I think I've found my new favorite mmorpg columnist! Shine on, you crazy diamond, Coyote Sharptongue. I bow unto your witty repartee, o Liege Lord. I shall kill ten rats faster than I've ever done nao! ^_^
Yes, gamers like us know about the stuttering of a big launch and can take the hiccups in stride. It's not us veteran gamers that I'm worried about. It's the totally new people that I'm worried about who have never played an MMO before. They're t…
People play games for fun, that is the main reason they play any sort of game at all. What is fun for one person might be drudgery or just plain unfun for another. To some people, a game isn't fun unless it's difficult or challenging to master. O…
To all you guys out there bashing Trion on "originality", just how "original" is a game supposed to be? Ok, let's take out questing, leveling, dungeons, pvp, crafting, talent speccing, and anything else that makes a game and what do you have? Noth…
I just started playing this game through the 14-day trial. It's pretty fun right now. Reminds me a bit of Tabula Rasa which was fun, too, but had lots of issues. I would play fps games a lot more if they weren't all from a first person camera pov…
None. After buying Tabula Rasa, Warhammer Online, and Aion, I'll never order another MMO again. I'll wait until they come out with at least a 14 day free trial. The last three MMO's I bought taught me some hard lessons about managing my game mone…
I'm not sure what all the animosity is towards f2p games. I've played a few that are quite decent, Runes of Magic being a prominent example. And p2p games can suck very much, too. Tabula Raza comes to mind on that score. And as far as p2p games …
So I have to level to 10 for the privilege of chatting decently because NCSoft can't think of a better way to control the gold spam? I mentioned this EXACT possibility in my original post. Sorry, but NCSoft still fails. Thanks for the information…
I think Arena Net went way too far in their changes. The classes they designed are just stupid. Boredom is the only reason for the way they did it. It's going to be one huge-assed kludge when it gets released. There was absolutely no justificati…
All the statements about whether a game is good or bad is mere opinion, nothing more nothing less. All the claims about whether the storyline in any game is good or bad is, again, mere opinion, nothing more nothing less. The only reason many peopl…
Yeah, I used to "hurry a lot and worry a lot" trying to reach level cap as fast as I could. But after playing so many of them, I decided that it just defeats the whole point of the game to always be in a hurry to cap. So nowadays, I try to do ever…
Actually mmo's DO reflect real life a lot. What would this world be like if we gave kids the ability to "level up" to cap in a short amount of time? All that power and NO experience or wisdom in the use of that power. It would be an ideal recipe …
Many games will try to offer a peer-to-peer option for downloading their games using such services as offered by Akamai, among others. I try to avoid these types of downloads like the plague because of the high likelihood of viral infection. Just …
I have absolutely zero interest in buying it. Why? The RealiD fiasco is the the real reason (pun intended). The RealID is irrelevant, unneeded, and redundant. There are already a ton of messeneger and chat services out there: Windows Live Messen…
A game that has a built-in bot to help you auto-grind? Um...but that is just...just ludicrous! So the game developers "officially" know their game is nothing but a grindfest and they sanction it by including a botting mechanism inside their game? …
I don't even think about trying out games that are world PVP based. No way in hell will I waste my time in a PVP game. I'm a PVE gamer. I don't find it fun getting ganked while my character is still new to his carreer. FEZ will be just another f…
Oh, the hypocrisy of everyone here advocating the use of real names in WoW's forums is so ironic! Why? None of them, nay not even one, is using their real names in this forum. Easy to advocate it as long as one doesn't have to actually do it. Th…
Yes, Serenes, and when Ford first made Model T's he only made them in the color black. When people complained, he replied,"You have a choice: buy them in the color black or don't buy them at all!" The rest is history. Now we can have cars in any…