I’ve been playing nothing but Half-Life 2 lately, and even though I had recently finished the main game, my adventure with our silent hero Gordon Freeman was not yet over. (Maybe he’s just shy.) The Orange Box also came with two mini-sequels, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two respectively. And today, I discuss my highlights…
Category: General Commentary
Half-Life 2, I Fear You No Longer
Despite lots of difficulties, including a great need to conquer my earlier fears, I finally beat Half-Life 2. It took me about a month, and honestly, it feels like I’ve been with this game for much longer because so much has happened in all that time. I braved all kinds of horrors, including a zombie-ridden…
A Trial Run of Pokémon Go
I never intended to play Pokémon Go. Up until this past weekend, I was more than content to follow its comings and goings online, in social media, and on the nightly news. I was impressed by mainstream cult that quickly formed around the game, and I was amazed at its immediate rise in popularity, and…
Oh, So That’s Why We Don’t Go to Ravenholm
I wrote a short while back about my initial experiences with Half-Life 2, namely concerning how uneasy the game made me feel because of how real the environment looked and the first person perspective. Now that I have progressed a good ways into the game, I can’t say that has really changed. In fact, the game…
Making Nice with the Twilight Princess: Update #4.2
Greetings, all! It’s time to get back to talking about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess! When I left off last time, I promised to get things moving along with the second half of the game. I can’t stress enough how much better things are going for me in this portion of the game. Maybe…
The Anxiety of Playing Half-Life 2
I had originally bought The Orange Box for the PS3 because I wanted to play Portal on a console rather than a PC. The collection also came with Team Fortress 2, plus Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two, and while I had always heard very positive things about Half-Life, I knew nothing…
Making Nice with the Twilight Princess: Update #4.1
Isn’t it about time for more action with Link and the fight against darkness? I’ll say it is! Because between my last update and now, I think I’ve made pretty good progress in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. And by “pretty good,” I mean that a couple more dungeons are finally in the bag….
The P.T. Vacuum
It’s been two years now, but it seems that the specter of P.T. yet looms. After the playable demo for the now canceled Silent Hills hit, the gaming populace was enthralled by the idea. It wasn’t just going to be a first-person horror game, it was going to be the first-person horror game to bring the…
New Games, New Surprises from E3 2016
Every year, people who enjoy video games get excited for E3. It’s one if the year’s biggest events in terms of learning about brand new games and updates to ones previously announced. If every video game player could attend E3, they probably would, but the fact is that only a small majority get the chance….
The Simple Pleasures of Exploration in Sly 4
When buying a house, they always say location is everything. Never have I heard this applied to video games, however. What people typically cite as being important to them in gaming is an engaging story or interesting characters, or simply good gameplay. While I would agree that all of those are far more important than…
VIRTUAL BASTION 