Gaming Outside your Normal Genres
I like a stupidly wide array of gaming genres, so there is very little that truly sits apart from what I would consider to have at least the possibility of being fun. But I...
Monthly Archive: April 2019
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Added to the Game List and Other Surprises
Still not sure what the right rhythm for updating the games list is. Or even if there will be a ‘rhythm’ to it at all. I had intended to make updates on a monthly...
Playing Past the End
I ‘finished’ Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey roughly 20 hours of play ago. I finished what I would consider to be the main story thread regarding your family in any case. Perhaps 10 hours of play...
I’m a Photo Mode Convert
It isn’t that I disliked or had anything against the presence of a ‘Photo Mode’, it’s more that I saw it as unnecessary. Superfluous fluff. Nothing wrong with taking screenshots the ‘old’ way. Maybe...
Iteration within the Tomb Raider Series
ManicTime tells me I have just under 5 hours in Rise of the Tomb Raider — the 2015 sequel to the Tomb Raider reboot — what struck me immediately though was how different Crystal...
The Practice of Review Bombing
Let’s rip the bandaid right off of this one, shall we? I don’t mind the practice of review bombing. In fact in many cases I would even go so far as to say I...
Digging for Artifacts in the Backlog
Actually the news here might be that I finished a game. Never mind that it’s one that released 6-years ago. Tomb Raider’s reboot and first entry in the recent trilogy of titles was released...
Dragon Age 4 as Live Service
Jason Schrier is on a bit of a roll of late with the BioWare inner-sanctum access articles. The latest is a look at the history and likely future of Dragon Age 4. That future...
Anthem off the Games List
I resisted moving Anthem off the side-panel ‘Games of Interest’ block even after declaring my time done with it in the immediate future. I resisted in large part because I was still interested to...
Humble Monthly: April 2019
In last month’s Humble post, I talked about how it serves as quite a good buffer against impulse buying. Clearly, it’s not infallible. Some titles I’m going to pick-up given enough of a sale...
Missing Connections
Before ‘Social Media’ as we know it today existed, MMOs were their own discrete social systems. In my experience, relationships formed were the exclusive domain of the game. If someone left, that might be the last you heard of them.
Time to Loot Journal: March 2019
March was a trying month, with the Christchurch terrorist attack claiming 50 lives in the end. I struggled for a short time in even knowing how to continue posting here afterward. Not to acknowledge...
