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Category: opinion
Hades II is Incredible Right From the Get-Go!
Even though I’m late to the Hades II party, I’m really glad to have made it!
Super Mario 64, You’re My One and Only
If the recent release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie reminds me of anything, it’s that I never completed Super Mario Galaxy. Because of that, I never touched its sequel, either. Super Mario Sunshine is also in the DNF pile. Super Mario 3D World was fun but left me cold. I recently saw Super Mario…
Why Did I Stop Playing This?
Earlier this week, I found myself performing a sort of ritual, one that I’m sure every gamer out there is very familiar with: scrounging through your backlog looking for the next game you wanna play. It’s almost like clockwork; finish one big game, pick around at your casual games for a bit, then go looking…
A Return to The Elder Scrolls Online
Best I can tell, it’s been a good three or four years since I last paid attention to The Elder Scrolls Online. My personal heyday with it was admittedly short, from 2019-2020, but as I had a lot of time on my hands during one of those years, I managed to rack up a decent…
Legacy Games are Something Else
Recently, I found myself having a string of very similar conversations, and they focus around the same argument: “You really like X, so why won’t you play Y? It’s like X but newer with so many more features and better graphics.” I understand the point, but, see, the arguments are about games like Animal Crossing….
Rethinking Rougelikes
About a million years ago, I played (and maybe you did, too) the game from whence all current roguelikes and roguelites were born: Rogue. Apt title, right? Originally a DOS game, Rogue was a procedurally generated dungeon crawler where no two runs were ever alike. Each run began with a blank screen, a single character…
Crimson Desert is Neither the Best Game Ever Nor the Worst
I touched on this topic once already in my post about the discourse surrounding Marathon recently, but I couldn’t help be revisit it after seeing how people have been talking about Crimson Desert. As far as I can tell, there’s no reason for discussion about this game be anything but civil. In fact, I’d say…
A Dearth of Good Game Writing?
Crimson Desert was decently prominent among my most anticipated games of the year, but, at best, it was a wait and see” prospect. Now it’s out, along with a plethora of initial reviews, I am glad I didn’t jump on it in a fit of FOMO. Word is that Crimson Desert is, to turn a…
Bethesda’s Time in the Sun Might Be Over
With Bethesda now going about crowing over its latest re-release, this time the PS5 port of Starfield, I found myself thinking about just how different this company and its games are compared to its Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim era. In pure dollars and cents, Bethesda is bigger and enjoying more success than ever before,…
VIRTUAL BASTION 