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| Title |
Risen |
| Developer |
Piranha Bytes |
| Type |
RPG |
| Platform(s) |
XBox 360, PC (reviewed on PC) |
| Kelly Score ™ |
75 / 100 |
Risen is an old-school role playing game that does very little to make itself appealing to the more “casual” gamer. In terms of overall characteristics, Risen is similar to games like Oblivion- but whereas Oblivion tries to make it easy to progress and overcome your mistakes, Risen makes no such allowances. Interestingly enough, although I generally like “easier” games, I’m actually really enjoying Risen… on the PC. From what I’ve seen and heard, the XBox version should be avoided.
Continue reading Risen: Spiritual successor to Gothic 3
Apple ended months (for some people years) of speculation today by finally announcing the upcoming release of a tablet computer, the iPad. Like pretty much everything Apple releases, there is an overwhelming amount of hype surrounding the device, and many “true believers” are disappointed by what the device offers.
Even so, I plan on buying one when it becomes available. I thought it would be appropriate to explain my rational on the theory that my friends and family may doubt my sanity more than usual as a result.
Continue reading I will be buying an iPad… but why?
I own the following T-shirt from Shirt.Woot!:
It accurately describes one major aspect of why I don’t regularly exercise. Lack of motivation… and there is an unfortunate dearth of gigantic prehistoric predators around to provide such motivation.
Continue reading Exercise: some motivation required… lots of motivation, actually
| Title |
Bayonetta |
| Developer |
Platinum Games |
| Type |
Action/Fighting |
| Platform(s) |
XBox360, PS3 |
| Kelly Score ™ |
40 / 100 |
Action games are a genre that I really didn’t understand until I played Bayonetta. I could therefore say that the $60 I spent on this game was educational: I have been taught that I should not buy this kind of game. The kindest things I can really say about Bayonetta from my perspective are that the graphics are impressive, and the main character has one of the finest digital rumps in computer history.
If you generally agree with everything I say, you have no need to read further.
Continue reading Bayonetta: Everything that is wrong with this type of game
My most recent clock family member arrived on Thursday. It is one that I plan on keeping: a mid-19th century (sometime before 1853) “ogee” style clock made by the Chauncey Jerome factory in New Haven, Connecticut:
Continue reading My “new” old clock- circa 1850′s Chauncey Jerome 8 day ogee
The U.S. Defence advanced research guys are worried that not enough young Americans are pursuing the sciences or engineering. They are looking for ways to encourage more young people to pursue degrees in these areas.
There is a problem here, and I can tell you exactly what it is. For years, the largest American employers of scientists [...]
I sort of stumbled into a diet and exercise website called LiveStrong the other day. I was looking for a way to test out the BlackBerry App World, which had been giving me trouble, and decided to download the LiveStrong BlackBerry app which works with the website itself. It all looked pretty good, and reasonably legit: the company is now owned by a former founder of MySpace, and is associated with Lance Armstrong, the professional cyclist. The next thing I knew I was tracking the calories and nutrients in my food, and I was putting my weight loss goal at the top of my website. I’m talking about this thing:
Continue reading Tracking my calories…
The second “learner” clock I worked on was completed early in December and has been delivered to its new home. I am pretty happy with the results:
Case after restoration:
Continue reading Clock rebuild #2 complete and delivered, #3 started
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