Rundown (9/04-9/10) We Mustn’t Let Dragalia Be Lost!
Wherein I discuss: My Dragalia Lost archival efforts. Tencent gobbling up IPs for China. A showcase from a company I couldn’t care less about. And the long-lived queen.
(more…)Rundown (8/25-8/31) The Pursuit of Hard Work
While working at my office job I frequently catch my assorted co-workers ceasing whatever task they were in the midst of or simply passing time by socializing with others. It is an activity that I understand in small instances, but many of their conversations go on for 15 or more minutes, and center around unrelated minutiae rather than anything work-related. Which I personally find to be… wrong at least to some degree. I approach work with a very regimented and task oriented mindset, and while I do take time to check my email or RSS feeds on occasion, I always go back to whatever needs to be done, and try to finish the task in an efficient manner. I suppose this is just due to how I have a more serious work ethic, but it regularly surprised me to see people take such a lax approach to their professions, especially when they have families to take care of. Maybe that’s the right approach to take, and I’m just a fool for working so intently, or maybe they’re just a bunch of slackers. I dunno.
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Rundown (3/12-3/18) A Galaxy of Probable Disappointment
So, Mass Effect: Andromeda is almost out, and the consensus from the people who played the game is far from positive. Apparently the story indulges in many trite tropes and fails to feel distinct while the animations are somehow remarkably worse than the stiff animations Bioware used in their games over the course of the seventh generation, to the point where it is genuinely remarkable anybody thought some of this way okay. I had high hopes for this game after going through the Mass Effect trilogy this past year, but from the sound of it, the game is not very good. Though, considering how closed off the development has been, how the lead writer position for the game changed three times, and how many people left the company since the release of the last Mass Effect game, I guess I should not be too surprised. Still, this is quite upsetting. (more…)
Ducktales Remastered
Let me get this straight, brain. You wish to play a game that is a remake of one you’ve never previously played… on a system far older than you… based on a show that ended about four years before you were born. Well Steam Sales are a nice thing that encourages my wallet to ejaculate money, and for $5 I figured the critically acclaimed, I think, Ducktales Remastered would be worth the price. The quick verdict? Well, yeah, I guess. (more…)