I have a few things I want/need to write and post. But they’ve all been big, and I haven’t been able to convince myself to sit down for a long stretch and pound some of it out. But I took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Once upon a time, this blog was new, and I was just beginning write my thoughts for the benefits of posterity and anyone else who happened by. Around the same time, something else was new to me: MMORPGs. I’ve been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Initially released in 1989, Gold of the Americas was released at the height of SSG’s run as a major strategy computer game developer. Today, it is little remembered next to their signature classics like Warlords and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. The ideas for the 4X genre of games appear pretty early in computer history, with the early ‘70s computer-moderated play-by-mail game StarWeb. A number of games (that I don’t know much about, other than their existence)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Sins of a Solar Empire is an interesting hybrid game: It is pretty much a pure RTS game that is centered around delivering the feel of a space 4X game. Since I got it a mere[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Sword of the Stars is a space ‘4X’ game; that is, you start with a fledgling empire in the great unknown, and explore, colonize, negotiate, and eventually conquer your way to victory. In the main, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meant to post this a few days ago: Dunain hit level 80 while questing!
(Cross-posted with WoW_Muradin because I’m too primitive to have an editor that’ll post this to both.) Well, WoW went to v3.0 yesterday. It’s different. I don’t remember the Burning Crusade engine being quite so big of a shock, character-wise. Hunters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Been a while since I’ve had a fun WoW story… even though there’s been plenty of runs. Dunain is doing well. The little curmudgeon has pretty good gear, and his damage is darn frightening. (So is his crit rate–I’m aiming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s been a few small and big things to talk about recently. A couple weeks ago, Drew gave me some RAM for Haruhi (in fact, he was somewhat forceful). I had supposed much of my problems with WoW were from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…