I bought the Borderlands: Handsome Collection on a whim years ago after consuming Tales from the Borderlands (still one of the best games of the decade IMO) and never got around to firing it up. Figured I’d check out Borderlands 2 after watching all the gameplay reveals for the third entry this week and am digging it.…

i love the old “Hobgoblin with his face acid-burnt off propping open the first secret door” trope.

I’ve been playing a lot of PS2 games lately as I have a little CRT set up near my workout bike. I finished Hit & Run (that last level is a monster with juggling no time, a nuclear waste barrel that explodes easily, and a car that can barely take damage), and played a bit of Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb,…

Darkest Dungeon is completely unfair and I hate it. However, it is an extremely well made, atmospheric, and horrifying game. It is simply not for me.

It’s unbelievable to be saying this, but City of Heroes. Over the past seven years I’d just occasionally get the urge to play one of the many (many, many) different types of builds from that game and then feel sad that it shuttered too soon. And now it’s back! Unofficially on a private server!

I’m getting decently far in Ys VIII so I’ll prob try to wrap that up over the weekend. The story is getting both good and bad. The island exploration and survival thing takes a huge backseat once you find the ruins and Dana joins the group. I do like how there isn’t a big villain hanging over everything (yet, I…

For some reason earlier this week I developed a hankerin’ for the dreaded, insidious FALLOUT 76. I bought it whenever it was released last year (two copies, actually, so my SO and I could play together) but we barely spent any time with it (we were still working on Red Dead 2 and I got sucked into Destiny 2 Forsaken…

Everquest’s Charasis: the Howling Stones and World of Warcraft’s Karazhan (either iteration, although the original is best. Prince Malchezaar > Vizaduum the Watcher).

Soooooooooooooo... OK, after last week’s WAYPTW I bought the hype and went and got myself Katana Zero on the Switch. I must’ve played it for about an hour or so since Monday and I have to say that, so far, I’m not loving it as much as I thought I would. The game itself is fine, the combat is great and the controls are…

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…

I decided to bail (at least temporarily) on the handful of games that I had started and then put on hold for, like 6 weeks or more because they weren’t actually fun. So now I am playing something which is actually pretty fun: Uncharted 2. It’s my first time ever playing it, and yes it has a lot of goofy action-movie…

All Spider-Man, all week. I’m still struggling a bit with how to gain speed beyond dropping into a dive, which made the helicopter chase a little more challenging than it should have been. Getting a better handle on combat, although I forget to use my webbing a lot of the time, probably because I’m reaching back to…

I have to say the first dungeon I probably fell in love with was the realms in Gauntlet Legends (64). It’s hard to single out one dungeon in particular, as each realm has something I love about it. The Mountains were the perfect start to our adventure. The puzzles & traps of the Castle felt treacherous, and trained me…

I rewatched this episode not too long ago and while the praise for Will Smith and his final monologue is absolutely deserved, most people seem to overlook that this is actually an Uncle Phil episode. The whole 2nd half is about Phil, wondering not just if he is a good replacement dad for Will, but also a good father…

We re-watched I Am Legend last week and that movie is an object lesson in his towering charisma. He holds the whole thing together by force of personality (the scene with the dog, man . . . ). It falls apart at the end, but up to that point just watching him figure things out, watching emotions play across his face,…

Not so much for next weekend, but yesterday I finally managed to finish my big play-through of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey after reaching the end of the end of Fate of Atlantis Episode 1. It was genuinely staggering to see how many hours I had spent on it.

Salutations~!

All week ive been exploring Dungeon of the Mad Mage, with three different characters at three different tiers of play. Tier 2 found a crypt of mummies and vampires, Tier 3 was 3 paladins and a cleric talking sense into a shadow dragon, and Tier 4 obliterated some liches before saving a wizard from his own mind. This…

Monster Hunter World’s Spring Blossom Festival is well underway and I’m taking it a bit slow- I got kinda burned out by the Centennial event so this is more an every-other-day kinda thing. But I got over a big hump! I slew Teostra in a fun fight, and after a long period of hitting my head against Kushala D’Ora…

I’ve never realize how much life is worth until I’ve discovered my new favourire Youtuber: A Jolly Wangcore.