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I’ve drafted this replay post about a dozen times because there are so many things to say about Morrowind that it is difficult to know where to start. The context of it’s development for Bethesda as a company is important, the direction it steered the Elder Scrolls series away from and into, and the unique take on world building, and storytelling. But how about we start at the bottom and work our way up? Let’s start with the vibes, man.
Seyda Neen.
Morrowind is a small roleplaying game that feel…
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Through Wolfy's Eyes
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I swear, it’s like she writes this stuff specifically for me.
Aywren’s latest blog post, about playing a Warrior of Light character that’s taking unexpected backstory and roleplay-related lore turns as a result of the MSQ of Final Fantasy XIV (spoiler warning in that blog, by the way), engaged my neurons, particularly since I play a character who… isn’t a WoL but still has adventures.
While I’m definitely not alone in this line of thinking, I felt like this was a great opportunity to steal her t…
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Kay Talks Games
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Chulip is the quirkiest video game I’ve ever played by far, and I adore it for that. You play as a poor boy who moves with his dad from the big city to Long Life Town, where everyone is more than happy to gossip about you. Our protagonist is immediately smitten with a girl who lives nearby, and soon learns that in this bizarre little town, people build their reputations by exchanging kisses.
It’s a weird game that is part life sim, part puzzle game. You go around town, getting to know your new n…
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Mists of Pandaria got laughed at before anyone had played a minute of it. Kung fu pandas. A whole expansion about kung fu pandas, plus a pet-battle system a lot of people immediately wrote off as WoW doing Pokémon. I remember the reaction to the announcement, and it was not kind. It also turned out to be one of my favorite expansions in the whole run, and I've never really backed off that.
The joke fell apart the second you actually got to Pandaria. The place was gorgeous. The Jade Forest, the V…
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Shadowz Abstract Gaming
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I finally decided to break my nerves about live streaming on YouTube. Granted it was only for 40+ minutes, but it was something that I kept putting off for years now and well today I decided to jump in and try it. Course this still wont stop me from recording... Continue reading
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And this list of MMOs I have played proves it.
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EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
Buy Now! The EverQuest Legends Cash Shop
Not Gonna Lose My Blog: Backups Saved Me Once and Will Save Me Again
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Aywren's Nook - Gaming and Geek Blog
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Immersion is extremely important to me as a story-focused player in FFXIV. And while I generally enjoy the story beats of the game (ignoring some of the lesser engaging stuff in Dawntrail), I do have one small issue with how FFXIV handles the main character of the MSQ… because if you aren’t playing a Warrior of Light (WoL), then things just don’t mesh well.
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Endgame Viable
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Morning! It is a Saturday morning and I 100% do not feel like writing a blog post, and in fact, largely feel like I’m “over” the rush of renewed blogging energy that Blaugust brings every year and I’m ready to move on to another project.
But alas, there are some 24 posts yet to be written. The “staying motivated” Blaugust topic week should be in the second week, not the last.
This is the dual-edged sword of writing challenges. Writing something is easy. Writing something that’s worth reading 31…
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Troy Press
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Evil Hat’s pitch for AGON:
On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods.
It falls to you to seize this opportunity for greatness—to set things right in these lost lands, overcome the trials of gods, monsters, and people, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back…
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Cubic Creativity
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You already guessed it, we have another Planeswalker Deck to talk about. As you might have noticed, I am using Blaugust 2026 to publish some deck reviews and the total amount of Planeswalker Decks just so happened to fit nicely … Continue reading →
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Gamers Esoteric
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Over the years, I've read some great stories about countless adventures from people who played a TTRPG — only to encounter a horrible GM. The ones who are merciless, who seem to aim to hurt and punish their own table. I can't fathom that kind of gameplay, but to each their own.
I'm a firm believer that actions have consequences, but I don't want to kill my players' characters because of a GM's power trip. That said, I'm not one to coddle my table either. My players have learned that if I s…
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JAG’s Workshop
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Following up on yesterday’s pine-grabbing, if you’re unfamiliar with Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper’s colorful and unique baseball vernacular, Grant Brisbee’s 2023 “ultimate glossary” of the duo’s “greatest sayings” in The Athletic is a fun read. (I’ll admit up front: these lose a lot in written form. You really need to experience them during a game to appreciate them fully.)
