We’ve already covered our favorite allies and most memorable gaming friendships and family relationships. So now let’s look at the other end of the moral spectrum. Because you can’t really have a good adventure without some villains causing the main conflict. These guys might be on Santa’s naughty list, but that doesn’t mean they can’t…
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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 2021: The Duck’s Funniest Games
During last year’s Listmas, we spent a week discussing our favorite comedic gaming moments. This year, for the Duck’s free choice, I thought it would be fun to list some of the funniest games, in general, that I’ve ever played. After all, who doesn’t want to end the holiday season with some good cheer? As…
Cheeky Charlatans: Daxter
It seems to be a common theme that a lot of these “foolish” characters tend to not make the best first impression. Take Daxter, for example. Sure, you might remember him now as a goofy and likable character in Jak 2 and Jak 3, but when I first encountered him in the very first game…
Listmas 2020: Top 5 Characters with Bad First Impressions
They say that “first impressions are everything”. And in the real world, that can often be the case. Because who wants to hang out with someone who acted like a huge creep the first time you met them? Well, video games are a bit different because you may be forced to see a character you…
I No Longer Fear Change AKA A Thank You Letter for Naughty Dog
If you’re familiar with the Jak and Daxter series from the PS2 era, then you’ll no doubt be aware of the drastic departure in tone the series made beginning with Jak 2. The first game, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, was a lighthearted collectathon not unlike Banjo-Kazooie and Super Mario 64. And then Jak…
The Duck’s Top 10 Video Game Songs
While we have discussed often songs that have resonated with us (and the Duck has frequently listed top 5’s and 10’s from various games over on my own blog), we have yet to compile a list of our top songs from video games in general. Today, I am going to right this wrong with a…
Resonance: Snowy Mountain
For our next Resonance post, we shall be visiting one of the Duck’s favorite platformers, the original Jak and Daxter on the PS2. This game’s soundtrack is unique in that the music is almost…not there, in a sense. And that’s kind of what I like about it. There’s just something about this game that relaxes…
Daxter: Gaming’s Best and Most Hapless Fool
If ever there was a character whose life was the embodiment of April Fool’s Day, it’s Daxter. Forming the crucial (but actually not-so-crucial) second half of the Jak & Daxter team, Daxter has had a rough go of it over the course of the Jak & Daxter games. His monumental run of bad luck actually…
VIRTUAL BASTION 