Skipping over the first thing that comes to mind, I love grass and trees and foliage. It's one of the many reasons I loved FarCry 2. The savannah areas were especially gorgeous.

I find Weyland to be MUCH more straightforward than HB. Better to teach with, I think. Just having something like Ice Wall makes the corp early game so much simpler.

Crossbow. Auto aim works for it, it hits most of the time, you can keep your distance, and slowly but surely kill the bugger. Sorcery is better, but the crossbow also works, especially a super upgraded crossbow.

I'm fighting through the editor at the moment, and haven't played around much with the other arcade modes. Many of the better built modes seem to be multiplayer only, and I don't wanna get yelled at for actually and legitimately being a NOOB.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Calculords! This is the most awesome game idea ever. Half the game is a typical deck-building CCG, though it's all free and you gain new cards by beating the AI enemies. The other half of the game . . . is Math Puzzles! YES! You have a set of 8 numbers, and have to use addition,…

This weekend, I really don't know what I'll be playing. Netrunner, yes. That's going pretty well. I'm almost starting to understand how to play the different Corporations. Corp seems a heck of a lot harder than Runner, at least at the moment, when I'm still getting smacked around by Runners with no Hardware or…

I have a ton of fond memories of watching people play games, or being watched as I played.

Most of the time.

Take the combat of Dark Souls, and make it into a Gauntlet clone.

I visited Scotland many years ago, and was served a full breakfast at a little B&B in Kirkwall, Orkney. I barely had an appetite for lunch or dinner. That thing was insane.

I've been getting into Netrunner recently. It's an old R.G. design, I think, that has been revived in the Living Card Game (non-collectible, always in print) format by Fantasy Flight Games. My regular gaming partner and I have switched to it as a bit of a break from Memoir '44 (link to my blog), and have been…

A Fallout TV Series might be interesting, though horribly high budget.

I teach Japanese 15 year olds. My Japanese 15 year olds can barely remember what day it is, or what day it will be tomorrow. They would starve to death if food was not placed in front of them, and even if it was, some of them might still starve if they weren't explicitly told to eat. I don't think this is entirely…

You slander the Corn Palace, good sir! The museum is only a portion of the building. It's actually an auditorium and community center, whose interior is re-decorated every year with a thematic corn mosaic.

Interesting fact, but Gladiators were well-trained and fairly expensive entertainers, and as such were rarely killed in battle. While matches were advertised quite often as "to a decisive end," a typical euphemism for "to the death," in fact they really were fought until a "decisive end." This is attested to by the…

I keep thinking I should go back and continue Dark Souls. My first character on the 360 got to Sen's Fortress, but then I had to stop playing. Restarted on the PC, and just got into Blighttown with a pure Sorcerer, then stopped for no good reason. That was 6 months ago. Grr.

Yes. I don't play puzzle games for a reason.

An open-world Metroid, that's equal parts exploration/treasure hunting in a vast universe, detective work, and blowing stuff up.

Hrmn. I do have a bit of a backlog. The one that bugs me is King Arthur 2, which I preordered during the phase of my euphoric love for the original. Then I heard some bad things, and never played it. Still intend to, though. I have Bioshock 1 and 2. I played through to the first boss in the game, and had enough,…

Seriously, the Ibn Battuta game is good? I'm teaching the Islamic world right now, so the title got my interest, but it looked like a very generic low-budget adventure game, which is a genre I avoid like the plague.