I mostly wanted to see if I could pull an animated GIF off the PS4… I posted last week or so ago that I liked Chocobo Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy! as a sort of light RPG that I could enjoy while waiting for something better to come along. That something better came in the form of Witcher 3, which is downloaded – all 40+ gigabytes of it – and waiting for me to play. ...
Since I finished Octopath Traveler a few weeks ago, I’ve been looking for another really decent RPG in which to lose myself. My boyfriend had several suggestions: Persona 4, DragonQuest XI, or the Witcher 3. Now I’ve seen the Netflix series, so I kinda know the characters. When there were still places called “libraries” that people could go to, I’d borrowed the “Blood of Elves” Witcher book, which takes place after the events in the Netflix series. ...
Kasul and I spent a good few hours yesterday on our Mangler characters, getting ourselves and our computers ready for restarting on Aradune in a couple of weeks. It was classic EverQuest. In FFXIV, you could be kicked out of a group for not pressing enough buttons, fast enough. It’s a frenetic experience. If you’re not pressing a button, you are not contributing in FFXIV. I haven’t played WoW in a very long time, but one of the common complaints from WoW folks restarting on FFXIV is that the FFXIV button pushing isn’t as fast as they’re used to. ...
I kid. I don’t know how to make any money in EverQuest, and I never did (but read on, I do have a strategy). You have me down here, and then you have people who know what they’re doing up there, and all I can do is just look up in wonder. Opening day for Rizlona and Aradune is coming up, though, and I need to have a plan for what I am going to do from the start, day 0, hour 0, minute 0, seconds 1 and counting. ...
It wasn’t super long ago that I ordered these minis from Hero Forge. I’d backed their latest Kickstarter and had a color mini as a reward. I didn’t really have an idea what mini I’d want to make, but I was pretty sure I’d think of something. When Hero Forge announced that their color design tools were ready to use, I was just finishing Octopath Traveler. I decided then and there that what I really wanted was a mini of my main character, H’aanit the Huntress. Once I’d designed her in the tools, I really couldn’t not design the other seven travelers, and so I did. ...
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn about depth charges” World of Warships is due to introduce their newest ship class, submarines, in a couple of weeks on May 27, a day already pretty darn busy on my personal calendar. (New EverQuest servers, SpaceX launches astronauts to the ISS, etc.) Those captaining subs will find themselves with a very different view of the battlefield when submerged. Able to move in all three dimensions, captains will be looking at the sonar reflections of the terrain beneath the waves. Every sonar ping, though, will reveal their position and heading on the main map. ...
I saw my bf running around in Nektulos Forest yesterday on his baby cleric, and just had to join in. When the Aradune TLP server drops in a couple weeks (May 27, same day that astronauts launch from the US since Space Shuttle Atlantis made her final trip), Kasul is going to be playing a shaman (probably a troll) and I’m going to be a dark elf shadowknight. We’d already decided upon a shaman/SK combo, and Kasul was excited to find out that Reddit agreed with us. ...
I don’t know anyone who has ever played any Final Fantasy game and didn’t say to themselves, “Well, why can’t I play as the Chocobo???2???” I think you can split Final Fantasy players between those who want to play as Chocobos, and those who want to play as Moogles. I don’t think there’s many people in that second category. They’d be monsters. Kupo. “But,” those Choco-philiacs would mutter, “I’d really miss playing those different jobs, like White Mage and Black Mage and Red Mage and Blue Mage and Green M…” let me stop you right there, because in Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon, you can absolutely do all these things. ...
Everyone’s most favorite Zero Player RPG (ZPG), Godville, just had its tenth anniversary. And I’ve been playing for most of that time. Probably saying “playing” is a little inaccurate, as you don’t play, per se. Instead, you watch your hero or heroine play semi-autonomously and you interact mainly by reading their diary entries, and occasionally meting out divine aid or punishment depending on if you consider yourself a good or evil deity. ...
I’ve been running around in an EverQuest Time-Limited Progression (TLP) server the past couple of days. Is there even such a thing as a new EverQuest player anymore?