Playin’ by new Rules
Some people love creating additional rules for themselves to play a game. Sometimes it’s quite simple — playing in a hardcore or ‘one life’ mode in a game that doesn’t officially support it. Sometimes...
Category: Asheron’s Call
Teetertot Moments
Only a week ago, I was trying out Asheron’s Call again for the first time in what I estimate must be at least 10 years. Fourteen if you take it from when I last...
Ding!
Well alright, maybe more than just one ding. I very almost didn’t get a post out at all tonight on account of wanting to extract every moment possible of play until better sense took...
Thrill of the Hunt
In EverQuest you camp. WoW has you questing. But in Asheron’s Call you go hunting. Hunting takes many, many shapes and forms and can serve a range of purposes. My favourite approach being to...
Travel Down that Ol’ Town Road
Everquest isn’t the only old school MMO in town with an emulator scene. Asheron’s Call does too. Until recently I’d resisted making any attempt to return. I was alright with just leaving my memories...
Nostalgia and Moving On
Sometimes I feel a bit… Old. Especially when I make realisations like this one: I could probably wax nostalgic about waxing nostalgic. Not quite what we’re here for today though. Isey started a conversation,...
Missing Connections
Before ‘Social Media’ as we know it today existed, MMOs were their own discrete social systems. In my experience, relationships formed were the exclusive domain of the game. If someone left, that might be the last you heard of them.
