Cray C and upcoming MMOs

Before the blog was darkness, and possibly the Cray C project. I did put that on an indefinite 'hold' until I could guarentee completion! Unfortunately, I looked at my schedule in the long run, and I was too busy to put the necessary effort into editing,commentating,rendering,uploading. After that, you'd add the "finishing" touches. Links in the description, thumbnails, etc.

I do indeed have 5-6 more videos stored on my hardrive collecting dust, but again, it's more for the viewer's sake not mine. I know from experience how much it sucks when you start watching a video series online to find out they're just going to stop making them. (For example the Roleplayin' machinima).

I'm still part of the game, and I 'contribute to it' with semi-active blog posts and wiki edits.

It's worth contributing to the community as a whole, especially for me, as while I'll try SW:TOR, GW2, and TSW, I'll still play Age of Conan whenever it suits me. It's not an addiction, but more a love for a game. You always go back to the classics once in a while. In the most recent Letter of the Month, Sil' lays out the AoC survival plan, and it's looking pretty grand. Plenty of endgame content and major improvements to make life better for the players. Look out though, as the upcoming MMOs haven't come here to play! (ironically enough)

Anyway, next post I might as well resume my last chain-of-thought and talk about Solo Progression in AoC, and if it's viable or not!

Roleplaying? Roleplaying?!!11

I briefly mentioned in my last post that I was working on a RP story, and it's an old project of mine! I am not the kind of guy that usually roleplays, but one night I got pretty much owned by every caster class out there and that ended in me jumping on the train wagon!

I am a writer myself, and my mind couldn't help but wander as I played around in Character Creation. I saw that all the caster classes had to be Stygian (this was pre-RotGS) and they all had to end up in Tortage. "Unusual" I said to myself. Additionally, I made two of the three female, as I didn't have any female characters from before, but to have everyone of them be female was a bit too much, so I let the Necromancer be a male character.

Then the story kicked in like it usually does in my head; "what if... these ladies were all looking for the same guy; The Necromancer! oh OH! Even better - Let the Necromancer and the Demonologist be lovers, and the Tempest of Set be the malevolent ex-wife looking for revenge like the crazy b**** in the Blues Brothers movie. oh OH! Even better - the two failed a secret pagan ritual which left them scared on the island of Tortage. The Tempest was asked to track them down, something she whole-heartedly agreed with for the three were acquainted."

Now, the two ladies are strangely alike, appearance-wise, and in terms of magical abilites, but their personalities are two opposites. They are both hunting this one man, but one does so for love, and one for revenge. This makes the grind a bit more meaningful, they're all actually scouring Hyboria for a reason. In retrospect, I wonder if I should flesh out the "ritual" part more, and perhaps make it so the two female characters are one and the same, but the ritual split the Necromancer's lover's soul in two; one benevolent, one malevolent. the Necromancer is looking for a way to free his lover of this curse, while the two women are trying to track him down for two opposite reasons bla bla.

Now it was a project, and one put on hold since the Expansion did come out now so long afterwards, and I decided to focus on one Character. They're still there though. Ironically the Necromancer is only level 17 (while the other two are 40'ish) because of the Cray C Commentary project.

More on that later!

The Aftermath of Turan

So the Savage Coast of Turan has been out for a good month now, and overall I think it's been a positive addition to the already vast game that is AoC. I've always said Khitai was just what the Age of Conan needed, and seeing yet another flavor added to it is always nice.

That said, my review was a all-around positive one, and I did not mention that they did indeed make it unavailable even for Premium Subscribers till they bought it. That caused a fair share of controversy! I at first thought it was a big no-no to the Premium Subscribers, because the game did change their subscription philosophy to "1-80 is free, everything else must be bought, but become a premium subscriber and you'll get access to everything for 12 bucks a month" kind of deal.

Still, it's normal to pay for expansion packs even as a premium subscriber, and the Savage Coast of Turan was just that - but simply labeled "Adventure Pack" as it was a smaller expansion, and consequently CHEAPER. It costs 10 bucks to buy the necessary Funcom Points for the Adventure Pack, way cheaper than your normal expansion pack. So looking at it from that standpoint, I'm really not that bothered about it.

Still, I recommend getting a second view on it, one that comes from another blogger. head over here, and read Slith's honest opinion about it - That guy's been doing a lot of reviews and walkthroughs lately, and I can tell he's an honest chap. 

Enough Turan Talk for now, my future posts will probably be about the normal Cray C stuff. Currently fleshing out my casters' RP stories. Why? I'll elaborate on that in my next report.