Month: October, 2009

Woe to Thunder Clap

I understand that when you play a class you often find yourself glancing at a player of another class but the same role, and dreamingly start to wish you also had ability X, Z, and Y. “I would give up my X for their Y!” you will shout with longing sadness in your voice and do a [...]

I Am Cursed

I have a severe problem of altitis. That or I have a problem with commitment (stay away from me, ladies). My character history in World of Warcraft is a tragic reading. I know, because when I wrote it down for my guild’s profile a few weeks ago I realized it myself. It seems I barely have time to level [...]

The Dragon Age Character Creator Impressions

BioWare released the Character Creator to their upcoming RPG Dragon Age a few days ago, and I have spent some time with it. Overall expression: meh.
Releasing parts of the content before the actual product is not new for EA, who produce the game. In Spore the creator was available for purchase earlier, and EA then [...]

Lowering the bar – to the ground, baby!

I got this horrible feeling in my gut that Blizzard is doing this simply because of statistics. It was shown back in The Burning Crusade that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the playerbase got to enter the highest raid instances and clear them. The percentage was way higher than in vanilla WoW, but it [...]

100% More Bovine

And with just a wave of the wand by the gnome wizard, the beautiful human warrior disappeared from sight in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke settled in her stead stood a huge creature, looking what a cow would look like if they could walk on two legs and roll a warrior. Two huge horns crested its skull, and [...]