I know it’s been quite a while since I last took a journey into the world of the Oregon Trail, and to be quite honest, I took this particular journey a long time ago, and I’m just finally getting around to posting it. For those of you who aren’t aware of what I’m trying to achieve here, I was “inspired” after watching the Oregon Trail 3DS quick look to try and figure out where this series went...
All this talk about flight sims and flight sticks and related paraphernalia around the site has gotten me into flight sims again. I dusted off the stick and played some DCS A-10C and went back to IL-2, while peppering in something a bit more casual with Microsoft Flight. I’m not here to talk about boring atmospheric flight simulators though. While going through my Flight Sim revival, I rediscov...
It’s been a while since I did the first entry in this series, but I’m back, and its time to continue my search for the point where The Oregon Trail games jumped the sharks. Today, I’m going to play the first ‘real’ Oregon Trail game, the 1985 edition. After the widespread success of the teletype edition of the game, in addition to the simple standalone version I played last time, MECC released...
Just like everyone else of a certain age or older, I played Oregon Trail when I was younger, and watching the Oregon Trail 3DS quick look made me both nostalgic and sort of sad. In my memory, I remember Oregon Trail as a game that required strategy and critical thinking, neither of which the 3DS version had. So, what I’m going to do is attempt to discover where the Oregon Trail series went off...
LUXURY YACHT CRAWL PARTY There’s not much I can actually write about content wise for my final blog about my experiences in Star Wars Galaxies, since most of you saw it all on the live stream, and if you didn’t, you can see it when the archive goes up. I will say, however, that as much as I have enjoyed pointing out the terrible flaws in this game throughout this series of blogs, I think hiding...
Woooo! More pointless memorabilia! While I was working on the quest from my last blog, I reached level 14, and doing so popped a class quest for me, from Boba Fett of course. At this point, I’ve just accepted that any quest that is even remotely interesting is going to be given to you by a major character from the Star Wars universe, just to keep people somewhat interested in what they’re doing...
Arson is a great theme for guild names. I find that now I am compelled to continue playing Star Wars Galaxies, and while I can’t nail down exactly why this is, but I think it may have something to do with the fact that this thing will completely cease to exist next week. There’s this sort of weird feeling that you get, knowing that what you’re doing will be completely inaccessible and before lo...
No , no, your costumes are all wonderful. Today I finally decided to log on and wander over to the Christmas holiday inside of Star Wars Galaxies. Thankfully, the loading screen told me where the event was being held, or I never would’ve found it. There is not a single NPC in Mos Eisley, one of the most frequented towns in the entire game, telling you were to go for this event. Anyway, lack of...
The loading screens continue to become ever stranger. While I’ve been mostly preoccupied with the explosion of games over the past month or two, I have been dropping into Star Wars Galaxies every once in a while, since I am apparently way into self-flagellation, and with the end approaching, I figured I’d stop being lazy and write something up. I finally just gave up on any illusion that I was...
First of all, I’m sorry for the lapse in posting. With all the new games coming out, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time playing those and not Star Wars Galaxies. But now I’m back and ready to endure some more of this. The majority of my flight time. The first thing I did when I got back in was to ditch all of my space quests. By this point, I was really bored of the space quests, which take...
Can't get more desperate for references then slapping them into loading screens. After getting past that amazing loading screen, I found myself back in the town hall, all ready to get involved in some space politics. I decided that as monotonous as this game already was, that trying to campaign for a NPC was probably not the best course of action. Instead, I went back to the Imperial pilot trai...
Sith also apparently means horrible fashion sense. Logging back in, I was extremely pleased to see that I was no longer being bombarded with an endless streams of group invitations, and since I didn’t have anything too pressing going on, I decided to hang out for a few minutes and check out the community, something I hadn’t really bothered doing up until that point, as I had played with my blin...
With my landspeeder colored a properly garish purple, I decided to continue following what seemed to be the main quest-line. Jabba had apparently taken an interest in me, and now I have to start doing jobs for him, or “face his wrath”… or something. I don’t know how many times I’ve been told that I’m ‘special’ by different NPCs at this point, but it’s really starting to get old. As I was wander...
As soon as LucasArts and SOE announced that they were shutting down Star Wars Galaxies, I started hunting down a copy. I’ve always wanted to be there at the end of a MMO, but I’ve never actually managed to get in on it, and was determined to do so with this one. I’ve decided to keep a record of my trip through Star Wars Galaxies here, day by day, mostly to try and keep myself playing it, but he...