I’ve been playing Final Fantasy XIV for nine years, which is a mildly alarming sentence to write down. Nine years is long enough for jobs to change, friendships to begin and end, and hobbies to come and go. Some of my real-life friendships haven’t lasted...
I love a good character creator. Hair? Yes. Faces? Yes. Body options, makeup, tattoos, scars, colours, voices? Yes. Let me rotate the character properly and see what I’m doing while we’re at it. My considered position on character customization is essentially: yes....
I love unique names. This is an excellent quality when you’re making up characters and a considerably less useful one when, several months later, you can’t remember the name you personally invented. I also write a lot. I’m a chronic list maker, and have Google...
People have surprisingly strong opinions about how other people should press buttons. Ask whether a controller or keyboard and mouse is better for an MMORPG and you’ll find plenty of arguments for both. Keyboard players have more keys and quick access to menus....
An RPG can give you an enormous map, hundreds of NPCs, several cities and enough map markers to make the local cartographer quietly resign. None of that necessarily makes its world feel alive. We’ve all seen game worlds that are technically full of things but somehow...
