Of WoW and blogging

As usual, I have been very quiet on this space as of late. That is kinda ironic, I know, but bear with me, because the funniest part is, I couldn't possibly tell you why.

It's not like there hasn't been things to talk about. Both Lair and Heavenly Sword came out recently, to rather ho hum reviews. I could have used those as another means to bash Sony for releasing the PS3 before developers, even their own, were ready with software for it's release. Warhawk came out as well, but without a demo, there is no way I am picking up an online only game. Blue Dragon, the JRPG I have been pining for for almost 9 months, finally saw release....and I totally ignored it, instead choosing to wait for Lost Odyssey to come out. (The Blue Dragon demo was atrocious). The Eternal Sonata demo came out, and it was fantastic. So much so that I was forced to pre-order for my wife for her birthday. Not to mention the other day Microsoft a rather surprising deal with Tri-Ace/Squeenix to bring a JRPG to the Xbox 360 strangely called Infinite Undiscovery. So, with all this happening, what have I been doing?

Playing WoW, of course. And going to class.

This whole thing puzzled me greatly. Not a story goes by in the video game industry that I don't have some sort of opinion on that I bet I could offer an intersting opinion on for you, the reader. Yet none of these big announcements/releases/stories tickled me enough to get my fingers dancing and away from a game whose greatness I am not even sure I could properly explain. I've spent nearly a solid month of actual playtime in this game, and I am sure I've got another full month in me. But that doesn't make for good blog grist, does it?

Or does it?

See, if you were to ask me which blog is my favorite, out of all the blogs I read on a regular basis, my answer would be simple, WoW Insider. It is the blog I read that is the most consistently entertaining, informative, and well put together out of any blog I read. I think the reason is because it's topic is so focused. I've found that in blogs that speak about something in a general sense (see blogs about "sports" in general) there tends to be this kind of drifting between topics that makes the blog almost unreadable, or confusing. Something like WoW Insider has a defined topic that is large enough to contain the necessities of constant postings without being so generalized that you feel like your are only touching things on a skinned surface.

What does this have to do with me and my not writing anything? A lot, actually. I am thinking that I was kinda overwhelmed at the concept of writing a "video game blog" instead of focusing on what it should have been about, mainly, what I am doing right now in the video game world. I shouldn't worry about missing topics that I think I should be talking about and instead write about what I am doing. Even if that means twenty straight WoW posts.

That, or just write more in general.