Titan Quest came back on my radar when I saw the newest expansion, "Eternal Embers", show up as just released. That's a surprising thing to see for a game that came out in 2006, but Titan Quest has always been surprisingly resistant to death, updated every handful of years with a new set of levels or a remastered edition. The new expansion played ( Read more... )

Way back in the days of Newgrounds, stick figures roamed the landscape. There was this problem, see: A lot of people wanted to be popular Flash animators but had either limited talent or simply no talent for human figures. Thus stickman animations were born, freeing up the animator from working on complex designs or backgrounds so they could focus ( Read more... )

Speaking of Telltale Games.
I did this one once before, but a friend reminded me of it so I streamed it at them. It was a good time!
Still my favorite Telltale, still not really an adventure game, but a fun interactive movie.
Still the best story told in the Borderlands universe, even. Man I hear Borderlands 3 screwed this particular pooch. Not even ( Read more... )

So...
I've marked DLC as 'complete' for game tally purposes before.
I've even marked AC DLC as completes for tally purposes!

The question is: is edutainment software DLC a 'game'?

Well, this had a narrative aspect. I spent a few hours on it. It's as much a game as half the Telltale crap I play. So, sure? Why not.

I had fun with it, anyway. Gave me some ( Read more... )

You can pretty much end Sable any time you feel like, and that fits with the narrative structure of it. You ... (Well, Sable really, she very much has her own personality and drives) are a futuristic masked tribal person on a sort of planetary rumspringa, free to wander as you like before you come back to the tribe, pick a permanent job-mask, and ( Read more... )

Back on the MMO train again. This time it's FFXIV again and I really did enjoy Stormblood. Themes of revolution and overthrowing a corrupt and hateful empire just kinda work well nowadays for mysterious reasons, and I've always liked the way Final Fantasy does it.

Of course, every XIV storyline has two parts. There's the part where you learn about a ( Read more... )

This entry in the Final Fantasy series is beloved by many but strongly hated by others. Regarded as an oddity that broke the rules of the series upon release, time has somewhat mitigated the outraged reaction. While it tried a number of new systems and ideas (some ambitious failures, some that took off and became mainstays of the series, and a few ( Read more... )

So ... I dunno, I was just struck by a sudden urge to go play a Zelda goddamn it, so that's what I did. And instead of picking any of the big popular ones that I haven't played, or the major re-releases peppering the market, I went off and grabbed Minish Cap which is a third-rate game stuffed in the back of the timeline which nobody really ( Read more... )

Look, I don't know what to call this.

Google has a thing on their front page, it's a weird... sports JRPG about being a ninja cat on a quest to get seven scrolls from sports-loving animals on Champion Island. It's absolutely lovely, has a number of cute minigames, the animated scenes are great, there's a plethora of side-quests if you go off the ( Read more... )

Today I woke up thinking, for no reason I could put together, about A Dark Room. If you're unfamiliar, it's an idle-game sort of thing, click some buttons and some things happen, keep the numbers going up, etc.

So I decided to prod that. About three minutes into it, a pop-up comes up letting me know it has sound now. Nah. Then another pop-up about ( Read more... )