Gaming Week 4
Well no Vanguard group again this week. Not really a good excuse behind it this time. A lot of it has to do with the fact I don’t really feel a drive to play it. The fact the SOE has scaled the staff so far back is the real culprit. Including the time in beta I have been playing for more then a year now. Outside of APW the only new group area that has been added is Tricksters Hideout. There are areas in the game that could be great but need a lot of attention to get them up and working. Now I haven’t wrote it off my list or anything but I think I am going to sit back and wait maybe six to nine months before I start to comet any serious time to it.
On to a little FPS action I did a little stop in CoD4 multiplayer. Needless to say I wasn’t impressed with that part of the game. I have never really cared for an experience system in a shooter game. I also got in some Counter Strike Source also and that was great. I have a few servers on my favorites list and all in all had a blast. I did learn that I do need to work on my skills a lot. Even though I had more deaths then frags I still had a good time.
The big MMO for me right now is Everquest 2. I have just been having a great time since I came back to the game. With the 2 expansion that I missed it is like a whole new game. After several hours of searching to day I found the commands I needed to turn off some of the titles and tags people have in there name. In Vanguard I can hit N and turn off peoples names it seems that you can not do that in EQ2. It is possible to turn of titles and guild tags. I guess that will have to do. I just really want to clean up the clutter on my screen during raids.
The raid Tuesday went well. We did guild raids one and two again. The second raid didn’t go as well as the first. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that it was getting late, we where one short and are level was a lot lower. The level difference probably had the biggest effect. I think last week where mentored in the 30’s and this week we where at 27 and 28.
I do have a rant this week and I just have to get it off my chest. Why is it that with Kingdome of Sky every teleport is a time sink. I mean really the dock bells are instant the carpet to Burning Sands is instant. Why is it that with KoS I have to wait at the alters and at docks for boats all the time. I have to get on a boat and ride it to from TS to BB but I can just warp to NF that makes no freaking sense at all. I could keep going with this rant but I think I will stop it here. Something tells me that this is going to be the one thing that just always drives me crazy in the game.
January 26, 2008 at 10:38 am
Hey Mighty..!
I have not been in game but around after you told me about the 2 dev in vg was just the drop that spill the milk .. I been watching anime only in crunchyroll.com Digimon series as I miss playing beastlord from eq1.. I`m reluctant to play in guk prices are way too much and all the pain and laughs I went in befallen with my toons older toons is just tearing me in two so I kinda quit and started on anime a bit. I like eq2 and vg but as I mention to you vg feels like an unfinish cake and raw cake aint good for you.. EQ2 is having problems with Lore as eq1 is evolving and really the 500 year thing is taking a twist they should have made the gap a coulple of milleniums so the lore would not collide with each others.
Spires are consistance with eq development as they were the first travel feature outside of wiz and druid taxi after the plains of power were open insta travel to zones was born even thought a lot of whiners complainted about ths feature and flagging. Kingdome brought the spires back and so far only the plane of sky is open in eq2. eq2 travel has evolve upto a certain level from its beginnings where a mini quest was brought in to get to open to other zones but now is part of the past cause as same reason as others whiners were involved. We are steps away from pop in eq2 but pop was flag progression and was not taken very well back then so is difficult for devs to bring pop as it was in eq. In overrall contents we are missing velious and Luclin to get to pop so I guess next xpansion will be in this 3 categories.
January 26, 2008 at 10:55 am
VG as I said before is an half bake cake. Thestra was not finish Qalia is partially finish and so is Kojan. While others get titles human thestra do not they are born in mid of road with silly quest they dont even get a Tursh title or city where they were born as others. basically the are abandon children left to an uncertain future. Humans in beta where born in brenanstead with title and everything but sigil had a lot on its pñate and left them for last which never finish. As mighty said each chunk has its story but overrall story line is not connected and feels empty