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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · Jan 29

THREAD: Most of my thoughts on games these days are posted on Backloggd, where I review games as I beat them.

Here's the first four of the year from me: Call of Duty 3 and the OG Modern Warfare trilogy. I'll throw up more here as they happen.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 9h

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 2d

Played some Ball x Pit before realizing it was another "one of those" and promptly uninstalling it. I'm under the weather so maybe I'm feeling a little more pissy than usual, but it still felt appropriate to use a review to vent.

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PistonHyundai's review of Ball x Pit | Backloggd

I was listening to Jeff Grubb talk about reviews for this game on Giant Bomb's daily news feature yesterday, and he had advice for the viewers that amounted to "you should probably learn to like rogue...

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 7d

but they all scream and yell like you said the secret word in Pee-Wee's Playhouse before they do it

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 8d

If you thought Call of Duty was getting desperate because they're doing a free weekend and announcing the removal of skill based matchmaking the same week Battlefield 6 comes out, you're wrong.

They're desperate because they brought the MP-40 back.

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 9d

I legitimately thought this was some bizarre Wikipedia vandalism and not an actual video game:

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 9d

It's Like Armageddon This Time, You Guys, Promise: The Worms After Armaggedon Story

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 12d

The horror game roulette wheel I set up gave me the Jaguar AvP game after Blood, and its level design ended up keeping me from finishing it. A xenomorph actually did jumpscare me at one point, at least.

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PistonHyundai's review of Alien vs Predator | Backloggd

I'll give Alien vs. Predator one thing: it's got ideas. Between the randomized enemy and item placement each time you play and the three unique campaigns with distinct gameplay styles that redefine th...

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 13d

it's the hope that gets you.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 13d

#40: I'm going big on the spooky theme this month. I loaded up a roulette wheel with horror games I've wanted to check out, and I lucked out huge with the first spin: Blood is easily one of the best games I've played all year.

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PistonHyundai's review of Blood | Backloggd

I have a confession to make: I play boomer shooters like an asshole. Now, I'm not the worst savescummer in the world, but I'm the FPS equivalent of those JRPG people who reach the credits with all of ...

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 15d

Already tired of the inevitable circus around Castellanos not starting.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 16d

My Ko-fi is very much a do-or-die thing right now, and I really won't be able to continue writing if the subs aren't there to support it.

To be clear, this isn't about getting paid my "worth" or w/e, this is "If this can't feed me then I need to find a job that will". Sorry but I'm that desperate.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 17d

Kimimi is great, and her work is one of the things that really inspired me to take my own writing further. Check out some of the hundreds of posts on her site, and support her if you can.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 18d

"They're delisting all of the Rock Band DLC" and "Game Pass is now 30 dollars a month" is really fucked up news to drop on the same day.

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 18d

Corden is more intolerable in a "having to hear hearing old people describe bits he did" kind of way but there's probably something resembling a spine SOMEWHERE in there

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 19d

(Cheech Marin in Dusk Till Dawn voice) PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 19d

Fucking disgusting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’

Jimmy Fallon says he plans to "keep my head down" and avoid politics on "The Tonight Show."

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 19d

I really hope when Crystal Dynamics was showing off Tomb Raider at trade shows and shit, the poor developers got hit with a whole bunch of "so like Alice, then?"

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 19d

Here's some shots I took of Madness Returns to give you an idea of just how damn good it looks. If it didn't take up so much time, I'd play it again on PC just to see it at 4K with high-resolution textures.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 19d

nightcall

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 19d

#39: Alice: Madness Returns is one hell of an artistic achievement, and if it wasn't overstuffed to hell, it'd probably be one of the best games of 2011.

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PistonHyundai's review of Alice: Madness Returns | Backloggd

Alice: Madness Returns strikes me as something of an unlikely sequel. The original Alice was a commercial and critical success, sure, but as a PC exclusive in the early 2000s, so the fact that EA—wher...

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 20d

D'ohtse

tom, friend of eggbug @lizard.tools · 20d

here you go

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 20d

I was thinking that I've been playing too many EA games lately *before* this happened.

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 22d

...Never get rid of anything that can play a Pokemon.

Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 22d

Never get rid of anything that can play a Pokemon.

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 24d

#38: I hacked my 360 and checked out Rock Band Blitz. A lot of games die because of server closures, but Blitz's case is one of the most baffling that I can think of, leaving the game a shell of its former self for no good reason.

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PistonHyundai's review of Rock Band Blitz | Backloggd

Recently, Rock Band Blitz has achieved a sort of notoriety that's got nothing to do with the game itself. Along with Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, it's one of the first software-based attack vectors...

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Piston Hyundai @pistonhyundai.bsky.social · 25d

Well, that's one way to direct people to this really well-done review of Skate I saw earlier this week, I guess: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVN...