Shroud of the Avatar

I don’t play every MMO that comes out – not by a longshot. But, I follow a lot of gamers, streamers, and game developers, and between me and them, I see a lot of discussion about the new MMOs that come down the pike. Crowfall was released a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, everyone was talking about it. And then, suddenly everyone was not. What did it all mean? I asked Google Trends to help me analyze searches for a dozen or so MMOs to help understand what all was going on with MMOs today. ...

Outside of space, outside of time Peaked into Shroud of the Avatar again yesterday. This is Richard “Lord British” Garriott’s MMO-in-development that brings the morality-based gameplay of his Ultima RPG into a more modern incarnation. I backed this on Kickstarter about two and a half years ago, and have been checking into the alpha and beta releases on a regular basis since they started becoming available. Not EVERY one… but often enough. ...

Traipsing about in Shroud of the Avatar. It’s working. I didn’t see any other players, but every available housing plot I came across was all bought up. Ye shall know them by their claims…. This is definitely an explorer’s game. Though, I did like their “Deck”-based combat – instead of having all your skills available (which is an option), you can opt to have your skills randomly chosen from a deck of skills that is automatically made or made by you. That was pretty cool. ...