Games

Even without explictly knowing what engine the game uses I could tell this was an Unreal Engine 5 game thanks to the fuzzy lighting and ghosting artefacts.

• 2026-10-22 - undefined

  I encountered so many areas with poor collision and so many cases of broken ranged targeting. I found myself regularly being shot by enemies while my return fire went into the floor or obstacles. Even at point blank, with an enemy targeted, projectiles would sometimes miss somehow. I really enjoyed the music and sound design though.

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2026-07-29 - 2026-08-02

I have never played a game with so many children screaming slurs.

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-08-08 - 2023-08-23

• 2023-02-18 - 2023-04-08

• 2023-02-11 - 2023-02-11

• 2024-06-02 - 2024-06-21

  Remastered version.

Fuck this shit.

Playing this with friends has resulted in some of the most despicable, vile, sexual exchanges this world has ever seen. Truly degenerate.

Was good fun when it first released, but slowly deteriorated as it became more heavily monetised and microtransaction laden.

The best experience I’ve ever had in Unturned was when I discovered some two folks working to fix a car. After earning their trust, I welded one of their faces, killing them. The second player turned to me and stared in deadpan disbelief for a brief moment before his face was also welded.

• 2020-06 - 2020-06

See Experiencing Zen in the Ratz Instagib Meat Grinder.

Performed quite awfully on the old family laptop when I played it circa release. My very first introduction to the Steam Workshop.

A phenomenon during my early years of high-school until the 2020 mobile phone ban in Australian public schools.

Superhot is the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years!

• 2020-06-09 - 2020-06-10

A cracked version did the rounds at my high-school and the game way played a lot in classes.

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-07-14 - 2023-08-06

This game was a lot of firsts for me. It was my first time playing a third-person shooter, it was my first time playing a competitive online game (and by extension, Xbox Live), and it was my first exposure to gambling mechanics in video games.

The social experiences I’ve had in VRChat have been some of the most interesting of my life. People seem to achieve a certain comfort in the skin that they choose, and dynamics are not hampered by such detractors as physics. As a very infrequent dreamer, I’ve been amazed to have dreams resulting from my VRChat experiences.

I never built anything impressive, but I spent so much time looting chests (I’m sory Blockheads players of the mid-2010s). I used to scavange whatever I could and always enjoyed exploring impressive worlds by rail.

A reasonable little puzzle game quite similar to Cut The Rope. Never had any exposure to the Fish Hooks cartoon.

One of the games my parents pre-loaded on my iPad 4 when they gifted it to me.

Played regularly during 2021 as part of research into the effects of brain training games for a psychology class.

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-07-06 - 2023-07-10

Played original Half-Life 2 mod at time unknown.

It is hard to think of any game that has been more courteously supported by its developers than Terraria. It is clear that they don’t only care about the game but also deeply for the community, to the extent that they are willing to take stances even when it may cost them financially.

I’m yet to play another game that makes me feel like Portal 2.

• 2020-04-28 - 2020-05-13

Despite spending many hours on it, I never finished Chapter One due to my young age while playing it, though it did teach me of the cacti rule.

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-06-07 - 2023-07-05

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-06-03 - 2023-06-05

See Minecraft, Nostalgia, and Growing Up.

Introduces some of the best courses in the series. Coconut Mall, DK’s Snowboard Cross, Toad’s Factory, Mushroom Gorge, Wario’s Goldmine, Maple Treeway, and Koopa Cave are all standouts. I despise the post-processing bloom effect, which makes everything look smeared and blurry. Thankfully it can be disabled with cheat codes.

I purchased a copy second-hand at an op shop, and it was only once I got it home that I discovered the disc inside was for Company of Heroes. I later had to buy it elsewhere.

• 2020-04-24 - 2020-04-25

I can’t think of another game with a community quite like TF2’s. People regularly completely forego the objective in the name of being friendly with the ‘enemy’ and starting dance parties or showing off cool miscellanea. My in-game stats are recorded in Examining My Team Fortress Statistics.

See Halo: My Thoughts. Having watched Red vs Blue before playing Halo 3 multiplayer for any significant amount of time, I can’t help but think of the maps as sets from the show.

• 2023-05-31 - 2023-06-02

I’ve made enemies in the Mario vs Luigi multiplayer mode.

I started playing in mid-2016. The games I played the most or have the most memories associated with include: Natural Disaster Survival, Lumber Tycoon 2, Murder Mystery 2, Speed Run 4, Zombie Attack, Redwood Prison, Survive and Kill the Killers in Area 51, The Normal Elevator, MeepCity, Jailbreak, Doomspire Brickbattle, Elemental Battlegrounds, Build A Boat For Treasure, Whatever Floats your Boat, Welcome to Bloxburg, Broken Bones, Innovation Labs, Retail Tycoon, Polyguns, Flood Escape, Pirate Wars, and SharkBite. I also played so many obby and tycoon games whose details I cannot recall.

• 2021-06-03 - 2021-06-16

A good friend bought me a physical copy in 2016/2017 which came with all the expansions. I think it is on par or better than AoE II.

• 2021-06-03 - 2021-06-16

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-04-18 - 2023-05-30

See Halo: My Thoughts.

• 2023-04-09 - 2023-04-16

One of the first proper PC games I played.

Good memories of being at college with a cobbled together assortment of controllers playing Smash Remix on my laptop with anyone who was up to play.