{"id":151,"date":"2008-07-22T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:16:24","slug":"vanguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/vanguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanguard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I don’t play computer games as often as I used to, the urge still comes and goes (seems it’s either games or motorcycles). These days I like single-player FPS’s, like Portal<\/a>, the Half Life Series<\/a>, and Crysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I’ve also spent lots of time in MMORPGs<\/a>. I played Asherons Call<\/a> for a long time, years ago. Then some of my friends tried Dark Age of Camelot<\/a> so I joined as well… but gave up after a couple of weeks. I’ve flirted with the 900-pound gorilla of the market: World of Warcraft<\/a> (aka “WoW”), but gave up after 2 tries. Now I’m trying a new one: Vanguard:<\/p>\n

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Compared to WoW it lacks polish and players (I bet one WoW instance has more players than all 4 Vanguard servers).. but it does look nice (when you’re not experiencing strange performance issues). It has a complex crafting and diplomacy system that takes some getting used to: but right now adventuring and crafting have drawn me it.<\/p>\n

Oh, and you get to fly fairly early in the game ! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Actual you-take-off-and-land and you-control-where-you-go flying, not like the WOW flying-on-rails transport systems. Yes, if you want a general-purpose flying mount of your own it’s going to take some grinding. But I think it’s a fantastic idea to let new players get up off the ground early in their virtual lives. So Vanguard is where I’ll be spending my spare time in the near future \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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