'Games' Category
Windows Vista & the Ventrilo Overlay
I picked up a copy of Warhammer Online this past week, and have been quite enjoying it. Enjoying it enough that I’ve joined a guild. So far they seem to be a pretty decent, if somewhat sarcastic and crass, group of people; I should fit right in. They require the use of [...]
Why a PlayStation 3?
This weekend I finally decided to throw my vote in to the next-generation console fight when I went and bought a PlayStation 3 (PS3). I picked up a pre-owned 40GB model from a local GameStop along with Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Burnout Paradise. I’d been thinking a while over which [...]
The Gold Tier Tournament
Earlier today — well, yesterday as of the time I’m writing this — I went to my Friendly Local Game Store and participated in the Gold Tier tournament they were running for Magic: The Gathering. I was running a rather inexpensive Sliver deck and didn’t expect to do so well but to have some [...]
Why I Like Guild Wars (So Far)
Updates: 2007-01-10: Added another difference that I thought of — the game’s lack of different shards. 2007-01-02: Corrected information about changing your secondary profession thanks to a comment from The Extremist. Amanda bought me Guild Wars for Christmas, and it’s proving to be exceptionally fun. Some of my friends probably know that I’m an on-again-off-again EVE Online player [...]
The Wii is Coming
Earlier today, Voodoo Extreme got word from several sources with the Nintendo Wii launch information. Sony and Microsoft can fight their little overpriced battle with hardware whose core interfaces and concepts haven’t changed in 20 years. I’m going with Nintendo. Read all the juicy bits here. Now I need to save [...]
D&D 3.5e Without Miniatures
One of the frequent complaints I hear about 3rd Edition (and 3.5) D&D is that you have to play it with miniatures. “It was designed to sell them,” a friend of mine bemoans, pointing to Attacks of Opportunity as the most damning evidence. I’ll admit that I did consider AoO to be so [...]
Going in Circles
I find myself suffering again from one of my many character flaws that’s plagued me my entire life: Indecision. I’m still thinking about the D&D campaign I’ve discussed before on this site. It was primarily brought about by my waning interest in reading and learning about the Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting [...]
Kingdoms of Kalamar (or, Campaign Settings Part II)
In continuation of my discussing some of the different settings for the forthcoming D&D campaign, I’ve settled on Kingdoms of Kalamar. Read on to find out why.
Campaign Settings
So I’m starting up a new D&D 3.5e campaign and have been trying to determine which campaign setting I’d rather run. The choices have basically boiled down to: Forgotten Realms, with a focus on the city of Waterdeep Kingdoms of Kalamar, with a focus on the city of Genavue Eberron, with a focus on Sharn, the City [...]
What’s Wrong with WoW, and More MMOG Thoughts
Found this interesting link in Gamasutra about how World of Warcraft is teaching and encouraging the wrong goals. I concur, so read on: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things While I don’t necessarily agree with or subscribe to his points in their entirety, nor do I place Street Fighter on the high pedestal [...]