mmorpgs

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SWTOR Thoughts

By ⋅ January 3, 2012 ⋅ 6 comments

Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you had a good holiday season. I have been playing SWTOR, after something of a struggle to get my videocard drivers to stay installed correctly. Warcraft is also installed, but it feels like I’m still a tad burned out with that game. The next target to download is Rift, [...]

Meaningful travel time – passengers and drivers

By ⋅ May 5, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

I was reading this post by Syncaine on travel time in MMOs. And it got me musing a little bit. In real life (or meatspace) there are no instant teleports. You either get to drive, in which case you are occupied with the task of steering, or you are a passenger. In the case of [...]

Distinctiveness: When is an MMO not a book?

By ⋅ March 8, 2011 ⋅ 10 comments

Hot off the heels of my first impressions of RIFT, I now want to touch on another broad MMO topic. In my last post I compared Warcraft and RIFT to two similar but rather different books by Terry Pratchett. However, this post at Massively  touches on the long-standing criticisms of WoW and it’s influence on [...]

RIFT: First impressions of Telara

By ⋅ March 8, 2011 ⋅ 10 comments

I doubt this will become a RIFT blog, but one never knows. In any case, I finally picked up the RIFT beta over the last weekend and gave it a go. In the past I’ve tried Warhammer, EVE Online and had a brief stint in LOTRO, but none of them ever clicked and I was [...]

Rip out my heart: Heteronormativity, Goblins & MMORPG storytelling

By ⋅ August 13, 2010 ⋅ 63 comments

It’s a big word. It is, as per usual, a big subject. It’s long and rambling, and I’m certainly not an expert on the experiences of gay, lesbian or transexual gamers. This is not about calling anyone homophobic, or anything like that. This post is just about looking at these issues and questioning ourselves and [...]

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