“I smoke two joints when I play videogame, and at every ten thousand points, I smoke two joints…”
This category is for posts about games in which the player interacts with or against characters that are controlled or represented by constructions of a central processing unit.
Ladies and gentlemen of Blizzard Entertainment,
You do not know me. I do not really know you, either. But given that I pay a lot in order to partake of a product you make that you clearly put many hours of tireless effort into, I dare say that you know even less about me than I do you. And of course, I am just one customer out of what you claim to be millions worldwide. Continue Reading
So, as luck and a bad script would have it, I went to Googoo and searched for information concerning whether there was a limit to the number of Monk characters one could have when the new expansion for World Of Warcraft goes live in a couple of days. That led me to this article by Carmelo M. on the Clever Musings site. Continue Reading
Some time ago now, the great but ailing media pundit Roger Ebert wrote a statement to the effect that videogames are not art. He gave some reasons why. And the whinging from fanboy idiots who were clearly too young to even know what the word Atari means in this particular context was precious to behold. Not because Ebert‘s critique of videogames as an industry was especially well-informed, but rather because the near-illiterate responses betrayed a simple fact about the people making them. Specifically, they had no idea what the word art really means. Continue Reading
I have mentioned it before, but like a lot of obsessive rejects with nothing better to do, I play World Of Warcraft a lot. And a pretty world-changing event, at least within the scope of the game, occurred a couple of days ago now. Yes, it was expansion-patch day. Continue Reading
So yes, I managed to fill out about 2600 or more words about my dealings in a computer game that I do not think a whole lot of for various reasons. And now I am going to fill out some more. Do not worry, I am not going to go as much into why I dislike the game or why I bother to play it this time. I am simply going to offer a few reflections concerning what has changed since I last wrote. Continue Reading
So I did what I have been speculating to myself about for some time, and started a new guild of my own on World Of Warcraft. The act of starting the guild, in itself, was quite a learning experience. Whilst it has changed over time, the present system with founding new guilds involves getting a charter, getting five signatures from unique players, and then turning it in to an NPC who basically hands you the keys to your new guild. So whilst I have my own guild that I am very slowly building up to what I want, I am also very slowly and staggeringly learning the ins and outs of running the damned thing. Continue Reading
World Of Warcraft, even in the face of peaking and declining subscription numbers, has more players than any other online multiplayer game that exists. At one point, the count was said to be eleven million players. Whilst this is hardly a large slice of the total world population, it is a lot compared to prior videogames that have made the news. However, when attempting to start the game for the first time, a lot of players tend to feel lost or confused. The following, therefore, is a guide to how to get along with players who fill the various “roles” in the game. Continue Reading
I Still Find It So Hard... 