Archive for May, 2007
I never got far in MUD games. While they were fun, every single time I’d get out of the newbie yards, I’d die from; a) starvation due to getting lost and being unable to find my way back to town, b) dehydration because I didn’t know how to drink or fill my empty waterskin from a fountain I discovered, c) being humiliated by a rat who kicked my ass. And all this was back before 2000. Sometime in late 2000, a friend of mine recommended a program to me (which I’ve forgotten 
). It had a list of all the popular MUD games and provided color coded display, a mapping feature, a list of all commonly used emotes and commands and an easy to see ASCII inventory management system.
I was in heaven. I said goodbye to getting lost and starving to death. I mooned the water fountain after I got my fill of drink. Yes, I was in heaven.
Until I died from a smug rat.
I think I know why many RPG developers have initial quests where you kill rats.
Anyway, fast forward a bit to my exposure to MMORPGs.
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Last night’s season finale of “Heroes”:http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ finally ends the terror of Sylar. Or does it?
(Spoiler Alert)
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Well, maybe not exactly, but if “Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar”:http://www.lotro.com/ continues on its present course, it just might be the “one game to rule them all.”
As someone who has gotten burnt out on Raiding and playing “end game”, LOTRO is a nice change of pace with fresh new content never explored before, wonderful graphics, great music and rich Lore.
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So there’s a “personality test for gamers”:http://www.guildcafe.com/zQuest.php regarding MMORPG’s (originally it was for MUDs).
I’m “ESAK”:http://www.guildcafe.com/zScore.php?questid=2&qid=31, which should not be confused with ESAD.
What kind of gamer are you?
I don’t often make it a point to expand my horizons and look up movies I wouldn’t normally watch. However, there are times when I find myself channel surfing and I stumble across a movie that captures my attention, even if it’s not something I’d think would be good. Or understand for that matter. “Brazil”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/, a black comedy, is one of those movies that made me go “huh?” but ended up being a pretty good movie to watch.
I still don’t understand why the movie is titled Brazil when it has nothing to do with the place, but the freaky psychological mind twists that keep popping up distracted me from this wonder. Throughout the movie, I didn’t know which was reality and which was all in the potagonist’s mind. The ending was somewhat of a let-down but made sense.
I would dread living in a world governed so strictly.
