I am sitting here having just played Nuclear Throne for the 2nd time and having just realized that Nuclear Throne is a game I may play over 98 more times during my lifetime. I have then began to think that I played some Important games over the course of 2014 (and the first few days of 2015). Some of these games I played before 2014 also, but now is the time of lists attached to years, and ther...
Many people over the years have played a video game and said, "Ah, this reminds me of what it felt like to be a youth!" Now, I'm no old man, and old men themselves may describe me as some sort of youth, but I assure you that not only am I not a youth but I am very mature for my age, and therefore am able to take a serious look back on my youth-times and say, "Well, yes, I was a frivolous young...
Hello everyone. I am supermike6, Giant Bomb's most committed racing/driving game aficionado. I have played so many driving video games that sometimes I get in a real car and wonder, "Am I driving in a video game or am I driving in real life?". That is how much I play driving video games. Over the years, I have played at least 9 games that include driving vehicles, but for the purpose of this li...
This is part two in my attempt to write the most extensive in-depth look at Deadly Premonition that has ever or will ever exist. This ???(I'm thinking about ten?)-part series will explore every aspect of the game I can think of, and hopefully document every thought I have had about this video game over the past four years. ( Part One is here )It is recommended that you have a very basic knowled...
Edit: This is part one of a ???-part series on Deadly Premonition. This is an in-depth look at the game; my attempt to explain why I find the game so interesting, and a catalogue of all the strange thoughts I have had about the game over the past four years. Writing about contentious games is tough because it's difficult to avoid spending the whole time responding to external sources. Generally...
Sometimes, people need reasons to believe things that they should already believe. There are people in this world put here to provide those reasons. This list is a list that shows why video games were the best in 2010 and 2010 had the best video games. Reasons Why 2010 Was The Best Year of Video Games of All Time 1. Deadly Premonition Just by being released during 2010, this game automatically...
Hello, everyone. You may know me as supermike6, but I prefer the name "The Future of e-Sports", for today I have cemented my place in the upper echelon of competitive video game players. While it may seem crazy to know that someone you talk to on these very forums happens to be one of the best , you must face the fact that this is indeed a reality. Because, I'll have you know, I AM THE THE 9TH...
Hello, I'm going to review an album. It's gonna be pretty sick, you should read this. Okay, so So Nyu Shi Dae is a Korean pop band who is popular in Korea, but they also have fans all across the world. This includes me! I am a fan! Now, Girl's Generation should not be confused with Girl's Generation, which was their debut album. This is not that! The one I am talking about is their first Japane...
HELLO AND WELCOME TO THIS THING Hi! This is a thing that I am writing, because I am one of those people who likes writing things. There's not much more to it than that. A lot of people like doing weekly blog things, but I don't think I'm consistent enough to do that, so I'll just call this a "periodical" thing that may or may not ever happen again. I've written blogs in the past, but since then...
Spoiler Warning: You should buy this game. So, the other day I was sitting around on the street with my buddies drinking peach punch when I saw some fat kid trying to ride a scooter. I turned to my friends and said, "Man, I want to play a space universe simulator game that's way more arcade-y than Universe Sandbox." My friends all called me crazy! So, I went on my favourite video games website,...
Hey! I'm Mike Blackwell. About three weeks ago, I decided I wanted to write something about Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. But, it turned out I really didn't have much to say about it! So I decided to just write and keep writing until something interested came out. Well, nothing did. I'm not going to go back and re-read and/or edit this, so you can enjoy for yourself the ridiculous ramblings of...
I have just ordered Deadly Premonition from Amazon. I think this action really epitomizes the direction my gaming has taken in the last year or so. I started last year as a video game player who liked the same things as most of you. I would always read tons of reviews before getting games, and tended to like the things everyone else liked, and hate the games everyone else hated. I was careful w...
This is going to be a much shorter update than my last, but there is good reason. Normally, when we have a session where not very many noteworthy things happen I wait until we play again before I write the update. But this time, I know for a fact that our next session will have a lot for us to write about, which means the update would either be too long or I'd just forget to write all the stuff...
