Monthly Archives: January 2010

Backlog reduction through hardware failure.

So, I was going to try out a more-or-less foreign genre, that being the Stealth Game.  I’ve never really done well at “sneaky”, though I did enjoy the bits in Beyond Good & Evil, Arkham Asylum, and Deus Ex that … Continue reading

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Preserving through Destruction

So as I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve been tossing an awful lot of paper into the recycle bin, stuff that I’ve kept around from move to move over the last couple of decades. I really haven’t made THAT … Continue reading

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Deep Thoughts on an anniversary

I became an anime fan in late 1990, a bit over 19 years ago.  That’s not the anniversary I’m talking about, though, but it’s an important point to make.  I’ve spent most of the intervening years buying and hoarding anime … Continue reading

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A New Years Resolution

At the moment, I have 333 games listed as “unplayed” on backloggery.  That’s even with finishing nearly sixty games this last year. My goal is to, by December 31 of 2010, have this down to 100 or less.  Obviously that’s … Continue reading

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So, how about that Torchlight, huh?

…yeah So, I spent 18 hours, over 3 or 4 days, playing through Runic Games’ latest, “Torchlight”, which I am told is a quintessential Diablo clone from the makers of the original Diablo or something like that. Anyway, I installed … Continue reading

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