Hiatus

I've not been on WoW lately, I've taken a hiatus from it while waiting for the Warlords of Draenor expansion to drop. I'm sure I'm not alone in doing this, but it has afforded me the opportunity to explore other games and branch out into genres I don't normally approach. Lately I've been playing a lot of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Civilization V, Robocraft, DC Universe Online and a few others. Normally, I'd broadcast my playtime via twitch, but when I upgraded my computer, I wiped the harddrive clean. For the life of me I cannot remember the broadcasting software I'd used to broadcast over twitch and to be honest, I've been REALLY lazy about it. Not a lot of people were interested in watching me play WoW, and I don't think any would be interested in watching me flail around in games I have no idea how to play, like Planetside2. Speaking of Planetside,... I really want to get into FPS gaming on the PC. I was a huge fan of FPS gaming on consoles with Battlefield 3 and 4 via Playstation and Halo, Homefront and Borderlands via Xbox360. Unfortunately, I feel restricted and limited on the PC because I've used a controller for my entire life. Trying to get into FPS games on the PC pretty much requires using the keyboard/mouse because most games don't offer controller support. Which is fine, if I were a game developer I wouldn't wanna spend extra time/money porting the game for a piece of hardware that few people would use anyway. And, yes, I know, you hardcore FPS gamers out there will argue that a keyboard/mouse control setup is better for FPS gaming anyway, why would I ever want to use a piece of peasant equipment to play games on the master race, right? Well, it's just what I'm comfortable with. Titanfall, for example, allows the use of controllers and I manage pretty well playing that with my peasant equipment.

At least it's not like MechWarrior, right?

Still, I feel extremely restricted in what games I can and can't play/enjoy because of my personal affinity for a smaller, more compact control scheme than having to reach individual digits across a 24" flat keyboard. Also I can never seem to get the mouse sensitivity -just- right for FPS gaming. Now, other games, like Civ5, Robocraft, SW:TOR, Rift, etc, work just fine for keyboard/mouse movement and control probably because they use the same or similar control setup as WoW, which I've been playing for the better part of the last decade. I am most excitedly looking forward to WoW's expansion that I can get back to a game I know and love without having to grind through the same year-old stale content over and over again. That was one of the things I, and many others, enjoyed about WoW. Where other MMO's like Everquest and Dark Ages left the same boring content up for months and months, WoW generated new content so often it kept the game fresh. Just when you were getting tired of Naxx and OS, BAM! Here comes Ulduar. Soon as that's stale, BAM! ICC. And it's worked that way for years... until the final patch of Pandaria which has been out for almost a year. I just couldn't find any entertainment in running the SAME dungeon, versus the SAME bosses over and over and over for 12 months. I do miss it though. Mainly I miss my friends and the people I've come to know via WoW over the years. Though, when I do return to WoW, I will likely be updating my main character from my Death Knight to something else. I'll probably move back to my paladin, but we'll see. Only time will tell. 

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

That's all for now. Questions and comments are always welcome.

Suffer Well,

V