It's always surprising when something I have edited/created/curated shows up in the Community Spotlight. I only do it b/c it makes me laugh. I am always appreciative when someone calls out my "Nonsense" and enjoys it. So ... thanks. I love the Yay or Nay section of the final day of GOTY 2019 deliberations. More so without the explanations or comments. Except for @alex_navarro ... poor, poor Ale...
Yes, this will be yet another "editorial" on Destiny, but more than that, it's an explanation of why I like it so damn much. I've been reading, over the last week, everyone else either dump on Destiny, or sing its praises. I think both are worthy and viable arguments to make. The thing about Destiny, for me anyways, is that I have never played a game like it before. Sure, I've played space shoo...
I'm not exactly sure how my first interaction with Ryan Davis went online, but most likely, it ended with him sending me the response "BLOCKED". Ryan loved a good joke, and loved the interactions of those involved in said joke. He was always happy, and by his own admission, a guy that would read EVERY email sent to him. I'm sitting here listening to the Saints Row 3 soundtrack, and remembering...
I have been a "gamer" since I was basically old enough to pick up a controller. I can remember back when my parents and I used to play Atari 2600 all the time. We had a little red notebook that we kept a record of high scores in. It was a lot of fun, and was just a great way to really and truly bond with my family as a whole. These memories I will cherish until my mind dissolves into goo and I...
Look, I know I'm not going to blow anyone's mind here, but this movie isn't very good. I'll start there, but I will end this review by saying that I respect what Sly is trying to do. The first Expendables movie was pretty bad. It was ridiculous amounts of explosions, gun fire, and CG knives. It was held together by the thinnest of plot lines, and no one should be expected to care about any pers...
Midnight Brown. Speaking on behave of my own personal tastes here, I really like this group. Yeah it's probably influenced by the fact that I am a big Gerstmann fan in general, but my enjoyment of his music didn't come so easy. When I first hear of Midnight Brown, it was right after they "released" their third album Dope/Revenge. I listened to that album and thought it was shit. Sorry Jeff, but...
It didn't hit me until I had played about 6 hours of the game and had saved my second friend from the clutches of the evil Vaas , Far Cry 3 is a new updated version of The Goonies II . I know how strange that sounds, so allow me to explain a bit further why I believe that. In the original Goonies II game for the NES , you are placed in the shoes of Mikey Walsh . Your friends have all been kidna...
It took me a long time to decide to even do this article. After looking over the games I have played over the past year, I felt it was needed. Maybe not even for you the reader, so much as it is for myself. Make no mistake there have been a ton of good games out there this year, however the truly great games aren’t as easy to spot. This of course is a list of games that I personally feel are th...
Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox Live Arcade marketplace near the end of October of 2010. They were offering the game at a “discount” price in the beginning of 800 msp ($10 in US currency). Recently that promotional discount expired and the price jumped up to the price of 1200 msp ($15) where I assume it will stay. I was at my local Game Stop today to reserve a copy of the LE Dead Space...
Everybody has one. Don’t kid yourself, you know you do. It may not be something that you willingly want to admit in public or to friends, but there is a game out there that you love that you keep hidden. I probably have more than one, but I will at least admit to one right here, right now. I love Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. There, I said it. I have been a Final Fantasy fan since the very begin...
This article in no way reflects my own personal wishes nor do I hope in anyway to sway the gaming industry to do things any differently. This is merely meant to compare games of yesteryear to the current crop of games. When I think back over games I used to play on Atari and the original NES, I remember them being ridiculously hard. That could be because of the technology not really allowing fo...
My engineering/architecture teacher once told us as a class that if we were to do our drawings on paper, we would never get a perfect score. “There will always be a mistake somewhere on everyone’s paper. We are human and we all make mistakes no matter how careful we are.” I think this should apply to the gaming industry as well. There is no such thing as a perfect game/score. No, I am not talki...
As more and more press events and game reveals go by, it becomes painfully obvious that the games industry is becoming stagnant and/or repetitive. Just think about E3 that just went by. Dance games, fitness games, rehashes, and remakes. Who is to blame for the bulk of this, is it the industry heads, or is it the consumer? It would be easy to blame it all on the the big wigs. They see the number...
Show of hands: people who like to play video games with their friends? Now, put your hands down if those “friends” are only online… This article is more for those still holding their hands up. This is for the people, like me, that are being overlooked as video games “progress” further into the future. Lets start things off with a little personal history lesson. When I had an Atari 2600 I used t...
There are games out there that just aren’t possible to finish or “beat.” There are games out there that you never WANT to finish. Then there are the games that you play over and over again, never getting any further than the play before, and for no reason. First, games like Tetris, Lumines, and puzzle games of the like aren’t really games that you finish. These are games of dexterity and skill...
There will come a day, probably soon, where kids growing up will have no idea what being in an Arcade was like. It is probably hard for most adults my age, and a little older, to imagine such a thing, but sadly, it is true. That is why i have chosen to spin the tale of Arcades in my life. I have been thinking over the past several days of what my first Arcade experience was, and best i can figu...
When i think back over (almost literally) a lifetime of games i have played, there are only a certain select few that i have followed religiously. Somewhere in the top three of those few games sits, the Metal Gear series. It has been way to long ago that i played the first Metal Gear for NES, so even though it was the first, i have not included it in this review. This instead will be about the...
First, when a game comes out that has any media push behind it, my friends will almost immediatley come to me and ask if i have played "Game X" yet. Because sadly they know that either i already have or am planning on it. I am thought of as the person in my circle of friends that has at least heard every gaming nugget of info out there and can explain them. Second, I also am a music nut. Puttin...
In honor of the release of the newest James Bond game AND movie; "Quantum Of Solace", I thought i would profess my love of the movies and (some) of the games. Though most fanboys would have you believe that the only game with the 007 moniker on it is "Goldeneye" for the Nintendo 64, it's sadly is not. Bond games date back all the way to the Atari 2600 (represent) and Apple II days. Originally j...
So as all my friends know, and my wife hates, i am completely addicted to videogames. If i were to count how many systems i have had it would be about 19. Heres the break down... yes it is quite disgusting. Atari 2600 : 55 games Gameboy/Pocket/Advance/Sp: 40 games NES: 75 games Super Nintendo: 12 games Nintendo 64: 15 games Gamecube: 25 games Playstation: 25 games Playstation 2: 25 games NEO GE...