With games getting ever more expensive and often in new and “exciting” ways, having the chance to try before you buy is extremely valuable. I needn’t list off the merits to you, as there’s really only one that matters: getting to see if the game is actually for you or not. Some games sound great…
Category: General Commentary
Dropping the ‘To-Do’ List
Last week, I talked about Helldivers 2 and how much of a blast it’s been. Well, here we are another week later and it’s still all I wanna play. It’s sort of a problem in that there are other games I’m “supposed” to be playing and making progress on; games like Alone in the Dark…
Looking Forward: What do we hope comes of the next ten years in gaming?
We’ve spent the last roughly two months talking about how gaming has evolved over the last decade and how we, as gamers, have changed, as well. A lot has happened in these past ten years, some good, some bad, but one thing is for certain. Gaming is going stronger than it ever has before, reaching…
How I’ve Changed as a Gamer Since 2013
For this last week of personal posts for Virtual Bastion’s tenth (ish) anniversary, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to take a look back at our gaming lives and see how we’ve changed as gamers. We already discussed views and such last week, so this time I think the focus will be on taste…
Then and Now: The ‘Triple A’ Fun Factor
As our tenth anniversary continues, we decided it’d be a good chance to take a look back at the first few months of Virtual Bastion and compare some of our thoughts then with those we hold now. Have we changed over these past few years, or have our opinions solidified? To answer that question in…
Top Stories: A Decade in Review
It’s difficult to describe the past decade in gaming in a nutshell, especially when you throw the pandemic in to the mix. For much of the decade, it seemed the industry was on a certain trajectory, which unexpectedly shot off into the stratosphere and is now just normalizing. If there’s anything good to say about…
The Duck’s Top 5 Events of the Decade: From Sketchy Practices to Movies and Beyond
For the Duck’s own list of the top 5 most important gaming events of the last decade, I’ve got a mix of good and bad. On one hand, certain companies have gotten greedier than ever. In the middle, we have well-intentioned developers who attempted to deliver a good product, failed, then tried their best to…
A Wild Ride: The Past Decade in Gaming
It’s kind of hard to believe that ten-plus years have already passed since we started Virtual Bastion (then “United We Game”) back in 2013. Our little space on the net isn’t quite what it was in the beginning, but I like to think that we haven’t changed all *that* much over the course of the…
Ace Attorney – It’s Good to be Back!
High on my 2024 “most anticipated” list was Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, a compilation released on the Switch in January. My first foray into the Ace Attorney series occurred seven years ago with the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy, which was old news by then. Still, I had a great time with the…
The Duck’s 2023 GOTY: Pikmin 4
Back in 2023, the Duck only played two games that were actually released in that year. Fortunately, they were both very good games, meaning I’m not going to have to compromise when it comes to my game of the year. My two options between which I needed to deliberate was The Legend of Zelda: Tears…
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