PlayStation Plus offered Ark: Survival Evolved last spring, but I only got intrigued enough to give it a try when I saw a friend tweeting about. I just had to see what it was all about — Valheim, but with dinosaurs?
Survival
10 Million B.C.: An open-world action RPG set in the time of the dinosaurs
I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 10th: “10 Million B.C.”.
Restarting in Valheim
Those “in the know” remember how much I’m struggling in Bloodborne and Elden Ring, even as I finish up the last of the main campaigns in Wildermyth. Those, though, are all primarily solo games. When I want to hang with friends, though, there’s only two choices: DCUO, and Valheim. And Team Spode mate Calrain made a whole new world and invited me in to go through the game a second time as we wait for Mistlands to re-appear.
Valheim: Murder Swamp Online
The swamp biome was already Valheim’s deadliest, in my opinion. A new “stirring in the mist” just made it a little bit deadlier — but also brought some new rewards.
Modding Valheim
I resisted running mods for Valheim for so long… but I saw some folks talking about building their homes in New World, and I was all thinking “I already have Valheim” and then “but I could make it look better”. Also, I found out how to bring tar pits into biomes we have already explored.