Giving gifts to curry favor and bond with companions in games, especially RPGs, isn’t anything new, and it’s a mechanic that I never seem to fully understand. I always end up giving the wrong gifts to the wrong people until, at some point, I cave to finding a guide so that I can get everything…
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Revisited: Exploration, Death and Vengeance in Elden Ring
Hey all, I hope you’re taking some time to rest here in the limbo between Christmas and New Year’s. I’m actually going to be away on a small trip myself by the time this goes up, so I figured it’d be a good chance to revisit one of my favorite posts from a couple of…
Listmas 2023: Awesome Cover Art to Deck Out the Halls With
Growing up, one of the best parts of getting at new game was pouring over the cover art on the trip home. It was like a little window into the experience you were about to undertake and helped your imagination to run wild with the possibilities. That particular experience has more or less gone away…
Getting Back to It: Fable Anniversary 9 Years Later
Last week I talked about wanting to go backand give the first two Fable games another try, though in the case of Fable Anniversary/ Fable 1, it would be my very first experience with the game. After hearing from many Fable fans about how the original is still the very best, I started it up…
Super Mario RPG is Back, And That’s Kinda Crazy
Well, it’s finally happened. This past Friday something happened that, for a very long time, many of us old timer Nintendo fans thought never would. A full and true remake for Super Mario RPG was released! After over twenty years of Nintendo almost compeletly ignoring its existence, not only can we enjoy the adventure once…
Endings, Replays and Baldur’s Gate 3
How much does a game’s ending impact its replay value? How much should a games’s ending impact its replay value? Before, my answers to these questions would hve been more or less the same: “heavily.” After all, the ending is the culmination of all your efforts in a game, right? If it doesn’t go well,…
Spooktober Bonus: My Scariest Gaming Moment
Well, here we are. It’s Halloween weekend. If there is any one time for spooks and scares in the year, this is it! Despite our planning, Spooktober is’t quite over yet, so I figured now would be a great time to share my scariest gaming moment. You could say that it combines almost all of…
Virtuix Omni One Opens Pre-Orders, Starting Price is $2,600
For those unfamiliar with Virtuix, it’s a company that primarily sells gaming accessories, with its main product being an omni-directional treadmill fittingly called the “Omni.” Until now, the Omni has really only been available for gaming locations like Dave and Busters, but it’s looking like the company hopes to change that soon.
Scariest Enemies: Humanoid Monstrosities
Video games are filled to the brim with weird and creepy monsters, but if I had to narrow it down, humanoid creatures are probably my least favorite foe. It could be the inherent creepiness of the uncanny valley, or it could just be that I don’t like facing off against something that either used to…
Spooktober: Please Stop Hunting Me!
At first I thought that it was going to be a little hard to pick a single kind of scare that gets me the most in horror games, but after not actually all that much thought, I realized that I absolutely hate the feeling of being hunted! More than simply running away, being hunted I…