I still don’t know which one is which.
Continue reading#189 – Ratchet and Clank
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#180 – The Last of Us Part II
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you might wish it, it is impossible to go into a game blind. The Last of Us Part II is one such game – whether you go looking for information or not, you’re going to get an avalanche of it if you so much as glance at anything gaming related. As such, I went into this game with a lot of mixed feelings. I came away with only one:
This was a complete and utter waste of my time.
Continue reading#177 – The Last of Us Remastered
The early to mid 2010s were a funny period for AAA gaming – everything had to be zombies, and yet nothing was actually called zombies. It was as if developers thought that by NOT naming their shuffling corpses as zombies, they could somehow pretend that this wasn’t exactly what they were. At the time I wrote The Last of Us off as just another zombie game, which was well outside of my sphere of interest.
Fast-forward to now and it’s still not really in my sphere of interest, but I’m not averse to broadening my horizons.
Continue reading#166 – Borderlands
Borderlands is one of those games that I was absolutely convinced I wasn’t going to like – I didn’t like the visual style, the “shooter RPG” classification, or the obnoxious adverts. I refused to entertain the idea of even trying it until over a year after its release, when I bought the Game of the Year edition for PS3 on my 21st birthday. I then discovered just how very wrong I was about it, and learned how I should actually try some things before I write them off. Yes, this is something I learned when I turned 21. As long as you actually reach maturity at some point, it doesn’t matter how long you take to get there, right?
I will continue to tell myself this and other lies – such as that I have actually reached some form of maturity – whilst I write this. Maybe if I believe it other people will believe it too!
Continue reading#164 – DOOM
This has been on my to-do list for a while now – since I played the original DOOM last year, in fact. I had every intention of playing through the lot of them on Switch, but then Eternal got a digital-only release, so I ended up getting physical PS4 copies…for a fraction of the price. Damn Switch tax. But perhaps this was for the best – first-person shooters are best experienced on a TV screen with a proper controller in hand after all…and docking your Switch is, as any civilised person knows, heresy of the highest order. Plus the Pro Controller isn’t all that comfortable, and trying to use that…thing you can slot the Joycons into is even worse.
Anyways, here’s DOOM. Rip and tear, etc etc.
Continue reading#161 – BioShock
The late 2000s were tough years. The seventh generation of consoles and their games were well beyond my price range – being the poor College student that I was at the time – and, even once I finally got some money through my University student loan, there wasn’t anything worth playing…or at least, nothing that catered to my current, very narrow tastes. It was at this point that a friend recommended – practically begged, in fact – that I try BioShock. I was skeptical, but it had been out for about a year by that point and it was low enough in price that I decided it was worth a try.
Since then I’ve bought this game four times across four different platforms – Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. I will probably buy it again on Steam when I get my Steam Deck and it goes on sale. I love BioShock.
Continue reading#160 – Dishonored: Definitive Edition
When I was younger I would never opt for stealth in video games if given the choice. This was partly because forced stealth sections were always so aggravating, but also because it just generally wasn’t in my nature – I wanted to brute force my way through everything, because that was what the game was all about! It was only later in life, when confronted with enemies that had a frustrating amount of health and a distinct lack of patience, that I started taking the more stealthy routes. It even became a point of pride at times – could I do this without being seen, or taking damage?
Few games have ever rewarded me for this as well as Dishonored does, however.
Continue reading#158 – Samurai Warriors 5
I haven’t been a fan of the Warriors series for a very long time – I actually started with Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3, after trying and failing to get into Dynasty Warriors 7 on the PS3. Since then I’ve bought, played, and loved nearly all of the spinoffs though, and after I resigned myself to never getting another Sengoku Basara title (and I still think the character designs are better in Capcom’s series…and they’re also English dubbed) I gave Samurai Warriors 4 a try. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I was never going to pass this up, but honestly I wish I had.
Continue reading#153 – Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Well, here we are with the final instalment in the Survivor trilogy, and I can happily say that with this one it FINALLY feels like they got Tomb Raider right. But at the same time, for me it’s too little, too late.
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