Posts made by Alamias

@Rinel Ah, so I am not the only one reading the book at watching the show at the same time! Though I am almost done with the book and just started watching the show, so I think I am way past season 1 as far as TV show goes just by finishing book 1.

@Testament said in Worst Games:

Two Worlds is pretty horrible. There's actually a trick or glitch that you can beat the end game villain right in like first half hour of the game. Once you do, the game rolls to credits, which is actually kind of hilarious.

Personally, I'm going to say Elex. It suckered me in with a cool concept, and depressed me with horrible controls and really really bad voice acting.

Oh good, I wasn't the only one suckered into that one.

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

I had the chance to work for Blizzard in 2006. I did not take it. I do not regret it.

See, I don't think 2006 was a poor era for Blizzard. WoW was still in its infancy but defying expectations, and things were Getting Done at the company. Once you hit the years around Cataclysm's development and Diablo III, though? I do wonder how things changed.

My reasoning at the time was not wanting to mix what I enjoy in my free time and what I get paid to do.

Not bad reasoning. I still have feelings of anger and/or sadness when I go and try and play Everquest or any of the other SOE games.

I may have only been a web developer there, but I touched just about if not every single website that SOE did for 16 years. I loved that place, and when it was sold to become Daybreak and the incoming investment firm laid off 40% or so of the company (including me because highest seniority = highest paid = get the fuck out for our bottom line) it broke me for a bit.

I still miss it.

@Lisse24 Hot lemonade with honey and a splash or two of whiskey.

I tend to play from my desk and/or laptop primarily, using BeipMU (swapped over from SimpleMu, and wish I had done it a long time ago.)

On occasion, I will log in on my phone using MUDRunner, but I don't tend to try and RP with that.

Having worked for a video game company for almost 16 years, there are things I really miss about it. Then there are things I don't. SOE wasn't nearly as bad as EA, but it still had its share of problems. Still, I wouldn't have left by choice, I loved it there.

EDIT: Well, that doesn't work as well when this is the first post of a new page...lol. Ah well.