Curse of the Azure Bonds – D&D Tactics

  Curse of the Azure Bonds is a game I didn't mean to either buy or play.  But I did both, and I'm glad of it. As I stated in my very first post, the whole point of this blog was to chronicle a project - I would buy no more video games until I …

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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire – better can just mean blander

I'm writing this because I wanted to play Ultima V.  I realise that may take some explaining. I recently put up a webpoll of what game I should play next, and the winner by a longshot was Ultima V.  Fine - Ultima IV was a long time ago, and while it was a game that …

Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate

And with that, one childhood dream completed - I have finished the entire original Bard's Tale Trilogy!  What an achievement!  What a pinnacle of Retrogaming!  What a testament to human endurance! And now that I have finished all 3 of the original games, would I recommend this quest, this undertaking, this odyssey of RPGs to …

Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight and the joys of mapping

This was a victory 30 years in the making.  I finally finished Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight. The Bard's Tale was, of course, a series that is dear to my heart and one I never shut up about.  Back when I was kid on our trusty Apple IIe we had Bard's Tale 1 (or …

“Sunshine Blogger Award” (Disclaimer: not a real award)

Being comparatively new to the realm of blogging, I am somewhat surprised at the number of awards that are available.  I am even more surprised at the number of "awards", which are only "awards" in the same sense that there are "single girls in your area". Whatever, they're stil fun. I was nominated for this …

Civilization III and (failed) attempts to fix the end-game

"Just one chip". "A quiet beer". "One more turn of Civilization" Some things are just impossible. A while back, I had about an hour to kill.  For some unknown reason I had Civ III in Steam,* and I thought "I played a lot of Civ 1 and 2, I'll try this for just an hour".  That …

Super Specific Normal Happenings

I'm not having a stroke, the title of this blog post will make sense soon enough. In October I'm doing a guest piece for Normal Happenings as part of their  "Games that Define us" collaborative piece in November.  It's a fantastic idea where myself and many other bloggers each write a piece about the game …

Battletech and “irreduceable complexity” (Completed)

I spent 120 hours on Battletech.  It felt like 40.  That should tell you everything you need to know about this game. Oh all right I suppose you want to know WHAT kind of game it is, and WHY it was so good.  I will assume that "WHERE"  and "HOW" are self-explanatory.* Battletech is a …

Tex Murphy double bill – Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum

The Tex Murphy series is one I've long wanted to try, which is why I have all 6 of them in my backlog. I've now played the first two, 1989's Mean Streets and 1991's Martian Memorandum.  And so far they're interesting games filled with odd contradictions.  It's an adventure game, with a driving sim in it.  It's a …

Steamworld Dig (Completed)

I'm really blogging the backlog now - I don't typically blog about free games, but let's get into it. I played Steamworld Dig about 12 months ago, which means this will be a short post.  It was free on PS Plus - I played and finished it because I was up late at night looking …