Tag: RPG
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Adventures in Oblivion, Part 2: The Madness Continues
Well, shit, that took a while. After getting sidetracked with Expedition 33 and Death Stranding 2 (as well as a road trip from Vegas to DC that very nearly ended in disaster on multiple occasions), I got back around to my sorcerous adventures in the Shivering Isles (for the uninitiated, the Shivering Isles contain the…
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Adventures in Oblivion: Madness Awaits
In many respects, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is my favorite video game. I’ll spare you my misty-eyed recollections of the original box art and instruction manual: Oblivion was to me what Skyrim was to people who like the cold more than I do. I fucking love Oblivion. Hell, I bought the original version on…
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Playthrough Journal – Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
As you might have gathered from the image above, this is not what one might call a “traditionally heroic” story. If you’re not familiar with the Kingdom Come series, it’s a franchise of historical role-playing games set in early-15th-century Bohemia (somewhere in Europe). The series stars Henry, an everyday guy who started the first game…
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Review Catch-Up
I probably should have written reviews of all of these when they were a bit fresher, but shit happens. Let’s do this. Spoiler warning in effect. House of the Dragon (Season 2) (HBO) Great acting and good pyrotechnics can’t save a season that feels like it’s swimming (flying?) in circles. The “Blood and Cheese” scene…
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Review: Fallout (Prime Video)
I was going to make some half-assed reference to war never changing, but you know it does: the quote is just cool. Fallout (the show) represents a change from Fallout (the games), after all – the forms of media their stories are presented in are inherently different. Does the transition from choice-driven, open ended role-playing…
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Final Fantasy XVI: or, the Saga of Liquid Clive
This isn’t a review. If it was a review, I’d be talking at least some about the things I enjoyed in this game (good music, nice graphics, a solid trio of core characters, expansive and well-presented lore) – but right now I just feel like complaining. It’s easier to be funny when I’m being negative,…
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Interview: Kazuhira “Buster” Johnson, Game Director
The trip to Kazuhira Johnson’s compound, located in the scalding wastes of the Nevada desert, is shorter than expected. This is because the driver sent to pick me up, a mute albino the size of one of Shaquille O’Neal’s bigger shits, has a propensity for speeding (in both the vehicular and pharmaceutical senses). We pull…
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Review: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)
Some Important Context: The entirety of my experience with the Cyberpunk franchise consists of my time with Cyberpunk 2077 and, now, Edgerunners. I haven’t played the tabletop RPG but have heard it’s great; I’ve got a lot of respect for Mike Pondsmith for crafting such an engaging setting. Now, on to our regularly scheduled programming……
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Review: Demon’s Souls Remake (PS5)
I’m still working on my reactions to the first three episodes of The Boys‘ third season (it’s pretty good), so I thought I’d treat my dedicated readers to some stuff I’d written earlier in the year but hadn’t gotten around to posting yet. You’re welcome. Now, on to the review: They didn’t animate buttholes…