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I have went a full 24 hours without having a drop of alcohol. I woke up today with a feeling not of accomplishment but more like this isn't as bad as I thought it would be. However, I have to give an assist to my going on sixth day head cold.

I've always like to drink and party. Besides an incredible stretch of making new friends and clubbing five nights a week from 2002-2004, I haven't been excessive since. Never drank to escape life. Alcohol has (still) never caused a life altering event whe…

FFXIV

1. Live Letter XLIII (Patch 4.3 Part I)
2. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
3. PLL Summary from Famitsu - Patch 4.3
4. Eureka! The grind is on - Juxta is a community figure
5. The Official Forum fail thread: 4.0 is Cancelled and its Raubahns Fault

Ultimate Ultima of ultimate ultimation!





FFXI

1. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
2. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
3. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
4. Escutcheon Questions
5. April 2018 Version Update

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A while back, I lamented the decline of split-screen gaming and the shared experience those games provided. Flash-forward to a few months ago, a friend showed me a trailer for A Way Out, a game being developed by Hazelight Studios which was built around those memories of split-screen gaming. Split-screen gaming is at the core of the game’s unique narrative approach so much that it cannot be played alone. As you can imagine, the opportunity to experience a new take on split-screen gaming was …

FFXIV

1. Eureka! The grind is on - Juxta is a community figure
2. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
3. Ungarmax Drama - Squadron Limit Break Exploit
4. Yoshida (and Hino) on Eureka - Dengeki Playstation Magazine Translation
5. [Mostly NA][Sargatanas] AudacityReborn - End Game FC

Is Pazuzu up?



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
2. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
3. March 2018 Version Update
4. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
5. Gold World Pass Requests
6. BG…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
2. Ungarmax Drama - Squadron Limit Break Exploit
3. dat housing drama tho [Entropy]
4. Patch 4.2 (Rise of a New Sun) Jan 30th
5. Possibly returning - Questions

Hey we're finally getting some old school drama!



FFXI

1. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
2. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
3. February 2018 Version Update
4. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
5. Random Facts Thread: Traits and Stats (Player and Monster)

Februa…

If you’ve played a competitive first-person shooter, you’ve probably been here before: One minute you’re playing a match, things are going fine, and then, BAM! Someone hiding across the map picks you off with a sniper rifle. It’s irritating, but it was a good shot, so you go on your way. Until a few minutes later, when, BAM! That same sniper, sitting in the same spot, picks you off again. Now you’re annoyed. You grab a sniper rifle to pick that person off, hop out, line up your shot, and…

FFXIV

1. Patch 4.2 (Rise of a New Sun) Jan 30th
2. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
3. Yoshida on 4.2 - Game Watch Interview Translation

I'm surprised this many people actually cared about 4.2. At least we still have Slycer's translations.



FFXI

1. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
2. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
3. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense
4. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
5. New or Returning Players Discussion 2: SoA Homeless…

Say what you will about Nintendo, but there is no denying their willingness to experiment with Mario and his self-titled franchise. From his origins in the age of arcades, to his platforming roots, to his adventures with go-karts, across golf courses and soccer fields, to his pioneering forays into 3D, to even his evolutionary steps bouncing between multitudinous gravitational fields, Nintendo has not shied away from taking Mario into new territories. Mario Odyssey is Nintendo’s newest Mario …

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood - June 20 2017
3. The Official Forum fail thread: This game wasn't meant for alts.
4. Info from EU Fanfest (Frankfurt 2017)
5. Letter from the Producer LIVE XXXVI Set for May 22!
6. Possibly returning - Questions
7. FFXIV Random Praise Thread: Time to melee RDM
8. Red Mage General - Be Just or Be Red
9. FFXIV Accomplishments Thread - Yay I did it!

Waiting for Stormblood content any moment now...





FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: …

Maybe you’re here because you’re curious what games impressed the BlueGartr staff this year, maybe you’re here because you need a last-minute gift idea, maybe you’re here because you’re stuck in an airport due to a flight delay and need a distraction from the painful reminder that you hate flying. Whatever the reason, welcome to the 2017 BlueGartr Staff Game of the Year List. As is tradition, I’ve asked the BlueGartr staff to share the games that impressed them the most over the course of thi…

Yesterday was a surprisingly hard day due to an unexpected event which has compelled me to do my first ever blog post. First it is best to tell about some past. I did not have a swell childhood and like many my parents divorced. I was around 13. I grew up thinking my father was a monster and my mother would confirm as much telling me stories throughout the years of how he was a terrible person. My relationship with my father ended when I was 14.

