This time of year brings about different modes of being for different people. Some folks prefer a stretch of solitude to the chaos of family gatherings and friendly parties, while others revel in those very festive groups of kin and acquaintances. Our second Listmas topic of the season strays away from solo ventures to multiplayer…
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Listmas 2024: Friends and Family Are the Greatest Gift of All
The one thing more important than gifts and good food during the Christmas season (as much fun as they are) is having friends and family to share the holidays with. (After all, who else is going to give you those presents, ha ha!) So it’s about time we listed some of the gaming relationships that…
Listmas 2024 – Friendship Goals in Games
For us players, having fun and interesting characters to pal around with is something that can easily enhance any game. However, it’s just as fun to watch best friends do their thing completely independent of us too. There’s just something about knowing that our virtual companions have lives of their own too, you know? So,…
Listmas 2024: Cary’s Favorite Teammates and Companions
Merry Listmas! In considering our first topic of the season – our bestest (or mostly so) buds in games – my mind immediately went to the most obvious place…BioWare. We’ve been traipsing around game worlds with teammates and companions by our sides for decades, but BioWare companions, or at least some of them, are second…
Listmas 2024: The Duck’s Favorite Teammates
RPGs are typically known for their grand stories and complex characters. Alongside turn-based fighting where allies and foes alike take turns slapping each other silly. Ahem, considering these kinds of games usually give us a wide array of characters that we can choose to travel alongside us, we thought it would be a good idea…
Listmas 2024: Gaming’s Best Buddies
At last the Christmas season has come again, and so has Listmas, one of our longest- running traditions here at Virtual Bastion! As Cary explained earlier this week, this year we’re looking at the best gifts in gaming: all the friends, allies and companions we’ve gotten to journey with over the years. As fun as…
Another Year, Another Listmas!
Each year, when a chill sets in and the smell of hot chocolate wafts dreamily in the background, we know that Listmas isn’t far away. Of course, it also means that the end-of-year holidays are on the horizon; but it wouldn’t be the holidays in the blogosphere without Listmas! For over a decade, we’ve been…
Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Country 2 already had some perfectly memorable boss fights. But the third game’s penchant for gimmicks meant the bosses tended to vary even more in their mechanics, from a snowball fight with a nightmarish snowman to feeding bugs to a giant sentient barrel until he burps himself off the stage. Frankly, I found…
Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 2
When you really think about it, the original Donkey Kong Country was fairly basic, especially when the bosses were concerned. I mean, there are two battles against a giant beaver that basically just jumps back and forth across the stage and two more skirmishes against an oversized vulture that somehow spits nuts at you. (Considering…
Top 10 Most Awful Levels from Donkey Kong Country 2
As much as I love Donkey Kong Country 2, that doesn’t mean this beloved entry in the franchise is without its fair share of flaws. I can appreciate that this game is challenging. In fact, several difficult levels feature in my post listing my very favorite levels. But the levels listed below are just not…
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