I’ve been replaying Uncharted 4, looking for a discrete narrative adventure after playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 and before I inevitably lose myself to Star Wars Outlaws. Though maybe I’ll finally check out the Wolfenstein games too — fighting Nazis seems cathartic in the light of the everything of it all. But Uncharted 4.… Continue reading Graphically Competent
Tag: Video Games
I’ll Wait This Time
There’s a new Star Wars video game out! In Outlaws you play as a scoundrel who’s doing (space) crime as she makes her way through the galaxy, avoiding the Empire and running in with the rough and tumble of the Outer Rim. It sounds pretty cool. I say sounds because even though it came out… Continue reading I’ll Wait This Time
For Its Sake
So I’ve been playing a bunch of Battlegrounds lately, slipping into old habits and all that. As I’m playing the game I’ve been trying to get better at it, to be able to take on computers on harder difficulties. This is taking some getting used to: my strategy games for the past several years have… Continue reading For Its Sake
Back To The Battlegrounds
Through an endeavor of emulation, I’ve managed to get Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds running on a Mac. The little hiccups of wanting to play a game that you own the Windows edition of on Steam when you exist in a Mac-based environment. But I got it working! And I, once again, revisited an old Star… Continue reading Back To The Battlegrounds
Inconvenience
In I Am Bread you play as a slice of bread that roams around a room with the goal of becoming toast. It’s very silly and also quite frustrating. You don’t move around in a conventional video game way, instead, each shoulder button on the controller lets a corner of the bread 'grab' a surface… Continue reading Inconvenience
Above Reproach
One of these days, I’ll probably replay Kingdom Hearts. In part because of the recent Final Fantasy kick, in part because it’s been around a decade since I last played it (and II and Chain Of Memories). If and when I do revisit it, I wonder how it’ll hold up, both as a game over… Continue reading Above Reproach
Variations On A Theme
I finished Final Fantasy IX this week (for those keeping track at home, this is the sixth Final Fantasy since booting up VIII back in the fall of 2022). It’s a lot like the other Final Fantasies. It’s got the hero who, like in X, has to grapple with the fact that his very existence… Continue reading Variations On A Theme
Future’s Past
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic is set four thousand years before the main Star Wars movies. War wages between the Republic and the Sith Empire as the Jedi try to fight back against an unstoppable force millennia before the rise of Palpatine. Released back in 2003, the game was set in a whole… Continue reading Future’s Past
Virtual Tourism
I’m spending a couple days in Venice, Italy in a month so I’m preparing the best way I know how: By replaying Assassin’s Creed II. A good chunk of the game takes place in a fairly faithful recreation of Renaissance Venice, I haven’t played it since I first did, fourteen years ago, a sentence that’s… Continue reading Virtual Tourism
Sneaking Past Rewards
Cyberpunk 2077 gives you a lot of options on how to approach combat. You can run in guns blazing. You can run in sword blazing. You can hack your enemies’s brains and make them catch fire. You can run sneak in, silently stabbing everyone before leaving without being noticed. You can sneak in, hiding from… Continue reading Sneaking Past Rewards
