26 March 2009

Seeing Stars

Well I have found out how amazing Little Big Planet is! My time recently has been spent running around in a pirate outfit and carring a wooden sword :) If anyone is playing LBP check out my first created level Seeing Stars, its a simple one but it was fun (and a bit frustrating) to make it. I hope to build more complex ones in the future, but man there are some amazing ones out there.

If anyone else has levels they want to promote send me a comment and I will publish them on this blog.

21 March 2009

Life changing events.....

Well, I have hit the time in my life where MMO's are going to have to be put on the back burner. I have not logged in to WAR in about 2 weeks and have no desire to do so. There are many things going in to this decision. (edited) Secondly is my play style. I really enjoy playing Warhammer but I have a tendency to be shy dealing with other players. This has caused me not to get to attached to the social aspect of the game. I have been involved in two great guilds but have not participated enough to get any level of community.

For everyone who is still playing I hope all the new content is amazing and I might log on again to see what its like. I still plan on continuing this blog but its focus will change to general video gaming among other things.

All the best!

06 March 2009

WCPI, Dark Crag Dispatch

Before I head out of town for the weekend I though I should give another recommendation to a great blog. The Dark Crag Dispatch is a blog that looks at many different aspects of the Warhammer Online. They have some interesting points and opinions about what is currently going on. Take a look and I hope you enjoy!

05 March 2009

A Dwarf is born.....


No, its not a slayer. I have decided that my first alt will be a Dwarven Engineer named Innis. As much as I want to try a Slayer I wanted to try an engineer more. I was partly influenced by a former guild mate of mine, Lorient. When our old guild fell apart, he joined a guild of just Dwarf Engineers called short fuses and was having a great time. So I rolled a engineer and got the offer to join the guild, its been a blast so far. The fuses area a great bunch of ale drinking Dwarfs that just seem to enjoying the game.

So if you are a Dwarf engineer on Volkmar and want to join a guild of free drinking, grenade throwing, greenskin killing Dwarfs... well just look us up!

Also if you are interested in playing Warhammer Online I have yet to offer up my trial passes. If you are interested send me an email at CDNDragoon@gmail.com, I will give mine out to the first three requests I get.

03 March 2009

WCPI, Werit

I just started reading Werits blog and like what he has to say. He recently wrote some good points about server balance on his home server. Wondering if Mythic will ever get around to offering buffs to the constantly defending side like they proposed to do. I also liked reading his post on the RvR Finale on PTS he took part of and the bits and pieces of EvE blogging he offers up as well.
The fact that he is a Dwarf Engineer (my new alt) is just a little bonus. So check out his blog and say hello, you just might like what you find.

01 March 2009

Female characters in WAAAGH!!


This has been a hot topic over the last couple of weeks with the two new classes coming out. I find it strange that there are so many classes that are gender specific within the realm of Warhammer Online.

I have played a fair share of MMO's over the last 6 years starting with SWG, and have had the opportunity of gaming with lots of great people. Some of the more influential have been female players and I cannot understand why Mythic would short change them on character selection. I understand that the lore does not full support female characters in certain rolls like the Chosen or Slayer, but there have been cases where in some books they have made an appearance. What I don't understand is that Mythic can create a completely new character class, the Disciple of Khaine, and not have the ability to expand the role of female players within the Warhammer universe.

I can appreciate not wanting to corrupt the original idea of Warhammer, but in this case when you create a virtual world the players need the ability to make it their own. For now though, all the ladies out there get to chose for barley clad Dark Elves and a few other classes on the destruction side. I know the Greenskins are fungi but they are a version of the all boys club if you read almost anything that they say, so its hard to count them as a non gender race. The Order side is more balanced between the sexes, minus the Slayer. Everything evolves over time, this game is not the same as it was at launch, so maybe the option of expanding female roles would give this game an even larger fan base to draw from in the future.

There are lots of great blogs and podcasts out there on this subject. I just though I would put my two cents in. I just think that when you are creating a world this big and in depth, you sometimes have the let the players decided the outcome and perhaps create a some new lore along the way.