I’ve fallen into the “Alt-Zone” once again. This time in Oblivion. After playing my Argonian, and really liking some of his special racial abilities (namely speed, virtual immunity to poison and disease, and the ability to breath under water – esp. helpful for one of the mage guild quests), I was curious what the Khajit might have to offer. I also wanted to see if I couldn’t really stick with a melee style character this time. Now some (a lot) of folks would groan loadly that I made a Khajit … Continue reading
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
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