A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Most Agreeable Moments
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“Speak to Colin Moriarty”. It was the task that will always define Fallout 3 for me. As I traversed the wasteland in search of high adventure, there it was, always sitting at the top of my quest log. It was at around the 60 hour mark I finally made my way to Moriarty’s Saloon, took…
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The road to the top is a long and bloody one for Brutal Deluxe. Week after week the boys run out onto the field and pour their heart and soul into the game, putting their bodies on the line, all for a taste of that sweet Speedball victory. They may start as a bunch of…
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There was something wonderfully magical about Viva Piñata. It was easy for tending to one’s garden to border on obsession, as building a sustainable ecosystem through both the comfort of nurture and the ruthlessness of nature, had me running home from work at lunchtime to briefly play god from the comfort of a beautifully manicured…
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I could write about Doom all day. And believe me I’ve tried. And tried again. For me it sits right next to Wipeout as one of the games that made me sit up and pay attention to games as more than just a thing that I did when the sun went down or the ball was…
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Playing through the original Halo again its hard to not be transported back to early in the new millenium. It was the sort of game that made jaws drop at the time, from the way light reflected off of the shiny surfaces in a way I at least hadn’t thought possible on a console, to…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 