After playing probably over 400 hours of these games, some final parting thoughts on the Cold Steel franchise. I tried to organize this into a good part/bad part format so that it doesn't seem like I'm just ragging on the games. I truly enjoyed these games more than pretty much any JRPG I've played in recent memory (well other than maybe Undertale), and even though I do think Cold Steel is not...
This year had too many good games in it, and I wanted to write too much about all of them. However, writing is hard and I'm lazy, so I just picked my top 5 and wrote a lot about them instead. So heres a bunch of words about my top 5 games of this year, and below that, I also have my 6-10 without a bunch of words because I got tired of writing. 1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 I s...
Hey y'all, I've been playing through this wonderful game Ys recently, and ran into some cool little easter eggs the localization team put in there, and wanted to share them to people. Ys is an action RPG similar to Secret of Mana, but in 3D, and somewhat far into the game you run into these little creatures called Roo. Roos have been in several of the games before, and in many of them they have...
There were some good games that came out this year, but none of them were as good as Monster Hunter, so instead of a Top 10 list of games this year I decided to create a list of my Top 10 Favorite Monsters from Monster Hunter This Year. This list includes monsters from Monster Hunter World as well as Monster Hunter Generations which, between the two, had a total of 95 unique eligible monsters....
So first off, before we start: DON'T PANIC Monster Hunter is not a complicated game, though it may appear so from the outside. It bucks certain conventions in games like these, which can seem intimidating, but ultimately the beauty of Monster Hunter is that its a set of incredibly simple systems that come together to make complex/interesting encounters. This thing is a list of Questions I had w...
Hey there, I've been playing a bunch of Dark Souls 3 recently, and have been enjoying it immensely. However, while playing it seems like one of my favorite builds in DS is not quite as useful as it used to be. In fact I would argue that its almost completely useless in DS3. The build I'm referring to is the classic Tank build of course. The build where you wear heavy armor, big shields, big wea...
It's the most wonderful time of the year. The time where we all rank the games we loved or just liked this year and then yell at each other about how that one game should really be number 4 not number 5. Last year's GOTY I tried an excursive where I only wrote a sentence or two per game, this year I'm not doing that! You all get to get my full rambly and often grammar error riddled opinions on...
Warning: Don't read this if you aren't done with Bloodborne, spoilers ahead Disclaimer: I like Bloodborne, really, its a good game. I mostly writing this because every time I mention I didn't like it as much as the other souls games people ask me what I didn't like about it in particular. So since this will probably come off as hella negative, I feel like I have to say I really do like Bloodbor...
Ive been playing a lot of nethack guys Whenever I mention that I like to play nethack, or that I am still playing nethack, I often get questions asking if I have played "X" roguelike. The most common one being Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. While I'm alway happy to answer peoples question, these questions I often find kind of curious. The reality is that roguelikes like DCSS and wildly different fro...
Well Lightning Returns, the new game in the XIII series, is about to be released and as a result I have been thinking a ton about FFXIII-2. It’s a weird game that I feel like either slipped under the radar for a lot of people, or more likely got purposefully ignored because of how bad FFXIII is. While it’s totally fair to ignore a sequel to a game that was by all accounts pretty bad, it’s a rea...
Woah I haven't posted a blog entry in a while? I keep meaning to write something up about Nethack or about revisiting old MMOs (used to play a lot of Tibia), but I just keep putting it off. Anyways Im just posting this to test some of our changes on stage, really thats it.
Hey gang, We did some big updates to comicvine and giantbomb today, and instead of spamming my twitter I decided just to start posting a change log here. So with that being said, here is what changed today: BIG DEALS Comicvine now has series and episodes in their wiki, you can go over there and start adding all your favorite comic related tv shows. Animated Gifs now work through our uploader, s...