Recent content by Alarion_foh

Is that a recliner there Zehn? I wish I could talk the wifey into letting me replace my desk for some folding tables. the problem is, our PCs are in the living room

One thing for me, reading "takes me away". I get immersed in the novels I read. It sounds dumb, but I"m sure you guys who read know what I mean. You get the pictures of these characters in your head - and depending on the author - a picture of everything around them. You can actually hear the...

For me, I love to read. I get engrossed in novels. I love lore. I soaked up the EQ lore - but I don"t remember much of it. Same with WoW, I read the shit out of the freely available lore - haven"t read the novels. That being said, in-game I tend to just click-through the quest texts. Which is...

unfortunately, this was my first PC 3D game. Apparently my dad picked it up on a whim at Radio Shack (ahhh, PC games that were sold out of the oldschool magazine/comic style spin-racks). Arcticfox - MobyGames Seriously, lots of childhood memories I had pushed to the back. Thanks guys =)

The "newer" 2600"s didn"t have that switch did they - the black (and silver?) consoles that came out maybe around "87/"88? I vaguely remember the old wood-grained machine that my babysitter"s kids had when I 7ish or so.

Fuck all this graphical shit. I remember my first main PC game was Zork. I think I was the only kid in my area at 6 years old who knew how to spell "wield", and what it actually meant lol. That was on my dad"s pc, which he eventually dumped on me in the early nineties (old tandy 1000 8086...

I can agree with this on a technical view, because technically no matter what game you play, you are "playing a role". A race car driver, a running back, a army general or just overall asshole. The term for the genre of games that we currently classify as RPGs and MMORPGs probably needs to be...

Well obviously if you take it that far, then yes - seek help. But the whole point of a Role Playing Game is to Play a Role, right? So there has to be some immersion there, obviously. I mean, sure, if you want total immersion go LARP with the Lightning Bolt nerds. But still, I don"t exactly...

No you are not the only one. Fantasy in general (elves, dwarves, battle axes and dragons) has been overdone to death. That being said, I don"t think I could really get into a futuristic steampunk MMO. But that"s me, and I very well may be in the minority. I personally think I am wanting the...

That thought had crossed my mind, but I have never tried Eve, Will have to look into it. Sooo, since that issue seems to have been, at least partly, taken care of then I will have to go with Pointless tradeskills. Harvesting goes in here somewhere, but others have already covered that, so...

The inability to actually be in a virtual world. I think UO, despite never really playing it much, came the closest. My issue is, currently most MMOs are basically single player games, with co-op turned on. I level my character, you level yours, then we insert them into the same...

to go along with tad"s post above, and Millie"s as well - we really do need to see some variety in mob encounters - especially bosses. For the most part, most multi-mob encounters are: -pull -cc -tank -spank Many boss encounters follow this same pattern. I suppose there is only so much...

I wouldn"t say you"d been had, Curt. With the vast number of classes EQ2 has, there is only so much you can do to separate them from each other to make them unique. So yeah, you are going to have some overlap and multiple classes that can sort of do the same thing. I wouldn"t say this is exactly...

While I am not the poster you are asking this question of, I thought I would chime in with a few thoughts. First off, I participated in Beta, starting with Beta 3. After playing a bit in beta, I thought to myself; "this game has lots of bugs, is really rough around the edges - but it does...

For real. Please, go get some coffee I am not trying to start an argument. I don"t particularly like discussing things via heated arguments, rather casual debates. As well, you are correct - I didn"t readallofallyour posts. I read enough to see that you were hoping the game fails, and...