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WoWlite

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  Hello! Recently Blizzard showed a trailer for World of WarCraft housing and it’s a really fun trailer but it brought back a thought I often have; the trailers don’t reflect the gameplay, not just WoW but in general it happens to a lot of games. The trailer shows the more fun side of WoW and Blizzard cinematics overall. It shows a Blood Elf rogue fighting a group of mobs, disappearing and reappearing behind a mob and although it is very cool, I’m fairly certain rogues don’t actually do that (I don’t play them so I’m not 100% sure on that). The combat in modern WoW is just kind of boring. It hasn’t changed much in the 20+ years and I feel like it really needs to be updated.             As a mainly spell caster player, standing still and casting isn’t very fun or engaging anymore, feels bad. My friends and I have been playing Apex Legends a little bit again and I kind of want WoW to be more like that. Like, they can’t obvious...
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Unfinished Games

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                 Hello! The other night I had a dream that the first generation Pokemon games came to the Switch 2, most likely in the online subscription service. It wasn’t necessarily “Red/Blue/Yellow” because you had the options to make the game either look like it did in Red where the background was red and the characters and sprites were green/blue or the opposite in Blue or change it to be more colorful like Yellow or a few other color combinations. It was a pretty sick dream. A day or two after, Kit and Krista talked on their podcast that if Pokemon was going to re-release Red/Blue/Yellow that this was the year to do it and if they don’t then it will probably never happen, it being Red and Blue’s 30 th anniversary this year. Anyway, I’m here to talk about my endless backlog of unfinished games.             I had wanted to finish Silksong and Metroid Prime 4 and then maybe ...
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Wind Element! (Last Time I Swear, I Hope)

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  I know this is a horrible thing as a fan, consumer and frankly as a human being to say but I’m genuinely just looking forward to the next arcade/portable/spin-off Monster Hunter game. You can keep your fancy graphics and muted environments, I’ll gladly take the smooth gameplay and vibrant zones. I’ve been playing SunRise again and it is just leaps and bounds more enjoyable than Wilds for me. I probably will still get the Wilds G-rank expansion game and maybe it’ll be better, Rise was kind of just okay and then Sunbreak came and just made everything so much better. I’m gonna be super pissed if they actually put in some of my boys I’ve been crying and bitching about in the Wilds expansion though. Soooo I’m going to bring up wind element monsters again, boss fights and revisiting old areas.             I’m hoping this is the last time I talk about this, I thought I’ve already gone into this more but according to my glossary I...
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Act 3 Pain! (Plus Other Stuff)

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                 Hello! I’m mostly here to complain! Yayyyyy! Mostly about Metroid Prime 4 and Silksong. I’m want to touch on achievements/”trophies” (I like achievements better) and a cute little game I bought called Shooters Ready.             I kind of expect more out of achievements and trophies now-a-days. I feel like it’s probably a “me” thing, just like game series’ not growing with us; Pokemon for example. We tend to complain that Pokemon games feel easier then the early days and whether that’s true or not is hard to say but at the end of the day those games are made for children, not for the people who started with it and continue to play. It would be nice if Pokemon grew as we grew but it just hasn’t and probably won’t. Anyway, achievements. I guess what started this was I saw someone on Reddit talking about playing the first Horizon on the hardest difficulty with NG+ to ...
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Slave to the Grind

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              Hello again! I’ve been playing a little of Space Marine 2 again and it’s fun but kind of repetitive. Capcom had a Monster Hunter showcase recently so there’s some things to talk about there. I don’t know how to do openings anymore… go to the next paragraph.             I think I’m seeing Space Marine 2 and Monster Hunter to be similar. They give a lot of busy work to do. In Sunbreak we have the qurious and anomaly grind, in Wilds we have the artian weapon grind and in Space Marine 2 we’ve got prestige and lots of weapons to level up. I just find this busy work to be lazy typically. In Helldivers 2 I can play on the hardest difficulty with my friends wearing pretty much whatever armor I want with whatever weapons and stratagems. Sometimes, with certain major orders, we would be better off wearing certain armor or using certain stratagems but overall it’s usua...
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Valkyria Chronicles, Metroid Prime 4

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  Hello! I don’t really want to be writing this because I have so many games to play and some actual motivation to do it but I just wanted to get this out there. While I was waiting for Metroid Prime 4 I was looking at my games that I haven’t finished and came across Valkyria Chronicles 4.             Before I get into that I’ll talk a little about what I have played of Metroid so far. I’m glad that motion controls are a thing, like the Wii, but I don’t understand why no one could tell me if the game had these controls before it came out. All they talked about in the trailers was normal controls, using a Joy-Con like a mouse and having motion if you held ZL. I asked YouTubers that went to events, commented on videos but no one could just tell me that Wii motion controls were a thing. It’s nice that I don’t have to worry about a sensor bar when using these controls; I can have my legs crossed and the controller in my lap and s...
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Helldivers 2 Wish List

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  Hello! I wanted to talk about Helldivers 2 today. I’ve been seeing some videos from OhDough on YouTube and I think he has a lot of good points. People on Reddit and such will say that he’s just negative and whatever but criticism is good. Glazing games, movies, franchises doesn’t do us any good. I mean if something was truly perfect that would be amazing but there’s always something that could be better and when it comes to live service games it can be the difference of the game thriving or dying.             In his videos, OhDough goes in depth looking at weapon damage, enemy armor, changes in patches, all kinds of crap that I will never notice and I appreciate him and other people that do it, in any and all games. One thing he talks about a lot is fun VS the grunt fantasy. Helldivers 2 is billed as a grunt fantasy like Starship Troopers in that you are a weak human against impossible odds. You are not supposed to be a sup...
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