Category Archives: PC Gaming

I still hate Ravenholm.

I recently discovered that, according to the incredibly depressing steamleft.com, it would take me 184 days of continuous playing, without breaks for sleep or eating, to finish the unplayed games in my Steam library.  That ignores all the console games … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming | Leave a comment

For sale: Crowbar, used only once.

While my wife and I are both pretty avid gamers, we don’t have a lot of similar tastes.  We can both get thoroughly hooked on MMOs for months at a time, but rarely the same ones – I go back … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Shepard don’t fear the Reapers

So that was about 70 hours, mostly well-spent I think. I should put more words here. I was a bit skeptical about the Mass Effect series before I started it.  To be honest, I was mostly turned off because it … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Still playing Mass Effect

Finished ME2 and launched right into ME3 and immediately got a sense for why there was so much griping about it when it came out.  Still, it’s pretty amazing and I’ll put something up here about my thoughts on 2 … Continue reading

Posted in Japan, PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

I Geth I Was Mistaken

I spent another four hours with Mass Effect 2 tonight, and I’m happy to report that the Geth DO show up. This entry in the series feels a lot more like a shooter than the first one did.  That’s far … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Mass Effect 2: I Am Disappoint.

Let me start of by saying very clearly: I am not disappointed with Mass Effect 2, the video game. Rather, I started it intending just to see how it tied into the first game and then played for six hours … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Don’t Drink, Don’t Smoke, What Do You Do?

The problem with games with morals systems is that I only ever really see the nice guy path. I mean, sure, it might be fun to see a bit more of the, let’s say, “morally ambiguous” path, but when the … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Xenophobia

              Believe me when I say that it took a conscious effort not to title this post something along the lines of “Game Over, Man!”, but that’s a shot so easily taken that even … Continue reading

Posted in PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Mood Swings

Started watching Non Non Biyori this morning.  It’s a slow-paced show about four friends living in extremely rural Japan – so rural, in fact, that they represent the entire student population of the local school, the nearest video store is … Continue reading

Posted in anime, PC Gaming, videogames | Leave a comment

Alts are Bad

With recent MMOs, I try not to create too many different characters.  When you have a bunch of alts, it’s really easy to keep finding excuses to log in and then you wind up living in a feral state and … Continue reading

Posted in MMORPG, PC Gaming, Tera | Leave a comment