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Reviewing the ESO Roadmap Revision and pondering on cross studio collaboration at Bethesda. I also discuss remakes and remasters and how they may not be what gamers want.
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Words of the AgingGamer
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I was over on Wilhelm’s TAGN site today enjoying a good read about the disaster that is Xbox Games. I generally agree with everything he is saying: Microsoft has done a terrible job running their game business and it is showing. But I also have a somewhat different experience as a user of the Xbox console that I feel bears mentioning.
Note (mostly for Wilhelm’s benefit) that I did initially start to write this as a comment on his blog. But it started to get to be a bit too wordy, plus I’m curren…
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Through Wolfy's Eyes
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I’ve had this story rattling around in my head for a while now, and I wasn’t really sure what to do about it. You see, the latest livestream out of Star Citizen was… not a good look. At all. In a lot of ways. And while I haven’t played the game in a long time, it still affected me to watch.
For those who don’t have nearly two hours of their lives to devote to a stream VOD, just know that the presentation of the FPS combat that was showcased did not go to plan, or if it did go to plan, it hasn’t…
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If you ask me to name the best story in any horror game, I’ll tell you to look no further than Silent Hill 2. It’s a harrowing and thoughtful journey through the depths of despair, dealing with themes of grief, trauma and guilt while still being scary. Over the years since its original release, the game has become so famous that there’s a good chance you’ve already had the interesting plot details spoiled. If you haven’t, I urge you to consider playing it and experiencing it for yourself.
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MMO One Night
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I hadn't looked in several year, but this blog was started 14 years ago in May 2012. If you look at my introduction, you'll see I was looking for a way to play MMOs casually and I guess that is still true today. I started with the first Newbie Blogger initiative, initiated by Syp or Justin Olivetti of Massively and Bio Break. When I just went looking for the image above, Google first reference was at Tales of the Aggronaut from back in 2012 when Belghast posted about it. That seems meaningful in…
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French solo developer Oneiric Worlds just announced their new upcoming cozy desert road trip, Yashi - Sand Driver!
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An Archaeopteryx
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A week of Blaugust, a honkaku mystery, some music for Bandcamp Friday, Traitors NZ, and more Zelda.
We are a week into Blaugust and I have managed a post a day so far. However next Monday I'm back to work for a full seven days so will probably not continue that pace. Probably another link post on Monday or Tuesday and a digest on Friday at least. I also need to spend some more time job hunting. I am only really employed at my current job until the end of September. Which isn't that far away. Try…
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After a pretty solid week of World of Warcraft discussions, I thought I'd take today to being to toss in some discussions on other games.
I gave Final Fantasy XIV a real shot. Not a weekend, not a free trial I abandoned in the starting city. A couple of years, an actual subscription, a character and jobs I put genuine hours into. And I still stopped. This is my attempt to be honest about why, without doing the tribal thing where you have to trash one game to justify playing another.
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Inventory Full
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I said we'd get there! And we have. Took a while but it won't be worth it.
Well, how could it be? It's a post about a limited-time event in a game that, by my count, two people who follow this blog might be playing. And all the event involves is fishing.
It's not proper fishing, either. Not even by the standards of the game itself, which aren't exactly rigorous to begin with. Fishing in Neverness To Everness isn't one of the most sophisticated representations of the pastime I've seen in a game.…
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I started playing this the other day, and finished the prologue the other day, but decided I would still play this, and it’s a game that I can enjoy. It’s from the same game studio that did Gas Station Simulator, and it’s something I can play on my own which... Continue reading
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Chasing Dings!
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You didn't know about the cash shop? It's not a story the hardcore would tell you.
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It’s that time again in FFXIV – Relic Weapon grinds! The newest patch 7.55 brings the final step of the Relic weapon to the game while encouraging a full-on run of everything in Dawntrail all over again.
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Cubic Creativity
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In the long list of Planeswalker Decks that I am going through over the course of this Blaugust, there are decks that I would like to be good because of the character represented in it or the color combination at … Continue reading →
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I'm diving into the new expansion, catching a new wave of Pokemon under the sea.
