I was honestly very skeptical of the Dead Space remake at first. I mean, not only is the original still easy to play on current systems, but it’s also held up quite well over the years in terms of both visuals and gameplay mechanics. It’s the sort of game that one would think really wouldn’t…
Category: opinion
Stop Telling Me What To Do!
There’s a certain pet peeve I have when it comes to games, one that has been coming up more and more as the years go on: over-tutorializing. I don’t know what exactly developers think of us, but they must not think very much considering their absolute refusal to just let us play their games. The…
Returnal is Great, But It May Too Old School for Its Own Good
During the Christmas season, I had the incredible good fortune of obtaining the ever-elusive PlayStation 5, and immediately dove into a game that’d been on my mind ever since it released: Returnal. As you might’ve heard (and I quickly discovered), Returnal is decidedly not an easy game. It gameplay is wonderfully fast and fluid, but…
Wrong game, wrong time? – Divinity: Original Sin II
In the hunt for something to grab my attention post-Fallout 76 at the end of last year, I turned to comparing some of my old wishlists to various holiday gaming sales and found what I thought might be a perfect match in Divinity: Original Sin II. Here was a game, on sale, that I had…
Hat’s Most Anticipated Games for 2023
Another year has come and gone, and once again we got to enjoy a lot of great games. Still, the releases never stop coming, and there are always plenty of cool and interesting titles to look forward to this year! I’m mostly sticking to major releases on this list, but I’m thinking there are a…
Cary’s Most Anticipated Games of 2023
As it goes, many recent years have been “great years for gaming,” and it causes me to wonder if that well is ever going to dry up a little. After all, what’s to make a year greater in gaming than another if nothing but greatness abounds? Okay, so maybe I’m getting a little rhetorical, because…
Elden Ring is My GotY Too!
A little bit ago, the annual Game Awards show did it’s thing with the world premieres and the celebrity cameos and such. I usually don’t care all that much for the show as it seems to be more about spectacle than the actual games. This time though, they did one thing that I actually agreed…
Cary’s 2022 Game of the Year: Stray
As I sit here and think about Stray, I struggle to come up with a game in recent memory that affected me more. I mentioned in my review of the game that the experience of playing it was undoubtedly colored by the recent passing of my own beloved cat, but still, the game rose well…
When Does a Game Become ‘Unfair’?
If you’ve been playing games for a long time, you’ve almost certainly had a “BS” moment. You know the one; it’s that moment where things go wrong, and you’re absolutely convinced that the game robbed you somehow. Maybe it glitched and your shot didn’t register, or maybe Mario bounced off of the side of a…
There May Be Such a Thing as “Too Much Pokemon”
You know, Pokemon is kind of amazing. Despite all predictions for multiple decades now, the franchise remains the single most popular and profitable entertainment property in the world. Seriously. The pokemon craze that started all the way back in the mid-90s is still going strong almost 30 years later! Wow! What’s even more amazing is…
VIRTUAL BASTION 