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Hurrah for Europe and for publishers who don’t realise that in these internet-enabled days, even a magazine article in *gasp* a foreign language will be translated and spread all over the net in a matter of hours. Thanks to german magazine “PC Games” (PC Spielen?), the final ...
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I think we can agree that yelling at people in frustration is not the best way to pass on information. (See yesterday’s post and comments.)
But when we’re playing in a group in a MMO, a lot of information needs to be communicated quickly. Are we trying to focus fire and if so, ...
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We’re actually paying attention to you. Here am I, trying to keep the bitey things off your back and when I look round you’re … standing in a fire. GET OUT OF THE FIRE!
We’re actually paying attention to you #2: dps may be nice chaps and chapesses but as soon as the fight starts, ...
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Tobold wrote about a week ago about players and their sense of entitlement . Do players have a right to feel entitled to easy levelling, easy loot, and accessible raiding, or is it just as much a sense of entitlement if the hardcore feel entitled to always be a quantum leap ahead of the rest? ...
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Blizzard
spinksville.wordpress.com - 22 hours ago
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We’ve seen a lot of discussion about Blizzard’s
plans for the Icecrown patch (3.3). Fives writes the...
clearest and most heartfelt summary of them all. This isn’t just an analysis, it’s a love letter from a hardcore raid leader who sees his game on ...
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People already waste so much money on buying all sorts of random crap, so it’s hard to argue that a virtual pet or virtual dress is any worse value than some of the rubbish I’ve seen (presumably for people to foist on their ‘friends’) while Xmas shopping this year. ...
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I know that a lot of players feel that storytelling is a sideshow to the main event in games; it doesn’t involve gameplay, and it’s seen as fluff to keep the punters/ fanfic writers amused. I don’t agree with this view, I think the role of storytelling in games is to make encounters feel ...
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Blizzard have really outdone themselves with this one. The plan for opening up the Icecrown Citadel (the raid instance which is coming with the next patch) has been released. They’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it. It’ll have bosses gradually being unlocked as time goes on, bosses only being ...
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Blizzard
Do you remember the first character you played in your first ever MMO?
You probably didn’t bother to go look up optimal builds on bulletin boards, you didn’t care or even understand what the endgame was and you certainly had no plans for what you’d want to do with your ...
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There’s a rumour going around that the next wave of Call of Duty games will include options to buy into online subscription extras. So you’ll buy the game, and also be able to sub up for whatever services they decide to provide online. Maybe they’ll throw in some additional DLC on top.
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Gaia Online
Eric@Elder Game posts a typically thoughtful look at customer relations in MMOs, and especially on how some teams are very forthcoming in admitting their faults and keeping players informed about what they are doing, where others maintain a (more professional?) silence.
It is very clear that ...
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Blizzard
This isn’t a matter of life or death, it’s more important than that …
For many fantasy fans, it’s a crucial part of the genre that heroes be heroic and that doing good deeds is rewarded in stories. If that is important to you, you will not enjoy playing Dragon Age. ...
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I am still working my way through Dragon Age, and still thoroughly enjoying the game. While people agree in general that the game is of high quality, there is a split of opinions online as to how well it actually works … as a game. All of these games which tell stories have to provide a mix of ...
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We killed Yogg-Saron in a 25 man raid this week. It was the second kill for the raid, but the first one in which I was there. So now I have helped to kill an Old God, and it’s time to move on. I missed all the 10 man kills so I’m very glad to have been in for this one. There is a sense of ...
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I have seen it with my own eyes ….
It’s amazing how easy it is when we’re deep in a game for our brains to convince us that we are seeing the virtual world directly through our own eyes, and hearing it with our own ears. I’ve had times when I wasn’t aware of the headphones or the monitor. ...
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spinksville.wordpress.com - 6 days ago
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I’m always interested in finding people who play
MMOs in a very different way from the way...
I do, so I was intrigued to read comments on the official forums by pet collectors who felt that the Blizzard Store was ruining their game by selling ...
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The sadness of pet collectors
spinksville.wordpress.com - 13 days ago
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One of my major issues with the game
is the lack of some kind of vault in...
which to store items that you might need later on in the game. I end up carrying around way too many gifts for companion characters I haven’t even met yet, for example. ...
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Dragon Age Hint: So you need more storage space
spinksville.wordpress.com - 14 days ago
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I cannot remember a time when I have
been as glutted on awesome computer games as I...
am right now at this moment. My gaming hours are still very occupied with either playing Dragon Age, which is offering some of the most compelling, immersive gaming ...
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Only as good as the last patch
This week, two main news stories made their way out of EA. The first one is that they bought Playfish , the social/ facebook gaming developer, for a eye-bleeding $300 million plus change .
And the second is that EA laid off a lot of staff , including 40% of Mythic, developers of Warhammer ...
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Electronic Arts
Warhammer Online
If you want to get out of the city map and back to the world map, then get to the city map page and select the icon at the bottom of the map, in the middle.
Posted in single player games Tagged: dragon age, hint, how to get out of denerim
