Saturday, November 27, 2004
EverQuest II has stolen my life
I was never a big fan of role playing games. The old Dungeons and Dragons thing never really did it for me and I never understood the apparent frenzy that surrounded games like Morrowind and Everquest, but recently that all changed.
First there was Fable on the Xbox. A friend of mine is really into these kind of games. He'd finished Morrowind and was starting out on Fable and saying how neat it was. I'd known about this game since it was called Project Ego and was interested in it primarily because I knew Peter Molyneux makes neat games (Populous, Black & White) though I'd never played them. And of course, he's also British.
I persevered, and 15 hours after starting it, I finished it. The first story-based game I finished. Ever.
Wow - that was fun!
I was talking about Fable with a guy called Sarwar who is a developer on the Dell Factory Outlet (refurbished Dell systems) application, and he mentioned he was a beta tester for EverQuest II and was saying how cool it was. I checked it out online and it certainly looked the part...
A few weeks ago it came out, and... well... its stolen my life. What I like about it is that unlike Fable, which is Xbox Live Aware (meaning it can tell you if your friends are online... and thats about it... wuppdy-do), EverQuest II is a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game), and as such you are playing alongside real people. My wife always used to complain that computer games were a waste of time, but at least with this one I can explain that its a social experience! And the depth and sheer size of the environments is truly stunning. Plus with my recently beefed up system, it looks amazing. Its the little touches, like having grass move as you walk through it.
If you're also an EverQuest II player, look out for me. I play on the "Innothule" (good) server as a character called Grimgit who is currently a Level 12 Crusader.
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First there was Fable on the Xbox. A friend of mine is really into these kind of games. He'd finished Morrowind and was starting out on Fable and saying how neat it was. I'd known about this game since it was called Project Ego and was interested in it primarily because I knew Peter Molyneux makes neat games (Populous, Black & White) though I'd never played them. And of course, he's also British.
I persevered, and 15 hours after starting it, I finished it. The first story-based game I finished. Ever.
Wow - that was fun!
I was talking about Fable with a guy called Sarwar who is a developer on the Dell Factory Outlet (refurbished Dell systems) application, and he mentioned he was a beta tester for EverQuest II and was saying how cool it was. I checked it out online and it certainly looked the part...
A few weeks ago it came out, and... well... its stolen my life. What I like about it is that unlike Fable, which is Xbox Live Aware (meaning it can tell you if your friends are online... and thats about it... wuppdy-do), EverQuest II is a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game), and as such you are playing alongside real people. My wife always used to complain that computer games were a waste of time, but at least with this one I can explain that its a social experience! And the depth and sheer size of the environments is truly stunning. Plus with my recently beefed up system, it looks amazing. Its the little touches, like having grass move as you walk through it.
If you're also an EverQuest II player, look out for me. I play on the "Innothule" (good) server as a character called Grimgit who is currently a Level 12 Crusader.
