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…
Category: opinion
The Biggest Gaming Happenings of the 2010’s
When we first started United We Game/Virtual Bastion, gaming was in a very different place than it is now. Many things that are commonplace now were unthinkable then, and games themselves were largely different in how they were designed. Even the way we engage with games is radically different these days, so…how did we get…
We’re in this Together – Maintaining Motivation
When we were considering weekly topics for our grand anniversary, this question of “what’s kept us going?” seems like an obvious one to include. In a world where blogs come and go (so quickly sometimes, it’s hard to keep up!), longevity is something of a “golden egg.” Did it just happen that the three of…
Virtual Bastion Anniversary – How On Earth Are We Still Here??
Last week, instead of jumping right into the topic, I instead took a moment to reflect on the fact that ten years really is a long time. Most of, perhaps even all, our blogging peers from 2013 have moved onto other things by now, but we’re still chugging right along somehow. Why is that?
I Loved Zelda-ween!
You know, it’s still kind of insane to me that we’ve managed to last 10+ years as a blog. Most of our peers from that time have, for one reason or another, moved onto other things yet here we are somehow still chugging right along. We’re all going to talk about that a bit more…
When Games Bring Out Your Ugly Side
For the most part, I think games are supposed to be a relaxing thing. Once your day is done and its compliment of tasks are completed, enjoying a game should be a matter of stress-free fun. I think this is mostly the case for single player games, but, for me, multiplayer is a different story….
Looking Longingly at PC Gaming
There was a time when I thought consoles were (and would always be) the best way to play. They were so much easier and faster than PCs and I’ve always much preferred a gamepad to keyboard controls. Of course, the years have seen most, if not all, the advantages of console gaming slowly get whittled…
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…
I May Never Defeat Ganondorf, but Tears of the Kingdom is Still Alright
After spending over 160 hours in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there I was, as Link, facing off with the Demon King Ganondorf, knowing I was doomed. Actually, I knew it much earlier, when the classic ender quest to “defeat Ganondorf” appeared. Though I had obtained the Master Sword, I knew I…
The Pressure to Play
I’m not sure how much this applies to other hobbies, but with gaming it sometimes feels like something that must be done rather than something to enjoy at your leisure. This shouldn’t be the case since video games are inherently a pastime activity, yet it persists all the same and comes from a variety of…
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