Genre Burnout
The idea struck me for this post while I was trying to go to sleep. I very almost had to get up out of bed and go jot something down, for worry that I’d forget it. I didn’t do that. So I guess we’ll see how I get on! I remember...
Read More
Can You Play a Game Wrong?
Well obviously you can in some respects. … Right? Or actually; should we first separate out playing a game well from playing a game as intended? There will be some overlap here. Sometimes playing a game against the developer’s intention...
Read More
Animal Crossing Just Might Not Be for Me
And that is something of a disappointment. As seems to be the case with Switch exclusives — it wasn’t really one on my personal gaming radar. I had no intent to pick it up prior to the day I actually did so. This was the pattern with...
Read More
Blogger Recognition Award – 2020
What a set of happy coincidences. In my neck of the woods, we’re well into the first day of April. And so to my mind, the first ‘real’ day of Blapril. Although officially, it started with the week in a preparatory mode. This...
Read More
Time to Loot Journal: March 2020
What a month. It feels like over the course of March, the entire landscape and texture of the world has changed. It wasn’t all that long ago that the whole COVID-19 situation started to feel a little more real to me. Fast forward a mere four...
Read More
A Plague Tale: Innocence
A Plague Tale: Innocence has been on my list of goals for the last two months, and it came veeeery very close to being three. But last night I booted back into it, and didn’t leave until I was finished. Er.. Around 1am. Which is not an ideal...
Read More
Blaugust into Blapril
If your first thought was, “You spelt those month names wrong” followed by, “And you also put them in the wrong order. That’s just simply not how months work.” Well, then perhaps you’re unfamiliar with the grand...
Read More
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 — #MaybeInMarch 2020
I’ve been really quite bad at hitting my gaming goals of late. I suspect — given how much of March has already passed us by — that I’m going to let my other goal of finishing A Plague Tale: Innocence slip by for a second...
Read More
Today COVID-19 Became Real to Me
Not because I, or someone close to me, has contracted it I hasten to add. The number of confirmed cases in NZ while having more than doubled in the last two days, is still low overall at 28. There have been no detected cases of community infection,...
Read More
No Place for Old PvPers
Mailvaltar recently wrote about the cool stuff that just doesn’t happen in ‘safe’ MMORPGs and it got me to thinking about days gone by when I was really into open-world PvP MMOs myself. It seems like so long ago. And I suppose...
Read More
Taking Out the Warlords of New York
Even with a fairly significant dip in gaming time lately, this is a post I could have done several nights ago. The actual story content for The Division 2’s expansion Warlords of New York is not terribly long. A beeline through the critical...
Read More
Too Old For This?
This is hardly a new topic of conversation I would imagine. I’d be willing to bet most of the game blogging community has had something to say on the matter at one point in time or another.1 The subject? Feeling like — or perhaps even...
Read More
Humble Choice: March 2020
Before jumping into the meat and potatoes of the Humble Choice post for this month, a confirmation! Just the other day, I noted that I was very likely to be the owner of a new Electric Vehicle before the weekend was out. This came after discovering...
Read More
Going Electric
Come the end of this weekend — I’m very likely to be the owner of an Electric Vehicle (EV). I mentioned looking into this about this time last month. I’ve been interested in going electric for my daily-use car for some time now,...
Read More
Recent Comments