Playing Asheron’s Call 2 again, probably more than any other game I have played recently, has done a good job of how much my life has changed since I was a hardcore MMO player. I played AC2 for about 5 or 6 months before moving over to Shadowbane, and before it I played AC1 and…Continue readingI’m Old!
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Dereth, Here I come… Again!
I really wanted to be able to go and put the old AC2 disks into my computer and do a fresh install of the game. I don’t know why. Maybe just some sort of justification for why I kept those disks for a decade. Maybe just to get that special feeling that i had 10…Continue readingDereth, Here I come… Again!
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Asheron’s Call 2 is Back?
Over the last few days, I’ve been trying to think of something decent to write about in my usual beginning of weekend blog entry. I had a couple of ideas, but then Thursday, Turbine decided to blow up the MMO world and announce that they are returning AC2 back into action. Wha-What? This makes Asheron’s…Continue readingAsheron’s Call 2 is Back?
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Upcoming MMORPGs
I haven’t really been involved in any MMO since I left EQ2 a few years ago. Sure I’ve jumped into both Lord of the Rings Online as well as Champions online on and off again, but nothing really solid and nothing really serious.Continue readingUpcoming MMORPGs
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Re-Creating UO
A few weeks ago, I had a design idea. It was an idea that was so good that I really wanted to try to script a really base version of it to test it out. Originally, I had begun work on doing this in Neverwinter Nights. After all, the game was made from the ground…Continue readingRe-Creating UO
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Player vs. Player in MMOs
PvP is kind of a touchy subject in MMORPGs. Most MMOs have it in some format or another, but more often than not, it is left behind in the wayside. This is largely due to the mistakes that were made in early Ultima Online history where it was more profitable to kill other players than…Continue readingPlayer vs. Player in MMOs