FF12’s Awesome Cast: The Kids

Among the harshest criticisms lobbed at Final Fantasy XII is the alleged “pointlessness” of Vaan and Penelo. The argument goes that a pair of common street urchins don’t have much place in a story about high magicks, the clashing of gods and men, twisted political machinations and displaced princesses. There is, in fact, quite a […]

Nihopalaoa

Sony finally got their act together and re-launched PSN, so I was able to log in and push the magic button I needed to push in order to gain access to Portal 2 on my PC. That’s good! Now I just need to figure out which of the dozen or so PS3 refugees I’m going […]

So do I hate Mega Man 10?

With my LP series ending on such a sour note, a lot of people have asked me if I ended up hating Mega Man 10. The answer is tricky. On its face, I don’t like the game as it presents itself in Normal Mode, and as played by Mega Man. There are a lot of […]

Jocelyn Beauregard, Private Eye (part twenty-two)

Jocelyn had intended to spend the bulk of the following morning on the telephone. She wanted to first catch up with Detective Clark and find out the precinct’s take on the break-in at Ted’s office. She had a name; if the cops had a description to go with […]

Let’s play Mega Man 10

First thing’s first, here’s the completed four hour playlist:

And here’s a shot of tonight’s dinner:

Homemade ramen, bitches!

Don’t worry, someone already made fun of me for eating my noodles with a fork. They were all, “What’s the matter, Brickroad? Don’t know how to use chopsticks?”

And I was all, “Why […]

Yet Another Elephant Game

And this one’s an… RPG? Well, kind of:

If that looks to you like a miniature elephant army zapping some blob monsters with a flurry of candy lasers, that’s because it is. I went by Kongregate today for the sole purpose of seeing if there were any new elephant games to waste my time […]

Melts In Your Mouth

My first thought was that maybe some M&M colors are just more common than others. Like, perhaps there is some technical reason why the yellow M&M machine suffers more downtime than the blue M&M machine.

Then I figured that was nonsense, and that the color breakdown in my bag was a strange, but not […]

Brickroad Attends Nerd Concert, Film at 11

The site downtime problem should hopefully be fixed now, or at least fixed-ish, which brings my short impromptu hiatus to a close. Let the daily updates resume! (Or, at least, daily-ish.)

While the site was wobbing in and out of consciousness a few people flagged me down to ask if I had raised holy hell […]

Service Unavailable

I’ve been working closely with the web gods and NASA to figure out what’s with all the downtime lately. Hopefully that will all be sorted soon, and we’ll be back to regularly scheduled and perfectly banal updates before you know it.

In the meantime, what am I spending my time writing? My wedding ceremony. What […]

I don’t hate Persona 3 oh wait yes I do

You may read my recent posts and come away with the idea that I don’t much like Persona 3, and you’d be right. The game’s flaws are just too weighty, and I’m getting to the point in my current playthrough where I’m about to throw in the towel for the third time.

The question is, […]