October 2018 Posts: 3 (Really? Just 3?) Games: Magic The Gathering: Arena Other Media: October was my second lightest posting month and 3 in a month (along with the couple 5s I had earlier in the year) shows my inability to post consistently. Blogging is one of those things I love when I feel like…
Category: Digital Extremes
Blog Therapy – Drafts Purge – Part 6
This series is when I get a bunch of draft posts left in the background and I feel compelled to clean them out. And by clean them out, I mean talk about what my point was when I was thinking of writing it, whether or not it’s worth continuing the thought (or not) and why,…
Ultimate Screenshot Mode
(as with all of my pictures in posts, click on it to make it bigger and more perdy. It will open in a new window) Wow. Just WOW! I have never been a big screenshot person. I wish I did better at it but I always tend to miss the right moments as I am…
The Joys of Ragdoll Death Physics
Dying in Style Over the weekend I was able to spend some quality time with Warframe. Warframe is great to spend time with. Time flies by, she is very unselfish and giving, and she is just a lot of fun to hang out with. Several times during gameplay, pretty much with every session, I have…
Show and Tell : Mesa
Warframe does a few things I love especially – stats. Every weapon, Warframe, etc. tracks kills stats, head shots, melee kills – you name it. They also have stats for overall game performance. You can see below that even pushing 55 hours in I have only completed 145/227 nodes (areas) on my Star Chart. Still…
Shopping Spree
Well, I have already completed my Black Friday shopping. Which can’t really happen until 11 am (when the sales start) but I am already decided and ready to go. It’s all Warframe, which is having a 50% off sale on some Bundles. Bundles includes weapons, Syandanas (capes) and boosters. Tweets by PlayWarframe Here are my…
Modding in Warframe
First off, I am still a novice Warframe player. This three minute video is a great, fun and pretty accurate watch on the learning curve in Warframe. (and for the record, I am at day 40!) Jeromai rightly points out in my comment section (last post) that most Mod guides are for “end game” and…
Checking In : 50 Hours of Warframe
(as always with pictures here, click on them to open them in a large format in a new window) I hit that milestone last night. 50 hours in a game. That is roughly five “AAA” single player campaigns, by today’s soft production standards. The biggest two compliments I can give this game from a time…
Postcards from Space
(this is a picture heavy post – as with all of my posts, click on the picture and it will open a new window with the full, high res version. To really appreciate them!) Warframe has a beautiful looking backdrop. Shame because there is an awful lot of rush, rush, rush in co-operative PVE in…
Community Resourcing and Rewarding : Warframe
It’s funny how certain things I learn and experience in gaming remind me of old posts. Some are word for word suggestions and ideas I made in the past (such as having WoW armor switch stats on specialization switch which I suggested almost a decade ago – you are welcome) to my ire that people who…
Have a Cookie : Login Rewards
First, I promised Bhagpuss I would try and get some outside shots of Warframe. There is no first person view for screenshots that I am aware of and unfortunately my WF takes up a big chunk of the screen. I am also not great at acreenshots (both remembering to take them in the first place, and…
Confirmation Bias : Warframe, Destiny 2
Metacritic is one of those fun sites that gives a glimpse into the mood of the crowd. It also has some truth to it. Long ago I stopped trusting paid reviewers and review sites for much of the obvious – they are just a single view point of opinion without any backdrop to understand what…
Wait, There’s More : Warframe
Warframe is a game of discovery. And grinding. Thankfully the discovery part fun far outweighs any negative part of the grinding. Also, the grinding is fluid and ALSO fun so it’s in a pretty big win / win spot. My third Warframe finished building (took three days) and it is the often recommended and easy…
Where Have You Been : Warframe
As a continuation of my exploration of Warframe, the good AND the bad I made a bullet point list in my previous post. It was a pretty long list so not going to copy and paste it but use that as my step off for my “balanced and fair”, “reporting”. Ahem. First, a distracting, beautiful…
Anything You Can Do : Warframe
If you haven’t played Warframe (at all or recently) here is a two minute non-commentated clip of an assassination mission I completed this morning to give you an idea of the gameplay. I am using the Frost Prime warframe (free with Twitch Prime! Even better is that it is free with a Twitch Prime *trial…
W(TF)arframe
When googling “games like Destiny” one game pops up frequently. I google that phrase quite a bit as I hope and fantasize about another gaming company building a game like Destiny but addressing the shortfalls and applying a bit more effort. The game that pops up frequently is Warframe. Warframe is a free to play…