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MMORvRG

2008-10-09 20:40:40 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
 
...game is shifted from here to there. Those are decent ways of explaining how the game feels, but not quite as good as this: Warhammer Online is a MMORPG without the RPG. Weve seen games adapt and use MMOG and MMOFPS well now its time to create a new one. WAR is being unofficially labeled as a MMORvRG or a Massively Multiplayer Online Realm vs....
 
Tags: game, game feels, real world, world, realm game, role, games, games adapt, role reversal
 
 
 
 
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KOTOR.O? - Officially confirming the already Official?

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2008-10-07 21:13:03 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...games. I could never get into the combat or the style of the games, sorry. Graevs a fan though. Hopefully they dont remain tight-lipped about the mechanics of the game for long. I want to know right away whether or not it will be worth following the game Ill be looking for certain tells in the announcement and as the development of the game...
 
Tags: official announcement, announcement, game progresses, games, actual kotor games, game, announcement half-already, kotor mmorpg, distance
 
 
 
 
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T4 reignites the awesome in WAR!

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2008-10-06 16:47:49 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...game. then Stage 3 came along. When it came up on the screen that our objective was to kill DRAGONS we quickly looked around. There, on the horizon, came flying in 3 golden dragons - one of which had a rider. They landed on the tower and we proceeded to attack. As we engaged suddenly two big black dragons came flying in and we thought we were...
 
Tags: black dragons, dragons, kill dragons, war, awesome, war pve, tower, kill, chaos mobs
 
 
 
 
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ChaosCast Episode #7

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2008-10-05 23:23:41 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...game has been out for ~3 weeks now and we have a LOT to say about release, what were playing, what weve observed, and what we expect from the game in the coming months. We also had the opportunity of recording this episode on the same day that Mythic patched in the 1.01 patch so expect lots of impressions on how Mythic did with their first...
 
Tags: episode, patch, major patch, game, round-table discussion, discussion, game change, chaoscast, expect
 
 
 
 
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What we do when someone threatens our turf

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2008-10-05 01:09:22 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...game on Our guild, alliance, and a lot of the realm community formed up and within minutes we had a full scale siege on our hands. At its peak we estimated about 75v75 in this keep siege. We had siege weapons constantly firing, arrows wizzing over out heads (I likened it to Helms Deep), spells flying, and weapons clanging. The Order did a...
 
Tags: siege weapons constantly, siege, fun, happy fun guyz, door, wall door, scale siege, attack, scale attack
 
 
 
 
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Happy Fun Guyz claim a keep and rip it up!

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2008-10-04 07:00:07 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...gameplay. According to the information that we have (will be verified soon) it costs 144g/day for a T3 keep and 240g/day for a T4 keep. These costs have meant a lot of dedication from our members to donate and work towards building up guild funds and Im really proud of how so many of our community have stepped up and donated willingly to the...
 
Tags: happy fun guyz, realm-team, realm, realm pride, win, entire win, alliance, tonight, hfg
 
 
 
 
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WAR 1.01 Patch - What did it break? What did it Fix?

2008-10-03 01:02:04 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
 
...game for several hour today What did it break R No Longer Works - Looks like in the chatbox update they broke the reply feature. This has lead to a few really interesting mistells Texture Resolutions - Theyre borked. Seeing a lot of blurry textures, clay-man effects, and a complete texture draw distance scale back in capital cities. This...
 
Tags: exp, exp bonus, aoe mobs, mobs, exp curve, prohibit anymore people, aoe, patch, anymore
 
 
 
 
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You got some Camelot in my Warhammer!

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2008-10-01 15:21:13 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...game Dark Age of Camelot. This brings back a lot of great memories. There are several places to go including the moon, an island in the sky, and Camelot Kudos to Mythic for including such a neat easter egg in a mmorpg. Pictures were taken by Bartlebe
 
Tags: camelot, neat easter egg, portal, inevitable city, albion capital, lot, island, brings, floor
 
 
 
 
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Looking back at some of my favorite MMOs.

2008-09-29 19:31:29 by Graev in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
 
...games really stick out in my mind. I wont bother going over Everquest, because it was probably one of my greatest experiences simply because it was my first experience in massively online games. So anyways, here are some of my favorites in no particular order Sierras The Realm I did play this before Everquest, but it was a different kind of...
 
Tags: original game, original, game, online, massively online games, games, sierra games, combat, non-combat professions
 
 
 
 
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The Journey vs. A Means to an End

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2008-09-29 01:19:26 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
...game that comes after the PvE or a part of the game that you want to play more. This type of PvE is common in PvP games or games that focus too heavily on the endgame (I recommend one of my previous blog posts for further reading). Examples of obvious means to an end PvE would be Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, and WoW (read on for...
 
Tags: journey, pve, pve gameplay, process begins, pvp, process, pvp games, game tells, games