This is part of my series of posts on Baldur's Gate 3. If you're reading this post without reading the others: I will try to avoid spoilers, but inevitably there will be some. In particular, any links to information on the BG3 wiki or YouTube videos should be regarded as spoiler-laden. I'm not a particularly skilled player.…
In my big Baldur's Gate 3 post, I said that I might update the diary at the end of the post as I continued my playthroughs. Instead, I've decided to write a fresh post for each playthrough, as long I'm interested in documenting my experiences with the game. Caveats I'm not a particularly skilled gamer. If you're…
This is not a review of Baldur's Gate 3. The game has been reviewed (massively so!), received almost every honor the gaming industry can award, and has been out for several months (after a playtest of many years). This makes it ideal for my series of unimportant reviews. However, I'm doing something else: I'm documenting why I…
I plan to write a long-ish blog post in which I gush about Baldur's Gate 3. Before I start crafting an unnecessary essay about a current game that's been reviewed and praised elsewhere, I feel a desire to wrap up the remaining games in my series: reviews of games that have been released and reviewed so long…
It's been a while since my last tech post. Time for another one. The games Portal and Portal 2 are two of the best video games ever made. They're both basically puzzle games. What makes them different from other games? The clever use of space. The key tool of Portal is the "portal gun". It instantly connects…
At the end of my review of Lord of the Rings: Gollum, I wrote: ...my next video-game review will about a game based on a widely-known IP, with antique graphics, and even more glitches than Gollum. I loved every minute of it. Given my fondness for Telltale-style games, and my oft-unrequited love of Star Trek, it probably…
Two rants in a row. Fortunately, the next few blogs posts I've planned are more positive. My reaction to Lord of the Rings: Gollum is so negative that I'm not going to include a spoiler warning. That's because I badly want to spoil the game for you, so that you feel no need to purchase it. Please…
This is another of my game reviews written long after a review would be relevant. Dredge is a fishing game. Like most such games, your main sequence of actions is to go out onto the water, reel in some fish, return to port to sell them, make improvements to your boat so you can fish better. Repeat…
Awhile back I wrote a review of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. I liked the game, though I felt it had its flaws. Since that review, I've played other games, at least one of which (Ghost of Tsushima) was better than AC:V. Yet, in the long run, it was Assassin's Creed: Valhalla to which I kept returning. Part of…
This is a review of Return to Monkey Island from someone who never played the original games in the Monkey Island series. The TL;DR version: My apologies to the Monkey Island fans out there, but I don't understand what the fuss is about. While I enjoy the occasional hunt-n-click game, such as the various Telltale games, I'm…