So welcome to my new Minecraft blog. If you don't care about the writer and want to just get on with the gaming, feel free to skip this entry and move on to the next. Otherwise, a few words about me and where I'm coming from.
A few of you in various gaming communities may know me as Greslin. During much of the time that has passed since Minecraft was initially released in 2011, I've been sunk deep in the modding world of Fallout. If you're really interested in some of the Fallout-related mod work I've done, you can look me up over at the Nexus - that's not really what this blog is about, but you can get some background nonetheless.
My wife and I have very different strategies for choosing our video games. She'll find a single console title (usually something with a strong online component, as social gaming is a big part of it for her) and spend months or even years playing it into the ground. I, on the other hand, tend to rotate between 3-4 PC titles, binge playing one for a few weeks or months and then shifting to another when I start getting bored. Occasionally I drop a title from my playlist altogether and audition for new inclusions, lately often coming from the indie world.
My stable binary star in the last couple of years has been Civilization 5 and Fallout 3/New Vegas, particularly because of their strong modding components. I've always been the kid who had to take things apart, cutting my coding teeth in 1983, tinkering at the tender age of twelve on a now-quaint but very well loved Atari 400. Today, I'm a writer by trade, but I've come to enjoy that same sense of fun code hackery in the oft madcap world of popular game modding.
So, in 2015, two major impacts landed on my gaming rotation. One, I bade a final farewell to EVE Online: after almost three years of trying really hard to love that game, I finally accepted that we had a broken and dysfunctional relationship that was never going to improve. Someone had to close the door and not look back, and oh-so-codependent EVE, she was never going to pull that trigger. I'd stray for a few weeks and she'd fill my inbox with needy missives, spinning romantic stories, painting beautiful images of our future together. In a moment of weakness I'd break down and let her back in my life, and things would be great for a few weeks. Then she'd go all psycho bitch again, and suddenly I'd remember why we broke up last time. Rinse and repeat for the last few years. Enough, EVE. You'll find your true one, but it's not me. We're truly done now.
The second impact was reading the required system specs for Fallout 4 and realizing that I likely would never play this game on PC without investing another thousand bucks into a new computer. Console, perhaps, but that would also mean little to no modding. So. Moving forward in Fallout was going to be a slog.
That made me take a look at Minecraft. I've been playing it now for a few months and have come to love it.
I could say more here, but enough rambling about me. Let's just get on with it.
Note: Another of my loves is literature, in particular the stories of Lovecraft and Doyle. The name of this blog is a play on the classic Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study In Scarlett". It seemed appropriate.
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