I’m still trying to find my feet as far as this gaming blog
goes. I still need to figure out a good schedule for posting, and determine how
long posts should be and how frequently to post them, but I’ll figure it out as
I go. I like the idea of doing a monthly round up of games I’ve played, and I
think I’d like to do a weekly or bi-weekly post as well, but I have to figure
out when to do it.
Hearthstone
I dove really deep into Hearthstone Battlegrounds this
month, with two blog posts about the new mode, plus several hours of gameplay,
testing strategies and heroes. I played a few games of Standard today, and it
was as if I had forgotten how to play the actual game. Spells? What are those?!
The changes they’ve made to the hero line-up has been interesting as far as the
meta goes. Murlocs still suck though.
Pokemon Sword
We got Pokemon Sword in on release day, and I’ve spent a
good bit of time playing that. Kiddo is Pokemon obsessed right now, so it’s
been fun to play while she watches. I’ve seen a lot of complaints from gamers
about how short the game is and how sparse the story is, but as someone who has
only ever played Pokemon Red, Yellow, and Let’s Go Eevee (which are all
basically the exact same game with different skins), it plays like a classic
Pokemon game. I’m enjoying it. There’s more story going on than the originals,
and I’m enjoying running around the world. I’ve played at least fifteen hours
or so, and I have four badges (I think). I haven’t played in the last week
because I’ve been playing other games, but I’m looking forward to playing more
of it in December.
Ring Fit Adventure
I’ve been playing this game since it released in October,
and I’ve played it 3-4 times a week ever since. I took this last week off
because I hurt my ankle somehow and couldn’t do most of the exercises without
making it worse, but I was able to play again today, finally. I’m up to World 07
now, and just hit level 50. I’ve been playing at Difficulty 13. It’s intense
enough that it makes me sweat and a little sore, but not so much that it makes
my heartrate skyrocket or make me want to die. I might up the difficulty again
soon (I started at 11 when the game came out) as the exercises are getting
easier and easier week to week. The story of the game so far is actually a lot
of fun. It’s absurd and full of puns, with every fantasy RPG trope ever made,
and I love it. There’s something extra fun about fighting a super swole dragon
dude in order to save the world from his evil swoleness. Kiddo enjoys this one
as well and often plays right after I do (on a much lower difficulty!).
World of Warcraft
I recently jumped back into World of Warcraft with the latest
special event, Korrak’s Revenge, which takes players back to the original
Alterac Valley battleground. It’s been a fun way to level alts with the 15% XP
bonus from the WoW Anniversary token, plus all of the heirlooms I have.
Everything is scaled to level 60 numbers and for every half hour spent in the battleground,
you gain a level. I’ve been able to level up three alts already, my 110
Windwalker Monk, 110 Elemental Shaman, and 83 Holy Paladin. After playing
nearly forty levels of Holy Paladin over the course of this week, I’m
considering maining her in Shadowlands, when the expansion drops next year. She
was my very first character I made, and she’s been wasting away n Northrend since
2009, when I got bored playing end content for Wrath of the Lich King. I mained
Mage in Battle for Azeroth and still love to play Mage (I have two 120 Mages,
one for each faction), but I wouldn’t mind a change of pace for the next
expansion.
Anyway, Korrak’s Revenge has been fun. I main Horde, so we
win 9/10 matches, if not more. I’ve played so many matches that I’ve gotten
bored with the offensive push and have started focusing on defense. Yesterday,
I played a match where I was able to defend Tower Point with the commander for
a good minute or two before I finally died, up against 10 Alliance players. I’m
not sure they knew I was in there for a while, but I was able to take out four
players before they finally killed me. PVP as Holy Paladin is fun, and I love 1v1
matches. It’s always fun to win those as a healer.
Outside of Alterac Valley, I’ve been playing the Paladin
Class Hall Campaign and questing around in Legion content between battleground
matches. By accident, I found a questline where you have to go meet the
Postmaster (literally the guy who delivers all of the in-game mail) and help him
with deliveries, which involves a hilarious fetch quest to Icecrown Citadel, getting
Invincible’s Reins and delivering them to Johnny Awesome at a hot spring
resort, porting sacks of stone to an enraged Nexus-Prince, and sorting tons of
mail in order to get the title of Postmaster, which you better believe is now
my active title. I love little questlines like this. They’re random, but so
much fun, and I applaud whoever developed this one.
My next highest level character is a Blood Death Knight
which I may or may not try to level through the battleground event. I’ve played
so many matches of Alterac Valley, it’s becoming repetitive, but maybe playing
a different class will liven it up again.
Up next...
That’s it for gaming in November. For December, I'll probably stick with Pokemon Sword on console, and do the usual Hearthstone during breakfast and lunch, and World of Warcraft in my free time. I still have Baldur’s Gate
on hold, probably to be continued once I’m done with Pokemon Sword.
For the blog, I’ll try to
start posting more regularly, and maybe have weekly wrap ups, in addition to my
longer thinky posts about individual games.
What about you? What games are you playing this month? Any new releases you’re
excited for? Let me know!
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