AC Odyssey has sort of taken over my gaming life, so that. I will continue to push forward under the delusion that I might actually finish it up one day.

Hah, I’ll actually be finishing the epilogue in RDR2 and finding and finishing stranger quests and legendary animals/fish.

I am just one trophy away from the platinum for Sekiro. I need to purchase three skills and I’m done. It’s very rare that I platinum a game and strange that a rock-hard action game is the first title in years that I’m likely to go all the way with, but here I am. It’ll sit proudly alongside my Okami and Sly Cooper…

Although I told myself I’d never again buy an Assassin’s Creed game and managed to successfully avoid Origins; I have a history of getting over hyped only to realize post purchase that these games tend to infuriate me above the allure of their time travel premise, I buckled and bought Odyssey while on sale. And…

I don’t think I’m ever going to play Red Dead Redemption 2. Everything people say about it—even when they’re being positive—just makes me wince.

Holding a button and watching an animation is half QTE and half what most video game playing is about. The differences are the length of each: Make it short, and it’s Mario jumping into a question block; make it long and it’s Press X to Pay Respects, but it’s turtles all the way down...

This weekend, I’m flying to a…

My memory is failing me. What was that rhythm game towards the end of RDR2?

Just beat Sekiro, like, an hour ago, and I’m torn between wanting to start a new playthrough right away and throwing the disc into the sea.

Got over the hump on DC Universe Online quickly enough. You are mostly running past instances for a bit at level 30, but once you get the Combat Rating up to 43 or so a bunch of new stuff opens up and you can do everything at your leisure (since your CR only increases based on your gear.) More of the world has opened…

It’s that time of the week again, so here’s my contribution to WAYPTW.

I was marginally interested in this game but I’m honestly so burned out on zombie games I don’t want to even start. The glut of zombie apocalypse games 10 or so years ago really killed it for me.

Tropico has always seemed like an interesting concept, but I haven’t felt the need to scratch the ol’ city/island management itch since SimCity 2000. I’m always mildly fascinated by the idea of picking up a new one when something like Cities: Skylines comes out, but then I just wrap myself in a warm blanket of retro…

I did enjoy the simplicity of the early system simulators; I think the last one I played in earnest was Anno 1701 on the DS (I also have SimCityDS, but honestly, it interrupted things too much with advice and unskippable year-end reviews. I have a bit more patience now, so maybe it could work for me if I started it…

Even though I’ll be out of town to visit my folks this weekend, I’m hoping to get some time in on a few games. I took Monday off earlier this week to go to the DMV, which meant that I got the afternoon to myself to play a few games.

Working my way through NG+1 in Sekiro and playing the new Total Warhammer DLC. Good times.

The rub is that you’re not playing as some sort of democratically elected mayor here, cheerfully laying out your commercial and residential zones,  

I’m gonna play some more Earth Defence Force 4.1. I’m used to playing the Japanese version of these games and honestly the English versions just change the menus and not much else. It helps that I can actually read the menus now though... Anyway, EDF 4.1 is a huge leap over the original EDF 4. The framerate is mostly…

I just finished Fallout New Vegas, and now I’m playing Fallout 3. FO4 was my first Fallout game, so I never really got the hate against it until now. I still think it’s a perfectly fine game, but it’s definitely missing the way the earlier games let you have a real impact on the world.

I can’t comment on the games themselves, not having played them; but the suggestion that an effective dystopia needs to be appropriately grimdark is an odd one, and one that ignores classic works like Robocop and Judge Dredd. “Wackiness” isn’t the same as toothlessness.

There’s something borderline subversive about a series that bluntly refuses to make the Americans any sort of recognizable “good guy,”...