Five Game Challenge Archives

Booyah, final day. Basically done. The padlocks on the game list can be loosened. In fact I’m going to reward myself with a relaxation of the challenge after I get this post done and published. So… Ciao! …No? Well OK. I suppose we...

Five Game Challenge Day 29: Arbitration Ahoy

by Naithin | Nov 29, 2019 | Warframe | 0

Phewph. All the way back in the dim, dark, barely remembered days of old… Er, Day 18 of this challenge, I spoke about working toward unlocking Arbitrations. Welp. I’ve unlocked them now. It has been a bit of a piecemeal approach. A few...

Five Game Challenge Day 28: Looking Forward #4

by Naithin | Nov 28, 2019 | Other Games | 0

The fourth and final Looking Forward for this round of the Five Game Challenge. A last look at what might tempt me away from the path of the five. Only a couple of days to go, so despite an ever growing desire to play all the things, it’s...

Five Game Challenge Day 27: Autumn Sale is On

by Naithin | Nov 27, 2019 | Gaming, Other Games | 6

The Steam Autumn Sale has kicked-off. The first sale since writing about better extracting value from the games I have. The first test of will. Will I pass? Will I succumb and make a new batch of impulse purchases? Early indications are…...

Five Game Challenge Day 26: The End is Nigh

by Naithin | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog | 2

Day 26 of 30. Almost there. And I’m very much ready to be there. The daily posting is by far the harder aspect of this challenge. I’ve been reflecting too, on some of the differences between the Five Game Challenge and Blaugust....

Five Game Challenge Day 25: Archwing Adjustments

by Naithin | Nov 25, 2019 | Warframe | 2

The big news of the latest Warframe update — Rising Tide — is of course the ability to add the Dry Dock to your clan dojo, and from there your Railjack. The spacecraft that we’ll soon be taking off in! Exciting stuff. Our Clan...

Five Game Challenge Day 24: Humble Choice Starts Soon

by Naithin | Nov 24, 2019 | Humble Monthly | 2

If you’ve still been sitting on the fence about Humble Choice, time to decide and lock-in the current ‘Classic’ pricing is running out. No longer a prediction — we have an actual date. December 6th Humble Choice kicks into...

Five Game Challenge Day 23: Multiplayer Motivation

by Naithin | Nov 23, 2019 | Gaming, Skyrim, Warframe | 0

Poor Skyrim. While it hasn’t quite fallen to the red-headed step-child levels of the other games in my challenge line-up, it has nonetheless played into a second fiddle role to Warframe of late. The thinking going into this is that Warframe...

Five Game Challenge Day 22: Looking Forward #3

by Naithin | Nov 22, 2019 | Other Games | 2

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.

Five Game Challenge Day 21: An Industry Titan Passes

by Naithin | Nov 21, 2019 | Other | 2

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...

Five Game Challenge Day 20: Unplayed and Unloved (Until 2020?)

by Naithin | Nov 20, 2019 | Other Games | 9

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...

Five Game Challenge Day 19: What do I want from Anthem Next?

by Naithin | Nov 19, 2019 | Anthem | 4

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...

Five Game Challenge Day 18: Road to Arbitration

by Naithin | Nov 18, 2019 | Warframe | 0

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...

Five Game Challenge Day 17: Anthem Not Dead After All?

by Naithin | Nov 17, 2019 | Anthem | 2

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...