Posts Tagged RPG
Geek Blog – Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion
The Mists of Pandaria!
Pandaren Monks have been a humorous inside joke in the Warcraft universe for quite sometime; made more real as a non-combat pet you can purchase from Blizzard’s online store; and now a playable Race/Class in the just announced expansion trailer.
In addition to a new class, race and starting zone, WoW players will get a level-cap increase (to 90), a new continent, Challenge-Mode dungeons, PVE scenarios and a pet combat system (WTF?).
As a player since day 01, I hope this can offer some competition to the impending SWTOR competition.
-SnowytheGeek [via GamePro]
Geek Blog – 16-bit Game of Thrones
Spoiler alert!
Humorous swearing in video game text alert!
Man, I love Game of Thrones!
-SnowytheGeek [via GaS]
365 Challenge – Day 023
“Get over here!” just doesn’t do this image justice.
"Come here!"
Whenever I get fancy bookends, I struggle to decide what goes between them. Do I take the Sword of Truth series from the shelf? The Star Trek hardcovers? Shannara? Deathstalker? Graphic novels or RPG manuals? The list goes on. I figure my Tolkien collection deserves a special spot, but why stop with just one copy? You can tell I love these works by the state of the books. In that stack shown above, are the paperbacks my father handed down to me when I was just eight – I’ve read them every summer since. The only ones missing are my collection of Tolkien’s letters and his translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” – which is on a different shelf, dedicated to medieval poetry.
I’ll admit, I have yet to read “The Return of the Shadow” or “The Treason of Isengard” — the summer is young yet.
-SnowytheGeek
*Bonus points if you identified the Lego minifig as Raistlin Majere, after he switched to the black.
Geek Blog – Words Hurt
Words of advice to “keep our future janitors and sports reporters in school just long enough so they don’t become a burden on our tax system.” Don’t be a GeekBully
Words Hurt, so bite your tongues, fellow geeks. Just once a day.
-SnowytheGeek [via GaS]
365 Challenge – Days 2, 3 and 4
I realized quickly during Independence Day Weekend that I’ll not be able to post a pic every day. I’m still ensuring that I take a picture each day, but not necessarily post them that same day. Many websites that outline this challenge suggest uploading at a minimum of once per week, if only to minimize any building overhead to stave off feeling overwhelmed by it all. Additionally, I doubt all of my daily pictures will be geeky (although I’ll try), so I’ll not bore my audience with posts flowers, clouds etc. You can still see links to all of the pictures as they come out here (this site) or here (Photobucket).
Without further ado, here’s Day 002, with the others after the jump.
Day 002 - "Naturally"
I dug out my most beat-up D20 for this shot, taken on a WoW:TCGj playmat, just before an epic game of Magic with GeekWife.
Geek Blog – Legend of Zelda, John Hughes Edition
Sixteen Candles, meets Ferris Bueller, meets the Breakfast club. OMG!
Tingle was perfectly cast. The post credits credits are pretty spectacular as well.
Check out the direct comparison at YT user nickfromflc’s channel.
-SnowytheGeek [via Kotaku]
Geek Blog – Gnomes Started the Fire
The holidays have had me pretty well booked up. Here’s a great WoW machinima music vid.
Thank you, Dark Endeavor of Durotan and YT user MrZoddiak for this gem.
-SnowytheGeek
Geek Blog – Star Wars The Old Republic E3 Trailer Gives Me “Hope”
/drool
My understanding of this game is that it isn’t a “traditional” MMO such as EverQuest or WoW, but rather a single-player game, wrapped in a massive, multiplayer universe. You drive your own storyline by choosing dialogue options a la Mass Effect (another Bioware marvel) and can play the same class twice with vastly different effects.
Group up with others and as you interact with NPCs, you also influence your partner’s (or party’s) storyline.
Finally we get to see a Jedi in action!
-SnowytheGeek