Five Game Challenge Day 22: Looking Forward #3
A day late on this post — it was bumped given the sad news of Brad McQuiad’s passing. Not too much to add with this one though — just one title in fact.
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Five Game Challenge Day 21: An Industry Titan Passes
Brad McQuaid — best known perhaps for defining roles in the development of EverQuest — has passed. Brad started as the lead programmer for EverQuest, but during its development was moved to producer and lead designer roles. I ‘missed’ EverQuest during its prime. I...
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Five Game Challenge Day 20: Unplayed and Unloved (Until 2020?)
Krikket just posted about the ten games she would like to tackle in 2020, in light of the fact that she has made a commitment to buy far less of them. While I wasn’t entirely onboard with the toughness of this limiting new purchases, I am fully onboard with extracting more worth from the...
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Five Game Challenge Day 19: What do I want from Anthem Next?
Since the news that Anthem may yet still have some life, in the form of an Anthem 2.0 / Anthem Next, I’ve taken a bit of a stroll down memory lane. I took another look at my review. I read my thoughts on the loot generation improvements done while I was still playing. And I looked over what...
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Five Game Challenge Day 18: Road to Arbitration
Warframe has systems upon systems. Endgame options upon endgame options. Alerts. Sorties. Nightmare mode missions. Nightwave. Although to be fair, many of those are not exclusively endgame and can be unlocked relatively early. Also, I’m rather certain there are others I’m forgetting....
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Five Game Challenge Day 17: Anthem Not Dead After All?
Funny how these things work out. It was just a few days ago in comments I was saying how much of a dud Anthem had turned out to be. That hope was extinguished for any sort of redemption. Senior Leads associated with the project were jumping like rats off a sinking ship. The complete radio silence...
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Five Game Challenge Day 16: Path of Exile 2 Announced
ExileCon started today in my home city. We’re not even halfway through the first day and already the bombs are dropping. ‘Mega expansion 4.0’ has turned out to be a full fledged sequel. Seven acts right out of the gate. Updated graphics engine. Rework to the active-skills system....
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Five Game Challenge Day 15: Star Wars Status Upgrade
Just yesterday I was talking about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order barely making my list of games I was interested in for after the challenge. I wanted it to be good — I just didn’t really have any expectation that it might be. Since then, two things have come about: Confirmation that it...
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Five Game Challenge Day 14: Looking Forward #2
Two weeks down. Two to go. Has anything entered my sphere of awareness that may threaten to break me out of the Five Game Challenge early? … Well, no, as it turns out. Warframe has taken over my play time to the extent that I’ve not meaningfully touched XCOM 2 or Rimworld yet. The...
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Five Game Challenge Day 13: Learning Things You Already Know
…Because you forgot. Not a little bit forgotten. But completely forgotten. Ejected from memory. *sniff* Poor knowledge-memories. This time, I’m talking about the occasional rise in ambition I feel to really dive deep into knowledge sharing and guide writing for a particular game. I...
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Five Game Challenge Day 12: I’m Here to Help! (Fortuna Edition)
I not entirely sure why I’ve put off going to Fortuna for so long. But I wonder if it might be around feeling like I needed to ‘catch-up’ in some way to ‘earn’ the right to go. Which is silly, given I’ve cleared way past this point already. A new player could be...
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Five Game Challenge Day 11: Is it a Bird? … a Plane?
No! It’s that I finally took a screenshot of flying over the Plains of Eidolon! :D I was there to unlock a weapon Riven — the challenge I had was to destroy three of the flying craft in the area, and then also kill the pilots before they hit the ground. >.< So far as Rivens go...
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Five Game Challenge Day 10: Ain’t no Mountain High Enough
Or at least, that is certainly the belief. I haven’t tried the ascent yet. Maybe the title should be, “He’ll be comin’ around the mountain” instead. Because that I did do. I took a different route from normal too. Usually I would strike out east from Whiterun and come...
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Five Game Challenge Day 9: Regaining Mastery of your own Destiny
I got to play game again last night and this morning! My goodness weekends are glorious. When I was first getting back into the swing of things with Warfame, it was enough just to be relearning the how. Resurfacing some of the ol’ muscle memory. The what was a far distant secondary concern....
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