I cancelled my Vanguard subscription a few days ago, I’ve rarely been playing in recent months anyway. Despite the flaws, Vanguard had kept me entertained for for about four months of intensive gaming and then some, which is more than the combined time I spent during my three stints in EQ2 and about half the time WoW managed to keep me interested. [...]
0 Comments »I’m not sure what makes me keep coming back to games that I have played and rejected before. I gave EQ2 three tries. I hated Vanguard during beta, yet I gave it another try at release. Back when I played DAoC, I quit the game only to return a few months later. Now it’s EVE Online. I [...]
6 Comments »Tehatamani is a level 45+ zone with an ancient Egypt style theme. It’s one of the three or so areas that currently pass for high-end content in Vanguard. Some really cool stuff is going on there, but it too makes use of one of Vanguard’s most overused time sinks: the faction grind.
The associated quest line revolves around gaining rank with the [...]
I’ve been a longtime Fallout fan. I must have played through each of the two Fallout games half a dozen times. The first Fallout game has been one of the defining gaming experiences for me, only surpassed by Everquest.
Recently, Fallout fan-site Now Mutants Allowed managed to get their hands on an early tech demo of [...]
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0 Comments »I’m not going to bullshit you with worthless phrases like “the game has potential”. I don’t care about Vanguard’s potential, you don’t care about it, nobody cares. A game is either worth wasting your time on or it isn’t. It’s binary like that. Besides, whatever potential Vanguard might have, it’s going to take a whole hell of a [...]
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