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and my thief made it to level 11 honestly there s a lot to like in gw2 the pay once play forever idea is a great one the players move and attack and interact with the game world much like a standard mmo also the graphics engine didn t make my computer grumble like swtor has the occasional tendency to do and have i mentioned that this old school rpger loves that there s a class called a thief takes me back to my ad d 1st edition days it does and thank goodness the character options don t include those absolutely nutty mushroom heads and paeans to super mario that aion has that said the game is a lot closer to aion and other asian rpgs than american european rpgs than you d think for starters there s the issue with npc clothing while issues with pc gear and particularly female pc gear have been around for ages typically in the western rpg you d find npcs wearing appropriate clothing for the task at hand armor for guards work clothes for grunts dresses and poofy shirts for nobility etc yes alexstrasza and ysera and sylvannas may wear bikinis but they ve got recognizably frazetta style armor on but gw2 and aion both have issues where you find female npcs wearing wildly inappropriate clothing for their work so this is appropriate dress for farming who knew from dressessphotos com now maybe it s just me but i don t see a lot of people digging in their garden while wearing dresses like that hell even a bikini would be more work appropriate than a short dress like this one because you can at least work without worrying about getting your dress dirty but that s the thing you see clothing like this on human farmers at the very beginning of the game and pigtails these dresses always are worn by women in pigtails just in case you didn t think the visual cues for some of the women were taken from jrpgs here s the pic when you select a female necromancer right after raising some zombies i m heading straight to the dance ironically enough you can find plenty of npc women out and about wearing practical clothing pants full armor etc but the short dress npcs and pcs were enough to throw you completely out of immersion from time to time that leads into another distinction between gw2 and wow swtor aoc lotro etc the toons themselves have you stopped to watch some of the npcs around a town or village i mean not just look at them but watch their behavior normally i don t think much of the npcs in the background they re the background right but when i saw a female guard stick her toe in the dirt and twist her leg as if she were talking to a crush that kind of threw me for a loop she was standing at attention in shaemoor and then she did that so it s part of the npc s standard movement routine while it wasn t like the night elf s breast bounce it was so unlike what a guard s behavior while on the job ought to be that it left me scratching my head finally i noticed that for all toons npc and pc everybody is perfect smooth flawless skin perfect complexion unchanging and unflappable facial expressions and immaculate clothing were the hallmarks of all toons i thought of the toons as being on botox for the entire body and i d probably not be too far off the toon graphics were such that even the npcs stood out as being a little more perfect than the background graphics so when i passed by a wounded seraph it looked more like he was lying on the ground having a picnic lunch instead of looking well hurt you d think i d not be so enamored of gw2 after all that but i did like it i do like the change from the traditional kill ten rats questline i also like what i ve seen of the main questline so far and moreover i really enjoy how they went about customizing the main questline when you create your character after the typical graphical adjustments which includes a nice height slider you are then asked a series of questions these questions include personal motivations including things like a regret you have the answers to these questions provide the particular path your character will follow in their main personal storyline while to the average player this seems like a need customization option i saw it in a somewhat different light as an attempt to bring aspects of pencil and paper rpgs into a computer rpg format games that follow the fate system such as fate core fate accelerated edition the dresden files rpg and spirit of the century rpg have a similar mechanic to take the simplest of the bunch fate accelerated or fae for short you start of a character by creating a high concept and a trouble two items that you write down to describe some of the motivation your character has high concept is pretty straightforward as it can be anything from captain of the last outpost on the edge of the great wasteland to mechanical genius who wants to be a superspy it s the trouble aspect that is what might throw people at first because it s something that causes issues for your character such as the following the necromancer won t leave me alone ooo will you look at that or i will not be outdone by those punks at xxy corporation these aspects are used to help drive the rpg s story forward by enabling the gm and the player to use them for both campaign hooks and to add flavor to the campaign itself for example a character with ooo will you look at that as a trouble has issues with being distracted at inopportune times like say when your character is trying to find a bomb hidden in a lab a gm can use such an aspect to make things a bit more difficult for a character but also allow the character to catch little details that other more focused characters might miss when i saw in the human creation the question what is your greatest regret my first thought was hey they took the trouble aspect and stuck it in an mmo and surprise surprise gw2 actually uses this aspect in the main questline too it s a great idea that somebody finally added into an mmo one other item of note that i absolutely wanted to point out was that there was no gen chat spam whatsoever in game i see that on swtor but wow age of conan and especially aion have gold spammers in abundance aion is so bad that i felt the need to have to actually turn gen chat off and to be honest contributed to my decision to abandon the game but i do have to give kudos to arenanet for their job at keeping gw2 spam free now for the big question will i play gw2 again yes but not immediately i ve got other things to take care of outside of gaming before i can pick up yet another mmo i do like what i see overall the story is good and not too cheesy although scarlet briar has the overall feel of a supervillan from a superhero comic but in general there s enough for me to like and ignore the immersion issues for me to want to continue playing i don t think i ll proceed at the same pace as i did this past weekend since i had a limited amount of time to take the game for a test drive but i can see it filling in some time between other mmos i play if you re curious about fate but don t want to plunk down any money on it at first you can visit the publisher of fate core and fae evil hat productions and download the electronic versions of both fate core and fae on a pay what you like basis i helped fund the kickstarter for fate core so that s how i got my print copies even if you re an avid roleplayer and don t end up playing fate it makes for very good reading so i created a toon that mimicked my current wow toon so i could have a