What I Won't Finish

At Tap we have been cataloging our backlogs all year. I've discovered, much like the rest of the crew, that I buy more games than I actually play, let alone finish.

Then there comes the problem of games that you buy, and play, but that can't actually be finished, in any real sense.

I am still a few cubes shy of the "real" ending in Fez.

I've picked up Civilization V, which I owned for a while, but hadn't actually gotten around to playing. A friend wrote a fairly nice Beginners' Primer this year that I finally got around to checking out this month. I think I'll count it as "beaten" if I win a round even once against the computer, because, that's something, right?

I got stuck in Batman: Arkham City. Not because the game itself is hard, but because the Riddler makes me crazy to find all his hidden stuff. At some point I want to write at greater length about this frustration. For now, I've sort of tabled the game.

I also now have A Valley Without Wind, which many of my friends are playing, but which I am assuming can also not be finished in any real sense.

I am going to do quite poorly in the Log of Shame this month. But really, what's "done" mean anyway?

The Stuff I Wrote About PAX East

If you only read one of my PAX articles, it probably should be this one.

http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/kiss-me-kill-me/

Though I'm also really fond of the smart comments in my D&D editorial.

http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/04/on-the-future-of-dungeons-and-dragons/

And I have a few more "standard" previews left to compose before I exhaust all my material.

Springtime in Neverwinter

My first PAX-related article is up at Tap! It's a pretty standard "news" style post about the new Neverwinter MMO in development by Cryptic. Though I take pride in the fact that I'm such a huge Fourth Edition nerd that I didn't get lost in the jargon. It was hip-deep, ya'll.

If you're a fan of my more rant-like opinion pieces, stay tuned. I'm working on something a little more colorful about the D&D Next panel at the con. And I'm also writing something special about the fighting games I saw last weekend.

Back from PAX!

Updates have been a little spare lately due to my own development projects, but if you're one of the people I handed a card to at PAX, you probably came to the right place!

I plan to write up a little more about some games, and some game-community things I saw while I was at the convention. Most of those articles will be popping up at www.tap-repeatedly.com. I also have something totally unrelated to PAX that went out before I left which will be appearing once again in Ctrl+Alt+Defeat. The only thing I'm not doing is playing the games in my backlog.

It was my first time at PAX East, and it was a total blast. Origins in Columbus, which I attend every year, will probably end up being my last convention this year. So if I didn't see you at PAX maybe I'll see you there!