Recent content by rhinohelix

The only thing keeping MS its current Desktop OS position is A) Windows ubiquity; Market inertia. It's the same thing that kept Intel as the biggest chipmaker FOREVER, until they weren't. Now, MS has multiple standards that aren't going anywhere, Office, Windows, Azure, etc, and the Services...

"No no now wait, get this: We are going to do an Xbox One but the OTHER WAY. Rather than taking over the living room, our thing is going to take over the OFFICE. BAAAAALLLLLZZZ"

I was reading though some old Penny Arcades and found this gem: Grift. It never changes.

Age of Conan -- Play for Free!!! I've played about 1 day of this, since at the time the word was it was great up to the City™/level 20 and not so good afterwards? but I watched Az play quite a bit of it and it seemed pretty great in whatever form he was playing at the time, this would have been...

What's sad is WOW was so big it basically drained all other lakes, I guess, so there wasn't enough left over for GW2 and TSW and all of these other admittedly more niche MMOs to survive together. Or the Devs didn't plan effectively for how many players they would need, etc. Or they didn't go...

Was it one month before GW2? Because I felt like I spent a fair amount of time with TSW and after GW2 released, it pulled me in completely; I played multiple classes to 80. Looking it up, they were one calendar month but almost two months apart: TSW "released" 3-July-2012 and GW2 released...

New World has a lot of problems but the skill system and combat, at least previously, were really a lot of fun. They needed to do Eve economics in New World to make the game work: EQ economics was never going to last when you are constantly crafting new items and currency into an economy and...

That's a great point, and I didn't consider it only because the 3D graphics but absolutely agree M&M3 and even the Ultimas, I started with Ultima 3 and then went back (or tried to) to the earlier ones on my Apple IIe. I will need more space to full deploy my maxima mea culpa. Daggerfall may be...

I got into Legends, My guy Shotgun/Hammer guy was in the Desert; I can't remember before or after the big fight at the hotel. I would assume before, since I am still with the rebels. That train mission in Egypt still stands out to me as AMAZING. All of Kingsmouth is fantastic, especially the...

I bought the full fucking boat version on like 17 different platforms, so surely I have it somewhere it can be modded. (Really just Steam/Upgrade from Gamepass/MS Store, and Xbox; I also bought a Starfield Xbox controller, Super Deluxe edition(s), and and upgraded my 3080 to a 7900XTX to play...

I used a literal regular long "shoebox" cassette recorder for the tape drive with my TI-99 4/A; when I moved up to the Apple IIe I got 5.25 floppy drives, first one and then another like Vuuxo.

OMG, they don't let you play through the Light and Dark Saga? It legit was one of the (most milked but) best long running stories in gaming; Destiny basically invented the Game-As-A-Service (GAAS) genre. I first bought a PS4 only to play Destiny. If they don't have a way for new players...

I have a bunch of archived emails, looking for where I potentially reset this password; looked through various traunches, got back to where I was in the beta in 2011, where I was recommending the game to friends, where I bought the box from Amazon, various comic book-esque "issues" from Funcom...

Password reset for classic server is 404 :(

OMG I loved this game, even with all the FunCom™ bugginess. One of the few games I played all the way through and made it halfway through a second faction character. I will download this and see to what I have access. I THINK I got a lifetime sub as well. Someone is making a TTRPG version for...