Discussion

2021 ends next week, and I feel myself a little stressed out because of all the games coming out early in 2022.

With people traveling everywhere right about now, I am struck by two thoughts.

If you'd have told me that they would be doing significant class balance changes to Diablo 2: Resurrected I would likely not have believed you.

If you're the gamer in your friend group or family, you often get asked about the various games you play, be they video games, tabletop RPGs, board games -- I have lost track of the amount of times I've been asked to explain Catan to people -- and you're put in the position of serving as a sort of unofficial ambassador for the hobbies you participate in and enjoy.

We haven't had a new class in World of Warcraft since Legion introduced the Demon Hunter.

Sometimes it's as simple as hey, you get to raise dinosaurs.

Big open world RPGs could be used to defeat me if I ever became a threat to all life.

I find myself wondering what WoW will even look like after patch 9.2, much less what patch 10 will bring.

I can't say I come back to World of Warcraft, because you can't come back when you never leave — but I do find myself returning to Diablo on the regular, having in the past week played both Diablo 2: Resurrected and Diablo 3.

When I pick up a new game I've not played, my general approach is to stumble and make mistakes.