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July 28, 2008 at 01:30 PM · Posted under games, rants
That is definitely a term well known by wow players, specially now with the beta and all the information about the next expansion flooding every single website that talks about the game. Not that I don’t appreciate speculating about things that change every week, most people know I love and enjoy any kind of argument that goes both ways.
But the thing is, with theorycrafting, some just over do it, they take every single piece of information they get (even those that change in a weekly basis) and forget that no matter how much you speculate and theorize about something, reality isn’t always like that. But what does reality have to do with a MMO game, you ask? Well, spell rotations are mainly designed in a perfect environment, and reality presents an alternative scenario…
To me it is like solving a physics problem, you have your ideal world, sometimes with no gravity, sometimes in the vacuum. So, in an online game, you have something like that. Latency and hardware performance issues… That leads to a possible increase of reaction time in about 10% or even more. So sometimes you have to know that you need to adapt to those variables to perform accordingly.
They don’t get the fact that a player rolling at 400ms will never out perform an equally skilled player rolling at 20ms.
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July 02, 2008 at 11:35 AM · Posted under games
A friend of mine suggested that we could play LOTRO, I guess I’ve downloaded and installed the trial, and I’ll play it for the next 14 days for free. I must say, after playing it during the beta almost a year ago, I am kind of curious to see how it is now.
If anyone wants to join me, feel free, I’ll start tonight!
lotro website
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June 30, 2008 at 03:25 PM · Posted under games
Who knows what the next generation games will bring to the table… But for now, considering the options, I still feel completely trapped to the addictive WOW. I do have my hopes up because of Warhammer Online, but being the kind of player that enjoys both PVE and PVP in a MMO game, I’m afraid WO won’t put up a real fight against the WoW crack.
At least Diablo 3 will stick to it’s original roots, so it seems. And that might actually be a good way to have moderate fun while playing computer games.
I should try consoles again, since now you can actually interact with other people and play remotely with your friends… that would be a way to lower my playing time to a healthy level, since my hands can’t really handle a joystick as long as they could in the past (no pun intended), unlike the keyboard-mouse combo.
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