With my first Listmas list this year, I said that when it comes to favorite friends and families in games, my mind immediately goes to BioWare titles. For the past three lists, I’ve actively avoided its output in an attempt to, quite literally, think outside the “BioWare box.” Well, with my holiday gatherings list, it’s…
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Listmas 2024: Holiday Cheers for Those Who Jeer
Are characters with mean streaks or rude manners exempt from having and Christmas spirit? Well…perhaps yes, in some regard. Maybe they’ll just be the unlucky ones with stockings filled with coal, but that doesn’t mean that villains can’t enjoy themselves around the holidays like everyone else! Well, whether or not any holidays are celebrated at…
Listmas 2024: Celebrating Friendships and Families
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…
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…
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…
Listmas 2023: Favorite Street Fighter 6 Unique Gifts
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…
Listmas 2023: With Great Cover Art, the Package Makes Perfect
There’s no doubt that one of the best things about gift giving, at Christmas or any time, is the element of surprise. You take a perfect gift and conceal its awesomeness behind pretty paper. Then the big moment comes where the receiver tears open that paper to reveal the big surprise and, you hope, be…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Goodies for BioWare Buffs
It goes without saying that I enjoy BioWare’s games. True that I’ve not played each and every game the studio has offered since its inception, but I can say that I love their brand of gaming. Deeply narrative, infused with choice, and set in imaginative worlds, BioWare has hit some lasting homeruns with the likes…
Listmas 2022: Cary’s Great Gaming Escapes
No matter what life brings, we all need the occasional getaway. Time to refresh and regroup far away from the realities of life. For many, myself included, video games help conjure up similar feelings of escape and fantasy. They allow us to travel to new worlds and unfamiliar places, complete with sights and sounds so…
Listmas 2022: The Duck’s Top Gaming Vacation Spots
While my perfect vacation would normally be spent playing video games at home, many people say I need to get out of the house more. Well, I’d be more than happy to set foot in the great outdoors if I could visit some of the locations from my favorite video games. And so, to appease…
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