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MMOs and the credit crunch...

2008-11-19 10:34:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
 
...game simply because I'm paying for it, more than anything else. It shouldn't feel like a chore On the flip side, though, even 12 a month isn't much compared to a trip to a theme park or a night out on the town. Hell, it's barely even enough to cover a trip to the cinema if you include transport into the bargain. If you've got the time spare,...
 
Tags: credit crunch, mmos, hit, games hit, time, hardcore games, time spare, hardcore, mmo
 
 
 
 
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The problem with reviewing MMORPGS

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2008-11-01 05:03:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...Gamespot and IGN reviewing MMORPGs. Some of you will instantly know why I find their reviews infuriating, others might need a few words of explanation. First out, I consider the idea of reviewing an MMORPG in a few pages as frankly ridiculous, and secondly I think the big websites serve to slow progress of the genre The first claim is easy...
 
Tags: huge, huge games, game world, world, game, portal, game portal, games, normal games
 
 
 
 
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Star Wars: The Old Republic thoughts

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2008-10-26 04:07:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...game to come out with every new generation of MMOs, simply because the entire franchise is a massive cash cow for everyone concerned Admittedly, it's a pretty damn cool franchise. Lightsabers, stormtroopers and X-Wings will never go out of date. But the risk is always there that some lazy developer will release something substandard, relying...
 
Tags: star wars, star wars rpg, star, star wars game, star wars franchise, bioware, bioware game, game, game mechanics
 
 
 
 
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5 Games You Should Have Played Already

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2008-10-17 16:01:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...games, but wasn't exactly an avid gamer. There were a few games we had played in common, but I mentioned a few classics that he'd never even heard of, which surprised me a little. There are some games that are just so genre-defining that everyone should have played them at least once in their life, games that any seasoned gamer will have no...
 
Tags: games, superb, superb story, absolutely superb, fallout games, fallout, superb game, game, favourite games
 
 
 
 
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Is there are place for hardcore MMOs any more? (long post)

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2008-10-14 13:52:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...game And chances are, I won't. I have a gym membership I'm actually using at the moment. I have a social life, and I seem to lose half the weekend to hangovers anyway. So I'm not going to be playing an MMO for huge amounts of time, which means that suddenly the 10-12 that I didn't mind paying when I played EQ2 more often suddenly seems a bit...
 
Tags: hardcore, hardcore mmos, hardcore players, mmos, hardcore mmo, hardcore alternative, hardcore powergamers, hardcore raiders, raiders
 
 
 
 
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The MMO difficulty curve...

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2008-10-12 08:32:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...games - today's was Crysis. I could run that at Medium, provided I didn't mind jerkiness and my heat sensors wailing at me. The new card runs it on high settings at 1600x1050 resolution, with no jerkiness at all. I've been enjoying it so far, but one thing has struck me about it - the difficulty The same thing hit me with Halo 3 when I...
 
Tags: difficulty, playstyle pretty, playstyle, difficult game, pretty, lower difficulty settings, settings, difficult, game
 
 
 
 
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Computer now upgraded...

2008-10-08 15:33:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
 
...Games and you're having to work 10 hour days, as I've discovered over the last few weeks Anyway, onto the more important news. Due to the fact it wasn't working properly, my PC has recieved an upgrade. The monitor has improved since I broke the power switch on my old one two weeks ago, leaving me completely unable to use my desktop, and I've...
 
Tags: weeks ago, games, 256mb radeon x1800, olympic games, weeks, graphics card, power switch, price tag, corsair unit
 
 
 
 
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How Guildhalls SHOULD have been done

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2008-09-28 04:49:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...game mechanics simply because its divisive in the community. Firstly, because it means that guilds will lock themselves away from the rest of the server. Secondly, because it alienates and disadvantages the players who don't want to be or who just aren't in a guild In my mind, guild halls should be a social thing, a manifestation of the...
 
Tags: successful, successful pvp guild, guild, inter-guild competition, competition, successful guilds, guild hall, guild halls, successful raid guild
 
 
 
 
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Guild Halls and Player Housing - do we really need them?

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2008-09-27 16:27:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...Game Update has been somewhat eclipsed by all the fanfare surrounding the largely successful launch of WAR, but one thing it does include (besides much needed improvements in crafted armour models) is the eagerly-awaited guild halls. Though when I say 'eagerly-awaited', I mean by the community as a whole, rather than by me personally.This is...
 
Tags: guild halls, guild, end-game hardcore players, hardcore players, game, game mechanic, game world, world, eq2 guild halls
 
 
 
 
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The art of crafting (making tradeskilling useful)

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2008-09-27 02:23:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi