Like the title says, this will be a rant most people here won't care about since they wouldn't know what I'm talking about. Still though this is my friggin page so I'll write about whatever I want.
And today I think I will write to the 3 people who even read this about Nexus War.

Nexus War is a browser based MMORPG with grid based movement, AP (action points) based combat and activities, interesting classes (you have angels, demons and neutral beings such as liches, revenenats and transcendent mortals) and a great community. Aside from Ragnarok Online this is the MMO I've played the most and have some of the most found memories of. I did take a long break at one point but then when the urge came back I started playing again for a good few months. There aren't many things out there that can hold my attention and interest for that long, let me tell ya!

So if you're still reading by now you're probably asking yourself "Ok so why is he bothering me with all of this?" Well I'm writing all of this because Nexus War is going to die. Now I admit I haven't played it in quite a while, but I still stuck around on the forums, because, like I said, the community is one of the strongest aspects of the game. And today I saw that the game's creator - Jorm (an awesome guy too) has decided that it is time for this war to end and for the Nexus to be destroyed. And since I have such fond memories of the place I feel as though I should have written something about it, thus this post.

Now, some people are thinking about rising money to help Jorm with the payments on the servers and such that are required to run the game, but in whole honesty the game has been stagnating for quite a few months now. Other members of the community are already making plans to make a mass exodus and re-locate into another game. Personally, I'm with them. Of course with me working and starting the next semester soon I doubt I'll have as much time to dedicate to a game.
The strange part is that I don't really feel bad just...kind of melancholic (even though the game is still online right now). I just know I'll never be able to kill angels and demons, run into huge sand trolls or bone dragons, waste all of my action points talking in the faction's stronghold or meet funny and interesting characters while roaming the planes. And I guess I am kind of ok with that.

This is all. I felt I had to share this with someone, even if it's nobody in particular.

So here's the thing. , and I decided to do a little experiment. Each will suggest a game for the other that they wouldn't have usually picked up and we play that game for a week, then post about it in DA. Now, granted, a total of maybe 5 people even read these journals, I still plan on rambling on about it.

So, the game I got was Star Wars: Battlefront 2, a first person shooter in the, amazingly, Star Wars universe. Now, I've watched all Star Wars movies and have played trough the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series, and still I probably would have never picked this game up since I haven't even heard of it before Joel suggested it to me.

Now then, the game is basically Team Fortress but IN SPAAACE!! When you start the game (be it a mission in the campaign or just random play) you get to select a type of soldier you want to spawn as. You have your general all purpose guy, the guy with the rocket launcher, the sniper, the engineer and 2 special classes for each of the sides in the game. In the campaign itself you start off playing on the side of the Clones during the whole Clone Wars shindig and then later you get to play as a Stormtrooper when the Republic turns into the Galactic Empire. The game follows the movies pretty closely in the way that you even have the scene from the beginning of New Hope where Vader and the troopers burst into the space ship looking for her royal highness the princess.

Personally, I don't really like these "special characters" type of FPS where you are only allowed to carry 3-4 weapons and nothing more. I am not sure at what point exactly did not being able to carry lots of weapons become the norm (somewhere around the time Halo came out) but I am not happy with it. I used to like being able to carry 10 weapons and tons of ammo for them. It added to the "killing machine" spirit of most FPS games. But whatever, let's get on with it.

The difficulty curve during the missions is all over the place. Everything up to the mission where you go to kill the Jedi Council feels like a tutorial and you are barely met with any resistance at all. Then suddenly you end up in a very small space with lots of guys who kill you in 2 hits of their lightsabers....Not cool. And THEN after you somehow manage to wipe the buggers out you get to go to Naboo where you get your ass handed to you in the first few minutes. Maybe it's just me sucking so much at FPS (I've never been that into them) but I had a really hard time on those two missions...And then the mission after that is so piss easy you almost feel like you restarted the game or something. (I think that was the mission where you play as Boba Fett).

The whole medals and ranking system in the game sounds cool at first, but then you find out you need 64 medals of a kind in order to unlock the special weapon that they carry. Now with some this is easy but stuff like Marksman where you need to score 64 clean headshots with a sniper? Yeah that ain't gonna happen. Oh that brings me to another thing I disliked - a lot of the maps are closed and claustrophobic which makes them VERY sniper-unfriendly. The result of that is that 90% of the game I simply play as the default Clone/Storm trooper.

What else...oh, I couldn't actually finish the game because one of the missions stubbornly insists on freezing my PC very time I get to the last objective in it. I tried using a cheat code to unlock all of the mission maps but I can only play the missions individually and it doesn't actually push the story forward.

So that's that I guess. Not really a bad game and I suspect that multilayer would be lots of fun, so I'll probably be keeping it for a while when am in the mood to shoot things.

Yup. It will take for a while for DA's clock to reach it, but here it's already 24th of May. Which means today makes 5 years I've had this account and around 6 years since I've been in this shithole called DeviantART! Hurray for me! Beer and cookies for everyone!

Also, ironically, just as I am writing this I have exactly 10 000 page views. I guess since I don't draw naked little girls or anime fanart I'm not as popular as everyone else. (Or maybe my art just sucks, there is that part too)

So yeah, updated mah journal. Next update will be in an year from now.

Jenx out!

Edit: Jenx was at ANIVENTURE 2008 [link] this weekend. I was planning on writing a loong and boring explanation of what I did, but then I figured nobody would really care. So I'll cut it short: It was damn fun. I had a blast, I met a lot of people I haven't seen for weeks (or months, or in the case of Bave - for years. The guy didn't even remember me, but that's understandable) and managed to find a group to give Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition a test drive. Oh yeah and I was dead tired yesterday.

That's about all of it. Playing Baldur's Gate 2 now. Why the hell are all the female NPCs that can join you all a bunch of whiny bitches? -___-; Is it so hard to make at least one of them a least bit tolerable?

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...Yeah, I just needed to get that old journal out of the way.