We’ve nearly completed two planets since our last SWTOR adventure log.  Have things changed since the rather lackluster experiences on Balmorra, Quesh, and Hoth?  Read on! Belsavis Belsavis is a prison planet divided into areas of low to high security.  As you progress through the planet as a member of the Republic, you help solve [...]

I saw this project development cartoon used for something in one of my classes, and for the rest of the class I couldn’t stop chuckling to myself as I thought about how this applied so perfectly to the typical MMO.  I edited the cartoon to apply.  If you have trouble reading the captions, click on [...]

In our adventures around the galaxy we have come across a few… interesting things.  Below are a few of them. Anyone else notice that, in the entire galaxy, no water passes your knees?  Imagine the disease from that much standing water.  Did the developers not want to code swimming?  What’s the deal with that? We’re [...]

Skylanders, in pocket form. A few months back I gave my impressions of Skylanders and talked about why I liked it so much. Over the holiday break I decided to pick up the 3DS version of the game, despite still working through the 360 version along with a sizeable backlog of other games. I passed [...]

Graev and I were talking today and he said, “I hate being forced to play only once a week.”  Players like Graev log in once a week to raid then log out because the end-game in a themepark really is raiding once, getting locked out, and coming back next week to repeat the process.  Graev [...]

Why can’t items be universal?  Why do I have to obtain a set of gear for PvP and a set for PvE? Having to gather gear with a PvP stat has never made much sense to me. The problem started with players who only wanted to PvP.  These PvP-only types bemoaned the idea of having [...]

Yesterday I told you what I thought about SWTOR‘s PvE from 1-40.  Now I want to give you my quick thoughts on the PvP.  My perspective is not one of a hardcore PvPer doing only warfronts to level, nor is it from someone who considers themselves god’s gift to PvP.  I’m not a pro, nor [...]

SWTOR PvP falls short, my suggestions from Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog

We’ve been working diligently through the content of SWTOR, and it’s time for an update on where we’re at!  I haven’t been doing these updates as regularly as I had planned, but life gets busy at very specific times every single year — SWTOR’s launch coincided with one of those times. I think what I’ll [...]

SWTOR 1-40 Commentary from Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog

Digging around in the garage before heading back up to school, I uncovered a massive treasure trove of old games.  I found boxes marked “N64″, “Consoles”, “Nintendo”, “PS”, and “Game Stuff”.  Inside were stacks of stuff like this: A crazy rush of nostalgia came over me.  I was looking at the original Super Nintendo Entertainment [...]

I received a really fun gift for Christmas called LEGO Heroica: Castle Fortaan.   The gist of the game is to build a campaign or dungeon-like board and be the first person to reach the end or kill the boss.   At first glance it seems like a simple Lego game you put together and roll a [...]

As the final hours of 2011 slowly fade away, it’s time for me to post my predictions for 2012!  I didn’t do well in my predictions for this year.  A few of them were spot on, a couple were a year too early, and some were not even close.   Hopefully I can manage to predict [...]

We shared with you our favorites and disappointments from 2011, and now it’s time to share what we’re most looking forward to in next year’s lineup! It took some thought to really narrow our options down, but we’ve come up with two solid games. These games bring with them a level of excitement and anticipation [...]

We shared with you our favorites and disappointments from 2011, and now it’s time to share what we’re most looking forward to in next year’s lineup! It took some thought to really narrow our options down, but we’ve come up with two solid games. These games bring with them a level of excitement and anticipation [...]

This year was stellar for gaming!  Great hits released for nearly every genre, every platform, and every style of play.  To begin our roundup of 2011, we want to share the games we feel were the best and worst or most disappointing this year.  These are games we played and we’re weighing them on our [...]

Annnnnd we’re back!  Hopefully everyone had a nice couple of days with family, friends, or solitude. I thought I would give you all a quick roundup post of what we’ve been doing to kick things off again on the blog. We picked up a few games for Christmas that we’ve already begun to work through. [...]