Category Archives: MMORPG

Everquest Next

It’s been about nine months since The Most Disappointing Keynote Speech ever, where John Smedley confirmed that, yes, EQNext WAS a Thing, but also that he couldn’t say anything about it because they had decided – at the last minute, … Continue reading

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In which, I take a shameless Korean MMO a little more seriously

Yesterday, I wrote about playing Scarlet Blade with the intention of writing a snarky review about what it said about us and how far we had fallen as a species and so on.  That was a good post, I thought, … Continue reading

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In which, I play a shameless Korean MMORPG

For a couple of months last year, my go-to MMO was Tera, which was – I believe – the first and probably last ever attempt to take a Korean MMO, file some of the grindy pain off and adapt it … Continue reading

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Hobbit Forming

It probably isn’t much of a surprise that a prolonged gap in me putting new posts up here usually means that I’ve discovered a new MMO or rediscovered an old one. In this case, it was rediscovered. Well, more like … Continue reading

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The TERA! The TERA!

Hmm.  Maybe a little too much Joseph Conrad.  Anyway, moving on. So, I fell absolutely in love with TERA for a couple of months, and now we’re going through a rocky breakup.  This sort of thing happens. I still can’t … Continue reading

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Experiments in TERA

Way back in “The Day”, I played Everquest over Ultima Online because, well, Ultima Online had full-on PvP combat, which scared the hell out of me, on all its servers, whereas Everquest only allowed PvP on one (later, four) of … Continue reading

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Tera updates.

My latest MMO addiction continues to consume a surprising amount of my evenings, though I have found a way to get at least some of my time back. Simply put, I park my adorable butt in town, put myself into … Continue reading

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TERA Firma

Even though i spent a surprising amount of time trying out assorted F2P games earlier this year, it’s been a while since an MMO managed to get its hooks into me past the first four or five hours of play. … Continue reading

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So, about that Perfect World thing.

As I was saying yesterday, I reasoned that, since I’d quite enjoyed the 5 hours I’d played of Perfect World’s “Rusty Hearts” MMOBrawler, it wouldn’t be entirely outside the realm of reason to download their “Perfect World International” MMORPG. No, … Continue reading

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In Which I Fail At Consuming Media And Talk About Free MMOs

I’m usually a pretty optimistic guy, but I think there are some occasions when you just have to go to bed and declare a do-over on the day. I tried watching FLCL tonight.  This is my third time trying to … Continue reading

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