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Story Matters: Star Wars the Old Republic

Posted by Xavier Morgan September 1, 2010

2011

1977

$100+ million

$11 million

It was May 25th, 1977:  I was 8 years old.  Jimmy Carter presided over the U.S. government.   You could still buy a Tab.  I don’t know how, but I convinced my mom to let me see the movie with my friends and we stood outside for hours!  I saw it more than 10 [...]

APB First Impressions

Posted by Xavier Morgan June 17, 2010

Many of you don’t like detailed prose, so here is a short summary.  You can read further to see the details.
Key points:

Great download and install
No auto run key or ability to map
Cops versus robbers MMO Shooter
Conforms to normal MMORPG conventions
Outstanding graphics and awesome PvP game play
Built in voice chat
Looks like real world money can impact [...]

Mortal Online First Impressions

Posted by Xavier Morgan June 12, 2010

Many of you don’t like detailed prose, so here is a short summary.  You can read further to see the details.
Key points:

Slow Patch and Install
No auto run key or ability to map such
Can’t figure out a 3rd person view
Lore, descriptions, and tutorials are sparse to non-existent.  A useless user guide is buried under the ESC [...]

Many of you don’t like detailed prose, so here is the short summary.  You can read further to see the details.
Key points:

1993 Era Graphics – MMO FPS
Difficult Controls, Highly complex
Major technical update and install problems
Amazing massive battles
Macintosh and PC Clients (this is a big plus)
Recommendation A:  Skip it if you think WoW is tough, time [...]

The Dunbar Number of MMORPGs?

Posted by Xavier Morgan May 31, 2010

Many of you don’t like detailed prose, so here is the short summary.  You can read further to see the details.
Key points:

Six is the magic Dunbar number for MMORPGs.
Warhammer Online:  Warbands (8 groups of 6), Scenarios (12 versus 12 with each side having two groups) and Adventure Groups (one group of six) divide the player [...]

Ennui

Posted by Xavier Morgan May 5, 2010

OK I want to rant. Here’s the deal: I am facing MMORPG ennui. As gamers, we generally seem to be pretty cranky. However, after MMOing for 8 years, I recall trying a few variants within the genre, and I want to rant at the general state of repetitive affairs. Here is [...]

Warhammer Online: The Problem with Progressive PvP

Posted by Xavier Morgan April 14, 2010

Many of you don’t like detailed prose, so here is the short summary.  You can read further to see the details.
Key points:

Warhammer is a solid universe with a great story background for a PvP game.
Renown ranks are in such disparity that it makes the game boring and causes resignation due to scenario and open RvR [...]

Warhammer – Still Life in the Old Girl?

Posted by Xavier Morgan March 13, 2010

I get bored with the same old.  I canceled my Warhammer account about a year ago.  I reactivated last week.  Tier 4 was hopping fun.  To be truthful, it was a series of books that I read over the last six weeks that whetted my Warhammer appetite.  Vampire Wars, The Vampire Genevieve, and Gotrek and [...]

Star Trek Online Social

Posted by Xavier Morgan March 1, 2010

In my last story, I criticized Cryptic for lack of tweets.  Turns out, I just couldn’t find them.  They were there!  They just ported it straight over from Champions!  Sorry Cryptic.  I will try to be a keen observer of neatly hidden features in future.  To access this, among other things such as your [...]

Apply the Polish to STO

Posted by Xavier Morgan February 13, 2010

Star Trek Online warped into an awesome beginning!  I love the game.  Cryptic delivered an admirable job, but I want to point a few things out that will make a great game even greater:
1) Can the Spam!!!!
Admittedly, I am not a popular fellow.   However, the totality of my mail experience with STO remains energy (aka [...]

LAGWAR Episode #38

Posted by Brad West
Aug 30 2010 I ADD COMMENTS

MMO Weakly Episode #56

Posted by Sarc
Aug 30 2010 I ADD COMMENTS

MMO Weakly Episode #55

Posted by Sarc
Aug 22 2010 I 1 COMMENT