I love video game music. It does more than any other aspect to bring me fully into a game world. I especially enjoy the music from World of Warcraft. It is incredibly varied and really captures the essence of an in-game area and the story taking place within. Here are my top 7 most beautiful…
Tiny Octopus Loves Games that Never End
We all know that I have a major problem with purchasing games and then never playing them. I’m a terrible game hoarder. However, I think I’ve pinpointed the problem with my game collecting. I’m obsessed with existing in a living, breathing game world and I often don’t want to leave. Knowing I can dive right…
Mini Review! Kronville: Stolen Dreams
Alright, my lovely Tentacles, this hidden object point and click puzzler was a quickie. I picked it up as part of a pack of six games on a Steam sale a while back when I was looking for something mind numbing to play when I didn’t want to deal with anything hard – and this…
First Person Games Make Me Barf: Top 5 Ways to Decrease Motion Sickness while Playing Video Games
Let’s talk about something really uncomfortable that I’m encountering trying to play Elder Scrolls: Morrowind: simulator sickness. (DUN DUN DUNNNN….) I feel uncomfortably motion sick when playing first person games. Any game that does not show a physical ‘body’ to control usually triggers it. So we’re talking Bioshock, older Elder Scrolls (what I’m struggling with…
Mini Review! Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
I love Dungeons and Dragons. I’ve been putting my pretty little tentacles on every piece of DnD memorabilia I can for the last 3 years or so. How this little idle gem ever got past my voracious need for anything DnD is beyond me. ICotFR is a fun little idle game – you know the…
Tiny Octopus is a Cheating Cheater
After months of being absolutely enthralled by Guild Wars 2, I’ve finally decided to take another dive into a very long and expansive game that I absolutely should have played by now: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Bethesda is celebrating 25 years of Elder Scrolls in 2019, and I thought this would be the perfect…
My Top 5 NOPEs
Hello, my little Tentacles! Sorry about the long hiatus from posts, but I was doing the Holidays thing for Thanksgiving, and had my work schedule get an uptick in hours (hooray extra Christmas money!). That being said, I’m still cruising away in the gaming world! I’m loving on Neverwinter, Fallout 76 even with it’s drawbacks,…
Fallout 76 – First Impressions
Greetings from Appalachia, my little Tentacles! Fallout 76 is here, and it is a daring new take on the classic Bethesda series, tossing aside it’s single player roots in favor of a new multiplayer game style that urges you to explore the new post-nuclear landscape in real time with other players from around the globe. …
Achievement Unlocked! Final Fantasy VII Complete!
Dadadada dun dun da dadaaaaa!!! (Sung in the manner of the battle completion song. Duh.) I finally did it! FF7 is in the books. I’m gonna pick one thing I hated, one thing I loved, and one thing I’m meh about. Hate – OMFG, that Stupid Supernova Animation Safer Sephiroth can suck a fart directly…
Hitting the Wall: FFVII Edition
Well folks, it’s happened. True to form, I’m about 60% through a large single-player game, and I literally cannot force myself to pick up my controller to finish it. And it’s Final Fantasy! A series I love! *sigh* I have squirrelled onto about 6 other games at the moment which are doing a pretty good…
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