Tabula Rasa

By kim And I loved my cellphone nearly as much as I loved Monica's kisses. I promise all of you that by tomorrow afternoon, monster headache aside, I will be a clean slate; a Tabula Rasa. Sweet dreams to anyone that may read this! ...

By Nicholas Lovell Tabula Rasa did OK. Not spectacularly, not terribly. But it had cost a lot a make and, like all MMOs, had substantial ongoing costs. NCsoft took only fifteen months to declare the Tabula Rasa experiment over and close the game. ...

By sente Posted in Age of Conan, MMO Games, Star Trek Online, Tabula Rasa Pretty much every time a new subscription-based MMO is released or is about to be released there is a lot of comments about “game is released too soon”, “it would need another X months”, “it is missing vital features”. These com...

By Jen From Windy Ridge Tabula Rasa. January 1, 2010. Jace & Hazel. A clean slate, tabula rasa, new beginning, fresh start….a new year! My resolution list is long and my soul is filled with hope. What did you do to ring in the new year? ...

By SynCaine Given that some of today’s MMO players have more MMO experience than some of the devs making the games, it’s not exactly out of the question that they might have an idea or two worth considering. Add in that we are talking about a genre that is still in its infancy, one that (unless you are makin...

By Enrico S. In Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, no single class can deal as much damage with a wide area of effect like the Demolitionist. These specialists can take out specific targets with their explosives or simply level an entire area if the ...

By Enrico S. Here is the complete list of all the changes done on the Tabula Rasa test server: The Centaurus Server data will remain on test this week. We are giving players patches earlier in the development process now - so this patch will NOT be ...

By Enrico S. In the story of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, the war against the Bane has caused the deaths of many humans. It's not really surprising that most, if not all, of the soldiers fighting in the Allied Free Sentients have lost friends, ...

Famed Ultima Online forbear Richard Garriott returned from his much-publicized trip to space to find his latest project, NCsoft's Tabula Rasa, ...

Then again, going the non-fantasy route doesn't guarantee success -- Tabula Rasa, anyone? New MMO's can't out-WoW WoW. They have many years and many, ... and more »

By Seraphina Brennan Today is a day where we should honor our fallen. Motor City Online. Tabula Rasa. Auto Assault. Asheron's Call 2. Earth and Beyond. Underlight. Shadowbane. Castle Infinity. The Matrix Online. The Sims Online. Seed. All of these games, and more, are MMOs that have launched, played, and then died.

By Shixi XIE Tabula Rasa changes, or should I say, “should be” changes. Last 2007-12-14 Feedback Friday, they mentioned about the coming changes to the attributes: Body points will now add a bonus to your armor rating; Mind points will now add a ...

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By Krystalle Voecks This morning, GamePolitics added their .02 to the mix and upped the ante with the legal documents involved - and boy, are they illuminating. According to Richard's side of the story, it goes like this: Richard & co form Destination Games, and are bought out by NCsoft in exchange for some...

 New Zealand Despite relatively good reviews and early anticipation, the MMORPG failed to live up to its promise. Richard Garriott (aka Lord British aka Astronaut aka personification of weird) designed the game, but abandoned the team shortly after to pursue his ...

 CA - Dec 31, 2008 After taking the trip in space he'd always dreamed of, NCsoft's Richard Garriott announced he was leaving the company. Tabula Rasa's launch proved to have ...

MMORPG & MMO GAMES; Exteel Review HotFrog (persbericht), Netherlands - Dec 5, 2008 best games the MMO genre has to offer - classics like the fantasy PvP goliath Lineage 2, the sci-fi shooter Tabula Rasa, and the anime-inspired Exteel. ...

By Soulskill NCSoft announced today that it will be closing down Tabula Rasa on February 28th. The sci-fi shooter-flavored MMO struggled for quite some time, despite recent attempts to draw in new players by announcements of new features, price reductions, and using Richard Garriott's trip into sp...

