Tag: Video Games
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Picking the Perfect “Breach and Clear” Playlist
My friends and I have been playing a fair amount of “Ready or Not” recently – for the unfamiliar, the game is a first-person shooter where you control a SWAT team member participating in various missions, from stopping a robbery at a gas station to rescuing hostages in a hotel (and some much, much worse…
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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/Ranking: Secret Level, Eps. 9-15
I guess they front-loaded all the good stuff, huh? This series was like a five-course meal that goes from fresh oysters to a turd wrapped in old newspaper. Gross. B Tier The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep This episode was pretty good. I enjoyed The Outer Worlds when I played it (even if I…
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Review/Rankings: Secret Level, Eps. 1-8
Secret Level is an animated anthology series exploring a selection of current and classic gaming franchises. I broke the episodes into three tiers – A, B, and C – and listed them within those tiers in approximate order of preference. The fact that there are only three tiers is indicative of what I thought of…
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A Thanksgiving Feast of Reviews
Let’s dig in, shall we? Revew: Turkey (the Bird) It’s a mediocre bird in almost all senses. It’s a near-tasteless, dry, uninspired meat – that’s why the pilgrims felt the need to shove croutons up its ass. At least stuffing makes turkey interesting. These motherfuckers drown in rainstorms because they don’t know to stop looking…
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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: Hellblade II (Xbox/PC)
Hellblade II’s full title, which I refuse to spell out more than once, is Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. The titular character, Senua, is a warrior from some fuckin’ island near Britain during what I shall refer to as “the Viking days.” She’s a sword-wielding badass who’s on a quest to rescue a bunch of slaves…
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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…