Smudge and I recently finished off the Season 2 storyline in Guild Wars 2. Overall, I think they did a better job than with the original story, though it’s still by no means perfect. Also, there was a final bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Smudge and I are still playing and enjoying Guild Wars 2 these many months later. Just last week we hit a big milestone in the form of the end of the original story. Of course, we hit the level maximum[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a time when hitting level 10 was a big deal. It was time to consider settling down, establishing a keep, and retiring from active adventuring. My main character in Guild Wars 2 gained 5 levels yesterday. Now, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guild Wars 2 is now a couple years old, and coming out with their first expansion. Since the game has always been ‘pay once, no subscription’, they’ve decided to make a slightly limited version of the base game free, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a while since I’ve said much about ArcheAge here. Some of that is my usual habit of wandering away after a little bit, even while Smudge continues on. And that did happen here, but…. Both Smudge and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trion (the company behind the English version of ArcheAge) can’t seem to catch a break. They were having lots of network latency on the servers (enough so that they ended up with overlapping properties because of server confusion!), so they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I are still continuing through ArcheAge. One disappointment is that the number of dungeons seems to be pretty small. We’re currently level 33+, and have only seen one (for level 20) so far. At least we had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Some of this is cribbed from various videogamegeek posts…. ArcheAge is a new FTP MMORPG from Korean Developer XL Games and published by Trion (Rift). Smudge and I tried it out during open Beta, and have been playing for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, happy New Year to all reading this. 2013 was a pretty good year overall. Nothing major went wrong, no new equipment failures (though I was scared for my desktop machine for a while, like I mentioned in the last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once upon a time, this blog was new, and I was just beginning write my thoughts for the benefits of posterity and anyone else who happened by. Around the same time, something else was new to me: MMORPGs. I’ve been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…