Addendum to GW2 at Comic-Con

A few items that escaped my memory when I made my last post, some of which may have limited interest outside of my husband and myself: As soon as I spawned in the world as a Norn, I promptly ignored my Personal Story and killed a few minotaurs. When I did, I found I could [...]

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Guild Wars 2 at Alienware Mobile LAN Tour Impressions

Bless the Alienware Mobile LAN Tour. I don’t know how it managed to escape publicity, but the benefit was all mine, as I was able to demo Guild Wars 2 a bit more than I’d expected. I even left to see about getting some SW:TOR playtime in, saw the line stretching around the block, and [...]

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Guild Wars 2 Weekend

Thanks to ArenaNet, who did indeed hear my plea to make Guild Wars 2 demos available to the ticketless this Comic-Con weekend, I will be in San Diego engineering it up on Saturday. Or elementalisting it up. Or necromancing it up. I really am not sure what I’ll decide to play faced with a brand [...]

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In the “looking a gift horse in the mouth” category…

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful. Really, I don’t. The Catacombs dungeon cinematic was a thing of glory, and I reveled in watching 8 minutes of dungeon combat, artfully filmed by ArenaNet and showing off a dazzling array of abilities. But one thing I’d really, really love for ArenaNet to do is a dungeon walkthrough, [...]

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Stop Reading Our Minds

Just the other day, Mr. Randomessa and I were discussing the methods of sharing personal storyline quests in Guild Wars 2 based on the previously-revealed information that said that if I chose a particular path in my storyline and my husband joined me on my quest, he would get karma for helping me, but his [...]

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Revisiting Games I Would F2P

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we? Among my list of games I would play if they were F2P, one just joined in on the fun, and the other will be there by fall. We are at 50% saturation… come on, WAR and Vanguard, you know you want to. So, 15 months after [...]

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