December 2024 is in the books so let's take a look back at the blog over that month.
The Blog
Blogger stats for Dec: 23,527 visits
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| Note: this is the last 30 days graph as of 1/2 so off by a day or two |
In other metrics:
- Posts:
- Target: 15 (weekdays minus holiday weeks/vacation)
- Posted: 10
- Difference: -5 (took some time off blogging just because)
- Search Trends
- "new world inferno build", "inferno build new world", "new world flamethrower build" have been gaining momentum since New World Aeternum (NWA) launched thanks to my build post: Frigid Inferno Build. I need to take this rise in the search rankings as a sign that I need to update the build for all the changes with NWA (though it mostly stayed the same).
- "new
world roadmap 2024", "new world 2024 roadmap", "new world road map
2024" dropped off the search radar this month which is not surprising as we enter 2025. This reminds me I still haven't posted about the "living roadmap" the New World developers gave us.
- "best battlefield game", "best battlefield", "best battlefield games" is proving it has a long run as it proceeds to drive traffic to Best Battlefield!? but that may be ending soon as I found this note on my Google Search Console today.
- "deadlock invite not showing up", "not getting deadlock invite", and other Deadlock invite related searches keep driving traffic. I am amazed they still have an invite system for the game's test version with how much trouble it causes and how steep of a player count drop off the game has experienced.
- Last, but not least, was "quitting throne and liberty" which directs folks to, no surprise, my post on "Why I quit Throne and Liberty"
What I Played
For December I was back in New World smashing faces in 3v3 arenas and outpost rush matches. I've also spent some time hitting the winter event to get some of the rewards I've not gotten in the past (skins; gotta collect 'em all).
Marvel Rivals was a surprise hit this month for me and I've put in a good number of hours. I really enjoy the game. I am not sure its a long term game as hero shooters wear me out and there is not enough with Marvel Rivals to separate itself from that trend, but for December it was a big hit in my playtime.
I gave Brighter Shores a few minutes of my time and this Monday Screenshots post is all you are going to get out of it.
I also took a moment to try out Deltaforce and if you told me I was playing Battlefield 2042 I'd of believed you. It is a literal clone of the game to the point the UIs look almost identical. I was going to make a post about this but it is not worth the time and effort. I do find it sort of crazy how the community is giving Deltaforce a pass
Years Ago
1 Year Ago
December 2023 marked a momentous "gamer dad" moment for me as we gifted my oldest son his very own gaming PC components and I got to watch him put it together.
The Finals surprise launched and I recorded my first win.
Groundhog Day had me thinking about modern storytelling in video games.
5 Years Ago
Dec 2019 was in the 'not a lot of blogging' era and nothing comes to mind.
10 Years Ago
In Dec of 2014 the biggest event recorded was that I upgraded my GPU.
15 Years Ago
In Dec of 2009 Borderlands (the original) was the hot game and I wrote this review.
I also decided to go back to Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) and give it 10 more days of my time. You can check out my "10 Days of WAR" posts by starting here. To no surprise I was done playing the game, again, after the 10 day experiment.
20 19 Years Ago
Technically I have 21 named years on my sidebar (since I am posting this in 2025), but mathematically December 2005 was only 19 years ago.
In Dec 2005 we were speculating the Draenei were the next race coming to to World of Warcraft which eventually turned out to be true.
Oh and I became somewhat of an early viral celebrity with an article I wrote for the Gamergod (now defunct) website discussing why MTV was doing a better job at games journalism than actual games media. I was mentioned in a GU Comic (now defunct) about it (which I used the wayback machine to go nab a copy of to include here and in the original post). You can also use the wayback machine to read the forum thread for the comic.
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| "a guy" = me |
