Troubled Times in AC2
It’s been a difficult week in Asheron’s Call 2. And not just issues with AC2′s beta, though that hasn’t been helping. I’ve been having character troubles, allegiance troubles, and general burn out....
View ArticleGoals of 2012-2013
What a weird year 2012 was. I think if one word were to sum it up, change would be that word. New place to live, new living situation, new cat, new car, and though I don’t have a new job, it did change...
View ArticleHero Up and the Race is On
Last Friday, Turbine put up a small patch which was supposed to increases server stability, but it also put the Hero quest back in the game. And now many players are back to the races. I did enjoy the...
View ArticleMinor AC2 Suggestions
Now that the servers of Asheron’s Call 2 have been stable for a few weeks, the forums are churning with things to fix and improve upon for this decade old game. I’ve had many of my own thoughts for a...
View ArticleFinding the Past
Every now and then I look up people from my past just to see what they are doing. Well last night I found an ex-girlfriend, one which I very much still care about and had previously been unable to...
View ArticleA Life Put On Hold
I find myself being more existential of late. The reason for this is pretty obvious to me, I Have a friend that went to jail yesterday. When the whole process started with him, it just came completely...
View ArticleAC2: Two Months Later
It has been a full two months since I picked up Asheron’s Call 2 for a second time, so I thought I would make a post rounding up what I am up to and what I continue to think about this game. Overall,...
View ArticleWii U Review, pt. 1
It seems that whenever I buy a console, there is always a story involved. This time, the story was that I really didn’t have the money to purchase a new console, so I spent months saving gift cards...
View ArticleWii U Review pt 2
In my previous post about the Wii U, I discussed many apps and features that come with the Wii U. I realized later that I did forget to mention the browser so I thought I would give it a brief mention...
View ArticleSimCity Review
SimCity has long been one of those games that defined who I was as a gamer very early in life. It was not the first game I played, that title belongs to either Pong or Pitfall depending on timing of...
View ArticleGame Exclusivity
I’m a PC gamer first and foremost. And so when you see a game out there that goes multi-platform, the PC generally has the best version of it and thus I don’t feel the need to buy Assassin’s Creed 3 or...
View ArticleCabin Fever 2013
Our Cabin Fever Retreat hit a little late this year. Usually we like to get out of time sometime in January or February, this year we put it off until the last weekend of March. To be honest, we...
View ArticleRichard Garriott Gets His Crazy Money
Note, this post is being dual-posted to RPGComplex.com as well. It is like a car crash in the making. How can you not look? That’s how I felt when I saw Shroud of the Avatar go up on Kickstarter. I...
View ArticleAre Televisions Going Extinct?
Kotaku recently published an article talking about how he thought that the death of television is eminent. The base premise of his argument was that he no longer watched shows on television, instead...
View ArticleSub-Genres Need to Stop
All right bands, producers, marketing people, music critics and random other people, the constant new sub-genres need to stop. I feel like every time I look at a new song, it comes with a new genre...
View ArticleOnline Anniversary
2013 is actually a really special year to me. It marks my 20th year being online and playing online RPGs. I don’t honestly have an exact date as to when it occurred, I just remember being 15 years old...
View ArticleRe-Watching Star Trek
I’ve been re-watching all the Star Trek series over the past year or two when I can. I’ve been doing it in a different way though. Instead of watching from original on, I’ve been going through the...
View Article35th Birthday
Today is my birthday. I am now 35 years old. I feel like I’m 25 mentally, suppose that is good, but I feel like I”m 50 physically. It is weird thinking of my life. 20 years ago, I was 15. Just winding...
View ArticleX-Box One… B
Ok, everyone knows that Microsoft announced their new console, named the X-Box One. I mean first of all, I gotta say that I hate the name of Nintendo’s Wii U. And as much as I thought that was a...
View ArticlePost E3 Thoughts 2013
A little late, but I figured it was time to share my thoughts of what happened at this year’s E3 and shortly thereafter. Obviously it was kind of a big year with both Sony & Microsoft showing off...
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