Category Archives: PC Gaming

A Bit of Backlog Blasphemy

I may have backslid a little on my backlog reduction goal.  I wasn’t supposed to buy any games until Fatal Frame V came out, and instead I got sucked into an indiegala deal and wound up with three new VNs … Continue reading →

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I am VERY secure in my masculinity

So, a few months back, my wife and I sat down and watched all of Disney’s CG “Tinker Bell” movies, and quite liked them.  Naturally, I wound up owning a copy of the associated video game once it made its … Continue reading →

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Is the Plural “Calls of Duty” or “Call of Duties” ?

I am rapidly running out of Call of Duty games.  Knocking out MW3 and BLOPs in the last few days leaves me with only Call of Duty 3 – the rather poorly-received console-exclusive entry in the series – and the … Continue reading →

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CoD: Mewtwo

I am really bad at playing games in series order. I got introduced to the Call of Duty series with the second installment, enjoyed that enough to buy Modern Warfare within the first week or two of its release – … Continue reading →

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Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae

Normally I try to come up with clever titles for posts. At first, I considered “The Only Thing That Can Stop A Bad Girl With A Sword Is A Good Girl With A Sword”, but that seemed excessively long. Then … Continue reading →

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Hard Reset – No Paperclip Required

Normally I consider a game’s story and setting to be more important than the actual mechanics. Hard Reset proved a very notable exception to this rule, because it does not have a deep story.  It’s more like “Once upon a … Continue reading →

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Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries

The “Classic Fairy Tale, just darker” thing is perilously close to a cliche, these days.  ABC has gotten four seasons of Once Upon a Time out of it, with a fifth on the way, and I’m not ashamed to admit … Continue reading →

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Time to put Tamriel down for a bit.

I realize you don’t really “finish” an Elder Scrolls game, per se.  Still, I completed both the Dragonborn and Dawnguard expansion storylines in the last few days, and it seems like a good place to take a break. According to … Continue reading →

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Skyrim Without Skyrats

A few years ago, while playing Dead Rising, I realized that I could “complete” the game, and even get a reasonably good grade on the ending, simply by playing for six hours without triggering the event that unleashed the zombies … Continue reading →

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So, I finished Skyrim

Killed the Big Dang Dragon, saved the world, fulfilled my destiny as the Chosen One, brought balance to the Force, all that good stuff.  Took 68 hours, which I understand is a pretty quick run by Elder Scrolls standards. To … Continue reading →

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