Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I made Lt. Commander last night in Star Trek Online. This is a milestone event. This is the first time you get to pick your new ship, the second specialization you make after creating your character. I was looking forward to leaving the Miranda class light cruiser behind. The Lockheed had served me well for [...]
Lieutenant Karina Prax, of the USS Lockheed.
Captain’s log, supplemental.
Our assignment was simple, scan Gorn facilities in this remote asteroid belt to make sure that they weren’t stockpiling weapons of mass destruction of any sort.
The Gorn, of course, were having none of it, and we found ourselves on the receiving end of a volley of disruptor [...]
Man, they patched the hell out of this thing.
UI improvements are the first thing that caught my eye. I can’t say anything about stability yet because, well, I’m here writing this and not playing the game because it crashed out when I started typing in chat during a heated space battle.
Still, it’s a lot of [...]
In the pilot episode, Trill Karina Prax becomes captain of the USS Lockheed. After a surprise Borg attack kills off all other senior officers, she is surprised to find out that she is the highest ranking personnel remaining on board the Lockheed. Unfazed (or should that be unphased) by this development, she finds a way [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I did enjoy Diablo and Diablo II. I think I enjoyed them to the point where I actually wore out a mouse from clicking, which was probably the worst part of the Diablo titles.
On the other hand, I picked up Torchlight which is basically Diablo, right down to the Soundtrack, much more streamlined, and not [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I had some time to kill the other day so I cranked up the old gaming rig and patched up City of Heroes to see how long it would take to whip out a custom mission.
Really, not that long. After taking the grand tour, I pretty much dove straight in to the Mission Creator. It’s [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
First things first. I have the opening theme for Street Fighter IV stuck in my head. It has the infectious poppy feel of both a boy band and a teen idol earworm, and I’m kind of stuck with it. The menu has it looping around and I tonight I found myself starting up the game [...]