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It all started with a scene in space pulling away to reveal a huge ship and a few smaller ships with slow detailed fly bys of the camera in what we were told are CryEngine3 renderings. Then the internals of a ship with the smaller ships landing and people moving […]

Star Citizen

November 6, 2015 in MMO / RPG / Simulators tagged AAA game / Chris Roberts / CryEngine3 / CryEngine4 / Elite: Dangerous / MMORPG / Oculus Rift / PBR / PC gaming / Shut up and take my money! / Space Combat Simulator / Space Simulator / Squadron 42 / Star Citizen by JVerb

The famed and thought of as dead Space Simulator. Beyond Asteroids, there was Orbiter, Elite series, Wing Commander series, Privateer series, EVE, Kerbal and a whole mess of StarTrek and Star Wars games. The only meaningful mentions in the huge category in the past decade was Kerbal and EVE. One […]

Elite: Dangerous

November 1, 2015 in MMO / RPG / Simulators tagged Aseroids / Elite / Elite series / Elite: Dangerous / EVE / Kerbal / Orbiter / Privateer / Privateer series / Space Combat Game / Space Flight Simulator / Space Simulator / Star Citizen / Star Wars / StarTrek / Wing Commander / Wing Commander series by JVerb

Having mentioned that I enjoy character creation previously, I thought I would take a moment to elaborate on character creation. In particular, how to get the most out of your character. Now to qualify this vague statement, it probably isn’t what you think it means. To me, you get the […]

D&D: On Character Creation

October 18, 2015 in OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged 3d6 / 4d6 / Action RPG / AD&D / backstory / character creation / D&D / Diablo / Diablo 3 / Path of Exile / role playing game / RPG by JVerb

Well, it isn’t gaming, but why not…Anime! While I haven’t been around long enough to witness the first creations when they came out, since I found anime and understood it to be different than American cartoons in the mid 1990’s, I have loved it. Disclaimer, I do not name myself […]

Anime: Common Language

September 18, 2015 in Creativity / Uncategorized tagged 08th MS Team / After Story / Akira / Anime / Blood / Clannad / Cowboy Bebop / DBZ / Dragon Ball Z / FMA / Full Metal Alchemist / Ghost in the Shell / GitS / Grave of the Fireflies / Gundam / Gundam Wing / Haibane Renmei / Jin-Roh / Jonny Quest / Mobile Suit Gundam / Neon Genesis Evangelion / NGE / Outlaw Star / OVA / Perfect Blue / Rumbling Hearts / Sailor Moon / Samurai-X / Serial Experiments Lain / Tenchi Muyo / The Big O / Toonami by JVerb

To be fair, Magic the Gathering has long held a monopoly on the majority of trading card games as well as a fairly successful online game well before Hearthstone was created. But in a way, Hearthstone is one of the first to bring what was seen as a niche community […]

Hearthstone: Trading Card Games Evolution

September 4, 2015 in MMO / Tabletop tagged BattleTech / Blizzard / D&D / Hearthstone / Magic / Magic the Gathering / Wizards of the Coast / WotC by JVerb

Editor’s note: This post contains a pretty hefty spoiler for Enter the Druid. We purposefully have ETD running several weeks behind the actual gaming group’s adventure, so the contents of this Verb-age will reveal a pretty big plot point for a future ETD. If you’re on the edge of your […]

The Word of Greg

August 21, 2015 in RPG tagged AD&D / D&D / Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / Enter the Druid / Greg / Gregory Kellerman / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by JVerb

For the first time, I found a MOBA that I like. Not League of Legends, nor Defense of the Ancients, but Heroes of the Storm. But why do I like it? I found myself asking this reflexive question between matches recently. Is it the whole ‘Closet Blizzard Fanboy’ in me, […]

MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena

August 13, 2015 in RPG / Strategy tagged Blizzard / Defense of the Ancients / DOTA / DOTA2 / Heroes of the Storm / HotS / League of Legends / LoL / MOBA by JVerb

Since I began playing Counter Strike somewhat seriously in 1.3 and continue on-and-off to this day, I enjoy the game in a genuine sense. It is a constant challenge to yourself to work with your teammates, remember your crosshair placement, perfect your smokes and flashes and bomb plants and lots […]

Counter-Strike Global Offensive: Skins, Style and Swag

July 21, 2015 in FPS tagged Counter Strike / Counter Strike: Global Offensive / CS / CS: GO / micro-transactions / skins by JVerb

Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG with PvE and PvP, with some distinction for World-Versus-Word being separate from PvP, as the core game play elements. Did I mention PvP? When it first launched, I found myself at maximum level very quickly. The next task was dungeons and gearing. I was […]

Guild Wars 2: Micro-Transactions Done Better?

July 11, 2015 in MMO / RPG tagged Archeage / Guild Wars / Guild Wars 2 / GW2 / Microtransactions / MMO / MMORPG / RPG by JVerb

Introduction Hello, I’m JVerb. I have played games since the NES and later SNES, so for about as long as I can remember, and plan on continuing to do so in the future. I play for entertainment, achievement and competitiveness. Highlights include two notable points: CAL-O in college for CS […]

Archeage: Micro-Transactions, Free-to-Play, and Pay-to-Win?

July 1, 2015 in MMO / RPG tagged Archeage / MMO / MMORPG / RPG by JVerb