Christmas is over, but that doesn’t mean the holiday celebration has ended… at least, not in the video game world. One thing I’ve always enjoyed about games is the effort some of them put into celebrating the holidays through events, dungeons, quests, items, etc. So, without further ado, I’d like to talk about some of the games that I feel really went out of their way to bring the holiday cheer to their community.
Once again Aion brought the holiday cheer with their Solorius event that started December 12 and goes into January 2, 2013. They’ve added in many quests that reward coins. The coins reward gear, dyes, housing items, and more. Not to mention their Black Cloud Marketplace has plenty of cool skins, weapons, home decorations, and more. Their Wheel of Fortunerk has a lot of awesome prices, including the chance to win a palance, something that seems only available through the wheel. Granted to spin the wheel and buy from the Marketplace you’ll have to spend real money in order to obtain the NCoin. Kind of the downside to this event.
Runescape’s 2012 Christmas event, “A Stray in a Manger,†took off. Players talk to the snow imp that has been put in charge of bringing holiday cheer to all the stray dogs in the world. Your task will be to find the dogs, clean them, and then find a home for them. Once you do so the rewards are plentiful. Not only do you get a stray dog of your own, but you get a Santa beard and the Gift of the Giving.
SW:TOR celebrated Life Day, a Wookiee holiday, by adding some items to their Cartel market for purchase. With this, many items were added, including a Life Day Orb that allows you to generate health and energy pool while the orb is displayed. Naturally, there are holiday decorations of sorts, a new mount, and more. There was no actual event planned, however. Something Bioware admitted to, though also stated that doesn’t mean they won’t do events in the future.
The Secret World isn’t necessarily doing a “holiday event†at the moment, but they are enjoying a mini apoc of their own with the End of Days event. All you have to do is go to the mission room to get started. Basically players complete various tasks and build points. Players in the top 1000 of points will get a special title, while the top 100 will receive a mini pet.
I’d say, at least in my own opinion, one of the games that has yet to really cease to amaze, especially in regards to events, is Guild Wars 2. Their Wintersday event has changed the world of Tyria, at least for now. They’ve added quests, dungeons, discoveries, a new jumping puzzle, and new items on the Black Lion Trading company. All of these will be available up until January 3rd of the new year. Though it didn’t seem possible to do, they’ve really outdone their Halloween event and, in my opinion at least, outdone the events of a lot of other games.I could go on and on with a list of games that have holiday events and special items available, but we know that’d take forever and would basically be an essay.
I know this is the day after Christmas and you’re likely reading this like, “Why does this matter now?†But, you see… it does matter. Many of us have been busy leading up to this holiday and have about one more week left to enjoy some of these awesomely fun events and temporarily added features. I know that I will be going back and logging into some of the games to finally see what they have to offer.
Hopefully next year other games will be stepping up to the plate to compete with the likes of GW2.
Tutorial Island
Tutorial Island is non-optional for new accounts – every player must follow the training trail. You’ll be taught to chop down trees, prepare a fire from the logs, fish for shrimp, cook the shrimp, make dough from flour, and bread from dough. You’ll mine tin and copper, and smelt them into bronze. You’ll stab a giant rat to death, then pepper his mate with arrows. You’ll pray, and be introduced to the friend and ban menus. I tried to befriend someone called “worldeater12”. Not because I’d met him – more because anyone called World Eater 12 sounds like the kind of bloke you’d want to have on your side.
Virtually everything you do gives you experience. RuneScape’s XP and levelling system is divided into 24 boxes (with a couple, as mentioned, only available to paying members). Cut down a tree, get 25 Woodcutting XP. Cut down just under 100 trees, and you’ll be able to… cut down new kinds of tree. Fire-making is another skill, which gives you something to do with all the trees you’ve cut down. And on the fires, you can level your cooking skill by toasting the prawns you got from grinding your fishing skill. Eat cooked meats to top up your energy during combat, which boosts your Defence, Strength, HP and Attack experience. Do your enemy the dignity of burying his bones, and you’ll get prayer experience.