By Jonathan Fincher Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa has fallen on hard times lately -- what with other high-profile MMOs like Age of Conan and Warhammer Online stealing away their thunder -- but I don't think we realized quite how far the game has been sinking. Many retailers, including Gamestop, have stopped...

By Relmstein(noreply@blogger.com) It's a smart decision and gives the team a time to polish a couple things. In particular I'm worried about how similar their gameplay design looks to Tabula Rasa. Both games use a sort of auto-targeting FPS combat style which heavily factors "cover" into damage taken. It's a style of combat th...

By Taea NCsoft gifted the players of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa with an early patch to the Live servers, bringing Deployment 11 in to the game play. Already looking ahead, the tweaks to Deployment 12 and drawing to a close and should be ready for the Test Server soon. Several new items are previe...

By Ceasar S. You've all heard that Richard Garriott, creator of Richard Garriott's Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa by Richard Garriott, will be taking to the final frontier that is space when he takes off this October 12, 2008 for the International Space Station (ISS). But here's something you didn'...

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Patches, Tabula RasaAfter over three weeks on the test server, Tabula Rasa's Deployment 10 has now arrived on the live servers. With this content update, TR players get their fair share of goodies, and the general opinion so far is po...

By Taea Deployment 10 for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa is now Live! Biggest news of the day is the new massive, Rambo-esque shotguns now available starting at level 23. Second biggest news is that the Velon Hollow instance is in place, with a brand new armor set dropping. Tons of ability changes a...

By Enrico S. Fixed an error with the logos door in Howling Maw.Fixed an error where Holograms in the Temple of the Proud Patriarch despawn after killing a player that fails the mission.Fixed an error in the Temple of the Proud Patriarch where dying and failing still allows you to complete the missionCor...

By Shawn Schuster As we announced a few weeks ago, the folks at TabulaCast landed an exclusive interview with Tabula Rasa's lead designer, Tom Potter. They reached out to the community during these last few weeks, asking players to submit their own questions for Tom to answer on the show. Now, that episode ha...

By Openedge1 The overall score of 80% is good...not great...but each review all says the same thing...they see potential here...unlike previous games (Tabula Rasa, Vanguard to name a few...LOTRO...well...had good reviews...yet look at the game...a ...

By Taea After a few delays and much player angst, Deployment 9 for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa has hit the Test Server. Lots of fixes to the female avatars are included in this patch, including body porportions in the newly optimized Hazmat and Graviton armor sets. Lots of clan changes are in, CP...

By sente After being on vacation for about a week not looking at anything game-like and barely touching any computer, I found a couple of new things waiting to be explored: Age of Conan was released (for pre-order at least)Issue 12 for City of Heroes/Villains was releasedDeployment 8.x for Tabula...

By sente In the past 9 months there has been two MMOGs I have been playing regularly - City of Heroes/Villains and Tabula Rasa. The points I wanted to bring up here are applicable for other games also, but I have taken the two games I played much recently as the examples.

By Karl B. This patch includes quite a few interesting updates. There are fixes to respawns, aggro adjustments, and even a few changes to Spy and Ranger abilities. Pet-loving players will also welcome the new damage bonuses to their pets when they add points to their Mind attribute.

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By Ryan C. Heads up, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa players! The latest patch notes for the game have already been released, and it's very brief. Teeny weeny it is, but it's still an important batch of update that you should know about. After all, you'd want to be up to speed on all things relating NCsof...

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By Ryan C. Heads up, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa players! The latest patch notes for the game have already been released, and it's very brief. Teeny weeny it is, but it's still an important batch of update that you should know about. After all, you'd want to be up to speed on all things relating NCsof...

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By Suzie Ford This being a re-review, we're called upon to provide a score - a tricky proposition, since we really like Tabula Rasa as a game, but now find it extremely hard to recommend that anyone actually pick it up and play it. The improvements since launch certainly bump up the game somewhat, but the d...

