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…
Tag: Listmas
Listmas 2023: (Mostly) Relaxing Games for Nature Lovers
Sometimes, I just want to play something relaxing. And one thing I find especially relaxing is nature. With its soft, green grass. The murmur of running water. The fresh air and the cool breeze. And all the little critters that accompany it. And that is why I’ve decided for our Wildcard Week to list a…
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: Beautiful Games That Will Save on Wrapping Paper
Wrapping paper is not usually sufficient to hide the presence of a video game. We all know the relative shape and size, so it’s really just to hide its specific identity. But there are some games that are just too beautiful to be covered up by some brightly colored, winter-themed paper. For these games, you…
Listmas 2023: Unique Gifts for Undertale Fans
Like a lot of people, I love collecting cool merch for my favorite games. At first, I really only bought the occasional plush or Funko. When I first really got into collecting game merch, however, was when I happened upon a cool site called Fangamer while on the hunt for a physical copy of Undertale. …
Listmas 2023: Games for Folks who Hanker for History
Considering that a large part of my life has revolved around preserving history, one might think that my game habits would lean in that direction. As it goes, the opposite is more true than less. But, just because my own library and subsequent recommendations from it aren’t heavy history hitters content-wise, it doesn’t mean that…
Listmas 2023: Games for Mythology Fans
Mythology was always one of the most interesting topics I got to learn about in high school and college. It was on these occasions that school didn’t feel like a chore, and these were the few lessons that stuck in my head even into adulthood. Important dates and events in American history? Nope, I forgot…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Gifts for Sci-Fi Nerds
As Cary pointed out in our official kick-off to the season, Listmas time is here again already! It doesn’t matter how old you get, the fact that December can just one day arrive is always just such a wild phenomenon, I think. Anyway, we are indeed carrying on the Listmas tradition in this year of…
Listmas 2023: Listing Lists about Giving Gifts
Ten years ago, we celebrated our very first Listmas. At the time, we were United We Game, and Listmas – the Christmastime blogging celebration that’s all about making lists (and checking them twice!) – was a small effort that was meant to serve as lighter writing/reading fare over Christmas week. A decade and a name…
Listmas 2022: Cary’s hopes for the next Fable game
I could easily list of a dozen things I’d want as far as gaming goes this Christmas, but none are quite as close to my heart as craving the next game in the Fable series. In as much as games like Super Metroid, Super Mario World, and Sam & Max: Hit the Road shaped my…
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