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…
Category: opinion
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,…
Big Hops is a Platforming Delight!
Just when I thought I’m not going to find another solid 3D platformer, along came my friend with a recommendation. “Dude, you gotta try Big Hops,” he said. “It’s everything you could want in a modern platformer,” is how he sold it to me. Now, I love me some indie platformers, but that sounded like…
The Marathon Situation is Kinda Silly
I’m gonna keep it real here, I was as prepared to hate on Marathon as just about anyone else, but after playing it for myself during the Marathon Server Slam last week, I don’t think it deserves it. This doesn’t mean that I like the game or the business practices Bungie seems to want to…
Yep, I’m Fired Up for Fable
Being late to the party, as usual, I just recently got around to checking out the preview of Playground Games’ Fable, which was featured during last month’s Xbox Developer Direct. As a fan of the original series, I’ve had my eye on this new entry since it was first announced way back in the summer…
VIRTUAL BASTION 