December 2004 Entries
So a quick recap of The Blogless Days, just in case anyone is wondering what I’d been up to in the intervening months.
Canceled Planetside; reason cited this time:
“Big Robots, Bombers and Artillery make the game very unenjoyable for Infantry”
Which I thought was a fair and objective assessment, despite me usually being the first grunt to get hit by the bomb/megadeath plasma shell/big robot foot. However, this recent patchnote made me perk up a bit, and I may be back there some month soon. It still remains one of the more unique and awe-inspiring online experiences currently on offer,...
I’ve become somewhat fascinated with an argument of late. Not the metaphysical, or philosophical – nothing in the league of “The Irresistible Force and The Immovable Object”, or similar. No, I’ve become morbidly fascinated with ‘EQ2 vs. WoW’, as conducted via the Reader Review pages at www.mmorpg.com, although many of the essential characteristics of the ‘debate’ are quite similar.
First a little background: ostensibly, the two big Christmas MMORPG offerings this year are Blizzard’s Warcraft 3-based cartoon fantasy romp ‘World of Warcraft’, and the long awaited sequel to Sony Online Entertainment’s rampant success ‘Everquest’. Both are, to the casual observer, quite...
So where were we? Ah yes…I’d gotten into one of those awkward and embarrassing situations brought about by being entirely too open and candid in a blog. Not a particularly isolated problem it seems.
There is something rather compelling about a blank page designed to be lost to the gulfs of the internet, which draws at you and compels you to write. It is these same compulsions which cause people to write down their innermost, darkest secrets in diaries protected only by the filmiest of padlocks and a ‘My Sekrit Diary! Keep Off!!!’ label.
Still, things worked themselves out in the end,...