Oh man I got the shakes. I can’t get into the game:

I can’t get in to play my level 13 mercenary. Oh the humaity!

So I was telling you about all the fun I had playing Dark Age of Camelot. And I was saying how I joined a guild. The guild I joined is called the Acolytes of Destruction. This is my first experience with being in a guild and so far it’s a lot of fun. Farooq is the guild master and he’s a nice guy to play with. I’ve played with Ivory (by proxy), Chevco, Necromantic, and Edaresh. Every one of them are fun to play with. I have fought and died with all of these guys. Here are a few screens (1152×864):

So if you play DAoC and you play on the Bors server drop in and look me up. Or if you play on Bors and your in Albion and your looking for a guild stop by Friday from 8:30pm est to 9:30pm est at Prydwen Keep where the guild will be recruiting new members. Stop by and tell them I sent you.

Well my addiction to Dark Age of Camelot is getting worse. I recently put some major hours into playing my character. I even have joined a guild. Me Mr. Anti-Social is playing well with others. I am starting to see the benefits of playing with others.

The guild makes it even easier to get a group going. And while you can play DAoC solo. Grouping is more efficient. When you group you get bonus exp based on how big your party is. I made two level in one sitting.

My bad ass Turk the Mercenary is now level 10. And 10th level is when you really start to get going. I can use chain mail and have the ability to dual wield weapons. Geek stuff? Yes. But I’m having a blast. I have a dilemma though. I get to give my dude a last name now, exept I have no idea what it should be. When I get home I will slap up some more screen shots.

Well the good news is I have kicked my Everquest habit. The bad news is I’m addicted to another mmorpg. This one is called the Dark Age of Camelot. This one just went live a week ago or so. It’s fun. And it’s not like Everquest. Here are a few snaps of the game:

New game, so that lets me have my moniker I use here. Which I was happy about. It’s a little more friendly to the people who want to go out on their own. I happen to fit into that anti-social group. I have to get ready for work, but I will be talking about this some more.

Well I went and picked up the Everquest Trilogy and a Everquest Game Card. I’ve been doing nothing but play Everquest since yesterday. It is slightly addictive if your into this kind of hack and slash rpg type game.

Here is a shot of my pathetic Level 5 Warrior named Raethdar:

I couldn’t get any names that I wanted. They were all taken. So my dude is Raethdar. A few time I forgot to respond to people talking to me because of my kinda gay name. I don’t really know if I dig this Everquest thing yet.

It’s kind of like how I feel about Enterprise. That new Star Trek show, that doesn’t have the words Star Trek in the title. I will be watching it tonight. I just don’t like the singing in the opening music. Time will tell if it’s any good.

I played the demo of a game called Operation Flashpoint today. The only reason I loaded up the demo was because I saw that Best Buy had it on sale for 29.99 and I have been in a kick for 3d graphics. After playing the demo I went and bought this guy.

Wow. It is a cool game. It’s kind of like Rainbow Six and games of that ilk. But its a tough game and it has great graphics. It’s hard to explain what the game does. So here’s what Tycho from the Penny Arcade had to say:

I’ve been scared nearly to death. I’ve played plenty of games where I have to shoot guys before guys shoot me, that natural axiom is (by now) staid and familiar. Before Operation Flashpoint, I’d never truly meditated on my actual mortality as I took fire. Never thought about the recipients of my fire as human beings. I’ll probably get better at the game itself, but for now I’m a nervous wreck when shit starts to go down. It’s absolute chaos. Half of my squad had been cut down before I reached the forest, and when I got to the cover of those trees I crawled on my belly and just tried not to die. [Read More]

That’s how I felt playing it. The back of the box says “as close to war as you ever want to get” and it’s right. And man this ain’t no Quake style game. You take a few hits and it’s game over. If you dig military sims this just may be the game for you. I have a lot of practicing to do.

I continue to enjoy my new computer. I’m running into some time management related problems though. For example, I work the next couple of days. Yet I have been getting little sleep because I have been playing on the new computer.

I also have a back log of PC games I have to get to now that I have the PC to run them. This is another example of not having enough time. Tons of games. Baldurs Gate 2, Tropico, Deus Ex, Red Alert 2, Black And White, Kohan, The Sims, and probably a few others I have yet to play.

I mentioned Max Payne a few posts ago. Cool game if you get into that kind of thing. The graphics are awesome. You do need a hefty system to run it. I will put up some shots of it in action later.

To those of you interested in the inner workings of the site. I have switched from Newspro to Coranto. Newspro was the cgi script I used to use. Coranto is the new version of Newspro. Coranto is more flexible and easier to modify. The comments thing is gone. Not to many people used that feature anyway, I think it’s cool. Coranto doesn’t have a working comments add-on yet. When it’s released I will use it.