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While I am enthusiastic about consumer choice, I am displeased with the number of competing game management programs out there and their assorted exclusive deals with various games. I am not quite to the point at which I will skip buying a game because it is not available through a given ...
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Comments on the other post reminded me of how patching can be done well : City of Heroes, yet again leading the industry from five years ago. Patches pre-load, with this being an automatic option when you log off in the week before a major patch. This does not help much if you are returning to ...
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City of Heroes
NCsoft
Auto-update is a wonderful feature for content management systems. Steam will update my games while I am not paying attention. Several other producers have similar updaters. These are great. If I need to plan ahead or budget time, I am less likely to play. PC games will benefit to the extent ...
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Here’s a simple solution to curb the inevitable overpopulation of Jedi characters in SW:TOR. We’re already expanding on the lore as it is with those weird new classes, so what’s one more spot on the leopard anyway? Just add this bit:
“ The venerable Jedi knights search ...
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Since no one reads blog posts in the U.S. today anyway , I figured I would show my appreciation for all the MMO devs that no one ever thinks or hears about… Bud Light style.
Today we salute you, Mr. Senior Server Engineer Guy.
Mr. Senior Serverrrrr Engineer Guy-eeee-iii!
The ...
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Since no one is reading on Thanksgiving anyway, let’s serve up one of those song posts that no one cares about. As is often the case, this is a break-up song. We have relationships with these games, their communities, and our guilds, sometimes far more emotionally involved and dramatic ...
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killtenrats.com - 35 hours ago
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No, don’t run away. Really. I know I’m
coming across as the nerd in the corner who...
insists on some stupid technicality, but I object. I am a nerd, and I might be cornered, but this is no technicality. Lore matters because we are human ...
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Why lore matters
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Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir!
Mal: Ain’t we just?
In Fallen Earth, I am not a big damn hero. I am not really a hero at all. Mostly I am just trying to get by without becoming a meal. A survivor ...
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Fallen Earth
“Cat-people get +5 Agility.” It is a simple sentence, something you could expect from a dozen YAFMMORPGs. If your game has yet to release, how can you express it without being meaningless or getting into an endless cascade of information? (Or perhaps the endless cascade is a good ...
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Ysharros :
In games, a slog is bad. A romp is good, but can easily become so rapid you stop experiencing the game and end up merely experiencing the speed of your progress. The trick is pacing a game so that the player still feels as though they’re romping but is also going slowly enough to ...
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At Depot 66 I was involved in choosing which play the locals would put on. I chose Macbeth and since I picked it I decided to watch. It is now presented here in tl;dr text form (with spoilers?) in the best way I could put together using screen captures and some free OCR software.
Macbeth ...
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Fallen Earth
killtenrats.com - 3 days ago
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The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of
Mirkwood™ launches in a week. I am wondering what...
happens two months down the line. Turbine’s Middle-earth has a punctuated equilibrium, with the level cap jumping once a year and the end-game moving a ...
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The Rolling Mid/End-Game
For months now, thousands of people have been speculating and arguing about the names of the eight classes in SWTOR. Not since the debates about the identity of the “5th Scilon” in Battlestar Galactica has it felt like this. The message boards have been bathed in flame on a ...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
I have not gone far in Overlord. I question whether the gameplay will become much more interesting than “throw a wave of imps at it,” and I found my drive to look further stymied early on by the corruption score.
Overlord includes the familiar karma score, in which all ethical ...
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In a flurry of press activity, a new MMO studio was unveiled today by ex-Blizzard, ex-ArenaNet MMO-guru Jeff Strain. Undead Labs is set to be a very focused developer. Focused on what, you say? Zombies. Consoles. MMO. Jeff believes he can help lead an MMO studio with a very tight ...
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Jeff Strain
Guild Wars
I’ve talked before about how subscriptions can be seen as a form of investing . There are plenty of people that keep parking-lot subscriptions to games like World of Warcraft, where the monthly rent is paid but the car is never moved. I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeons and ...
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Gaia Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Dragon Age’s story is the condensation, in yummy game form, of the old proverb about wanting to have cake and eat it too. You can’t. It’s quite refreshing to see how at several points in the storyline your actions and choices not only do matter, but also to come across ...
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On another “best practices” note, flip through the Game Info section on the City of Heroes website . That is really good. It does not have everything the wiki does, and it really should not, but I could actually point someone to the official site to learn about the game. I could ask ...
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City of Heroes
Returning to last week’s big theme of item shops, City of Heroes shipped Super Booster IV: Martial Arts last week ( discussion thread ). In addition to emotes and costume pieces, it includes a power (like the other Boosters):
Ninja Run power :
Dash through the city with the agility of ...
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City of Heroes
Borderlands has two speeds of play, much like its ancestor Diablo II: paced and rushed. When I play alone, I am going at my own speed. It might be a slow safe sniper battle or a quick chest run in one of the Havens, but if a pseudo-scientist looked at some waves or something, I feel that ...
