I’m continuing my streak of intending to finish games and then never finishing them at the moment. I put a lot of time into Pillars of Eternity and got to the end of Act II before starting the White March DLC; got about halfway through the White March before getting sidetracked with wedding/visiting family/travel…

In terms of the summer sale, I’m most likely to pick up Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Into the Breach. I’m also considering Darkwood, Oxygen Not Included and Obra Din, but I don’t know how much I really want to drop on games that I may or may not play. What I’d really like is Void Bastards, but it’s too new to be part…

Yeah, for the month! And I think they’re putting out a new DLC for it on Sunday, even!

Oh, I’m also trying hard to get my D&D pals to download Borderlands: The Handsome Collection while it’s free on PS+ so that we can do some co-op. It looks like only one of them might do it, though.

It’s a decent game and it gets a lot of things right. I believe it did well enough to get a sequel, too. 

I have been slowly circling Sekiro, like an indecisive shinobi waiting for the perfect moment to strike, missing it, and then flailing wildly hoping to solve his problems with luck. It’s a good game, no doubt, I’m just bad at it and find it frustrating. I’ve gotten as far as getting a couple of prosthetic tools, but…

I am on board with renaming waffle fries “potato grids” globally.

I wound up not playing much Sekiro at all since I last posted about video games (rather than about tabletop RPGS). Work has been crazy and I wanted to play something a little less demanding of precision, so I played a lot of Borderlands 2 from the Handsome Collection. I have Axton up to level 54 in True Vault Hunter…

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY AGAIN?

Reading game books rather than playing them is a good 75% of my time in the hobby, after about twenty years (dear lord) of being into tabletop role-playing. Vampire: The Masquerade is easily at the top of the games I’ve followed while never really playing (Call of Cthulhu being the other, since for some reason my…

I would say the 5E Starter Set has one of the best examples of a sandbox campaign that I’ve ever seen. It’s a great starting point, especially at $20.

Yeah... from what I understand VtM 5th edition got back to the roots of Vampire by making something compelling and then hamstringing it with edgelord stuff. The initial edition of the game had some similarly insensitive/poor taste creative decisions (and let’s be real- a clan of jihadi assassin vampires, as one…

I did too! I bought it used from Blockbuster so it didn’t have an instruction manual- I didn’t figure out how to do a real attack with my weapons for a while and got as far as I could just tossing short swords and maces at the monsters. 

Oh man, Grimrock II is awesome. The first game is great, but the second really tops it in almost every way- the skill point system cuts down on dead levels, special attacks for fighters and rogues to keep combat interesting for party members that don’t cast spells, more variety in environments, more classes. Every now…

Happy belated birthday! I think I had a giant pretzel over the summer and it just occurred to me that I want to do that again.

This weekend is my birthday and my extremely modest hopes include:

For a second, I thought this would involve a jack-knifed truck and a mad dash to grab what I can before it goes up in flames. I’m glad I won’t have to peel any of my veggie protein off the sidewalk by the Interstate this time.

Congratulations!

I can see how someone would find the Borderlands series to be obnoxious- the sense of humor can fall flat, the over-the-top exuberance can be wearying and it’s core gameplay loop is a loot treadmill just like the action RPGs and MMOs that in part inspired it.

When Philadelphia won the Super Bowl, my friend was visiting the day after and just got free beer after free beer at every restaurant or bar she went to. So I highly recommend visiting Philly just after they win a sporting event.