By Charles D. No worries, though. There were hints of the sniper getting some additional benefits from the upcoming ranger improvement soon, so don't shelf that Torqueshell Rifle just yet. Come back to this spot again next week for more updates to Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.

By Krystalle Voecks Some folks are happy, some guarded, and others aren't so thrilled, but the details for Tabula Rasa's upcoming Patch 1.6 have been released. Along with the experience buffs that were mentioned on Feedback Friday, there's also a boatload of fixes to missions, mobs, terrain problems, modif...

By Chris Chester Ever since Tabula Rasa's now-infamous patch 1.5 went live, I've noticed a trend most curious. In the months since the game launched, the server populations did something of a quick spiraling crash. They started out at consistently high, and over the course of the month gradually fell to mos...

By dmosbon Taken from Tabula Rasa: Review Part One - Levels 1-25 by Laura Genender So where does that leave my Tabula Rasa gaming? §Related Posts ¦ Tabula Rasa Reaching level 10 & nearing the end of the quest lines on the first map Concordia Wilderness in the first

By Matt Warner I believe monetary policy entered NCsoft's equation to cut-off Blackstar. NCsoft currently isn't in a great position to keep pumping money into their numerous development projects given Tabula Rasa's enormous failure. The numbers from NCsoft's last quarterly annual report are ugly. T...

By Chris Chester I honestly can't tell you how we went a whole day without noticing, but Tabula Rasa's Patch 1.4 is currently active on the live servers. With it comes a wealth of new changes that we've been talking about over the last couple weeks. All players have had their attribute and skill points refunded...

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By Glen D. When the previous patch for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa arrived, a lot of people were glad to see that bugs were taken care of. The only hitch was that repair costs for equippable items skyrocketed, leaving players trying to raise funds gnashing their teeth.

By Enrico S. The patch notes for the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa test servers have been released much to the delight of some members of the QJ.NET team. We're pretty sure that you want to find out all about the changes that NCsoft has been implementing. Here is the complete list of all the changes done on...

By Ethic “The MMO genre just got a serious dose of adrenaline thanks to Richard Garriott’s reinvention of online combat.” - Gamespy “Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa is fun to play, has stunning graphics and doesn’t take place in yet another tiresome fantasy fairyland.” - Gamedaily

By brackishwater I’ve been playing a lot of Tabula Rasa and I know I have already written a little review about the game but I just felt like it needed or deserved more. I’m not saying this is the epic game I have always been waiting for or that you should run out and grab it right now. I don’t do recommendations anym...

By Louis McLaughlin I've been in two minds over whether to give Fury a try, but this convinces me to steer clear for now. Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London must be hoping for a kinder reviews than the one doled out to Fury. Auran can't have enjoyed this one. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comm...

My review of Stargate Atlantis's "Tabula Rasa" episode under the cut, spoiler ridden. TABULA RASA A review And it’ll be all over the place, as I’m tired (long day – saw Paul McGillion at the NJ SG con and he’s such a sweetheart)

By Jerico G. JoyStiq managed to score an interview with NCsoft boss Richard Garriott and Executive Producer Brian Clayton. The talk revolved mostly around the MMORPG industry and their (NCSoft) plans to support the PlayStation 3 with MMO-type titles. Their latest project - Tabula Rasa - was also tou...

By Ryan A. Lastly, cloning in Tabula Rasa is yet to be finalized. Burba said that players can delete every single clone they don't want and create a new one. However, this feature will be limited by the number of character slots to be assigned to players - which is yet to be decided as well.

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By Ian C. While talk about NCsoft's Tabula Rasa is unavoidable, since that game is Garriott's next baby, we'll give you all the revealed Tabula Rasa contributions to the MMO genre later. For now here's how Garriott sees the MMO genre the way it is now:

By Mike Fahey The world itself is made up of instance zones in which missions of earth-shattering import take place. Garriott assures us that these won't be simple kill the boss, get the item missions, but quests with epic storylines and ramifications. There are world zones as well, though these are spl...