Wednesday, July 18, 2012

On the MMO front - experimenting with both TERA and Secret World.  Tera looks like a few months of fun unless there are substantial changes made.  The devs have largely missed the boat on emote complexity and roleplay tools - and it is far too linear and grindy (standard Korean MMO problem).  Secret World is the most fascinating thing since way back in EQ/EQ2 in terms of quest lines and character design --- some nits (like the character appearance creation is not state-of-the-art by any stretch, I can't even adjust height weight and the hairstyles are repetitive.... then there's the "ape face" problem... )

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Apparently, I'm even worse than I thought I'd be about blogging... plus the "fine folks at google" don't really seem to care about online persona - they want your real name blah blah blah (and woe unto you if your real name doesn't fit their "white anglo-saxonized no-nicknames" window of reality).