I will admit that when Star Wars: Zero Company was announced I neither needed to hear nor see anything beyond "it’s Star Wars XCOM" to know I was going to buy it.I love the XCOM strategy games and I love Star Wars. Mixing the two together is a dream for me. The game came out… Continue reading Essays, Not Rants! 673: Unoriginal Originality
Tag: Video Games
A James Bond Game
I started playing the new James Bond video game, 007: First Light over the last week, my interest piqued by it being described as Hitman meets Uncharted (and Hitman being a cousin of sorts to the stealth action of Metal Gear Solid1). A few hours into the game, I’m glad to say that in addition… Continue reading A James Bond Game
Sunsetting
Last week news broke that June’s update would be the video game Destiny 2’s final update. After nine years of Destiny 2 (in addition to three years of the first Destiny), the game’s wrapping up. On the one hand, a game 'ending' shouldn’t be anything new. Game’s end all the time — usually on release.… Continue reading Sunsetting
Virtual Worlds
Remember the Metaverse? Touted in 2021 (and into 2022), it was this groundbreaking new technology that was going to change the way we interacted online. No more would it be websites and chatrooms — it would be a digital world. Cyberspace. We would be like Tron, like The Matrix, like Mega Man Battle Network. Millions… Continue reading Virtual Worlds
Over It
The thing about a lot of games is that you’ve gotta be able to progress. The goal of Civilization is to dominate the world. In Metal Gear Solid you’ve gotta stop the terrorists from being able to nuke the world. In Shopping Cart Hero you’re doing sick stunts and the sicker the stunts the more… Continue reading Over It
Dave of All Trades
Dave The Diver is ostensibly a game where you dive for fish by day and sell sushi of your catch by night. There’s a light restaurant management sim thrown in there to support the selling of said sushi, and a fish farm to, uh, farm fish for the restaurant. There’s also a basic farming sim… Continue reading Dave of All Trades
Go Home, Google
Not much of an essay or a rant this week for various reasons, but rather a quick observation that, wow, Google search has gotten real bad. Like, I can vaguely see how the connection can be made. Forsaken did see the guardian go rogue (renegade, if you will) and had a bit of a Western… Continue reading Go Home, Google
Things Going Wrong
I had a plan in Death Stranding 2. I cleared out a bandit camp then left my truck there while I ran a couple errands nearby. While on those errands I was informed that my truck had been stolen. This threw a wrench in my plans, but nothing insurmountable. So I finished up that errand… Continue reading Things Going Wrong
Open-Ended
After taking my time and enjoying it, I finished Death Stranding 2: On The Beach last weekend. At least the main story of it, I still want to finish a few orders and max out my connection with everyone — but the main part of the game is done. And man, is it excellent. Despite… Continue reading Open-Ended
Pokémon Go On A Walk
The year is 2025 and, nine years later, I’m one of the people still playing Pokémon Go. The world has changed since the game came out in the heady summer of 2016. Technology no longer seems to have as optimistic a future as it once did. A worldwide pandemic saw us retreat from each other… Continue reading Pokémon Go On A Walk
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