{"id":5870,"date":"2011-04-22T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2011-04-22T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:55:36","slug":"vanguard-doesnt-feel-a-day-older-than-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/22\/vanguard-doesnt-feel-a-day-older-than-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s MMO Vanguard doesn&#8217;t feel a day older than three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"5870\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vanguard_double_xp.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vanguard_double_xp.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vanguard_double_xp\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vanguard_double_xp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vanguard_double_xp-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For no particularly good reason, several of us will be jumping into an ancient Sony MMO called Vanguard, a relic from the ancient days of yore known as &#8220;2007&#8221;.  Sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/vanguard.station.sony.com\/isleofdawn\/\">a free 14-day trial<\/a> and post your character name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/game-talk\/showthread.php?t=64466\">here<\/a> to join us.  Furthermore, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.station.sony.com\/vg\/posts\/list.m?topic_id=55446\">a bonus experience point weekend<\/a>, so what better time to get started than now?  And stay tuned to this space for a game diary in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>When it was released, I reviewed Vanguard for Computer Games Magazine.  It was a collaborative review written with Kelly Wand and editor Steve Bauman.  They made fun of me for liking it as much as I did.  Well, who&#8217;s laughing now?  Okay, they are.  But who&#8217;s playing again Vanguard four years later?  That&#8217;s right.  Me.<\/p>\n<p>And lest you think Vanguard is just another MMO, well&#8230;you&#8217;re only partly right.  It has a hearty combat system, varied character classes, a cool collectible card game to model diplomacy, some of the most interesting crafting you will ever do, and a pretty well realized and expansive world.  And with only a single server for the US, it&#8217;s not nearly successful enough that you won&#8217;t be able to find the other people who happen to be playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sony&#039;s MMO Vanguard doesn&#039;t feel a day older than three - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/22\/vanguard-doesnt-feel-a-day-older-than-three\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony&#039;s MMO Vanguard doesn&#039;t feel a day older than three - 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