I GOT A SWITCH!

Yeah, rereading this I was a bit surprised at how down I was on the Emissary stuff; at the time, I didn't realize how important it would be to the show, and that helped me to appreciate it more.

Yeah, I saw one in Wal-Mart a month ago but couldn't afford it. When I actually had the money, I went back to the store and it was gone—and I couldn't find the system in any other store I tried, including Toys R Us. Going to Game Stop was basically just me giving up and deciding I didn't want to spend the rest of the…

Oh, I'm sure I'll post something as soon as I get my hands on the dang thing.

I've gone back to Batman: Arkham Knight after putting it aside for a while, largely because the game's reputation seems to have only gotten better in the past year or two—basically, I'm wondering what I missed. At the time, I thought it was slick but was tired of the grimdark, ultra-militarized take on Bats, and…

I think I fell in love with the Gambit system a little when I read a review that described it as "rudimentary programming." (Also, the fact that I can turn on Gambits for everyone makes the low level grinding stuff quicker and surprisingly fun.)

RetroPie is definitely not the plan, wink wink nudge nudge. (i mean, yeah, I totally didn't just do this after reading that Lifehacker article, nope.)

I want to try emulating some stuff. We'll see!

Man, I love DK94. I had that for my Game Boy and I must've played it to death.

I've been playing Doom again lately—I still really enjoy a lot of it, and I finally got to some boss fights, which was a fun change of pace. I'd like to finish it at some point, but I'm running into a similar problem to the one I had with the final quarter of the new Wolfenstein; eventually the whole "here's a bunch…

It's when you're babysitting for your little brother and he wants Captain Crunch for dinner and you're like no, Mom and Dad said we can't and he starts screaming so you're like funny, let's _both_ eat cereal, and then your brother dumps sugar on his because he's a freak and he gives you this grin like "You're too…

I want this so much and I'm pretty positive I'll never get my hands on one. CURSE YOU NINTENDO!!!!

I've been crazy busy the past couple of weeks, so haven't had time to do much of anything, but I should have at least Sunday evening to relax—and I'm looking forward to spending some time getting the bejeezus scared out of me by Amnesia: Dark Descent. I've never played it before, and I'm not sure how long I'll last,…

_Dammit_.

It's considerably less intense than Alien: Isolation. (It helps that you can kill the monsters, at least so far.)

True, although I appreciated those times that managed to crawl up through the ceiling.

I wasn't sure what to make of this when I started—my first fight with mimics cost me a lot of my health, and I couldn't shake the sinking feeling that I was playing "wrong" somehow. (This happens to me a lot with games, I'm weird.) But I kept playing, and eventually got used to that "wrongness" as an essential,…

Hexen yeah, but even though DF1 is "Doom 3D," the keyboard set up just makes it easier to use a mouse—and there's no way to reconfigure the keys.

Well, yeah—especially with the old school ones, you kind of have to play with mouse and keyboard because they just move too damn fast for controller. It's a less a "the game would play better if I used something else" and more a psychological thing on what I'm used to.

I got Steam running on my new laptop and went a bit crazy with the downloads; which means I've spent about thirty minutes playing Half-life, F.E.A.R., Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, Quake and Hexen. (I'm leaning into classic first person shooters pretty heavy, mostly because of nostalgia.) It's interesting so far; I'm…