Everyone has a fighting chance
Last time in this review in parts, I realised that I needed a flight stick. Fortunately I happened to have one buried in the house, left behind by my brother. Maybe I’ll invest in something a little more fancy, but it did the job. It finally made me feel like a pilot, like I was competent. I went from viewing each docking with a mix of fear and dread to hotdogging them. From fitfully trying to slam my ship onto the pad and pray to gliding in on pretty fine vectors if I do say so myself.
Last week, MMORPG.com looked forward to 2015 and what Guild Wars 2 would bring. This week, I’m going to go in the opposite direction and talk about my favorite pieces of content from 2014. How do they match up with yours?
This past weekend the crew behind Trials of Ascension did a live AMA where they covered a lot of information that hasn’t previously been discussed. While the AMA was being streamed, it felt more like a developer play session that it did an AMA. The reason I say this is because the developers talked among themselves more than to the audience. But that’s not a bad thing. As the discussion progressed they delved deeper into topics at hand, instead of providing simple short and concise answers.
It has been many years since I last sat on Santa’s knee or wrote a letter to make sure he’d know what gifts I wanted him to bring. Although I’m not inclined to do either ever again, I haven’t forgotten the seasonal tradition of listing my wishes. This year, as usual, I can enumerate quite a few things I’d like to see within the MMOG category. There are far too many to consider discussing them all, so I decided to limit myself to a manageable selection.
From December 26 to December 31, Age of Wushu is offering a 10% bonus to gold top up and rewards for every top up.
Nautical MMO Uncharted Waters Online is postponing the post-holiday blues with a 20% off sale in the Astro Shop on 6 different packages.
Akitoshi Kawazu, creator of SaGa 2015 this week revealed to Famitsu a handful of details regarding the upcoming Vita RPG, including open-ended gameplay and multiple heroes.
In preparation for the upcoming Year of the Ram, FFXIV is holding another Heavensturn event Wednesday, December 31 to January 14. During this "changing of the heavenly guard," players will be able to take on the "Lions for Lambs" quest, thus winning their own sheep-ish headgear and pet, among other things.
In late October I wrote a column that was an attempt at humor. In it I listed the top 10 reasons to look forward to the Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft. Now that Warlords has been out for over a month I want to go back and take a look at how much of my humorous list actually holds up under the stress of use.
Another year has come and gone, and with that flurry of levels and experience points goes many of our most-wanted RPGs finally delivered. 2014 was a good year for roleplaying games with the likes of Dragon Age: Inquisition leading the pack but 2015 looks to be downright spectacular. We here at MMORPG have spent a lot of time discussing this year’s games, but with New Year’s Eve fast approaching, let’s look ahead to what next year has in store.