Old School: Dungeon Quest Design
Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 7 Comments
I have been spending a substantial amount of time leveling a new toon since BlizzCon 2009’s Cataclysm announcements. Like many players, I want to experience the aspects of vanilla WoW before they disappear into the digital abyss (maybe then Blizzard will setup a vanilla server cluster?). And no, I am not running the 1-60 gauntlet ... More
Respecting Your Elders
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - 4 Comments
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been on a bit of a social kick lately, analyzing everything from FarmVille to guild history and how the topics could play out in World of Warcraft. Yesterday’s post only furthered that thinking, leading me to remember the the age old adage of respecting your elders. In our digital land ... More
The Next Expansion: Making A Case For Guild/Server History
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 12 Comments
My name is iTZKooPA and I’m a History Channel addict. /me waits for other members to say “Hi, iTZKooPA.” I watch numerous other shows across the greater TV universe, but the History Channel is one of the networks I always check first. I don’t know what it is about the History Channel, but the endless stream of ... More
Darn You, Broomsticks and Marionettes
Posted by pixiestixy on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 17 Comments
I’m growing to believe that Blizzard loves to tease us players with awesome, world event-inspired items, then steal them away just as we’ve grown accustomed to them. Case number one: Synthebrew Goggles, the beer goggles of the WoW world, which when I equipped made everyone look like a female orc. Somewhat disturbing, but they were a ... More
Hallow’s End Is Over, How Did You Do?
Posted by Amatera on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 25 Comments
Now that everyone is busy shaking their maracas and eating skull pastries, why don’t we take a quick look back at the other celebration that just passed? Easy things like bobbing for apples and eating G.N.E.R.Ds will only get you so far during Hallow’s End. To truly “complete” the holiday you have to contend with ... More
Get the Most Out of Your Keyboard With Keybindings
Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 16 Comments
I’ve been playing my priest a lot more often these days. No matter which spec she’s in, I use far more keys, far more frequently, than on my rogue. Solidsamm doesn’t go much farther than 6 on the keyboard, with ctrl+1-6 and Q and E joining the fun during certain situations. Sagart , either in ... More
Patch 3.3: LFG Overhaul Detailed
Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, October 30th, 2009 - 12 Comments
The supposed final content patch for Wrath of the Lich King is bringing us a lot more than just content. Alongside Icecrown Citadel and its instances are a ton of convenience changes, items that have been sought after by players for years, and new ideas that were announced at BlizzCon 2009. Blizzard gave us the ... More
What Drives You - Challenge Or Reward?
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - 13 Comments
The idea of playing a video game for the challenge is the foundation of video games. The earliest games didn’t reward anything (in fact, the first game was PvP), later attaching very small levels of points to the player’s achievements (yay, 10 points!). As video games blossomed, increasing in their complexity hundreds of times, so ... More
The Bugs Of World of Warcraft
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 - 30 Comments
Every video game has bugs, some game breaking, others just amusing. Old school NES players likely remember the Minus World from Super Mario Bros., and all arcade junkies strove to reach the unplayable 256th stage of Pacman. Yesterday I found an amusing, and somewhat expensive, bug inside WoW during my quest for Solidsagart’s first exalted ... More
The Experiment: FarmVille > WoW
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - 15 Comments
For those who don’t frequent the world of Facebook, FarmVille is one of those ‘apps’ that users play to pretend they aren’t stalking people kill time between status updates. The video game was created by Zynga , a company that specializes in these types of social distractions. I call it a video game very loosely, ... More
