I am now 45 hours into Project Gorgon and finally strong enough to start doing the first dungeon in the second full map, Eltibule. Last night I grouped up with a random necromancer in Eltibule Keep and spent probably 2 hours straight running around, killing goblins, and finding all the armor pieces on the first floor. It was a frickin' blast. I had so much fun. I was getting a bit tired of running in circles in the Serbule Crypt and, thank goodness, this goblin dungeon was so much fun it rehabilitated my enjoyment of the game. Even with how many hours I have put in now, I still feel like I am just beginning...

I'm about 20 hours into Project Gorgon now and I pretty much love it. It was exactly what I wanted / needed in a new MMO. It's got the atmosphere of ESO, the combat of GW2 / WOW, the leveling grind of a much more old school MMO, all mushed up into a great package with a very nice community. It reminds me a bit of playing on MUDs back in the day. I wish I had played those old MMOs when I was younger...

I've been feeling the itch to play an MMO, and since I have essentially played all of them at this point, I had to go digging and stumbled on Project Gorgon. It's meant to be old school in the way Ultima Online and Asheron's Call was, which I never played way back in the day because I was a pretty lame excuse of a gamer back in the day.

I'm about 4 hours into it and it's a lot of fun. Not a lot of hand holding. You've got to rely on your experience playing RPGs all your life to know that you need to go into a town and talk to all the NPCs to figure out what the hell you're doing.

I'd say the only negative to the game so far is that the NPC, interactive objects, and player nameplates are all the same white color by default, which makes it nearly impossible to recognize in a town which characters are NPCs and which are players. But that just required a trek into the settings menu so I could configure the colors differently myself, and everything started to feel a lot less bewildering.