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Dec 2011 Video Games
With school over I had plenty of time to get back into video games last month. I had a blast! Team Fortress 2 (6 hrs) – Got back into this game because my brother-in-law wanted to play it. I’d forgotten how awesomely fun it is to play this game! Plants vs Zombies (5 hrs) –…
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Raptr October Video Game Report
My graduate degree has stemmed my play time this month. This is all I was able to put in. Mass Effect 2 (1 hr) Team Fortress 2 (41 min)
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Video Game-Inspired Music
For people of my generation (and the younger ones of the previous one) video games are cultural phenomenon no less important to the way our brains work than books, music, or movies. So it’s no surprise that our music, which has been inspired by books and movies in the past is now being inspired by…
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Finishing up First Playthrough of Mass Effect 1
Sorry I took so long to get to this. My last post had me finding out that the Reapers were actually the most ancient species I’ve heard about until now. And after my face off with Saren on Virmire, I thought I’d have to chase him to Ilos to finish the game. But, nope,…
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August Video Games
For those who are new readers, I’m keeping track of the games I’m playing monthly (via Raptr) and then writing a little blurb on the games. This is in prep for my year-end blog post. Team Fortress 2 (4 hrs) – I continue to really enjoy this game. I think of all of non-story-based games…
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First Playthrough of Mass Effect (Part 3)
Last time I blogged about Mass Effect, I had just finished up with a planet where a plant was controlling everyone. After that I did my first real tour of my ship to go talk to all the people who had joined my crew. I got to sneak up on Ash talking to her sister…
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July Video Games
Mass Effect (2 hrs) – Dan tells me that if I don’t go for the optional quests, I could be near the end. After the next major story beat I’m probably going to write up my next Mass Effect blog post. I’m really enjoying the fiction. Team Fortress 2 (60 hrs) – I didn’t think…
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June 2011 Video Game Play Time
Just one game this month, it’s been quite a busy month for me! Mass Effect (8 hours) – This is a great game that I’d heard about for a long time, but never got around to playing. A recent Steam sale made it cheap enough for me to give it a try and…
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First Playthrough of Mass Effect (Part 2)
Sometimes I think what I want is Mass Effect: The Laserdisc game. I love the story and I love the Codex entries. Just getting completely engrossed in the Mass Effect world. What I don’t enjoy is the fighting. This isn’t because I’m bad at it. My cover-based shooter noob days are long behind me with…
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May Video Games
I forgot to check for the May video game play times before it was too deep into June, so I lost my FFX playtime. The others are pretty accurate. Final Fantasy X – finished the game. Review here. Portal 2 (3 hrs) – finished multi-player game with Dan. That game is AWESOME. I was only…
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First Playthough of Mass Effect Part 1
I recently bought Mass Effect in a Steam sale that knocked the price of Bioware’s RPG to $5. Thanks yet again to the guys at the Giant Bombcast (seriously, this is the second or third I’ve bought because of them and fourth or fifth from podcast recommendations), I’d wanted to play the game, but…
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Thoughts on Final Fantasy X
note: this game came out ten years ago, so I’m going to speak about spoilers freely I finished Final Fantasy X a few weeks ago. I’d started playing it a long time ago, but the horrible voice acting grated on my nerves and I stopped playing. But, as I was making a list of games…
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How Video Games Grew Up When I Wasn’t Looking
There was a time when I loved video games. I subscribed to EGM and EGM2. I trolled the nascent World Wide Web looking for video game news. I read IGN religiously. The most powerful systems out there were the Nintendo 64 and the Playstation. Then I discovered girls and dropped the subscriptions. Most of the…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to 2011
It’s been a little over a year, so I wanted to make a new, updated list of the podcasts I’m currently listening to. For shows I covered before, I’m just going to copy the description over, verbatim. Science The Naked Scientists – This has nothing to do with nudity. It’s a British thing, like The…
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April Video Games
Final Fantasy X (36 hrs) – I started playing this game again to get away from computer games. It was hurting my back to sit at the computer. I could just stand in the guest room, where the PS2 is. I hadn’t played for months or maybe even a year, but I hadn’t gone that…