Up to a couple of days ago, I’ve been neglecting EVE and focusing on Fallout 3 and the DLC’s. I finished the main quest, The Pitt, and Operation Anchorage. I’ll probably buy Fallout New Vegas when it appears. The most attractive pre-order option for me is the GameStop one with the vault 13 paraphernalia. It brings back the good old isometric Fallout 1 days.
July 12, 2010
March 8, 2010
What is this Allods thing?
Recently, my sister mentioned a game called Allods Online. It’s an MMO which recently went into open beta. The revenue model is based on an item shop. Sadly, the game doesn’t run on linux. Apparently, the “Starforce” protection scheme they use, presumably to stop cheating, won’t work with wine.
Playing Allods Online
February 23, 2010
Gaming Without Other People
I’ve been playing Dragon Age Origins a lot recently. It’s a really fun single player game. I’m a bit put off by the game information which gets uploaded by default, but the settings are easy enough to change. For now, I am enjoying single player games more then MMO’s.
Why would anyone play single player games now?
February 8, 2010
Dragon Age on Ubuntu
Just a quick note. After a lot of puttering around destroying my current wine settings, I finally got Dragon Age running…. by following the instructions… The only thing I had to add was dotnet 2.0 so the module loader would work. I’m using wine 1.1.38 with the pulseaudio patches (pulseaudio is not needed). If you try to get Dragon Age running, I suggest using a different WINE_PREFIX as many settings are incompatible with other game settings.
December 27, 2009
Ubuntu 9.10, Pulseaudio, and Wine
This will be a short post about getting Wine and pulseaudio to work together on Ubuntu. Pulseaudio is a sound system which aims to consolidate all of the various sound interfaces into one generalized interface. I’ve never paid much attention to pulseaudio except to be annoyed when it doesn’t work and rip it out. Ubuntu 9.10 makes this harder since the ubuntu-desktop package depends on it.
Getting Wine to play nice with Pulseaudio
My New Christmas Toy
This year for Christmas, my wife got me an Acer Aspire AS8940G-6865. I immediately set about installing Ubuntu 9.10 and all of my games.
Read more about Ubuntu on an Acer AS8940G
December 6, 2009
I don’t have ADD, I really don’t!
The other day I got home, finished dinner, and rushed to my office to play either Perfect World or Runes of Magic. After sitting there for a few minutes, I couldn’t log in. There was no problem with my account. My brain was refusing to allow me to play. I haven’t logged in for more then 2 minutes since then. I now seem to have some spare time. Some will be used for my wife and some, I’ll use to finally learn javascript and maybe finish that mod_js project I started working on before I got lost in MMO-land. Some day (maybe soon) I’ll probably get back to MMO’s, but for now, I’m burned out on them and I should do something else.
November 30, 2009
Perfect World MMO on Linux
Perfect World runs without a hitch on my ubuntu laptop. It’s a free to play (with a cash shop) MMO with a base in chinese mythology. The game has a martial arts movie feel to it with unrealistically high jumps and crazy combat sequences. The realm servers all seem pretty active and the people seem friendly and helpful. If you’re interested in an MMO with an eastern feel, Perfect World may be worth a go.
November 9, 2009
How is RoM Different from WoW?
Below the fold, I will be talking about the Runes of Magic dual class system, the item shop, and housing. These are things which are different or missing in WoW. I won’t talk much about upgrading weapons, which is entirely different then WoW because I haven’t tried it yet.
The Fold (read on)
November 4, 2009
Runes of Magic is Still Interesting
Now that I’ve been playing Runes of Magic for a while, I figured I’d share my thoughts about the game so far. Currently, I am leveling a Mage/Priest (mage 20, priest 15). When the mage is the primary class, I do an amazing amount of damage. The priest side does less damage, but feels more survivable.
Why am I still playing RoM?