I wasn’t going to buy Diablo 3 for a few weeks, but as it turns out today is payday and I’m working from home, and.. oh what the hell, right? I’ll just pay for this, install that, create an awesome lady barbarian and … GEE ALWAYS ONLINE SINGLE PLAYER SURE IS AWESOME.
Rants and Hissy Fits
Finding Peace With Massively Single Player Games
In the wake of last week’s beta there has been a lot of interesting criticism being produced about Guild Wars 2. Milady wrote about her concerns that the event system in GW2 is cooporative, but not particularly social. Azuriel published a piece arguing that Guild Wars 2 in fact encompasses many of the elements that …
High Level Blogging Tips for Newbies
I am on a mission to play more of the newer free-to-play MMO offerings on the market, and so tonight I am installing Everquest 2! Are you playing EQ2? Would you recommend your server? I’d love to hear newbie suggestions! —————————— There is a theme going on in my feed reader this morning, and that …
A Dumb Article About Smart Games
Earlier today The Brainy Gamer took a well-placed swing at an insufferable article in The Atlantic Monthly with the insufferable Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid. The article starts out with a sideways insult (“video games are juvenile, silly, and intellectually lazy”) and doesn’t get much better. One of my pet peeves is anti-intellectualism, and I’ve …
