Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim PS3 Review
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is the game on PS3 that I have been waiting for since Drakan on PS2. It is a game that comes along once in the life of a console. Skyrim does everything Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion did and 100% better. It is the super sequel, the uber version, and Geek Woman’s [...]
Saints Row: The Third PS3 Review
My Saints Row character is a tall Asian female with a thong tan, oiled skin, and a Latina accent. She can look pretty hot with her animated bump and grind routines, but she can’t swim in her pool or sit down in her hot tub. She can accumulate lots of gold coins but there are [...]
Dark Souls PS3 Review
This one is a sequel to previous title Demon’s Souls. The dark and shadowy palette is the set up for a castle of horrors. You get into battle after selecting gender, (hurrah), class and other attributes in a mid range character creation system. You can choose a female gender character. You can control the body [...]
When Pigs Fly iPad Mini Review
When Pigs Fly is a very soothing mellow game. Penelope Pig manages to fly, with her own homemade wings. To gain momentum she has to run up hills and leap skyward, with your help of course. She needs to pick up pink gum drops, and avoid snapping alligator jaws. When Pigs Fly seems to be [...]
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim PS3 Review
Posted by geek-woman on January 13th, 2012
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is the game on PS3 that I have been waiting for since Drakan on PS2. It is a game that comes along once in the life of a console. Skyrim does everything Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion did and 100% better. It is the super sequel, the uber version, and Geek Woman’s 2012 Game of the Year. By now there have been entire Wiki’s written about the game. It is so vast, like an MMORPG, served up for one player to selfishly relish and despoil on their own. It is going to be enough material for more than one review here.
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim also receives Geek Woman’s Best Female Avatar and best Female NPC this year. This review you can expect lengthy sections about feminism and the females of Skyrim. I played as a female Arch Mage, and I got to marry 
the girl of my dreams. There are both funny, and touching stories about Skyrim which I can’t wait to tell my readers.
Although I’ve made many glowing remarks, and found many things about the game to be awesome, it is not perfect. On PS3 it is anything but perfect. Since I plan to do the Skyrim review in at least two parts, I am going to withhold scoring it until I have completed the next group of quests. For this review I will discuss my experience of the game in it’s social and feminist aspects. Next time I will analyze gameplay more.
Do I recommend Skyrim to any lady gamers reading this? Yes, is the short answer. Especially the PC version. Unfortunately the struggles that PS3 gamers have been having with the platform for the last year are still going on, with Sony throttling the ability of the developers to create a perfect port and to fix it via updates. If you don’t have an internet connection to your PS3, then you should go for the PC version. If you do have the PS3, and you are stuck with it, the major problems don’t come up until you are well into the game, when I discover work arounds I will include them in the next part.
Some of the the best features Skyrim has are the ones which several RPG’s and RPG hybrids just did not have. There were so many games in 2011 that were cheap, and cut corners. 
Lazily put together RPGs dominated the offerings last year. The trend was to provide a single player game of three to four hours, and then slap on a carbon copy multiplayer mode. Which, with the PSNetwork being only sporadically available last year, were rip offs. The lame earlier competition only made Skyrim coming in the fall that much better. Skyrim is a game with rich amounts of content in any direction you choose to play it, and has earned all the hype. It is well worth your purchase, and may keep you occupied for months of gaming. You’ll have a game that is epic in every sense of the word.
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Geeking in the New Year
Posted by geek-woman on January 10th, 2012
It was unfair that this holiday season too many games came out all at the same time. I won’t make excuses for myself. There is only one of me. In a word, it has been Skyrim. I have a back log list of reviews as long as my arm. The first one for the new year will be Skyrim. It has to be, even though I have had the latest Bleach game review half done and spread over both iPads for over a month.
There is more general stuff that I want to mention as we leap into 2012. Last year I modestly began to post articles in the Phenomenon category, this year there will be more.
I’ve used the experience I have from years of candle making to adapt to the dark art of making chocolates. I’m discovering as I become an older geek more areas of life and interests continue to cross over. I’m not doing a food blog. I’ve been studying alchemy and becoming a physicist. I’m reading the Epistles of Ali Puli, a rare 17th century alchemy monograph, and For the Love of Physics by the well known MIT Professor Walter Lewin alternately.
No there is no measurable center of our galaxy. I read somewhere that the surviving Mayan people are offended that their sacred calendar has been exploited and misinterpreted as meaning the “end of the world”. I’ve lived through enough portentous times to know that the stuff which is really frightening is what you can’t predict. Although if I lived on the west coast of the USA or in Japan I would be anxious about quakes this spring, not in December.
A New Years Resolution: No-Stress Geekism, which is my latest invention.
Saints Row: The Third PS3 Review
Posted by geek-woman on December 2nd, 2011
My Saints Row character is a tall Asian female with a thong tan, oiled skin, and a Latina accent. She can look pretty hot with her animated bump and grind routines, but she can’t swim in her pool or sit down in her hot tub. She can accumulate lots of gold coins but there are a limited number of things that she can do with that wealth. She can’t wine and dine with it and experience the high life. It was those details that someone obviously thought were minor, and cut them. Gone are the details which made Saints Row 2 a complete experience. Those finishing touches have been replaced with kitsch and gimmicks. Read more »
Sara Gilbert Rocks Tutu
Posted by geek-woman on December 1st, 2011
Sara Gilbert rocks this Hirajuku inspired look with a pink tutu and gold platforms on the arm of Sharon Osbourne in this promo photo for The Talk on CBS which has a New York Special coming up. Way to go geeky lady!
