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The Odyssey

Scopique December 3, 2021

Sci-fi is ultimately my favorite genre. Although I know I will never find myself In Space, alive in an era when humanity finally breaks free of this solar system, or even has a working, viable colony on another planet, that sci-fi still…

Patch 3.15 – Mining & Refining, Inventory, and Home Annoying Home

Scopique November 13, 2021

The arrival of the 3.15 patch on the persistent universe servers has been a very good thing for the Star Citizenry (more or less). While I don’t have benchmarks to prove it, the game feels like it’s running a bit better, and…

Guardians of the Galaxy – The Review

Scopique November 10, 2021

I get to make an official review! I never like making “reviews” because I rarely finish a game; most of my posts talking about any game are usually “first impressions” covering the first hour or so, but let’s face it: this is…

Astrox Imperium Revisited

Scopique October 30, 2021

Back in May of last year, I posted about a game that pretty much everyone who refers to it calls “EVE Offline”, Astrox Imperium. In my recent quest to find an in-depth sci-fi game, I reloaded it from Steam and found that…

Grab Bag for October 28, 2021

Scopique October 28, 2021

New World As if this wasn’t a surprise, I think I’m done with New World. There comes a time in all games when the tutorial-ness of the situation wears off and all that stretches before me is the actual game. I really…

Gardeners of the Galaxy – First Impressions

Scopique October 26, 2021

I’m not a comic book guy, so my knowledge of anything Marvel or DC comes from the mass-marketing of select franchises that seem to be responsible for about 75% of all movie and and a good 45% of TV entertainment in 2021.…

Vagrus: The Riven Realms

Scopique October 20, 2021

I hate the term grimdark. It sounds to me like a word made up by a goth kid with a traumatic brain injury who’s re-learning how to speak, but what do I know: here we are, talking about Vagrus: The Riven Realms.…

Recommendations for Lo-Fi, Sci-Fi, and In-Depth Games

Scopique October 18, 2021

They say every 7 years we undergo some kind of mental-rearrangement. It might be as large a swing as changing jobs or even groups of friends, but it also might be something as minor as the types of music listened to or…

New World – Queue Queue Blues

Scopique October 4, 2021

It’s the kind of problem a service game loves to have: too many people wanting to get in and not enough space to accommodate them all. Wait…I mean…massive interest, but limited seating. No, hold up. What I really mean is that in…

New World – Going Down The Only Road I’ve Ever Known

Scopique September 29, 2021

Way back in 2016, according to the reckonin’, I “expressed interest” in Amazon’s New World. It was only a vague announcement, a promise that Big Evil’s new games studio would be making a Moomorpigger, which was around the time, give or take,…