Comments | rowyn: "Has Anyone Seen My Corpse?"

rowyn

"Has Anyone Seen My Corpse?"

May 09, 2008 14:54

I don't remember now if I've done this before or not. Terrycloth was talking about playing EQ2, which reminded me of all my EQ war stories. These are not just gaming stories, no. These are "When I was a kid, we walked uphill for ten miles in the snow to get to school, and WE LIKED IT" stories.

Then koogrr encouraged me to reminisce, so blame him.
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pyat May 9 2008, 20:33:37 UTC

I really wish I'd gotten into MMORPGs when I was a bachelor. Though, come to think of it, I was spending all my time in RPG web chats anyway, so... um.

Cool story!

rowyn May 9 2008, 20:43:08 UTC

I started playing text RPGs on Sinai while I was still playing EQ. I've lost touch with everyone I met in EQ, but I'm still friends with most of the people I met on Sinai.

I may not regret EQ, but I'm really glad I did the text RPGs. :)

terrycloth May 9 2008, 21:26:40 UTC

I played EQ when it was new, too, although I didn't keep with it for 3 years... maybe 6 months ( ... )

rowyn May 9 2008, 22:38:31 UTC

Oh man "CHOO CHOO! CLEAR THE TRACKS!" How could I forget the trains? I remember hearing "Train to zone!" the first time we went into Blackburrow, and looking at Lut. "What?"

And then we saw the ginormous pile of overlapping gnolls rushing the towards us.

When Lut and I had 50ish characters, we went back to Blackburrow once for an evening, just to buff and heal newbies and derail trains

I don't think I ever did kill Holly Windstrider, the 50ish ranger NPC that would roam the hills and swat down anyone who was fighting a wolf or bear -- including people who'd been attacked by rabid ones and were just trying to escape them. But I *really* wanted to.

You're right, I exaggerated. You could outrun things in EQ sometimes. It was just *hard*.

And on the quest:

OwowowowowowowOW. :( I refused to do most of the really noxious quests that involved tons of grinding and camping rare spawns. Eyugh.

koogrr May 9 2008, 22:57:37 UTC

Even I've heard of "Train to Zone!"

There's a "Wooo-Wooo" noise in WoW, from the /train emote. I have to wonder. I thought the mobs in WoW chased, they at least have a leash range.

I've got the "Has Anybody seen my Corpse" MP3, just to pretend.

rowyn May 12 2008, 03:37:47 UTC

I need to download that again and put it in iTunes. :)

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tuftears May 12 2008, 19:27:08 UTC

Ah, gaming 'war stories'. };)

rowyn May 12 2008, 19:32:32 UTC

Doesn't it make you want to share yours? >:)

tuftears May 12 2008, 19:52:21 UTC

Dunno, most of mine, at least as far as WoW goes, are private because I don't want to share the tribulations of trying to get a guild alliance running, there's a lot of politics involved. }:P

On the other paw, we did finally get Vashj down! Last week Monday in fact, but the one that counts for me was Saturday 'cause that's the one I was on. Pretty tight kill - it demonstrated that we earned it honestly, we didn't just get lucky.

One of my favorite WoW gaming moment: sneaking into the Caverns of Time before they had officially opened it... You had to jump around on the debris until you found just the right spot to drop down, and then we padded down into the huge, huge area, with the whirling asteroids and stars all around, wondering what amazing things would be found there someday.

Just two words sum up why I pretty much stopped playing CoH and only come back now and then: cave missions.

On the other paw, CoH does have the best costume design system evahI'd probably talk about Mirari and Mutant Chronicles more if in a room with ( ... )