Liked it so much I was made lead dev (ok, only dev — the whole project was handed to me) for several months before TBC came out and I left the game. At least the person I handed the project to continued with my “to do” list of improvements!

I’ve got a pretty short mod list at the moment. When I was playing my Hunter I had a bucket load.

I think it currently is:
- bagnon
- bartender 4
- iceHUD
- auctioneer
- polymorph count (I forget the name)
- omen
- questhelper

Yeah, I know I railed against QuestHelper and the like, but my main beef was in new games where the content is fresh and exploration is new. I’ve done the starting areas for both factions so many times it’s ridiculous.

Now for Wrath, ALL MODS ARE OFF. Nothing beats a new Blizzard expansion. Good times

Amen Brother Talyn!

But not something I personally would use my first time through. That’s a personal choice, though. Everyone has their own playstyle.

Add to that some quest writers should be publicly flogged anyway. I don’t mind if the text gives me fairly precise directions, maybe point out a few prominent landscape features that will prompt me to do my own exploration of the area but also arrive at the objective relatively quickly. If I’ve read and re-read the text a dozen times and I’m still stumbling around lost in the area it describes, only to discover on a website that the real location is on the other side of the map, I start having less-than-angelic thoughts about the author of that text.

Prompt me to explore but don’t force me. Prompt me to look at the environs rather than showing me a glowing dot with GPS coordinates pin-pointed by a spy satellite (unless it’s a game where that technology exists, then by all means). Prompt me to think and make a few light decisions so I feel I earned that discovery, but keep in mind this is also a videogame not an aptitude test.

Is it sad when you hear someone mention a MMO name and you have an urge to subscribe to it too and give it another shot? I was listening to Shut Up We’re Talking today at work and it got me thinking about trying EQ2 again and giving my Warden another go at it. One of the guys from work actually asked me if I was going to pick up the upcoming expansion (EQ2 popped his MMO cherry) but I declined. Okay, I listened to the first half about three times because a test tool was clobbering my browser window where I listening to it from so maybe there was something more subliminal to it.

Anyway, the upcoming EQ2 expansion sounds neat. It has a lot of the dungeons I really liked in EQ1 but I just can shake the LDON feeling of it and the underlying fear that they’ll ruin my memories of Guk.

I’d like to grab my shopping list from the internet from it, it could even chart my course through the store. And here wer are using old metal carts with bum wheels.

Okay, no, I don’t roam the aisles for ten minutes, I usually ask or just pick up something that is ‘close enough’ and take the faction hit from my quest giver.