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me laugh as much but it s another one i m feeling the need to play again i think my playing is meandering more and more away from mmorpgs because another recent find was skyrim which by now you know i like very much there s a knock on effect from that the wonder that is skyrim has prompted a quest for other single player games so far enjoying dragon age but not found much else so suggestions welcome on the other hand i ve only just started looking i know there are a lot of single player shooty games scuse my terminology ah remembered nos fps a genre i have yet to dip into i did used to play a fab game with an orangey cover back in the day which i recently remembered what it was called and now forgot again well that s not helpful i know i ll go and dig for it ehm half life ha anyway that was jolly good fun and i see there is a half life 2 so that s a whole playground fps still to explore right there talking about shooting things i found duke nukem 1 and 2 on gog happy nostaliga day and also command conquer more nostalgia we finally go to to play fez now that we have something it runs on one person attempted a straight play through but failed to complete after a couple of days it s a big game i m still on the starting levels also in amongst things we can finally play is the secret world that would be me i like going and killing a few zombies of an afternoon on a weekend lovely and atmospheric but if i m tired the inventory management usually means i log out pretty soon so not making progress really just go and play now and again if i m fairly lively another nice place to go is firefall i love the world i love shooting the alien insecty things i have no idea what s going on but i like it mostly this is me being lazy about keeping up with developments and changes i don t so every time i log in there s a new bitty to learn i don t learn it because i d rather play so i end up not knowing what s going on but i still enjoy the play session so all is well i find firefall in particular to be one of my best stress busters in fact and it has now launched and is due a revisit so that should be fun it s quite interesting how not being able to put in long hours for progression has left me with games for various moods and purposes i have no idea if anyone else plays like this picking the game to suit what kind of relax is needed if i m really not wanting to do anything but pure play i ll go for one of the buildy ones apart from the already much mentioned uemeu i recently found windborne which is still in development i m liking that rather a lot in that sort of section i also do have a copy of tug and played it but felt it s still got too far to go to be comfy for me anyway i ll keep an eye on not quite a build game banished can draw me in for a few tired hours too there s a more thought and strategy involved than in the buildy games but it s good for just escaping to another place for an hour or two i don t play it that often more of an occasional treat if i m in halfway decent shape i ll play a proper mmo i failed to connect with rift but i think that might just need more time than i ve given it i ll be trying that again i ve never played swtor yet and i have it downloaded ready to go later today actually lotro still relatively new to me is a favourite i m quite happy to log in enjoy the scenery and lore perhaps grind in a very uncommitted way for an hour or so i don t think i m ever going anywhere on lotro but who knows i m barely out of nappies in gw2 and there s a particular reason the time limited stuff i quite like games where it s all there for when you can do it rather than games where if you weren t there it s gone forever its a barrier for me in tsw and rift too i feel meh about it all and i m certainly not living around games because otherwise i ll miss whatever it is i ll have missed then having missed it whatever it was i feel even more meh about playing leftovers there s that i never analysed it before good to know these long posts at least lead to some thinkings but i shouldn t comment too much on gw2 until i ve played it more because bhagpuss will be along and give me a row if i write something stupid in general although i still love them mmos are poor value for me right now in them ambitionless play leftover crumbs is all that s on offer for the time poor but i do still love them for what they could be i think rather than for what they are fallen earth however i find a good one to be playing the crafting for once is interesting and getting better even it has flaws and being me i have to relearn it all again every time i log in having forgotten how everything works but along with lotro it s a goto game i like it heh i m a complete pushover for housing can t think why i left it this late to mention that one every game i can find with housing gets tried out and i continue to play or at least visit regularly that s why rift is still on the playlist by the way to be explored properly housing provides an instant anchor and i ve no idea why it s not used more by people who go through all kinds of hoops to get you anchored eg they will sink money into developing guilds realid tags launch platforms links to social media could just put housing in it s also a terrific goldsink oh well mysteries of the game sellers minds again so of course the housing games got played during the upheaval there s not that many with what i deem to be really good housing wurm eq2 and nowadays wildstar well they got played and another wall of text already ok i give up for now share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories uncategorized vanguard coh swg a quick thought to keep the beancounters awake at night posted on august 2 2014 by avatarsofsteel you know in their heyday popular novels and film were thought to be of little significance and treated with zero respect not thought to be even cultural forms let alone art the bbc neglected and destroyed miles of early footage by not bothering to store it properly footage that historians and film buffs and many others would give their eye teeth to access now and who knows how many penny dreadfuls never made it to this century in any form dickens work did novel writing made it to art status so did film countless types of popular music were horrible noisy modern garbage in their day let s not forget that either video games are absolutely and completely an expression of this era being new as in unseen before coincident with rising technologies popular and expressive of our current preoccupations and visual tastes in a mere 50 years the games that have been trashed will be deemed part of history people with some distance and the passage of time will also see more easily that they were things of beauty and depth artefacts created lovingly by the hands of many and then alive and developing through the usage of many because unlike film or novels part of this cultural activity video gaming is the active and direct participation of audience it is not a passive form without players there is no game you can see where this is going it is to be hoped that code and assets will be at least preserved in a place of safety for the future but most likely like that bbc footage it will not be plus the technology will change making frozen stored games unplayable the preservation of what we play now is pretty much down to the semi legal