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About That Whole Statesman Thing…

22 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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city of heroes, erase the hate, gaming news, master x master, MMO, mmo news, MOBA, mxm, ncsoft, news, pax east, statesman, stupid ideas

So I’ve been sitting on the news that broke yesterday about the next character arriving in MOBA/ARPG hybrid Master X Master: Statesman from City of Heroes. When it first was provided to me, I was pretty well dumbstruck. As a matter of fact, I’ve been dumbstruck about it for the ten-odd days I had to keep quiet on the matter.

But now that the embargo on the news is lifted, I can talk about my feelings about the matter. And those feelings can essentially be boiled down to a weird jambalaya of confusion paired with the desire to still see MXM succeed while also feeling guilty about having both emotions.

statesman-posing

Sometimes, surprises ain’t fun.

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Make Me a MOBA

04 Friday Sep 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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combat, Gigantic, MOBA, overwatch, pvp, shooter, team based

MOBA’s, like most PvP-related games, are one of those things that I watch from the outside looking in with a mixture of curiosity, jealousy and concern.  I have a weird compulsion to try one out but worries about both the behavior of myself and others as well as my own performance bringing down everything.

See, PvP things are one of those styles of game where I try it out, get annoyed, hate myself, ragequit, then come back to after a while to try again.  It’s the same thing I feel with strategy and bullet hell shooters.  I love to hate them.  It’s masochism.

“WHY AM I DOING THIS TO MYSELF?!”

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