The Queue: All dressed up…
@liopleurodonic
Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. Or at least, it would be, if I didn’t have to do so much running around. I’m not quite sure how I managed to neglect to get pumpkin-appropriate tea lights and plastic fangs for the kids with allergies until the day before Halloween, but here we are.
This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll pass out the answers like they’re the full size bars.
Q4tQ: Are you dressing up for Halloween? If so, what is your costume?
Ahem.
When we actually go trick-or-treating, my go-to is to just tie a green ribbon around my neck. It’s subtle and low-effort, but if you know you know.
Q4TQ: I finished everything on Vampire Survivors on Steam. 100% achievements, bestiary, item collection, secrets menu, etc.
Now I’m eagerly waiting for the Switch version to get the latest game update (it’s a few days late at this point) so I can 100% everything on the other platform as well.
So I guess my question is: what’s wrong with me? have you ever gotten so addicted to a game that you completed it 100% (or as fully as possible in a reasonable amount of time) and then immediately started doing it again?
I don’t have a ton of perfect games on Steam, because with narrative games I tend to get annoyed and throw up my hands when I’m at that last few achievements to go, and it involves picking up every single geegaw from the very beginning or whatever. By that time I’m over it. There are also a lot of games I enjoy with longer replay value, but even then I tend to dip before I 100% them because the last few achievements tend to be really annoying and fiddly — laboriously max your dump stat, or mine a huge amount of a thing you’d never need that quantity of unless you’re achievement chasing.
Case in point, I’m still at 120/196 in Vampire Survivors. It’s not because I’m not invested, it’s because the achievements I have left to do are things like reaching level 50 with characters I don’t like playing. Sure, I could do the research and do them, probably pretty quickly, but I don’t usually find Steam achievements worth pursuing per se, and the main value of Vampire Survivors for me is in the low-stakes hack-and-slash gameplay.
Q4tQ If you could cosplay as either Chromie or Morchie, which would you choose?
My head says Chromie. My heart says Morchie’s My Chemical Romance eyeliner.
Q4tQ: You are teleported into WoW and tasked with surviving one night in a spooky zone of your choice. You do not gain any magic, or extra abilities beyond what skills you know in real life. Which location do you pick, and what is your strategy?
Probably Duskwood. Despite the unspeakable terrors lurking in everlasting twilight, Darkshire itself is actually pretty cozy. All I have to do to survive is to make sure I duck into the inn whenever the Night Watch starts yelling about Stitches. Pretty much every other spooky zone doesn’t have a true haven like that, depending on how you define “spooky.” If Dragonblight counts, I could probably hang out in Wintergarde for an evening, but I’m not sure I’d call that zone spooky per se, despite all the undead and skeletons and whatnot.
I hope that, whichever spooky zone you choose, you have a very happy Halloween!
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