Action RPG
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Screenshot Saturday: Diablo IV Open Beta
I, like many others, gave the open beta of Diablo IV a try. I decided to go with druid which is definitely not my favourite class. It took me a while to find a build that works okay, so that’s something, at least. I haven’t purchased the game and I think I’m going to pass…
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BlizzConline: Diablo II Resurrected – Gimme!
My story with Diablo II is pretty short: I got the game as a present from bookahnerk after I’d said that I am interested in “roleplaying games” on the PC, but not an online game. That was back in 2005. I never got much further than the graveyard (Sisters’ Burial Grounds, apparently). My main problem…
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Vacation Gaming Goals
Plans were made, then Corona happened. Instead of getting to visit my Greek friends, we’re staying home. I already had some vacation days while bookahnerk worked. These were basically to make up for working overtime and I used the free time to work on my dissertation. Now we’re looking at two weeks of vacation time…
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Steam Summer Sale 2020
The Steam Summer Sale has started – in case there’s any gamer left that hasn’t noticed! I wanted to take advantage of the additional 5 € off when you buy something for at least 30 €. So, I decided to take a long thorough and critical look at my wishlist. I have the tendency to…
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My Five Favourite Game Series
Krikket posted about her five favourite game series (this topic is apparently going around in Twitter, but I haven’t seen it there yet) and I like the idea so much that I decided to post about my own here. At first, I thought I would find two, maybe three series and then I’d have a…
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No Screenshot Saturday: Torchlight 3
Yes, NO screenshot today, because there’s an NDA on media. Fortunately, we are allowed to talk and write about the game as much as we want. We are just not allowed to show any screenshots or videos. I’ve started playing with the new class, the Sharpshooter. I must admit, I didn’t much care for the…
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Torchlight Frontiers becomes Torchlight III
…and they didn’t just stop after changing the upcoming game’s name. According to their news post, they are really remaking the game to be a successor to the previous Torchlight games. For me, the biggest changes are: Premium instead of free to play (the in-game shop was removed!) No more horizontal progression (I am usually…
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Screenshot Saturday: Dervish in Arkovian Undercity
After months of being much better, my hand decided to get a lot worse again today. I had really wanted to spend the evening gaming, though. Mouse and keyboard doesn’t work at all when my hand is like that. But the gamepad works! So, there’s either Civilization VI or Grim Dawn as these two games…
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My Top Games of the Decade
Writing about my Top Games of 2019 was a bit too short-sighted, apparently. I have seen others talk about their games of the decade – most recently Rakuno’s post. And then I figured that I could add another “top games” post here. I mean, it is my blog and it has been filled with lots…
favourite games, games of the decade, grim dawn, Guild Wars 2, jurassic world evolution, L. A. Noire, life is strange, pc gaming, Rift, secret world legends, sherlock holmes: crimes and punishments, Terraria, the painscreek killings, the secret world, torchlight 2, tropico 4, Trove, Warlock II: The Exiled, warlock master of the arcane
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Five games for a year
Naithin shared this writing prompt on the Blaugust Discord channel recently which, I admit, I only saw because I read Rakuno’s answer. It’s a fun one to think about, so I’m definitely adding my own thoughts! The question is simple enough: You can only pick 5 games to play for an entire year. What would…
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Which action RPG for a beginner?
A co-worker of bookahnerk’s is thinking of trying out an action RPG. He has never played a game in this genre and asked him if he could recommend Grim Dawn. He had apparently seen it in some “Let’s Play” and it looked interesting. Since I’ve been playing it a lot more than bookahnerk, he asked…
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This better be worth it!
Back in 2017, as a birthday present from myself to myself, I bought Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr. This was before the game’s launch in June 2018. I quickly realized that I wanted to wait playing it until its official launch as the game was still heavily worked on. Altogether, I have played the game for…
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Too many choices in Grim Dawn
When the 2nd (and last) expansion for Grim Dawn was announced, I didn’t think I’d want to buy it on its release day, because I didn’t see that it comes with a new class. And it’s not just any class, it’s the Oathkeeper. A class that from the videos I saw reminded me a lot…
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The Return of Torchlight! (Blaugust Post 7)
When I read that Runic Games, the developing company of the Torchlight series didn’t exist anymore back in November 2017, I was rather sad. This meant, after all, that there would be no more Torchlight games. Their last game was Hob. An adventure game with a new IP and more of the puzzle kind. It’s…
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“I’m sick”-games: ARPGs (Blaugust Post 5)
Yesterday, we went to our dance school and took two classes. I felt fine and even after the 2.5 hours of dancing, I could have still continued! So it came as a bit of a shock when I woke up during the night with an aching throat and this morning, my whole body was aching.…
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