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The group takes a breather after felling the mechanical constructs. Jim, a disfigured scout from the local village, hides by the treeline.
Jeremiah is a bullfrog. He is a good character of mine. I never understand the magic words he says, but his slings that slime a-mighty fine (And he always has some might fine slime). Ribbit.
The longest gaming group that I’ve been with now since April of last year has been led by John Fredericks of Sharp Mountain Games and has mostly consisted of running game…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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Last night I spent more time in Najena in Everquest Legends instead of doing my usual Wednesday game of Dungeons and Dragons. It's too bad, but the DM had surgery last week and was struggling to sit and play our silly little games. On the upside he declared we can all advance to level seven for next week! MMmmmmm (Homer Simpson voice) Level seven rogue features -- extra d6 sneak attack and evasion.
Anyway, grinding Najena has been kind of brainless fun. I was able to develop a pretty nice patter…
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fyr.io - Everything (title & summary)
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I completed Dishonored 1, plus both the story DLC, and wanted to wax on about how darn good this game looks
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Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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I’ll start by playing a Forest.
Sure, it resolves.
I’ll tap the Forest to generate green mana and use it to cast Battle Box keyword reference guide.
I love Magic the Gathering Battle Box. It’s a great casual pick-and-play format where I can bring it with me to a lunch or an afterwork, shuffle the deck and start playing.
No need for everyone to bring their own deck, no long-winded drafting (although drafting cubes is hella fun) and deck construction. No mana drought or mana flood but a perfect cu…
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Gamers Esoteric
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Reach
Reach is something I'm sure all game developers want for their passion project. I'm no different. This game of mine has been with me since 2010, and it has slowly grown and evolved over the past 16 years. Only this year did I decide to actually put more effort into making it a reality, and I think I decided a little too late.
A few prompt entries back, the word was Charm, and I mentioned that I lack that — this ties into the same idea. To reach others, a developer needs some sort of networ…
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Words Under My Name
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I really hate slow-rolling things. I like to work quickly, get task after task out of the way quickly and efficiently. At work, that means my numbers go higher, leads to me getting better raises, more access, more good stuff that I wouldn’t get to do otherwise. In my games, I like being able to chew through quests, missions, levels, and be able to take my time with the story parts I find important. That way if I find something I like, I can engage with it like I want to, instead of being pressed…
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Nerdy Bookahs
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We visited some friends recently, and while we were there, my daughter got to try out Dreamlight Valley. While she does not know many Disney films yet (except for the first Frozen movie… who is surprised? ;) ), she certainly knows Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Minnie, and Donald. She was really excited to see them walking around in the world.
Additionally, our friend showed her how to decorate the house and how your character can pet the animals and harvest apples. I already own the game, so this is some…
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The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners collab in Wuthering Waves has been over for a while now, but despite it having been pretty much my sole reason for picking up the game in the first place I’m still playing every day.
Which is to say, it’s fricking awesome as a whole!
To some extent that really doesn’t surprise me of course, as I’ve heard a lot of good things about it since its release two years ago. What does surprise me, however, is that some of the features I’d expected to like the least are the ones…
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Through Wolfy's Eyes
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It is far too easy in these modern times to ignore or even believe that good things are coming. And it’s also easy to dismiss excitement at upcoming games as dismissive of the wider global horrors; some temporary panacea that just delays the drop into the void.
I feel differently. I have always maintained that being excited for new things in gaming is a wonderful feeling, and one that I’m very often swept up in, particularly when it comes to MMOs. I also think that if all you look at are the bad…
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Words of the AgingGamer
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Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob posted about the sad state of affairs at the modern incarnation of Electronic Arts. What EA has become over the past thirty years is both sad and despicable: they are often times more damaging to gaming and the industry than they are beneficial. And now the stage is set, as Wilhelm describes, for things to become much worse.
Where EA is going now is clearly tragic: a lot of great developers and teams will be harmed in the impending bloodbath as the Saudis…
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If there’s one game that perfectly encapsulates the rebellious spirit of the Dreamcast, it’s Jet Set Radio. It’s a colorful, high-octane game where you play as a gang of rollerblading graffiti artists tagging local landmarks to strike back at the cops, a mega-corporation and even the military. The premise is silly, but the gameplay is fun and the vibes are immaculate.
