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Guild Wars Interview

Thanks to the fine folks at ArenaNet, I had a chance to ask Linsey Murdock and Isaiah “Izzy” Cartwright some questions on the Guild Wars series.  Linsey is the current lead designer for the Guild Wars 1 Live Team, and Izzy is hard at work on Guild Wars 2.  The interview gives some good insight for what both may have in store for the future. Continue reading Guild Wars Interview

SWG’s Overwhelming Success

I received an email from SOE. It seems they are doing very well! In fact, they say, “Due to the overwhelming success of the recent Free Character Transfer Service, …we will close the following 12 Star Wars Galaxies servers:”

I can’t say people didn’t see it coming. Yivvits and Mr Bubble pondered what else could come of a free-character-transfer service which only allowed people to transfer from empty servers to high population servers.

As empty as the low-population servers are, there are those that will be sad to see them go. A lot of the player-created content in SWG is in the player cities. The characters can always still transfer off, but the real estate goes down with the server.

My Own Shard

I have been getting back in to Lord of the Rings Online in anticipation for the Siege of Mirkwood expansion.  The level cap raise and obvious gear power creep does not really affect me because I am having fun now.  For the most part, though, I am trying to amass some play money for when level 65 legendary items start dropping.  The best way to do it for a Captain-Historian… potions.  I cannot believe how much the highest tier potions are selling for.  It’s nearly free money, but I still need the materials.  That’s where the crafting instances come in. Continue reading My Own Shard

Too Many Tales of One Mid-Game Experience

I have completed a run through what was the mid-game of classic WoW, levels 20 to 40 Alliance side. our last installment ended around level 22. That would make 40 to 60 the classic late-game, with content at 60 having been the endgame back in the day. I suppose the mid-game has shifted to where I am just entering, but until I add Burning Crusade, I am playing classic WoW, darnit. Except for my frostweave bags, many huggles for my frostweave bags.

When we last left the Paladin, she was exulting in having gone from very strong to overpowered with the taunt/Exorcism pull combo. (Our friend Tobold has just entered there.) It gets more extreme in the 20 to 40 range.

Continue reading Too Many Tales of One Mid-Game Experience

Fallen Earth: First Taste

I spent my first evening entering the post-apocalyptic world of Fallen Earth the other day. I don’t want to spoil the beginning tutorial with too many details (because it was actually pretty surprising) so I will just lightly brush on some of it.

You pull an axe from the head of a corpse and then use it on a guard. You find a rifle and use it to defend your position. You heal soldiers. You buy things. You make things. You drive an ATV. All of this is inside the Hoover Dam. You find out the horrible truth about what you are.

Eventually you will make your way to “town”. As you can see in that screen shot, I am fully equipped with two pistols, a crossbow, a 2×4 and a pipe. And I’m only a crafter. The things you need to do just to be able to make something useful.

I climbed up on top of one of the buildings to get a better view. Here is what appears to be the ruins of a monorail system. This is a closer view of town. Down below from here you can see one of the many graveyards just outside of town. I climbed back down and spent some time dreaming about a brighter future. I took one more look at the remains of a possible monorail system. Around the corner I spotted a junk yard. People are already finding a way to make a living. Around town you will spot several forms of transportation, the most common right now is a horse.

I have only just started my adventures so there will be more details down the road, but for now I wanted to highlight two nice features I have not seen done this well before. Both the chat and the inventory can be sorted out by tabs that you control. It is really nice. I really love the ability to make tabs to sort my inventory any way I want to. Weapons and ammo on one tab? Check!

– Ethic

Still Killing Dragons

About 10 years ago, the only raids that existed involved killing dragons in EQ. Today, you can go into the IG-88 instance in SWG and face giant droids with flame throwers. It might seem dumb to have an entire group chipping away at the health of a fire-blowing giant assassin droid, and it should. It is dumb. After all these years, we’re still killing dragons.

Really cool characters like IG-88 shouldn’t be crammed into a raid-mold that was invented for dragons.

It’s not just the dragons either. We’re still doing everything we’ve been doing. Stimpacks are just a health potions. Your armor and heroic jewelry has magic enchantments that makes you stronger and faster. Your medic is effectively just tossing out healing spells. After all these years, we’re still playing the same game with slight changes to avoid copy-right infringement.

King of the World

Your song of the day comes from Jason Robert Brown’s “Songs for a New World,” in which “King of the World” is one of the two best songs, although I don’t know how much of that is Ty Taylor’s stellar performance. Today, it reminds us of all those times a boss fight was patched due to “unintended behavior.” They did not mean for you to win that way, and sometimes developers will also pass around bans on the grounds that you should have known better. (More often, everyone who used the exploit gets to keep the loot, even after rushing to use it between the announcement of “unintended behavior” and its removal. See: Mines of Moria radiance armor.) But we will go back and find new ways to defeat them, possibly starting the cycle again.

Why are we punished for wanting to explore?
Why am I sitting in this cell?
I was not challenging the system,
I was working for the people –
I just wanted to be better.
Why are we punished for wanting to survive?
Why am I locked behind these bars?
Tell the children I’ll return to them – tell them!
Someone! Let them know I will be free!
I will not be defeated!
I will stand like a mountain!
And the road will stretch before me,
And they’ll know it’s time to follow
And we’ll lift our eyes
And raise our heads
And face the sun
And tell the future

I’m king of the world
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At least I used to be…

: Zubon