Category Archives: videogames

Kick-Ball, Stick-Ball, KILL-THE-GUY-WITH-THE-BALL

(Do You Want To Play?) So, usually I pick up a new MMO, get to max level, play through all of the group content, do a little raiding and call it good.  I love MMOs – they’re basically “Checklist: The … Continue reading

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On The Evolution Of Gaming Skill

First off, I want all the credit for not spelling “Skill” with a Z at the end.  It took some self control. Carrying on, then. While I have been playing games since the glory days of the arcade, and an … Continue reading

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On Level Scaling. 

So, I promised everyone a rant about Legion, and now that I’m at level cap, I have one to share.  Let me provide some context first.  I had a friend over on Saturday, and convinced him to give Bloodborne a … Continue reading

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WoW: Day Three

So Day One of WoW was getting a new character up to level 15 so I could run instanced dungeons, Day Two was spent burning through dungeon after dungeon and getting a handle on How To Heal And How To … Continue reading

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Teddy Ruxpin Sold Separately

OK, no.  I lie.  This post is actually about the less-well-known WoW: My wife has been trying to get me to play WoW for several months now, and what she ACTUALLY wound up convincing me to do was to re-up … Continue reading

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In Which I Confront a Hoarding Problem

I have realized that Everquest 2 is, at its heart, a complicated game about inventory management in which you occasionally fight monsters. I will explain. My wife has been steeping in pre-release hype and events for the forthcoming WoW expansion, … Continue reading

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Test Your Might

A couple of games off the backlog recently. First, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, which really wasn’t stuck on to the backlog for very long.  I preordered it, it showed up on the release date, it sat on the shelf … Continue reading

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Splatfest Results, and WiiU Image Uploading

So, let’s start by getting this out of the way: Boom indeed.  But, to be fair, it was awfully close, so we shouldn’t look down on the heretical Callie devotees with TOO much scorn. We will need someone to shovel … Continue reading

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It’s the faaaaaiiiiiinal countdown

Wait no it isn’t.  Sorry, Europe. It is WAS, however, the final Splatfest this weekend, and even though I haven’t been playing Splatoon in the last several months, I felt obligated to log on and do my best for Team … Continue reading

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Sakura Dungeon: Collect Shiny Things, Save The World

I don’t think it’s much of a secret that Sekai Project finances their “serious” localization projects with a constant stream of comparatively low-budget borderline-lewd visual novels, and as much as I would like to claim that I am above such … Continue reading

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