Category Archives: videogames

You bastards.

Posted on March 26, 2008 by baudattitude

Each and every one of you that read yesterday’s post, where I talked about how much I hated headcrabs and was at “Water Hazard” in Half-Life 2 and did NOT have the simple common human decency to send me a … Continue reading →

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I’m still a man, really.

Posted on March 24, 2008 by baudattitude

I try not to have multiple games going at the same time, but my wife and I started Kingdom Hearts this weekend.  It makes a nice “together” game in the way that Half Life 2 does not make a nice … Continue reading →

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Sucking it up; Dealing.

Posted on March 24, 2008 by baudattitude

Back in January, I caught up to 1998 and finished Half Life on the PC. Then, since I had a copy of the Xbox version of Half Life 2, which I’d acquired at a K-mart for the princely sum of … Continue reading →

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The Maid Uniform and Machinegun

Posted on March 20, 2008 by baudattitude

I usually try to come up with clever post titles, but how on earth do I out-clever a game title like that? Anyway: The Maid Uniform and Machinegun, #105 in the “Simple 2000” series. Do I NEED to say this … Continue reading →

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Being a purist; being let down.

Posted on March 20, 2008 by baudattitude

My introduction to bullet-hell style shooters came a few years ago in the form of a brutally localized game called “Mobile Light Force 2” It is a translation, and I use the term quite loosely, of Shikigami no Shiro.  I … Continue reading →

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Dumb luck.

Posted on March 19, 2008 by baudattitude

So, I’ve been looking for Planescape: Torment for a while now. This is the Infinity Engine RPG that always seems to come up when people start talking about Really Good RPGs.  It’s got enough of a Reputation that I’m willing … Continue reading →

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Ugly First Level Syndrome

Posted on March 19, 2008 by baudattitude

So, the first time I put “Prey” in the 360 and gave it a spin, I made it through 2 levels, took it out and put it aside for later. That takes about 20 minutes. It didn’t grab me.  And … Continue reading →

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Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be fanboys.

Posted on March 16, 2008 by baudattitude

…lest they find themselves, someday, in the position of having way too much obsolete media around and an obsessive-compulsive need to convert it to modern formats. I’ve been doing a bunch more VHS-to-MPEG2 capture, followed up by MPEG2-to-Divx encode lately.  … Continue reading →

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Well, finally got around to saving the world.

Posted on March 16, 2008 by baudattitude

So, back in 2002, I wasn’t really in the market for a new videogame console. I’d bought an import Dreamcast in 1999 before the US launch, bought a US Dreamcast a few months after that so I could play cheaper … Continue reading →

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Prey: It’s dark and brown.

Posted on March 14, 2008 by baudattitude

I’ve stepped away from my compulsive shump playing for a little bit to get back to the backlog, and I’m putting Prey through its paces.  I’m about a third of the way through the game, if the achievements are to … Continue reading →

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