Posted in Video Games on Dec 24th, 2006 No Comments »
While I have memories of playing my older brother’s simplistic Pong clone, my first real gaming love was Metroid on the NES, given as a gift to me by my parents in the late eighties. Amusingly it was some time before I really got to experience the pack-in NES title Super Mario Bros., as my […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
While in my last adventure I’d set foot outside the snowladden mountainsides beneath the Dwarven capital of Ironforge, I still had plenty of adventuring to do there. Once I’d delivered the ale, I quickly returned to the more familiar environments.
And the first item on the agenda was vengeance. A vendetta. Retribution. When my companions and […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 12th, 2006 No Comments »
One thing I’ve really neglected to dwell on in the semi-review capacity of this series is something at the core of the World of Warcraft experience: graphics and sound. Perhaps if I were playing another MMO this would be a secondary concern, but in World of Warcraft it certainly isn’t as this game is simply […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 10th, 2006 No Comments »
While there is a clear time constraint set before me in attempting to fully appreciate my 10 day trial, the limitations of the real world are not something one can put on pause, and certainly one doesn’t get extra credit for effort by having a very solid sleep the evening before. So with a wife […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Dec 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Yesterday when I got home for work I found a gift waiting for me in my mailbox. It was the biggest strategy guide I’d ever seen, the World of Warcraft Master Guide, 2nd Edition, from Brady Games. I was surprised the relatively cheap binding quality such guides use was capable of holding all the pages […]