Friday, 5 April 2013

The Super Adventure Box

So it would seem that the angels at ArenaNet have heard my comment about losing touch with our "gamer roots" and have implemented something called the Super Adventure Box. I'll keep the description simple: within Guild Wars 2 is an honest-to-goodness RPG... No, I don't mean you're chucking d20's at each other screaming "Lightning Bolt!".
They've inserted something that reminds me of the days of playing the original legend of zelda, complete with block graphics and a pointy stick to dispatch the lego-esqe crown-wearing cobras and dog-faced bees. The reward for running through the nostalgic three levels (if the enjoyment of smacking lego mobs around with a stick wasn't enough) is a new "game style" weapon skin players can apply to their current equipment. If my words aren't enough to sell it, see for yourself!


Tuesday, 2 April 2013

How to train your dragon prophet...

So about a day ago I decided to take a look around at some of the "new blood" coming into the gaming scene. By that of course I mean upcoming games. And while I have a few issues with games supported/created by SOE I think they may have FINALLY hit the mark with this one Dragon Prophet. A free to play MMO based around, you guessed it, Dragons.
Character development is apparently based around the 4 available classes (ranger, sorcerer, guardian and oracle) and capturing/training some of the 300 different dragon species in game. While this doesn't take the bitter feeling of losing the WKC2 servers in June it may stave off the encrouching boredom.