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What The Hell Happened To Crowfall?

Scopique September 23, 2021

This is kind of a “part two” to my previous post, “Wrong Eggs in Wrong Baskets” because that title implied multiples and I only talked about one game and one situation. I had intended to shoehorn the Saga of Crowfall into that…

Wrong Eggs In Wrong Baskets

Scopique September 23, 2021

I don’t really MMO any more. I used to with alarming frequency, and at one point had been able to call myself primarily an “MMO blogger”, but over time I’ve lost interest in the genre. I have a partial ear to the…

{Insert Generic Catch-All Title Here}

Scopique September 17, 2021

You know, when it’s been long enough between posts that many low-level topics are vying for attention in my head, the best I can do is write one of these grab-bag posts and give them each a short turn at the microphone.…

Squealin’ Over Healin’

Scopique September 9, 2021

I don’t usually like to require someone read a previous post of mine in order to understand a current post, but I feel that this time it’s warranted. So please take a few moments and cast your eyes towards the “Death of…

How Much Is a Voice Worth?

Scopique August 5, 2021

Friends, I am having trouble writing this post, which means if you see it, it’s probably a poorly written missive that only digs deep enough to allow me to call it “content”. Something that’s always on my mind is the value of…

Palpable Tension

Scopique July 20, 2021

I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not caring much about any new game that is scheduled to drop, and being faced with several cases where new games or updates to games are scheduled…

The First 25% of Crowfall

Scopique July 11, 2021

After a successful Kickstarter and years of post-MMO-Kickstarter development, Crowfall, the “throne-war simulator” has finally launched. Wait! Come back! I know my audience is primarily PvE players, and Crowfall’s reputation as a PvP game probably means that it’s easily dismissible, but because…

Star Traders: Frontiers

Scopique June 22, 2021

Left to my own devices, I would write a wall of text. When I know that my subject deserves a wall of text, though, I know that I have to keep it simple lest I turn a post into a test of…

Slipways

Scopique June 9, 2021

Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what it might seem when you look at screenshots. I’m not really sure how to classify this game, because on one hand if I were to describe it as a “mobile-esque” game I’d consider that…

Star Citizen – A Bounty-ful Harvest

Scopique May 5, 2021

For all of the time I have been playing in the Star Citizen Alpha, actual space-based dogfighting has been one of the top three activities I have been avoiding (the other two being general FPS and, of course, random PvP, when I…