Category Archives: videogames

So, I finished Skyrim

Killed the Big Dang Dragon, saved the world, fulfilled my destiny as the Chosen One, brought balance to the Force, all that good stuff.  Took 68 hours, which I understand is a pretty quick run by Elder Scrolls standards. To … Continue reading

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I Can Stop Playing Music Games Now

…because I’m almost certainly never going to out-do this: Sadistic Music Factory is the “Boss Fight” of Project Diva ƒ, and in keeping with series tradition it’s yet another super-high-BPM cosMo@暴走P song.  It was also the last song keeping me … Continue reading

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In Which, I Try Another Elder Scrolls Game

I have not had a particularly good history with the Elder Scrolls games.  The first one I tried, Arena, was so long ago that I actually had to install it from 1.2 MB 5.25″ floppies, and my experience with the … Continue reading

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I’ll feel guilty about this once I stop giggling.

Occasionally, I find a move in a fighting game or brawler that is so insanely silly that I can’t help but try to use it at every opportunity, even if it makes little to no sense. For example, in the … Continue reading

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Demon Gazed

I finished Demon Gaze last night, and according to the in-game timer, it took me a hair over 42 hours.  I started it back in mid-December, so I’ve obviously taken some breaks from play here and there.  Some of that … Continue reading

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I Bought This Game for the Plot

Lot of Dead or Alive posts recently, sorry about that. I could talk about The Familiar of Zero instead, since that’s the show I’m currently using as a distraction from spending 90 minutes a day on the exercise bike. I … Continue reading

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In Which, I Purchase Cosmetic DLC

So, there’s apparently a bit of a kerfluffle going on right now in the competitive fighting “scene”, as it were, where fans of the Dead or Alive series are concerned that their punching simulator of choice is not taken seriously … Continue reading

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Well, that was unexpectedly brutal

It turns out that playing through DoA: Dimension’s tutorial has boosted my confidence enough that I’ve decided that I’m actually going to try playing a fighting game online, and I had a bunch of PSN credit left in my Japanese … Continue reading

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She Kicks High

I had written the fighting game genre off as something that I’d used to enjoy but no longer could. Honestly, most of that is just because the games that I grew up with have gotten to be hopelessly complex. Looking … Continue reading

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Chimera Chips

I’m not sure how long these have been around.  I’d never seen them before yesterday, and there was only one package of them, incorrectly shelved with the rice cakes and far away from the other Pringles displays.  It’s possible that … Continue reading

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