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Halloween Massive Gaming News
City of Heroes is running a Trick or Treat and Zombie invasion event this weekend. Folks in Europe looking to get their cape on can look forward to participating sometime next year.
Anarchy Online is celebrating the season with a holiday ball and costume contest, as well as nanotech transformations and monster sightings.
Final Fantasy Online players and developers have a lot to be happy about this weekend. Today is the one-year anniversary of the North American launch, and they're throwing a party to celebrate. In-game, the annual trick or treating, costuming, and spookery is going on. This year they're also throwing around some glamours to let players take the part of monsters for a while. Square-Enix revised upwards it's earning estimates this week, giving even executives reason to smile.
In non-holiday news, Richard Garriot was interviewed by HomeLAN about the upcoming Tabula Rasa game, and MMORPG.com has some new info on Dungeons and Dragons Online from the lead designer.
Finally, the Second Annual State of Play conference is this weekend, drawing Virtual World academics from all over to celebrate Halloween by lecturing. Nerd on, guys.
Update: 10/28 18:50 GMT by Z : There's a press release going around stating that City of Villians playtesters will be drawn from the ranks of veteran CoH players.
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I would love to see a game that has a system in place for players to do some things that would enhance the events they can do - drop clues and so on.
I bring this up in this topic because CoH has had a few "invasion" type events that lacked any real flavor beyond "oh, look! A thingy spawned!" and maybe a forum post saying "be on the look out for strangeness."
Players, however, would take the ability to make mini events and would likely spend more time on them than Cryptic employees who need to focus on other stuff.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
Don't forget about the Guild Wars (http://guildwar.com/) World Preview Event also happening this weekend.
I forgot it was Halloween this weekend. Have to run out to buy apples and razor blades tonight...
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The practice of going into a game and assuming a different persona only to have that persona assume yet another persona is kind of mind-boggling especially if you're a humanities student. I mean, it was bad enough last year when I dressed up as a vampirate.
Guild Wars is having a free preview event this weekend starting tomorrow, thru Sunday... Hopefully it will be more of a treat than a trick. And hey, just think of all those free costume ideas! :-)
http://www.guildwars.com/press/pr06-10-27-04.html
You are assaulted by hordes of undead wookies at the starport, which have the power to Force choke and Force lightning you from across the map.
IF you manage to kill one, you will loot a pair of equippable pink hotpants or a locked container.
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There are rumors of an undead army appearing someplace in Lineage II's world of Aden. For the past couple of weeks there's been a repeating systemwide announcement saying "A great evil is approaching..." and then more recently "The evil moves deeper into Aden." Then just 2 days ago, an announcement came that an undead army had arisen around one of the northern towns. Lots of people flocked there but as far as I know, the announcement was premature.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
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AC1, which used to be known for having holiday-themed items/quests in patches, this year has nothing holiday related.
I think this marks the first year in its history that it hasn't.
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Currently, a pumpkin appears instead of a backpack.
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My uhm...son told me that Disney's MMO game, ToonTown will also be having a massive Bloodsucker Lawbot invasion sometime(s) this weekend. Yeah my son, that's it!
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Take 1 Pumpkin, hollow it out as you would normally because you want to make it into a scary face. Keep the seeds for roasting (wash them, roast on tray for 90 minutes, have with salt). Throw away the guts. Cut out lots of the flesh until the pumpkin is around 1cm thick all around, or less. Spoons are good for scraping. Most of you should have well developed wrists so you shouldn't get too tired by scraping repetitively.
Boil the pumpkin flesh for half an hour, drain and mash.
Heat oven to 200C/400F. Put shortcrust pastry into pie dish (9" or more, if you got lots of pumpkin flesh).
Beat pumpkin with can of evaporated milk, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon each of ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Mix well.
Pour mixture into pastry lined pie dish. Cook 40 minutes or until knife comes out of pie clean when inserted. Serve hot with cream.
Alternatively search Google for Pumpkin Pie recipes. But don't waste that pumpkin flesh! You can also make pumpkin soup.
