Comments for Serial MMOgamy

Comment on Chopping Wood In Your Underpants by kyllick

kyllick — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:54:13 +0000

I’m all for PvP but gear/xp loss based systems like Vanguard/PotBS/Darkfail/EVE make me wretch.

20% of subscribers to these abominations are the ganker ‘elites’ who hang around in packs all day long, zerging the weak and running away from anything remotely resembling a fair fight; the other 80% are poor deluded fools who are afraid of losing some kind of imaginary reputation points if they admit they can’t stomach this kind of unbalanced ‘hardcore’ abuse.

Showing off your amazing PvP skills is one thing, but demanding that your opponents be punished for losing smacks of sadism. If those 80% dropped already, the gankers/trolls would be left to face each other and the reality of a self-destructive game. It happened with PotBS actually, I was there…

Comment on Paying Your Gravity Bill by Transformers the MMO! « This would be more awesome with lasers

Transformers the MMO! « This would be more awesome with lasers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:59:02 +0000

[...] clone with a new skin and a slight gimmick, like transforming only in certain zones for travel. Aion already showed how you can deliver basically nothing of a great idea even if it is included in the [...]

Comment on Excuse Me, Is That A Poleaxe In Your Back? by A

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:45:51 +0000

Just wanted to say that I’m naturally blond and my eyebrows do, in fact, exactly match my hair. My eyelashes do, too. I’ve always found it rather unpleasant and I don’t know why someone would design an idealized avatar that way. Yikes.

Comment on World of Red Dead by Anjin

Anjin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:54:31 +0000

Lightsabers and jedi? That narrows it down to three, though I’ll let the Vegas bookmakers set the odds for each one.

After RDR, I’d happily jump into a serious Wild West MMO. Or even a Wierd West MMO would be cool.

Comment on World of Red Dead by silver

silver — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:17:20 +0000

Oh, sure, until you discover it’s “kill 10 rattlesnakes and collect their rattles, then deliver them to the pard’ner three feet to my left, who will give you a pair of used chaps as a reward.”

Comment on World of Red Dead by Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:39:08 +0000

That’s actually an excellant idea. Nothing makes me think “wild west” more than a PvP Server.

Comment on Fourth Apathy by World of Red Dead « Serial MMOgamy

World of Red Dead « Serial MMOgamy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:32:00 +0000

[...] I should have known better, since Kingdom Heroes was created by the same people who brought us this mess. But US game developers seem equally unwilling to stray too far from the high-fantasy WoW formula. [...]

Comment on NeverQuest by Eljacko

Eljacko — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:55:20 +0000

Personally, I enjoy the massive amounts of quests in Everquest 2. I often become bored with linear stories, so I like how this game allows me to sort of write my own story by cherry-picking quests that suit my character.

I also like how there are a large number of zones for each level group, any one of which you could head to once you hit their recommended level range.

Comment on Excuse Me, Is That A Poleaxe In Your Back? by Jarenth

Jarenth — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:42:47 +0000

My personal itch is in City of Heroes. Specifically, the many ‘Armor’ type powersets don’t scale with the ‘Huge’ character type. Give a regular Male or Female character something like, say, Earth Armor, and they look like they’re actually covered in armor. Give it to a Huge character, and they get the exact same armor as the Male character, which means it clips through them and cuts through limbs and such.

Also, when giving a character Wrapped Cloth-type shoes, and then having them run, a small horizontal strip of each foot will periodically turn invisible. Just disappear, essentially. A lot of my characters have this footwear, and this is driving me up the wall.

Come to think of it, City of Heroes is littered with graphical glitches like that. For a game that’s essentially 50% character customization, this can be a jarring thing.

Comment on Excuse Me, Is That A Poleaxe In Your Back? by Mr. Son

Mr. Son — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:22:59 +0000

I love WoW to death, but I can’t play Blood Elves, male Night Elves, or female Draenei without long cloaks. Blood elves have this twirly jump that I can’t stand, male night elves have a horrible, floppy, unattractive run, and female Draenei have these limp tails that look more like weird growths than a real appendage (thankfully, a long cloak covers them). Also, female Draenei twist their spines in a way when they run that looks like their back is broken, and it makes my lower back ache in sympathy.

Also, far too many WoW races toss their heads back sharply when they jump (e.g. female Orcs), and all I can think is “whiplash, much?”.