I'd
like to say I'm playing Dragon Age: Inquisition as it looks like a much-needed return to form for BioWare, and the fact it looks like a brilliant big-budget RPG of its own right, but instead much of my gaming time has been devoted to Final Fantasy XIV still.
I recently hit 50 with my Summoner and I've yet to get through Castrum Meridianum and the last place to "complete" the main story. I've not much interesting to say about what I've been doing in the game at the moment. I've yet to hit endgame, so no raids or Manderville stuff for me until I get the last two dungeons done. So far I'm mostly trying to get the highest rank in the Immortal Flames while doing daily beast quests and levelling up my crafting and mining/botany jobs.
My first genuinely unpleasant community experience occurred after a half hour wait of entering the Aurum Vale dungeon. As soon as party members laid eyes on a Summoner, they simply elected to kick me out, because apparently Summoners are no good for large DPS burst damage (which
is true) and they wanted not a single bit of potential liability to get in their way of a rapid dungeon run. And we find the problem with some endgame players. It's all about the grind and no longer about having the patience to help and guide someone to their first run of a particular dungeon. No longer about learning and figuring things out. It's all about efficiency and HOW DARE YOU WASTE FIVE MINUTES OF MY TIME?!
I've just played Goat Simulator. What a masterpiece. Easily GOTY 2014.
Interesting.
My biggest gripe with Goat Simulator is how quickly the joke runs out. I certainly giggled my way through around a half hour, but after thoroughly checking out the tiny plot of open land that the game affords you, I had no more incentive to carry on. I suppose it's the sort of game you boot up for a laugh if you just want something mindless to take away a good twenty minutes off your time and I concede that the game does offer that especially if one finds terrible physics funny.
However, there is literally an achievement in the game making fun of the player being a voluntary paying beta tester. I think a line has to be drawn somewhere, particularly as a game alluding to and making fun of something does not exclude it from doing exactly what it is poking fun at. Objectively, the game is technically atrocious. It's not the product of a developer that firmly believes in a product of the highest quality possible, but of a developer that believes it can get away with releasing what is at its core a bad product purely because they know it's a self-aware, humorous Youtube fodder and not something that is meant to be taken seriously.
I enjoyed my time with the game for about half an hour, but by principle, this as a product leaves a bad taste in my mouth that I don't want to see any more of.
Last time I played, I made it the end of Chapter 4 but got too busy and sidetracked by the sidequests.