I went through my twenties being an angry person …

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. Unending Coils of Bahamut (Take me back to the good 'ol days)
3. Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood - June 20 2017

FFXI

1. Revenge of the RQT: DRG dickswinging
2. Dev Tracker: Discussion
3. New or Returning Players Discussion 2: SoA Homeless Veterans Edition
4. November 2017 Version Update
5. Gearswap Help Thread!

I guess we're only good at FFXI drama.



Games

1. FF:BE - Let Them Eat Mogcake
2. Destiny 2 [PS4/XBONE/PC] (Sept. 6, 2017)
3. Final Fantasy …

I was once visiting a mall in Argentina where the Sony store had set up an area to showcase the Playstation 3 and its games, having stations to show and allow visitors to try games. One of these stations had a Rock Band game (can’t remember if it was 1 or 2), and it was being played by this man, probably older than 50 years old, looking like the kind of old people that love to ride Harley Davidson motorcycles. My wife told me then that she fully expected to see me like that (in the age sense, no…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. Unending Coils of Bahamut (Take me back to the good 'ol days)
3. GC Squadron training
4. 4.1 Full Patch Notes
5. FFXIV Accomplishments Thread - Yay I did it!

FFXI

1. October 2017 Version Update
2. Dev Tracker: Discussion
3. Gearswap Help Thread!
4. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
5. BG Wiki Suggestions Thread

Still more content than FFXIV



Games

1. Destiny 2 [PS4/XBONE/PC] (Sept. 6, 2017)
2. FF:BE - Let Them Eat Mogcake
3. Final Fantasy Record Keeper …

I recently purchased the Witcher 3 on a PSN sale and while I am no trophy hunter, I have heard so much great things about the game that I couldn’t help but see if it’s even possible for me to get it. So, one of the first choices I had to do was starting at a difficulty that would ensure I get the proper trophies once the game is done… so I chose “Death March” – the hardest difficulty. It took me around 10 tries – TEN TRIES – to pass the game’s very first encounter: a fight against 5 or 6 Ghouls…

Time to get the pitchforks, boys! Dip them in gasoline and then light them on fire! We’re going on a rally to complain about more gaming stuff! We got about 1 minute until the fire consumes the wood handle of the pitchfork and we’re left weapon-less. Who are we gonna complain to? No idea! It’s the hip thing these days.

What’s this about single player games being dead? Does it have something to do with Visceral Games being shut down because something something… something. Has anyone looke…

You know what? I was gonna write a post about Destiny 2's current woes when it comes to end game progression and rewards. How end game activities are currently not feeling very rewarding and everything has been left to a system of trading tokens (not bad per se) for random pieces of loot (not good), as if someone thought it would be a good idea to copy MMO's token system and forgot that they complement the loot system, not replace it.

But there's so much negativity in gaming media lately that..…

A couple of days ago I wrote a series of tweets regarding Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode, released as a free to play game for the Playstation 4 and other platforms. Basically, I find it quite entertaining. I was not in the “battle royale” bandwagon, despite having read about the success of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) which was the game that made this genre take off in the past weeks, but I had a legitimate amount of fun playing this “last man standing” experience. However I was conce…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. FFXIV 4 Year Anniversary 14 Hour Broadcast (Sep.1 8PM PST)
3. The Official Forum fail thread: 4.0 is Cancelled and its Raubahns Fault
4. The crafting & gathering thread.
5. Red Mage General - Be Just or Be Red

Holy shit traffic for the FFXIV went down the drain. Guess that's what happen when we're stuck for 6 months with barely any new content.



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion
2. Legends of the Hidden jp testing
3. September 2017 Version Updat…

There is no game that has consumed more of my playtime the past few years than Destiny (hereby referred to as Destiny 1). As someone who spent years playing Final Fantasy XI, the loot-based progression, the community, and the challenging end-game content appealed to me. And, as an ardent fan of the Halo franchise, the first-person shooter mechanics were second to none. Some days I would spend hours rerunning raids in hopes of an elusive drop while other days, my time would be devoted to clas…