Alexandra Hall's saved articles

I suspect that it will work like this for the foreseeable future. While there aren’t any code changes, Im guessing they are still being careful and want to test games before adding FPS Boost.  Read more

That hay loft scene reminds me of the final puzzle section of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, where LeChuck chases you around the tunnels of Big Whoop. He can’t kill you, but seeing his zombie body pop out to send you to another room with his little Guybrush voodoo doll scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Read more

I was just playing the PlayStation Clocktower the other night. I remember being told erroneously that the PlayStation entry was an updated 3D remake of the point and click SNES entry. Read more

I’m glad you guys are going back and playing some weird ones. Read more

Huh, I had no idea there was a Super Famicom Clock Tower. And now that I check the wiki, I see it was a because Clock Tower 2 on the Playstation was released as just Clock Tower in the USA so I assumed it was the first one. Its pretty impressive for SNES graphics how much the character looks like young Jennifer Connell… Read more

definitely not a ‘pile of shame’!  I think of it as a ‘mountain of opportunity’ Read more

As of right now, my backlog is 37 games. I actually made it a project to clear my backlog this year - one game a week will put me there. I’ve thought about making a blog series about it, but I don’t know if anyone would care to read about it.
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I never really had a backlog until Destiny (and its sequel) came along and ate up 90% of my gaming time for several years. I bought a bunch of games during that time, but couldn’t find the time to play them. Even still, my backlog isn’t all that bad — probably about 20 or so games if you only count the ones that I… Read more

Alexandra: Master of Real Loaded Questions. I love it. Read more

That’s helped me significantly in the last few years, across all media. If I start something and stop feeling it, then I’m done til the feeling comes back. Or forever.

I’ve wasted too much time reading books I didn’t like or playing games I didn’t like or waiting for the “good” season of a TV show to kick in. It’s not… Read more

I think what I actively think of as my backlog isn’t that big. Stuff that I know I want to play but haven’t gotten around to, like Kentucky Route Zero, Disco Elysium, and Obra Dinn is on there, and I just need to be better at playing those instead of playing the same things I always play when I have the opportunity to… Read more

You say my backlog is a “problem”. I say it’s “retirement planning”. Read more

I know for sure I have over 100 games in my backlog, some going back to the 16-bit era, though the exact number is difficult to say. As some have said, I think it’s important to define what it means for a game to be in a backlog. For me it’s games that I want to play but haven’t gotten “done” with them. This can be… Read more

Sans my PS+ library, I only have coffee talk, TLOU2 and The Outer Worlds DLC. Nowadays I only purchase games when I’m nearing having nothing to play. Otherwise I’ll just be too anxious to play anything and I get to save money
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I used to stress about my backlog a fair bit until I read an article that talked about breaking your games into a list to try and cross them off. I try and keep the list under 200 games and I set a goal to play through 24 per year. The metric of the goal is hard. I’m not a completionist, so I aim to finish the central… Read more

2003: “The dev team initially thought it was a crazy idea to pursue a crossover across two different publishers,”
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It is a disgrace that anyone has to pay for funeral expenses. Read more

Maybe from Justin’s perspective it’s more like infamous ;)
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I knew Thao well, I was working for EGM in the 90's and he had given us sticks just like the one in the picture for testing. A very sad tragedy. Read more