I made this video in under an hour to try to convince some friends to purchase Guild Wars 2. It worked!
As an unexpected bonus, it’s also getting great feedback on both my YouTube channel and Reddit!
Category Archives: Video
The Vanguard: Guardian Structured PvP
My weekly column is up on Guild Wars Insider!
The Vanguard: Guardian Structured PvP
This week I look at Structured PvP with the Guardian, and provide readers with three different builds and three corresponding videos which highlight them.
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My MechWarrior Online Promotional Video
I put my new computer, new copy of Sony Vegas and my love of MechWarrior and AC/DC to use. I needed practice learning my way around Vegas, and I figured a basic fan promo of MW:O would be a decent place to start. Enjoy!
The Secret World: Gameplay & Overview
A followup video to my first impressions video, this one shows actual gameplay footage.
While I’m not a fan of the game, or it’s dated graphics, boring combat, terrible dialog, general lack of maturity, poor quest design, and so on – there are some things the game does right.
The freedom of having no actual classes is a pretty fun. You can customize your character’s combat abilities far more than you can his/her actual looks.
The Deck system provides you with character class archetypes that can act as guidelines for building out your character, providing a little order to the chaos.
The ground effects used to telegraph enemy abilities are well done, showing not only the area of effect of abilities, but also showing a countdown timer at the same time.
Other than that, I didn’t find a lot to like. Maybe after it goes free-to-play (which is a certainty), and after they work out the kinks… MAYBE I’d be tempted to play it. As it stands, there is no way I’d pay $15 a month for this game.
It’s pretty bad.
The Secret World: Intro & First Impressions
My initial impressions on The Secret World, the modern day, secret society MMO from Funcom that should have stayed a secret.
I really wanted to like this game, but I don’t. At least not from what little I’ve seen.
The premise made me hopeful for a game that would echo all those X-Files episodes I loved so much. I wanted intrigue and betrayal. I wanted a mature MMO with intelligent dialog.
This is not that game.
Fun & Profit: Zone Completion Rewards in Guild Wars 2
Fun & Profit: Zone Completion Rewards in Guild Wars 2
My article on the ways Guild Wars 2 rewards players for exploration posted today on Guild Wars Insider!
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Tera Online: Hands On
This is a video followup to my first impressions article about Tera.
In this video, I mess around with a few of the classes just to highlight the basics of the combat system and to give a brief glimpse of the game world.
Tribes Ascend: Basic Gameplay
I decided to invest in a decent microphone and a copy of FRAPS. I need to upgrade my gaming rig considerably, but this is a crude first attempt at gameplay footage and voiceover work.
I love Tribes. I suck at it, but I love it.
It is completely free to play, and you don’t even need to pay for the download. If you choose to spend money on gold, you won’t unlock anything that will give you an advantage. The only thing that wins games in Tribes is skill.
