Category Archives: videogames

I played a long game.

OK, by the standards of, say, a Square-Enix Epic RPG, Borderlands isn’t a LONG game.  I spent 32 hours playing through it, and that’s barely enough to get through the tutorial in some games. By my standards, however, that’s an … Continue reading

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Schadenfreude: the best kind of freude

I have a habit that might not be entirely healthy. In short, if I feel like I need a quick pick-me-up, I go for a brisk wallow in the mud-pit of human suffering that is the Xbox Live Account Suspensions … Continue reading

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The Online Shooting Mans

I’m not much of an online gamer. Considering I spent 8 years playing Everquest, that may be kind of an odd statement, but I don’t think it’s too odd to point out that MMOs are in a completely different category … Continue reading

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Also I played a computer simulation of being a horrible horrible person.

Lest you get the impression that this winter break was all about Man’s Eternal Struggle With Technology, I did take a few hours – okay, more than a few – and finished “Just Cause 2”, a game my wife has … Continue reading

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It’s hard being #2

This last month has been absolutely nuts, school-wise. As an aside, I had an English teacher, back in high school, who I didn’t especially like and who absolutely deplored the practice of appending “-wise” to the end of nouns, and … Continue reading

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A tale of two MMOs

You know, the problem with riffing on Dickens for a post title is that it pushes the Lit Geek button, the one that says, “OK, now we go with the ‘It was the best of games, it was the worst … Continue reading

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You need to spend $10 right now.

For the record, I had originally intended to entitle this post “Buy it, Fanboy”, but then I couldn’t remember where I’d gotten that phrase from so I had to google it and well… …I’m a bit ashamed. I think the … Continue reading

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Assassin’s Creed II: The Creedening

So, I said about a week ago that I’d be talking about Assassin’s Creed in a couple of days, but it turns out that I was wrong about that by a few days. For the record, I did manage 4 … Continue reading

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Resident Evil Blues

Well, Resident Evil: Code Veronica has the distinction of being the first RE title that I’ve actually gotten a fair ways in to and was actually chugging my way towards completing when I decided to chuck the whole thing. There … Continue reading

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PoP: The Forgotten Sands: Epilogue

Well, Forgotten Sands DID add a companion for the last couple of chapters and DID add a fair bit of banter, so my complaints from yesterday did get addressed somewhat. I’m still going to rank it as my third-favorite, but … Continue reading

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