This time of the year tends to be the point where my internal sunlight batteries, which have carried me all the way through winter, finally run flat, leaving me listless and even more grouchy than usual. It’s hard for a game to please me in February, and traditionally this is when I let subscriptions lapse. Breaking up is hard to do, sometimes, though not this year. This year breaking up was right easy.
I’m thoroughly bored of Star Trek Online, and have cancelled the recurring billing. It might look and sound like Star Trek, but it doesn’t have the heart that made me adore the show so much. Kind of like when your beloved gets replaced by a pod-person. They look the same, but deep down, you know.
In search of something new I tried the Fallen Earth trial yesterday, but just couldn’t get into it. Maybe it was the UI, which I found overly fiddly, or the FPS/MMO hybrid nature of the combat. I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with the game per se. It’s not you, it’s me. I’ll probably try again in a few months, if it’ll answer my calls.
So what of the future, as the days get longer, and with any luck it stops snowing all the bloody time?
Everquest 2, that old faithful friend, launches it’s Sentinel’s Fate expansion on Tuesday. I won’t be buying that just yet, as my gaming fund really can’t justify 30 pounds for an expansion right now, and Maltheas has no need for level 80+ content. Game Update 55, which also comes along on Tuesday, will have enough game-changing effects to keep him busy for a while anyway.
I do have a trial for Lord of the Rings Online that I could try at some point. I played it for a couple of months when it was released, and quite enjoyed it, but found the mid-levels to be a bit tedious. I’m told that is much improved now, so quite looking forward to revisiting it.
Finally, Allods Online is entering Open Beta this Tuesday. Well, they call it “Open Beta”, but given that the game is free to play anyway, and that characters will not be being deleted at the end of Open Beta, to all intents and purposes it’s launching. I find the idea of a group sharing duties onboard an astral ship to be far too intruiging to not check out. It is rather what I was hoping would be possible in STO, so I will be very interested to see exactly how it was implemented. Sure, it’s overly cutesy, but maybe at the moment I could do with some adorable gibberlings, and bright colours.
Also, I think I should make a coffee.
Well your more then welcome to come pester me on Snowbourne EU server for Lord of the Rings…
And yes although some of the content has been made more soloable for those not wanting groups, the revamp of the zones has been done and made everything alot better.
Currently leveling up a Hunter alt for myself, but if you do come give it a trial..let me know :)
Playing through all levels to finally get to the Astral Ships… let me be sarcastic, but I don’t think they are worth to bear the rest of the WoWish experience that Allods offers!
You may be right. I’m not a big fan of World of Warcraft either. (Unfortunately. I’d probably get a hundred times more visitors if I wrote about WoW once in a while!) At least it’s free so I can just dip in whenever I feel like it. I’ll give it a go anyway. On limited funds, so free is my best option at the moment.
@ Gizbyt: Thanks for the offer, but my trial is for the US servers, so I can pester my fellow MMO bloggers who are over there :)
Oh Captain Arkenor, you visited the Fallen Earth Wastelands without a hello! I’m there and always happy to offer guidance. It is a sharp learning curve, but I’m sure you’ll be engrossed with the crafting/scavenging system if you give it time. Hope you give it another try sometime, and look me up!
Mo Morvah
Oh no, I’d forgotten you were there!! I wasn’t there for long, I must admit. I might give it another look in the future, but I didn’t really get on very well with the controls.
I agree totally what you said about Star Trek Online. It looks like Star Trek, but it lacks the soul. It was my first MMO, and at first I thought it was the best game ever and a Trekker’s dream come true. Now I’m totally bored with it. Once you reach level 50 there is simply no good reason to play further. The missions are very repetitive, and the PvP are one-off battles that are totally meaningless. Worst of all, at the end of the day it’s all about bragging rights over who has the biggest and baddest ship, not a very compelling reason to stick around. :o( Also, I think STO shows the problems that can arise from the free-to-play paradigm, most notably that the people who fork out the money have the best ships. Anyway, I’m going to try Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hopefully it will be much more compelling.
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