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Shadow of the Colossus
I finished Shadow of the Colossus a few weeks ago. A few notes:
The Colossuses themselves are generally pretty straight-forward, once you've got the hang of things, but there's a surprising variety of them. The game lets you figure out a lot, which I quite like, because nobody has really told me that this is how you kill one of these things; I' ( Read more... ) -
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I finished Skyrim this past weekend, in so far as one can finish a game like that. I suppose it would be better to say that I'm done with it ( Read more... ) -
Yakuza 3, Chapter 11
I posted this on Facebook, on Sunday night:
"Tetsuo Tamashiro, I am going to destroy you.
There has been no villain since Sephiroth that I've hated the way that I hate you."Yakuza 3 has an incredible amount of heart to it, especially the bits set in Okinawa. When the life you've built for yourself gets attacked, I found myself getting really upset ( Read more... ) -
Cincinnati Chili /w Sweet Potato
I made this yesterday from stuff around the apartment. It was quite yummy. While I was sure the sweet potato and the tomato and cinnamon would go nicely together, my big worry was that it would be too sweet. I omitted some onion and the brown sugar from my base recipe to address this, and that seemed to fix the problem.
1 onion, diced
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Video Games of 2011
I played an awful lot of games in 2011:
Skyrim
Innsmouth Escape
Uncharted 3
GeoDefense
Infinity Blade
Dark Souls
Back to the Future: The Game
Limbo
From Dust
PixelJunk: Sidescroller
Tecumseh Lies Here
Yakuza 3
Tiny Bang Story
Deux Ex: Human Revolution
Katamari Forever
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper
Civilization Revolution
Civilization 5 ( Read more... ) -
Good People Make Bad Calls
A question which is sometimes useful to ask about characters you are designing: What is this character doing which they may later come to regret ( Read more... ) -
Podcast Links
These things are interesting.
Second Quest Episode 1: You’re Ruining Our Fun
An interview with Michael Abbott which hits a number of interesting topics, among them teaching video games. Michael talks a bit about how his attempts at teaching video games have worked, and not worked.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Radical IdeasHow ideas can ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Buffy S7, Disc 1
I watched the first disc of season 7 of Buffy, which, on rewatch, had a pretty strong opening (at least, compared to season 6... which admittedly, had a lot to wrestle with). On this rewatch I've noticed themes within the show that I hadn't really noticed before (I think largely owing to my age last time I watched) but so far this season seems to ( Read more... ) -
Dark Souls and Final Thoughts
I completed Dark Souls at 80:54:42.
Lord Gwyn smushed me in round one, but I helped another guy win round 2, and then I came back with one of my Sun Brothers and another guy, we won round three. I linked the fires.
It's difficult to remember the last time I spent so much time with a game. I began play on October 15th, which means I've spent 43 ( Read more... ) -
Gaming: Spilling Secrets
Last night, one of my current RP characters (a magician who struggles to control a spirit of anger that resides within him, and has largely hidden this struggle) accidentally got drugged out of his mind and then was hit by a truck. After flying through the air and landing in a heap in a parking lot, it was clear that he'd bruised or broken his ( Read more... )