Did you know that people are actually still playing Titanfall ? There are at least a few of us still out there, still making do with what we have, lack of baseball slide and all – seriously, how do you center your game around this crazy parkour jetpack-assisted movement and not have a baseball slide? Fucking Wolfenstein has a baseball slide! Baseball slides are fucking IMPORTANT . Wait, where w...
This Week’s Game: Resident Evil (Xbox One) I have never managed to beat Resident Evil . I don’t know if it is the restrictive inventory management (8 slots: not enough slots! 6 slots: who the fuck are you kidding?) or the tank controls (an M1 Abrams could maneuver better) or the fact that I am completely incapable of playing those games without someone else in the room to make the somewhat dull...
This Week’s Game: Sword Coast Legends Here’s something new for this space: I’m going to talk about a game that hasn’t released yet, isn’t in early access, and I only just stumbled across yesterday. A game that totally caught me off guard, and one that I might venture to say will owe a great debt to Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera if it succeeds. Why is that, you say? Well, I...
This Week’s Game: Far Cry 4 Can I tell you a secret? Shh shh shh, lean in close. I had no interest in Far Cry 3 . That game, in fact, looked real fuckin’ dumb to me. I avoided it entirely, in fact, and instead picked up Far Cry 2 on sale and played a good amount of that, but I already wrote about that game. I am pretty sure that I still don’t have much interest at all in playing FC3, but I defi...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Wolfenstein: The New Order Oh good lord, really? Am I really going to do one of these on a game that came out last year? No. NO. We’re done. I’m not going do this anymore. New plan: wr...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: The World Ends With You I went on a crusade this week to find my Nintendo DS, because I desperately am trying to avoid buying a PS Vita and a copy of Persona 4: Golden , because come o...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Persona 4 It is only fair that I admit at the start that this is one of the newest of my backlogged games. I didn’t pick up Persona 4 until I started watching the legendary Endurance R...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: The Elder Scolls V: Skyrim You don’t know how close I came to tossing the Backlog to one side so I could talk about Dragon Age: Inquisition instead, because that game does some shit an...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Far Cry 2 So last week I was going to attempt to write one of these about Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare , only I (one) already beat that game with a bootleg copy on my PC back in coll...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Tomb Raider There’s a lot to be said about Square Enix’s revival of the Tomb Raider , not all of it complementary. But that has more or less been the case for the entire history of tha...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Borderlands As was foretold in the Dead Sea Scrolls, this week I want to talk a little bit about Borderlands . Not too much, because truth be told I spent most of the week playing Suns...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Rage Unintentionally continuing my post-apocalyptic gaming habit from last week, this week I decided to dive into the MEGA TEXTURES of Rage and see if I could remember why I stopped pl...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Darksiders As promised last week, I am going to pursue the whole Halloween thing by avoiding all the horror games that I don’t enjoy playing and play a nice post-apocalyptic action/adv...
Hey all, I was totally going to write about Darksiders , because that's the game I picked for this week, and even played, but all I can say by way of reason why I am not writing that right now is basically this: if you take medication for, say, chronic depression, you should be really careful about not missing your dose for the day, because sometimes that puts you in a pretty dark place and you...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Lord of the Rings: War in the North I spent a lot of time going back and forth on whether or not I thought War in the North was a game worth buying. At some point, I finally decided “h...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: The Wolf Among Us I have had The Wolf Among Us sitting on my hard drive for ages. I had actually gotten pretty far into the first episode when I first got the game, but for some reason...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Deadly Premonition What with the release of Dark Dreams Don’t Die (D4) this week, I thought there’d be no better game for me to go back to than the Twin Peaks simulation that is Deadly...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Bioshock Infinite I don’t know if there is a game that I have had such mixed feelings about before launch than Bioshock Infinite . When it was first announced, I was lukewarm on the wh...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: The Witcher I have lost three save games in the time that I have owned The Witcher . The first, because I grew angry at the Steam version of the game and switched over to the GoG.com v...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows This is it: four weeks in and we’ve come to the first truly questionable purchase in my catalogue. I don’t know that I generally buy we...
Hey, hi. I’d ask you how it’s going, but given the last couple of weeks I am going to assume that things could be going better. I have learned more in these past two weeks about the next-level shit that women deal with than I have in years. I don’t know how you manage to keep fighting this fight in the face of such vitriol. I only know that I am so very glad that you do. I actually wrestled wit...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Killer Is Dead I thought that I was going to go to the ol’ Steam Library for my next backlog game, but I booted up my 360 to take advantage of a free copy of Dishonored (I’ve got the P...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: Gears of War 3 I have a soft spot for the bombastic, brotastic lore of Gears of War , which makes it pretty odd that I have yet to beat the final entry in the Bender Bending Rodriguez...
I have bought a lot of video games; what I haven’t done is beat a lot of video games. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go back and give some of these games another shot: this is the Backlog. This Week’s Game: The Last of Us . I remember being very excited to finally play The Last of Us after having followed its development with great interest. I played the game for a little while (long enou...