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Sunday, January 12, 2014

PantheonRotF (PantheonRotF) on Twitter

Guess who is back, besides me?

Brad McQuaid.

If you you have spent the last 10 years gaming, or if you follow the MMORPG universe (Massively Multiplayer On-line role playing games) then I am sure you have heard the name. If you haven't, well let me enlighten you.

Brad McQuaid is a video game designer who was the key designer of Everquest, a very successful MMORPG released in 1999, that set the standard for many games that followed. Everquest was a hate/love smorgasbord of adventure.

Talk to any Everquest veteran and you will probably hear about corpse runs, spawn camping, how huge the world felt, how immersed they would feel, the trains and did I mention the corpse runs, for several it was a true adventure.

For many Everquest fans, Brad McQuaid was a “Superstar”, but even a superstar can have a bad day.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, 'nuff said.

The creativity that is Brad McQuaid can not be denied. There is another story that he wants to tell, another adventure that he wants to share, another game. I for one am wishing Brad the best in this next chapter of his career.

'via Blog this'

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Art's Closet Episode 10

Episode 10 aired live Dec 1st, 2010 on GNET Radio

Hello Closet'teers,

It was good to be back on air. Tonight we covered our normal chatter, weather, how fast this year is ending and we had a special surprise guest from my brother Steve.

...and the following.

Merchandising in and out of our games.

Giving in game gifts during the holiday season and the gift giving from our favorite MMO's

Pirates of the Burning Sea goes Free to Play and what I saw in game as improvements.

Holiday Gifts - What not to get for your gamer this season, unless they collect Game Memorabilia.

Matrix Online Game Card

Tabula Rasa

Nerd Blurb - U.S. Air Force Creates Powerful Supercomputer Out Of PS3s

Anticipated games for the new year - Rift and DC Universe Online

Gods and Heroes - Update

Chris “Binky” Launius is with Heatwave Interactive, working again on this project.

Gods and Heroes Dev Chat

Todd Bailey - Senior Content Designer

Phil Tittle – Producer

Tim - Lead Designer

Theta - Marketing

Donna Prior – Community Manager

“Is it Raining or Snowing in your MMO?”

Weather in MMO's

“There was no point in doing a weather system without also creating something cool related to weather.”

We discussed if weather is needed and how we would like to see weather mean something.

MUSIC TOPICS

“Mondegreen, Say What?”

a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung <“very close veins” is a mondegreen for “varicose veins”>

Wiki

“You hide, but don’t get high...?” .....Bob Dylan says to the Beatles?

“Revved up but not wrapped up”

“Where is the bathroom?”

15. Did I mishear the lyrics of "Bad Moon Rising"? "Bathroom on the
right?" I wasn't drunk.

People usually misheard the chorus "there's a bad moon on the rise"
as "there's a bathroom on the right". Today, Fogerty makes fun of it
and purposely slips the "wrong" lyrics into the end of the song.

“'Scuse me while I kiss..who?”

Happy birthday Jimi Hendrix 11-27-1942

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/spotlight-1127-2010/

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Everquest Smorgasboard...and there is Pie

The inter-webs have been busy on the SOE announcements concerning Everquest and Everquest II. It's a feast, a SOE feast of goodies to sink your whatever into. Everquests 17th expansion , Everquest 2 expansion Destiny of Velious, EQNext. All the beefy tidbits that I could grab from my fav reading spots about Fan Faire 2010, had me begging for more. It appears that some great content is coming for EQ and EQ2 Fans.

Even if Everquests “House of Thule” sucks, just having 17 expansions is epic. Revisiting Velious and seeing the landmarks I remember including Velks Lab has me looking forward to Destiny of Velious. The crowning jewel though, the Pièce de résistance, is EQNext. Mark my words, this will be the most followed development since Brad McQuaid announced Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Everquest had the Love/Hate relationship, the Bitter/Sweet of Gaming. Traveling time sinks, the corpse runs, it was the elitists true and only real game. My move from EQ into EQ2 wasn’t due to boredom or because EQ was to hard and had too many time sinks. It was because the graphics in EQ2 was breath taking. As I've said before the cosmetics of a game is important to me.

The in game screen shots are promising and the bitter sweet of EQ will migrate to EQNext. My only hope at this point would be open zones like Vanguard, continue that feel of a vast open world and shelve the days of running along the zone walls. If SOE will truly build off the original EQ concept and salt and pepper the fine points from their other games, crafting, trades, diplomacy, flying mounts, even extending Bard abilities similar to the musician trades in Star Wars Galaxies. Okay, yeah I am reaching here but this really has some fantastic possibilities. This will be the one to watch.

Please snag the following links for more info..

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