This week I am playing Raft with Bay, Elliot, and Charlie, which is pretty fun. I have some (many) issues with how the machines are supposed to work or how we get the parts, but the gameplay is good. I am also still playing Slay the Spire at every moment of spare time.
What are you guys up to?
A big part of my retrogaming experiment was to experience entire franchises and series. As I have shared, classic RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are on the list. On a whim, I decided there are major, important titles I have never played that I would like to try, like the Metal Gear games. And while I’ve always been a big fan of The Legend of Zelda as a whole property, I’ve never actually played any Zelda games other than the first, gold-cartridge TLOZ and Link’s Awakening on the original Gameboy. I’ve even added all the main-line (I think) Mario Bros. games, and Sonic games from the original Genesis release through the GameCube generation. But naturally, at the last minute, I decided I *really* wanted to play a different “series” of video games I’ve only barely dabbled in: Batman.
– Shamus, Wednesday Nov 29, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXXV: A Dubious Victory”
The year is 2020 and Logan is at college. His parents are doing their best to return to some sort of normalcy, but it’s strange without their son.
Logan comes to stay over weekends and is consistently met with the sort of thought out meals he’d usually think of as birthday dinners. There is no takeout to be seen, just roasted potatoes, homemade lasagnas, and everything else he knows his mom and dad can cook.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Plague”
This week I am succumbing to a Slay the Spire addiction which is fine and normal and I do not have a problem.
What are you guys up to?
When I proposed this week’s article, I believed it would be a break from retrogaming content. Not that retrogaming is the only thing I ever intend to write about, or ever DO write about, but I feel my retrogaming setups are still in a state of “incompleteness.” Some recent AI news has been on my mind, though; and considering I’m a Gen-X’er, my “get off my message board!” instinct was being triggered. However, it wasn’t until I started fleshing out what I was going to talk about that I realized retrogaming was actually an important part of the story, or at least the news item I wanted to talk about. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Retrogaming and AI – A Surprising Tangent”
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– Shamus, Monday Nov 27, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXXIV: Let’s Make A Deal”
Bethesda felt the need to jam a morality system into Fallout 3, and they blew it. Good and evil make no sense and the moral compass points sideways.
A horrible, railroading, stupid, contrived, and painfully ill-conceived roleplaying campaign. All in good fun.
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
What are publishers doing to fight piracy and why is it all wrong?
Here's how this site grew from short essays to novel-length quasi-analytical retrospectives.
I write a program to simulate different strategies in Starcraft 2, to see how they compare.
I teach myself music composition by imitating the style of various videogame soundtracks. How did it turn out? Listen for yourself.
There's a new graphics API in town. What does that mean, and why do we need it?
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
Why make millions on your video game when you could be making HUNDREDS on frivolous copyright claims?
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