8 Today @ 12:14 am July 20, 2007, 5:11 am
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You must have a kind of soap called 'Galaxy' then, or the world of international branded merchandise will implode.
Not in Germany at least...
Another "Where Did Everybody Go?" Topic
oh hi
MMOs
Incredible isn't it. You can't walk through people! (well you can, if they're blocking your path with a mammoth or something you can 'crouch' through them)
In a fight you can actually surround and protect a squishy class from melee attacks.
There's even some basic physics on the dead bodies so that they don't poke their torsos into the nearest hill. Stuff like that makes a massive difference overall.
MMOs
The thing that put me off MMOs was that they were shit to play, looked like shit and sounded like shit. You had to put yourself an absolutely wretched experience to get at any kind of meta-game (which is what they're all about in the end). Fuck knows why I went after them for so long, but I finally found one that isn't shit.
I gave several a fair shot. I played quite a lot of Anarchy Online because I'd heard it had quite a nice freeform progression system. But it was fucking dated grind hell shit. I did like certain aspects of it though and so looked forward to the dev's next game which was supposed to be more casual. (Age of Conan)
I played Phantasy Star Universe for 2 months. Great fun with some good company. For 2 months, then it's no fun at all. Support was also laughable and the sub costs extortionate.
I dragged myself through LOTRO for a month, supposedly the best PvE game there is with massive regular content updates. It ran like a dead dog on a 2 wheeled tricycle and turned out to be an MMORPG that wished it was single player, but with all the drawbacks of an MMORPG (shit everything). Just a con to get you to keep paying to grind while the devs put together the next 2 hours of stuff to do in the next bi-monthly patch. Grim. There's one tune in that game that sounds literally like someone's taken a midi version of the LotR film main theme and moved a couple of notes up and down - this is lotro in a nutshell.
And then, finally, Age of Conan.
-No archaic auto-attack nonsense.
-Lots of bishing and boshing and swooshing.
-Collision detection!!
-Everything animated properly.
-Beautiful varied scenery.
-1st rate, real music.
-hardly any Kill X Rats quests
-Well written dialogue.
-Actual attention to detail.
-Allows sandboxy guild politics
It's still an Everquest clone, but it's the first Everyquest clone not to sacrifice everything that makes non-MMO games good. It doesn't insult and exploit the players by providing nothing but goals and rewards.
Today I got Advanced Riding Training which lets me kick people off cliffs with my horse and charge into people in a split second and knock them over. If they can do it in this, why the feck can't they do mounted combat properly in Zelda?
The Anything Thread
So 2-3 years ago they just stopped making proper games for a while?
Obviously signing a few significant western 3rd party devs would be inconceivable. They might even have to credit them on the box or something!
X to the B to the L to the A
There seems to be a direct correlation between people I add to play Sega Rally having SCARY MASSIVE GW2 scores.
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French - B
History - C
Sociology - D
I'd be bothered if I hadn't got into my 1st choice university, but since I did all the crap module marks are a bonus to drag down the averages of my crap college.
Passed my driving test as well. And I didn't even drive as well as the last time when I failed. Bitches.
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It's probably Bill Gates or Kaz Hirai.
Site stuff
Joe's been having problems with Paypal which he uses to pay for the wholesale hosting. Don't know much about the v1/v2 situation.
X to the B to the L to the A
I have Braid and GW2 and they're both amazing.
Braid's puzzles are seriously cool, I have the odd one left behind that I just can't work out but I'm determined to do it all myself. Some of the solutions are just excellent, I've no idea how one creates puzzles like this without tying your brain into knots.
I ordered Tesco points ages ago and they said they wouldn't come until the 10th or something so I bought a load electronically for Braid. Then Tesco delivered the next day 
For some reason I have 90 points on the end of my account which I'll probably never be able to spend on anything worthwhile. Gayness.
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