goes that no matter how creative MMO devs may be, players will eventually trump them tenfold. It’s simply a matter of time, manpower and a human desire to strike out in new directions. MMOs that constrict players to a narrow path and deny them tools to be creative are games …
Assorted Thoughts on Star Trek Online
I haven’t spent gobs of time in STO lately, mostly because I’d been working like a madman on a couple LOTRO projects. So yesterday I reacquainted myself with the crew of the Harbinger and pushed to finally break out of Lt. Commander and into the Commander sphere. Getting a new ship is a major reward …
Nimrodel? Chop off the last two letters, then you’re on target.
I’m in a bit of a halfway house in LOTRO at the moment. While I’ve achieved a high enough level and given myself permission to head out of Moria to the east side of the Misty Mountains, I still have business in the underdark (such as a lot of epic book quests to finish), and …
Mission accomplished!
It took about a week, but Iron Garrison Guard now loves me so much they gave me my own private ghost. I call him Gozer, after his uncle, the Destroyer. I know that it’s gimping me a bit right now to trait into Leader of Men to equip him, but one of my primary maxims …
Deja vu? I think I have that in the kitchen.
I’ve had a couple people ask me why I’m not even looking at Final Fantasy 14, to which I generally reply that I’m pretty much over and done with my love for the Final Fantasy series, and I disliked almost everything about Final Fantasy 11. Of course, it doesn’t help matters when Square Enix comes …
God bless Atari 2600 box art!
Shotgun America pointed me to a trio of articles (one, two, three) showcasing the ridiculously awesome Atari 2600 box art — which was almost always hand-drawn illustrations of the fantastic variety — compared with the actual game graphics. I recall so many of these covers like it was yesterday (times thirty years). I felt bad …
We have a ridiculous hobby
I swear (I almost typed “I sweat”), some days I’m convinced that video gaming has forever left our planet and is firmly residing in some other universe where common sense that applies to everything else ceases to apply to games. Case in point, today’s big internet discussion on buying used games, via Penny Arcade and …
