Wow.. okay, time for an update.

I’ll try to make this a multiple post update.

I really didn’t expect to like Rift. I tried it in Beta and it just felt like WoW meets EQ2 and LOTRO – lite. Well, I was wrong. I’ve done rifts till I was blue in the face. AWESOME. They really don’t get tiresome. This past week, Trion released a “World Event” – which was doing rifts on crack. It made it hard to do regular rifts, as the World Events turned entire zones into massive attempts to defend the zone. Even more so than the regular invasions.

PVP. Up to level 49, it was quite a bit of fun. At level 50, it’s been pretty tiresome. It’s like, every one of these games.. the kiddies play the bad guys, the kiddies have 10 hours a day to play, and those of us with jobs and kids end up having to take on a bunch of kiddies overdosing on No Doz with Red Bull chasers.

The questing is a lot of fun, and the instances are fun too. They’re set up for bite size chunks, and the “Expert” mode certainly kicks up the difficulty level by a factor of .. several. Long story short, it’s a lot of fun, and the guild is growing and we’ve met a ton of great folks – and I’ve seen many, many other games fail at this point, where Rift is succeeding. Will it be a WoW killer? I doubt it. At least, not yet. The game world isn’t big enough yet.  But it at least has a lot of potential.

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