Category: PC Games
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Old Game Tuesday – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
I came to know Morrowind (I only figured out it was the third game in a series after the fact) through a friend. He had taken time out from Everquest to play a new single player RPG that I hadn’t heard of. I sat and watched for a while, and was intrigued. There were a…
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Links From The Blogroll
Hey, everybody. Haven’t been around much to post here, mostly because I haven’t seen any movies or played any new video games to review. ;) That should change this weekend. What I would like to do is highlight some of the newer additions to my blogroll and give some examples as to why you should…
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On Sequels
Reading some of the reviews and discussions out there on Dragon Age 2 got me to thinking – Did Bioware do a disservice to themselves by declaring this game a sequel? They call it a sequel on the game’s official site, and they put a ‘2’ after it, but it may have damaged the perception…
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Old Game Tuesday – Red Storm Rising
I mentioned previously that a good bit of my early gaming was wargames. This was due in large part to my dad being in the Navy and me growing up obsessed with the massive ships and salty dogs I saw with him. Red Storm Rising is one of my favorite games from that time in…
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Dragon Age 2 Demo Impressions
I played through one full run of the DA2 Demo (male rogue), and to be honest, it’s got me a little worried. The visuals are definitely different, probably better, but with the way combat jumps around so much it feels more like an older MMO. The powers recharge quickly, the action more frenetic (yes, I…
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Future Games I Want
Dragon Age 2. Still gotta try the demo, but really, I’m all over it.  (have it now, see my reviews) The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. My favorite characters in Morrowind and Oblivion were both Nords. Looks really, really cool. Portal 2. Please assume the party escort submission position. Batman:  Arkham City.  Sweet trailer, sounds like a…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Oregon Trail
I’ve spoken about educational games before, and this is one of the big ones, The Oregon Trail. Most people in my generation (or close to it) played this in school, on the Apple IIe or IIgs in my case, and it was one of the first ‘edutainment’ games I played that was actually fun. First,…
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Old Game Tuesday – Baldur’s Gate
When I was younger, there was a certain class of gamer nerd that even I didn’t ‘get’. They did their gaming with large sheets of paper and miniatures and a whole mess of dice. The closest I’d ever gotten to that was a few books that had you roll dice to determine the outcome of…
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Seeing Art
If you are like me, and you read Roger Ebert’s excellent Twitter feed and blog, you know he sometimes gets on a subject and won’t let go. Recently, one such topic has been how video games can’t be art. Now, video games are pretty close to my heart (as close as movies are to Mr.…
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Old Game Tuesday – Rocket Arena 2, Jailbreak
These mods, along with Starcraft and MechWarrior 2 (the other game witnessed that fateful day) are what got me back in to gaming on the PC platform, and I’ve been there ever since.
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Old Game Tuesday – Stars!
As I roll through these old games, you are going to notice that 4X games are well-represented. One of my personal favorites is Stars!, released wa-a-ay back in 1995. Jeff Johnson and Jeff McBride created the game for their own enjoyment, and decided to release it as Shareware. People still did that back then, you…
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Old Game Tuesday – M.U.L.E.
M.U.L.E. holds the distinction of being the game I’ve probably played the longest. I was first exposed to it on my old Commodore 64, and though there are many classics from that era (which may be covered here in the future), this is the one that has kept my interest continually since then. M.U.L.E. is…