Category: Games I Like
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LOTRO: Harwick Mounted Daily
Rather than bore you with more of the Middle Earth tour, I’ll post an example of a daily mission given out in Harwick. This mission is one of those given as part of the overall goal of rebuilding the destroyed town of Hytbold. Each mission earns 5 tokens that can be used to rebuild some…
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LOTRO Tour 10: Ost Guruth to Thorenhad
Continuing the tour of the vast Middle Earth as presented in LOTRO, we ride from Ost Guruth in the Lone Lands to Thorenhad in the Trollshaws. We stop by Bilbo’s stone trolls and then end with the sons of Elrond. Unlike games like Skyrim and Star Trek Online, where most of the terrain is accessible,…
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LOTRO weekend update
This was a good weekend to play LOTRO. Not only was the Anniversary Festival going on, they were running a special 100% XP bonus all weekend. Because of that, I didn’t do much with my Lore Master, because he is at the level cap, but instead took advantage of the XP bonus to work on…
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Zen Pinball recorded with Hauppauge HD PVR 2
Note: I’m truly horrified that I didn’t spell Hauppauge right in either the title or the article. And I knew better… Sorry Hauppauge! I bought the Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition when it was on sale at Amazon a week or so ago, and finally got a chance to hook it up yesterday. As…
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Too Many MMO Special Events, Too Little Time
The number of daily things I need to do in two of my favorite games keeps growing, yet my time to do them in does not, sadly. In LOTRO, I should be doing Hytbold dailies with my level 85 Lore Master, and, until recently, I’ve been pretty good about doing so. The two things that…
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Got a War Steed for my Hunter in LOTRO
Yesterday’s 10.02 patch to LOTRO fixed at least one of the annoying bugs I mentioned in my previous post: the ability to track Legendary Items now works properly again. I haven’t checked if the goats are still gliding their way across Dunland, Eregion, and Great River, but that’s a minor issue that just damages immersion,…
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Buggy LOTRO updates make it not quite as fun
The LOTRO developers have been doing a tremendous job of adding features with the many updates they’ve been doing recently, but perhaps quality control has been suffering. This latest update (#10) made a number of significant changes, including adding some instances around the Lonely Mountain (surely to try to exploit the publicity surrounding the Hobbit),…
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Enjoying iPad game Acheron Prime
In addition to playing LOTRO and STO, I’ve been playing a fun iPad space RPG called Acheron Prime. Like Egosoft’s X* games, it’s clear that this game was not created by native English speakers, as the voice acting and spelling are terrible, but, as with the X* games, it doesn’t take much away from the…
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Choose your favorite Free-To-Play MMO: Star Trek Online or Lord of the Rings Online
Massively is having a vote today between my two favorite F2P MMOs: Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and Star Trek Online (STO). I enjoy them both tremendously, as I think both have created compelling stories and fun content based on their respective universes, so I decline to vote one over the other (though frankly,…
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Guild Wars 2 is great, so why do I not love it?
I picked up Guild Wars 2 when it was on sale at Amazon over Christmas, and have played it for a good few hours. I’m impressed by many things about the game, yet I don’t feel drawn into it and am not too compelled to play it. It’s an attractive game, and has a number…
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