Well I’ve been game jumping a lot this summer and I really haven’t found anything to hold my attention for longer than a couple weeks or so. I had been playing EVE Online for most of August – dual accounts no less, but I had a couple of long trains going and got really bored just mining to kill the time. So I re-loaded Oblivion on my PC after reading an interesting blog somewhere where a player was pursuing Necromancy. At first I loaded Oblivion on my laptop and started … Continue reading
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My introduction to the world of massively multiplayer online games is probably in the median of most MMO players. I didn’t start “in the beginning” with text only MUD’s, nor am I a total new comer to the genre. “Back in the day,” a co-worker of mine got a group of us talked into trying a somewhat new game on the market called Dark Age of Camelot. We all started as a group about six to eight months after DAoC’s start-up. Mike, the guy who talked us all into joining, had … Continue reading
I guess I should start by way of some sort of introduction. I actually started this blog on a whim after reading The Ancient Gaming Noob’s blog (http://tagn.wordpress.com/). As I’m also an “older gamer” but somewhat of a noob. Mostly because I switch games faster than they can release them it seems. I’m also somewhat of a solo MMO player, which just seems to irk the hell out of some MMO players. But I think Jeff Strain (co-founder of ArenaNet) summed it up well in a recent keynote speech “The fact … Continue reading