My PC delivery got delayed last week, so I’ll be continuing to just push that including playing Fortnite and Minecraft with my son. I’ve got a mini PC coming tomorrow that I intend to set up as a Minecraft server for us and his friends actually, so I’ll probably end up working on setting that up for a while too. If…

To me, it seems like IFR’s greatest strengths are its bursts of originality - or as close as you can get these days without stumbling upon a genius auteur. Zeus and Prometheus are the number one draw, and the story’s consistent commitment to affirming that the gods are assholes is a fair second.

Here’s my Switch backlog, in no particular order:

I think the best way to do an Indiana Jones game while working in the confines of AAA development is to make it more or less like an Uncharted game, but with the tone of the 1930's adventure serials that inspired it. Basically, steal from both the master and the disciple.

Fate of Atlantis isn’t only the best Indy game. It’s also one of the best point and click adventure games ever made.  Shame no one has ever been able to remake it like Monkey Island and Sam and Max 

Nathan Drake brought that style of charming clumsiness to videogames — so here’s hoping that the new Indy game is able to capture Uncharted’s magic while still being its own thing.

I’ve been playing through the Zero Escape series. Maybe not the best choice in the world right now considering where the plot goes (the plot of games 2 and 3 end up revolving around a deadly pandemic, something that I did not know going in), but I’m too sucked into the utterly bizarre, twisty story to back out now.…

I hope they get Harrison to do the voice acting. My favorite Harrison Ford anecdote is when Michelle Phillips sat down to watch Star Wars for the first time and Han Solo first appeared she exclaimed “That’s my pot dealer!” Maybe the weed explains some of Harrison’s and Indy’s doofiness.

anyone else playing yakuza: like a dragon? i’m over 50 hours in and absolutely devouring it.

So Pillars of Eternity has completely sunk its hooks into me. After backing it on Kickstarter however many years ago, I was never able to actually beat the game. I’ve tried quite a few times, though, and once made it to act 3. But, as I wrote last week, I think I got pretty bored playing on easy and just stopped…

Indiana Jones owes more to Looney Tunes than it gets credit for, and that’s a compliment.  I say this as a guy that calls Raiders his favorite movie ever, hands down.  Watch the fight on and around the flying wing, and pay attention to the score.  The way Johnny Williams punctuates each punch with a beat from the…

Backlogged: New Year, Old Games Edition

So I managed to score a PS5... I had to resort to one of those stupid Gamestop bundles that came with an extra controller and two games. Either way I’m excited for the end of the month when it ships.

Fate of Atlantis is one of the best games ever made, and my pick for best point-and-click and best Indiana Jones game. It doesn’t seem like we have a clear sense of what kind of gameplay this new Indy game is going to revolve around just yet, but it’s almost certainly too much to hope for to see a successor to the…

inventive branching storyline (based on whether Indy makes progress by punching people, solving puzzles, or teaming up with a partner),

Very little gaming time this week, and it was all taken up by Dragon Age Origins. After having successfully recruited Mages, Dwarfs and Dalish Elves (in that order) , I finally headed to Redcliffe to try and get humanity on my side.

Indirect humor should definitely be included in any Indiana Jones game. We’ve seen this copied by Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, a character that could be be summed up as being part Harrison Ford, part Firefly’s Nathan Fillion, which propelled the games way beyond its standard gaming tropes and its peers at the…

Immortals: Fenyx Rising is a game that I heard about in these comments. It’s sort of the first full-blown “Breath of the Wild clone”, the twist being it’s all based around Greek mythology, and one of the old titans has come back and imprisoned/depowered all the gods and turned almost all the humans to stone, so it’s…

At least “Missing Link” addressed the traditional “stripped of your weapons and imprisoned before the third act” bit of a stealth game where it should lie within “Human Revolution’s” story, while at the same time bringing Jensen into personal contact with the husks of rejected Hyron Project components.

Hah, I remember some santa epicness in some old Saints Row sequel. Saints Row is an awesome, insane series, that puts GTA to shame. Also Sam and Max did have some thrilling Santa adventures near the magnetic pole (“you mean polanski?”).