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self is straightforward you select a certain combo of buttons and then your toon performs the action but there s just enough of a delay between the selection and the action that makes you think that there s lag in the system this happened when i first tried the game out back in 2010 or so and it persisted through the years even though all other mmos i ve played have overcome any lag issues with respect to combat it s not even a matter of the couple of servers left in aoc being located far away as they appear to be located in newark new jersey and the latency i was seeing was around 100 ms i ve played other mmos with a 100 ms latency without any issues at all so i don t believe it s the latency either i think it has to do with the lack of optimization in aoc s code and for me that s a deal breaker when you re expected to perform more and more complex maneuvers quickly lord of the rings online s ui is a nightmare for visibility as much as some people want modern screen sizes to be supported by lotro i want something a bit more basic more easily readable ui icons if there s one thing that mmos such as wow and swtor have figured out it s that making unique enough and easily visible buttons in the ui make for a better playing experience this is something that standing stone has yet to figure out apparently as every time i boot up lotro and login with the intention to do something more than just wander around bree and listen to the friday evening band play on the gladden server i m presented with the blasted icons that tell me absolutely nothing at first glance or second or third glance for that matter from my foray last spring as a high elf it s bad enough that they re various shades of red in my example above but this is what you get if you ve been playing for a while this was my old main on lotro it s been a while since i last played him and as you can see some commands have been removed and i need to correct things the washed out coloring matches the rest of the lotro color scheme but given that i have to pay close attention to the details of the icons to distinguish between the various red ones and green ones that does me no favors when performing actions and can you imagine the nightmare if you were red green colorblind i m not for clarity s sake then we have to talk about the in game maps the maps are kinda sorta faithful to the old pauline baynes map of middle earth my own copy was passed down to me from my mom and i gave it to my son i was surprised to find that museoteca has an interactive map on their site this was the map that inspired my exploration into sf f the thing is there s a difference between being faithful to the original map and making an in game map actually usable this is light years better than what it used to be but even when i had a smaller monitor nothing was sharp the original map design was much worse where everything was washed out brownish colors and trying to distinguish details was poor at best and the quest markers they were all various colors of rings for the one ring but they were too hazy and poorly placed to make any details out either i know that i was looking forward to an overhaul of the ui as was wilhelm arcturus but more for overall improvements of the clarity of the design until then why bash my head against a wall metaphorically speaking when i try to play the game in as much the same way as i love swtor s story lotro s story is extremely well done and i miss being able to progress in it but for me it s not worth it to keep playing in earnest when i have these visual issues doom and other fps games have a simple problem i get nauseous when i play them from memecrunch and step brothers i know i m not the only one out there that gets motion sick when playing some types of video games and there s articles out there with advice on how to deal with the problem such as this one still the only way i ve been able to successfully combat this motion sickness is to use dramamine in the same fashion that i d take dramamine before riding on a train or a plane still i made the decision a long time ago that if i was going to have to be medicated in order to play a video game i probably shouldn t be playing said video game it does save me money in the long run as i don t purchase fps games but it does make me sad that i can t play a specific class of video games i recently discovered much to my horror that the nasa moonbase alpha video game gave me the same motion sickness as fps shooters did so what looks like a rather good lunar base simulation is sadly unplayable for me thankfully it s free to play so i didn t lose any money buying it only to discover i can t play it but still it s a tough pill to swallow i m pulling this out of my archives just so you know why you shouldn t want to have your game compared to tera uh yeah interesting enemies you got there and no i m not posting a pic of the elin i have standards posted by redbeard at 4 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels age of conan fps shooters lotro memes musings swtor tera video games tuesday march 28 2023 comfort food for the gamer no i m not talking about actual food or recipes inspired by games and sf f franchises i mean in the same vein as what comfort food represents something familiar and makes you feel like all s right with the world maybe for some people they have an actual meal that gives them that feeling for a coworker it s all about the texas style brisket when they get back to texas or for others it s getting to play a favorite game for my wife it s getting her crossword puzzle done or still others it s curling up with a favorite book for my brother in law it s his annual reading of the lord of the rings no matter what it is everybody has some sort of comfort food for me there are certain games or places within certain games that i return to when i want a helping of comfort food when life gives you lemons make lemonade is how the old saying goes but when life gives me lemons i give life the finger and go play sid meier s civilization iv well hatshepsut isn t too bad a leader to start with and at least the random location gave me a river with some resources i ve been in worse starting positions for sure it s a game i ve been playing for over 15 years now and it s the sort of game i can knock out anywhere from 2 to 5 hours depending on how the game plays out i can also get an early feel for whether my position is untenable or not if i don t have access to copper or iron for example and i ll just kill the game rather than die a slow death but when i feel the need for gamer comfort food and i m in an mmo type of mood i return to the old standbys create a new character and run through the areas i love best the low to mid level zones like oh this one hel lo ord mantell for the record the new on screen map makes me look like i m playing tera rather than swtor so i m grateful i can go into the interface options and turn the damn thing off or maybe start up a new toon in this game i d never created a high elf before so i pulled out some of my middle earth sourcebooks and started throwing names together i decided to not put umlauts over the last e like tolkien would have too messy to type there s something peaceful and pleasant about ered luin under starlight just the way the elves of middle earth like it for all the quirks of lotro such as trying to read those damn maps and the ability