Guild Wars -- Day 3

Okay, this is skipping ahead a bit, but I’m so mad. I basically manage to single-handedly hold the Sunspears together after Spearmarshall Kosmir became demon-chow. Veshta totally killed us. We fled to some caves – caves filled with vermin! Huge bugs! Koss was kidnapped! So I pretty much had to do it all myself. Afterward, I was totally the hero. It was MY place. MINE. So WHERE THE HECK did all these OTHER players come from? I didn’t invite them! ...

August 24, 2008 · 6 min · 1095 words · Tipa

Guild Wars: Nightfall, Day 1

In search of… Ancient Erudites… When a bunch of the most knowledgeable people in MMOs suggest to me that I should probably look into Guild Wars because it sounds like I need something different, well, I buy the game. And yeah, even though the game could be best compared to Dungeon Siege II with massively multiplayer cities, I do consider Guild Wars an MMO. Every city, town, hamlet, guard post and quest hub I came to were filled with people, selling stuff, looking for groups, looking for escorts to far away places, offering 100% no fail inscriptions – it was alive in a way that only MMOs manage. ...

August 4, 2008 · 8 min · 1569 words · Tipa