Badger
Watcher
- Joined
- October 18, 2006
- Messages
- 36
Mornin/ afternoon/ evenin folks (Please delete as appropriate.)
Firstly.. "Adam & the Ants", it's an "Adam & the Ants" reference and it's just struck me that as many of you are from across the pond and as many others might not even have been born, you might not have got it and so it might not be the best title choice. But it is a pertinent one as you shall see…
I've been getting together with CM for many years, to play weekly sessions of various MMO's. Over that time we've been to many strange and alien lands and seen things you people wouldn't believe! We've seen moonbeams dancing off…. no, sorry, I'm falling into quoting films now and that won't do at all!
Suffice to say that we've done all the major tours in that time. We've smoked dubious looking pipes with Elves in WoW, we've asked Frodo whether or not it's safe in LotRO. We've got thoroughly confused in the space lanes of Eve, danced next to the Wompa's of Anarchy and spat in the face of evil in D&DO.
We've followed the well trodden paths of loads of others, too many to think of off the top of my head really. But right now we're scrabbling for something new to play. This is where you might be able to help?
This is all my fault of course. Cursed with butterfly mind syndrome I have tended to be the driving force behind suggestions for new games to try, only to abandon them just as poor old CM is getting comfortable! She does well not to say bad things about me I think. (She isn't is she?…is she saying bad things about me?? you'd tell me right?)
Thing is… I want something different! Is that really so much to ask for? We're playing F2P MMO's at the moment because I don't really have the cash to spare for a monthly sub just now. But all I seem to be able to find are WoW clones and shed loads of these cheap and nasty far eastern affairs.
A couple of years back we tied "A Tale in the Desert". (I almost said "dessert" then. A Tale in the Dessert would be something quite different.) I'd never heard of it before and at the time I thought it was really refreshing! Here was a game which was all about creation instead of destruction. A game about cooperation with your neighbors instead of PvP.
True to form though I was soon getting itchy feet. I started to begrudge the lack of firearms on the list of things you could create in Ancient Egypt. I had no problem finding the blueprints for a Sheep pen or a spinning wheel, but hard as I tried I was completely unable to find the blueprint for a prototype Uzi! This was unfortunate as I was pretty fed up with visiting our next door neighbor and "borrowing" his Bees. I was increasingly getting the urge to shoot him, steal his Bees and generally run amok in his vegetable garden!
The thing with "ATinD" though, was that as a concept it was something I'd not seen before. I tried "WURM" (Any of you tried that?) which kind of had a similar crafting ethic to it, but with a little PvE (and I think some PvP) thrown in as well and on paper it sounded good. But in practice it was too glitchy, primitive and non newbie friendly for me to get anywhere with.
The thought I keep coming back to though, is that there HAS to be other titles like these out there that I've never heard of. Something a little different, something that will tick all the boxes, scratch the itch, stop my infernal wanderlust!
I can't be seeing all that there is to see, these tepid lists of clones and islands of tedium in a sea of mediocrity can't be all there are to find!
I hear it on the grapevine that the residents of MMOWatch, have to put baskets over their heads so that the sun can rise! So hopefully then you can dazzle me with whole lists of brilliant suggestions of places to which we can boldly go, where no Badger (or CM) has been before.
Badger
Firstly.. "Adam & the Ants", it's an "Adam & the Ants" reference and it's just struck me that as many of you are from across the pond and as many others might not even have been born, you might not have got it and so it might not be the best title choice. But it is a pertinent one as you shall see…
I've been getting together with CM for many years, to play weekly sessions of various MMO's. Over that time we've been to many strange and alien lands and seen things you people wouldn't believe! We've seen moonbeams dancing off…. no, sorry, I'm falling into quoting films now and that won't do at all!
Suffice to say that we've done all the major tours in that time. We've smoked dubious looking pipes with Elves in WoW, we've asked Frodo whether or not it's safe in LotRO. We've got thoroughly confused in the space lanes of Eve, danced next to the Wompa's of Anarchy and spat in the face of evil in D&DO.
We've followed the well trodden paths of loads of others, too many to think of off the top of my head really. But right now we're scrabbling for something new to play. This is where you might be able to help?
This is all my fault of course. Cursed with butterfly mind syndrome I have tended to be the driving force behind suggestions for new games to try, only to abandon them just as poor old CM is getting comfortable! She does well not to say bad things about me I think. (She isn't is she?…is she saying bad things about me?? you'd tell me right?)
Thing is… I want something different! Is that really so much to ask for? We're playing F2P MMO's at the moment because I don't really have the cash to spare for a monthly sub just now. But all I seem to be able to find are WoW clones and shed loads of these cheap and nasty far eastern affairs.
A couple of years back we tied "A Tale in the Desert". (I almost said "dessert" then. A Tale in the Dessert would be something quite different.) I'd never heard of it before and at the time I thought it was really refreshing! Here was a game which was all about creation instead of destruction. A game about cooperation with your neighbors instead of PvP.
True to form though I was soon getting itchy feet. I started to begrudge the lack of firearms on the list of things you could create in Ancient Egypt. I had no problem finding the blueprints for a Sheep pen or a spinning wheel, but hard as I tried I was completely unable to find the blueprint for a prototype Uzi! This was unfortunate as I was pretty fed up with visiting our next door neighbor and "borrowing" his Bees. I was increasingly getting the urge to shoot him, steal his Bees and generally run amok in his vegetable garden!
The thing with "ATinD" though, was that as a concept it was something I'd not seen before. I tried "WURM" (Any of you tried that?) which kind of had a similar crafting ethic to it, but with a little PvE (and I think some PvP) thrown in as well and on paper it sounded good. But in practice it was too glitchy, primitive and non newbie friendly for me to get anywhere with.
The thought I keep coming back to though, is that there HAS to be other titles like these out there that I've never heard of. Something a little different, something that will tick all the boxes, scratch the itch, stop my infernal wanderlust!
I can't be seeing all that there is to see, these tepid lists of clones and islands of tedium in a sea of mediocrity can't be all there are to find!
I hear it on the grapevine that the residents of MMOWatch, have to put baskets over their heads so that the sun can rise! So hopefully then you can dazzle me with whole lists of brilliant suggestions of places to which we can boldly go, where no Badger (or CM) has been before.
Badger
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2006
- Messages
- 36