Last night (literally: 3 AM), I became an official Asheron's Call 2 Beta-tester. Woohoo! Unfortunately, the game refused to run on my home PC (doh!), but it's working decently on my office PC, although it's far below minimum specs.

First impressions? They're a competitor, so there's that whole conflict of interest thing going on, but so far, so good. I was a big fan of the first one, and I like the scope of it - the sprawling, open world; the grand vistas; the epic landscapes. But, like I said, I can't really talk too much about it. Suffice it to say, a new MMOG is always good fun - especially when it's a brand new world I don't know anything about (as opposed to, say, Anarchy Online, where absolutely nothing is a mystery to me anymore).  ¶ 15:50