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Tag: gaming nostalgia

Guild Wars 2

Replaying vanilla Guild Wars 2

4 Nov 2020
I previously tried to get into the necromancer, the thief and the ranger again. For some reason, when I don't play a class for some time, I forget about the…
Community…

A friendly competition

19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020
I found this post in my drafts. It was originally written back in 2014 and should have been the teaser post for a roleplaying event in our Guild Wars 2…
Blogging Months…

Promptapalooza No. 16: My earliest memory of Guild Wars

15 Aug 202016 Aug 2020
This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Syp from Bio Break: "What is your earliest memory related to one of your core fandoms?" I decided to tell you about Guild Wars,…
Blogging Months…

Screenshot Saturday: New dervish

30 Nov 201930 Nov 2019
I didn't think ArenaNet would run sales for Guild Wars on Black Friday, but they did. So I bought a new character slot to play a new dervish on my…
Games…

Gaming nostalgia: What about Guild Wars?

31 Oct 2019
I think it was Rift with their Prime server that started the nostalgia trip into the beginnings of several MMOs. Rift Prime launched in March 2018 and community-wise it was…
World of Warcraft

Still WoWing

14 Sep 2019
I have settled on a main in WoW with my warlock, but the hunter, priest and shaman are closely following. Since I want to play priest as a disc healer,…
Blogging Months…

Screenshot Saturday: WoW Classic Launch

31 Aug 2019
Home again. This time for real. The image below was taken five minutes after WoW Classic launched. This was on the second German PvE server, Razorfen. We have since switched…
Blogging Months…

Screenshot Saturday: Thunder Bluff

10 Aug 2019
Home again. Well, almost. This is only the stress test, but they kept the servers open for the weekend, so I'm taking advantage of it by trying all the classes…
Blogging Months…

WoW Classic: EU Realms

9 Aug 201919 Sep 2019
(Updated server list: September 19, 2019 (8:00pm Berlin time) Blizzard released the names of the European servers for WoW Classic. I am going to list them here as well, so…
Guild Wars 2…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Vertical maps

7 Jul 2019
For a while, I'd been very excitedly levelling my guardian in LotRO and was really happy when she'd gotten to level 50. But then, a few levels into Mines of…
Paeroka's Ponderings…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Back to the roots…?

23 May 2019
I guess every MMO enthusiast has heard about WoW Classic by now. At the end of August, servers will open. A few months of playing the "good old World of…
Screenshot Saturday…

Screenshot Saturday: A long loooong time ago

18 May 2019
This is a screenshot from 2006 showing my main character at the time, my undead warlock. Since it shows her with an uninteresting background, I strongly assume I took this…
Fun!

8 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

17 Mar 201917 Mar 2019
I kind of missed our blog's anniversary. I know it is in March, but I thought it would be this weekend when it was on March 12. I guess it…
Lord of the Rings Online…

Screenshot Saturday: 10 years in LotRO

16 Mar 2019
Apparently, this screenshot was taken today, 10 years ago, on March 16, 2009. It's the first screenshot I took of the "real" Lord of the Rings Online. A friend had…
Guild Wars 2…

Screenshot Saturday: Guild Wars 2 through the ages

2 Mar 20192 Mar 2019
With recent news of layoffs at ArenaNet, I wanted to focus on Guild Wars 2 with today's Screenshot Saturday. I have taken thousands of screenshots through the years, but decided…
Blogging Months…

Now for real: Goodbye, Wildstar

27 Nov 20182 Dec 2018
I just logged into Wildstar - for the last time, I guess, as the game is shutting down tomorrow. I wanted to take a few last screenshots of the characters…
Blogging Months…

LotRO and their legendary servers

10 Nov 20182 Dec 2018
Thursday evening, Standing Stone Games opened the first of their legendary servers, Anor. The waiting queue reached 4000, apparently. But despite SSG saying it was just a display issue and…
Lord of the Rings Online

Returning to LotRO

31 Oct 2018
I did say I'm giving Elder Scrolls Online another try, didn't I? But when I was looking for an alternative to Rift, I also remembered LotRO - well, that, plus…
Fun!…

Real Life happening (Blaugust Post 2)

12 Aug 2018
I can't really make a post about gaming when I haven't played many games, right? We've had our first anniversary last weekend and since we also moved to Hamburg earlier…
First Impression Review…

First Impressions: C64 Mini

14 Apr 2018
My brother and I didn't get along when we were kids. However, even we had some things we could do without yelling at each other. It was only a handful…
Games…

Gaming nostalgia weekend

6 Apr 20187 Apr 2018
Bookahnerk and I will be spending this weekend (re-)visiting good old gaming times. Ultima Online started their version of "free to play" (or free trial, if you prefer) called Endless…
Rift

First Impressions of Rift Prime

25 Mar 2018
First things first, for those following my "hand issues": In case you're wondering why and how I can even get in some gaming time: With a trackball mouse for my…
Rift

Rift Prime and Nostalgia

7 Mar 2018
Trion chose a perfect time to launch their Rift Prime server. The game originally launched in March 2011 - and this little blog here got started in March 2011 as…
Games…

Revisiting World of Warcraft

13 Sep 201629 Jun 2020
Who isn't back to World of Warcraft? This was the question I asked myself a lot lately when looking at blog posts or tweets. And once I mentioned it to…
Blogging Months…

GW2: The beginning… – Looking back 4 years (Blaugust Post 17)

20 Aug 2016
Guild Wars 2's fourth anniversary is coming up in a couple of days. The headstart began on August 25, 2012. Gaile asked for screenshots from the launch weekend on the…
Blogging Months…

My favourite “Evergreen-Game” – Blaugust Day 15

14 Aug 201514 Aug 2015
This post is part of Blaugust and I decided to "take a break" from the posts I've planned to do in order to write about one of the prompts: What…
Blogging Months…

“What made you a gamer?” – NBI 2015 Talkback Challenge #3

18 May 201529 Jun 2020
This post is part of the Newbie Blogger Initiative and the third Talkback Challenge asking "What made you a gamer?" When I saw this question, I knew I had to…
Guild Wars

10 years: Guild Wars nostalgia

29 Apr 201529 Apr 2015
Guild Wars turned 10 years old this week. The original Guild Wars, of course, not Guild Wars 2 (which will be 3 years old this August, by the way). Back…
Community…

4 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

7 Mar 2015
On March 12, 2011, we started this very blog here. I did not think that we would still be around 4 years later. I also did not think that the…
Games…

A new Gechi!

24 Jan 2015
With the recent news that "The Elder Scrolls Online" will switch to a buy-to-play model on March 17, bookahnerk and I decided that we do want to explore that world.…

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