As the title of the post makes obvious, this was a very slow gaming weekend. I messed around a bit in Call of Duty 4, working toward getting my gold AK-47 (I have no idea why I want one) and spent an hour or so in World of Warcraft leveling up my mage to level 39. I need to have several twinks because I get bored to quickly with just one or two classes to pwn with. Right now I just have my druid and my warrior. I need more!
I noticed in WoW that there was some kind of festival going on, the “Midsummer Fire Festival” I think it was. I didn’t really get involved because the rewards for the holiday events are usually just trinkets that I’d never use but there was a nice effect that came along with it, just for being near the festival grounds (in my case Arathi Highlands) I got a nice damage bonus of 360 fire damage to all of my spells, well a 30% chance of the bonus anyway which hits pretty often considering how many spells I put out there. So at least the festival helped hurry my twink mage along nicely. I made up 3 levels in about an hour and a half on Sunday to reach level 40. I should have this guy complete with gear hopefully in a week or two.
Other than that I think I maybe shot one round of golf in Shot Online and spent the rest of the rainy Florida weekend watching movies with the exception of a few hours of sunshine, enough for me to sneak out to the beach with the wife and my daughter. But, as chance may be while sitting on the beach we talked a little about WoW, since I’ve gotten back into it. My wife will sometimes watch me play but hasn’t really gotten into the MMO scene herself yet. She used to be addicted to the Sims and wants me to find a game that is more like that we can both play. With the option to build fortresses in Age of Conan, I was kind of hoping the devs may include the ability for players to own land and build houses in the future but that is looking pretty bleak, besides she nor I really enjoyed AoC – she got up to level 5 before she stopped. I trudged along a little further before I finally gave up on the game. She’s watched WoW and actually likes the look of the game over AoC, but still doesn’t like the game play.
Her favorite question, “Is fighting all you do in the game?”. Well, no not really. It is a lot of what you do but there are some non-combat quests and some pretty cool things to explore – but ya, mostly combat. We need a game out there with more potential for a wider audience. There are some games out there with good combat for the guys and good social traits for the girls but not really any that mix the two very well. Star Wars Galaxies was the closest one I’ve seen but that one unfortunately bombed. We need a new MMO that can be combat oriented but with some total non-combat roles people can play that are fun! I’ll be looking out on the horizon for the answer but don’t have one quite yet. Anyone know of anything like that coming soon or better yet, already out?
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