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That nod to realism made me remember there were some great horses too. Red Dead Redemption 2 was great, but Shadow of the Colossus was amazing, particularly at the time.

Terry Jones' Barbarians (2006) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004) Oof. I admit to having had higher hopes for this one. Terry Jones is a favourite of mine. His illness and death was as keenly felt as if we were related. The topic in this one is tackling the sentiment that the view on...

I thought about this topic overnight and realised a lot of my favourite games actually have vehicles. With the racier games, how can I not love the OutRun "Ferrari" or the Hang-On "Honda"? But even with non-racing games Heaven's Vault had the Nightingale ship, Obra Dinn was actually set in a...

Easy. Forklift #5.

As I read this the thought of those Apple VR sets came to mind, particularly how it has the virtual keyboard and everything. So, in theory, a desktop experience you can have on your couch or wherever. In practice, of course, not so much, it looks like (not that I've tried it). But one day...

It's Disco Elysium at 9.59Gb on GOG and R-Type Final 2 at 15.56Gb on Steam. So, nothing too big individually but I currently have 31 individual games installed. I usually delete them when I don't want to play them anymore in the foreseeable future. I have installed what I intend to play...

Brubaker is one of the most interesting comic book writers. I read the entire Criminal and Fatale. But perhaps I burned myself out because after a while they tend to become quite similar to each other. No one else writes it like he does, however.

Well, February has come and gone (in a few hours). Half of the month I played Assetto Corsa and the other half various shooters. This was a month that personally (or professionally, rather) had a lot of changes so perhaps my gaming choices reflect this: these are games that are all gameplay...

I have a few games I have not dedicated myself fully too (as much as I want to). This year I have been going through a few of these and, at the same time, making a conscious effort not to buy games for the sake of buying them. On the other hand I have also made an effort to replay games so, in...

Any NextFest recommendations? I gave it a quick rundown and download a couple but nothing really sprung up. I always find it a bit hard wading through these massive chunks. It's too much..

I have to ask: what is with this forum and the AI chatbots? It's weird that often times it's not even spam. Just text clearly written by AI, with the bold typeface on key words and finishing with questions like "are you interested in X?" Is someone using this as a test site? Are the protocols...

Ah yes.. I only keep in touch with a friend from high school (or equivalent), who has been living in another town for a few years now. Last month we found out in the local newspaper one of our friends then who now is an engineer and running his family's construction business now has a persona...

This month has really been my month of shooters with a big helping of Assetto Corsa too. I'll share my impressions of four more. They are quite different from each other. From two militaristic commercial arcade games from known developer Psikyo (Strikers 1945 and Zero Gunner 2, to a free doujin...

This was a weird week. On Monday I went for a walk after work. I passed a an acquaintance I hadn't seen in over 15 years. I recognized him because he was walking his dog and it's the same breed of dog he had back then too (a bull terrier, which you don't see that often here). Then yesterday, it...

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980; 1999) This is a wonderful book, the kind you're grateful someone actually made this. This is, in fact, a compilation of imaginary places in fiction, from a wide berth of literature, from Homer to Rowling. Perhaps because the authors are Argentinian and...