onefinemess | September 13, 2011
It occurred to me the other day, or week, or year, that I pretty much just play MMOs for the pet classes. Meaning, I’ve played quite a few. Maybe not as many as hardcore gamers, but certainly more than your average grandmother or Chilean chef. This got me thinking about why this might be. I [...]
onefinemess | August 18, 2011
I installed this one a month or so ago on a whim. Well, kind of a whim. I mean, there was some intention to it: I was thinking about writing a series of posts about pet classes in various MMOs and realized I hadn’t played Conan yet. Still, it was kinda whim-ish. I mean, I [...]
onefinemess | July 26, 2011
I first tried Rift near the end of the beta – a friend got me in. That same friend sent me a 7 day trial last week and I figured I’d give it another shot. My initial impression of it was that it was an insanely bland looking fantasy mmo. By “bland” I don’t mean [...]
onefinemess | April 18, 2011
I mean, I’m in the 3rd act, and I do want to see the ending but YAWWWWNNNNNNNNN. What? Oh, sorry – and that’s about how I feel whenever I think about actually playing through the repetitive battle scenes. Don’t get me wrong, the combat is fun and stuff, but how many times can you fight [...]
onefinemess | April 12, 2011
Those of you that know me, know that my game of choice tends to be City of Heroes, at least for the last 6-7 (!) years. I’ll take breaks every so often – sometimes up to 4-5 months – and dig into another game or two, but I always seem to come back. There just [...]
onefinemess | January 4, 2011
Elemental (PC) by: Stardock It’s Magic of Civilimoo, basically. The tech trees remind me of the way MOO worked but, upon reflection, I suspect Civ works that way as well. The magic and hero stuff is straight out of Master of Magic, as are the summoned units – in a good way. I’m a little [...]
onefinemess | October 9, 2010
So, perhaps inspired the nostalgia awesomeness that is GoG.com (more on that in a later post), I wondered how well the original Everquest has held up. YES, 11 years later, the game is still going. 16 expansion packs and counting (the 17th is due out soon, how not really exciting!). So#2, I tried to track [...]
onefinemess | July 28, 2010
II admit it: I wasn’t excited to get Starcraft 2. Yes, I pre-ordered it because… I mean, it *is* Starcraft 2. 11 years in the making. 11 years? Wow. I mean, I remember playing networked SC in college, was college that long ago? *checks* Well, shit, I guess it was. But, I was feeling pre-underwhelmed. [...]
onefinemess | June 25, 2010
Go me. I set out to hit 200/180 or better – and I did, so there’s some geek pride for you. Usually, whenever I get up 18-20, the matchmaker starts putting me with teams that are obviously worse than me (which is saying a lot), or a bunch of leavers – it wants you to [...]
onefinemess | May 4, 2010
I think it’s interesting that MMOs have their roots in RPGs – perhaps the most solitary form of video game there is (not counting some of those Japanese dating sims….). Sure, I used to watch a friend play the SNES Final Fantasy games for hours (I don’t think I ever had an SNES), and that [...]
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