Instead of playing Elite this session, I started up a season
6 character on Diablo III. I played a
bit on season 5 as a witchdoctor so took mage this time around. Even with my fairly limited play time I’ve
zoomed through the levels pretty quickly.
Level 30 in a bit over 3 hours compares pretty favourably to my original
characters which are 20+ hours in and only barely in the 30’s. I’ve seen a season
6 preparation guide which says I’m doing it slowly – they are at 70 already in
a bit over 3 hours. I’m still having fun my way and am not in any real hurry.
I’ve also played a little bit of Defiance in ½ to 1 hour
bursts over the last week or so. Shooters aren’t my usual game but I’ve quite
enjoyed this one in the year or so I’ve been dabbling casually. Prior to
restarting my blogging I’d spent about 70% of my gaming time in SWTOR where I have
multiple max-level alts. Since I’ve not
even started the current expansion story line yet, there’s plenty of content
for me there and I expect I’ll pick it back up soon.
World of Warcraft however isn’t of much interest to me now.
I’m still subscribed and log in a couple times each month but Legion may well
be the end for my time in Azeroth. My
account was opened in the final months of Vanilla and has been subscribed continuously
since then. It was still new and fresh
to me throughout the Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. I
initially liked Cataclysm’s storyline and most gameplay changes but I began to
find that the dramatic changes to most every zone broke my immersion into the
world and it no longer felt like home. The introduction of goblins, worgen and
later the pandas further broke my connection to the world.
Some of the gameplay changes also reduced my connection to
my characters, especially the nerfing of talent trees in later expansions.
Making levelling content trivially easy hasn’t helped either. Warlords of Draenor
was better in that for a while there I actually cared about the story but that
soon wore off with all the scripted cut-scenes and confusing massed battles
where I had no idea of objectives. Allied npc’s that simply face-roll the
content for you doesn’t help much either. If simply spamming your basic attacks
on random enemies still wins the event there’s not much incentive to care.
Legion had better bring back some of the spark!
Its patch Tuesday for many games as I write this – right in
peak evening game time here in east Australia so I’m not sure which I’ll play
after posting. Back to Elite for
tomorrow most likely!
- ~Cryptography
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