Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

What’s been keeping me busy gaming wise of late

Posted on October 13, 2015 by SynCaine

Slow gaming times for me of late, hence the lack of blogging. I’m still playing a bit of ARK, though restarting on a server is a bit rough, as you are basically retracing previous steps, and with the rapid pace … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Blood Bowl, Random, Site update | 6 Comments

New ARK Server, and the BB2 campaign

Posted on October 5, 2015 by SynCaine

Two items for today. I’m playing on a new, unofficial ARK server. Search the unofficial listing for “Narco Heads” to find it. Unlike most unofficial servers this one doesn’t have silly 8x or 10x rules, just 2x from the official … Continue reading →

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Feed the troll some poison already

Posted on October 1, 2015 by SynCaine

I’m not a Star Citizen backer, personally don’t believe the game is going to ‘live up to the hype’ (mostly because at its current hype level, that would basically be impossible), and have in the past taken small shots at … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant, Star Citizen | 13 Comments

CoC – Supreme Cream vs Bahia

Posted on September 29, 2015 by SynCaine

(Text and stats by Delpez) Supreme Cream vs. Bahia It has been a while since I’ve done a war report, and I thought it might be worthwhile to also discuss a number of clan related topics that’s been popping up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Dungeon Boss – Grind the game, not the UI

Posted on September 28, 2015 by SynCaine

Dungeon Boss continues to impress and entertain me, so if you haven’t already, pick it up and lets be ‘friends’. I mentioned before about the honesty of the games ‘grind’ (air quote because for many grind is a bad word, … Continue reading →

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Dungeon Boss: A good and honest way to waste some time

Posted on September 23, 2015 by SynCaine

I appreciate honesty in game design. If you are creating a casual ‘time waster’ game that doesn’t do much else, I appreciate when the devs are honest about that. Same goes for ‘hardcore’ games, with Darksouls being one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, RMT | 7 Comments

Crowfall: Game design that has also grown up

Posted on September 17, 2015 by SynCaine

Crowfall is the MMO I’ve pinned my future hopes on (and a decent chunk of change is backing that up), but since it is still fairly far away, and I know I can ‘catch up’ when I get access to … Continue reading →

Posted in Crowfall, MMO design | 3 Comments

Blood Bowl 2 is a UI-driven nightmare right now

Posted on September 15, 2015 by SynCaine

The Blood Bowl 2 beta has started, which is good, because dear god does BB2 need more time to bake. Rant incoming. Making BB2 should be the easiest game in the world to make. You go into it with all … Continue reading →

Posted in Blood Bowl, Rant, Review | 3 Comments

Oh so very lumpy

Posted on September 9, 2015 by SynCaine

Remember when we (Az) were doing a breakdown of that oddball grouping of Destiny and Hearthstone? Trying to figure out what percentage of the pie was Destiny and what crumbs HS contributed? Well… Giving HS credit for crumbs was grossly … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 9 Comments

CoC: More fun with numbers! Also spots open in our clan

Posted on September 8, 2015 by SynCaine

(Writeup and stats by Delpez. Also our clan, “Supreme Cream!” has a few open spots due to recent roster cleanup. Please mention the blog when applying). Supreme Cream Performance During a previous CoC blog post, a comment was made that … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans | 11 Comments