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BisonHero's Top Ten Games of 2014

10 items in list • Created Dec 29, 2014

Game of The Year 2014 Users Choice

10 items in list • Created Dec 19, 2014

3DS Games I Am At Least Mildly Interested In Playing When I Get a 3DS

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How will gaming history look upon mobile games?

Feb 23, 2022

Games: Everyone is playing them The ESA estimates 67% of American adults play video games, a number buoyed by the ubiquity of smart phones and the rise of free to play games (in the survey, 57% of respondents cited smartphones as a device they play on, higher than the percentage who gamed on console or PC). Even if someone just plays a mobile game once every week or two, they're a gamer. The re...

The Quiet Man is essentially doing the story presentation of Hotline Miami 1, but doing it poorly *spoilers*

Nov 12, 2018

This is what I have concluded after watching the New Game + for The Quiet Man. Allow me to explain. *SPOILERS FOR HOTLINE MIAMI 1 AND THE QUIET MAN, IF THAT MATTERS TO YOU* Hotline Miami 1's story and presentation, in a nutshell: You play some guy (Jacket) who is very good at murdering criminals. Due to the game's minimal exposition, it's unclear how much the main character knows or what his mo...

How much easier than Mega Man is Shovel Knight really?

Jul 27, 2014

So I've been thinking about Patrick's minor complaint that Shovel Knight is too easy, as I recently finished it, and I'm starting on some of the trickier achievements for beating the game without dying, etc. Patrick's complaint seemed to be that he didn't like that it's relatively easy to finish a normal playthrough, and that the devs made the challenge "optional" by putting in achievements suc...

I'm worried about the prison camps in The Phantom Pain

Jan 26, 2014

Let me start with a question: do you think the prison camps we've seen in trailers are meant to be evocative of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp maintained by the U.S. during the "War on Terror"? I believe it is explicitly mentioned in some Phantom Pain material that one of those prison camps in the game is in Cuba, so I don't feel I'm making a huge leap of logic here. The red-band trailer for...

Risk of Rain seems totally impossible, but I really want to like it

Nov 14, 2013

(Originally a comment on the Risk of Rain Quick Look, but it's kind of unreasonable to expect people to read a comment that long) I bought into Risk of Rain back in the beta after the first Quick Look Patrick did because I really like the look of it, the music, the characters, and the items. But something about the balance of the game still feels way off, both in the beta and the final release....

I want to like this game (because Ron Gilbert, I guess), but...

Jun 11, 2013

...it's not Puzzle Quest 1. And mind you, Puzzle Quest 1 wasn't even perfect; it was really great but still had some weird flaws, like "they had no idea how to balance the items", and "the last boss is complete bullshit and unfair unless you use the most broken items and skills possible". Puzzle Quest 2 is a burning pile of garbage covered in anthrax, where the art and writing are awful and non...