gaming – The Rookery

Best TV Resolutions by Size and Viewing Distance

I’m looking for a new smaller smart TV or monitor that I can use to stream shows while riding my trainer and also game on. This is exactly the table I needed, and so when I finally found it, I thought I’d share it! i.rtings.com/images/optimal-viewing-distance-television-graph-size.png

Loading…Switch Gaming Catch-up

I realize I’ve played several smaller/indie games on the Switch that I haven’t reviewed here, so here goes:

Pointcrow’s Goldfish, Tortellini, Defeats Hardest Boss in Elden Ring

youtube.com/watch That title either made perfect sense to you or no sense whatsoever. So, for the second category of readers, let me explain; no, let me sum up…. Elden Ring is a role-playing action videogame renowned for the difficulty of its combat. In particular, there’s an optional boss toward the end, Malenia, Blade of Miquella,Continue reading “Pointcrow’s Goldfish, Tortellini, Defeats Hardest Boss in Elden Ring”

Loading…Ghost of Tsushima

So, I turned myself into a PC gamer this summer. The logic went something like this: That’s the cleaned-up version of the story. Of course there were complications, the two biggest of which were (a) optimizing GOT on my still-pretty-marginal GPU so it didn’t crash once per session (which I was able to do withContinue reading “Loading…Ghost of Tsushima”

Loading…Review of Legend of Zelda—Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK). AKA, Baby’s Got a (Hot-Glue) Gun

See me riding my blue horse with my Blupee armor up there? Yeah, I got what I came for…. I was seriously conflicted about playing Tears of the Kingdom when the announcement came out. I had just finished playing Breath of the Wild (yes, I realize, I was several years late to that party), andContinue reading “Loading…Review of Legend of Zelda—Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK). AKA, Baby’s Got a (Hot-Glue) Gun”

Loading…Review of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (for Switch)

I’ll just get straight to it–the reasons to play this game are (1) the characters and their development (2) the design of the world and how it looks on the Switch (3) the combat dashboard, which manages to winnow a quite technical JRPG combat system down to something that’s not only playable but enjoyable. ReasonsContinue reading “Loading…Review of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (for Switch)”

Loading…Review of Spiritfarer

You know when you don’t want to say goodbye to a character in a video game that you’re having a special experience. That’s the main strength of Spiritfarer: the designers at Thunder Lotus have put so much effort into crafting the various spirits you pamper, cajole, and coax into the afterlife that it’s hard toContinue reading “Loading…Review of Spiritfarer”

Loading…Review of Highland Song

Just finished playing this game through 3 times. Yep, you read that right—and this from a person who hates repeating anything. But part of the mystery and charm of Highland Song is that you never make the same journey twice. Moira is 15 and hates her mom in the unserious way that most 15-year-olds do.Continue reading “Loading…Review of Highland Song”

Wednesday’s Child/Loading…Review of Gris

This is the most beautiful game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot of beautiful games. In fact, art style is a major factor for me in choosing a game in the first place and in my ultimate rating of it. For example, Final Fantasy 7 makes pretty much every list of best gamesContinue reading “Wednesday’s Child/Loading…Review of Gris”

Loading…Review of Death’s Door

As I sat down to write this post, I was reminded of the Portlandia skit, “Put a bird on it!” Because truly you can get me to buy almost anything with a raven or crow in/on it (or any corvid, really–I’ll take that magpie print and those piñon jay dishtowels, too, thank you). I’ve lovedContinue reading “Loading…Review of Death’s Door”