Three hours fighting one boss and then we died. This is probably the worst boss fight I have ever faced. I'm way too frustrated and tired to write coherently right now, but I just wanted to say that this bullshit is bullshit and I am not looking forward to Sunday when we try again. It really sucks, because the fights leading up to this boss were fairly easy, and the game was leading up to this...
I'm going to start off this update by admitting that it actually previously had a different intro here, but since the time between me starting this update and me finishing this update was over two weeks, the old intro is no longer relevant or sensible. All that needs to be said really is that I have not written anything about Persona 3 FES recently, but we have played some. The only excuse I ca...
There are some weird ways to get to my site, and these strange people have found them. These are just some choice search engine queries that have been typed into Google and somehow lead to my piddly little website. And I don't even get that many visitors! I want to see this kind of data for giant sites like the BBC or something! That would be nuts! But, without further ado, here we go: The Weir...
Hello, everyone, this is the latest installment of our Persona 3 FES Endurance Run. We actually played two days in a row for the first time in about three months, but we still managed to get almost nothing done! We are officially three days of game time into this thing now. I've heard from sources that that's a decent amount of time. So, ummm, we've been S. Linking with Mitsuru. I think we star...
Sometimes, I feel like devoting an entire night to one game. Often, this is because I have nothing scheduled for the next day and think it might be funny to feel terrible about myself the next morning. Earlier this year, I did this with Spiderman: Web of Shadows , and ended up having a very good time. This time, I had a couple of choices. The most immediate and obvious choice in my mind was Tal...
Hello internet, and welcome to the another update on my Persona 3 FES Endurance Run! Last session was a session of love, determination, and courageousness. And by that, I mean we fought a bit and then talked to a bunch of random people! Awesome. Today, we found something important. Something very important. We found out how to change the music in Tartarus. After 66 hours of this ( and slight va...
Wow. This is going to be another one of those "A whole bunch of story things happened" kind of updates. We literally didn't fight anything during the whole session, but the game did reveal the biggest twist yet and it was really nuts and also really awesome. But first, Social Links! I guess we're going to bone Chihiro at the end of this. I haven't really been thinking about that, but it's going...
Everybody cross off every other game on your list (if you have a list) because the Game of The Year has been found. No more worrying about awards, just give them all to this game. You're welcome. Five stars out of Five.
Hello everyone! While I have certainly been distracted lately because I'm writing a freaking novel guys I still managed to play a couple hours of Persona 3 FES yesterday, and now I am going to write about it! Yeah introductions! So, normally I'd begin by talking a bit about all the terrible things that happened today while we were fighting, and how we've wasted all our time on some useless boss...
Well, I'm sitting here at my computer with a cup of tea and writing about Persona 3 FES again. My last update went up about two weeks ago now, and while we have played a couple times since then, two of these sessions provided practically nothing to write about. And the stuff that was interesting is now so far back in my memory that even though I have it all written down, my notes barely make se...
This week, we have two games that are as dissimilar as two things can be without being opposites. One is a cops vs robbers style racing game, while the other is a cute third-person action platforming game with an awesome giant beast that you guide around. The good thing about these two games is that I haven't followed either of them before this demo, so I knew practically nothing about them! Oh...
Over the weekend, I picked up a small iPhone game that I've been hearing a decent amount of buzz about, Game Dev Story. It's essentially "Video Game Tycoon", a continuation of the "Roller Coaster Tycoon", "Elevator Tycoon", and "Zoo Tycoon" fad of games. You start off as an Indie developer making games for the PC, but as you expand you can hire more staff, get console licences, and develop game...
This week's XBL demos are a pair of crazy Japanese games which left me enjoyably confused at the end of them. Oh, and Pro Evolution Soccer 11 came out also, but I have all my footballing needs covered by FIFA 11 demo, thanks. So, on to the crazy! Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 I have no idea about Dragon Ball. I grew up a couple years too late to actually understand what the heck was going on in D...
