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Warhammer: Progress in the Evolution of PVP?

.: Jindra :. [ August 20th, 2008 ]

-[ WAR ]-

In the midst of all the existing and upcoming Fantasy based MMO's, it's easy to get lost in new features and cutting-edge expectations that might put game X over another title. For an avid PVPer like myself and many others, though, we tend to focus more on the actual game mechanics and PVP features of the upcoming titles. So, it's no surprise when we start to compare these games to other titles that we've enjoyed. Ultima Online (pre Trammel) - the ...

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WAR - Gathered Beta/Post NDA infos

.: Daedren :. [ August 20th, 2008 ]

-[ WAR ]-

It's summer here in the south of France, and everyone is busy trying to spend their 2 months of vacation, either trying to avoid the tourists or having fun being one themselves. Age of Conan did a wonderful job at getting a lot of people outdoors this summer, as the Funcom team works diligently to provide a PVP system: one that was promised in June but might be here by the end of the year. Anyway, that failure of a ...

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The Chauvinistic Virtual World

.: Daedren :. [ July 1st, 2008 ]

-[ Dev ]-

It's hard to try and delve into a subject as controversial as chauvinism or sexism without pissing a lot of people off almost immediately. I guess a good place to start is why I would pick a subject like this as a topic. Well, I suppose the idea came from an astounding and almost laughably unbelievable issue in Age of Conan that basically makes female characters roughly 25% more ineffective than their male counterparts. Woops! While I'll side with ...

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Computer Go Boom

.: Daedren :. [ June 30th, 2008 ]

-[ Rants ]-

For those that don't know, which is hopefully nearly everyone, I'm an ex-Air Force guy currently held prisoner in mainland Europe. I say this because it's relevant to what I'm about to say. I met a lot of people in my 8 years of service, and left behind a lot of good friends in the states when I chose to live in the land of wine and baguettes. This includes a lot of "gaming friends" - you know, friends that ...

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The Age of the Extended Beta

.: Daedren :. [ June 13th, 2008 ]

-[ Age of Conan, Feature ]-

Let's shed the formalities to get started here: Age of Conan, in all it's glory, is an unfinished and unpolished product. This doesn't mean it still can't be fun (and it can be quite fun) - and it also doesn't mean that we should, as consumers, silently ignore these blatant mistakes that Funcom has made by releasing their unfinished product in what could be considered a "pay to play" extended beta test. It's not my goal to alienate people immediately to ...

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Gandalf Tanked a Balrog

.: Daedren :. [ June 5th, 2008 ]

-[ Dev ]-

While in the recent months I've expressed my dissatisfaction with the possibility of yet another Medieval/Fantasy sort of MMO, I'm also a believer if you do something, you should do it right. Today's discussion is about archetypes - more specifically, the Mage archetype - how Funcom and Age of Conan implemented it, and what they could have done better. Of course any opening paragraph such as that carries a bit of weight with it. Here I am, Joe Gamer, playing ...

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