Last night: Started off with the dailies in DCUO. Kaptain KY had told me to fly left before the final fight to escape from Lobo’s Space Hogg, and that worked. Spode had said there was a special achievement for waiting for Luthor’s escape teleporter to recharge and then following it where it led, and I did. And I fell right into my very own Volcanic Hideout. So this is my new place now. Elon Musk, eat your heart out. ...
Dragon Age: Inquisition I’ve been back and forth on this entry. Whether it should be this high on the list. Whether it should even be on this list. And yet I feel if this wasn’t on the list, I’d regret it. Because the fact is, I really enjoyed my time with the Dragon Age games. Dragon Age: Origins was my first exposure to the modern multi-character Mass Effect-style epic RPG for which Bioware was famous. I’d played Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights, but this was something special. Half a dozen different origins – entirely different opening chapters to the game depending upon the race and heritage you chose at the beginning. Elves were reviled. Mages were hated and feared. The classic RPG tropes were turned on their heads. ...
Octopath Traveler: Made it to the second phase of Galdera, the true final boss. This was my first time making it this far. Now that I’ve got the first phase understood, I just have to figure out how to get through this part before I can finally put the game away. Part of the issue came after I killed his three living weapons: he covered his weaknesses except for a couple I couldn’t break quickly. Then he swallowed all our boost points, spirit points, and health. I did my best but he killed half the team in one hit, and then the other half in the next hit. ...
My little desk friends. The rules of the “favorite game series” posts, as I understand them, is that there must have been more than one game, the games must have the series name in the title, I must have played them, and if another in that series were to be made, I would definitely play that. Replaying the first few hours of FGS #5, Dungeon Siege, confirmed that I’m still a big fan of party based isometric RPGs, even when they are insanely difficult. Replaying Portal reminded me just how much I value great writing in video games. ...
Can you feel the feline neurons growing? I’ve got a soft spot for “programming” games. Since that’s my day job, I can usually convince myself that this is the one sort of game I might actually be good at. I’m looking at you, Octopath Traveler final boss that I’m too timid to fight anymore. Programming games can run the gamut from super-techy TIS-100, which asks you to write multiprocessor programs in a bespoke assembly language, to beginner friendly 7 Billion Humans, which has you write parallel processing algorithms in a Snap-like visual programming language. ...
I started replaying Dungeon Siege tonight… and man, I sure hope I don’t end up replaying all of the games on my “top five game series” list. It’ll take me years. Anyway, I downloaded the HD textures pack, but I can’t really tell if the graphics are really any higher resolution. They don’t really look any better than I remember. The textures pack came with a note that the optional second campaign, Legends of Alana (I think?), needed to be installed before these files were installed. I didn’t do that step. It’s getting late; tomorrow I’ll give that a shot. ...
A very large arachnid Inspired by posts from gamers on Twitter, I sat down and came up with a list of five game series that I really enjoyed enough so that another entry in the series would be a must-buy. I’m considering a series as more than one game that shares a title, so even a two game collection would be a series (say, for instance, Red Dead Redemption). RDR isn’t on the list, though, but it’s close. ...
Blog is starting to look more like “my blog” now. Pardon any mess. The header images are going to be mostly EQ1 for now (from my old blog), but as I make more posts and turn any image posts into headers, they’ll start showing up, too.
During this PvE mission, I was politely asked by a teammate to "uninstall the game". Back in the before times, there was a blogger who was deep into World of Tanks. I don’t remember who it was, but I remember really liking the slower pace and the tactical gameplay. I didn’t (and don’t) much care for or about tanks. World of Planes, when I tried it, was way too fast paced and hard to keep track of the fight. ...
Me and Huntress saving a cowering Superman from the Hive. Poor Supes. The earliest picture I have of DC Universe Online is from 2008. It’s of my son standing at the DCUO booth at a (then) Sony Online Entertainment Fan Faire. I was mostly excited about the upcoming Free Realms at the time. Twelve years later, Free Realms is gone, and DCUO remains. Since then, I’d joined a static group eventually called Team Spode, and we drifted from game to game before eventually coming to DCUO somewhere probably around 2014, though it may have been earlier. The earliest screenshot I have is from late 2014 and it’s clear the team was working on end game content. ...