Morning Folks! Last night I hit level 45 in #WorldOfWarcraft#PandariaRemix and started on my third zone. I spent some time this morning talking about the scope of Pandaria and how it is contrasted against the feel of the last few expansions.
I also spent some time talking about the Narcissus addon which is making the whole constant gem swapping a bit easier.
Morning Folks! Last night I got my first of the unique items from #WorldOfWarcraft#PandariaRemix and also spent a bit of time talking about my general thoughts from the event so far.
Honestly, it feels like a refreshing take on the game with the best mechanical state of classes combined with a more classical feeling expansion.
GW2 still has fuel in the tank and a strong community.
I genuinely think that they could get weird with GW3 without hurting the franchise. Introduce mechanics not typically found in MMORPGs. Give it more of an ARPG combat system instead of tab-targeting. GW2 already has elements of this. GW2 has a lot of verticality; GW3 can build on this with cover and vaulting/climbing mechanics while in combat. Give GW3 mounted combat in the open world as an alternative to standard combat.
Morning Folks! A while back I saw someone on the Fediverse talking about an alternative to GOG Galaxy that gave you access to all of your games regardless of launcher through a single interface. Yesterday I finally got around to installing #Playnite and this morning I talked about my experience so far.
I have to say it is pretty slick and takes up a negligible amount of system resources.
@massivelyop Just saw that Britaria (lol)(formerly Legends of Aria) is on super top secret pre alpha testing this weekend too. Let’s see how their servers handle all 10 players trying to get in at once.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday thanks to a @RickiTarr question thread about video game character preferences, and this morning I decided to expand that into a full blog post.
Basically, I play the same character over and over and don't fully understand why.
Hey Folks! I said yesterday that I was not mainlining #Enshrouded... then spent the entire evening mainlining Enshrouded. I made a bunch of progress unlocking new tradesfolk and then started some minor renovations on my primary base.
Morning Folks! I've been spending some time playing that other new survival game that does not involve catching them all... #Enshrouded. This morning I share some of my very early thoughts about the game after having played around six hours.
Morning Folks! During Crucible there was this wildly overpowered build that involved exploding totems, and I have always kicked myself for never giving it a try. Right now, Penance Brand of Dissipation feels like one of those situations in the way it deletes bosses so I'm going for it and creating a character.
@bad_sonic I measure our success as a publication based on how smug our readers are when they DON'T fall for these kinds of things. I want them to make the right choice and be SO SMUG.
I hope you had a great New Year and a good holiday break if you managed to get any of it off.
This morning I talk about returning to #WorldOfWarcraft and opening some old wounds so that maybe they can heal over this time around. I started the post originally planning on talking about one thing and went down a totally different path.
Join @Bogusmeatfactory in NeoHabitat on Friday, January 5th from 7pm EST to 11:45pm EST for a fun time! Here’s the event schedule. I hope to see a bunch of you there, even if you never played Habitat in the past. It’s a lot of fun with people.
@SpindleyQ made a Lucasfilm’s Habitat tool to convert artwork from the games original compiled binary files from the source, into bitmaps you can view in a browser.
@stublad@SpindleyQ I’m often saddened that I missed out on #Habitat, but it was limited to #QuantumLink and as a teenager I couldn’t abide the per-minute charges when I could dial into local #BBSes for free.
Project Gorgon is a fantastic old school style #MMO that I've spent about 1k hours playing over the last few years. The game is 2nd only to its community. Main Dev team is a husband and wife with long ties to the genre.
This past weekend, players collectively donated over $25k to help fund the game/cancer treatment for one of the devs. It's an awesome game, an awesome space, and filled with awesome people. Check it out on #Steam. #ProjectGorgon
@mattontech@massivelyop I think there is a distinct difference between thriving monetarily and lacking innovation. Are there new MMOs coming out trying new things? Yes. Are they pushing the genre forward? No.
The genre of MMO is becoming a really convoluted series of knots by its very classification. We see so many games come up saying it's an "mmo," when it is simply a hyped up multiplayer game. We see gross monetization and a lack of innovative progression, economy and social mechanics.
@Bogusmeatfactory@massivelyop I don't know how anyone can look at MMORPGs today and say they lack innovation compared to what came before.
When I started playing in 1999 there were three popular reasonable choices. Grind skills in UO. Grind levels in EQ. Grind skills AND levels in AC.
Today I have the option to do the following: experience a great story, go deep into crafting or skilling, raid content, dungeon content, small-scale PvP, large scale PvP, world exploration, and more
#FF14, c'est le probablement le #MMO sur lequel j'ai passé le plus de temps. @tangeek a du mal à s'en remettre quand il regarde mon compteur Steam (qui est pourtant loin du compte).
Ce jeu, c'est l'histoire d'un come-back inattendu, inédit dans l'univers des MMO.
Et vu qu'on parle d'histoire, l'extension sortie en décembre 2021 clôture un arc narratif qui s'est écrit sur 10 ans. (1/x)
@petitchocobo Pour raisons pro et perso, j'ai lâché en 2018 et repris épisodiquement à partir de l'an passé. Je pense rattraper le retard avant Dawntrail pour pouvoir aller manger des tacos entre deux donjons d'inspiration aztèque 😉
Morning Folks! I've been back playing #NewWorld a bit as a side game and just realized this morning that I had not really talked much about it. I spend a bit this morning talking about the #AngryEarth expansion and easing back into the game.
@scopique No that was my experience when I rerolled some time back. I leveled so much faster than I did originally, and now there is way more quest support for new players. I figure it is a much better new player experience.
@scopique@belghast It has been adjusted a lot to help with the catch up, but they haven't updated all of the in game tips. For example, once you unlock your first campsite, you don't have to do the quests to unlock higher tiers, they just unlock with the levels. But the levelling rewards still mention quests. I also haven't figured out if I'm on the right path to unlock the heartgem and guides are outdated. You can pick a solo path for the Azoth staff unlocks now as well.
Morning Folks! This past weekend was #BlizzCon2023 and I genuinely thought it was one of the better shows in quite a long while. It feels like the vibe has maybe changed at the company.
