Author Archives: baudattitude

Backlog reduction through hardware failure.

Posted on January 7, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on January 6, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on January 2, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on January 2, 2010 by baudattitude

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?

Posted on January 1, 2010 by baudattitude

…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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The Ten Thousand Deaths of Lara Croft

Posted on December 26, 2009 by baudattitude

It hasn’t been that long, really, since I decided that I should really start trying to play through some of the games that I’d piled up over the years of playing nothing but Everquest. I say “decided”, but the reality … Continue reading →

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Getting my “cred” back.

Posted on December 22, 2009 by baudattitude

I didn’t like Braid. This worried me a bit.  I mean, it was probably the most lauded independently-developed game of the last couple years, and I could not make myself interested in it. Was I, I wondered, hopelessly lost to … Continue reading →

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I want you to tell all your friends about me.

Posted on December 21, 2009 by baudattitude

It’s my opinion that the absolute best time to have been an animation fan in America was the early 1990s.  Not only was anime starting to really take off, but Western animators were at the top of their game.  We … Continue reading →

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Apart from crippling hand pains…

Posted on December 17, 2009 by baudattitude

…busting DID make me feel good. I’ll explain. A couple of months ago, I bought the PC version of “Ghostbuster” from Direct2Drive’s Halloween sale.  I’d heard it was a pretty short game, but it was $10 and the writeups I’d … Continue reading →

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Frilly, fluffy, bouncy pain

Posted on December 17, 2009 by baudattitude

One of the better anime programs I caught up with in the last year was Mahoromatic.  Sure, it was 20-odd episodes of fan service and goofy plots followed by an bizarre ending, but it had likable characters and, for lack … Continue reading →

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