EverQuest vs. City of Heroes (Combat)

My experiments with EverQuest 2 have drawn to a close. Despite it being a pretty solid game, it has not hooked me in the way MMORPGs are supposed to in order to keep them siphoning money on a monthly basis. Like some kind of entertaining but nonetheless parasitic lamprey.
Thus, I decided [...]

Tweaking Norrath: Finding the Fun

As I’ve elaborated extensively in my last entry [edit: which has been removed because extensive elaboration of games is an unproductive focus] I’ve been having a hard time getting back into EverQuest 2. It’s not that I hate the game – I actually had a pretty friendly relationship with it up until recently. [...]