Ready for the Apocalypse

Shelter in Place! Self Quarantine! 

The long delayed but absolutely inevitable apocalypse we've all kind of known was coming has arrived in the form of a global pandemic and today's big victory was finding toilet paper at the grocery. Going in, the only things we have stockpiled here are:

• Alcohol
• Wetnaps
• Videogames

I feel good about our chances!

Beaten in 2010

I may not have been blogging about games for the last decade, but I did maintain lists each year of the games I have beaten in each year. Here is 2010, which was the year I caught up on the PS3:

Full:

Assassin's Creed 2 (360)

Mass Effect 2 (360)

Uncharted : Drake's Fortune (PS3)

The Chronicles of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay (PS3)

The Chronicles of Riddick : Assault on Dark Athena (PS3)

Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves (PS3)

Just Cause 2 (PS3)

Saint's Row 2 (360)

3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3)

Red Dead Redemption (PS3)

Resistance : Fall of Man (PS3)

Resistance 2 (PS3)

Infamous (PS3)

Dark Void (360)

Halo : Reach (360)

Alan Wake (360)

Red Faction Guerilla (PS3)

Fable 3 (360)

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS3)

DLC Packs

Mass Effect 2 - Normandy Crash Site (360)

Mass Effect 2 - Kasumi - Stolen Memory (360)

Mass Effect 2 - The Price of Revenge (360)

Mass Effect 2 - Firewalker (360)

Mass Effect 2 - Overlord (360)

Mass Effect 2 - Lair of the Shadow Broker (360)

Assasin's Creed 2 - The Battle of Forli (360)

Assassin's Creed 2 - Bonfire of the Vanities (360)

Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmare (PS3)

Red Faction Guerilla - Demons of the Badlands (PS3)

Borderlands - The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (360)

Borderlands - Claptrap's New Robot Revolution (360)

Left 4 Dead 2 - The Passing (360)

Alan Wake - The Signal (360)

Alan Wake - The Writer (360)

Ten Years Later

Hey it's been a minute. Because decades seem to go by in a minute these days.

I can't believe that this blog still exists. Well, I'm still alive and still very middle-aged and have come back to a place in my life where I want to write about videogames again. The only issue with that is that my ability to discipline my time for it is as poor as ever.

Yet here I am pecking away at the keys. At 53 years old now, the feeling of immortality I once knew has faded into the realization that if there was something I was waiting until later in my life to do, I should get to it. Big dreams like uniting all of humanity into one society are still on the backburner, but small ones like leaving an accounting of my time as a lifelong gamer behind are certainly reasonable.

I play sporadically these days, not rushing to the hottest new release, so things like reviews of new releases are going to be rare (although Iron Man VR is on my radar for its May release). Last year I replayed King's Field The Ancient City (PS2), beating it again 13 years after first conquering it. Doing so has inspired my to delve deep into gaming's past and take care of some unfinished business from the many eras I’ve seen come and go.

Like Colossal Cave Adventure - I had it on the C64 back in the day but never took it on. And in a few weeks when the Turbografx 16 Mini comes out, I’m finally going to play Ys Books 1 & 2, which I missed back in the early nineties as the TurboCD attachment never was in my budget.

But I'll get into what that has entailed thus far in future posts. There is a ton of catching up ahead, and this middle-aged gamer doesn't care if anyone is reading anymore.