Category Archives: videogames

Bioshock Infinite: It’s Awfully Pretty

I originally wrote a massive wall of text here about Bioshock: Infinite, and you can still read that if you want (It’s under the “More” tag), but I read it over and realized that I could sum it up much … Continue reading

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Even for Japan, this is a weird one.

For some reason, I keep picking up Cave shooters.  I think it’s because I really liked Espgaluda II and I keep trying to find ones that I’ll like as much. The problem, I think, is that they really ARE for … Continue reading

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An unexpected benefit to Playstation Plus.

I’ve had a certain fondness, ever since the days of the original Playstation, for the “futuristic racing” genre.  Specifically, the F-Zero and Wipeout series, though I admit to a brief flirtation with Extreme-G.  The fondness is not returned.  I was … Continue reading

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Fishy Math

So, I created an account with Big Fish Games in order to buy a game that my wife recommended to me. As an aside, it appears that all traces of shame have finally been scrubbed from me if I’m a … Continue reading

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No, really, the shotgun IS terrible.

I finished up Tomb Raider the other night, story mode complete with the overall game completion at 78%.  This means that I skipped a lot of climbing around for collectibles, I suppose, but it’s polite enough to allow me to … Continue reading

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Amateurs.

I work in a pretty geeky environment and this week’s Steam sale has been a frequent conversation topic. I got to overhear a couple of coworkers exchange Steam IDs and check out each others profile today, which included the thoroughly … Continue reading

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Tomb Raider May Have The Worst Shotgun In Video Game History

…however, after 10 hours of playing so far, that remains my only complaint. More when I finish. I’m having too much fun to rush to the ending.

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GraVITAs

After playing through Call Of Duty: The One For the Vita and Assassin’s Creed: The One For the Vita, I thought that it might not be a bad idea to actually try a game designed specifically for the system. Fortunately, … Continue reading

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Liberating

Let me just get all the bad things out of the way to start: Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation is a mess in some ways.  It’s glitchy at times, particularly with regards to character animations, the enemy AI can be as … Continue reading

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In which, I take a shameless Korean MMO a little more seriously

Yesterday, I wrote about playing Scarlet Blade with the intention of writing a snarky review about what it said about us and how far we had fallen as a species and so on.  That was a good post, I thought, … Continue reading

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