Go over to the Deadly Creatures site, click on videos and watch the clip of them motion-capturing a scorpion. Just do it, trust me. =)

Three choices. Just because.

First, Tolkien-inspired:

They smoke the good stuff in Finland:

And of course Prop 8 the Musical:

Yeah I know I'm a bit behind, these are all dated. I'm catching up on Youtube.

I hit Rank 20 with Skereye this past weekend. Here's a quick video showing a small taste of Squig Herder soloing combat, plus a pleasant ride down the beach on my new mount.

I'm fairly happy with the Squig Herder class. The charm of the Gobbo (Goblin) makes up for the numerous pet-related bugs and design limitations (how is having only one squig at a time "herding"?). There's also the sheer joy of spraying arrows. =)

Okay he's not really extraordinary yet, he's only Rank 5, but here's Bester my Magus. He's an alt for now, but possibly a contender versus my Squig Herder.

I hadn't planned on detailing this character for you until I've played him further, but a friend requested some caster video clips so a quick Fraps of Bester seemed the easiest way to provide that.

Here is Bester just floating about on his disc so you can see the dark and scarred environment of the Chaos starting areas. He never leaves the damned disc and at higher levels his AoE attacks will come from it:

And here's a bit of basic Magus combat with Bester. His attacks are, as you can see, rather colourful (although personally I'd prefer some classic fireballs ala the Bright Wizards):

Yes I named him in homage to Alfred Bester (the writer, although the Babylon 5 character was pretty cool too).

Thanks to Donna for pointing this out to me. For a review made for comedic effect, it's fairly thorough. Some of it is bang-on:

I laughed, I cried, I reposted it here. =)

Oh and I admit, I do secretly dream of living inside a Boris Vallejo painting.

(Note: their video server seems a bit slow to get started, but if you're an Age of Conan player, wait for it. It's worth it, trust me).

The animations are truly why I love playing a Polearm Guardian.

Here's a video tribute to Guard V:

The Guard combos have always had an extra flare as they're triggered, mostly with an overhead spin, but Funcom saved the best for last and gave the final rank of Guard an almost nunchuck-like maneuver: a spin across the back.

It's a long combo, which makes it hard to pull off with mobs that stun, but when successful it's spectacular.

I dinged 60 recently. I wasn't supposed to be leveling my Guardian much this past week, but dammit I'm just having too much fun with my polearms.

I bought my a horse a bit late, partially because all of my coin had been put into our city constructions, but also because the horses seemed rather slow. In a recent patch Funcom boosted their speed significantly, as you can see in this video it's plenty zippy:

I'm thrilled once again with Funcom's animations, which for an MMO are top-notch (Assassin's Creed horse action was better, but that's comparing apples and oranges since there's nothing much you can do with the horses in that game). This video doesn't demonstrate it at all, but if you use the movement keys to turn your horse it will angle into the turns, it would be nice if they applied that to mouse movements as well.

Note the lovely cloak of dead beaver pelts I'm wearing. =)