If you have a choice between boring A and exciting B, will you not pick B and consider yourself a rogue, even though everyone else would most likely pick B as well?
And if C decided to stop by and challenge your expectations, it might stand to reason that a switch would be in order. But only if D didn’t pop in, announce “All of the above!” and ruin everyone’s day. Oh, D, the only letter we hate more than you is the dreaded E — “None of the above!”
Welcome back to /AFK, a weekly roundup of interesting blog posts that caught my attention:
- The Pink Pigtail Inn — One chilly, blustery morning in March
“This is the final post at The Pink Pigtail Inn. My days as a WoW blogger have come to an end.”
- Hardcore Casual — The real Rift review
“If you enjoy themepark MMOs, Rift as a whole is the best one yet. Not for any one reason, but for all of them.”
- West Karana — Rift: Imagine a world without quests
“Only a last few Defiants, by sending reincarnated heroes with borrowed souls into the past, threw the dice of the fate of the world one final time… so that I could pick mushrooms around a lake.”
- Dragonchasers — Rift: Guess I’m a public group convert
“So I’m not really complaining so much as marveling at the fact that I missed that Public Group button, since I wasn’t really a fan of the system when it was first introduced.”
- Elder Game — Evolving quests
“WoW changed the thinking here. For the most part, it never even occurred to us in the MMO industry that it might be possible to create so much content that players could level entirely through quests and never repeat a single one.”
- Rift Watchers — Questing in RIFT is not as bad as you’ve heard
“It is Kill Ten Rats, Collect Ten Foozles, Zap 10 Badwots with the Magical Badwot Zapper,but you know what? It does it with style. It’s flashy. It’s fast paced. It’s dangerous. Those are three things quests should be.”
- We Fly Spitfires — I like big swords
“When I play MMOs I immediately pick melee classes and then go out of my way to find the biggest, meanest looking sword I can possibly find in order to proceed smacking the living daylights out of everything whilst giggling with glee.”
- Consoling Gamers — Kirking your yeoman and other distractions
“During none of these games do these signposted relationships feel like they are actually meaningful, and they’re just a numbers game of being nice to them until they decide that maybe you’re not that bad after all.”
- KIASA — I’ll cheer you up if you’re depressed, if you’re murdered I’ll avenge your death
“Romance had never been something that had crossed my mind in RPGs.”
- Lorehound — Rift vs. WoW: Can’t we all just get along?
“If you love a game, yes by all means defend it. But keep your arguments on-point and about the game.”
- Levelcapped — Let me tell you a story
“The Sims: Medieval has – at this moment – become one of my Favorite Games Of All Time™.”
- Kill Ten Rats — Sari-surma: An example of reasonable puzzle bosses
“My general guide to ‘is this a fair puzzle’ instead of trial and error gameplay is ‘could you possibly win on the first try?’”
Thanks for the mention!