Category Archives: PC Gaming

Fus-Ro-DONE

I finished my second play-through of Skyrim tonight, and I confess that there was just a little bit of Elder Scrolls fatigue by the end of it.  It’s my own fault for looking at the Steam achievements list and deciding … Continue reading

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I’m not saying I have a Skyrim problem…

…but I have a Skyrim problem. Fortunately, after a little over two hundred hours of playtime, at least I can call the achievements list done.  It took two characters to knock them all out, because I couldn’t take the same … Continue reading

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“Batman Begins” was taken.

I finished up Batman: Arkham Origins over the weekend, and finally figuring out what I was doing wrong with the combat made it a much more enjoyable experience than Arkham City. I was pretty skeptical that we needed a prequel … Continue reading

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Other Guys

TWO games off the backlog this weekend. First, “Lord of the Rings: War in the North”, or “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Other Guys”, in which you fight a ton of goblins, orcs, those bigger orc goblin … Continue reading

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The Shotgun Was Better This Time

One of my few complaints about the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot was that the shotgun seemed pretty terrible. It’s a silly thing to get worked up about, but I like it when video game shotguns pack some OOOOMPH, and that … Continue reading

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OK, that’s enough Lara for now

I did need to resort to a guide once I started working on hunting down the dozen or so documents and relics that I’d missed, and for help with the challenges in a couple of zones.  I couldn’t find a … Continue reading

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A Quick Thought on Rise Of The Tomb Raider

I had the following error message pop-up on me this evening: And I thought, huh, I guess I have been playing for a while, so that sort of error isn’t that weird, how long HAVE I been playing anyway? It … Continue reading

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Winter Wrap-Up

In the last couple of weeks of 2015, I burned through a good dozen games, neglecting my usual habit of writing a couple of paragraphs about each as I went. I figured I should catch up on that: Silent Hill: … Continue reading

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Boot to the Head

I spent a fair amount of time last year getting caught up on the various Call of Duty games that I’d missed.  These are, of course, very serious military shooters where Serious Men make Hard Choices to save the world.  … Continue reading

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My Mother, the Bear

If I’m counting right, finishing the “Brave” tie-in game yesterday puts me at 99 games / expansions for the year. In theory, I should have something really cool planned for #100, but at this point it will probably just be … Continue reading

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