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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
It seems to be fashionable these days to basically rewrite WoW, with some changes, and then claim they are not competing with WoW. Except, you know, they want a few million of their subscribers to switch over, and they have added lots of things to their game to explicitly make it similar to WoW, like … Read more
No, I totally don’t like this screen shot. My only excuse is this is the only one I took! The Tuesday group may have found its home for the next few weeks. Yes, we’ve started exploring that den of mystery and key-farming, Iceclad’s most notorious dungeon, the Tower of Frozen Shadow. Eschewing the standard Velious … Read more
It’s not the “perfect” MMO, but it’s definitely different enough to make it worth a look. Deck-building, strategic card-playing, turn-based combat? Check. Automatic grouping? Check. An absolutely INSANE amount of character customization? Check. A Toon Town-ish gameplay style that lets kids and adults play safely together? Check. Friggin’ baby dragon pets? Oh dear, yes, check! … Read more
Not a lot of time here, but I did want to talk about some recent adventures in Vanguard. After completing the Veskal’s Keep quests (including a very nice, nearly epic one about purifying the Tree of Life), I thought, “Self, it’s time you started working on your racial mount. After all, what’s a halfling without … Read more
Lars over at MMOment of Zen just got to 80 in EQ2, managing eventually to finish the entirely solo, quest-driven run from 70 on that SOE thought we would enjoy. While there were plenty of people to help with the encounters that required more than one person in the first couple of months of the … Read more