Category Archives: videogames

E3 2018: Hopes, Wishes, and Dreams

Posted on May 16, 2018 by baudattitude

It’s almost exactly one month until this year’s iteration of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and gamers all over the world are starting to Get Hype about the futures of their favorite corporations and how they certainly will not be announcing … Continue reading →

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On Second Place

Posted on May 10, 2018 by baudattitude

I have a long history of making poor tech choices. I’ve owned Laserdiscs and Minidiscs, Sega Saturns and NEC TurboDuos, an eee 701 netbook and a Windows Phone. Let’s just say that I have a knack for picking the winning … Continue reading →

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On Second Looks

Posted on May 7, 2018 by baudattitude

Anyone unfortunate enough to follow this blog for any length of time has probably run into one or more of my frothing rants about Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. I’d been a big fan of the series since the first … Continue reading →

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On Trying New Things

Posted on April 26, 2018 by baudattitude

So, one side effect of playing an awful lot of Halo recently is that it got me curious what Bungie had been up to since Halo Reach.  That lead me to the local Gamestop’s 4-for-$10 bin to pick up a … Continue reading →

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On Procrastination

Posted on April 25, 2018 by baudattitude

While I haven’t talked much about the series in a few years, I used to be quite the fan of the “Assassin’s Creed” games.  I had something of a break with the series after III, which was the point where … Continue reading →

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Halo Month, Part 7: I don’t know why you say Halo, I say goodbye.

Posted on April 24, 2018 by baudattitude

Technically, I did not absorb EVERY piece of Halo-related media in the last three weeks. There are a few comics, a whole mess of audio logs and terminal records, and a couple of books I didn’t get around to. That … Continue reading →

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Halo Month, Part 6: Sweet Christmas

Posted on April 19, 2018 by baudattitude

It’s an odd thing to realize, but of the 10 Xbox One games I’ve finished since owning the console, 8 of them have been remastered versions of games that were originally released for the Xbox or Xbox 360 – with … Continue reading →

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Halo Month, Part 4: Finally, some payoff.

Posted on April 14, 2018 by baudattitude

Halo Month continues.  I wrapped up Halo Reach, read the “Forerunner Trilogy” (Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium), read the first two books of the Kilo Five Trilogy (“Glasslands” and “The Thursday War”), watched “Halo: Forward Unto Dawn”, played Halo 4’s single-player … Continue reading →

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Soon.

Posted on April 11, 2018 by baudattitude

So, seven days from now it looks like I will be able to play Panzer Dragoon Orta, upscaled, on my purchased-for-a-song Xbox One S.  Moreover, if they follow their normal pattern, everyone NOT lucky enough to still have a disc … Continue reading →

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Halo Month, Part 3

Posted on April 9, 2018 by baudattitude

I’m painfully old-school sometimes, so normally I write blog posts in a plain text editor and copy/paste them into the WordPress editor. Today I’m testing Word/Wordpress integration so I apologize in advance if things are messed up. I’m in the … Continue reading →

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