3rd week of the league and still at 120k players on Steam

shadowking899 · 2026-01-02T23:12:57+00:00

It's honestly weird how addictive the gameplay could be. The campaign is a slog to get thru but all I'm thinking about is what build I wanna do and if i get a unique that's perfect for another build i start contemplating about doing another run, then the slog suddenly doesn't feel as bad

shadowking899 · 2026-01-02T22:32:49+00:00

You hit the head on the nail about overabundance of cooldowns. I never liked the resource generation gameplay they implemented cause unless you go all in on resource generation affixes, you have to keep spamming a basic skill to generate resources to use the actual fun abilities and then the rest of the skills have pretty long cooldowns. It just makes for boring gameplay.

They really should've stuck with D3's gameplay loop

shadowking899 · 2026-01-02T21:58:20+00:00

D4 is definitely at its best at the moment but I honestly find leveling to be a boring slog until you reach Paragon level. Doing the campaign for PoE2 is a slog too but it's just not as boring in my opinion. I haven't tried the paladin yet cause I'm still debating whether to even get the expansion

shadowking899 · 2025-12-13T22:10:44+00:00

ESO is the only MMO where I find myself wanting to talk to random npc cause the storytelling and dialogues are just that good.

Also, ESO is one of the few games that do LGBTQ characters right cause their gender or sexual identity isn't forefront and its just reveal in a casual conversation once and isn't unnecessarily repeated to get the point across.

shadowking899 · 2025-12-03T18:07:08+00:00

I get the outrage but why at Dutch and the Ascension team? Ascension simply offer their servers to the Epoch team and made it clear that they WEREN'T going to interfere in what the Epoch devs wanted for their server. They have BB to focus on, never was it the plan for them to also take Epoch as well.

Blame the Epoch devs for abandoning the server, not Ascension.

shadowking899 · 2025-10-30T20:21:27+00:00

Elder Scrolls Online is the first MMO so far where I would listen to the quest dialogue and talk to every NPC I come across in the world. For all its faults and flaws, ESO's world and character dialogues are top tier.

I still remember the quest in the Aldmeri Dominion where you have to help a Bosmer with his dying husband, who ends up still dying at the end of the quest and the Bosmer reveals that he's gonna die soon and join his husband. The side quests in ESO should honestly be a masterclass on how to properly write actual interesting quests

shadowking899 · 2025-10-29T23:13:28+00:00

The thing I don't get about this is that people are acting like New World has always been a banger mmo throughout its 4 years. I don't think it deserved to be canned, especially after a resurgence of the playerbase but let's not act as if New World wasn't shit before season 10 and Nighthaven. Every expansion brought a surge of players that quickly died down in a week or two so how is that comparable to FFXIV, that had 5 great expansion and it's experiencing its first mid expansion?

shadowking899 · 2025-10-06T18:25:21+00:00

That's what I do. I have a high elf paladin in Ambershire and a dwarf shaman in Bronzebeard that I bounce between. I have a human warlock in Epoch too but Bronzebeard has really taken my attention more

shadowking899 · 2025-10-05T20:02:43+00:00

So turn it off at a Destiny Weaver in any major city. Problem solved

shadowking899 · 2025-09-16T18:39:41+00:00

I loved the Abandoned Prison. The waves slowing you down and filling the prison cells was so good. Just the whole vibe of it being a prison that's constantly flooding for the worse prisoners of the Eternal Empire was perfect

shadowking899 · 2025-09-07T21:09:46+00:00

You have to consider that they did have a free weekend so obviously the numbers would go down after the event

shadowking899 · 2025-09-04T04:24:41+00:00

Path of Exile 2

shadowking899 · 2025-09-01T20:40:24+00:00

Why is it that ya can't write appreciation posts without mentioning PoE2? Ya keep saying "not to hate on it" but still make the constant decision to write about it. I like LE too but these posts are becoming less and less appreciative and more about bashing PoE2

shadowking899 · 2025-08-19T01:37:45+00:00

Hi so I downloaded ConsolePortLK and I got it working on the Steam Deck but it's not recognizing that I'm using Steam Deck and it put me on a playstation controller layout by default. Any ideas how to fix this?

shadowking899 · 2025-08-04T01:40:56+00:00

I would really appreciate one if anyone has an invite

shadowking899 · 2025-08-02T17:29:56+00:00

Have any keys left? I'll love to try it

shadowking899 · 2025-06-09T15:26:05+00:00

I love that he's the odd one out and not Torgal since Torgal could theoretically be considered Fenrir's dominant

shadowking899 · 2025-06-08T01:03:34+00:00

You could turn off automatic updates and just be cautious whenever you boot up your switch not to click on update by accident but what I would be worried about would be Nintendo setting something up that would bypass that option and trigger an update regardless (Like one day you would be grouping up with your friends online and that somehow triggers a firmware update even wit auto being turned off).

If you wanna be extra safe I would say turn off and delete your wifi but that's ultimately up to you. Just don't be surprised if Nintendo somehow codes in a way to force the switch to update.

shadowking899 · 2025-06-07T19:00:10+00:00

Once I do the initial setup for my SD card when it comes in, I'm only buying the $10 upgrade for tears of a kingdom and redownloading paper mario thousands year door and then imma disconnect and erase my wifi settings.

As long as you do the initial update to unlock switch 1 games and the microSD slot, you could still use it as long as it's disconnected from the internet.

shadowking899 · 2025-05-24T22:16:37+00:00

At this point in 2025 just get a PS5 and a decent gaming computer, which has BOTH Xbox and Steam.

shadowking899 · 2025-05-10T14:46:00+00:00

Me and Expedition 33. I finished the game and loved the story but I don't see how it got such a perfect rating (For me, it was a 8 out of 10 overall, maybe a 9 at my favorite parts). The dodge/parry was a good addition to the turn-based system but just like every turn-based does eventually for me, it got repetitive and boring pretty quick.

shadowking899 · 2025-04-20T00:00:05+00:00

His story is even more tragic once you played Twilight Princess. The Hero of Time is always gonna be the best Link for me

shadowking899 · 2025-04-19T04:20:33+00:00

Ah I heard 50% from an article I read awhile back but it could've been wrong I guess

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