Triple B Gaming

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console games, farming simulator 17, final fantasy xv, games, gaming, gaming opinion, mmorpg, no man's sky, opinion, popular games, triple a games

I’ve written before about how an otherwise unassuming title has made videogaming a lot more palatable to me as I get older, but my recent gaming habits have kind of expanded upon that post. It’s made me consider my love of gaming cheese, and recently I’ve embraced the idea of “triple B gaming”: games that are otherwise called garbage that still hold a place in my heart.

“Straight Line Driving: The Video Game” holds more appeal than any Call of Duty.

The Requisite Guild Wars 2 Post

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announcement, challenge, content, expansion, guild wars 2, heart of thorns, meta, opinion, pax prime, raids

The title of this post is really just a riff on how mandatory this all feels.  Quite literally every blog I read has had something to say about Guild Wars 2’s PAX reveal this past weekend.  And not many of them have had cuddly things to say.

So, in the interest of following the compulsion of the Blogging Borg (Blorg?) and to hopefully counter some of this negativity around the announce, I’m going to write why I think Raids in Guild Wars 2 could be a nice thing.

Blaugust Day 9 – We All Wanna Be Scooby-Doo

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chris roberts, comments, crowdfunding, deception, derek smart, kickstarter, mmos, opinion, scam, star citizen

I’ve been in a LOT of online comment sections over the course of my digital life, and I don’t really know why I make this blog post simply for the fact that I don’t think it will accomplish more than either preaching to the choir or yelling at the deaf.  That said, there’s been something about online behavior on my mind recently, and it is relevant to my gaming interests.

The show Scooby-Doo always had the same formula…a bunch of precocious adult-children arrive in a world that apparently is made of Halloween to solve a mystery, finding a person who has put together a scheme that involves a ridiculous amount of makeup and set-piece arrangement.  And in the end, the bad guy is literally unmasked.

With the advent of crowdfunding and early access games, there seems to be a very strong need nowadays for everyone to wanna be the guy or girl who pulls the mask off of the devious villain causing trouble for their own selfish ends.  Everyone wants that Scooby-Doo moment.