Tag Archives: Gaming

Dave the Diver makes fishing seem appealing, but it’s no replacement for the real thing

Posted on 30/07/2023 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

My old man loved to go fishing. I never saw the appeal. Even during the winter months, which in Scotland is a period of early November to late March, often longer, he’d be knee deep in water, for hours, sometimes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Bancho, Blobfish, Dad, Dave The Diver, Elden Ring, Fishing, Fred and Rose West, Frilled Shark, Gaming, Gordon Ramsay, Greenpeace, Greta Thunberg, Karl Pilkington, Kitchen Nightmares, Matrix, Morpheus, Mortal Kombat finishing style, Mum, Narwal, Otis Ferry, Scotland, Sifu, Steam, Vegans, Yakuza 0 | Leave a comment

Yes, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a great Western

Posted on 30/11/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Can a computer game belong to the canon of great Westerns? My reflex response was no. Yet whilst playing Red Dead Redemption 2, which was finally released on PC earlier this month, I keep questioning my initial resistance. The vividness … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged 1899, Albanian sex trafficker stupidly kidnapping Liam Nesson's daughter, Arthur Morgan, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Dutch, Frederick Jackson Turner, Gaming, Give your horse a mohawk, GTA V, Gun lobbyists, John ‘Wooden’ Wayne, Limmy, Michigan Militia, Minecraft deathpit, O’Driscoll gang, Odds & Ends, PC, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar, Virtual violence is fun and good for you, Western | 1 Comment

Hollow Knight – Metroidvania meets Masochism

Posted on 30/04/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Until recently I’d never heard of the Metroidvania genre. In my defence, I’m only a casual ‘silver’ gamer. On average I game for about five or six hours a week. These aren’t enthusiast numbers, not even close. Down the years … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Best Christmas song ever, Boiling piss, Casual 'Silver' gamer twat, Dark Souls, FIFA, Gaming, Godhome DLC, Heroin addiction, Life is Unfair and so is Hollow Knight's DLC, Masochism, Metroidvania, Moaning, Odds & Ends, Private Pyle is slimy Walrus looking piece of shit, Sesame Street, Team Cherry, The Nightmare King Grimm is a horrible bastard, Vanity | Leave a comment

Risin’ Up – finally a Tomb Raider game worthy of the concept

Posted on 13/05/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

All the arguments have been had, multiple times; what do the motivations behind our involvement with the Tomb Raider franchise tell us about our perceptions of gender equality and progressivism? Does the incremental intangible sophistication and overt desexualisation of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Bronies, Gaming, Gaming Evolution, Germaine Greer and Steve Irwin should've been friends, Harry Potter would've been better with fuck off guns, Jessica Rabbit, JK Rowling has an old grumpy arse, John Huston's vanity hunts, Lance Corporal Jones 'They don't like it up'em', Lara Croft, Measurables, Pocket Rocketness, Rise Of The Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider, White Hunter Black Heart | Leave a comment

Football Manager 2015 – a love rediscovered?

Posted on 13/02/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

You couldn’t categorise me as an avid gamer, or a gamer at all these days – truth be told. In fact, throughout this decade I’ve barely played any. That’s due to a number of other interests asserting their predominance, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Championship Manager, Company of Heroes, Crimewatch, Fiction & Fantasy, FM 2015, Football agents are greedy twats!, Football Manager, FPS, Gaming, GTA Vice City, John Lambie, Maxim Tsigalko, Nonces in Thatcher's cabinet, Partick Thistle, Premier League, Realism, Sega Megadrive, Sega MK 1655, Sensible Soccer | 2 Comments