Recent content by Branes

In 2001, right after 911, I got "laid off", yeah right, from my job as a networking consultant for a small company and replaced by an H1B from India half my age at half the salary. i decided to start my own consulting business. Needing a name, I used the initials from my name and my late wife's...

I'm a former studio musician. I've been playing real guitar for 45 years and I love Guitar Hero and Rock Band. If you don't, that's cool. There's a lot of stuff I don't like that you probably do. Why does "I don't like something" have to become "I don't like something so they should stop...

You can also add the Wizardry series. All eight of those games were excellent

Guess I'm an old timer, but the Ultima series was great up to Ultima VIII Pagan which was ok, and then Ultima IX wasn't bad once they worked out the bugs,and then Ultima Online became the first MMORPG and is still going. Hard to beat that history.

The gaming industry is going the way of Hollywood, imitation of anything that has once worked, fear of innovation, over hyped mediocre or worse content. The one thing that is killing the industry is sequels that are released simply to create new revenue with no real changes except cosmetic or...

I have to join Galliam in that I've never leveled a toon all the way in any MMO I've ever played, and that's quite a few since 1999. Closest I've come is my level 75 Death Knight in WoW. He might actually break the record, and only because he started at 55! :)