Hello, and welcome to a brand new feature I made up because I don't have much to write about! In this feature, I will play through the demos that come out on Xbox Live every week and write about them! With words! I might even make unfair assumptions about the full game based on these demos! What fun! Yeah exclamation marks! Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II I remember the first Star Wars: The F...
Hello, and welcome to Part 17 of this here Endurance Run. Our last session really re-invigorated my wanting to play Persona 3, which is why we have a new update so quickly. It's also why this is such a substantial update, because we played for about four hours. About two of those were grinding, but there were still Social Links! We started by opening our S. Link tab on the pause screen, and loo...
If you didn't read the title, this is part of a longer series. The rest can be read here. I found myself with a dilemma on Wednesday. I could either write a very short, rather uninteresting post about out Tuesday session, or wait until today and combine our last two sessions into one post that is way too long. Obviously, I chose the latter. Thursday was fucking crazy, and a lot of things happen...
I have fallen in love with Persona 3's music. I have been listening to the multiple soundtracks non-stop. I just wanted to say that; I don't really have much more to say about the music, other than that it's good. Anyways, today we had a mystical third ER-er so not only did we not get much done, but we realized that explaining it to someone else made our ER seem kind of sad. Our friend is famil...
It's getting really hard to think of clever intros for these updates. Now that I've mentioned that, I have no idea what I'm going to say next time! I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it! For now, let's talk about Persona 3! We hit rank 10 with MMO lady! She realized that complaining to a random dude over the internet is kind of a bitch thing to do, so she decided to stop playing the M...
A lot of people have been writing things about Halo: Reach, to the point where I feel like anything I say will be completely redundant. But, I'm going to say things anyways, if only to give me an excuse to write one thousand words about something. I guess I should start by stating my previous experiences with the Halo series. Well, I didn't own an original Xbox, so I didn't play 1 or 2. I did h...
Hello, internet. Today, I am going to talk to you about a game called Persona 3 FES that I have been playing for the last 45 hours. Turns out, it's pretty good! If you want to know what happened yesterday, just read on because that's exactly what I'm planning on telling you! We recently gained the ability to fuse four, five, and six personae together at the same time, which meant we immediately...
It feels like years since we last played Persona 3 FES. In reality, it has only been about a week and a half. The reason for this is that real school started, and that takes up large portions of the day. Obviously, we still have a lot of free time, but complications arise sometimes. Yesterday, we only played about two hours. Things still happened, but I'm sure over the weekend we will be able t...
I love writing, and video games are often the subject of my writing. I've been trying to write reviews for a couple months now, but they have mostly just been streams of consciousness written in about ten minutes with absolutely no editing. For my latest review, I tried to make it more professional by taking notes, and actually looking through it at the end instead of just hitting submit and fo...
According to my parents, I am not allowed to subscribe to Whiskey Media. It's a damn shame, because I've loved this website for over a year now, and I feel they deserve something for all the entertainment they have provided me. Obviously, my parents don't feel the same way, and won't let me get a membership. No free t-shirt, no regular-ass bombcast, no HD video, just disappointment. I know it's...
Here's the thing. I'm a fifteen year old who's been using this site for a year. I've watched pretty much all the videos, and listened to all the bombcasts. So, obviously I want to support the guys who have provided me so much entertainment. Trying to convey this to my parents is tough. I'm not trying to mooch off them, I'd literally pay them back immediately, but I have to use their credit card...
We are starting to get to a point in this game where fighting is not only a major thing, but practically the only thing. We did a lot of fighting last session, which is why this will probably be a very short post. The Social Links we did do, however, were all quite important, which is great because there were only three of them. As usual, I shall start with the S. Linking. We began by making it...
I haven't repeated this feature in a while, because to be honest, most of the things I play I end up writing about anyway. But, I've been starting some games recently, but not playing long enough for an update each. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes I don't own the first Prime, so when I felt like I should play those games since everyone thinks they're so good, this was my only option. And yes, it is goo...
