Category Archives: Rant

The MMO genre really has been terrible for a long time

Posted on January 25, 2016 by SynCaine

TAGN has a post about the PC Gamer 50 most important PC games, which includes five MMOs (UO, EQ, EVE, WoW, Second Life). As noted in his post, all those MMOs came out prior to 2004, which basically tells you … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, MMO design, Rant, Uncategorized, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 9 Comments

The story of Fallout 4 incinerating Tobold

Posted on January 4, 2016 by SynCaine

Seeing Tobold put his foot in a fire, and then vehemently deny that said foot is on fire has always been one of the better (only?) reasons to read his blog for a while now. The latest fire Tobold found … Continue reading →

Posted in Fallout 3, Rant, The Witcher, Uncategorized | 22 Comments

Defeat leads to victory, and victory means defeat

Posted on December 8, 2015 by SynCaine

How many times have you quit playing a game because you lost? How many times have you quit a game because you won? The first is rarer than the second, right? We view defeat as motivation to improve and try … Continue reading →

Posted in Fallout 3, MMO design, Random, Rant, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Actually do something good

Posted on December 4, 2015 by SynCaine

I almost never post about real life here on this blog, because I know people don’t come to a blog that is usually rando rants about videogames to hear about serious topics, but today is an exception for an important … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, Uncategorized | 64 Comments

Dead State: Get your scripted story out of my sandbox!

Posted on November 2, 2015 by SynCaine

As readers here know, I’m a big fan of sandbox gameplay, MMO or otherwise. The core thing that attracts me to the sandbox experience is the sense of unpredictability, of seeing a bunch of tools laid out for you by … Continue reading →

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‘Dumb it Down’ is dead

Posted on October 29, 2015 by SynCaine

This post is sparked by Loire’s post about the Overwatch beta, specifically this line: The “simplified genre” idea is successful because it opens up games to a much wider audience, including the still-massive World of Warcraft audience. Certainly back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 9 Comments

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

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

Trion being Trion: Trove edition

Posted on August 20, 2015 by SynCaine

Trion’s statement: One million monthly users. Scott’s clarification: It’s anyone who has ever created a free account since launch. Trion launched July 9th. So Trion it hurts.

Posted in Rant, Trion being Trion | 4 Comments

HS: New Blizzard’s method of balancing the game is to not balance it at all

Posted on August 10, 2015 by SynCaine

When Blizzard’s MOBA game was first announced, one of the items I wanted to keep an eye on was how well Blizzard would do at balancing the game, because Blizzard is always slow to make changes, and most recently hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 9 Comments