Category: Gaming

When I was younger, visiting a friend meant I’d see their household’s collection of console games. We always played Halo, so it amazed me how many games existed that I’d never heard of or seen; most would have never flown in my household as a juvenile gamer. Call of Duty? Too much blood! Sexual Themes…

Few titles had as exciting of a launch as Starfield. A new Bethesda IP promising a bigger universe and better gameplay; the hype was monumental. I’ve written about Starfield several times on this blog with steady optimism, even in the midst of widespread dissatisfaction for its limitations and problems. The game received updates in May…

One day, development studio Bungie will shut down the servers for their 2014 game Destiny. Years of content will disappear forever when that happens; a consequence of being an entirely online game that cannot be played offline. Destiny remains accessible for as long as Bungie is willing to keep their systems active, but I don’t…

The enemy of enjoyment is expectation. When we anticipate a certain characteristic or level of quality from something, we often set ourselves up for disappointment if it doesn’t match exactly what we had hoped for. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is an example (or more suitably, a victim) of such expectation. The original Bloodlines…

Video game backlogs. Lists of games that you’ve purchased but haven’t played. My YouTube recommendations are filled with videos discussing how to manage, organize, and work through them. Entire websites have been created with the purpose of tracking them. There seems to be a considerable amount of people who are buying games, accumulating them, and…

In 2004, Troika Games released Bloodlines, an RPG set in the universe of the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade games. Bloodlines takes place in a fictitious version of Los Angeles, where vampires secretly walk among humans. Vampire “life” relies on upholding the Masquerade, a set of laws that aim to guard the secrecy of vampiric society…