RTS

I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 2nd: “2Dark 2C”. In this complex real-time strategy computer game you play a spacefaring vampire attacking colonies on planets ranging from swamps to desert worlds with Medusas as mid-bosses and aliens comprised entirely of flower petals as final bosses… added bonus: instead of gathering resources conventionally, suck all available blood reserve dry (although keep essential personnel fed mightily so your ship doesn’t grind to a halt) for much quicker growth plus veterancy effects / unit upgrades! ...

The problem with playing an older game straight from CD like Lords of EverQuest is that these kinds of games go to production before they’re actually finished. Long lead times, that sort of thing. I think that’s what must have happened here. The SOEGames.Net patch servers have long since been taken down, and the game I am playing here is whatever was on the disc and nothing else; I am very much assuming that if I’d been able to patch up this game, that it would have fixed the issue with the “Contention” map in the Shadowrealm campaign. ...

I am not a Real Time Strategy gamer. I haven’t played Warcraft, or Starcraft, or Dune or even Total Annihilation. So, I really have nothing to which to compare Lords of EverQuest, a game developed by Rapid Eye Entertainment for SOE to tie into the MMO way back in the day. It has the word “EverQuest” in it, though, so when it came out in that far ago time, I wanted to play it, but money was tight and I was already playing the actual game and besides, it would probably be around for awhile… ...