Brian posted this on January 7th, 2011.
Categorized as champions, guild wars 2, lotro, MMO, predictions, Rambles, Rift, star trek, status, swtor.
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Full link: http://bluekae.com/2011/01/07/looking-forward-to-mmos-in-2011/
This will be an interesting year.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
A lot of hopes have been pinned on this game. Some people’s expectations for TOR are so high, that I don’t see how the game can match them. So there will be a lot of disappointed people when the game launches. I myself have been trying to stay away from the news and hype for the game as much as I could for most of the year.
It’s Star Wars so I know I’m going to get it and give it a shot for the first month. It’s basically KotOR 3 (only this time finished unlike 2) so I’m sure I’ll play through at least one or two of the storyline (probably light-side Jedi of some flavor and a Smuggler), but I’m also not expecting to still be playing this game in December. This is basically a single-player game with a subscription fee, it’s something I’m not particularly excited about money-wise, but it is Star Wars so what can I say.
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Brian posted this on January 6th, 2011.
Categorized as champions, dcuo, eve, force unleashed, lotro, mass effect 2, minecraft, MMO, pc, Rambles, red dead redemption, shattered dimentions, spider-man, star trek, status, swtor, wow, Xbox 360.
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Full link: http://bluekae.com/2011/01/06/looking-back-at-2010/
December is done and 2010 along with it. Seems like a lot of people are happy to see 2010 go, but the last twelve months of gaming here in Kae-land have been pretty good.
New MMOs in 2010
There were four MMOs scheduled or rumored for 2010 that I was keeping an eye one.
Star Trek Online
The game launched on time and pretty smoothly. At least smoothly enough that I don’t remember encountering any problems eleven months later, unlike Anarchy Online’s launch which I still rememberyears later.
The game had a larger flood of launch players than I expected, but it seemed like that initial wave passed through pretty quickly. Say what you will about Cryptic, but I do like their single world architecture. Not only do you not have to play the server-coordination game with your friends, but there’s also no drama over server queues or merges.
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arbitrary posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as birthdays, bored of raiding, casual play, friends, lotro, MMOs, personal, random, status, turning 40, Updates, warcraft, world of warcraft, wow.
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Full link: http://nerfthecat.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/what-im-up-to/
So blogging has fallen a bit by the wayside. I went to London/Reading to visit family and haven’t really got back into a schedule yet.
Add to that a bit of a turn from LotRO – I’ve been there, done that. I have 750 Dol Guldur medallions now and no weapon or emblem decent enough to spend any of them on. I can run through Sammath Gul without standing on a bone pile with my eyes closed. Volume 3, Book 1, was a small distraction – but didn’t do what I wanted it to. We’re raiding Barad Guldur, and making good progress, but raiding has diminished for me somewhat, and I think in the future I won’t be quite so gung ho to go twice a week. Ah yes, the casual vibe has started to catch me…
…I still log onto LotRO almost daily and do some of the daily quests to level up yet another emblem. They’re all rubbish. I feel, as I do it, as if I’m wasting my life. I really hate the LI lottery these days. And then I realise I’m raiding with what I consider rubbish and no-one cares, so why should I struggle to upgrade? Why pursue the Symbol for crafted 2nd Age items, when it may just be a wasted piece of crafting that someone else craves a lot more than I do?
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Brian posted this on January 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as cataclysm, champions, dcuo, eve, goals, lotro, Rambles, star trek, status, swtor, wow.
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Full link: http://www.bluekae.com/2010/01/02/looking-forward-to-2010/
If the release schedules and expectations hold, 2010 will be an interesting year. There are the two huge science-fiction IP’s coming via Star Trek Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blizzard is doing something of a reboot of the Warcraft world, and the DC/SOE juggernaut is expected as well. SWTOR is also interesting since it marks Bioware’s entry into the MMO genre, and I’m very very interested to see how well they are able to bring a focus on story over to a massively multi-player environment.
My biggest concern for 2010 is a repeat of the Warhammer effect on SWTOR. Warranted or not there seem to be a lot of players who are expecting SWTOR to revolutionize MMOs, kill WoW, and possibly cure cancer. I hope I’m wrong, but I think that most of the gamers disappointed with 2009 will also be disappointed with 2010.
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Brian posted this on January 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Age of Conan, aion, arkham asylum, batman, champions, city of heroes, console, dawnofwar2, DDO, eve, fallen earth, lotro, MMO, mount and blade, Rambles, status, warhammer, warhammer 40k, wow, Xbox 360.
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Full link: http://www.bluekae.com/2010/01/02/looking-back-at-2009/
I think 2009 was a good year for games, even MMOs. Sure WoW is still on top, Warhammer continues to struggle, there’s not been any revolutionizing innovation in the MMO genre, but I don’t really care about any of that. All of the games I started the year playing (EVE and LoTRO) I still enjoy, and I found a new game (Champions) that I like an expect to be playing through the whole of 2010.
Aion
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Brian posted this on March 17th, 2009.
Categorized as dawnofwar2, eve, lotro, MMO, Rambles, rts, status.
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Full link: http://www.bluekae.com/2009/03/17/time_flies/
Wow, has it been a month since I posted last?
Whoops.
While I have been finding some time to play, I haven’t had time to organize my thoughts enough to write anything. Work has been especially crazy the last few weeks. So, after working and spending time with my wife and son, I have just enough time to play some EVE or some LoTRO or some DOW2 before heading off to dreamland.
Dawn of War 2 is good. I’m nearly finished with the single player campaign, and I’ve played a few multi-player matches against the CPU. My concern about boss battles was totally misplaced, which I’m glad about. I’m going to put together a more detailed review after I finish the single player campaign and try a few more multi-player matches, so stay tuned.
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Brian posted this on January 12th, 2009.
Categorized as console, eve, fable 2, fallout 3, lotro, MMO, moria, pc, Rambles, status.
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Full link: http://www.bluekae.com/2009/01/12/new-year-update/
Nearly midway through January and I’ve barely posted. Hmmmm. I have some articles I’m working on, but they aren’t ready yet, so let me just leave you with a quick rundown of what I’ve been playing:
- Lord of the Rings Online
- Fallout 3
- World of Goo
- Fable 2
- EVE Online
My EVE time has been solely limited to training since the end of December. I had been doing a bit of mining both as a way to replenish my wallet and since its pretty easy to do when I’m busy with the baby.
Fable 2 has sat on the shelve since my initial run through. I had started two more play-throughs intending to try out the other two endings, but no more progress on that (similar to my KoTOR and Mass Effect plans in the past). I did pop in recently on my original character and buy up some more real estate with the funds he’d been saving up.
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