With each year that passes, it feels like the appeal of online subscription services fades just a little bit more. Regardless of the service and even the medium, everything about it just seems to get worse and worse. Not only have these services gotten progressively more expensive, but they’ve all also started making ads a…
Category: opinion
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Something Truly Special
I’ve already done a couple of posts praising Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. One for the great first impressions it makes and one for its engaging end game. After finally finishing the game, seeing its story through and thinking on it for the last couple of days, though, I think I’ve finally formed my full and…
Lost Odyssey, It’s Not You, It’s Me
Technically speaking, there’s very little wrong with Lost Odyssey. While it has some negative aspects of a nearly twenty-year-old RPG, it’s a solid experience that’s extremely well-executed. The story is great, the soundtrack is amazing, the characters are convincing, and the game’s turn-based combat is sound. So why in the name of all that is…
Expedition 33’s End Game is Awesome!
I feel like the endgame portion of an RPG is a really tough thing to nail down. It can be too short or overlong. It can be too easy or too difficult. It can also be too irrelevant to the main story or do nothing for the characters, serving mainly as just extra padding for…
Save Scumming is Every Gamer’s Right
For about as long as I can remember, I’ve heard that save scumming is something only lesser gamers do. I’ve heard that it’s tantamount to cheating, and that those who do it are robbing themselves of a genuine experience within whatever game they’re playing. In other words, the sentiment seemed to be that you just…
Backlog Busting
I’m not entirely sure what stone overturned in my mind, but recently, while flipping back and forth between a decision to load up either Oblivion or Blue Prince, I felt suddenly compelled to review my gaming backlog instead. The “B” word fills some with dread, others delight. For me, it’s somewhere in between. I like…
Marathon is Everything Wrong with AAA Gaming
With just about everyone out there weighing in on the Marathon situation, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to write anything about it myself. After all, what is there to add at this point? It’s a terrible situation that was entirely avoidable, and is likely to lose Sony an insane amount of money and…
Do I Really Need It Right Now?
I dunno about you all, but I got something of a weakness for game sales. It’s not so much that I go on sprees and just buy tons of games whenever there’s a sale, but I do find myself grabbing something on impulse whenever I think the sale is good enough. This would be fine,…
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered First Impressions
While making my way through the new remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion this past weekend as Argonian assassin, Jade-In-Shadow, we happened upon a kerfuffle at the vineyards outside Skingrad. Not wanting to become embroiled in the conflict, Jade stuck to the shadows and watched as some townsfolks battled intruding magic-users of some sort….
Triple-A Gaming Isn’t Over, But It’s Definitely Not Relevant Anymore
Over the weekend, I just happened to take a look at the list of games I’ve played over the last several months, and I made an interesting discovery. Aside from Silent Hill 2 and Metaphor: ReFantazio, there wasn’t a single “AAA” game on the list. I’m not even sure I would count Silent Hill 2…
VIRTUAL BASTION 