Now if they would just sent a sack full of candy for a new high score :)
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Rumors are also going wild about World of Warcraft being launched on November 22nd (as told by a high-level staff member of Vivendi). That game is very good, and while it has a high degree of polish some are complaining that it's not quite up to the "Blizzard Standard". Personally I don't think so - I'm in the Beta and it's incredibly well done. The next patch (coming next week) will add in a ton of content, including the first Raid encounter.
The only mud that matters, Achaea.com, is having their annual "Logosween" events. Most are player organized and involve costumes, parties, contests and generally mischief making.
What better way to do so by regressing back to your childhood. . .
Ah yes, Halloween, or, as I generally refer to it, 'amateur night.'
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Um, you managed to not mention probably the most groundbreaking (and probably the first) MMORPG on the net, Ultima Online, which always has plenty of fun in-game stuff around each holiday! Then again their site doesn't say a thing about Halloween, so I can see why it wasn't mentioned. I guess they're too busy promoting their totally off-topic new expansion...
I've only played for about a year but for example, the first Christmas when I started they gave out some house decorations like snowflakes, snowmen, poinsettia and some holiday wreaths. They also had a contest for the best Christmas-decorated house and stuff.
I'm running a "get a life" compitition.
It's very difficult, it requires you to take a shower, get dressed, turn off the computer (gasp!) and here's the real kicker: go OUTSIDE.
I know I know, it's so difficult nobody will play.
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Puzzle Pirates (puzzlepirates.com, clients for mac/linux/win) has changed all the hat designs to have very spooky masks and changed all the map graphics to have appropriate themed island maps.
Among all the weaknesses (and as a player since launch, trust me -- there are MANY) of SWG, this is probably what kept me hooked the longest. With a rich player-crafting environment, I've seen all sorts of creative uses of in-game vendors, well-named items, "actors" to roleplay key characters, and some out-of-game (typically Web) content to create mini "adventures." Of course, a lot of that was simply the minds behind them -- I've had the pleasure of working with some really creative folks (even professional game designers in their off time) to build these sorts of events.
Then of course, there's Second Life -- nobody can say that lacks tools!
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I'm just running some old time radio suspense shows, war of the worlds, and silence! the musical over the in-game radio station.
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I tend to think that the previous events have just been tests for something big when they release City of Villians.
I took part in the test of the halloween thing on the test Sever Tuesday, and it was certainly fun. You don't know when you click on a door if you are going to get a treat(insp, enhancement, temp power, etc) or a trick(Zombie, ghost, witch, etc attacking you). They said that it was only a small part of the event, but that alone was far more fun then I had anticipated. I for one can't wait until this weekend to see what they have cooked up.
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Well, I was on the test server and got to experience their trial of halloween.
You can click on each mission door (assuming it's not unlocking YOUR mission), and get either a trick or a treat.
Tricks involve witches, werewolves, or pumpkin heads attacking you.
Treats involve inspirations, some enhancements, and the almighty ROCK!
It was interesting, but nothing to write home about.
I wish they'd start doing more events. Supposedly the latest incursion of eye-balls was just sort of a "recon" thing, with speculation that a large scale invasion is down the pipe.
I've stopped playing recently. It's going to take something massive (like the original Ritki invasion) to get me to fire up the game again.
What better way to do so by regressing back to your childhood...
Because now I can be charged as an adult.
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The items are what people are after, they actually grant warp to those people who dont have mage jobs, and depending on which one you get you can have anywhere from 1 to unlimited warps which when you go to these areas people like to party in can be a lifesaver. the big fear is that this might change afterward since they did leave a clause in the info saying that they had the right to change this at any time.
It was also quite interesting to see people scream in game, since they wherent your run of the mill mobs they put in town but with some of them (like the Dark Stalkers) some of the toughest mobs in the game.
Infact yesterday the GMs on almost all of the worlds decided to dress up and half of them dressed up as the Shadow Lord himself... scaring the crap out of a lot of people who turned off the names function
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