“In this particular dungeon, there is a boss that can turn you into a cow.” All I need to hear, game of the year every year! My first moment of experience with booting up the Project Gorgon early alpha was reading a note warning me that bosses in the game can inflict curses upon … Continue reading “Alpha Matter: Project Gorgon”
The RPG community is one that is constantly challenging itself to complete games in new and unconventional ways. We’ve talked about this before on Dungeons & Dragons Online, where some communities institute perma-death, deleting their characters if they die. As unofficial challenges, of course, participation is completely based on the honor code. There is no … Continue reading “Ironman Mode Considered For RuneScape”
Turbine’s Senior Producer has posted an announcement on the Dungeons and Dragons Online forum announcing that due to player feedback and internal testing, the price of Heroic Hearts of Wood will be greatly reduced when Update 20 goes live. Additionally, players will still be able to purchase Hearts of Wood from the Twelve barter NPC, … Continue reading “Turbine Responds To True Heart Criticism”
MMO gamers are hardly strangers to in-game protests. We’ve seen plenty of protests in games like RuneScape, Aion, and more over everything from updates to lack of communication and more, the removal of a mechanic or the reintroduction of one that had been removed. The size and efficiency of said protests ranges based on the … Continue reading “Player Protest True Heart Update In DDO”
This is more of a question to the roleplayers out there. When you create alternate characters in an RPG, do you ever connect them together in some fashion or do you prefer to keep their stories separated? Have you ever connected characters across multiple games or genres? If you have, you already know how fun … Continue reading “MMOments: Character Relations”
As a critic, I can’t get enough of the action combat and battling against iconic creatures from Dungeons & Dragons. As a fan, I’m creating many quests and campaigns with the foundry. As a reader, you probably figured out a long time ago that I’m reading from the news page. Cryptic Studios recently announced that … Continue reading “Neverwinter’s Double Diamond Dash Dismantles D’Servers”
In case you hadn’t noticed, we are in what is essentially Neverwinter Week here at MMO Fallout. This week’s Community Concerns goes back to the actual community. In this case, user Shroom Mage over at the MMORPG.com forums gave a great explanation as to why Neverwinter, despite some complaints from gamers, is still a Dungeons … Continue reading “[Community Concerns] Truth To Source Material”
Like most of you, I’ve had my silent preconceptions about Neverwinter. After all, we’ve had two past releases from Cryptic to look at and base our assumptions off of, and I’m happy to say that most of them will be proven wrong. I enjoyed Champions Online when it launched and, seeing as how I have … Continue reading “Neverwinter: Getting A Beta Perspective”
Raptr is a gaming service similar to Xfire, that tracks time played, achievements, and occasionally offers some great reward coupons including in-game items and coupons for peripherals and other game items. To obtain the rewards, players simply have to reach certain levels of play on a set list of games. Last week, I mentioned that … Continue reading “Raptr 50% Off TERA Coming Soon”
Pathfinder Online has been featured here at MMO Fallout several times, mostly to discuss the more hardcore routes that the themepark/sandbox hybrid would like to take. From old Everquest corpse runs to bounty systems and everything in between, Pathfinder is the dream of some well known names in the gaming and role playing businesses. From … Continue reading “Kickstarters For You: Pathfinder Online”
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