icons all looking the same the scenery tone and storyline are all highly evocative of middle earth and not to be outdone i do have favorite places in wow as well i always wondered what that sentinel was doing there i realize i m in the minority but i truly do love teldrassil darkshore and ashenvale they have that ancient elven forest vibe down so much that you d think you were in lothlorien or something yes i do like elwynn forest westfall eversong forest the ghostlands and even the damn barrens but for pure atmospherics the night elf areas are dead on perfect the more i go through some of these old original or vanilla areas on these mmos the more i enjoy them you never get the impression that you re the chosen one or that you re there to save the world and or galaxy okay the jedi knight story does somewhat sound that way but you re also not out there hobnobbing with all of the powerful of the game world sure you run into them from time to time but it s not like they re saying champions meet me at the town hall we need to take the fight to mal gannis at best they may offer counsel elrond gandalf satele shan or some quest direction aragorn but nothing like what you find in later expacs in these mmos there s something comforting in the anonymity provided in these vanilla esque zones even if you re on an active server you re still not likely to run into many other players at all in these original zones because the latest and greatest zones are where the action is that is even the case in these megaservers in wrath classic where most everybody has gotten multiple toons to max level and unless there s another 50 xp boost they re not likely to run another alt through the gauntlet i discovered this while waiting around for a deadmines run in the past couple of weeks while those dungeon runs were active in the lead up to wrath classic launching they re almost totally dead now so while you wait you go out into the world and quest or fish or level a gathering skill or explore all of those sorts of things can be done on those three mmos at your own pace without any concern for life the universe and everything thank you douglas adams while these areas tend to be quiet and relatively empty disruptions can show up when a high level toon rolls by and wipes an area clean of questing mobs perhaps they were going back and completing quests that were left behind or perhaps they were farming for materials or maybe they did have a slightly cruel and or trollish streak and did it just because whatever the reason the effect was to basically throw off my cadence and i have to wait for respawns if said high level toon zaps those then i just abandon the area arguing with idiots never ends well in my experience as a consequence i ve learned to do any low level questing on my high level toons when i know i m not causing disruptions to people already there on a now empty server like myzrael that s not a big deal because there have been times when i ve literally been the only person in a zone for several zones in a row but an active server or a server where i m new yeah i m sensitive to disruptions okay enough about me where do you go or play when you just need a helping of comfort food all about whether i ve got a combat heavy game going the combat heavy games are much longer than the ones where i simply out develop the other civs minus the ridiculously sexy clothing and the elin of course okay so you can t fish in swtor but you can do a lot of crafting and datacron hunting posted by redbeard at 10 39 am 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro mmos musings sid meier s civilization swtor tera wow wow classic saturday may 14 2022 end of an mmo tera well tera is shutting down the game which is an acronym for the exiled realm of arborea is one of those mmo titles that can bring out strong opinions among fans of the mmo genre yes it has exciting action combat yes the graphics are well done but almost from day one tera developed a reputation for what i m politely calling fanservice if you thought my cheeky commentary by neve about the stitched trousers was something imagine if she got a hold of the outfits i discovered in tera this was one of the milder ones i encountered and this wasn t bringing in the so called running form the castanic females have apparently running bent over with your panties out is a thing in korean mmos but the thing is even if all that went away tera would have the reputation it does because of one thing only the elin i won t dignify a link to it but the elin are supposedly an ancient spirit race who just so happen to look like prepubescent girls all of them and then to top it off tera dresses the elin up in sexualized outfits because of course they do the kicker is that the us release of tera actually has the elin s outfits toned down the korean release shows them even skimpier if that isn t a call to a dark corner of the internet that boy have we got a game for you i don t know what does i can t simply justify tera s behavior in this manner because they had to know that the elin would attract a certain crowd but there it is and because of it i m not sorry to see it go the way of the dodo while i d like to spend more time musing about tera i think josh strife hayes did a great job on the game with his wost mmo ever series when he took on tera i think there s a good story somewhere in the game but it s not engaging enough to overcome all the ridiculous outfits and the lolli creeper vibe i get from tera i mean the graphics are great the combat is fine and the music is good why oh why did bluehole make these design decisions if you d have asked me which game would have died first tera or archeage i d have picked archeage the rapid decline in server population coupled with missing pieces to the story from the get go usually would be the death knell of a game i mean both games share obvious fanservice elements such as obvious boob physics and overly revealing costumes and there s parts of the storyline in both games that make me feel like i m in an anime so there s a ton of similarities here the biggest difference here is that tera has the elin and archeage doesn t full stop so i guess i can look at tera and think what if and shake my head and let s be honest more than just that the walking and running motions of female toons the exaggerated bustlines and the tendency to wear high heels all the time are all hallmarks of korean mmos both games happen to have these in spades but i think it needs to be said i m not a prude if things such as the outfit options had a wide variety of available selections and you could choose what you liked to wear whether sexy and revealing or more realistic armor then i d be fine with it after all everybody is different and has their own opinions on what to wear it s the lack of choice that annoys me the most posted by redbeard at 6 57 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels end of an mmo tera friday june 28 2019 perusing the landscape i ve been poking my nose into a few of the mmos that i ve tried and not really done much of anything with such as rift and tera and found that the environments are somewhat stable well kinda for example the last several times i logged into rift i was practically the only person around just about any sign of life would be better than what i found at the time after it was pointed out to me that it was likely 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