Oh look quest giver … please click yes to go kill 10 rats

Ok is it me or has questing remained the least explored medium in mmo’s as opposed the advanced made in other areas of mmo design, graphics, travel routes, voice etc. I remember back in the dark days of my youth playing pc games and recieving quests exactly the same way as most mmo’s do now, well with the exception of yellow glowy questions marks hovering over the quest givers heads. Quests design seems to stalling out with one concept of quest trees. Talk to quest giver, read paragraph, click yes button, read next paragraph, click next, do you accept quest, click yes and off you go on your merry little way…..

Hardcore …

Well I’m back. I thought I would start off with something small to get back into the swing of things.

In an unamed beta I’m currently playing they have an option for a hardcore mode, that is to say you create your character and play through the game as you would normally. The kicker is when you die your character dies and is gone for good, back to the drawing board with you …. now I dont usually subscribe to this type of hardcore mode but this is beta so I thought i would give it ago. Wow … what a blast it is, really puts you on edge and makes you think statergy more than in softcore mode. Its like a whole new game …

Hiatus …

Its not often I let real life overflow into the on line world, but due to the passing of one of lifes truely bright stars, my wifes ‘nanny’, a women who never saw the negative in you, a freind to all and grandmother for all who needed one.  I will be taking a break from blogging. I will be back when the time is right. ‘Travel safely and Free Sara’

Pixie out

Pirates on the starboard bow …

hmmm if this is anything to go by then Sept 19 th will see the preorder lauch day for Pirates of the Burning Sea … thankyou

(Ok enought of the News Thing I’ll leave that to Brent)

Tabula Rasa .. please come in your time is up

Title about says it all. Huxley is going into beta … Tabula Rasa has been given its notice …

Heroism … where art thou

Not sure how many of you have come across this but for me the sense of herioc adventurer is seemingly lacking in current mmo’s.

I mean I spend a good proportion of my time, killing monsters, loot monsters, sell loot, buy a different sword, kill another series of monster, loot mosnter, sell loot and buy a different sword …