If you’ve played any of the large-scale player vs. player in an MMO, you know what an absurd jumble it can be: a hundred character models jammed together with names hovering above them as if a layer of random multi-colored letters have snowed down onto their heads. Guild Wars 2’s world vs. world battles (pictured) are no exception.
A lot of Dark Age of Camelot players will appreciate how world vs. world pits three factions against each other, often trying to carry away each other’s orbs (owning orbs gives everyone in your faction a health boost), capturing each other strongpoints, and bringing powerful siege engines to bear. Many world vs. world encounters include powerful and expensive golems that excel at knocking down doors. Above is me in a catapult helping a bunch of players in the red faction while we try to knock down a door. It felt a lot like some of the battles I played in Warhammer Online. But it also felt different enough that Guild Wars 2’s world vs. world combat is one of the main reasons I can’t wait for this game to come out.
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I feel a little silly posting about something as inconsequential as promotional wallpaper, but when it’s wallpaper this good, I can’t help it. As you can see above, it’s a bit of evocatively creepy promotional art for Echo Bazaar, a game I’m still playing long after having written a review. Which isn’t something that happens very often. And the cool thing about that wallpaper is that the mood-breaking promotional URL tucks neatly under your taskbar in Windows XP.
This week we welcome Jeff “wumpus” Atwood to the show, only to embarrass ourselves horribly when we fail his basic interview process. But then he embarrasses himself horribly when he references what he thinks is a Bioware game. So we’re all even! We also talk a fair bit of Darkness II, Far Cry 3, the Game of Thrones card game, Rock Band and…well, you kind of have to hear Jeff’s pick for game of the week to believe it.
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I like to shoot things. Battlefied, Call of Duty, Killing Floor, you name it. If it has guns and things to shoot, chances are I’ll entertain myself with it. If it also has regular people dressing up as homeless versions of Batman and the Joker, trying to kill eachother for no reason with guns, gadgets and rollerskates, I’m going to be in love before I even play it.
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