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Comment on The Secret World: Kingsmouth Part 1 by pkudude99

pkudude99 — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:20:12 +0000

Chaos / Blade starting? Most excellent! My “main” uses Chaos / Blade as my main solo spec. Has good damage and wonderful survivability with the various passive skills I’ve got slotted in too.

I was gonna link my chronicle, but it looks like I’m in my AE farming build right now instead, which is Blade / Shotgun. Oh well.

Comment on Everquest Next: Rumor and Speculations May 2013 by The Secret World: Kingsmouth Part 1 « Ogrebear's Thoughts

The Secret World: Kingsmouth Part 1 « Ogrebear's Thoughts — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:11:53 +0000

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Comment on Rift, why can’t i love you? by Everquest Next: Rumor and Speculations May 2013 « Ogrebear's Thoughts

Everquest Next: Rumor and Speculations May 2013 « Ogrebear's Thoughts — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:55:22 +0000

[...] next content, those keep me in the game. Looking at my own blog, i reached 50, 3 day later i made my last post about Rift and quit. Why did i quit, well i had reached the end of the content (quest) that was keeping me [...]

Comment on Its been awhile by pkudude99

pkudude99 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:36:56 +0000

Same boat here. RL has gotten extremely busy, so on the rare occasions I am able to play anything, I still may need to hop up at a moment’s notice, so MMO’s haven’t appealed to me at all. I’ve mostly been playing Civ5 since it’s turn-based and I can just leave it sit if necessary.

Comment on Couldn’t get in to Morrowind by ogrebear

ogrebear — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:41:39 +0000

I would recommend you get skyrim when the GOY editions comes out. (It still 59.99 even a year after it come out). And there now 2 big expansions (and a small one where you can built your own house). Its very very very well done. There are a few story line quest, but there a lot of exploring and random quest all over the place. It one of thouse games that i’ve put in about 200 hours, and haven’t explored everything, and i haven’t got bored of.

Comment on Star Trek Online Login Queue is broken by Marc

Marc — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:06:21 +0000

I’m having the same problem. God damn cryptic please get it together I pay to play because I love the game, I buy zen points to keep you alive. Fix this!!! Can’t find anything about this on the forums or on the support pages. I want to know what is going on!

Comment on Couldn’t get in to Morrowind by pkudude99

pkudude99 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:33:51 +0000

Something about the TES series is a little weird to me. I *loved* Morrowind, but felt overall that the base game was merely a good hook for all the player community’s mods. I liked the freedom of the world and how there was a ton of stuff to do without following “the main story.” I never even got around to starting that main story quest line until I’d had the game about 6 months, and it took me 3 or 4 aborted attempts before I finally finished it on some character. I don’t even remember which one, actually — I made so many different concept characters. Pure mage, pure fighter, little bit of everything, House Telvanni with this one, Hlaalu with that one, this one does he Dark Brotherhood, this one doesn’t, and on and on.

But even with all of that, if it hadn’t been for the mods that made things make a bit more sense (small aggressive rats that charge you from 100 yards away. Seriously?) and remove some annoyances (yes, I’m looking at YOU cliff racers!) I doubt I would have enjoyed the game as much.

As a result, when Oblivion came out, I held off to wait for some mods to be released to correct what I figured would be the inevitable mis-steps Bethesda made like they had in Morrowind. And from all the word of mouth, yeah, they did, to the point where it was a semi-consensus that certain mods were *required* in order to really play the game. And as such, I never bought Oblivion.

Same with Skyrim. I’ve heard much better things about Skyrim overall, but nothing that really made me go “Dang, I want to play that now!”

Now, I’ve signed up for the TESO beta, but don’t really care if I get in or not.

Comment on Which Star Trek Online Classes to pick by Yashamalu

Yashamalu — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:30:42 +0000

The biggest problem of all is that the TAC+Escort is simply overpowered!!! In PVE/PVP the guy that gets the kill is always TAC+Escort. For the players of the same experience level, one escort alone can easily tear at least two ships of other classes up. So you would see how absurd it is to witness a 50-crew little ship tearing up a 2500-crew cruiser!

Comment on Starting out in Morrowind by Ogrebear

Ogrebear — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:15:17 +0000

I’ll have to give that one a shot.

Comment on Starting out in Morrowind by pkudude99

pkudude99 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:07:01 +0000

Get the “Better Bodies” mod and it fixes the character models’ crappiness right up. IIRC, there’s a “Prettier People” mod that includes the “Better Bodies” mod as well as a lot of better facial textures that make everything look way better, but it’s been so long since I’ve played Morrowind that I’m a bit fuzzy on that.

Before long you’ll probably be looking for the “Cliff Racer Remover” mod as well. Just sayin. . . .