Category Archives: videogames

Console Names, Confusing:

Posted on March 14, 2021 by baudattitude

I didn’t expect to be joining the ranks of next-generation console owners quite so soon after launch, because – what with the worldwide semiconductor shortage, Corona-chan keeping everyone at home, and stimulus money flying around – it seems like every … Continue reading →

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14 Years Blog

Posted on March 3, 2021 by baudattitude

Big anniversary today.  Not, admittedly, as big as the 10th anniversary which Nintendo celebrated by releasing an entirely new console and a pretty decent Elder Scrolls knockoff, but still a day to commemorate.  I did so by walking to the … Continue reading →

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Densha De Go! Densha De Go! Densha De Go Go Go!

Posted on January 13, 2021 by baudattitude

I bought another train game. Much like the last train game I played – Densha De Go! Pocket Yamanote-Sen – this game is all about driving a commuter train in a big circle around Tokyo, carefully adhering to a timetable … Continue reading →

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OK, I’ll say something about Shadowlands now.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by baudattitude

My last post about WoW was talking about how it would not be the first MMORPG I would recommend to anyone, and that my recommendation would absolutely be that a newcomer to the genre should try FFXIV instead. On the … Continue reading →

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Ok, Stadia is better than I gave it credit for.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by baudattitude

It’s still doomed.  I mean, I have had a TERRIBLE track record for predicting what technologies are going to take off and which are destined for history’s rubbish bin, but boy howdy does Stadia have a lot working against it. … Continue reading →

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In which, I try Stadia and it’s actually OK.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by baudattitude

Kinda giving the whole post away with that title, but you can keep reading if you want to spend a few more minutes of your life reading my eloquent prose. Since my ego won’t allow me to conceive that anyone … Continue reading →

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On Green Bars

Posted on November 13, 2020 by baudattitude

So, no posts here in ages and it would be kind of embarrassing if the last thing I wrote was a tediously boring bit about extracting audio tracks from mkv files. Instead, let’s have a tediously boring rant about healing … Continue reading →

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I Am Afraid of a Certain Number of Ghosts.

Posted on September 9, 2020 by baudattitude

A few days ago, I mentioned that I had celebrated my lack of a games backlog by buying Luigi’s Mansion 3 during the Nintendo eShop sale.  I hadn’t played the first two games in the series, but it looked fun … Continue reading →

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Fire Emblem: Heroes

Posted on September 4, 2020 by baudattitude

OK, so I am somewhat late to the party on Fire Emblem: Heroes, being as it’s a mobile game that launched in February 2017.  At the time, however, I hadn’t played an actual Fire Emblem game (we will set TMS#FE … Continue reading →

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Pokémon Café Mix

Posted on September 3, 2020 by baudattitude

Now that I’m out of backlog*, I have been playing around with a few f2p games that had been on my radar but that I hadn’t wanted to delve into while I was trying to play games that I’d actually … Continue reading →

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