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…
Category: General Commentary
Will the New Final Fantasy VII Lure Me Back into the Final Fantasy Universe?
When the Final Fantasy VII remake was officially announced at this past weekend’s PlayStation Experience 2015 conference, I watched in awe and confusion. The gameplay video that was shown was exciting and unexpected. It looked like FFVII, but it also really didn’t. In fact, if it hadn’t been for Cloud’s spiky blond hair and familiar…
Fallout’s…Kinda Depressing
The Fallout games have always had a certain charm to them haven’t they? They all take place in a world that’s as devastated as can be, and yet they still manage to keep everything light and even funny. In fact, it does a lot to keep things funny: propaganda-spouting death-robots, dog-powered machine guns, and the…
Observations on gaming and engagement
The following article originally appeared on Geek Force Network, July 26, 2013. After a long stretch of dealing with summertime obligations, I recently found myself with a little extra time to get back to gaming. Along with the occasional dash of Little Big Planet, I’m slowly playing through Dragon Age II and Metroid Prime. (I’m about…
Why Play Destiny?
Fallout 4 is finally out and we finally have the chance to fulfill our dreams of roaming around the Commonwealth Wasteland! It’s a release that many of us were (perhaps a bit more than) eagerly awaiting, and one of those games that I thought I would immediately get lost in once started. Heck, I was…
Microtransactions – Are they good for games?
Microtransactions or micropayments, are a dirty little schemes cell phone games and video games have used to hook gamers into paying to play. These strategies have a bad reputation because they have a frustrating method to get players to buy additional content. But these schemes work, why? Gamers like additional content and are willing to…
The makings of a physical game collection (on “paper,” at least)
As much as I love spending time with video games of the here and now, part of me will forever be stuck in gaming’s past. I can’t deny the desire to pick up on great titles that I missed. Now, I don’t always want to look to the past with gaming, but when I do,…
What Makes Super Metroid Great: 21 Years Later
The waning health of my Super Nintendo has been a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is quite a sad day indeed when one of your oldest consoles begins to die. (Well, characters disappearing is definitely a nuisance, to say the least.) Plus, now I need to hunt down a used one, still in working…
Fallout: A Brief Guide for Newcomers
Image by Flickr user: Kenneth DM (cc) Only two more days until we finally get another chance to dive into the world of Fallout! It’s amazing how quickly we’ve gone from that surprise E3 announcement to being only days away from getting our hands on the game, isn’t it? For those who will be getting their…
The Completionist Strikes Back
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: I am not a completionist. It’s true that I like to play a game till I feel like I’ve gotten my money’s worth, but rarely has that translated into garnering a game’s every last item/armor/achievement/trophy/quest/etc. With some games, like with Red Dead Redemption and…
VIRTUAL BASTION 