Been losing sleep to this recently, which is a bit of a surprise as the game wasn't even on my radar until some friends recommended it. The most important factor is that it seems to actually implement the concept of the story-based MMO better than SWToR, because in addition to having a main storyline it is also single-player and casual-friendly. ( Read more... )

@HomeworkI'd mentioned awhile back that, despite its lack of non-RNG progress and plot (at least on the umpteenth playthrough), Diablo 3 is fun to play because the gameplay itself is cool, in a twitch-reflex Musou kind of way ( Read more... )

Hey look, it's not a QQ post about real life logistics. Instead, have some more pandas.

LFR And Item LevelThe item level requirement for LFR seems to actually want to count items you're actually wearing as opposed to ones that are simply in your bank/inventory. This doesn't stop the Hunter from cheesing the level req using Shaman mail, but does ( Read more... )

Book

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley is a parody of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. The story itself is pretty fun and somewhat similar in style to Discworld, if you can get through the first thirty pages of parentheses-infested infodump without throwing it at the wall.

WoW-Related-Between dailies and chain instancing I haven't had time to do ( Read more... )

I would like to say that I did something productive with my free time last week, but I would totally be lying.

Drop the Hammer-Prot is now a priority queue instead of a solid rotation, with all the twitch-happiness that comes with it. The most important thing is to internalize cooldown timers so you get a sense of when to hit what button as ( Read more... )

First off, Blizzard seems amazingly good at taking over gaming life, since a new patch for Diablo 3 adds another 100 effective levels. Games like Diablo and WoW don't ever really seem to *end*, par se, so while they are less pressing to play than a traditional single player game where you want to follow the story, they're sort of always there once ( Read more... )

-D&D is getting slightly better in that we only had a couple of guys "faint" (@FF6) instead of die this time, though we still can't seem to get through an average fight without blowing so many resources that we need to sleep after every fight or two. Given the sort of system 4.0 runs on, it is true that a series of smaller encounters is less ( Read more... )

SQUEE PANDAS.

*ahem* Now that's out of the way...

There was a kerfluffle a bit back in beta that resulted in extended forum arguments about a couple of lines of quest text. The gist is that there was one NPC that would hit on female PCs, some people got offended, Blizzard changed the text, then other people got offended that they changed the text ( Read more... )

After about a week of intermittent crashing and downloads, finally got MOP to work, though it takes about 4 tries on average to start the launcher without it crashing immediately. Game itself appears stable, however ( Read more... )

Game Stuff

-Female Pandaren are so terribly cute, like living plushies. There's even a red panda option with a floofy tail (no, red pandas are not the same species, but eh). Given the media blitz and the fact that they're already in closed beta, it wouldn't be surprising if they released it in the fall or winter of this year. The only question is ( Read more... )