Category Archives: videogames

Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel: Stream of Conciousness Edition

Posted on April 3, 2017 by baudattitude

I bought the Season Pass for Dark Souls III ages ago, but now that both DLC packs are out it’s time to give them a go.  Naturally enough, Ashes of Ariandel came first. So let’s do this! YAY SNOW! So … Continue reading →

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Generation Loss

Posted on April 2, 2017 by baudattitude

So, if you were ever active in trading around videotapes of obscure TV shows or anime, you’re probably familiar with the idea of generation loss – the idea that, the farther away from the original source you get, the less … Continue reading →

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Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai II

Posted on March 31, 2017 by baudattitude

Another day, another decades-old strip mahjong game off the backlog. So a bit of a historical note here – there was not a lot of software available when the Saturn launched in North America.  It never did terribly well, but … Continue reading →

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Dunhuntin’

Posted on March 29, 2017 by baudattitude

It turned out that, when I stopped playing Bloodborne last night, I was literally at the last lamp before Orphan of Kos and had unlocked the elevator shortcut to get to him.  He was also one of the two bosses … Continue reading →

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Finally Starting “The Old Hunters”

Posted on March 28, 2017 by baudattitude

As I may have mentioned from time to time, I am terrible at playing things in a timely fashion – I’m generally waiting for sales, I get distracted easily by shiny objects, sometimes the brain squirrels just tell me to … Continue reading →

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Idol Mahjong Final Romance 4 : Romancing the Pai

Posted on March 26, 2017 by baudattitude

So, this is a weird but ultimately very fun bit of Saturn history. Most console mahjong games – and, by the way, I learned today that Wikipedia has an entire category page for “dasui mahjong”, or “strip mahjong” games – … Continue reading →

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I got gud

Posted on March 20, 2017 by baudattitude

(Well, for certain values of “gud”, anyway.) A few months back, the Bloodborne “Old Hunters” DLC went on sale on PSN, so I finally bought it.  Naturally, this meant that I had to go back to the original game and … Continue reading →

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On Marketing Freebies

Posted on March 14, 2017 by baudattitude

Checked my email this morning and got a pleasant surprise from the Fine People in Sony’s marketing branch: I’d heard they sent these out for getting platinum trophies in some games, but this is the first time I’ve received one.  … Continue reading →

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I Just Played 52 Hours of Horizon: Zero Dawn

Posted on March 13, 2017 by baudattitude

It was OK.     OK, let’s not beat around the bush.  It was pretty stunning, especially because I’m looking at what Guerrilla Games has done in the past and it’s not much more than a bunch of 7-to-10-hour-long linear … Continue reading →

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On Backwards Compatibility 

Posted on March 5, 2017 by baudattitude

As a person with poor impulse control and a love of shiny things, I usually wind up owning every games console from a given time span, often a couple of them because of hardware revisions or the like. It’s expensive … Continue reading →

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