Vidya Gaems, yo!
The MOBA fad, survival zombie crafting early access, battle royale, games as a service, lootboxes, season passes, excessive use of FOMO, locking content ransom behind a preorder, selling to the Chinese, needing a chart to know which version of the game to buy, censorship, Scam Citizen, predatory microtrans—wait a minute, Read more…
Welcome to part three of my ongoing Final Fantasy XIV adventures as a WoW Refugee™. In this one, I’ll ramble and give my own thoughts on my first foray in FFXIV’s Savage Raiding. With FFXIV receiving such a large influx of players with the release of their latest expansion, Shadowbringers, the Read more…
There has been many cases of failures throughout the video game industry; some of a higher profile than others—especially in the MMO market and its desire to replicate World of Warcraft’s original success. However, there’s so few cases of a product rising from the ashes of its monumental failure and Read more…
It finally happened, didn’t it? You finally quit WoW — you are finally free. It’s no secret that Battle for Azeroth has been an unmitigated disaster from day one and that its shortcomings are numerous: The disappointing Azerite gear system, the slowing down of gameplay, the time gating, the endless Read more…
Ah, video games, an ever-stable plateau in my otherwise turbulent and unstable life. It was through them that I was able to learn the majority of the broken English that I wield today (along with bootleg Disney VHS copies and surprisingly easy to pirate cable back in the day); through Read more…
World of Warcraft, despite its flaws, dubious modern “casualization” design choices, and aging gameplay is still the flagship MMO in the market. Sure, the MMORPG genre as a whole has been going through a twilight decline for some time now, first knocked out by the MOBA boom and now swept Read more…
Once upon a time, before World of Warcraft became the King of Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, the genre dared to offer unique experiences and gameplay mechanics despite the technical limitations of the time. Games like Everquest, the original iteration of Star Wars Galaxies, or Final Fantasy XI are some Read more…
I still remember it as if it was yesterday, it was a few months into my Jedi Outcast adventure when my clanmates told me some exciting news. “They’re making Jedi Knight Three!” They said. “Holy Shit!” I exclaimed. I was ecstatic that Jedi Outcast was getting a sequel, the hype Read more…
August 2002 The Attack of the Clones craze was still latent on the environment, I was gifted a burned copy of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. I loaded the disc into my brand-new desktop computer (1.4 GHz Pentium IV, 256mb of RAM, GeForce 4 MX440, 20GB HDD, and good old Read more…
I must confess that when I first read about Destiny back in 2013, I was entranced—and quite thrilled—by its ominous and grandiose presentation. Bungie’s first post-Halo game got me hooked with its post-collapse futuristic setting, the mystery behind the traveler, and the overall premise of its story and the PvE Read more…