2024 has been a year of really long games which I start but rarely finish. That’s sort of my fault – I have a bad habit of not completing tasks in general – but I think part of the reason is a general sense of burnout I get. I struggle to stay engaged with a gaming experience long enough to see it through to credits, with some exceptions (my beloved Dragon’s Dogma 2 springs to mind right away).…
Memories are strange. They can be all sorts of things: joyful, forlorn, regretful, cringeworthy and everything else in between. Always, though, they are distorted, at least a little. For most people, it is impossible to remember a moment in our lives with absolute clarity; the recollection will always be affected by our biases, fragmented too as our brain sift out the white noise and letting the…
In a lot of games, especially role-playing games, the aim is to make the experience feel like an adventure. Games are often structured to suit this, sending the player across its fictional world, visiting towns, cities, ruins and so on, to evoke this sense of scale that wouldn’t be possible were the story limited to a single setting.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, first and foremost, a game about…
I have a confession to make: I did not play that many games this month. I participated in the playing of video games as a hobby about as much as I would any other month, but as far as new games are concerned, I flopped dramatically. March was the month where I tried to blast through the huge open world games and RPGs I’ve managed to accumulate this year, so I ended up spending an awful lot of…
I’m so obsessed with this gif bc obi wan looks like he’s so happy but a little bit nervous to see dex he looks like he’s picking up dex for prom. he looks like he’s in love. in love with dex jettster. fuck you satine obi wan wants a big frog thing with four arms not your hillary clinton selfÂ
being a hater is good and fun and comes free with being a lover but it's also good to practice being an idgafer. sometimes things are just meant to bait you and/or not worth blowing up your whole day over. don't forget that.