Tag: Battling the Backlog
Attributing the Normal to the Abnormal
I caught myself doing this earlier today. I was, as is frankly often the case, torn between which game to actually launch and play a bit of. The main ones under consideration being more Mount & Blade II (I did in fact jump in for some more...
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Five Game Challenge Day 5: Extracting Value
Earlier today when I was thinking about this post, it flowed really well and was quite smart to boot. I’ve been staring at the blank page for a few minutes now trying to capture even the barest hint of what I was thinking earlier. So...
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Making Time for Games
I mentioned back in the April Journal that playing Sekiro was, more than anything else, making me want to play Nioh again. But I didn’t really act on it at the time. I didn’t feel like I had the time for it, and instead mentally slotted...
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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 ago, I finished the story strand linking...
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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 Dynamics had made the game while maintaining the integrity...
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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 March 2013. I’ve just now finished it...
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Impulse Purchases Alive and Well
One of the more positive side-effects of running this blog has been an increased focus on a smaller set of games. There have been few to no impulse purchases simply because there was a sale on, or similar. I had been curious how long that effect...
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Pilgrimage to the Angry Dead
Amazingly, the nobility are not jerks to me. Prince Naemon was quite nice even. Clearly they know what a close, personal friend of the Queen I am. So last time on <Elder Scrolls Online Adventures without a Name because Naithin is Bad at...
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The Time for Talk is Over
Hrm. So, last time I maaaay’ve been a tad… overconfident… in my abilities to persuade everyone of doing things my way. I thought I was done with Khenarthis Rest — war averted, shoulder armor equipped, day saved. Oops. Not so...
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Restarting in Tamriel
The other day, I rather naively had a bit of a panic about what to do since the Anthem demos were finished. You see, I thought everything was going to go into this… sort of… rumbly quiet of anticipation. Instead we’ve had...
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What do???
With the Anthem demos behind us, and still around 9 days to go before even the early access launch1 — I find myself in the position of not really having anything to play. *cough* It’s possible I have a comically large backlog to clear....
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