A brief tour of the Halloween 2012 events on games that are currently installed on my system. World of Warcraft is excluded however because the Halloween event this year is the same as years past with a simple loot table update. Rift is also not on the tour, as the event has been going on for over a month now and isn’t specific to Halloween but more Fall in general.
First stop on the tour, Guild Wars 2. I didn’t do any of the related quests. I just can’t get back into the game to be honest. And I was instantly turned off on how overly decorated Lion’s Arch was compared to the level of decoration I remember in Guild Wars.
Next stop, the ever creepy world of The Secret World. Halloween adventures begin in the zombie infested town of Kingsmouth and with the fortune teller in town. Again, simply popped my head in for a peak and it was one peak too many. I’m deleting the game for good this time. It’s obvious the graphics are getting worse not better and obviously the game designers have never meet a real woman (see below). Between the buggy quest (couldn’t get the cut scene to play on my second character after the first set of screenshots didn’t save), the horrible optimization (FPS ranging from 2 to 120 in the same area), and the god awful graphics, I just can’t tolerate it anymore. And wouldn’t you think in a real world setting for a game, the towns and cities or heck even the homes would show some sign of celebrating Halloween? But nope, Funcom couldn’t be bothered to decorate with so much as a single pumpkin in the bank in London.
Moving right along, to the world of super hero’s and villains, next on the tour is DC Universe Online. The tour took a prolonged stop here. The in-game event is fun. The streets of Gotham and Metropolis are decorated for the season. There are new collection quests, tricks and treats drop as loot, and the mood is definitely a spooky, fall event.
The questing all takes place in Gotham, where characters level 5 and above are asked to help clean the streets of the invisible Masked Apparitions tormenting the citizens of Gotham. The instance for Halloween takes characters to the tavern where Klarion the Witch Boy has scared the patrons.
Everquest 2 is the final stop on the MMO tour of Halloween 2012. Nights of the Dead is how Norrath celebrates Halloween and the event lasts until 5 November 2012. There are a ton of quests, which if Halloween is your favorite holiday is great (doesn’t happen to be mine however). Here’s a quick peak at Qeynos when I logged on this morning.
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