Comments on: Weekend Gaming: WoW, AoC, EVE, W101 et al

By: O:

O: — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:57:13 +0000

i really need help in the arena try to find me wolf battleflame storm lvl50

By: Bhagpuss

Bhagpuss — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:10:14 +0000

That screen shot is a book cover if ever I saw one. Now you just have to write it!

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:49:11 +0000

I agree, there is something about that first screen shot. I don’t know if it is the symmetry, the sense of things being at rest after the battle, the color contrast between the player and the defeated boss, or the fact that there is a chicken in it that makes it cross the line into art, but it is a very nice shot.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:54:05 +0000

The new LFG Tool is is probably breathing new life into the old dungeons, like Maraudon and Dire Maul, which even in the pre 1.10 days got very little traffic. You could spend an entire evening LFMing for DM or Mara and never actually get into a Run.

So…that hotly anticipated MMO…that wouldn’t be Harvest Moon: Online by any chance, would it? ;)

By: Magson

Magson — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:57:25 +0000

I’m with you on the “burned out on straight missions” thing. I specifically trained up market skills to be able to do that, yet…. I can’t bring myself to do the whole spreadsheet thing in order to actually play the market. I’ve done a few things here and there and made some respectable profits, but nothing major and I don’t care to try to sit in Jita or some other regional market while reviewing price trends.

Oddly enough, I like doing “fantasy stock market” IRL, but in EVE it bores the crap out of me. Go figure.

By: yunk

yunk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:31:15 +0000

AoC animations are really great. It looks like real people moving, they did a great job. After seeing AoC it’s hard to look at my LOTRO avatars jerkily snapping about like they have epilepsy. And of course you can burn things, my DDO mage is fire too, :) And in DA:O hmmm i see a pattern here.

By: Stargrace

Stargrace — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:56:39 +0000

I love the LFG tool in WoW, it makes it so simple to get into a group and actually DO something. I think that this feature could really help a LOT of games out there that are group-dependent in order to get things done. Of course you still run into a nice selection of bad groups, but I bet there’s enough good ones out there to counter that.

Looking forward to reading about that beta!

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:01:11 +0000

That’s incredibly amazing ;0 You rock!

By: Stabs

Stabs — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:33 +0000

“how many games have you start off with amnesia as a thin plot device?”

I believe they are hoping you’ll forget all the ones that have done it before.

It’s older than Planescape: Torment. It was a recurrent theme in Ravenloft, an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons settings and I found this huge list of amnesia-themed computer games going back to 1984:

http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/amnesia-themed-games/offset,0/so,1d/