belghast

belghast, 1 year ago to random

I gotta say being on the Fediverse during Eurovision is way more enjoyable than it ever was on Twitter. I'm flipping between here and a private message chain on slack with a friend also watching. Delightful.

belghast, 8 months ago to Games

Morning Folks. This topic had been lodged in my head for a few weeks, and this morning I am attempting to do it justice. I will probably fail. I talk about the problem where we gamers have this bad habit of personifying a Game Studio as though it were something similar to a favorite author.

Stop Personifying Game Studios
https://aggronaut.com/2023/09/12/stop-personifying-game-studios/

#Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #ShareYourGames

belghast, 10 months ago to honkaistarrail

Good Morning Friends! This morning I talk about getting Luocha before the banner ends in #HonkaiStarRail and then give a bit of a recap on our #Blaugust2023 sign-ups so far. Really excited that we already have a mix of folks who have never done the #Blaugust event before.

Coffin Dude Get
https://aggronaut.com/2023/07/18/coffin-dude-get/

#MMO #MMORPG #RPG #HSR #Luocha #Blogging #Blogs #ShareYourGames

belghast, 5 months ago to VideoGames

Morning Folks! This is ultimately the post that I intended to make yesterday... as I talk through my feelings regarding some of the new systems I have encountered in #WorldOfWarcraft.

Specifically, I talk about how my list of negatives about the game has dwindled down to only a couple of things.

https://aggronaut.com/2024/01/03/reevaluating-azeroth/

#VideoGames #Games #Gaming #MMO #MMORPG #ShareYourGames

belghast, 8 months ago to pathofexile

Morning Folks! It took me a bit to get this pulled together, but I spent some time diving into my latest #PathOfExile build a Fire Conversion Shield Crush Chieftain. It was way more expensive than I would have liked it... which makes me hesitant to recommend it. It has way more uniques than I am generally comfortable with, which creates challenges for hitting resistances.

Fire Shield Crush Chieftain
https://aggronaut.com/2023/09/26/fire-shield-crush-chieftain/

#Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #ShareYourGames

belghast, 10 months ago to honkaistarrail

Good Morning Friends! This morning I talk about the new #HonkaiStarRail story drop, Immortality Ends, and what I hope is the wrap-up of the Luofu area. While I enjoyed it... I am kinda done with "Space China" and am ready for more planetary trailblazing shenanigans.

Immortality Ends - HSR 1.2
https://aggronaut.com/2023/07/21/immortality-ends-hsr-1-2/

#RPG #ARPG #Gacha #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #ShareYourGames

belghast, 10 months ago to pathofexile

Good Afternoon Folks! I am a bit late getting this out here... because I maybe took on a monumental task. #PathOfExile is a phenomenal #ARPG but it has a very steep learning curve... which I am attempting to flatten a bit.

Getting Started with Path of Exile
https://aggronaut.com/2023/07/24/getting-started-with-path-of-exile/

#MMO #MMORPG #Diablo #Diablo4 #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #ShareYourGames

belghast, 10 months ago to random

There is a cool "get to know you" thread cycling around over on BSky that I am absolutely stealing for here.

Introduce yourself with:

-- One Book
-- One Album
-- One Movie

#1Book1Album1Movie

CD Cover art for Faith No More Angel Dust Album
Book cover for The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

belghast, 9 months ago to pathofexile

Morning Folks! I had a rather expensive day in #PathOfExile as I bankrupted myself to pick up a near perfect Brass Dome and an Elder Pseudo-Six-Link Helm to swap Fire Trap over to my chestpiece. I also picked up my first two void stones, and am enjoying hunting for cities down in Delve.

Broke and Flipped
https://aggronaut.com/2023/08/29/broke-and-flipped/

#Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #ShareYourGames #Blaugust2023

belghast, 9 months ago to pathofexile

Morning Folks! It is the last day of #Blaugust2023 and I do my best to set some expectations for how stressful "Tabulation Day" is going to be for me this year. I also talk a bit more about #PathOfExile and also talk a little bit about dipping my toes into #Starfield soon.

Last Day of Blaugust 2023
https://aggronaut.com/2023/08/31/last-day-of-blaugust-2023/

#Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #ShareYourGames #Blaugust2023

belghast, 4 months ago to MMO

Hey Folks! I said yesterday that I was not mainlining #Enshrouded... then spent the entire evening mainlining Enshrouded. I made a bunch of progress unlocking new tradesfolk and then started some minor renovations on my primary base.

Rescuing Tradesfolk
https://aggronaut.com/2024/02/01/rescuing-tradesfolk/

#MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #Survival #ShareYourGames

belghast, 6 months ago to random

If you are creating a throwaway account to message someone and evade them blocking you... no matter how pure you feel your intention is... you've crossed the line into harassment and should rethink your decision chain.

belghast, 2 months ago to pathofexile

Morning Folks! It is #PathOfExile Necropolis League launch day, and I spent some time this morning talking about my plans and some of the early uniques that I am going to try and pick up.

