MMORPG

It’s probably been 15 years since I last played City of Heroes… and now it’s come back. Should I?

More Vanguard than EverQuest, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen tries to strike a balance between old and new.

Is “I know one when I see one” enough?

Bree at MassivelyOP asked today if MMO studios prioritize younger or older players. The answer is super simple.

Here we go again. The top 38 MMOs in the last 30 days in the USA, as reported by Google Trends.

I really wanted to title this post, “FFXIV: Who Hurt You To Make You Do This?”. I didn’t, because I knew the answer. It was me. I’m to blame.

In 25 Cents, players take on the role of arcade owners in the 1980s, running their businesses and competing against each other to attract high scores from players who drop quarters into virtual machines.

I haven’t played the Ship of Heroes beta in awhile, and I entirely missed the previous housing beta. I wasn’t going to make that same mistake twice; when I got the offer to join the superhero MMOs second housing beta, I signed right up and dove right in. To recap a little, Ship of Heroes is a superhero MMO that invokes the classic superhero MMO, City of Heroes – except instead of being set in a city, it is set on a giant spaceship, within which is a city. ...

Each of these probably should get their own posts, but I am exceedingly lazy. Commander Rhade is finally dead for good this time. Starting off with Ogre Battle – about halfway through at about 25 hours in. The plot has a lot of twists and turns. Modern RPGs could learn a lot by looking at these old classics, and I really regret not playing this game back in the day. ...

And they call DCUO an apolitical, fictional game. Also, Dimensional Ink to rebalance clamped stats to make super heroes (and super villains) super again. In our reality, Washington D.C. is currently managed by the feds. The Hall of Justice is apparently in DC. Does that mean Superman and the Super Friends are de facto government employees? Batman is a G-man? Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Doom… We’ll find out in Episode 42: The Legion of Doom, which adds a new open world area to the game. Washington DC joins Metropolis, Gotham, Central City, Atlantis, Thanagar, Themiscyra, the 31st Century and so on. It’s unknown if DC will be reused as often as the first three, or if it’s doomed to be a one off, like the others. ...