Geldon
August 6, 2008
01:53
I’ve decided to make the jump from geldonsgaming.blogspot.com over to WordPress.
http://dsob.wordpress.com/
The reasons are severalfold, but mostly have to do with my disliking the inability to...
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August 5, 2008
01:59
My one and only political rant this upcoming election.
Driving across the Main Street intersection today, I noticed that there was a well-dressed man waving on the street corner with a sign in his...
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August 2, 2008
19:57
After only about a year and a half of the game being released, I finally got my hands on Final Fantasy XII - the solo-play PS2 game after the Final Fantasy that was a MMORPG. I guess FFXII still...
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July 31, 2008
19:17
Like out of some kind of cheap summer horror flick, it is upon us like a ravenous monster threatening all of gaming kind. No one knows where it comes from or completely understands the nature of the...
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July 28, 2008
05:57
Lately, I ran across a thread in The Escapist Magazine forums: "Most suicidal moment in gaming that actually worked." Therein, the poster proposed that people compile a list of awesome game...
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04:13
I enjoyed the movie Wall-E, it's one of those Pixar movies that manages to tug the heartstrings of kids and adults alike. Plus, the quality of the computer graphics are so mindbendingly good that I...
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July 27, 2008
01:51
In a sweeping bit of spontaneity, I decided to register for the forums over at The Escapist Magazine and I rather like what I see over there. Unlike my own forum (which I'll probably ask to have...
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July 24, 2008
21:58
I was feeling in a slightly MMORPG-ish mood, so I took EverQuest 2 for another spin before my free trial ran out. I had forgotten just how beautiful the game was. Once you get over the squat...
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July 23, 2008
21:39
My latest major changes to this Blog have been to cut down on this:
Mentally, of course.
Basically, by writing about whatever I was playing lately, I fell down a slippery slope. I was writing...
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July 22, 2008
18:40
"The World Ends With You" is indeed proving to be a pretty solid Square-Enix title. I'm not going to bother writing out a whole review about it, but I will mention a few features I found cool:
They...
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18:36
The fat of this Blog has been rather savagely trimmed. No longer will you see entries here that serve as a sort of journal of what I've been playing lately. Not unless it's a game that I think...
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07:00
I've mostly been trying to figure out if there exists a character in which I can enjoy Neverwinter Nights 2 with lately. You won't see many entries on that because I saved them off-Blog as drafts --...
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06:52
06:49
Grand Theft Auto 4 has created quite a bunch of hype, and I suppose that's relatively justified, as it is indeed a thoroughly entertaining game. However, contrary to it being a GTA thing, I'm...
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06:47
The semester is not quite over yet, I'm down to a finals week and two fairly hefty assignments to finish before then. However, it seems I've some rather awesome games to play now and in the near...
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06:43
Back when I used to hang around forums, I'd often get in disagreement with pundits who feel that Real Money Trade (the trading of in-game items for real money) is the way of the future.
To an...
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06:41
Not everything I have to say is new. (In fact, I imagine that just about everything I've written is going to seem old to somebody.) However, a lot of what I write here are significant things in the...
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06:41
For the most part, I'm enjoying Sins of a Solar Empire, but I can't help but notice that there's not all that much to it.
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Your typical 4X Genre game is usually a game of...
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06:39
I ran across an interesting Internet phenomenon today: "Grow Games." Before I knew it, 2 1/2 hours of my life were gone.
This solution video would rob you of the challenge if there was one.
The...
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06:34
An interesting tangent on a post I wrote up today lead to writing it into a Blog entry because, after all, truly interesting tangents are something I need more of around here.
Here's the scenario:...
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06:34
Lately, if I give my mind sufficient idle cycles, it may meander over to matters of social commentary in ways that only high gas prices and an upcoming presidential election can.
Considering how...
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06:33
Okay, it's actually called Champions Online, but it's functionally everything Cryptic wanted to do with City of Heroes if they were remaking it. From their features page:
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06:32
We're reading Writing for Multimedia and the Web in class, and suddenly it's all about computer games. Holy crap, I can hardly believe this, this well-rounded liberal education I'm paying for has...
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06:28
Recently, I noticed that the PC Demo quantity had been drastically cut and thought that it was finally the PC gaming end times. After all, I had noticed earlier that there's few-to-no PC games in...
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06:26
Yesterday, I downloaded MAGI, a shareware PC indy game. The premise is that you're an magic user strengthening yourself for a confrontation for the day when Death comes to claim you. The actual...
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06:22
When the alt-a-holicism reaches such a fevered pitch that I can't even get a character to level 5 without feeling bored out of my skull, it is then that I know my City of Heroes burnout has reached...
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06:21
I decided to start a new segment of my Blog I call "hack music". I have purchased a copy of Ableton Live LE because it makes music creation easy enough that even a relative hack like me can put...
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06:20
Looks like I'm going to enjoy my Monday classes, which span Digital Diversity and Electronic Literature subjects. Both classes have put me in a mood to avoid homework take Grimwell's advice and see...
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06:20
So anyway, something that hit me the other day is that the primary reason I tend to stick with City of Heroes is that you can build heroes who are truly influential in battle. When I say "truly...
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05:55
I suck at this. Maybe you do too. However, there's a lot more to it than I once thought.
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Try counting from 0 to 10 to 0 again, slowly, with each count happening each time you breath out...
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03:52
I've come to believe there are two main aspects to be found in a good Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game:
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Aspect 1: A MMORPG has to be an entertaining game.
This is a...
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July 21, 2008
19:15
A lot of people like to suggest that willpower is 100% mental and you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps in the worst condition. They're dead wrong. We're only mortal, and our our bodies are...
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July 19, 2008
08:15
I've achieved pretty much nothing in terms of NWN2 development, as it seems I've really no interest in playing that game right now. For that matter, a first taste of Phantom Brave and Dragon Quest...
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July 18, 2008
07:53
Well, a day has passed and not much progress has been made towards my Neverwinter Nights 2 module. I pretty much spent the day watching TV and playing a bit of Sacred: Gold... the Dwarf is fun, I...
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July 17, 2008
01:15
Before I once again dump Neverwinter Nights 2, possibly never to pick it up again, I'm considering taking a run at the editor. I'm not completely new to NWN2 development, having familiarized myself...
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July 16, 2008
01:26
Ah, so begins another week between me and Fall 2008 semester. The temp agencies have been informed of my availability, and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt they're going to contact me this...
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