{"id":2780,"date":"2013-04-11T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2013-04-11T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:39:52","slug":"so-what-am-i-playing-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2013\/04\/so-what-am-i-playing-these-days.html","title":{"rendered":"So what am I playing these days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/variety.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2781\" title=\"variety\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/variety-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/variety-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/variety.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, not a lot, but a few things I dabble in, more or less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ingress<\/strong>: \u00a0Assuming that counts. I&#8217;m over half-way through L7 to the (current) L8 cap. It&#8217;s nice, fun, casual gameplay as I commute on the LTR to\/from work, deal with some portals in range from my office desk, farm a portal up the street from my house, and try not to obsess.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LotRO<\/strong>: \u00a0Not much. Margie and I occasionally get on and duo together, and I even ponied up (so to speak) and bought a horse, but I&#8217;m still not feeling the burn. Maybe part of it is because Margie knows so very well what she&#8217;s doing, and I&#8217;m a relative noob, but part of it remains the non-heroic drudgery and occasional glass cannon nature of LotRO gameplay. \u00a0Though it remains beautiful and imaginative beyond belief, and I <em>do<\/em> enjoy playing with Margie <em>per se<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WoW<\/strong>: \u00a0Rarely, but occasionally. \u00a0See &#8220;LotRO,&#8221; but with brighter colors and shallower story.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Torchlight II<\/strong>: \u00a0This has been where most of my gameplay has gone of late. \u00a0It&#8217;s all solo play, and non-cloud, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying running multiple alts through different bands of the game. In theory, Margie and I could set up LAN play to do this together &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did some very limited beta work with <strong>Marvel Heroes<\/strong>, and found it modestly enjoyable (same Diablo style as Torchlight II, but with an immersion-breaking plethora of the same heroes running around). Anticipate trying it out more when it goes live, but not enthused enough to spend any money on it as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not a lot, but a few things I dabble in, more or less: Ingress: \u00a0Assuming that counts. I&#8217;m over half-way through L7 to the (current) L8 cap. It&#8217;s nice, fun, casual gameplay as I commute on the LTR to\/from work, deal with some portals in range from my office desk, farm a portal up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2013\/04\/so-what-am-i-playing-these-days.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So what am I playing these days?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-ingress","category-lotro","category-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}