NekoAli

*is pinned by the sackboy*

It's a fun game, but it is rather repetitive and it does require you to team up constantly when you're past the first few levels. Much like a D&D table top game (at least 3.5 and earlier) each class has it's own skill set to bring to the table. While you might be able to skip some of those, dungeons are designed around having a group of 4-6 people with all the classes covered.

Sure you can get by without a rogue... but you'll be eating a lot of damage from traps that could have otherwise been disarmed and missing some treasure behind locked chests and doors.

Sure you can go in without a healer, but you'd best bring a lot of potions, because there's no resting between fights. You can only rest at certain areas in the dungeons (rest shrines), and recover hit points when you're in the public areas.

Unless you have a static team or a big guild, you're pretty much at the mercy of finding 3-5 other random people who want to do the same quests you want to do, or that everyone is willing to compromise on. Sometimes it's easy to do, sometimes it's downright impossible.

Dungeons and Dragons Online, Nameless. And you don't have to click each swing Rad. They changed that a while back, just hold down the mouse button and you'll keep swinging. Saves on mouse wear and repetitive motion injury...

*tussles with Fedor, now back from the apocalypse*

Servers are packed full of course. nearly impossible to get any missions done between the lag and everyone packed into the starting towns. Well, got my name reserved and played a bit, so I'm happy. I'll let the obsessive-compulsive people get outta mah starter towns and go back tommrow.

Oh and Rad, just log in using your old username and password, that's all I did. Didn't have to do anything special, they reactivated all old accounts as free subscribers. Unless you're already paying them of course.

Over Ocho Grande?

I don't think I'll ever be over Ocho Grande...

*taps and pokes at the Fallen Earth server*

I'd like to get in and make my character please...

*drags Fedor out into the light again and cuddles*

Don't go in there! THEY hide in the shadows. THEY wait to kill the innocent sack people...

I want to play it because I like it, despite it's warts and flaws. If you don't like it, that's fine. I don't expect it to appeal to everyone, or even a lot of people. I recognize that it's not the best game out there, but it's good enough for me to play.


Also.. NOOOOOOOOO! Oh this sucks so much. The theater down the road isn't showing 9. The one across town is, but only at night. Which means to see it I would have to pay the full price, sit through the crowds and then either get a cab back or walk about four miles in the dark, partly on a 55 MPH road with no sidewalks. yeaaah...

I guess I'm not going to see it today, rassin frassin. I hope they bring it to the nearby theater on Friday at least...

*awwws and puts away the chaotic evil ranger character*

I was gonna have such a good time with that one too....

My best and most fun experience in DDO was with a static group. We met twice a week, each had our regular characters and we knocked out dungeons like crazy without the typical 'rush to the end' mentality you see in PUGs. My best times in DDO was with that group, and the game is pretty amazing and fun when you can get in a group like that.

Unfortunately, it's late in the game cycle. Heck, it was late when I started years ago. So a lot of the people are pretty much on the levelling an alt treadmill when you meet them at low levels. They've done these dungeons dozens, maybe hundreds of times already. They know where everything is and what to do, so they just want to get through it as fast as possilble. And that attitude rubs off on new players, turning them into impatient 'rush through it fast' kinds of players.

If some of the Rookery. folks wanted to get together and try it out, we can always make our own little adventuring team of 4-6 players and go at it together. My people are on Argonessen, but my roster is now full (over full actually, since I can only play 4 of the 7 characters there without subscribing or buying more slots). If people wanted to play there, I've got a couple level 2 people, or we could pick another server and have everyone start fresh.

A lot of improvements have been made of the past year or so to DDO, Rook. And at the very reasonable price of 'free', I'd say it's worth checking out again. The core mechanics are still there mind you, so you still need a group to do pretty much anything. But at least the majority of the solo content is in the free areas. Which may or may not give new people a bad impression of the forced grouping aspects of the game.

But if you're going to go, you need one of these.

Thinking of trying D&D Online, eh Rook? I installed it again when it went free and played a bit. Still fun, a couple of nice improvements, but still the same core stuff there, but now free with extra limitations! Good to mess around with a bit, but I've got so many games to play as it is...

Good morning everyone! I trust you are all fine on this monumental 09-09-09 day today! The only one this century!

Because some cat-hating jerk decided to make this a 'Day Without Cats' day, and a bunch of sites seem to be going along with him, I've decided to counter this insidious and foolish plot with EVEN MORE CATS!

*throws a level and releases an army of excited NekoClones out into the interwebs*

Muahaha Muahahahaha! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! Go my fuzzy minions! Shed EVERYWHERE!

And now, for more cute cats:


In other news, today marks the Pre Order start for the MMO Fallen Earth, and the opening of the movie "9", so I will be in and out a lot today. Have a good MOAR CATS day today!

*gets shoed off Fedor and piles up in a corner*

ow.... Sheesh, my singing isn't that bad is it? And Virtue is cool because it has me. Something no other server can claim!

Actually I have a couple characters on another server.. it might be victory, I'm not sure. I just never play them. I made em when Virtue was having troubles a while back and was down more than it was up.

*takes the distraction as a chance to pin Fedor to the mat, then sits on him and sings her song of success*

Meeeooooeeeooooowwwwww

That's okay. You can have Victory. I'll stay here on Virtue where it's cool.

ack! *counter-tussles* No fair! Sneak attack!

Well, I imagine it's a lot like climbing Mount Everest. You do it because it's there. It's not a matter of you want a photo quality picture of something. You want to PAINT a photo quality picture of something. It's not the end result that's important so much as the challenge in making it.

*crawls on Tigers back and scritches, forming a tiger-kitteh-sackboy pyramid*

Awww, ain't he cute? Reminds me though... 9 opens tomorrow, wheee

Yup. That's the work I speak of Pogo. It could be worse though, at least with work you get paid. When you were in school, you had to go through the same crap, except you were either forced to be there by law, or you actually paid them to attend, depending on what level you're talking.

*puts on a stylish donut hat for when the Fedor on her back wakes up*

*wakes up and hands Shecky a big box of tissues*

Here man, I think you need these. It is pretty quiet yes... I guess people are recovering from yesteday.. or swamped with all the extra work they need to do now.

Yay! Rook is a singing (or whistling) star!

Happy birthday puppeh! Here's a nice snausage flavored cake and lots of chew toys for you!

I guess we'll know Monday. Mostly depends on how lazy we are.