I’m a fan of the gritty, dirty, leans-towards-realistic art style when it comes to video games. If something looks like it’s coated in plastic, or is just too clean for it’s own good, I’ll probably pass on it. Initially at least. I like to be deeply immersed in my gaming experience, and the visual art…
It’s another end of the week at the end of the year. I’m just sitting around watching the twitter stream scroll by while listening to some last.fm and thinking to myself. It’s been a while since I’ve made a post. Well here you go, for your pleasure I’ll ramble on about what’s been going down…
Because if anything, this game is very impressive. When you hold it against other games from the past 5 years, there is really nothing revolutionary going on. Bethesda didn’t re-invent the wheel with the graphics here, they just threw a bunch of paint on it. Nice thing is, they’re goddamn artists at what they do,…
Blaq (http://zewar.wordpress.com) was talking about the third realm in EA’s latest Wrath of Heroes which kicked me in the head a little bit about the good ol’ days. Right, well that’s not really fair. WoH merely has three teams and no realms to speak of. Let’s not get me started on kicking inbred puppies, I’m…
First off, if you follow me on Twitter you may occasionally see tweets from me hocking a Kickstarter project written by the leader of Iniquity. Let me just vomit forth a few links here in case you’re not a-tweetin’ (you fool!). Ferrel on TwitterThe BlogKickstarter ProjectSome Creepy Youtube Video of a DragonThe Podcast Needless to say,…
Yeah that’s right. You can double check your url at the top of the page (if you actually wander all the way to the site), it’s a new post! Let me say, part of the lack of posting has something to do with the lack of criticism I can throw at my current game of…
I wanted to make a post here about how incredibly bat shit insane the development pace has been at Trion regarding Rift. We’re seeing content being pumped out in a matter of months where other companies would be looking at 6-8 months. In the past half year Rift has had no less than four major…
Something that I’ve seen over the years in a variety of forms and have even implemented myself is adding in roles to a guild where players are recognized for their exceptional effort or skill. In larger guilds there’s a need to dole out responsiblity to an officer core so the leader and figurehead isn’t constantly…
Crafting in Rift is good in the sense that it does pretty much what you would expect for a AAA MMO crafting system. Up until you hit level 50 crafting is quite passable. Things scale well, new recipes unlock at a pleasant pace, and the ingredients have a proper drop rate for the pace you acquire…
Last night after the quite successful GSB run with the guild (cleared the first two bosses in a reasonable amount of time) we had a solid run with some of the guys in DD. Only a couple minutes off from the Rapid Assault which we could definitely get if we were more confident about running…
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