I'm bacckkk

Yes -- time to start posting again.   Post Dragon*Con I got lazy again.   But I'm not going to let the blog sit.

1)  -- A lot of what I've been monitoring and keeping track of is MMO activity via the Flipboard activity on my iPad (finally upgraded to an air last November).  Making the Central Nexus News covers a lot of what I like in gaming -- MOSTLY MMO games, with emphasis on superhero games.   We've still got Champions and DCUO.  Neither really gets involved much.  We've still got 2 other multiplayer games in Marvel Heroes and soon DC Infinite Crisis.   Both take a Diablo type approach, which means you can't make custom characters.   The Marvel game has no real explanation though, while the DC game essentially has all paralell worlds touching each other at one chaotic spot... Think Elseworlds, think Earth 3, Earth2 (New version?) etc.  It could be interesting, But I'm still holding out for City of Titans.  But it will be a long time beofre that gets here.    Follow my activity on the CNN link (No not that one) above.    City of Heroes stuff still gets in there -- be it commemorations on tribute videos from time to time.   People just WILL not give up the game.

2) I've been playing a lot of Skyrim.   LOTS of it. I've gotten several games, Bioshock Infinite, Saints Row IV, even Grand Theft Auto V,  but I still feel like I've not truly finished Skyrim, and it keeps pulling me back.   Even though i've several characters in the 55+ range now.  Even did a run for 30 levels on the XBOX 360 version.   No mods there, save the DLC, so anything done there is vanilla.    Unfortunately the load times are 10 times the PC version so it tends to drag on.    I did play long enough to get several missing achievements.  On the PC I'm up to 70.   Haven't got the criminal in all holds, vampire perk achievements, nor the legendary dragon.   One of these days.    On the PC I found several wild Magic mods -- but together they make it almost too easy.   1 allows you to wear up to 6 rings.   Always thought having only 1 ring was unrealistic.   At least without an explanation.   Most fantasy games at least let you wear one on each hand.  The next mod expands the final perk on the enchantment tree to allow more than 2 enchantments.   Adding another perk level -- you can go from 2 to 5 to 20 to unlimited.  combined this tends to make your active magic list forever, and some of your stats start skyrocketing.  Great if you want to make your own Arch mage gear from scratch, but it is too easy to add so much that the game gets broken. 

3) Trying Champions again.   Without CITY i tend to miss the MMO life.  But many of the groups I've found tend to be 3-6 people with 20-50 people that NEVER are on.   Of course sometimes I find Champions depressing.  I keep wanting to do CITY toons again, but they never turn out exactly right play wise.  Looks are sometimes very close, and that just gets you.  I tend to try new ones more often than not these days.  But I keep finding myself trying solo games instead of MMO.   I haven't touched Defiance or Star Trek Online, or even Star Wars.  I'm waiting on Elder Scrolls Online.   I still wonder about it, whether it will capture what Skyrim did even in part.   If it can, it will be around a while.  Otherwise it will be one fish in a large pond FULL of fantasy MMOs.