{"id":5810,"date":"2009-11-09T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2009-11-09T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T12:09:16","slug":"serial-mmogamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"Serial MMOgamy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leslee Beldotti – who you may recognize from the comments around here – has started a blog chronicling her trip through various MMO’s. Serial MMOgamy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s just started, but I love the idea. <\/p>\n

I’m currently looking around, seeing what MMO I might tackle next once the Champs Online<\/a> thing has run its course. I’m looking for something with a decent supply of plot, since there are only so many jokes you can make about, “I spent three hours killing rats, looking forward to next level when I can advance to dire<\/em> rats.”<\/p>\n

Star Trek Online is a must, but that doesn’t launch until March. Same goes for Old Republic.<\/p>\n

I could probably enjoy Lord of the Rings Online, provided I could get myself into the right frame of mind. That lore and I have some history<\/a> together, and I could probably get into that if I can avoid seeing its betrayals of the source material as a personal insult. See also: The movies.<\/p>\n

Conan might be fun, although “it has boobs” is the only thing I know about it, which leaves me with the impression that the game is just a really convoluted and troublesome boob-viewer. <\/p>\n

Aion is out. Too much PvP and too much grind. <\/p>\n

From what I’ve read of D&D Online it sounds a little grind-y for my purposes. (And I am of the opinion that a great tabletop system makes for a bad videogame system, and vice-versa, so I see its D&D underpinnings as a drawback despite my affinity for the Pen & Paper system.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leslee Beldotti – who you may recognize from the comments around here – has started a blog chronicling her trip through various MMO’s. Serial MMOgamy. It’s just started, but I love the idea. I’m currently looking around, seeing what MMO I might tackle next once the Champs Online thing has run its course. I’m looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}