2012 was a year of surprises. Games I was expecting to love, I was disappointed by. Games I wrote off or didn't ever pay attention to turned out to be my favorite experiences of the year. As I look back on 2012, it may not have been the strongest year on the whole, but it has some very high high points. Honorable Mentions : There are a few games this year that missed my list for one reason or a...
I'm not a huge fan of game of the year awards. I find it really difficult to compare two completely different experiences and say definitively, this one is better. I much prefer category awards. That said, if my readers want me to give out a game of the year award, I will. Just leave me a comment telling me that you guys want it, and I'll oblige.This first Games of the Year post is dedicated to...
I'm not a huge fan of Top 10 lists. Anyone can throw together a top 10 list and post it. It doesn't take much time or thought, so I'm going to be structuring this list a tad bit differently. Also, expect to see a Games of the Year post coming. I still have 3 more games that might qualify for an award to play, Zelda Spirit Tracks, Mario and Luigi, and Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time. I hope t...
The past few weeks for me have been horrible in terms of getting anything productive done. I've gone from playing through Assassin's Creed II, 100%, in one week to instantly being sucked into Dragon Age. I was planning on picking the game up for a while, but I just couldn't find the time to play such a huge RPG. I finally picked up the Digital Deluxe, as well as Plants vs Zombies and Osmos, dur...
The blog's been on hiatus lately, and I'm sorry for that. Between the beginning of the semester wrap-up at school and Assassin's Creed II, I haven't had enough time to compose that previously promised Persona 3 themes post. Rest assured, it's still coming. I've been doing quite a bit of research on the Greek and Judeo-Christian myths that go along with the character's personas. I really want to...
I want to begin by saying thanks to all the people who've continued to read my blog. It's really nice to know I have an audience for this and I'm not just doing this for my own sake. Thanks so much everyone! Observant people may have already caught a glimpse of the next game I've set my sights on, Assassin's Creed II. I should receive my copy from GameFly tomorrow and I hope to have my review o...
We all have favorite game series we really want to write about and discuss. Persona is that series for me. I finally feel like I'm in a place where I can discuss Persona 3. This is the first of of about 3-4 planned blog posts on Persona 3. I've been spending the last week or so trying to figure out what made Persona 4 work better than P3. All the elements are there that should make the game ama...
So this is it for my first blog series, for now at least. Two reasons this blog has taken so long. First, I've been trying to figure out what I should be writing about. Second, I've been spending a lot of time working on finishing the answer for my next series. I'm happy to say, I have finished it today. To give you an idea of my planned schedule, here is my next few planned posts. Persona 3 FE...
This is one I think is going to surprise people, my favorite Zelda game is Wind Waker. I'll admit, I have't finished EVERY Zelda. I've still yet to finish Zelda 2 or track down Link's Awakening, but I doubt those would top Wind Waker in my book. Why do I like Wind Waker so much? One word, style. The game exudes it in every way. It makes the best out of what it's given, and I think that thought...
Let me start off by saying being sick stinks. It's nearly impossible to come up with a good post while sitting on your couch, coughing and sleeping. Luckily, I'm back up and running and I hope to be able to keep up with the "Post a Day" promise. I'll start off by announcing the next series will be about my favorite RPG series, Persona. I haven't nailed down the format for those yet, but I've go...
I'm sorry I haven't kept up with the blog, due to a combination of Halloween and being sick, but the break has given me time to due something I've been meaning to do for a while now. I finished The Journey section of Persona 3. I promise, this post will be as spoiler free as possible.Posts not having to due with the main topic I've been posting on will go under the Gaiden heading. Look forward...
After a day of thinking about what content should actually go into these blog posts, I've finally settled on a format. I'm going to be, at least for the time being, picking a theme and bringing you posts that have to do with that. I may do a few one-offs in-between, but for the most part it'll be all related within the topics. My first theme I've decided on is going to be my favorite games. Let...
This is a little project I've been cooking up for a while. After hearing Sam talk about improving your writing on At 1up, I'm finally going to start this. I'm not promising a post EVERY day, but I'm sure as hell going to try. I'll be posting all posts involved in this project on my 1up and Giant Bomb blogs and maybe submit some of my choice posts in the future to Bitmob. My first post will go u...
We've all done this at least once, come up with a blog post late at night and feel like you have to write it. I was just starting to finish up FF4 on the DS earlier tonight, which I really love, and it reminded me of some of the problems I have with VII. VII was far from a perfect game, and it's actually really difficult to go back and play now. If you haven't played it recently and are one of...
I'm really loving Giant Bomb. I decided that as my first thing to do here, I'd start editing all the Transformers related stuff and bring it up to the quality of the more popular pages, starting with the piece of crap that was the movie game. I don't know why I'm doing this. I just have too much time and actually have the knowledge to do it.