The Last of Us Part 1 I see I never posted in March but I haven't done a lot of gaming the last two months.  I had played about half of the Last of Us remastered for PS4 a few years ago and decided I'd like to play both parts since one of my daughter's really enjoyed it.  I figured if I was going to start over, I might as well play the PS5 version that was on sale.  I am now past where I was in my first playthrough.  It is welldone and you could probably see the difference in the image above in the earlier versions of the game but, fundamentally, it is the ..read more

  Blanc was a cute, fun game Not a lot to report for February but I would like to keep this up. I received Blanc for my birthday and played it cooperatively with my daughter who gave it to me.  It is a very cute, sweet game about a fawn and a wolf cub who have to work together to join back with their packs.  It was nice how they each helped each other and most of the puzzles were interesting but not too difficult (though I did look up a couple of hints).  Pretty short, but also not very expensive so worth it if you like artistic games like this and like to play co ..read more

  My Animal Crossing Birthday Celebration As mentioned in my previous post, I let my World of Warcraft subscription expire this month.  I was able to finish the Necrolords quests on Kantro before it expired.  I just happened to see where you could purchase 60 Covenant renown so I didn't need to wait for that, just finish the different quests offered primarily by Baroness Draka.  I'm not sure why I couldn't start the quests until I was level 60 (seems like a poor limitation) but I went ahead and completed all the Necrolords ones and was level 63 at the end.  I ..read more

  Emerald Dream Another post to help me keep track of my gaming.  I see it was approximately three months since my last post, maybe that'll be my new normal.  Then again, I'm playing World of Warcraft again, so maybe I'll feel compelled to write more. So, after about a 10 month absense, I decided to resubscribe to World of Warcraft.  The main driver for me was that 10.2 (Guardian's of the Dream), the last major patch for Dragonflight was live.  It is also true that the announcement of the next three expansions starting with The War Within at Blizzcon made me ..read more

  My Diablo IV Bear Druid with two Wolf friends August is here which means Blaugust among those I follow.  I knew I was on vacation for the first two weeks of August and the first week I'd be away so I didn't have much inclination to join.  That said, I'm happy for the others who are still blogging and for Belghast for keeping this tradition going that I have participated in in previous years. July saw the release of Diablo IV which I bought on release for the Playstation 5.  I only have a gaming laptop these days and I'm not inclined to update it often, so for ne ..read more

End of Burning Shores Mainly a note that I recently completed Horizon Forbidden West and the Burning Shores expansion.  I played it on Easy mode since I only have limited gaming time.  I did very much enjoy it and thought it was worth it, particularly since my daughter played it as well.  I did almost all of the side quests but didn't do very many of the collections. Finishing it made me feel justified to purchase Diablo IV.  I played the original game not long after it came out and played a lot of Diablo II.  I didn't play much Diablo III (played a little w ..read more

  Side content in World of Warcraft Dragonflight As has been my pattern, I bought the latest World of Warcraft expansion once it came at a discount (and I've been posting very little when not playing it).  This time, it was 30 days of game time rather than dollars off the expansion, but it comes to the same thing.  I bought it just before Christmas when it went on sale (in addition to three free days that you could play a Dracthyr (the new 'sort of' dragon characters).  They start at level 68 and the introductory story was fine (didn't seem quite as elabo ..read more

  Firewatch graphic since I used Stray last time Three relatively short games that I finished recently and just wanted to record my thoughts.  I'm hoping to keep this going about monthly so I can keep some track of my gaming here. Stray was my favorite of the three, mainly because most of it felt like it allowed you to be a cat.  Yes, there were parts where no cat would intentionally do what I did but the animation and the interactive parts felt appropriate for a cat.  As mentioned in my previous post, it encouraged to get Playstation Plus Extra and I have no regr ..read more

  Gaming as a cat It's been more than a year since my last post.  I thought about joining Blaugust but I knew I wasn't motivated to more than one post but I do have one post in me so I'm writing the day after Blaugust (seems appropriate). Almost all of this blog has been about World of Warcraft so it's appropriate to start there.  I did resubscribe for the 9.2 patch.  I joined thinking I would go through the new content and then finally run through the other Shadowlands Covenants on my other characters.  That didn't happen.  However, I did finish the 9.2 ..read more

  Blizzard has a lot to answer for. I haven't posted for about six weeks now.  Some of that has to do with a two week vacation I came back from last week but a lot of it has to do with this post.  First, let me say I believe Blizzard Entertainment has to change today, that I support the victims, many currently still working for the company and that nothing that has been done by Blizzard up to this point shows that they have made the changes required as a company.  As someone in management, I am always very aware of the need I have to support those who work for me a ..read more