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Fable is a game series that's new but familiar to me. My first experience with the world of Albion was through Fable Anniversary around 5 years ago and although I had some issues with the game I relatively enjoyed it for what it was, its sequels I enjoyed more so. With the last few years being full of noteworthy remasters & remakes (even the obscure Shadow Man game got its own remaster) and som...
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I occasionally use this self-inflicted weekly writing exercise as an excuse to find and chronicle a game that sits a little outside of my comfort zone, perhaps one that offers a distinct gameplay model or takes on an underutilized thematic genre. Conversely, I might spend a whole month playing ancient Mega Drive RPGs and want something that's absolutely inside my comfort zone that I can curl up...
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For those who are not aware, I grew up on PlayStation - the first console I ever got to own for myself was the PlayStation 3 and before that I briefly had a PSP for sometime. And although I had minor issues maintaining my PlayStation consoles, I still cherish many good memories of playing games like LittleBigPlanet during my youth. However it has become abundantly clear to me that PlayStation h...
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Rayman becomes the first Ubisoft representative for my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's entry will be a fighting game favorite.
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I was venturing into a new biome to deliver a ledger to a shopkeeper in Berg, a distant city. This was mostly an excuse to get out of the cold weather in my home biome that had recently turned wintery. Cold-proof armor was too expensive and other cold-combating methods weren't long-term solutions. The journey to the new area takes the better part of a day, during which I nearly freeze to death....
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I am somewhat obsessed with the Intellivision Amico and I’m genuinely sad that it looks like it will never come out. It was this beautifully misbegotten project that harkened back to the days of the CD-I and the Jaguar; badly thought-out systems that didn’t catch on, and didn’t deserve to, but built their own weird urban legends. I used to read about them in magazines, things like how there are...
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For May 2022's "May Madness" feature I'm just playing a bunch of Sega Mega Drive / Genesis RPGs that caught my eye after researching for the Mega Archive blog series. You can see how well I'm doing by visiting the first entry, here . So far we've covered a couple of Zelda clones and a Falcom game, but what if we were to really break away from tradition and instead cover a Falcom clone? Enter To...
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Trespasser Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should - Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park (1993, dir: Steven Spielberg) HEYYY I HEARD THERE WERE BOOBS HERE At this point, I imagine most folks reading this have a general idea of my predilections regarding the playing of video games most ancient and obscure, especially when it comes to my str...
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For May 2022's "May Madness" feature I'm just playing a bunch of Sega Mega Drive / Genesis RPGs that caught my eye after researching for the Mega Archive blog series. You can see how well I'm doing by visiting the first entry, here . Returning to our original theme of Sega Mega Drive RPGs that probably aren't RPGs, we're taking a lateral move to the system's CD peripheral, the Sega CD, to check...
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Fuse is a very late 7 th gen 3 rd person shooter (May 28 2013) with a reputation for being aggressively bland. This reputation is well earned. How I came to play it in 2022 involves my own neurosis. I bought a copy of the game in 2014 when Microsoft was blowing out Xbox 360 games and I somehow lost it between then and this year, 2022. I discovered this when I was doing a survey of my remaining...
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Major Mento to Ground Control, reporting in that I'm playing another adventure game based on outer space shenanigans. Floating over here in a most peculiar way this week is Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock , a 2015 (practically vintage!) point-and-click Indie from studio Red Herring Labs and released on Steam and mobile devices (I'm playing it on the former). For the longest time, I had this an...
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This week, Tails joins his best friend Sonic in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Although Sonic and Tails are in, there is no word on Knuckles yet, but he will be added later on this year. Next week's addition will be a character who was created in 1995.
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Strider 2 is a weird little game. It’s a sequel to the arcade classic Strider, which really came into its own as an early Genesis title and also spawned a well regarded NES version that was a totally different game. That first Strider arcade game already had a sequel, called Strider II (roman numerals instead of numbers), which was made by US Gold and which Capcom disowned because, by most acco...
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I posted this on reddit a few days ago but I am sharing it here (with the full explanation). For those unfamiliar, the iceberg meme is used as a way to convey information on a specific subject, starting with the most well-known stuff, down to the most obscure. Example . This Kanye West iceberg starts with obvious stuff like the Taylor Swift incident, that everybody knows, all the way down to st...
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Recently released for PS4, PS5, and PC (Epic), the “2D Souls -like” Salt and Sacrifice is a game I really wanted to like. And for the most part, I do like it. I’ve logged a little over 44 hours on it so far, and mostly enjoyed myself. But there’s no denying that the game has problems. Its tight and well-executed core gameplay is marred by some bizarre design decisions, and by a bunch of minor U...
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For May 2022's "May Madness" feature I'm just playing a bunch of Sega Mega Drive / Genesis RPGs that caught my eye after researching for the Mega Archive blog series. You can see how well I'm doing by visiting the first entry, here . I'm not sure I've made it clear with my history writing on this site that I have an equal affinity for both "Western-style" RPGs and "Eastern-style" RPGs: I assure...
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The Game Pass Gambols is my chronicle of attempting to at least sample every game released on Game Pass in 2022. Game: Citizen Sleeper Game Type: Visual novel game with mechanics drawn from tabletop RPGs Time Played: About 7 hours Completion level: Rolled credits. Approachability: Medium-low: It can be intimidating at first and many people won't 'get' it but it gets easier quickly and I think m...
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Here's a deceptively difficult question to answer: What should the Xbox LIVE rules look like in the year 2022? For that matter, how has Microsoft answered that question? The Classic Era of Video Game Chat When Xbox LIVE launched back in November 2002, people thought of online communication very differently. They'd continue to do so for years after. Microsoft's online multiplayer service became...
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It's been... probably over a month since my last explormer ? So that means we're well overdue another map-filler on IGotW, and here's SuperEpic: The Entertainment War to come along to help fill that important gap in our schedule like a figurative exit I missed three rooms ago. Oddly enough, SuperEpic's name is only the second-most obnoxious thing about it, but we'll get to that in due time. I'l...
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Stop Cyberbullying Me! As they say, use the good shit. For those of you who have been on the Giant Bomb Discord or Twitter, you know the surrounding Giant Bomb Community has been dunking on me for my "eccentric" food preferences and tastes. Among my many "sins," determined by the internet food police, is my insistence that you can use Ranch Dressing as a replacement for marinara or traditional...
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Popular Game OSTS by Year I decided to go through my Impressive VGM by Year lists and rank game OSTs by popularity based on Youtube views. I went with YT since it's linked to Google and those two are by far the most popular in their respective fields. A few things to note about YT uploads: 1. Various video uploads to YT have been removed over the years, some as recently as 2018-2021 and a bunch...
