ABOUT THE BURRO
Half-Man. Half-Gazelle. All Sun God.
Hello! Welcome to Blog de la Burro. Now wipe your feet! So, Blog de la Burro, eh? What’s that all about then? Games mostly. Games I play and then the short stories I’ve written about them. Other than that not a lot except for some swearing. Enjoy
Current News:
Feb 2017: It’s been a funny few months. ESO didn’t stick for me and, eventually, even GW2 drifted away. An attempt to return to ED just wasn’t fun and in the Summer I found myself playing Ingress again. That took over my life until December 2016 when, facing cold weather and rainy walks, I found myself playing Minecraft Pocket edition again. This resurgence was fueled by the fact the kids got tablets and phone for Xmas that could play it, Realms was in a working state and, most importantly, Release 1.0 was out and that brought the PE version into line with the Windows 10 version. There is still some way to go to get to the PC version but MCPE is a fully supported and fully playable game that you can easily spend hundreds of hours in. Looking down I feel that this entry chimes strongly with the Feb 2013 entry in that it started with drifting away
March 2016: I played Elite Dangerous for a year before getting bored with the lack of stuff I wanted to do. I really believe this will change but the pace of change is quite slow and so I moved back to Guild Wars
November 2014: Between March and July this year I played the devil out of the Guild Wars 2 and loved it. But then I dun went and bought the Premium Beta for Elite: Dangerous and nothing was quite the same again. After shelling out for the beta access (with free DLC for life) I bought a joystick. And then another, better joystick. And then a bigger monitor. And then some surround sound headphones. And then a big old GFX card. And then…
March 2014: After a year of playing MCPE and SC (and this blog becoming a sort of mini SC information centre if my daily reading stats are anything to go by! Seriously, SC alone has doubled my daily reads!) I’m now in a much more on-off relationship with them – in SC’s case, entirely ‘off’ I spent quite a bit of time recently playing Left 4 Dead 2 again and this is still my For all my ‘state of gaming’ posts follow the tag “Burro’s Gaming Life”.
Feb 2013: I stepped away from GW2 after their excellent
May 2012: Guild Wars 2 has, in its beta at least, proved to be a blast! I’m really excited about this game now although I can’t see it releasing before Autumn. I’ve cancelled my LOTRO subscription after becoming totally disenchanted with its
March 2012: I’ve all but left Second Life now and have no plans to return except to help friends out with filming projects and the like. After months of obsessive playing LOTRO I’m finally beginning tire of that and find myself looking towards the
June 2011: In May I stepped back from Second Life and started playing Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Given it was my first time in
Second Life:
I came into SL in November 2006 not knowing what I was looking for – until I found it. Fun, friends & a creative outlet are what