I remember when me and my parents went to Cambodia as embassy workers during my childhood in the early to mid 90s. It was the last days of UNTAC and Cambodia was transitioning back to a constitutional monarchy.

Not exaggerating, the first game is one of the most extravagantly, unrelentingly boring games I’ve ever played. I feel like they tried to replicate the polite and understated tone of Mass Effect without realizing there was lots of exciting stuff happening beneath the surface of its nonplussed presentation. The…

I really struggle with considering games that need me to pay attention to them consistently or constantly like Destiny or World of Warcraft. I am hoping the Switch can at least give me access to more games in the vein of Rocket League and Splatoon, but those are still “occasional” types of games, even if they are more…

I actually stopped playing World of Warcraft this week, not because I don’t still enjoy it, but because it was literally causing my computer to overheat (California’s been going through an absurd heat wave, you see, and I have no AC. Alas and alack). I have been replaying Saints Row IV, though, and just soaking in its…

On the game addiction front, I’ve definitely been doing that self-reflection lately. I plan on staying far away from the upcoming Monster Hunter World, because as much as I love those games, it will ruin me.

What I’m liking about Destiny 2 is that I can say I’ve dumped about 10 hours into it so far and I’m still only on the 3rd or 4th story mission. I’m getting constantly distracted by public events, adventures and lost sectors. My character is already at level 15 and I still have the majority of the story to get through.

It’s Mario + Rabbids all the time at the Blargg household. I’m enjoying the game and my husband likes watching me play (even though he has the annoying habit of telling me what to do and then asking me why I didn’t do it), so it’s a win-win. I just unlocked the newest co-op campaign so we’ll probably tackle that…

“I like a good grinding hole”

Join us, Kyle. Destiny 2 is fun and will only consume all of your time. One of us. One of us. One of us.

Well said, Clayton! All of the new features are pretty much tweaks to the original, but <b>Destiny 2</b> feels like a slicker, more cohesive version of the original game. Gone is launching into orbit for every mission (you still have to in order to travel between planets, but it’s very quick). Instead all of the…

Been playing Donkey Kong Country 2 and despite being terrible at platformers, I have actually gotten further this time around than any of my previous attempts either on the SNES or the Gameboy (the version I grew up with) which is satisfying as heck. It’s just a really well designed game with a nice balance between…

Aside from Order of Ecclesia - and I feel I talked about it enough last time - yesterday I started the suitably weird Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. A lot has been said about this game, particularly the oddness of the crossover, but I’ve been really enjoying the gameplay. I don’t play tactical strategy games,…

This weekend, like Matt Gerardi, I may well be playing Nier: Automata. I bought it and Trails of Cold Steel with some birthday cash and am planning to return one of them. It felt like the time for an interesting JRPG, as the beginning of Autumn often does, and these are about as different as they could be while…

After completing FE: Echoes and my diversion to Total War I finally got back to Valkriya Revolutions and man, it has not gotten better. The farther I get in the story the more nonsensical and outright stupid it gets and even the skirmish battles are starting to become a drag when it decides its going to have 3…

Despite my previous stance I picked up the first episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm. I realized we don’t have spoiler tags anymore (*sigh*) so I won’t actually get into the plot, but I think it’s a worthy successor, even if it’s a little superfluous. Plus Chloe is a much more interesting protagonist than…

Well, come Saturday the Household Flam will finally be back down to its normal three inhabitants. Just me, Summer, Morty, Beth, Jerry, Sleepy Gary, Photography Raptor, Cousin Nicky... wait, that’s more than three....

That description of the thrill of grinding towards a illusory reward, until you just get tired of grinding, is a description of my every experience with free-to-play games. And I still enjoy them fine, for roughly three months, but the inevitable lack of goal is always somewhere in my mind.

In the VR Corner this week,…

It is a weird choice to publish everything on the main page and THEN “share” it in the Games section, rather than vice versa..

My copy of NieR: Automatica arrived in the mail from an INTERNET STRANGER this past Saturday, so I’m going to put in as much time as I am able on that. I’ve avoided every spoiler I can for the game, and I know little else than you play though it multiple times, or something. I’ve just met Pascal. That’s about all I…

So Life is Strange: Before the Storm was fine. Kind of better than the original in many ways.