MMORPGs and a Polar Vortex - January 2026 Part 2

From Endgame Viable

January 31, 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses various MMORPGs, including Guild Wars and Project Gorgon, with personal reflections on gameplay experiences.

This time I started the blog draft document early, so there’s lots of rambling. Gaming Guild Wars Reforged I don’t have anything to say about it, just that everybody seems to be playing and talking about it. I personally never “got” Guild Wars, so I don’t feel much interest in replaying it, though I have hovered over the buy button a couple of times. I made an effort with Guild Wars 1 somewhere around 2017 or 2018, made some videos about it , realized that it was way, way too hard to consistently make edited videos like a YouTuber (which is why literally every YouTuber hires an editor first thing), and that was the last time I ever thought about Guild Wars. (1 or 2, honestly.) Project: Gorgon 1.0 I’ve seen a few obligatory sentences here and there about Project Gorgon launching a 1.0 version, so I guess I’ll mention it too. However, I’m not going to pretend I’m going to play that game again because the last time I tried to play it, there was a bug with mouse turning that was so bad I literally couldn’t play it, and it went on for months, and I have no understanding of how they couldn’t notice or fix it. It seemed…

Topics covered

  • MMORPGs
  • Guild Wars
  • Project Gorgon

Keywords

  • gaming
  • Guild Wars Reforged
  • Project Gorgon 1.0

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Guild Wars, Guild Wars 1, Early Access, Final Fantasy XIV, Loporitts, Endwalker, the Duty Finder, Duty Support, FFXIV, Project Gorgon

Books & works: Crowfall, Ashes of Creation, Stars Reach, The Dark Inside

Places: Garlemald, Fandaniel, Garlemald

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