September 2007 Entries
All quite annoying really, but in a somewhat sit-com-like fashion, various Real Life events have all conspired to take out not only Tuesday N00b Club this week, but also the inaugural attempt at a similar "Monday Infamy Club" of sorts, in City of Villains too. I think the plan was that our little gang of petty hyper-fellons were going to try and approach the 'Strike Force' chained story missions in a similar vein to the ongoing Guild Wars: Factions plot, and then I was going to ramble on about it at length here, for the delectation of the insomniac, the bored-at-work,...
For a game which has no actual money to speak of, I seem to be getting an inordinate amount of enjoyment out of The Black Market in City of Villains over the last few weeks, and the thing is swiftly becoming a significant sub-game in it's own right, to be honest. As with much in my gaming life, this new aspect of CoV stemmed largely from personal irritation.
The economy of CoV is quite an unusual place really. Its a game where there is no gear, as such, and all The Numbers tend to automatically scale as you level. An...
Life in the Luxon Army isn't all Jade and Nagas, as we found out last night. The story so far sees us trying to unite the long warring factions of Kurzick and Luxon, in the hope that with their combined strength, the world might be saved from the temporarily at-bay Shiro Tagachi. Leading that effort are Master Togo and his number one student, Brother Mhenlo. Mhenlo has gone off to sort out the Kurzick side of the problem out, leaving us and Master Togo to somehow convince the Luxon peoples that maybe the whole neverending civil war thing is...
Today's post is brought to you by the number Four! You know this stuff is getting out of hand when I've had to make up a special icon for it, and to be honest, I'm with Tobold on this particular one. Still, I've not yet gotten around to the Ambassador's Reception at the SL Swedish Embassy thing yet, and have nothing better to write about just now, so here goes... Four Fun Facts about The Number Four: Four is the only number in English that has it's own number of letters in it's name!...
The villainy continues apace in City of Villains. I'm not quite sure what happened actually, but I seem to have almost completely given up on my do-gooding Ice/Ice Tanker at a paltry level six, and am now pretty much a fulltime villain, wreaking all manner of mayhem and pandemonium over in the Rogue Isles with my Dark/Dark Stalker instead. I think its mostly the gleeful comic-book dastardlyness of it all. Functionally, the two side of the game are pretty much identical. Basic gameplay, power progression, the costumes and contacts and missions structure are all very much the same...
Well, knock me down with falling masonry and call me Lara Croft! After an undeniably enjoyable, but somewhat slower pace than the Tuesday N00b Club are used to, averaging at one mission a week in Guild Wars: Factions so far, last night saw three in a row! It's not like we're working to any kind of schedule or anything, and the pace is usually dictated by a kind of easy-going and relaxed attitude to the whole thing. It's nice to have at least one mission to ramble about here each week, but in general, we'll get there when we...
Having completed the necessary spiritual preparations of the 'Weh no Su', previously, we're now worthy enough to consult with the deceased spirit forms of various long gone ancient heroes of Cantha. These spirits reside in the Tahnnakai Temple, in the east of the sprawling metropolis of Kaineng. After an bracing slog through a cyclopean sewer system, crawling with the Afflicted, and of course Kaineng's more regular supporting cast of ninja street-gangs and very angry samurai types, we arrived at the temple.
There is one hero in particular that we want to have a bit of a chat with; Vizu, a long gone Assassin...
I must admit to having been a bit of a tease of late, specifically with the whole Free Trial thing. Free, no consequences, online gaming is all very nice, but I suppose the point of it all is to actually test drive the thing with a view to paying somebody to then be able to play the thing properly. With that in mind, I've signed up with City of Heroes. Auto Assault is er...gone and Dungeons and Dragons Online didn't quite click with me as much as the rampaging superhero thing, although is definitely worth a closer look in the...