JSR is a very Y2K-era game. The atmosphere is all about youthful rebellion, but wrapped in cheery optimism. There are lots of cha…
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Cataclysm is the expansion that took the world I'd spent a few years in and rearranged the furniture while I was out of the room. Deathwing came up through the middle of Azeroth and broke it, and Blizzard used that as the excuse to rebuild the entire old world. Every low-level zone I'd leveled through a dozen times was suddenly different. That was the whole pitch, and it landed as a strange mix of exciting and unsettling.
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I’d heard rumors that the FFXIV Mobile version would be canceled about a week or two before the official website posted an announcement. Because I’m honestly not sure how long the site will remain up, I’ve screenshotted the info and placed it in this post.
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Inventory Full
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Fishing. Ah, fishing...
Every MMORPG has to have it, for reasons that I find hard to imagine. Is it such a universal pastime? I know it used to be ranked the #1 participatory "sport" in the United Kingdom, when I was growing up in the 'seventies, but people had fewer ways to entertain themselves in those deprived and forsaken times.
You know what? Let's fact-check that. Was it ever that popular? Is it still? It always seemed unlikely to me but I didn't have the worldwide web and an AI assistant…
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Shadowz Abstract Gaming
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I go to sleep with headaches, I wake up with headaches, and I don’t complain about them because it’s pointless. I have suffered headaches for the last 30 years. Most were brought on by certain medications I took as a teenager, other are just everyday things. Plus lets not forget... Continue reading
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my sixth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
There’s an interesting read on The Hechinger Report where Jackie Mader has written an article about game sites that avoid school web filters.
(The Hechinger Report, interestingly enough, releases articles under a Creative Commons license. That’s super cool of them, and one of the reasons they’re in my RSS feed reader.)
As is my trend for Blaugust, this isn’t a summary of that article, I’m using it as a…
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Cubic Creativity
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Yesterday, we looked at a White-Green deck featuring Ajani, which is in my opinion one of the cooler characters that the entire planeswalker malarkey has spawned. Well, today we look at the polar opposite in colors, with Planeswalker Deck “Tezzeret, … Continue reading →
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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:* individual personal websites* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)*…
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Blaugust has a bunch of gamers taking part and it has encouraged me to talk about gaming on here. So, here's an overview of what I play videogames on, the state of my backlog, and what I am currently playing
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For today's word, I want to talk about the main theme, aka the gist, of my world.
Nobody in my world got the whole truth, and nobody gets power for free.
Something happened to our world. The once shared, singular version of reality broke, and it turned our world upside down. In the scramble that followed, people reached for whatever they thought would keep them alive and only through trial and error did they learn what those choices actually cost them.
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Now that I’ve hit the credits, here are my impressions 15 hours in.
Gameplay
Splatoon Raiders is a clever mixture of Splatoon and Monster Hunter gameplay, stripping out the PvP and leaving pure single-player and co-op goodness. Like Monster Hunter, you progress by completing levels, acquiring and crafting loot so you can tackle bigger challenges. The levels are quick and snappy and plentiful, so you won’t be getting bored any time soon.
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Storywise, it’s mostly the same as the pr…
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I love MMOs. Back in a day I was in every beta test and while paying sub and sometimes even buying the game was quite often out of my capabilities I still played a lot of MMOs. One of the main issues was the time consumption, which lead to me skipping a few years in single player games history and partially made me stop with MMOs. I just wanted to catch up with some other games and preferred to not lose touch with single player games and tried to touch grass some more, getting my life in the rig…
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Behold, it is I, the guy who continues to play new shiny videogames instead of sticking to my ongoing playthroughs.
I’ve written before about my ongoing games, which games I would start over instead of resuming, why I abandoned them, and the like.
This post will be different. Not a list of games, not excuses as to why I stopped playing them. My plan is to share with you exactly where I stopped playing and trying to remember what I was doing and where I was going! So, an excercise on my own memor…