Gaming Reviews from an Elder PC Gamer. I've got no time for poor quality games!
13 Feb 2021 8 minute read 0 comments bengy
The Ninth of the After Action Reports (AAR) following my direction of the Irish Empire, tracing the dynasty of the Briain dynasty through the Middle Ages. The previous AARs can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, ...
11 Feb 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
XCOM2 (released in 2017 by Firaxis Games) with either the fan-mad Long War Mod or the official War of the Chosen expansion is quite simply the best example of the turn-based tactics genre. The strategic metagame is perhaps the weaker part of...
6 Feb 2021 9 minute read 0 comments bengy
Gamers of a certain vintage will remember with fondness the SimCity franchise from the 80s and 90s. At the time, the idea of plonking down blocks of zoning to create thriving and towns was just mind-boggling... the detail of simulation was la...
4 Feb 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Yesterday, our kid's school had a student free day... it's a bit of a strange sort of event when the kids are learning from home, but this is the last week of that malarky, and the primary school kids will be going back to school next week start...
2 Feb 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Full Motion Videos (FMV) were all the rage in the 90s gaming world. Mostly, the games themselves weren't really in FMV, but the cutscenes would generally be pre-recorded FMV. Gems such as the FMV cutscenes from the CnC and Wing Commander game...
31 Jan 2021 12 minute read 0 comments bengy
Here we are for the first Humble Bundle drop for 2021! When I had a quick look earlier to set up the template, I was thinking that this would be a bit of another dud drop for me similar to last month. However, on a second slower look at the St...
27 Jan 2021 9 minute read 0 comments bengy
Mordheim (released in 2015) is an adaptation of the Warhammer Universe board game of the same name. The PC adaptation is by Rogue Factor (published by Focus Home Interactive) and the original board game (dating from 1999) is by the legendary...
23 Jan 2021 7 minute read 0 comments bengy
This is the AAR following the exploits of the Mech Mercanary company, Bengy's Blobs in RogueTech (the complete overhaul mod of BattleTech). Earlier AARs can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. The new Steiner (Lyran Commonwe...
17 Jan 2021 8 minute read 0 comments bengy
The Eighth of the After Action Reports (AAR) following my direction of the Irish Empire, tracing the dynasty of the Briain dynasty through the Middle Ages. The previous AARs can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7....
15 Jan 2021 10 minute read 0 comments bengy
The first State of Decay game was an interesting but limited third-person zombie survival game wiht a touch of base management thrown in. It was the game that would appeal those who wanted to recreate their own version of the Walking Dead, an...