Necropolis League Start Plans
https://aggronaut.com/2024/03/29/necropolis-league-start-plans/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #Games #VideoGames #Gaming

belghast, 2 months ago to Games

Morning Folks! I've been playing a lot of #HorizonForbiddenWest since the PC release last week and talk about some of my experiences. This is a gorgeous game but not one without a few slowdown issues in a single area of the game. That seems to have been resolved in a patch but talk through those issues nonetheless.

Horizon Forbidden West on PC
https://aggronaut.com/2024/03/26/horizon-forbidden-west-on-pc/

#Games #VideoGames #Gaming #OpenWorld #HorizonZeroDawn #Aloy

belghast, 4 months ago to MMO

Morning Folks! I've been spending some time playing that other new survival game that does not involve catching them all... #Enshrouded. This morning I share some of my very early thoughts about the game after having played around six hours.

Enshrouded Early Thoughts
https://aggronaut.com/2024/01/31/enshrouded-early-thoughts/

#MMO #MMORPG #Survival #Crafting #Builder #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #ShareYourGames

belghast, 4 months ago to cityofheroes

Good Morning Folks! I had completely forgotten that City of Heroes had zone-wide events. Other than the Halloween events in Everquest... this might have been one of the first major timed reoccurring events in games that I had experienced.

This morning I talked about happening upon a raid group doing the event last night and joining in the fun.

Rikti Invasions
https://aggronaut.com/2024/01/17/rikti-invasions/

#CityOfHeroes #MMO #MMORPG #ARPG #Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ShareYourGames

belghast, 4 months ago to MMO

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday thanks to a @RickiTarr question thread about video game character preferences, and this morning I decided to expand that into a full blog post.

Basically, I play the same character over and over and don't fully understand why.

https://aggronaut.com/2024/02/05/faces-of-bel-revisited/

#MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Games #Gaming

belghast, 4 months ago to Games

Morning Folks! There are a handful of games that "could have been" great, but were either canceled before their time or just failed to read the room. One of these games that I will always lament is Outriders and how it actually SHOULD have been a Live-Service game and failed to understand why people were raging against them at the time.

Lamentation of Outriders
https://aggronaut.com/2024/02/06/lamentation-of-outriders/

#ARPG #LooterShooter #Games #Gaming #VideoGames #Outriders #ShareYourGames

belghast, 3 months ago to lastepoch

Morning Folks! This morning I got to Divine Era Majelka in #LastEpoch and joined the Circle of Fortune faction. I talk a bit about what I have seen so far in the way that prophecies and lenses work to help determine loot rewards.

Circle of Fortune
https://aggronaut.com/2024/02/23/circle-of-fortune/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #Games #VideoGames #Gaming #ShareYourGames

belghast, 2 months ago to pathofexile

Since we are on the cusp of another #PathOfExile League which starts this Friday, I figured it might be time to post this link again. Last year I created a "getting started" post that was largely targeting folks with no POE experience.

https://aggronaut.com/2023/07/24/getting-started-with-path-of-exile/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #Gaming #VideoGames #Gameplay

belghast, 12 days ago to MMO

Morning Folks! Yesterday I tried the whole "get to 25 and then just do raids" thing for alt leveling in #WorldOfWarcraft #PandariaRemix and it is very much "not my jam". My appetite for chain-running raids does not appear to be what it used to be. This also feels like a strategy for maximizing bronze gain and not necessarily levels.

Raid Leveling Not for Me
https://aggronaut.com/2024/05/28/raid-leveling-not-for-me/

#MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Games #Gaming

belghast, 5 months ago to Cats

I know it is late for #Caturday but yesterday we noticed a new feral baby we had never seen before on either cam. They came over to partake of the water dish that we left out.

Make sure you watch until the VERY end. Tripod the feral calico that has adopted our backyard is not sure about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmzdDVE9OrY

I should upload cute videos to CatfriendTV more often. It had been a while.

#Cats #CatsofMastodon

belghast, 2 months ago to lastepoch

Hey Folks! I feel like I came off a bit negative on the podcast this weekend regarding #LastEpoch. I talked a bit this morning about how being "done" with something isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've put some 300 hours into this cycle alone, leveled a bunch of different characters, hit level 100 on at least one of them... and consider myself to have finished everything that I wanted to finish.

Done Isn't a Bad Thing
https://aggronaut.com/2024/03/25/done-isnt-a-bad-thing/

#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #Games #Gaming #VideoGames

belghast, 4 months ago to cityofheroes

The podcast this weekend stirred up all sorts of nostalgia about #CityOfHeroes so yesterday I installed the Homecoming client and pretty much spent all day wandering around Paragon City.

The sound design more than anything else plucks my heartstrings. This is still a great game and gives a window into what "peak MMORPG" looked like just before the launch of World of Warcraft.

The Path Abandoned
https://aggronaut.com/2024/01/15/the-path-abandoned/

#MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #Games #Gaming #ARPG #ShareYourGames

belghast, 2 months ago to random

So I appreciate the catch-up video at the beginning of Horizon Forbidden West but lord... does it hurt my heart to think someone might be playing this game first having not played the first