Vitamin Dei

I have room for both text and voice in my gaming. Clicking away at the keyboard lends itself much more to an immersive roleplaying experience, while voip is the preferable fit for reaction-based online gaming and just casually grouping up with friends and talking about all the cute boys in science class.

If that's your thing.

The victim of an experimental digital media protection scheme gone horribly wrong, college student Nora McAfee was twisted into the living embodiment of Rights Management, digital and otherwise. Now when she finds herself within range of a five bar wireless signal, Nora is compelled to act under orders from the mysterious RIA'An. Fighting to regain some semblance of normalcy in her life, Nora McAfee is the fearsome Feature Creep!

Aw, bittersweet news. I loves me some Sera and hate to see her leave, but I'm very excited for her new opportunities.

Also, petitioning for this WRUP to be renamed "The End of a [S]Era.".

I'll be here all weekend,
Dei

Like Blah, my first MMO was Phantasy Star Online. I played that game for countless hours, running through the same four zones killing predictable, slow-moving mobs, collecting loot and being endlessly one-shotted by Dark Falz (let's hear it for Grants!).

I played only RAcaseals because hey, pretty robots. I'm not sure anything has really stacked up to my first MMO experience, and I tend to look for shades of PSO in just about any MMO I play these days.

Playing this weekend: TF2 as usual, Fallen Earth, Modern Warfare 2.

You broke my heart, 'Fredo!

Hopping into the Global Agenda free trial a bit this weekend and putting it through its paces so I can decide if I want to take advantage of Amazon's weekend pricing on the game. I'm still largely without a "home game" as far as MMOs go, lately. Keeping the usual eye on CO and dipping my beak into whatever I have the opportunity to.

Aside from that I'll be teasing myself with the Modern Warfare 2 free weekend on Steam and jumping into some other multiplayer online gaming sans the massively. Y'know, MOs.

Microsoft's Game Room has tapped into my brain's OCD centers, so I've been spending a lot of time with Centipede, Asteroids, and Astrosmash. Which is weird, I know. I can't seem to stop chasing the carrot on the stick, though. I'll also be doing my part to control the zombie population in L4D and L4D2, and will probably bounce around CO a bit as well.

Sunday is work, and Easter is a whole lot of that.

Oh, I wasn't trying to make any definitive statements about available homosexual romance options in games. Just iterating my romances in each, if any. My female Shepard romanced Liara, and my female city elf rogue romanced Zevran. I opted out in the others.

Think of the children.

When I was just a lowercase dei, and a very self-aware, frightened, and distinctly different flavor of queermosexual than what our school's GSA was working so hard to champion, roleplaying was a safe haven for me. One of very few. It allowed me to express some aspects of myself that I was still becoming comfortable with in a safe, intimate environment around a table with friends. And pizza. The pizza was very important.

Sexuality can be as critical a part of how we perceive ourselves and our characters as gender, ethnicity and social standing, and only allowing for us to go as far as "Sexings? [ ] Yes [ ] No" in worlds as alive as the ones BioWare has a reputation for creating is beginning to ring false. Give players the option to create something that they can completely identify with on every level and just make sure that getting to it is deliberate enough that the folks on the far ends of the Kinsey scale won't trip over it by accident and have their delicate sensibilities offended. It might mean the world to someone. Everyone else can ignore it.

For the record:
KotOR: None
ME: Liara
DA:O: Zevran
ME2: None

Sorry to have spoiled it for you, Mewmew!

I have some pretty strong feelings on the tradition of news sites reporting false information on April first. Now, granted Massively probably did this as classily as could be done in that they didn't report false information on anyone else or their products. Am I huge curmudgeonly jerk? Maybe, but I like to think that I'm not... I'm just really not a fan of the way the April fools tradition has translated into the internet and news in general.

I totally think it has its place, like in my games, on my voicemail, the windshield of my car, in a flaming paper bag on my doostep.... I just don't love it in my RSS feed. But hey, I guess I'm in the minority. Sorry again to have ruined anything for you.