Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Video Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Back in November of last year I began a series of articles entitled the 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin to chronicle my immersion in Blizzard Entertainments smash success World of Warcraft. Though doing so I hoped to explain the genre to those, like I, who had avoided it and provide a commentary style review as […]
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 […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Nov 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
While I did find a few moments to dabble in World of Warcraft after the monstrously long two hour install process, day two of this endeavor was scheduled to be the first real test of what World of Warcraft had to offer. I’d arranged to meet my friend who donated his 10 day guest pass […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Opinion on Nov 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been gaming as long as some of our younger readers have been alive, but the one genre I’ve avoided like the plague is that of the MMO. Having placed a high value on both my free time as well as my money, I’ve consistently dismissed the MMO as being a flight of fancy for […]