So I suddenly had to take a “gaming-hiatus” basically the day after shaman was released. So when I got to jump back onto a COMPLETED O.O Grim Dawn game (Holy Crap, holy crap, holy crap!) halfway through this week… well, needless to say I was kind of excited. I finally got to see this devotion system. Yeah, it’s still brand new to me. I finally got to play the one of the half a dozen lvl 50 “builds” I made in the days before they announced the shaman build release week (only one was really viable). Legendaries, the realization I’m a complete rookie again. Oh my gosh, so awesome. So polished. Voice overs? I’m reading actual 9.5/10 reviews from, like, huge gaming sites EVERYWHERE for this game. They’re getting the attention they deserve. Justice. Or whatever better word you want to insert there.
Except for one God damned thing. Hosting multiplayer games is still the biggest fucking 1997-esque hassle of my fucking life. I understand how I’m to work around it. I understand opening ports, but I move around a lot. I stay in hotels sometimes. Often times I’m at coworkers joints. Also, my internet at home sucks, because, and I feel this bears repeating, I move around a lot. Fiddling around with people’s firewalls, especially when most people don’t know the word, think internet, their mobile data usage, and the term wifi are interchangeable, is just not possible.
Begging Holiday Inn’s to offer a Premium wifi, or actually secure their fucking internet with something other than their zipcode or phone number (seriously) just doesn’t pan out either.
Yeah, hosting won’t fix bad connection issues. I get that. It’s just that sitting there LOOKING for games that match MY criteria instead of being able to make one that might match someone else who comes on later really limits my gaming options. I should be able to do both.
And to be honest, I shouldn’t have to. Red Alert 2 never had this problem. Warcraft 3 didn’t really either. I know coding is a bitch. I realize I’m completely nitpicking a tiny, tiny fucking detail on one of my favorite games, and it’s probably not fixable. And it’s probably WAY more complex than I can imagine and over my head. It’s just annoying as hell. Sorry. I had to vent.
Final Score:
Grim Dawn- 9.5 out of 10, the highest I’ve ever given because it’s my first review.