I've been putting off this update for a while now, and to be honest I have no idea why. It's now been about a week since Part 8 happened, and three days since Part 9, so my mind might not fully remember everything that happened or it's exact chronology. With that out of the way, here I go! I feel since S. Links all happen in any order you want (to a certain extent), it's okay to lump them all t...
I get afraid during games. I get afraid during games a lot more than I do in real life, in fact. The last time I got scared in real life was when this giant-ass moth was sitting on my pillow a couple nights ago. Well, okay, I do get scared in real life a bit too, but it's a lot more acceptable there than in games! In games, I get scared even when there's no immediate danger to me. There are ene...
Sometimes I sit down, look at my shelf, and pick a random game that's usually about two years old. This led to me playing about three hours of Spiderman: Web of Shadows late last night. I assume most people have forgotten about this game, because it's not great. Web of Shadows is very much built in the Spiderman 2 mold. You can just swing around beating up dudes, or do the missions (which invol...
We are now about 27 hours into the game, with yesterday being probably our shortest session yet. The reason for this is, halfway through, we got distracted and decided to watch Robots because Robots is cool. That doesn't mean nothing happened yesterday though! Because there were some things that happened! We have officially welcomed Robot-Lady (Aigis) into our party. Turns out, she's pretty goo...
Yesterday's session GO! So, yesterday we played about four more hours of Persona 3 FES, and it was probably the most entertaining four hours yet. We have now played a full day of this game. Today was the first day I've had one of the songs stuck in my head. "I never felt like, doo doo doo doo doo." That music plays whenever you're in town, and a slow version plays when you're int stores. They h...
So, yesterday's session. It was pretty cool, about 5 and a half hours of playing some Persona 3 FES. This is what happened: Social link wise, we got Kenji to ten! It wasn't that awesome, but we ate ramen and that was cool. We've also became a couple with Yuko (the Kendo Team manager). We hadn't done this whole relationship thing before, and it's pretty confusing. At some point, it just said, "Y...
If you read my blog post yesterday, you might be wondering how I played three sessions in one day. The truth is, these were posted about a week apart on my website, but I never got around to posting them here. If you didn't read the last one, then I should explain. This is a blog about me and a friend playing through Persona 3 FES. Simple. So, Enjoy! New one tomorrow. Today, I'd like to write a...
I never liked JRPGs. Well, it's not as much that I didn't like than I just didn't care about them. The Persona 4 Endurance Run has changed this for me. I watched them play one hundred hours of that game and thought, "Yeah, Japan knows how to make JRPGs, I should try one." So, I tried out Tales of Symphonia. Eh. I like it, but I can never really play it for very long. I play it for about 45 minu...
Recently, I've been thinking about storytelling in video games. I was inspired by some guy (I don't remember his name) on Good Game saying that video games need to come up with an alternative to cut-scenes. At first, I was puzzled, but now I fully agree. Cut-scenes are just video games trying to be movies. Maybe abolishing cut-scenes is a bit too far, but toning down is definitely necessary if...
I've been playing through Persona 3 FES for about a week now, and we've died a few times, but have easily come back right after. But, my most recent death was a lot more annoying. We're about 13 hours in, and we're at the second "ordeal" where there are two bosses and Fuuka has just replaced Mitsuru. My friend had left, so I had to deal with it myself (We would usually talk most of our turns th...
I couldn't find a page for this game so I thought I'd post this review as a blog post instead. Run! is a game for the iPhone/iPod Touch that involves running to the right and avoiding obstacles. It's the kind of game I want on the iPhone platform: it's simple, and is easy to play in short bursts. In Run!, you "control" a stick figure. He automatically runs to the right so you don't really have...
When Gears of War 2 came out all the way back in two-thousand-and-hate I didn't really play it. I played through the campaign once, and then just stopped. Until yesterday. I was on Xbox Live, and a few of my friends were playing through Horde mode. I decided, sure, I could go for some Gears 2, it's definitely not terrible. But damn, that game is good. The Horde mode is still unmatched in any ga...