I’m dutch nationality …
28. June 2006 von _scout_
… and this is what I get from my colleagues :
Archiv für June, 2006
DDO Trial
23. June 2006 von _scout_
Yepp, I got me a free 7 Trial on DDO *there you go Ogi*. So here are my rough frist impressions of my first couple of hours play.
* Character creation is just like in the old DDO games, stats, classes sound all pretty familiar, the customization looks good, which in total is a good average but nothing special.
* Start – Kinda nice tutorial, pretty short but gives you a hint about how the game will be. I still have to adapt to the controls but besides that it’s okay. Again a good average but nothing special.
* The world – loading into zones and instances. The environment is realy good, all rich and detailed but the game feels a bit “static”. Though a lof of people are running around, it certainly is not like Coronet Starport during PRE CU, those places with their advertising bots and docs buffing and buff lines, where like a real metropolis. Players interacting with other players.
* Gameplay – you talk to an NPC, get your quest, load into it, check the quest goals and then return to the NPC. Though the stories are kinda well written, it lacks something IMHO. It lacks the freeform kind of play I had with SWG mission, how boring those might have been, they left room to fill what was missing with my own fantasy. Taking mission in my guild town in SWG was like patroling and guarding my city, add some more RP players and it’s a lot of fun and way more interactive than just doing quest.
* The quests itself in DDO are as far as I have played some realy nice, some puzzles, some monsters primary and secondary goals – even more fun with a group. Just like going to the DWB with the guild or doing some other high end stuff in SWG. But so far from my side, that’s it. It lacks the immersion “being in that world”, it feels like playing a single computer RPG with it’s more or less static environment and story with friends – I miss building or creating my own saga.
All in all a good game, even better if you are a fan of D&D, but my D&D time is long ago. I’ll gonna play more during the weekend but I don’t think I’ll stay.
Pirates and Bam Lee
22. June 2006 von _scout_
That’s me and since Bam Lee seems to get passed to me over and over again you get it here as well:
My pirate name is:
Iron Harry Bonney
A pirate’s life isn’t easy; it takes a tough person. That’s okay with you, though, since you a tough person. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate’s life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!
It’s almost like a love you never can let go off ..
20. June 2006 von _scout_
Münster
19. June 2006 von _scout_
So I have been to Münster last weekend. Though the occasion was a not so pleasent one, my godchild Lou, Conni and Ansgar had to come to Münster for this weekened. I’d had called Conni on tuesday but didn’t catched her and so she called me back on wednesday. With Satori aka Nenotar aka Dave as well living in Münster this gave me the chance to spend an extended weekend and not just a day in Münster by just dropping at Daves place.
It all went well, well except that I missed one train by just a second, but I arrived on a beatiful day in Münster. With her other godfather living as well in Münster we all spent two very nice days, considering the occasion. We have been playing a lot in the sandbox and Lou definitly hit the 120 dB(A) loudness level.
At Daves I must say, he lost his mind. His roommate is as screwed up as he himself and they both multiply eachother into the infinite, which is … very exhausting. Two martial arts wannabee geeks in one appartment = lots of martial artsbooks, stuff, equipment, food, …. geekness. Anyway it was a hell of a lot of fun to see Dave again and to get to know his not less geekiness roommate. Not that they are even close to as good as these but that’s definitly what they are aiming for.
For more details just call me 
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So with having said or written that, here are todays link:
And for the console freaks something forwarded by solarkaine
"All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs."
14. June 2006 von _scout_
F13.net – those who reported first about the NGE
“All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs.”
All. They claim they have a model now to develop an MMOG in 3 years for $50 million. WoW cost 50 million euros and took 4 1/2 years.
Hu Chuan Pai Kung Fu
12. June 2006 von _scout_
I just graduated to the yellow belt in Hu Chuan Pai Kung Fu.
It was okay, I could have been better, wasn’t that good prepared, at least in my opinion.
Kicks okay, blocks and punches okay as well. Stances mediocre, to quote yesterdays movie (Lethal Weapon) “I’m to old for this job.” Arm locks, okay as well but my self defense was … well pretty messy. The attack was a pretty simple straight punch and I had the freedom to choice “what ever I wanted” for my defense – and that was kinda the problem. “What ever I wanted” is pretty much, looking at my martial arts history, but on the other hand the time I’ve been practicing martial arts started to slowly sink in some favourits, which are a mixture of what I’ve learned so far.
And that mixture is not applicable. At least I tended to hesitate to applicate it toward my training partners. Sure I could force them but that surely hurt. I mean realy hurt. And that was not the point and it was just a yellow belt anyway.
So, happy me ! Yay! Wish I could cheer, I’m so dead exhausted I can hardly type…. Can anybody cary me to bed?
Ehrensenf
12. June 2006 von _scout_
Ehrensenf very funny show if you don’t know it already check it out.
It’s like a news about the curiousities of the net and the presentation makes it even more funny. I’d would link to the pages they found but you just have to watch the video.
So …
9. June 2006 von _scout_
… many days and hardly an update. Well it’s not that I’m living in the high life metropolis. So far everything is going fine, I’m partially out of work again as in work has slowed downn a bit, but I usually find something meaningfull to do to keep me occupied and if it is just keeping my work bench in a tidy shape.
Oh one thing though, next Monday I’m having my yellow belt test in Hu Chuan Pai Kung-Fu. And another thing that might interest my lower saxony friends: Next thursday is a holiday for me, one of the two more holidays I have here in NRW. Anyway so much for now, I’ll gonna bother some of you per phone during the weekend if I get bored LOL.
Piratebay.org
6. June 2006 von _scout_
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,419892,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,419445,00.html
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