Category Archives: PC Gaming

They call me… Wayne.

I discovered today the single most frustrating thing about buying games from Steam. When you complete one, you can’t put the box on to the shelf with a satisfying thunk sound, reflect for a moment on your accomplishment, and take … Continue reading

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A rare compliment

I have just finished X-Blades, a game which has been utterly savaged by the gaming press, and I have just finished it for the second time because I got the bad ending on the first go-around and decided to, rather … Continue reading

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Audio, Milestones, and so on

Baud Attitude passed 100,000 hits today, which is pretty good considering that 90% of the material here is interesting to, oh, me and the three or four RL friends who read this. 🙂 But that’s not really today’s topic. Today … Continue reading

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X-Blades: Oops

I’ve been playing X-Blades off and on for the last couple of weeks and have been having great fun with it.  It’s gotten some absolutely atrocious reviews, but I’m not sure where the hate is coming from – yeah, it’s … Continue reading

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Coupon fun

OK, like I REALLY needed to add more to my backlog. But, see, I stumbled across a link to a pretty decent coupon this morning: $20 off any of a pretty long list of (older) PC games at Best Buy.  … Continue reading

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Fear, Expanded:

The basic premise behind an expansion pack, like FEAR : Extraction Point, is pretty simple and one which I approve of – if you liked a game, it gives you some more of the same thing, and then adds a … Continue reading

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Then came the expansion…

I made fun of F.E.A.R., earlier, for not really being all that scary of a game.  I stand by my statements there. The expansion pack, “Extraction Point”, however – THAT is pushing all the right buttons in making me jump.  … Continue reading

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F.E.A.R. and Unicorns

So, what connection does Monolith’s FPS “F.E.A.R.” have with unicorns? Well, honestly, no connection at all, but I had to stomp down hard on my urge to title this “F.E.A.R. and Loathing”, and I think I deserve some credit for … Continue reading

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Would you kindly…

…share in my sense of accomplishment? It took staying up far, far too late, but I am done with Rapture, and of course got the “mega happy” ending because I’m such a swell guy. Enough good things have been said … Continue reading

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I TOTALLY did not see that coming

When I mentioned, a few days ago, that Izuna 2’s partner system seemed designed to make any sane person concentrate solely on leveling one partner at the expense of the rest, I knew… somehow, I just knew… that the partner … Continue reading

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