Archives for Jul 21st, 2012

The Mog Log: The zone design of Final Fantasy XI

by Eliot Lefebvre (Jul 21st 2012 4:00PM)

Gustaberg is one of the ugliest zones in Final Fantasy XI. For better or worse, it's a bunch of bland plateaus swarming with vultures, worms, and bees. It wasn't a visual treat when I first saw it, and the years have certainly not been kind. But the fact of the matter is that even after several y...

The Tattered Notebook: EverQuest II's Antonica public quest

by Karen Bryan (Jul 21st 2012 2:00PM)

EverQuest II's upcoming Qeynos revamp brings many new changes, but one that runs the risk of getting overlooked is a new public quest in Antonica. It's not necessarily a surprise that a low-level PQ would be added, since there was one in the Commonlands after the Freeport revamp. But I actually d...

WRUP: Everything peaked when I was first exposed to it edition

by Eliot Lefebvre (Jul 21st 2012 10:00AM)

Using the extremely scientific process of what I'm pretty sure is true, I've determined that the apex of everything coincides precisely with the first time I was exposed to something new. That means that the best video games were the ones I played when I was first exposed to the idea, the best mu...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a fallback MMO?

by Brianna Royce (Jul 21st 2012 8:00AM)

My first fallback MMO, though I'd not have called it that at the time, was Ultima Online. Whenever I got sick of EverQuest or Dark Age of Camelot, I found myself wandering back to my houses in Britannia. World of Warcraft took over for a while, and then Star Wars Galaxies (yes, post-post-NGE) bec...