On what i'll be blogging about

Just a fairly short post to give a little history and what i'm planning to blog about now and in the future.

My current MMO is Rift and will probably make up the majority of posts until....

Skyrim releases on 11/11/11 and which i'm planning to delve into and attempt to 'finish'. Thats if its now actually even possible for me to play single player RPGs without the MMO bit. (hint. failed to finish Mass Effect 2).

Diablo III! ah yes. Very much looking forward to this and hoping 'early' 2012 actually means what it says. Which class i will choose to level up first currently changing on a daily basis. Today: Monk... no, Demon Hunter...

Planning to actually avoid SW:TOR as all indications to me point to either a huge flop, or at best something fairly short-lived. Not particularly invested in the Star Wars IP and the prospect of spending rather a lot of money on what looks to be, lets be honest 'Wow in space'. Of course one can change one's mind, and the critical mass if people playing a game is a very powerful thing. But i remain to be convinced.

Guild Wars 2...'when its ready'. An MMO which looks to be genuinely pushing some things forward. It could replace Rift for me but trying to keep my expectations in check.

Wow. I've recently knocked together a trial account and have been spend a few minutes here and there leveling up various alts in the starter zones. I left Wow just prior to Cataclysm (mainly for personal reasons of spending too much time in it) My distaste for the revamped Azeroth was clear though, and being very much on the 'achiever' end of the spectrum, seeing so many of my achievements wiped off the board both a) grated and b) rather starkly illuminated the whole hamster wheel, pointlessness of it.

However time has past and many of these zones are simply 'new' rather than 'different'. And its interesting to note the changes and to be honest, kiddification (is that a word?) of the content. I'm vaguely tempted to invest more time in it, but also very much aware of the time sinking commitment it would inevitably become (lets do the 25 exalted reps achievement again!) I've also noted the fact of in neither of these starter zone experiences have i had the opportunity to speak to another player (Blizzard now instead provide a helpful companion NPC saying 'hey player, its this way to the giant ! on your map,' for all your interaction needs) and i can imagine this may be the case now all the way to level cap.

Anyway not to get into Wow too much and abuse the concept of 'short post'. I've also had a look into World of Tanks and may post something on that if i can get into it a little more (two matches, one swift death, the other a game crash)

Mainly, although i know this is not particularly original content and the insights will not be all that novel, i have been desiring to actually put my thoughts down coherently, and to speak in paragraphs, rather than sentences, as it were. And well, dear reader (single/plural/imaginary...) if no one reads it, then it is at least a dear diary and one can always look back and laugh, or despair...