There are no character stats, only bonuses to your levels acquired from items, and your overall level is calculated from all your others. With nothing that’s not unlockable to any paying member, the only limitation is how much of your life you’re honestly capable of spending in this world. No classes means one character per account – it makes no sense to have more than one when it would be a needless duplication of effort. This has its own drawbacks, as I’ll discover later.
With a network of level prerequisites and codependencies between the ability and crafting skills, there’s always something that needs to catch up. This trail of tantalisingly close numbers is pure brain-filling time-sponge. It’s one thing RuneScape gets right – progress may not always be meaningful, but it’s constant.
Runesacpe:Back in Session
You may have proven yourself in arguing your case, be that for the Prosecution or the Defence, but now you have to do some real legwork. Interviewing witnesses in the field is now a key part of building a case;for instance,how do you prove that Evil Dave is evil?Or how about finding crucial evidence at a crime scene, which could make or break your case? Would finding chicken feathers in Professor Oddenstein’s lab prove he performed illegal transmogrification tests on Ernest? In addition,we are still supply runesacpe money to player.
Not all cases are so black and white either. Do the wizards of RuneScape deserve compensation from the barbarians for an invasion that happened over a century ago? Is the sawmill operator running an illegal monopoly or is he just protecting his intellectual property rights? Cases like these have no easy answers.If you are looking for cheap Runesacpe gold or rs money,our site is your best choice.
With more challenging cases come bigger rewards, including larger amounts of Attack and Defence XP and more items from grateful clients.Also,the Court House likes to reward you for your hard work too, so, once you’ve completed 10 and all 16 cases respectively, you’ll receive a barrister’s top and a gavel to match your barrister’s wig.
RuneScape Game Bar
RuneScape recently released the RuneScape Game Bar, which is a toolbar for your web browser that gives you up to date RuneScape information. If players like to get the newest information, you should join into RS game bar; if players hope to gain more Runescape Gold, you should contact our site LiveChat! Have any questions of rs money, welcome to contact us! Ok, let’s know the main features of the Game Bar are:
Information about any Grand Exchange offers you have running.
Reminders about repeatable content, including when you can next play Tears of Guthix, redo the Phoenix Lair, fight Bork and the Skeletal Horror, and when you can earn more Thieves’ Guild Hanky Points.
Quick links to the RuneScape forums, game guide and Adventurer’s Log, among others.
An RSS feed of recent newsposts on the RuneScape website.
A ‘Play Now’ button to quickly load up RuneScape.
A search bar.
We are also working on additional features, including seeing which of your friends is online. If you have any suggestions for other things we can add to the Game Bar, visit the RS Game Bar – Try it Out! forum thread. Of course, if you have any suggestions for our sell RuneScape money, you can give us e-mail or phones.
RunScape Players’ Gallery
Another month goes by and another mountain of artwork arrives on our desks. RuneScape players are gathering RS money day and night in the game. Some time, I think players can choose other way to get RuneScape money, such as buy runescape gold from believable gold supplier site. Yep, it’s a hard job, but we love going through your artwork – the more quality submissions we get to see, the happier we are! This month’s glorious collection brings us brooding dragons, hungry bunyips, pesky penguins and cooking catastrophes. We hope you like them too.
One particular entry stood out to become this month’s featured artist. Our congratulations go to Tyrutu, a regular contributor to the RuneScape art community. Their ‘Tormented Demon’ picture maintains every bit of this freakish beast’s troubling visage, while using a cool and clear cartoon styling. It’s a great piece of work, and so they’ve bagged themselves a month of free RuneScape membership and a certificate signed by a selection of J-Mods.
Oh, and one other thing… Starting this month, each gallery’s featured artist not only bags some membership and a signed certificate, they also get an exclusive piece of signed concept art direct from the easels of RuneScape’s Graphics team.
So, if you want to win a one-of-a-kind piece of bespoke RuneScape artwork, simply pick up your favoured art tools, create something original and polished then send it to us using the instructions on The Gallery – Feedback & Ideas forum thread. There you can also talk to other artists and share any artsy thoughts and tips you have.