Backlog Battle Report (March/April 2021)

Because sometimes I play a lot of games but don’t have a lot to say.

Yep, I’m doing this again.

I won’t be operating to any set schedule of releases, but I’m aspiring to at least have an editorial style post up here every week. If I’m falling short, I might revert to the more blog-esque Battle Reports that I did previously and just talk about everything I played this week in brief.

Delfeir, February 27th 2021

There’s at least two articles that I’ve started but haven’t been able to get to a place I’m happy with since the Gnosia review. I can largely attribute this to terrible sleep for the last week and change. Even so, I want to at least try and write something (even if it’s rambling and low quality). The rate at which I’m able to play games now is exceeding the pace at which I’m writing, so they’re starting to queue up. As such, I’m going to just write really short impressions and comments on some of the highlight games I’ve played from the last two months. Two to three paragraphs on each, tops.

Vs. The Backlog is supposed to refer to my gaming backlog, not my editorial writing backlog. Having one is eternal enough. So let’s go.

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Backlog Battle Report (2nd Oct 2017)

Astute observers may notice a lack of Right Click to Zoom from this Friday. I’m hoping to have that up tomorrow, but I was in no state to be writing on Friday or during the weekend thanks to work related drama that I had to resolve. If all goes well I’ll be back on schedule this week. In the meantime, here’s the list of games I tackled this week.

Elder Scrolls Online (PC) — Keep Scroll-ing

Another week has passed but I’m still firmly entrenched in the universe of the Elder Scrolls. In fact, I don’t think I played anything but it and Heroes of the Storm until halfway through the week. That in itself is probably telling of how much the hooks are in, given how quick I am to jump between games at the drop of a hat.

Nonetheless, I’m still playing through. This week has seen me still playing my Templar, reaching the mid-30s in level. I’ve spent a lot of that time working on different skill trees and varying my action setup as much as possible, both to create variety and facilitate later progress. Since the aim is to eventually be a healer on this character, quite a few healing skills have been picked up and kept on hand just to make the transition as painless as possible when the time comes.

Beyond that, it’s mostly just been questing through the world of ESO. Since I’m sticking to the primary Dominion faction’s questlines, this sees me almost permanently locked in some variety of forested areas as I plumb the depths of the Valenwood, home of the Wood Elves.

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