I’ve been wondering lately if we play classes in MMOs that reflect our own personalities, or if our personalities (in game, at least) are shaped by the classes we play. I consider myself pretty much a loner in real life, but I don’t enjoy soloing in MMOs; I never have. What I really did like to do was to joke around with people while someone else provided a nice selection of fun activities. My only job here was to show up, really. ...
[gallery ids=“11618,11619,11620,11621,11622,11623”] The Chronicles of Spellborn lives… sorta… I took some time to get the beta client for The Chronicles of Spellborn and connect it to the fan-run server this morning. All you can really do is just run around the main city, but dang, how I would love to see what Spellborn would have become if it had made it. Developed at a time when many new MMOs were content with iterating on the EverQuest/World of Warcraft model, Spellborn was a picture storybook come to life. Player gear was non-visible; you could pick up new display pieces, but they rarely influenced your stats. The intense visual style was entirely appropriate for a game set in the shards of a destroyed world; everything looked alien to some degree. ...
Some trufen managed to reverse engineer a beta version of the super-innovative MMO Spellborn enough so that folks can run around in the setting – no NPCs or mobs at the moment. More information on the video’s YouTube page, and at https://www.facebook.com/selachii/posts/10202890513584115, where Spellborn lead dev El Drijver reminisces about the game.Reversing Spellborn - Hawksmouth Finally we can enter the Deadspell. I think every single spellbornfan looked forward to this moment. ...
You want some? YOU WANT SOME? Kasul came on tonight after work. I had wasted a lot of time tonight getting my camera all set up to catch the Venus/Jupiter convergence (no dice; thanks clouds) and I’m not sure what else, but I logged in kinda late. Omuro and I did Haukke Manor with me as paladin, because my marauder is one level shy of opening that dungeon. I do love that dungeon. I did Tamtam as a conjurer on roulette, since it said it needed healers, made level 20 and did the level 20 quest. I did the roulette guildhest as lancer, because it said it needed DPS. First time I’ve seen it ask for DPS, but I did as it bid and lanced. ...
Yes, Uber has set up shop in Eorzea. I'm just out to make some extra gil with my chocobo between adventures. With our free month of FFXIV about to end, Kasul and I had to make a difficult decision. Not about whether or not to continue playing the game – we’re both having a lot of fun with – but just who was going to recruit who for the recruit-a-friend program. See, in FFXIV, if you recruit someone, you get a bunch of cool rewards, like that two-seater chocobo in the picture. If you’re recruited, you get some lesser rewards. ...
Just you and me, kid. You and me and no three other people not in this picture. On our last story day, Kasul and I had thought we were just minutes away from meeting Titan, the Lord of the Crags, based on the urgency of the NPCs. We finished the night thinking that next time, we would be meeting the primal of the kobolds in our second Trial. No! That turned out not to be the case! Instead, we spent pretty much the entire night proving our worthiness by doing trivial jobs. Only by gladly crossing the planet doing fetch jobs, could we show the sort of spunk and willingness to follow orders given by strangers required to break through the rock-hard skin of Titan. ...
Fear the armor! With my faithful Chocobo, Yupa, I scare away all invaders with my overpowering black armor. They thought they were getting the white paladin, the kind that would bring them mercy. This is not the kind of paladin they are getting. Kasul and I met tonight to advance the story a little bit. Last time opened up Thousand Maws, an experience neither of us really enjoyed. And, since there were no gear upgrades in the dungeon, no reason to ever do it again (unless it comes up in a random low level dungeon at some point). Since we’ve well outleveled the story at this point, we were hoping that tonight’s questing would get us a dungeon nearer our levels (me: 31, Kasul: 32). But no luck. The chapter we did brought us to a hidden desert town full of exiles rousted out of the nearby city now inhabited by undead and level 45 beastmen. ...
I choose you, Chocobo! Back in FFXI, I was always kinda mad that I never managed to finish the super long chocobo quest before I gave up on the game in frustration (though not specifically over the chocobo quest). (It was because I could go days without getting a group). It was with some joy that I finished the REALLY EASY quest to get my chocobo license in FFXIV. All you need to do is run around and do a few fates, and boom! Enough seals to buy a chocobo license from the Grand Company we joined, the Order of the Flame. ...
I just don't like giants these days I don’t blog much these days. I blame Forge.gg. I stream the games, they pop-up on Forge with all the best clips I can find, and I figure, hey, if anyone is all that interested in what I’m playing –> Forge.gg is that way :-) (I stream as Tipa there). But, the video quality can be low, and I don’t know if anyone will bother looking, or, without much context, even what they’re seeing there! But, because Forge.gg doesn’t play well with FRAPS, I usually have FRAPS off, and Forge.gg on. So, no cool screenshots unless I swap them. And sometimes I do that. ...
The bigger they come... I wonder if everyone sees my butt like this at the end of a dungeon, or if they’re looking at their own character in some sort of heroic pose. It’s okay if it’s me they’re seeing, because I’m friggin Brienne of Tarth here. I look like a warrior. I love MMOs where it doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl, if you’re a warrior, you look badass. ...