Everquest Next's Landmark Beta
Well, seems that there is already a signup for the winter beta of this nicely looking MMORPG.
Anybody can apply from here.
While the highly deformable terrain looks really cool and kinda like Minercraft, I'm going to let this one pass as my free time is quite scarce.
 
Source: Rock, Paper & Shotgun
Tags: MMORPG Videogames
Warhammer 40.000 news from the 2010 E3 Event
It's just been unveiled: A Warhammer 40.000 MMO. Looking similar to WoW but with more usge of vehicles. Doesn't looks bad according to the first screenshots, or the following teaser video:
Update: Small interview with THQ (company developing the game).
And also, a (Gears of War clone?) action title also, Warhammer 40.000 Space Marine, featuring an Ultramarine as the main character. Teaser video from the E3 also:
While there is already a Warhammer Online game, it's curious the focus on the WH40k setting (Dawn of War II had recently it's first expansion, and more will surely follow) in detriment of the fantasy part. Maybe with the incoming 8th edition rules will the fantasy setting strike back?
Tags: MMORPG Warhammer 40000
World of Darkness MMORPG gets launch date
After almost two years of mutism, at least some news: The World of Darkness multiplayer online game is still under development and will appear on 2010.
Let's hope to see more info and details soon...
Been busy lately...
I've been quite busy lately, with my change of job, some "hardware work" on my house and having small holidays. But now that everything is getting normal again, I hope to be back posting frecuently.
This past weeks I've been reading a lot of comic books, some old ones I already had, some bought either in comic stores or in my small trip to Barcelona.
The three most interesting comic books I've read are this:
A world in which mouses live in a medieval society in hidden cities, guarded from cats and other dangers. A group of guardians, seeking trails of a traitor. A DnD-like adventure, with beautiful drawings.
It was a bit short but I liked it anyway.
Warhammer 40.000: Damnation Crusade
My first introduction to Warhammer 40k novels, in this case a graphic novel. It narrates some battles of the Dark Templars Space Marine Chapter against Orcs and Chaos (mostly, few other races appear).
Drawings are ok (but not incredible), but it reminded me of my childhood painting my Dark Angels miniatures. Narrative is "a-la-Warhammer 40k", super-humans blindly fighting for the Emperor with unbreakable faith and courage.
Comic book adaptation of the great novel. I was impressed of how exact text were. Drawings are in black&white but not bad, and help to transmit the fear and hopeless atmosphere of the story.
Recommended if you liked the novel.
Also, this weekend I took from my mother's house my old Gameboy and all the games I had with it. Among them, was one RPG I started but never finished, The Sword of Hope.
The game is a typical turn based, static screen RPG, with battles like Final Fantasy games. Story is typical, enemies are typical and battles are (typically) a bit too often and boring; You either die almost 100% sure or crush the enemies, depending on your level.
The interesting part is, being as limited as the original gameboy was, how developers put on the game a full RPG. I'm finishing it to see how big it is, but right now this are my thoughts:
- Combat is too simple: Attack or use spells (each level you gain more, usually more powerfull ones), or use healing items.
- Enemies are dumb: Sometimes they fight each other, sometimes they even hit themselves with spells, and there is few variety of them.
- Inventory is quite limited too: Just a maximum of 7 of each item (3 bits of data ;), just 255 gold (8 bits of data ;), you can only buy better armor (and I hope swords too later...), and you usually carry at most 2 or 3 special items.
- Level cap is 31 from what I've seen in the www, and you only have dex., stam. hits, mana and resistance points/variables.
Here are some screenshots:
As I said, the game is a bit limited, but excepting the tiring leveling up, fun to play.
Extra: Just released, the Wow Talent Calculator for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion
Tags: Comic Book DnD MMORPG Warhammer 40000 World of Warcraft
Diablo 3 + info about WoW 2nd Expansion
Wow, what a weekend! I went out this friday and just came back few hours ago to find that Diablo III has been finally confirmed to be in development (and looking fantastic), and more info about upcoming Wrath of the Lich King WoW expansion!
Also, I've been playing with the Spore Creature Creator for a while, and I'll probably add a subsection in this blog with both the creatures I design and the selections I made from other people ones (Sporepedia has at the time of writing this post near 1.3 million creatures!!!).
I know it's not an RPG, but I feel this game deserves a space here :)
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