Category: Video Games

The hyper-lucrative Hyper-Competitive Parents market has discovered video games.

And now they’re paying people money to coach their kids on how to play them properly.  Full Frontal Nerdity isn’t making it up, either: the Wall Street Journal has it behind a paywall, but enough of the preview is available.  My God, how the money would roll in from a project like that.  All the money.  ALL.

And the best part? If you’re worried about kids spending too much time on video games: fear not.  Inflicting Fortnite lessons for them is the fastest way I can think of to make them be ready to escape outside forever.

Please do not use cars as video game platforms.

This is a very, very, very, very, very dumb idea.

Continue reading Please do not use cars as video game platforms.

Hey, did anybody end up playing Vampyr?

Vampyr is apparently on Steam sale and has adjusted its difficulty scales to allow Story Mode.  I don’t care so much about that; I mostly care that I’d rather not play an absolutely horrible monster that absolutely has to eat people to death.  I mean, heck: when I played Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY PLAY THE VERSION OF THIS GAME WITH THE UNOFFICIAL PATCH) I played a Toreador who maxed out Humanity early and kept it going throughout the game. I didn’t kill anybody who wasn’t trying to put a crossbow bolt through my chest*.  I made a point not to, in fact.

So, is Vampyr absolutely dark and dreary?  It can be a little less than absolutely, mind you.  I’m willing to work for that Paragon status.

Moe Lane

*Although I may have been a little less, ah, benevolent when it came to resolving the status of vampire hunters.  That kind of thing sneaks up on you, honestly.

New missions (South Africa, Factions) coming for Secret World Legends.

Looks promising: another mission in South Africa — but, more importantly, the faction-specific missions are coming back.  It looks like they’re going to be repeatable, and will scale up based on level; that’s kind of nice.  My character one-shotted Cthulhu the other day, and it was kind of embarrassing.

Actually, now that I think about it the whole thing was a lot like this scene: Continue reading New missions (South Africa, Factions) coming for Secret World Legends.

My friend from Secret World Legends passed.

MadLyric was a good person and an excellent player; the Secret World community has always made it a point to be decent with each other and particularly the new folks, and Maddie was one of our touchstones for proper behavior.  I have never met her in person, but I was very fond of her.  My condolences and prayers for her husband, family, and loved ones.