Posted On Monday, September 28th, 2009 By Jay
Continuing with my Things I Like series, I’m going to take this post a little differently. I didn’t like the character introductions on the DAO website. At this point from Bioware, I know that they can write a good story. I know that have some pretty awesome cutscenes. What I want to see is game play footage. And beyond that I want to make sure that the game play footage is worth the 60 bucks I want to give Bioware or will I be waiting for the product to sell for 20 bucks on Steam. Oy!
Here are my reactions:
Does Sex = adult content? Will I have the choice to not mate with the women in my party. Can I just mate with all of them at the same time?
Does blood and violence = adult content?
What kind of moral choices will I be making? *eagerly awaiting the response to this one*
Will it ultimately matter? *damn well better. The choices I made in Mass Effect had little to no effect on the game world.*
Is it a matter of killing or not?
Will the thoughts and feelings of the inhabitants change by way of my actions? Or will NPCs just be missing from the Continue Reading
Posted On Thursday, March 26th, 2009 By Jay
A curious event transpired today. A semi regular partly cloudy day in Upper New York state, regular work conversations, some loud, some hushed. All work related as we approach a green light build.
At work we use scrum. Its not news since many IT companies use scrum in some form or another. What is important is that lately more and more producers are carrying around net books. I recently purchased a net book as well, I love it. For many moons I’ve been requesting the Johnny Lee Setup in each room. I regularly hold conversations with my co workers about the wonders of a touch screen monitor as a white board.
Need to hold a brain storming session? Use the “white board” then email yourself the image or text. Need to organize scrum tasks in a way that doesn’t use a bazillion stacks of paper? Use a touch screen.
The above isn’t necessarily about persistence directly.
Today, a new path was taken. A new branch in the virtual white board space also known as virtual reality was championed. Today, my lead engineer brought up Minority Report. He brought up creating, not using, the virtual 3d interface used by Tom Cruise. I fire off a Continue Reading
Posted On Monday, March 9th, 2009 By Jay
When I think about the rewards that a game like World of Warcraft offer its long term subscribers, often the methods are overlooked by its players. Rewards from World of Warcraft come in the form of items. Always tangible, always taking up inventory space. In fact, the only rewards given by WoW that are not items, are in fact titles! Displayed with pride by the wearers. Such a sight!
It comes as no surprise then that with the introduction of heirloom items that indeed, they are items. Blizzard never disappoints! They scale and allow for a low level character that can’t find a regular instance group to gather necessary equipment. Since the leveling speed has been increased, the lower level areas are almost completely devoid of life. It’s nothing like it was 4 years ago. I would suggest anyone that began WoW post Vanilla, IE BC or Wrath to try an mmo they find interesting when it launches. I wonder if the denizens of Shattrath or even Hillsbrad ever get lonely? Remember those times when you spent countless hours at those locations? I certainly do. Those two locations were densely populated for roughly 2 real world years! I bet they do Continue Reading
Posted On Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 By Jay
Tonight is going to be exciting! Tonight from 8:45 est pm until our raid night concludes I will twitter my thoughts and experience on this site.
Bring on the fun times!
Posted On Monday, February 23rd, 2009 By Jay
That’s right folks!
As a social experiment I’m going to twitter during my raid time. With that in mind, starting at 8:45 EST PM Tuesday and Wednesday I, Green Text on Black will twitt. Why might you ask am I twittering? Excellent question! I was inspired by Tony’s blog post about twittering on Zappo’s website. I figured why not! WoW has a great community and live posting seems an interesting social experiment.
Disclaimers:
I play a Disicpline Priest
I don’t really know how to use twitter
Follow me here or @GrnTxtOnBlk
I am well geared.
I will not be sharing my guild name
I will not be sharing my characters name
With a little work, you can already find all that information
Here’s looking at you twitt!
