The Halo series was on fire at the end of the first decade of the 2000s. It seemed like the series would stay at the top with Call of Duty for years to come, but that isn’t the way things played out. Bungie, the original developers of Halo, was planning on taking a stepping back … Continue reading Revisiting Halo Reach | A Bitter-Sweet Full-Circle Experience
Continuing on my Wolfenstein adventure, I’m onto the smaller games to have released in MachineGames’ lineup. The Old Blood was released between The New Order and The New Colossus but is set before the events of The New Order, so that means that we are traveling back to the past and WW2. I honestly didn’t … Continue reading Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | Backlog Review
Shooting Nazis is a gaming pastime for many of us, and Wolfenstein set the bar back in the day. But the recent games have been trying to make the franchise fun for modern audiences, and The New Order is one of the standouts of those attempts. I honestly don’t know how I missed this one. … Continue reading Wolfenstein: The New Order | Backlog Review
There are few games that can instill fear in me even after I completed them, and Outlast seems to be one of them. I haven’t played the game since around 2015, and I hardly remember any of it at this point. I guess that could be a good thing and a bad thing because I … Continue reading Revisiting Outlast | A Classic Hide and Seek Horror Experience
When the credits rolled on Halo 3’s Legendary ending back in 2007, I remember going for a walk with my best friend and talking about it. Would Chief ever be found floating in space? Will there be a Halo 4? Is Humanity best buds with the alien races that made up the Covenant? To my … Continue reading Revisiting Halo 4 | A New Beginning That Didn’t Quite Reach Its Potential
Dead Space is one of my favorite series of all time. I was too terrified to even beat the first game until I had played through Dead Space 2 in 2011. At the time, Dead Space 2 was easier for me to charge into, and it gave me the confidence to beat the original scares … Continue reading Revisiting Dead Space 2
Fallout 76 has left a sour taste in most people's mouths whenever the game franchise Fallout is brought up in conversation. As much as I would like to pretend that long time fans of the serious started to dislike the franchise after Fallout 76, I have to admit that it began earlier than that with … Continue reading In Defense of Fallout 4
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