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After some weeks of intense work and real life tasks, I’ve got two weeks ahead of taking things with calm and try to rest (or at least spend my free time doing mostly non-development). Apart from finally being able to test my painting lamp and actually...
One of the things that WoW uses in it's simplest form is the "hardcore quests" (or high-level quests). Adventures targeted to high-level characters, usually requiring special equipment (which means raiding again and again dungeons to get...
There is an old, hidden cathedral. In that cathedral, there are no living beings as we know it. If you could enter inside it, you would see ghost-like figures walking among it's walls and columns. But they are not normal people. They are the data...
Reading The Escapist Magazine , I've come across an interesting article called " Are you evil? ". The author writes about playing evil characters, distinctions between just being evil and "really evil" (for example, killing low...
Yesterday I had an argument with one member of the staff at our UO Shard about " what if you lose everything? ", referred to tangibles (money, objects, the house,...). It was interesting to notice how many of the players and at least one of...
Just as almost every 3D FPS has boxes , from the first Quake to the latest Rainbow Six: Vegas, almost every RPG starts with your main character having to kill rats , from the Wizardry series to the latest Final Fantasy XII.
Sometimes I feel like a fish. A fish takes for granted that the only element existant is water. A fish gets hooked, pulled up and out of its existence in the above and beyond. Perhaps the fishmen decides not to keep it and throws it back in. The fish...
I've just found in Slashdot an entry called "What Are Some of Your Favourite RPG Quests?" and I'm thinking what is my favourite quest... I think that the best one I've played was the "alternate world" in UO (in Berks Worlds...
One of the things I most like about Ultima Online is the possibilities it brings for roleplaying . In other MMORPGs you have freedom, but only UO is capable of bringing that much freedom (visually, MUDs are even more customizable). The freedom to decorate...