Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Just an update to the previous post. I had a chance to walk through a little bit of Golemizer, the AJAX/JavaScript-based MMO where you craft golems of ever-increasing deadliness to wreak your will upon the world — if all the other mad scientists don’t beat you to it. Everything you see, can be crafted. Even … Read more
From the press release (at work, so just cut/paste, haven’t played yet). Looks from the screenshots like an old Super Nintendo-like RPG. You create golems and other stuff and rule the world. Their web page has the standard Albert Einstein-looking mad scientist. What did Einstein ever do to be demonized as the stereotypical mad scientist? … Read more
Warhammer Online. Warhammer. WAR. WAAAAGH. All ways to describe the game sweeping our interwebs in ways Google can easily find. More? Public quests? This game has public quests. Tome of Knowledge? This is the ONLY GAME with a Tome of Knowledge. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, coming this November, does not have … Read more
Warhammer has public quests, and open groups!!!! Pfft, big deal. So does Wizard 101. (Joining a friend in an instanced dungeon automatically gives you the quest for that dungeon — et voila, public quests 🙂 /me calls up ISP to have them brace for a flood of traffic because I have mentioned Warhammer! Warhammer! Order … Read more
I’ve played Vanguard before — but only up to 18. I still consider myself a Vanguad “noobie”. I felt more like a noob than ever after running through the new player experience, “The Isle of Dawn”. Almost everyone I met there had at least one max level character, and for those Vanguard experts, the noob … Read more