Maybe there’s no question, right? I mean, in the years where VHS takes overlapped with DVDs and cassettes stood alongside CDs, the newer tech won without question. And here we are now with the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, both of which easily outpace their predecessors in terms of capability and power. So why…
Category: Gamer’s Life
Newcomer Alert: Initial Thoughts on Sly Cooper
More often than not, I come late to a popular game or series, sometimes as much as 10, 15, or even 20 years after its release. Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VII, the Ratchet and Clank series, just to name a few. As a result, I often feel at a disadvantage when other people are discussing…
Noob Vs. Vet: What’s the Difference?
Last Monday, GamerCrash posted an intriguing article about the ways in which games condition us. It’s a subject that got me to think, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized just how strongly my current playstyle is influenced by learned behavior. So much of what I thought were my own ideas…
A New Gaming Challenge: Making Nice With The Twilight Princess
Since giving up on not beating Metroid Prime, I’ve been wary of challenging myself to complete old, unfinished (or never started) games in my backlog. Or, I should say, wary of challenging myself and then making myself accountable by documenting the process in writing, i.e. blogging about it. But even though my Metroid Prime challenge…
Checking Out of Your Game
You’ve finally finished! All the quests you wanted to do are done. All of the items you wanted to get have been obtained…so now what? Do you just leave? Turn off the game and move on just like that? What if you’re not done? What if you want to come back and play again? You…
Day 11: Gaming System of Choice
Day 11 in the 30 days’ worth of video game topics I began writing about…probably over a year ago is my gaming system of choice. It’s a pretty straightforward question, and that is why I want to write about more than said console’s amazing selection of games and the other obvious things one would typically…
#Listmas2015: My Favorite Yoshies in Yoshi’s Woolly World
Despite any personal issues that I’m still working on with Yoshi’s Woolly World, it’s still one of the best current platformers on the WiiU. Helping that cause, at least as far as I’m concerned, is the fact that in the game you can “knit” together a multitude of different Yoshies, thereby ending up with quite…
#Listmas: Great Moments in Gaming
It’s Christmas time again, the jolliest time of the year! You know what else makes me jolly? Video games. What a shocker. And don’t you just love those moments of victory where you throw your arms up into the air and celebrate the completion of yet another epic challenge? And that’s why for this Listmas,…
The Japanese RPG, for a mature audience.
I grew up playing Japanese RPGs, fun turn based games where the title that drew me into videos. Growing to love the happy-go-lucky stories of a teenage hero (such as myself at that time) working to save the world from an over the top evil. The young hero in most cases was someone my age…
File under “It ain’t what it used to be:” The sixty dollar game
With all the recent news of Star Wars: Battlefront and it’s costly DLC, I’ve been thinking about the current price tag of games and how much I don’t think about the current price tag on games. In that I mean that my mindset about buying new console games is as follows: New games cost $60….
VIRTUAL BASTION 