I’ve been watching a channel on YouTube recently called SuperJoeBros. He focuses primarily on Donkey Kong games and has been doing a series where he plays through the SNES trilogy for the first time. It’s been fun to watch, but it was also a little frustrating at first. He’d make silly mistakes or have difficulty…
Tag: Gamer’s Life
Stepping Away From the Game
Games, like most hobbies, are something that cannot be enjoyed nonstop. At least, not to the same degree of enjoyment. Breaks are needed, sometimes even long ones. I find myself contemplating such a break now, but there are complications. Friends constantly want to hang out online, there’s always new stuff in the pipeline and there’s…
The In-Between Times
With having spent most of y gaming time in Helldivers 2 lately, I’ve found myself in kind of an awkward position when it comes to what to play at the moment. See, there are not one, but two games coming out this week (will be out by the time this is published): Animal Well and…
How I’ve Changed as a Gamer Since 2013
For this last week of personal posts for Virtual Bastion’s tenth (ish) anniversary, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to take a look back at our gaming lives and see how we’ve changed as gamers. We already discussed views and such last week, so this time I think the focus will be on taste…
The Pressure to Play
I’m not sure how much this applies to other hobbies, but with gaming it sometimes feels like something that must be done rather than something to enjoy at your leisure. This shouldn’t be the case since video games are inherently a pastime activity, yet it persists all the same and comes from a variety of…
Winter Game Wandering
One of the great things about the winter season are the big sales that almost all of the major platforms put on during the New Year’s period. If you were able to resist things when they first released, then you’ll more than likely be able to get them for a song here at the beginning/end…
VIRTUAL BASTION 