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Bored out of my mind

So I cancelled my Star Wars Galaxies sub the other day because it stopped being fun. I completed the entire legacy chain quests and things started feeling like a grind after that. Not to mention the awefull grind you have to do in order to unlock the ace pilot tier box.
I don’t regret the two month [...]

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Why Age of Conan is not my cup of thea

Okay, so in the previous post I told you about the fact I started playing Funcoms freshly released massively multiplayer game, Age of Conan. I also said the game did not meet my expectations, and in this post, I’ll try and state why it didn’t.
First off, this is my very personal opinion. So if you’re out [...]

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Star Wars Galaxies: Return to the game

Never thought I’d return to the game. Not since SOE destroyed it years ago.
But, I have to be honest, the current dev team did a fine job and made something nice of it.
If you’re into funny comics, take a look at the work of Greep Newbish.

Some other of my favorites: Clicky 1, clicky 2, clicky [...]

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Why PC game ports never work

As an avid PC gamer , and an occasional Wii sports (bowling) player, I’m not shy to say I definitely don’t like (hate?) PC game ports. Nowadays, a lot of games get released on consoles first, and ported to the PC afterwards. Usually that means the game looks, feels and plays … euhm how should [...]

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