Matthew Rossi
Off Topic: How Bioware’s Jade Empire made Mass Effect possible
There's an easy to follow path in terms of Bioware RPG's, and it goes like this: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins.
Off Topic: Is there such a thing as too much popularity?
Sometimes, I sit down and play World of Warcraft for a couple of hours.
How much attention do you pay to your characters?
This isn't just a WoW question, but it's a WoW question first.
When will Diablo Season 17 start? May 17!
Update: Now we know!
The Queue: A Small Monkery
I’m listening to Faith No More and playing Diablo 3. Look, this week has been astonishingly stressful in my house, so… yeah. Faith No More and Diablo 3.
It’s the Queue. Let’s chat.
When does lore actually hurt gameplay?
We talk often about when gameplay trumps lore or when it seems to ignore the story of the game it is set in -- like when you go back to old world Azeroth zones and everyone is still talking about Deathwing like he's still a thing.
Off Topic: New fossil discovery Ambopteryx establishes the lineage of bat-winged, feathered dinosaurs
For us laymen, the difference between pterosaurs -- members of the clade Pterosauria -- and dinosaurs is often extremely hard to understand.
Where can the anti-social gamer find a place in social gaming?
As Blizzard and other game studios push further and further into gaming as a social activity with group finders and random grouping, I grow profoundly and deeply anti-social and I play video games to avoid interacting with strangers.
Bethesda posts a D&D adventure, then pulls it due to potential plagiarism
It's hard not to conclude that Bethesda Game Studios put out a plagiarized D&D module to promote the Elsweyr expansion to The Elder Scrolls Online — then took it down when the similarities between it and The Black Road module from Wizards of the Coast became apparent.
To get into BlizzCon this year you need the AXS app, but it isn’t nefarious — really.
I will be up front -- I am an old curmudgeon and I hate change and newfangled things, even as I am also violently opposed to nostalgia and the idea that change is bad and we should keep the old ways.
