Monthly Archives: September, 2011
Fallen Earth: Civilization, rebuilt
To jump off of yesterday’s post about the attraction of civilized life in LOTRO, I’m finding myself thinking a lot about the rebirth of civilization that you’re witness to in Fallen Earth. For those who haven’t played the game, your character (and every player character) is a semi-immortal clone who happens to “die” some time …
Why civilization matters
For me, one of the key aspects of LOTRO’s early game is the integration of friendly NPC civilization in the tamer areas of Middle-earth. You see, most MMOs treat their world in a uniform fashion, where the entire planet is nothing but one giant killzone of death punctuated by small, quest-giving oases in the form …
A prayer for peace
I didn’t feel that I had to write anything on the 10th anniversary of September 11th, but I wanted to share a couple thoughts. First, like many of you, I can’t believe that it’s been ten years already — it feels like it happened just a couple years ago. I remember looking up at the …
LOTRO: The devalued Turbine Point
Yesterday Turbine announced the in-game pricing for its Rise of Isengard expansion, which turned out to be an eyebrow-raising experience. It’s… not good. Problem #1: Under this pricing, the expansion is way, way cheaper to pre-order with real-world dollars than in-game points. Like, a factor of 50% less expensive. I think a lot of people …
The Secret World: Conspiracy addict
The Secret World is in an interesting spot right now, promotion-wise. That it’s a hot franchise, I have no doubt, but it also seems like it’s lurking in the background, unwilling or unable to take the spotlight just yet. Maybe that’s the plan — after all, with SWTOR and Guild Wars 2 hogging the limelight, …
Fallen Earth: An-ti-ci-pation
Fallen Earth. I can’t seem to stop playing it. It’s haunting my dreams, even. I think that after a year-plus in mostly fantasy worlds, it’s wonderfully freeing to be running around in a semi-contemporary environment (if one can include mutated chickens and ants in that statement), enjoying the lack of elves and exploding particle effects. …
Even my deodorant conspires against me!
Scent Elves? Methinks we’ll not be seeing them in MMOs any time soon… still, GET OUT OF MY ARMPIT, YOU WRETCHED CREATURES!
LOTRO: A series of down endings
“Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings.” ~ Dante, from Clerks In preparation for this month’s (seriously, …
