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On the Level

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

So Skyrim, the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, is coming out next week. I’m looking forward to it, mainly because Morrowind, the third game in the series, is one of my favorite games of all time, as are Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, both also done by Bethesda. You may notice that [...]

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What’s the Difficulty, Kenneth?

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Last night I was looking to kill a few hours and so went into my Steam games list looking for something light to pass the time. I really didn’t want to get into anything serious so I pulled up Majesty 2. Majesty 2 calls itself a “fantasy kingdom sim” but it really is more of [...]

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Review – Kerbal Space Program

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Ground control to Major Tom. Ground control to Major Tom. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Lately I’ve been playing a bit of an independent game called Kerbal Space Program. The game is a spaceflight simulator in which you design a rocket, put it out on the pad, launch it and attempt [...]

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Remembering the Bomb

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

There was a time when I knew how the world would end. I grew up in a time when our elementary school would hold nuclear attack drills with the same regularity as they did fire or tornado drills. Regular PSAs on television and radio would remind us to “Duck and Cover!” in the event of [...]

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Who’s the Boss?

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

OK, so last time I was talking about Hydrophobia Prophecy and how much it annoyed me when it suddenly broke my suspension of disbelief by suddenly throwing in elements of what was essentially “magic” into what had been a science fiction thriller. Well, I’m not through beating the dead horse of Hydrophobia yet. Because shortly [...]

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