Time to Loot Journal: February 2022
To say February was a big month in games would still be to sell it short. Dying Light 2 kicked us off Feb 4th, Lost Ark following on the 11th, Horizon Forbidden West on...
Monthly Archive: February 2022
“Poking My Nose In”
Last night… something happened. Something grand, and glorious… but all too fleeting. The hour was late, and a long session with Lost Ark was coming to a close. One by one, friends were drifting...
The Trouble with Time
There isn’t enough of it. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. More specifically, the issue this time is the fact that the time between Lost Ark and Elden Ring’s release dates is...
Lost Ark by way of Screenshots
I don’t often do ‘screenshot posts’. I find I am generally fairly happy to just include them in my usual posts as I go. Even if they don’t always precisely match the content under...
The Variable Difficulty of Lost Ark Abyss Dungeons
The Abyss dungeons might just be my favourite type of content in Lost Ark so far. Er- except for when it’s island adventuring instead. I swear to God, if I’m not careful — and...
Sparking my Lost Love for the MMO Genre
I think this is going to be a difficult post to write. There’s a lot to unpack here for myself, before I can hope even to begin articulating it to you. You see, for...
Three Days with Lost Ark
Lost Ark is down right now. It went down for a 4-hour maintenance window to prepare for general availability about 9-hours ago. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to...
XCOM 2: Blogger Succession Game — Mission 25: Operation Sweaty Star
These mission names… What gives, XCOM 2? UnwiseOwl just before me got ‘Operation Swamp Queen’ but I think this one of mine takes home the charming cake this time around. More fortunately though, unlike...
Nuh-uh, Valstrax!
At the end of ‘Nuh-uh, Narwa!’ I noted there was still more I could do in the game. There were more Apex creatures to be hunted and there was a creature still to be...
Book Review: Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan
One of the things I love most about Sullivan’s work thus far is how well he keeps each story so self-contained without losing interconnectivity into the overarching narrative.
