Category Archives: Random

Not that I wish death often, but here it can’t come soon enough

Posted on January 13, 2010 by SynCaine

I have somewhere around 3000 hours logged into World of Warcraft according to Xfire (most of that in vanilla, some in BC just prior to WotLK), so when someone with 3000 hours has trouble deciding if the screen shot used … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant | 16 Comments

2010: Year of the Tourist?

Posted on January 10, 2010 by SynCaine

Tobold is asking who plans to be a tourist in 2010 (continuing his new adult entertainment blog theme in the process), which got me thinking whether 2010 itself might not just be the ‘Year of the Tourist’, and furthermore whether … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, MMO design, Random, SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 21 Comments

New mouse, Torchlight, DarkFall

Posted on January 5, 2010 by SynCaine

A little collection of random bits incoming. A bought a Razer Imperator mouse recently, due to my old MX518 crapping out, and I must say I’m very impressed. Much like my G15 replacing my old ‘standard’ keyboard, I never thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Diablo 3, Mythos, Random, Site update | 8 Comments

World of Warcraft is this decades Final Fantasy 7

Posted on January 4, 2010 by SynCaine

By now I’m sure many of you have read/seen the Gamasutra top 12 games of the decade piece, which has World of Warcraft at #1. The whole piece is a nice look back at many of the big games in … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Fallen Earth, Random, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments

2010 Predictions

Posted on December 31, 2009 by SynCaine

While I’d love to do an overarching 2010 predictions post, covering all things MMO, the fact that I’m basically playing one game right now and not really following anything else makes that somewhat difficult. I mean sure, I could make … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, PvP, Random, Site update, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 21 Comments

Agro rules: ‘working as intended’ is not working out

Posted on December 29, 2009 by SynCaine

We hear the phrase “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it” often in the MMO genre, and sometimes you have to ask “Do we know what broken is?” I’d like to throw out that I believe mob AI, in particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, MMO design, Random | 20 Comments

A look behind the MMO dev curtain

Posted on December 29, 2009 by SynCaine

I don’t much to add to this post by Brian (Psychochild) Green other than to say it was a great read for someone who is heavily invested in the MMO and game dev space, even if its from the outside … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, Random | 21 Comments

It’s the holidays, go out and gank someone!

Posted on December 23, 2009 by SynCaine

What you can learn about DarkFall from this holiday image from Aventurine: 1: Two people are fighting, three are combat looting, and one is standing around being ‘kind of a big deal’. The best geared guy is doing the least. … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Random, Site update | 2 Comments

Amazing DarkFall Promo Video of Astonishing Wonder

Posted on December 16, 2009 by SynCaine

Now normally my super secret plan to get rich from this blog by pimping DarkFall is super secret, but since I feel like getting a soda at lunch today, go watch this video and then buy DarkFall through the link … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, Random, Site update | 17 Comments

Upgrading to Windows 7 64 bit.

Posted on December 11, 2009 by SynCaine

This post is going to either be extremely helpful, or just show how far my head has been in the sand for the last few years. I installed Windows 7 64 bit a few days ago, and my FPS in … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Random, Site update | 24 Comments