The Queue: Believe everything you read today, except this title

Surprise! After a small discussion in the comments about who was or was not writing today, I decided to throw everything for a loop and take over today’s Queue! Also Liz needed someone’s help and I couldn’t sleep.

So yes, I’m writing The Queue on April 1. Don’t worry, though, I’ve saved my April Fool’s joke for another article.

Until then, we Queue.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY!!!! I admit, my first thought was, “Wait, really?” and then I read your comment about having to convince people every year and I felt bad.

So please enjoy this shout-out and have a fantastic birthday! Treat yo self.

Okay well it’s not a quest, but I love the googly eyes that Overwatch adds to everything. They actually were added into the game in between matches last night, and as soon as my girlfriend pointed out the googly eyes, I smiled and laughed.

I can’t actually remember the last quest that really made me do that, but I’m sure if y’all list some, we’ll have overlap.

I think I’m more at the “I accept this as the creative choice” when it comes to giant, talking dragons. I prefer it if big ol’ dragons roar and such, but I get why having them just able to speak humanoid happens a lot. I think WoW’s method of humanoid form/dragon form works well (though even then, the dragon-dragons still talk).

I dunno, I guess there’s something that sometimes takes me out of the moment when I see a big dragon just talk casually. It doesn’t kill a game or anything, but it’s a split second of unexpectedness.

I have! I actually made sure to play it right at midnight last week when it came out. And while I haven’t HARDCORE GAMER’d my way through it yet, I’m on the third area (I think) with the carnival setting.

I’m really enjoying it so far, and Mouthful Mode is never not hilarious. I think the only thing I really wish the game had is the ability to combine powers like you could back in Crystal Shards. For some reason, I had it in my head that this game was going to have that feature and, well, it doesn’t. The evolution system is kind of neat, but I still really loved the random combinations you could get in Crystal Shards when you put two powers togther.

The only other thing I’ll really add is that a lot of people kept saying “Kirby Odyssey!” at all the previews, but it’s definitely more like Kirby 3D World.

Um… a love/hate relationship! I don’t know about a word specifically associated with winning or losing, though. But I do think it’s important for a game’s losses to still feel fun more often than not.

Without talking about the epilogue’s content itself too much, I don’t think it has any bearing on the next expansion.

Blizzard has a habit of “out of left field” expansion announcements, imo. Sure, some of them have been predictable or at least foreshadowed, but there’s plenty of reason to believe Blizzard will find a reason for us to go to the Dragon Isles and make it work. (Plus, we have 9.2.5 still to come, and I’m sure at least one of those random things from BFA Island Expeditions was hinting at Dragon Isles.)

Bottom line, I usually expect Blizzard to surprise me with an expansion, either in the sense that I never saw it coming or the sense that I did not see the connection in place ahead of time.

I admit, the in-game cutscenes with your character could be fun, but for a lot of BFA, the movements felt too stiff for me and I felt like they were overused a bit. However, they’ve really upped what they can do with the IGCs, and when they’re at the quality of the epilogue cinematic, they take me out a lot less.

…That said, I’m a sucker for pretty visuals, and I still usually prefer the pre-rendered ones.

That’s all for today! I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and any jokes you encounter today be ones that make you smile. Cheers!