I thought a lot this week about my 2009 games of the year, as I saw gaming sites all over the internet posting their lists in various different formats. I was going to skip the whole thing, because I did not want to be a “me too” poster. Then I took a pause today and remembered this site is not for anyone else but me, and I a post about my thoughts on 2009′s game is something I would like to read later. And thus I bring this post.
How this works is I am going to list games that I have memories of , along with a bit of commentary. This is not a best of list by any means, just me thinking back on the year. It’s also not in any particular order.
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MrAnderson Games, Musings Aion, Champions Online, EQ2, Free2Play, Games, Lotro, MMO, Runes of Magic, World of Warcraft
Today marked the official launch of Runes of Magic; a free to play MMO that looks a lot on the surface like World of Warcraft.  I am not about to start a debate about how good RoM is or how it compares to WoW, I am just saying the developers made it a point to make RoM feel a bit like WoW.   Of course while it looks like WoW, it is not WoW and has several game mechanic differences some of which I have listed below:
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MrAnderson Free2Play, Runes of Magic Free2Play, MMO, Runes of Magic
I have had a bit of writers block this week, even though there has been plenty to chat about. I guess I just have not been able to gather any subset of my thoughts up into a cohesive chunk. So instead, since this is my blog and I can make up the rules, I am just going to jot down some thoughts on several topics.
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MrAnderson Free2Play, Games, LOTRO, World of Warcraft, tv Dollhouse, Fringe, Lotro, MMO, Patch, Runes of Magic, tv, World of Warcraft
I am trying to continue trying out some of the Free MMORPGs that are available; giving them all some time so I can have a better idea of what sort of games are out there. This week I finally got around to trying out Runes of Magic. More on it a bit further down the post, but first…
I need to admit I have played as much of Perfect World international as I initially wanted to. I had ever intention of giving this game several hours and enough to get a good understanding of what the game outside the “newbie” area is like. Alas though the lissues I have with the controls make it really hard for me to play the game. For the record the main issues are:
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MrAnderson Free2Play, Games Free2Play, MMO, PerfectWorld, Runes of Magic, Wizards101