Recent Comments:
MAG releases Interdiction expansion {Massively}
Jun 24th 2010 9:23PM It's much more of an MMO than CoD or Halo. It's faction based, features leveling and talent "trees" and 256 player battles have a "massive" feel. I'm not saying it's a true MMO by any means, but it is definitely an MMO/Shooter hybrid.
And clarioncaller, my goodness what a "whingy" thing to say. I should post every time there is an article about a game I don't play...
The Anvil of Crom: Family unfriendly {Massively}
Apr 26th 2010 3:28AM I think the point of this article is that the tone and narrative of your experience is mature - the player experience is geared for adults. And by "mature" he doesn't just mean boobs and violence. There is certainly plenty of that, but R.E. Howard's desperate struggle of Barbarianism versus Civilization has been wonderfully adapted by Funcom in AoC.
The only other game with as strong a center in literary lore is LotRO - also, I would argue, a serious, and obviously lore-centered game. Tolkien invented "High Fantasy" and Howard invented "Sword and Sorcery." S&S is by its nature, a bit bloodier, a bit more pornographic, and a bit "pulpier." Funcom's version of Howard's world is a really fun place for grown-ups to go.
AIAS nominates Wrath of the Lich King for three awards {WoW}
Jan 26th 2009 10:47PM LoTRO Mines of Moria doesn't make the cut for these awards?
I hope that was based on some sort of release date, because it would reek of Blizz bias.
LoTRO has done EXTREMELY well in the early MMO awards this year.