efforts of fans via emulators tributes fan art etc who will keep the code current companies who could be doing their bit by donating information and what part of code assets they own won t help because they d just die of greed if anyone else made any money basically well that s fine they re doomed to be that footnote game was not profitable enough and xyz company closed it so before putting on the chancellor face nigel lawson did a good one and considering vg coh and swg to be good riddance to bad profit i suggest beancounters play one of their how rich i d be if games and imagine now that the deed is done how much money they have said goodbye to 50 100 200 years from now when what little code and assets they bother to preserve is no longer accessible to them due to the platforms having gone dodo not accessible to them but still accessible to those that salvaged what they could the game they thought they killed will still lurk in the corners and bywaters of the internet alive it s quite cool i d not put any faith in lawsuits and copyright either the games will in all likelihood outlast the company person that owns them will be dispersed and all over the place such is the internet and finally copyright laws are such a mess right now it s only a matter of time before some drastic revision and adaptation they might not even apply i rather think the games as a service model is rickety too and pretty sure that s going to be challenged modified at some point sleep tight now beancounters share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories vanguard goodbye vanguard posted on july 31 2014 by avatarsofsteel today the vanguard saga of heroes servers go down for the last time i m quite sad about that i had to wait to play vanguard because for a long time it wouldn t run on my computer but belatedly soe put some work in and then i could play it i liked vanguard a lot i played it and i d continue playing it if it was still there i didn t want to log in and maunder about feeling gloomy during the last few months today though i logged in once on a random alt and it was in time for one of their purple sunsets which seems just right so last screenshot fond memories then share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories vanguard devving for the 1 posted on july 7 2014 by avatarsofsteel edit i ve put 1 of course i don t know the exact s except i m 100 sure each niche of the gaming market is a small i just had to stop my big catchup series part 3 nearly done because i spotted this on massively http massively joystiq com 2014 07 03 turbine raiders make up the smallest player group in lotro anyone whose been reading in this blog knows it s been an ongoing source of wonder to me that people who ostensibly are trying to make money use up so much development on a small group of players but there it s been for years and years at time of posting the massively post has 273 very interesting comments as the niches fight a rearguard battle and a good few people also say well duh so what s going to happen now now that the taboo has been broken and a mainstream studio actually said well heckit why are we doing this not in those exact words for sure it s nutso marketing when the people with lives are also likely to be the people with money a lot of people have to spend their lives earning it and aren t going to be all that hardcore apart from that legendary person with 7 children and two full time jobs who still raids 3 times a week at the top tier apart from that person of course on the other hand you could regard the raids pvps guilds whatever as sort of like the clothes in a fashion show or the prototype cars that look all futuristic and shiny both of which also cost a lot to produce but garner good press fashion shows car shows video gamer shows on the third hand im a nalien there is suuuuch a demand for each niche surely someone will be able to garner a profit going the full hog for each niche thus creating a lovely diverse gaming ecosystem doing a playstyle wholeheartedly requires some courage though imagine a game which is only for raiders just raiders no levelling no frills no crumbs for the solo or casual it could be done the press would be fantastic since you could really show your stuff in a catwalk way and top price might even apply actually top price might have to apply given the cost and the small player base but what a chance to make a splash with the release of each new raid without having to worry about all the other players i think someone should try it any takers on the fourth hand oh go on you re used to me by now surely imagine a big aaa title for the masses no preferred playstyle no sneering no reserved shinies content focussed on real normal people the many i can see it no i can t i think elitism is very hard to give up on the other hand this will be the fifth if anyone could de sneer casual solo play and make a really fantastic game for people with lives i can see big big big shinies in many many many quantities just don t tack an elite on and give them the best stuff because that would be the same as what we have just now oh yes forgot to put people with lives might still be a vast untapped market for mmos but it s not a naive market the opposite people who handle their own affairs tend to be shrewd so if anyone intends going for this particularly large bigger than anelephant whalefish they had better offer value share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories game design and creation big catchup post part 2 fun fun fun wall of economy warning posted on july 1 2014 by avatarsofsteel before that person pops up and says define fun i ll answer no here is a definition of arguing definitions instead arguing definitions will approach a point in the same way that repeating decimals do they approach closure in increasingly smaller steps without reaching it forever this isn t an essay on fun but it plays a large part and i don t want to be stuck poking about trying to figure out what fun is before mentioning it i will write on the understanding that if you know whether you like marmite sandwiches or anything else your fun o meter is working perfectly well and you should have no trouble knowing when you are enjoying anything and should also be able to detect whether you are enjoying something so much that it hits the fun calibration there war not a definition in sight and with that out of the way i launch fun is pretty much the thing video games exchange for money and if the studios and publishers kept that firmly in mind along with the not too difficult concepts many people and fewer people they would make a lot more money with a lot less effort illustration no 1 pvp is intense fun for many people hardly anyone enjoys being ganked gank games can only make money by providing fodder an expensive business involving for example making zones which are for pve players who must then be lured to their doom good not too ganky pvp games live forever though i m back visiting wow not for the post cataclysm dismal levelling but to indulge in some pvp guild wars 1 is still going because people go and pvp in it good pvp is going to bring in money long term and without extra outlay because an awful lot of people get to enjoy it compared to only the number of people who like to gank having fun illustration no 2 many people enjoyed wrath of the 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