Talking more about games. I am an extremes person in general. Take drinks. I like them boiling hot (burning my tongue) or ice cold (brain freeze). I either love something or I hate it. I’m not often tepid about something. Take movies. I love: Once, The Station Agent, and Japanese Story. And, yes, I realize… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I was talking about the games I like and how they reflected the yin and the yang of my being. There’s a new game that has me thinking about where the two categories (hard games and cozy games) intersect. In the last post, I did not mention a series of games… Continue Reading
I don’t game often, but when I do, I game hard. Or soft. Depending on my mood. I am a mass of contradictions, and I don’t mind admitting it. Some could call it complex. Some could also call it contrary. Some others might simply call it crazy. I would say yes to all of the… Continue Reading
Elden Ring. We were talking about the NPC questlines in FromSoft games and how brilliant they are. In the first Dark Souls game, Solaire’s questline demonstrates the mentality of FromSoft towards NPC questline. The first time through the game, you run into him and probably are just happy to have a friendly face in your… Continue Reading
In the last post, I finished by whining about the catacombs/caves in Elden Ring. I hate them. I’ll be honest. The first playthrough, I went into every cave I could find and went to look for more. That’s because I wanted to experience all the content there was to be had. That’s my nature with… Continue Reading
I want to talk more about Elden Ring, of course. Here is my post from yesterday. Now. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Elden Ring has been rightly lauded with changing the open world genre. This is the aspect I was most worried about before the game released because I don’t like open world… Continue Reading
I’ve watched a bunch of stuff about Elden Ring (FromSoft, natch) since I finished it. I’m on my fourth playthrough, trying to do a dex character with a healthy amount of Intelligence. I’m in the first third, but I’ve ventured into a later area. I did a mad dash into a fort in Caelid to… Continue Reading
On the RKG Discord, someone wrote the words that are guaranteed to enflame me (even as a Pyro!): DS 2 doesn’t have an easy mode. It was said presumably to me and another person discussing the fact that you cannot start as a Pyro in DS II. I can tell you my immediate impulse was… Continue Reading
It’s been nearly eight months since Elden Ring was released. At its peak, it reached nearly a million concurrent users on Steam. Those are heights that are not seen by non-MM….O? games. Currently, there are roughly 25,000 concurrent users on Steam, which seems pretty damn good to me. In comparison, the latest Platinum Game, Babylon’s… Continue Reading
I am finally writing the post on Elden Ring that I wanted to write in the first place. I got side-tracked in my two previous posts, so here we go. This is about co-op because the Eurogamer video team was complaining about it as they played in the Closed Network Test (CNT). So did the… Continue Reading