Dear mods: NOW can we talk about other games?

In October they are releasing a Command and Conquer complete edition which includes ALL C&C games created and their expansions and it is supposed to grant access to their C&C MMO beta

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I dunno about Slaunyeh, but I did roll a human, and still didn't like the armor (never did manage to find even one that looked like it might plausibly be intended as armor). It wasn't the main thing that made me choose to stop after the first month, but it was a factor. I know most of the players over there love the art style, but it wasn't for me.

CO, for all its flaws, is still the game closest in spirit to most of my favorite things about CoH, at least that I've seen. So I'll probably be spending some time there. I had already bought GW2 before the fateful announcement, so I might as well put some extra strain on their servers and that's where my friends seem to be going. I'm tentatively looking forward to the Marvel Heroes game, but that's still a ways off. Other than that... eh, I dunno. Anybody got some suggestions for very "team-optional" MMOs? I like playing with a group, but I also like being able to do meaningful stuff without a group, and especially without an extensive web of in-game social obligations.

Rift actively fixes reported problems running Rift in emulation (WINE, etc.), so I understand it's at least semi-playable on a Mac, obviously moreso with stuff like parallells or bootcamp. I know there are people playing DDO and LotRO with Wine, although I don't know how well.

Lol I don't think anyone even mentioned FFXIV....uh ten plus...five minus...yeah XIV.

I've been watching posted vids of lots of games that released in the past year and a half that I completely lost track of (omg Zelda Skyward Sword released last year!? Man I'm really disconnected >_>) Frankly...FFXIV looks exactly like FFXI...except they pissed me off by renaming all the races (the exact same races) with names I can't pronounce...what was wrong with Mithra, Hume, Galka, Elvaan and Tarutaru? Now it's Miqo'te, Hyur, Ryogadyn(?), Elezen and Lalaffel.

Now you try and remember which name goes to what (hint, they're the same order I named the FFXI races). At least with the original names, you could tell. Of course, a hume is a human. Galka sounds like it's a synonym of Bulk which fits with the big guys. Elvaan is just a mispelling of Elven. Tarutaru is just cute like the weird little toddler race...you got me on Mithra, that name isn't quite descriptive of catgirls...but the new names are like...I can't even pronounce half of them without making myself sound like an idiot.

And I don't even think the plot even relates to FFXI in any way despite it *LOOKING EXACTLY THE SAME!!* I mean, the world structure, some of the mobs, the style, the characters and much of the system is the same so *WHY* not tie it into FFXI which had a pretty epic and interesting plot (if you managed to keep up with it over the many quests it was spread out over) and awesome characters.

That aside, I hear the story of XIV isn't terrible which is good and they're slated for a major update in a few months or early next year that overhauls their graphics, UI, maps and varies their content. Since launch, they revamped their combat system to be more intuitive and interesting and they'll be updating to add more races (namely a 'Male Mithra' among a couple of others...I was always more interested in playing a catboi vs a catgirl since XI).

Along with the revamp of the combat system, they also added the job system back into the game (no clue why SquareEnix strayed away from the part of their game that was done right) so you can play your Bards, your Paladins, your Blackmages and so on.

All in all, it heralds back to the old-style MMO with your tank, healer and DD. I don't particularly find that a problem in FF games primarily because of the job system. Sure, you're always going to want a healer and always a tank but anyone can take a healer or tank profession and level it...in fact, it's encouraged so you can vary your abilities to enable you to solo things (because you're not going to solo well on a pure DD character unless you have defenses or healing spells). It also lets you connect with your character vs just making a billion alts so you can experience all the different content. Nah, you can do everything (unless it's race specific I guess) with just the 1 character. You can become synonymous with that one character and that's the other point of FF MMOs that I find their strength.

Come the holidays around Nov-Jan, I'll have free time to play games and I'm hoping to get a chance to jump into the beta if only to see if there's any improvement over the original at all. I doubt it, but you never know...

For some reason, I couldn't keep away from FFXI. And I actually hated the game. But every time an expansion came out, I found myself in line with it at some store.

The missus and I tried out Everquest 2 over the Labor day weekend. It had been years since I played the game (I actually cancelled it to start playing CoH - sunrise, sunset I guess).

I was not having it. I just couldn't get into it. I even started to download the original Everquest, but I fear that is more nostalgia than actual desire to play.

I still maintain a freebie DCUO account on the PS3. I really dug playing the game. It felt easy enough on a controller and I was leveling up fantastically. Add in the ability to run around Gotham's East End and I'm sold. I haven't really played it much since I moved in July but I guess it's better time than ever.

And I'm still looking at a stack of PS3 titles. Mass Effect 2 and 3, Jak and Daxter Collection, unplayed copy of Starhawk. Among others. Lots of do.

But as for my MMO fix, I finally decided to give WoW a real chance. Maybe it's the sting of losing CoH, but I didn't want to pick up another game that has a remote chance of being canned in the next year.

Mass Effect 2 on Insanity is horrible. Just...horrible. Be sure to look up some of the buggy areas/glitches for dealing with stuff like the YMIR mechs or the Scions.

For DCUO on PC, can you manage to work an xbox controller into it?

Gold membership also allows you to make freeform characters rather than be stuck with an Archetype, allowing you to mix and match powers from all sets.