Category Archives: Random

Torchlight 2 > Diablo 3? And Shining Force on the iPhone!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by SynCaine

First off, today’s amusement comes from people thinking Torchlight 2 won’t stack up well to Diablo 3 because the original Torchlight only improved on Diablo 2 slightly. If Diablo 3 improves on Diablo 2 as much as StarCraft 2 ‘improved’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Console Gaming, Diablo 3, iPhone, Random | 17 Comments

In no way MMO related, but…

Posted on August 4, 2010 by SynCaine

Street Fighter vs Tekken (using the SF engine), AND Tekken vs Street Fighter (using the Tekken engine) announced? Mind.Blown.

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Darkfall Community Q&A2 Answers

Posted on August 4, 2010 by SynCaine

Paragus received answers to his community Q&A and has updated his MMORPG blog. A bit thin on solid details in some areas due no doubt to the DF2010 expansion not having its major details revealed just yet, but readers can … Continue reading →

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MMO Golden Age, death of Xfire, and a LoL Blog-o-Sphere champion?

Posted on August 3, 2010 by SynCaine

The MMO Golden Age: Justin Olivetti from Massively asks whether people who missed the early (golden?) days of MMOs regret it. A few people have commented that early MMOs were much rougher than the games of today (shocking I know), … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, Mass Media, Random, Ultima Online | 14 Comments

It’s been three years already?

Posted on August 2, 2010 by SynCaine

And this blog turns 3! Actually it turned 3 years old a few weeks ago, but that whole getting married thing prevented a timely update, so this one is a little late. 3 years is a rather crazy length of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aion, Blogroll, Civilization Series, Darkfall Online, EQ2, EVE Online, Inquisition Clan, Random, Site update, Warhammer Online | 11 Comments

Maintaining gaming momentum

Posted on July 30, 2010 by SynCaine

I find that momentum is a very important aspect to playing an MMO for a prolong length of time, and it’s also very difficult to maintain, especially when RL forces a break. It’s also something that is equally influenced by … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Inquisition Clan, MMO design, Random, Site update | 10 Comments

RealID, SC2, F2P EQ2, and why LoL does F2P right

Posted on July 28, 2010 by SynCaine

Taking a quick break from the Darkfall-related posts today to cover a few different topics. I’ve got a cold that won’t go away, which could explain my overly positive view in things. Or that’s just me, Mr. glass-half-empty-and-whats-left-is-likely-terribly-anyway. You have … Continue reading →

Posted in DDO, EQ2, Inquisition Clan, MMO design, Patch Notes, PvP, Random, Rant, RMT | 13 Comments

League of Legends

Posted on July 6, 2010 by SynCaine

The latest Inquisition craze is League of Legends (LoL), a F2P game from the makes of the extremely popular Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft 3. LoL is in many ways DotA 2.0, build from the ground up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, PvP, Random | 10 Comments

Eschalon Book One aftermath

Posted on June 23, 2010 by SynCaine

Yesterday I mentioned finishing Book One of Eschalon, and now that I’ve finished the game I want to write about it a bit more and also talk about its sequel. I finished Book One with just over 20 hours players, … Continue reading →

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One too many gaming options

Posted on June 22, 2010 by SynCaine

Having too many games to play might seem like a silly thing to stress over (it is), but man can it be annoying/frustrating/great all at the same time. Between Darkfall being about as exciting as its ever been (with an … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Civilization Series, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Random, Site update, Wizard101 | 7 Comments