This week is we have just celebrated Halloween. This is from yesterday. This is my sibling’s yearly Halloween charcuterie.
The candles are droopy because they are cheese. The flames are not providing light because they are almonds.
What are you guys up to?
After reaching level 60 in World of Warcraft, I was inundated with quest starters for different major quest-lines in Battle for Azeroth. I’m still paying through those options to maybe figure out a better way to handle it, and there will be lots to talk about why this is in the future. But all the discussion about how Star Wars: The Old Republic handled stories prompted me to re-install and take a look at how my other favorite MMORPG is doing. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Changing Gears: Inaccessible to Easy Accessible Stories”
– Shamus, Friday Dec 22, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XLIII: Rail-Rodian”
Logan is discovering the hard way that he isn’t good at…anything, really.
At least, not to his own standards.
Logan’s skills are based in socialization and leading. He’s good at a bake sale, or running his parents’ bookshop. He got high marks in most of his classes growing up, but ‘participation’ was always his highest mark and sometimes carried him through his less successful subjects. Isolated the way he has been, he has too much time to think. He’s failing over and over to write, bake, sew, paint, and all matter of other miscellaneous hobbies he picked up to endear himself to strangers. The thought crosses his mind that maybe he only ever got attention for projects because he was friendly. The thought then keeps crossing his mind as though participating in some screwed up game of Frogger where the goal is to have an anxiety attack.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: Ivy Liege”
This week I got back into Orcs Must Die 2. I forgot how much I like tower defense games.
What are you guys up to?
World of Warcraft has a story problem. It has had for a long time, and very few changes made in the game have helped. The re-arranging Blizzard did to make older content “leveling options” until you reach level 60 has, arguably, made things just a bit worse. Now that I’ve dinged 60, let’s look broadly at WoW’s story and how a new player will likely NEVER know what’s going on.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “World of Warcraft at 60: I’m Going Slightly Mad”
– Shamus, Friday Dec 15, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XLII: Joining the Rebellion”
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
Who is this imbecile and why is he wandering around Europe unsupervised?
Bethesda felt the need to jam a morality system into Fallout 3, and they blew it. Good and evil make no sense and the moral compass points sideways.
What makes this borderline indie title so much better than the AAA juggernauts that came before?
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
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