Well, I'd considered unistalling to make space for Dragon Age, but then I got an email that sealed the deal.  Apparantly I've been banned for "hacking."  Considering that I haven't played in a week and never even modded the game, much less used a hack, I can only assume that my account was hacked and used for nefarious purposes.

Its just as well, ( Read more... )

I've been following the coverage of The Old Republic MMORPG that's due out sometime this year, and I'm starting to get nervous.  Increasingly, I'm wondering if TOR is going to boil down to just being World of Warcraft with lightsabers.  The most recent thing that made me wonder that was when The Old Republic opened up pre-game guild creation.  A ( Read more... )

With my trip to the past just over a week away, I've opted to reduce the number of Dominions 3 games I'm playing in and declined a few opportunities to replace them.  I did add two more games, but I could have been in more.  That puts me down to only five active games, so here's how many of the games I was in last time ended for me and what the ( Read more... )

"2 Days, 4 Hours, 36 Minutes"

And so, with no one showing up at all last night, it appears that the This Means Worg experiment is coming to a close.  For all that I didn't play much at all outside of our Thursday nights, it came as a surprise to find that good old Nachtjager had more than 52 1/2 hours of gameplay, almost all of which was playing ( Read more... )

Games of Great Import (to me), Concluded

"Knights of the Old Republic" - 2003

We've moved into the period of time covered by this LiveJournal.  Not that my entry about KotOR had much to say, consisting as it does as two sentences followed by a discussion between myself and clockwerkdragon  about Final Fantasy X-2.  I really didn't play much in the way of video ( Read more... )

So, a couple of weeks later, how are we doing?  (It may be of value to look at my first Codex entry, to see where all these games were when I started logging them.)

Nimbys, Turn 86

In twelve days, we've played five turns.  That's because, as with most games in the end game, its gone to a 48 hour clock.  My turns, however, have been reduced to one or ( Read more... )

"And we're back!"

Having missed a week due to virus troubles, I was back in the game, somewhat refreshed by the week off.  All the active This Means War players were available, though Amata (who is in another guild) was not.  Nevertheless, that did let us score the Guild Run achievement on three of the five dungeons we rolled through.  We hit, in ( Read more... )

Games of Great Import (to me), Continued

"Sword of Aragon" - 1989

This was one of the first PC games I ever played, and while it had been released in '89, I didn't get my hands on it until the summer of '91.  Though mostly a strategy game, Sword of Aragon had a surprising amount of RPG elements.  Your units leveled up, and you could equip them and re ( Read more... )

For some reason, people seem to be getting retro- and introspective about games lately.  Rock, Paper, Shotgun, for instance, is doing a five part series called "The Very Important List of PC Games."  Gamers With Jobs has "The Games that Made Me the Gamer I am Today."  The Escapist is....talking about vampires, actually.  So it's not universal, I ( Read more... )

"In the beginning, there was chaos."

I've decided, purely for my own amusement, to start a log of the various Dominions 3 games I'm playing in.  I play through Something Awful, and keep track of my game status through the Goon Game Service.  To get some detailed information about the nations, units, and spell I'll be referring to, there's a ( Read more... )