Thoughts on the Guild Wars 2 Press Beta

No, I was not invited and for that I am sad.  But I have watched a few hours of footage, read a novels worth of impressions and kept up with nearly all the various forum arguments.  Through it all, I have continuously impressed by both Guild Wars 2 and ArenaNet.  There has been some tremendous [...]

Rift and SWTOR

If you read my last post, you may have come away with the thought that I ended up disappointed in Rift.  To the contrary, I think Rift is the apex of post-2004 ‘WoW-Style’ MMOs.  I think Trion did a fantastic job with almost all aspects of Rift, while staying pretty much within the standard quest-hub [...]

Half Measures, Full Measures, Rift and Guild Wars 2

Breaking Bad is one of my favorite television shows.  Matter of fact, I would go on record as to call it one of the best shows of all time.  It is simply fantastic. A couple of seasons ago, there was an episode titled “Half Measures“.  During this episode there was a long monologue by one [...]

So…..It’s been a looooong while.

Well, I am back.  After a long hiatus doing the HorRIFTic Intentions blog and then a shorter hiatus doing nothing at all, I have returned to this little blog.  Oh, I am still playing Rift (more on that in an upcoming post!) but I have decided that blogging on one particular game is probably not [...]