The Xbox Game Pass is doing its damned best to get me to subscribe to it. I’ve avoided it mostly because I already have the majority of the back catalogue…
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David Klemke
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I’ve tried to think about what it is about loosely or completely disconnected narrative games that irks me so much. To be sure I find interest in stories where there’s…
David Klemke
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Man it has been hard to find the time to write of late. Let’s just say that having 2 kids in the house makes it hard to find time for…
David Klemke
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I’ve come to realise that I’ve had an unconscious bias against sequels that are, essentially, more of the same. I think this is because I’ve never been a “one game”…
David Klemke
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So one of the reasons that I continue these reviews is mostly to give myself a check on how I’m feeling about a game now vs when I was actually…
David Klemke
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After over 6 years of faithful service I’ve retired my old rig and am now the proud owner of a flashy new AMD Ryzen system sporting a RTX 3070 (along…
David Klemke
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The Early Access survival/base building genre seems to have a pretty well trodden path these days. You start off with the base game and then release chapters/technology tiers/any other progression…
David Klemke
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There’s an unspoken genre of games I like to think of as “Having a Lark with your Mates”. These are games that, played by yourself, are usually pretty dull affairs,…
David Klemke
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There are certain things I look to as indicators of a game’s overall quality without having to, you know, play the entire thing end to end. One thing that has…
David Klemke
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At this point reiterating the backstory of Cyberpunk 2077 feels like beating a dead horse. Suffice to say if you’re into games it’s likely you already know everything there is…