Champions Online Character Creation
August 21st, 2009 by Ravven

Thanks to a kind friend, I got to play around a bit with Champions Online last night. A bit of playing – normal MMO questing, as one would expect. But mainly character creation. As I’ve written about before, I love very customisable characters, and I’ll create endless alts as I use it as kind of [...]

Aion Closed Beta #5
August 2nd, 2009 by Ravven

This closed beta has brought some changes that everyone was pretty excited about, including: New Sound files have been added NPCs should now have a greet and farewell voice Cutscenes will now have voice Race Prologues are now available when you create a new character for Elyos and Asmodian Tutorial videos are now available in [...]

subject to change
May 8th, 2009 by Ravven

I haven’t written much because I’ve been doing precious little gaming recently. I may have to change the title of this blog to something like “random thoughts and mundane conversations of little interest to anyone except my mother”.  Possibly. I did spend some time playing LittleBigPlanet recently, and absolutely loved it. I’m looking forward to [...]

Sun Through Clouds
April 21st, 2009 by Ravven

Not much happening on the gaming front, unfortunately. I did get one of the Free Realms beta invites and logged in for a few minutes (small download/install, enough kawaii to set your teeth on edge, probably a lot of fun to play with the kids). I haven’t had a chance to do many of the [...]

Return to LotRO, and General Feeling of Meh
February 5th, 2009 by Ravven

First, an extremely good post about why Fixing MMOs is Hard, by Scott Jennings. I loved this bit: 9) Listen to, and engage with, players The players are often WRONG. What’s more, they will lie to you. DIRECTLY. TO YOUR FACE. No, really, their class is horribly underpowered, any fool would know that if they [...]

Runes of Magic
February 1st, 2009 by Ravven

Due to some decent reviews of the beta, (and another one here) I’ve decided to try Runes of Magic. It looks pretty, and while there tend to be things associated with Korean MMOs that I personally don’t like (movement issues, etc.), I do like the fact that it’s free to play, that you can build [...]