Yeah a friend keeps telling me Nikke has an amazing story, and why he keeps playing it (no really it's not the bikinis). And I liked Arkknights Endfield a lot until I started opening menus and just seeing layer after layer of thing to level or system to feed resources into and it just made me tired.
I have discovered I just don’t like how most Gatcha games are structured. Just the endless layers of systems and things that need to be leveled. The gatcha part is annoying, but it’s actually not what drives me away I’ve discovered. Wish they didn’t always have such great character art tho lol.
*Logs into Star Citizen PTU to check out crafting. Can’t. No minerals.* Dammit. lol. The inevitable trap of getting what I wanted. Now I have to actually bother to mine.
Well played FFXIV social media team. The replies to this are all gold.
I might actually be interested in this. I do have a lot of lore about my WoL written in bits and pieces and floating in my head, but I never really understood how to engage with the RP community.
To add to this as I mull my thoughts. It’s not about being an MsQ casual. It’s that the core content - the msq - drives my engagement with the game. All the other content orbits around it. I come for the pancakes but then discover that I also like their coffee. But I don’t come for just the coffee.
I am unreasonably excited for the next star citizen patch. I shouldn’t be. I’m sure day one it’ll be a server disaster again. But I’m hoping past that they’ve got a winner on their hands. I desperately don’t need to have my life eaten but secretly I’m all for it.
I saw those dates and sighed. I love the game and haven’t let my sub lapse but this year I might. There’s just not enough investment in the core content. I appreciate things like the variant dungeons etc. but the core cadence has become glacial.
Fancy. I don't really have any old memories to compare it to, but still.
I quite liked this book.
No I loved them too. They're just fun, and that's okay.
This is beautiful.
Been writing a lot more after a long time. Digging up old settings I painfully detailed years ago and then had too little time or too much writers block to finish any of many fragmentary stories. AI has proven useful here as an editor and shadow reader and assistant - not as a replacement for me.
Crafting is coming and I know the balance will be wrong and we’re still missing key bits but I’m unreasonably excited nonetheless. youtu.be/i6E5a0Up_o0?...
Okay Songs of Conquest is super on sale and is absolutely my jam in all the right ways. (Classic Heroes of Might and Magic style game)
I'm not a Slay the Spire fan, I missed that boat. I also didn't love E33's gameplay. But I celebrate their success, as they mean the future of games both as entertainment and as business. Generic, super expensive games like Highguard etc are traps. People just wanna have fun and enjoy good stories.
I am deeply. Deeply. Jealous. As both a whiskey enjoyer and an avowed FFXIV superfan/filthy casual. I'm not even sure I'd care if they were good, which is probably a problem.
I will... consider it, for sure. That door is far from closed.
Yeah missing WoW for me felt like missing PlayStation - which I also did lol. It’s even more funny because I LOVED Warcraft 2 and 3. An early formative memory for me is buying Warcraft 2 in one of those big box club stores - not long after we got our first decent pc. I played the shit out of it.
Wow. Highguard shutting down. Stop chasing live service slop just for the dollars. I get that maybe the devs of the game had a vision and a track record but the space is already crowded with tons of games. Big publisher dollars are clearly a poisoned chalice.
Glad to hear it’s good! I was never really on the WoW train myself at all. Missed it because I was playing Halo lol. But glad to hear it’s in a good place right now.
The prequels and the special editions that is.
We need to hear about this in a video or the podcast. This is just...it's a thing. Like it's hard to talk about anime with hardcore movie/cinemaphiles and such who dismiss it. I always point to things like End of Eva and the last episode of Bebop as being as good as the best cinema.
I'm not a big fan of the rebuilds. They felt like what Lucas did with the prequels - trying to "fix" his original vision later in life. They're something new, watch them if you want. But they're not Evangelion.
If you’re a nerd like me read this and his replies to it as he descends into the deeper history of English with each post and you slowly lose the ability to comprehend.
I’m late to this but it’s hard to overstate how good this is. youtu.be/iKqMI15juU4?...
I mean, sorry to rain on your parade. I hope you're right and it's great! Lots of studios have learned from their mistakes. And there's always new blood over time, mixing it up and making it not the same studio that made Starfield, just as much as it's not the same studio that made Skyrim.
Hate to say it but I don't believe him. Fallout 4 already reflected some of the thinking we saw play out more in 76 and Starfield. Skyrim was a long, long time ago. I'm would be happy to be surprised of course! But I don't trust words from them anymore. Starfield was "more" that ended up being less.
Ugh. I swore never again with gatcha but Ark knights endfield is fun so far.
*tinfoil hat*
