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I have been playing the hell out of City of Heroes over the last month or two. I have enjoyed it but will be happy to move on to something else.. City of heroes is one of my “stand by” games. I find that I always come back to it simply because its quite mindless.. Good but simple..
Or is it? The more I play it the more I find super secret hidden stuff that is in the background. I’m discovering that there is a lot of depth in the game that I never realized was there.
City of Heroes (and thus City of Villains) is one of those sleeper games that has a lot of hidden depth. I played CoH for almost a year starting back in Feb. 2005 when it first came out. I like to refer to it as MMO Lite.
It’s a good game, and a good starter game for those who aren’t really sure about the whole MMO scene. It’s very simple to play and enjoy, and doesn’t bog you down with many of the more complex MMO aspects. For new comers to the market, its perfect. It’s how I got my wife into MMO’s and now I can’t get her away from the computer.. heh (”I just have this one last quest to do..” “Uh huh.. sure honey.. ” heh) Read More
I’m starting to get upset / annoyed with Age of Conan. Probably it’s more fair to say, disappointed — but you can only scream at your monitor for so long before disappointment spirals down into something else.
My main character is a ranger — and as with all games that have a ranger class, he’s broken. Primarily when it comes to damage output.
I understand that a range, being a subset of the rogue class, can’t tank. I’m there. In EQ1 rangers were made of paper.. I’m cool with that.. But the ranger should be able to put out some damage, and since they can’t tank, they should be able to put out damage at range. If they can’t for any reason do ranged damage, what’s the point of a ranger?
It’s interesting.. I pride myself on beta testing just about every MMO that has ever been.. So I was a little sad when for whatever reason, the gods decided to not let me into the Age of Conan beta. Eh, these things happen, however this meant I was pretty much slobbering at the bit waiting for access to the game. (I was one of the few that got into the paid early access for the game however, so that’s close enough for me. )
Firstly let me say, funcom has done a wonderful job capturing and portraying the world of Conan.. I’m having a lot of fun.
However, I was initially worried. I beta tested and played Anarchy Online and by all accounts it’s initial release was a nightmare. It was truly, truly bad. Funcom, and all other game companies for that matter, learned that day that to release a broken game dooms the game forever. I had assumed that funcom learned its lesson and would release a stable game, in fact I had visions of board meetings in which the members all chanted, “please not like AO”… So you can imagine my shock when at 12pm my time, when the doors were to open.. Nothing happened.
So as some of you know I have been playing the hell out of Eve.. I am really enjoying the game and things are going nicely. I have created a baby combat alt on a second account that I use to PVP and generally misbehave and I’m enjoying it very much. And I mean I’ve been really bad.. heh I have done everything from gate camping to ore stealing, which is generally something I don’t think of very highly. But its actually quite a lot of fun..
My goal was not to grief or be a jerk, but rather to learn what can be done and the best way to go about it. That way when someone is doing it to me, I know. The irony of it so far is, I am enjoying it quite a lot. Probably more than I should to be honest. My main has very expensive ships and implants that I don’t want to risk, plus he is entirely skilled towards industry and production. When I created the new alt, I said that I would never fear risking him. If he dies.. so be it. No big deal.
Well I have gotten myself into the Pirates of the Burning Sea (PotBS) beta and been playing that a bit. Let me preface everything I have to say by saying, I really want to love this game. I have always loved this genre, even before the Pirates of the Caribbean movies turned it into a fad. I played all the pirates games of old and really love the concept of the open sea. It really was the final frontier of its day.
Having said that, I think PotBS could be a good game, but right now it’s really really rough. I fear it’s gonna be yet another example of a game released before it was ready. Sony is at the helm so of course this is to be expected.
The download of the game installer was simple and went without a hitch, however the darn thing took over 24 hours to patch!! This was due to the patcher being completely broken and SOE blaming everyone but themselves.
