Arenanet gets points for doing some cute things with some major news site(s?), like this. Still, I feel like Heart of Thorns is being rushed out the door ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't been involved in RP offline in quite a while now. Just too hard to gather motivation and align schedules. Ah well.

Online, the Lords of Gossamer and Shadows rolls on. 'tis weekly entertainment, though I'm still perhaps not as into it as I could possibly be. The combination of roster turnover, anything-goes setting, and such ( Read more... )

As my obsessive time commitments in WoW reduce, I've put a little more time back into FFXIV and the Heavensward expansion. Functionally, not that much has changed, though you can jump through some hoops to fly in the new zones, which is always neat. It's still possible to run into blockages of quests where you must do an instance to continue, but ( Read more... )

I feel sort of floaty, adrift, aimless ( Read more... )

Fury Road stunt doubles got married? That's kinda cool.

E3 gears up. Ooo. Ahh.

A remake of Final Fantasy VII? Fans have wanted that for well over a decade. I find myself less than enthusiastic that the time has actually come.

Actually, the most interesting thing I've seen so far is the Mass Effect: Andromeda announcement. Mostly, I find it ( Read more... )

... occasionally aren't.

In my periodic casting about for distractions, I picked up Pillars of Eternity, a crowdfunded computer RPG in the vein of the old Baldur's Gate games. There's a lot of nostalgic value that really takes me back and technical improvement. It's definitely higher resolution than those games, though you still don't often have ( Read more... )

Well, let's see ( Read more... )

Well, I took a look at storytelling, so why not look at combat in the MMOs I've played?

WoW: This is the first MMO I really picked up, so I may be biased. It's sort of the baseline in my mind. It's not perfect, but it works well ( Read more... )

I had some discussion about story and presentation, having just done Arah in GW2 this weekend for a couple people. So here are some sort of general thoughts ( Read more... )

So... I'm nearing the end of my "trial" period and there's probably more I can say. It took just over three weeks of regular play for me to hit level 50 with dragoon/lancer (which includes 15 levels of marauder), which So... I'm nearing the end of my "trial" period and there's probably more I can say. It took just over three weeks of regular play ( Read more... )