Rest in piss, asshole.
I am now 45 hours into Project Gorgon and finally strong enough to start doing the first dungeon in the second full map, Eltibule. Last night I grouped up with a random necromancer in Eltibule Keep and spent probably 2 hours straight running around, killing goblins, and finding all the armor pieces on the first floor. It was a frickin' blast. I had so much fun. I was getting a bit tired of running in circles in the Serbule Crypt and, thank goodness, this goblin dungeon was so much fun it rehabilitated my enjoyment of the game. Even with how many hours I have put in now, I still feel like I am just beginning...
I'm about 20 hours into Project Gorgon now and I pretty much love it. It was exactly what I wanted / needed in a new MMO. It's got the atmosphere of ESO, the combat of GW2 / WOW, the leveling grind of a much more old school MMO, all mushed up into a great package with a very nice community. It reminds me a bit of playing on MUDs back in the day. I wish I had played those old MMOs when I was younger...
If you're the guy who got access to my hacked email address floated@gmail.com and still wants to get it back years after I assumed control over it again... too fucking bad! You shouldn't have been using an email address you secured through a password leak or whatever, what a foolish decision to make. It was never yours!
I've been feeling the itch to play an MMO, and since I have essentially played all of them at this point, I had to go digging and stumbled on Project Gorgon. It's meant to be old school in the way Ultima Online and Asheron's Call was, which I never played way back in the day because I was a pretty lame excuse of a gamer back in the day.
I'm about 4 hours into it and it's a lot of fun. Not a lot of hand holding. You've got to rely on your experience playing RPGs all your life to know that you need to go into a town and talk to all the NPCs to figure out what the hell you're doing.
I'd say the only negative to the game so far is that the NPC, interactive objects, and player nameplates are all the same white color by default, which makes it nearly impossible to recognize in a town which characters are NPCs and which are players. But that just required a trek into the settings menu so I could configure the colors differently myself, and everything started to feel a lot less bewildering.
Apparently what I really wanted to play was Ghost of Yotei, which was originally supposed to be what I played over Christmas break, but I was distracted by ARC Raiders.
This game is unbelievably good looking and really makes the case for the PS5 Pro more so than any game previously, I think. The amount of plant matter on screen at any time is pretty staggering, definitely a 'generational improvement' over Ghost of Tsushima.
Compared to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, Ghost of Yotei has a very distinctive feel to it. Every bit of gameplay feels bespoke, from the combat down to the way the horse controls. It's somewhere approaching Red Dead Redemption 2 as far as physicality goes, though it doesn't go quite as far as that game.
Since finishing Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter, I have been "between video games", which is this terrible state where I flail around vaguely depressively trying out a lot of video games until I finally settle on playing one in a dedicated way. It's terrible. I have played, or we should say sampled, a great variety of games. I should give you a list. You'd be shocked. But I turned off my PC already tonight and, I mean, that's a bullshit excuse–I'm just lazy, okay? I'm fuckin' lazy.
I'm too lazy to write this post, fuck it, I'll talk to you later.
Two weeks of vacation are coming to an end tonight and I'm a little annoyed it went by so fast, but at the same time, I didn't really do much differently from when I am working, so it doesn't really matter. I just wish someone would bestow me with a couple million dollars so I could just stop working. Around ~5 million would be nice, I could create a nice investment portfolio and live off the dividends very comfortably. Come on!
Okay that last post was unfair, there is one other good song on the CULTS album outside of Compaction. Hung the Moon is good too. And Mark My Words is close!
Considering how many songs there are on the new CULTS album, it's no surprise almost none of them are particularly good.