I’ve been avoiding the newer spat of VR toys mainly because I wear glasses, have never found a rig that fits well over my glasses, and for whatever reason the “adjust until it doesn’t look blurry” has never (in my experience) taken into account two eyes with different “sweet spots” to adjust towards. It’s a great…

Even having been of a certain age where I watched Lawnmower Man with my parents, bug-eyed, imagining the non-horror-movie implications of the technology, before being abruptly pushed out of the living room during an awkward sex scene, I’ve been slow to embrace VR. Even with games like Catlateral Damage and Viscera…

I just finished The Last of Us Remastered (both the main campaign and the Left Behind side story) over a very explosive 4th of July weekend (seriously...every single neighbor was setting off fireworks throughout the night). There’s probably some thematic resonance there, but I’m too lazy to look for it. I started both…

Backlogged: Brass Hyrax Edition

Replaying Last of Us 2, for two reasons.

One, to have a “gamey” playthrough, as my first was a “story” playthrough. Naughty Dog does an absolute top-tier of a job of immersion in its modern games if you let it — “let it” meaning skip the desire to put the main plot on hold to poke around. You always can tell where…

Hey, all, long time no see! Like, months and months, I think.

Having spent most of the week grinding my way to getting a better quality rocket launcher, last night I finally completed Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Which, as I said a few weeks ago, has been far better than an unnumbered MGS game originally released on PSP has any reason to be. Only gripe is that, as with so…

Played a bit of Fallout: New Vegas. It’s fun to see all the stuff there is, but man some of those crashes were bad, especially since the 360's default response to a game crash is to just freeze up completely. (I mean, it could be worse, I could have one of the early models.)

I’m gonna finish Yakuza 5. Shirts are coming off, shit’s getting real.

I’m still slowly making my way through The Last of Us Remastered, which I’m enjoying (in short sessions, anyway), even though I’m not all that good at it.

Been playing quite a lot of Life Is Strange 2 lately, with only one episode left now. It’s a very timely - and dare I say prescient - look at how society treats marginalized people, and it’s a little draining to play in this day and age. I don’t think it’s as enjoyable an experience as the first LIS, but it’s…

Backlogged: Ruckus at the Robner Estate Edition

I’ve been playing the Control Foundation DLC and it's great so far. I think I was a little under- upgraded going into the dlc because it's very hard and I'm dying a lot. I might need to go back to the main building and do some side stuff to get more upgrades. The story is really interesting though.

After 200 hours spread across 3 years, I’ve finally finished Breath of the Wild. I don’t know how to feel, I suppose the journey was of course, more than any other game, more important than the destination. But I do feel sort of hollow, like Hyrule has suddenly become empty (I got all 120 shrines, did all the…

“And below it all burbles the lava, a tantalizing, apparently very slippery muse. (According to this Vulture interview with show creators Irad Eyal and Megan McGrath, it’s a “proprietary mix” whipped up in one of “Hollywood’s foremost slime manufacturing labs.” Also, they refuse to answer what happens after…

Happy treason day, ungrateful colonials, and so on and so forth, etc. Hope you get some good gaming in on your day off.

Did a bunch of stuff in No Man’s Sky, including continuing maintenance to my base and getting an Exocraft Station. This I’m looking forward to, I wanna make a submarine. More bugs than usual started to pop up after a while (basically arriving at things before they’ve loaded in) so I’ll give the game a rest until the…

I really liked the gameplay of Control and breezed through the game pretty quickly, but admittedly I paid very little attention to the plot. You mention “The Nail” and honestly I don’t remember that at all. Mostly I just remember thinking “if this person is the new head of this agency, how come she knows absolutely…

I’m still enduring (seems to most appropriate word) through The Last of Us:P2. At the moment I can only really play it in 2ish hour batches before I need to take a break - they really hit you over the head with the tension. I’m really enjoying it so far though!

Not a lot happening in the games department for me this week. We played Everdell with the Spirecrest expansion, which is my favourite of the three expansions. The big critters alone are a big draw for me. Not necessarily gameplay wise (although that’s nice as well), but they just look so damn cool.