Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa Syncaine over at Hardcore Casual thinks EQ2 is “flat, boring and lifeless”, and as examples, puts up some rather poor EQ2 screenshots (which he got from the official site so you’d expect better, though I suspect he got at least one of them from a player-submitted shot). Sure enough, in comparison, EQ2 suffers. Well, comparing … Read more
One of the draws EQ2 has for all of us old EQ players is the nostalgia, especially for those of us who were there from the beginning. It’s hard to overstate just the kind of impact Kunark had on us all. Never before and very rarely since had a company so completely matched an expansion … Read more
I don’t know whether to thank JoBildo or not for sending me a Mythos beta key just when I’d resubscribed to Dungeon Runners. Both are point-and-click kill fests, but where Dungeon Runners takes the Diablo 2 formula a little toward the MMO world, Mythos unashamedly brings the legendary dungeon hack to the present day. I … Read more
Went in, started, worked through and finished the Shard of Fear last night with an almost all-guild group. My son, who’s been to SoF many times but never finished, vowed never to again go with a pick-up group. Just for fun, I ran Fraps in SoF and took the occasional short clip; here’s about a … Read more
My son’s laptop started shutting off for no reason last week. For a guy who spends as much time online as he does, that’s a tragedy. And a tragedy for me, too — because I could just see how repairing the laptop could cost more than the laptop was worth, and nothing bugs me as … Read more