Tag: gaming

YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #388

Up this week: Note: YouTube Highlight’s is taking short vacation next week (Happy Easter!), and will return on Friday, April 25th. Hope you’ll join us again then! Connect: X/Twitter ~ Facebook ~ wegameunited@gmail.comWatch: YouTube ~ Video BastionShop: Spreadshirt

I Vowed to Enjoy Avowed and Eventually Did

Fair warning, this post is going to contain with SPOILERS, so tread as you wish. That said… …the first one is to be prepared for a loooooong ending to Avowed. What happened was far from whatever I might have been expecting, and that was okay. I won’t lie and say that my eyes didn’t glaze…

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Some Switch Games Will Get a Free Switch 2 Upgrade

I, like many, am not happy about how Nintendo has decided to price Switch 2 games, nor am I happy about its decision to charge for things like that Switch 2 tour and performance upgrades for Switch 1 games.

I Still Don’t Get Trophies

I’ve said in the past that I don’t really like trophies/achievements in games. I think they’re mostly pointless things that often ask players to do annoyingly difficult things for no other reason than the developer needing to fill out the list. One of my friends though, someone does feel the need to chase down every…

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Play First, then Role Play

I think it’s time that I finally come clean over one of my most aggressive hang-ups when playing video games, specifically large-scale (open world or not), narrative RPGs (from Elder Scrolls to Fallout to Dragon Age, and everything in between). I frequently profess that my first go-round in any such game is less than stellar….

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Where ‘Retro’ Ends and ‘Classic’ Begins

Now that we’re squarely in the midst of 2025, it’s really been hitting how many of my favorite games from my student days now fall in the “retro” category of games. Where the likes of the GameCube and PS2 were once the new hotness, they’re now practically fossils. Heck, the younger member of the gaming…

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Top 5: Favorite Ori and the Blind Forest Moments

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Ori and the Blind Forest. Achieving critical acclaim and commercial success, this incredible platformer won over the hearts of millions of players, myself included. I’ve played through Ori and the Blind Forest several times, including once for our YouTube channel, and although I’ll always have…

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