more direct comparison plus i m used to playing thieves these days and i didn t want to get wrapped up in the whole yr playin it wrong crap that i d get if i started out as a guardian like my first impulse unlike say aion where the mouse buttons are reversed or neverwinter where you use the awsd keys to move around and the mouse to point and attack i found it interesting that the seraphs and even the ascended in aion have those wings on them that are hallmarks of some jrpgs considering that the seraphs are an obvious derivation from the seraphim of judaic and christian tradition i m still pondering how the angelic imagery managed to sneak into jrpgs and jrpg inspired rpgs so much yes an rpg based on jim butcher s dresden files books the game allows you to dresdenize your local community so that you ve got a game world that you can work with without having to necessarily play in the world of harry dresden s chicago of course if you really wanted to play in harry dresden s hometown you can by picking up the companion volume to the rpg eta had to change the formal dress from a url posted by redbeard at 12 26 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels guild wars 2 friday august 23 2013 friday musings right before i left for gen con i received a mysterious e mail from syl of mmo gypsy which contained only a url and the line there are no excuses now d the url pointed to a guild wars 2 free trial weekend which runs from august 23rd through august 25th i d been hemming and hawing over purchasing the game for a while now and i figured that since gen con has come and gone it d be safe for me to consider purchasing the game this fall well arenanet took that out of my hands by offering me a chance to give the game a spin before purchasing as of this moment gw2 s game client is busy being downloaded onto the main pc so by the time i get done with work for the day it ought to be ready for me to try out and to be honest if i get more game time out of gw2 than i have skyrim then the game will be worth a purchase until gw2 s trial dropped in my lap i figured this weekend s mmo playing would consist of chain running alterac valley it s av weekend in wow and working on finishing up my trooper s story in tor among other interesting items is that neverwinter added a mini expac concerning the feywild which i m curious about in d d 4e cosmology the feywild is the home plane where all sorts of fey creatures live a pc can only cross into the feywild at certain locations and or certain times of day month year think of it as the mythical realm of faerie placed into d d the feywild is also home to the three branches of elves eladrin elves and drow the eladrin still remain primarily in the feywild the elves have long ago migrated into the normal world and the drow betrayed their brethren and now inhabit the underdark i ll freely admit that i am more interested in the d d 4e setting than the 4e game mechanics itself so the fact that the neverwinter mmo is moving in this direction is a boon to me since this is a friday and saturday is usually a gaming day around the house i ll leave you with a link to wil wheaton s tabletop in this episode he and his friends play settlers of catan you know that wood for sheep game that drew some laughs on an episode of the big bang theory you could have been videocapped better wil sigh she s in ilum right now which is the crystal planet as my kids so aptly put it yes they are devoted fans of star wars the clone wars and worship lolth see my last post for a pic of her in her drider form which is half human half spider posted by redbeard at 10 38 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boardgames guild wars 2 neverwinter tuesday august 20 2013 two sheep some goblins and a whole mess of whovians gen con 2013 is now in the books as we ve done the past two years we made a trek up to indianapolis for sunday s family fun day for 30 a family of four can get into gen con and wander around the entire area if you wanted to play any of the events on sunday you have to pay for the tokens but i ve found that you get to run enough demos and talk to the vendors in the dealer hall without needing to join in a scheduled game two pirates a klingon a belly dancer and a wookie start a band before we even got into the convention center mayfair games was hosting free coffee just across the street along with their sheep mascots bob and angus alas we just missed the last of the coffee but since we d bought our badges online we breezed through will call to pick up our badges good thing too as the line for purchasing badges was incredibly long even early in the day we roamed the con with my brother in law who has been coming for years and typically shows up on wednesday yes before the con starts just so he can hang out with his friends we stopped by the paizo booth and the kids got to meet sean k reynolds while he was out and about there were goblins everywhere in the paizo booth and even goblin masks to wear i think if we d had more time the kids would have probably rummaged through all of the pathfinder material a bit longer but paizo was truly busy the entire day having ed greenwood and other authors nearby signing copies of their work certainly didn t hurt either ruling over the d d ballroom was lolth the demon queen of spiders and drow and no a 5 roll of newpaper won t help you much with her other places such as mayfair games and fantasy flight games were running a lot of demos in their spaces my wife and i tried a eurogame called planet steam which a very heavy economic game heavy doesn t begin to describe it really if you like games that have lots of functioning options and then throw in a few things like an auction or two each turn then maybe you ll like it all i can say is that i don t have an mba so this sort of game didn t appeal to me while i got a chance to slip out and look around the rest of the crew tried out some family oriented games such as spot it party edition by blue orange games and run for your life candyman by smirk and dagger games neither would be confused with a deep boardgame but they were fun and engaging i could easily see the spot it games being modified for use as a drinking game which would really cause trouble if you get a few beers in you the kids just about went bananas over the who north america booth complete with tardis and a dalek i was actually quite surprised when they decided not to splurge on the doctor who adventures in time and space rpg by cubicle seven but i was informed that since they could get it at one of our local game stores that wasn t a high priority for them but getting a soundtrack was a bit more important what you were expecting river song while i perused the rpg areas i discovered that the gaming community has changed even in the past three years the number of women and families attending gen con have gone up yes i realize that with a name like family fun day you d expect to see families there but the sheer number of families keeps on an upward trend just like how the old myth that only teenage boys swilling monster and red bull play mmos has been pretty much busted the belief that only nerdy guys who live in their parents basement play rpgs and boardgames has been shattered by the attendees at gen con this is a good thing there are a lot of fun games out there that people can get together with friends and spend an evening playing but the stigma of who and 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