tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61752722012-01-20T20:57:02.715-08:00Random thoughts, rants and opinions on the state of MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) - as well as the normal kind of games!Addrychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03661905836759528286noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175272.post-76524070374698178902008-11-05T19:38:00.000-08:002008-11-05T19:47:30.348-08:00

.....But addicted to Achievements!!I'm working a LOT of overtime at the moment, which has limited my free time for playing, and also for writing in this blog - a great time to re-start it, eh!Having said that, though - this past weekend I got a LOT of WoW time in - mostly going crazy working on the Hallow's End seasonal event. I was previously not really into doing the 'fluff' events in the game

Addrychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03661905836759528286noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175272.post-5288708886141575982008-10-31T14:56:00.001-07:002008-10-31T15:01:57.794-07:00

I love my Blackberry! I am experimenting with the blogger page through my Blackberry's built-in browser - and whilst its' not as usable as a PC browser - it will do in a pinch to write blog posts with!I'm still going to get an iphone at some point, but thats definitely in the future :)

Addrychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03661905836759528286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175272.post-36982173393553465852008-10-28T23:03:00.002-07:002008-10-28T23:27:37.262-07:00

So at some point in the last 4 years I gave up blogging - whilst I like writing, it very much depends on whether or not I have something to say.Where have I been the last 4 years? Flitting between MMOs the same way I always have! The juggernaut that is World of Warcraft has taken up the majority of my MMO time - I have played it on and off since late beta stages, all the way up to hardcore

Addrychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03661905836759528286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175272.post-1089998419889675152004-07-16T09:53:00.000-07:002004-07-16T10:21:48.106-07:00

Well - this is a long-promised post - I've been meaning to write up my thoughts on Camelot since I got back into in a few week ago but I never got around to it until now! Where to start.... Well, how about a little back-history. My history with Camelot Well I started on Camelot in early 2002, on the European servers with some old friends. I had a good time for a month or two, but the

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Well, I have been in the City of Heroes beta since last Friday, and now that the NDA has been lifted, I felt I had to express my opinions on it. The game is FUN. It has the best newbie experience I've had in probably any MMOG. So far I've played 3 characters, got 2 of them to level 6 and had a BLAST doing it. Rather than give an outline of the major gameplay features (Which you can find on

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All I can say is - wow. Full-size the video-interview - a little grainy but looks VERY nice. We shall see how it turns out :)

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Just posted a forum topic about this on Grimwell.

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Hrm. Well - I went ahead on Friday and bought Lost Dungeons of Norrath as everyone in EQ was raving about it. I bought it at Best Buy and brought it home, opened it up and it had a neat looking free keychain as well as a nice in-game backpack to claim when I got in-game. A good start I thought! So I went to ButcherBlock, which is where one of the 'Adventure Camps' to get an LDoN adventure is

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Well I had some time to kill a couple of nights ago so I started off some demos downloaded from fileplanet - One for Sacred, which is the latest attempt to advance the Diablo-style Action RPG, and the demo for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow - a highly anticipated (and just released) sequel to a pretty big hit. Sacred Sacred was OK - it had a few neat features on top of the hack n

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On a recently, rather long thread on Grimwell, the conversation recently turned towards the nature of Heroism in MMOGs. Something I hadn't really thought about all THAT much before was that there really isnt THAT much Heroism in your standard Hack and Slash MMOGs out there - the game mechanics are biased against Heroic attacks in general (You generally don't even THINK about taking on something

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Well now, EQ has been keeping me very occupied over the last couple of nights! I am having a very good time - met a bunch of nice folk in my new guild, the Silver Phoenix Alliance - I definitely feel at home there already! I had a grand old time in Crushbone last night - one of my favourite low-level haunts! After a few mishaps and deaths, I got in a really good group and we stayed in the

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Well another game I neglected to mention in my previous post that I tried (briefly) was Ashen Empires (the game formerly known as Dransik). From the couple of days that I played it - the game is basically pretty similar to Ultima Online - same 2.5D isometric interface, similar trade-skilling systems, similar weapons skills. They have levels also in Ashen Empires though - which primarly controls

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Well since more of my friends (here, and here) are doing blogs - I decided to try and get back into writing this. Not that I think many people actually READ it - but then I don't LINK to it anywhere - might be worth actually putting some content IN if I'm going to link to it! Well - judging by my last post its been a couple of months since I updated this. Here's what I've been up to since then

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Well things have changed a little since my last posting-flurry in December - I have now quit DAoC - I wasn't playing it much so I didn't want to pay for it - thus ending probably one of my longest Subscriptions to a MMOG yet (18ish months). Oh well - I miss my level 50 on there but not that much - and its not as if I can't get him back whenever I want! I also cancelled FFXI - the game just

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This was posted on Wish's main site a couple of weeks ago. My interest in this game pretty much started when Dave signed on - I have followed his work since his DAoC days - his column on Skotos was always a really good read, as was his blog (I've forgotten the URL for it). He had a bunch of good ideas that he was going to integrate into Wish - not the least of which was one that interests me

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Well - its been like over a month since I last posted - between one thing or another I just haven't had the time to write anything even though there a few events that occurred that I at least thought about writing on - those included: Dave 'Mahrin Skel' Rickey leaving Wish My ever-changing game habits (See the sidebar on the right!) Themis Group taking on a known power-levelling/in-game item

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Read an interesting Developer Diary entry today on GameSpy - for Ultima X:Odyssey (AKA UXO). The combat system sounds very interesting - it had perked my interest before with some of the earlier descriptions that they were planning, but the latest development (That of making combat in a MMOG more akin to a Fighting Game in that you control when you swing etc) sounds like it will definitely be

Addrychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03661905836759528286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175272.post-1071186168370161652003-12-11T15:42:00.000-08:002003-12-12T09:08:44.083-08:00

A useful resource I'm still looking into for my work purposes - but would also be useful for any budding MMOG developers (Or just general coders/techies) is Safari. It is, basically, an online library of almost 2000 books from various publishers. You can sign up for a 2-week free trial here, and there's varying pricing afterwards depending on how many books you want to 'check out' at a time - I

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So I've been playing some Star Wars Galaxies again recently. I originally played in late Beta (Which could be quite painful at times but hey - that's what Beta is for!) and I bought the game at Launch. The launch wasn't as bad as it COULD have been but then it wasn't the best either. I enjoyed the game a lot back then - it was good to be away from a traditional level treadmill for a change! I

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Hello! Well this is my first post (As you can see) in a blog ever. My goal with this really is just to put pen to paper on random thoughts I have on things I read - I spend a lot of time reading the latest news and stories from most MMOG worlds, as well as quite a few forums and bulletin boards - and I generally have opinions - but I'm not much one for posting to forums - I don't feel much like

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