Hello, and welcome to Day 2 of The Gomies! With our friend above, Gomez! Yesterday, I presented Gomez with the Cutest Character Award, and then I presented the awards for Most Savage Game and Lightning in a Bottle! You can read that here. But, for the rest, let's move quickly into today's awards. THE ROGUE GOMIE FOR BEST ROGUE-LIKE Spelunky Roguelikes , by all accounts, would not have been my t...
Hello, and welcome to Game of the Year! I'm Little_Socrates, and I'm gonna be presenting a series of awards for games that are, well, awesome. Before I publish a full version of my Game of the Year list (which is in my lists on the site, with short descriptions,) let's rip into some special awards, eh? CUTEST CHARACTER AWARD Okay, he’s a goofy looking potato-man throughout most of your playthro...
This is a long one, folks. So first, a video. This Is Not A Film debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival after being smuggled out of Iran on a flash drive. It's got a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I found it one of the most boring and miserable filmgoing experiences of my life. Walking out of my college's union theater Thursday night, I felt I had gotten more out of About Cherry , a movie only...
The Walking Dead series by Telltale Games , in case you’ve missed out on it, is easily one of the most impressive role-playing games of 2012. Mind you, it’s got none of the traditional RPG level-up or combat mechanics in place; it eschews them for quality conversational roleplaying in its place. The characters feel extremely relatable and human, and yet the game places you in incredibly difficu...
I’m in the midst of preparing my Rush “Fly By Night” review for my music blog . It’s in pure stream-of-consciousness notes mode. That’s not a process I normally uphold, but within the first moments of Fly By Night, I knew that kind of attention would be required. So, I have two pages of notes on the album. They total to about 1200 words, which I’d probably reduce to 600-800 and then expand to 8...
Hey guys, So I never posted my Top 10 list to Giant Bomb. I apologize for that. Let's remedy that now. If you want to hear more Game of the Year Deliberations in the style of Giant Bomb, we recorded ours just as Giant Bomb uploaded their final day, and you can listen to that here. Also, for those of you who wanted some long written thing, let's just drop in this thing I wrote about Disney Epic...
I was sitting here, talking on Giant Bomb. Of course, it's Game of the Year time here on the internet, and everybody's talking nonstop about what games they think deserve to be nominated and for which categories. In a thread about ilomilo , I posted that I didn't think that game was going to be something I seriously considered. A lot of people have been praising the music , as it's quite cheery...
[email protected] Dear Playstation Public Relations, I am emailing to inform you that I am extremely disappointed with the announced plans in Japan for UMD-to-Vita conversion. The games I have purchased for my PlayStation Portable are Rock Band Unplugged, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Currently, none of those titles are part of the PSP...
Today, I completed the Persona 4 Endurance Run . I beat Persona 4 in the last couple of weeks, and my roommate beat Persona 4 a week before that. Normally, that would mean you were DONE with a game. But with Persona 4, I am STILL experiencing the game through the anime . When that's finished, if it's not out already, I'll probably be heavily anticipating the release of Persona 4: The Ultimate i...
Hey guys, I was feeling really demotivated until a couple hours ago, and had to write something else before this blog, but IT’S OUT NOW! *ahem*. Let’s get started. PERSONA 4, WHY DID YOU STEAL MY LIFE AWAY FROM ME? So last week I told you I was going to play Terraria and LA Noire . I also said I’d probably be reviewing an IOS game. Well, that didn’t happen because Persona 4 stole probably about...
LA NOIRE IS BREAKING MY BALLS Everyone else is saving this topic for last, but it’s not what I actually want to talk about, so fuck it. Yes, I’m really enjoying LA Noire. I’ve just reached the Vice desk and completed my first case there. I’ve also learned recently while playing that the names of the four desks are not spoilers, as you can actually see them in your notebook from the start of the...
Yeah, so I'll need a new logo sooner rather than later. So it begins. Once you start reviewing games and recording podcasts, it's only so long before you start a blog, right? And instead of waxing about the idea, let's just get right into it. PSN IS BACK ONLINE AND I'M NOT SURE HOW TO FEEL ABOUT IT So, yes, PSN is back online. In fact, Kaz Hirai put out a very sweet video acknowledging the stat...
Back in December, my friend Jake (GB username commisar123) and I decided to host a Game of the Year podcast. We played nearly every meaningful game released in 2010, blasting through an army of games, and we finally came to the deliberations in January. Unfortunately, the audio quality on the recording was unbelievably bad. Something was wrong with our connection, and almost a half an hour of t...
Earlier this week, an article about a study run by the NIH surfaced on GameSpot saying that violent images reduce "reactions" to violent imagery in teenagers. The title of the article was a bit misleading to me (I believed it meant "emotional responses" in regards to ALL social interaction,) but it garnered a lot of attention on the site and raises some interesting points. For that full article...
For some reason, fellow Gamespotter GabuEx always seems to inspire a response in me with his blog posts. And by "a response," I mean that I really intend to have the normal-sized comment in the box below, and wind up with over double the length allotted, causing me to make a full blog post of my own. Honestly, if the man had a podcast, I'd probably dissect every episode '^.^ If you're not a Gam...
On Saturday evening, my real-life friend firelordozaie (in case you've seen his screenname around) declared me a total gaming puss. This is in response to the fact that I'm still only on mission 14 of normal mode for Fire Emblem (Blazing Sword), I haven't beat Fallout 3, Alan Wake, Fable II, a single Mario & Luigi RPG, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect, Gears of War, Halo 3 ODST, a single game I've ever...
In case you've missed the article on the front page of many websites, gaming didn't sell very well in April 2010. In fact, it apparently "tumbled 26 percent" from last year's April sales, leaving game analysts to call it a fluke. Onlookers have noted a few major sources of the problem. The first that must be noted is that, in reality, of the platform-sellers, only Nintendo has "tumbled"; compar...
I bought Pokémon Heart Gold the day after it came out, and I've logged under 4 hours on it. I have yet to play my copy of Arkham Asylum, and there's an army of great games I haven't finished. Meanwhile, I must've logged twenty in Solitaire XL on my computer. I think it's a casual gaming addiction, and I want to break it. Help?
Last night, I was looking for something to play, and so I started a file on Knights of the Old Republic. I've played some of the game before, but never finished it, and Taris is a joy every time through, so I decided to give it another shot. When I played previously, I was a scoundrel, but this time I went with a soldier named Thresh Karr (epic random name generator FTW). Taris is very difficul...
This is a repost from a thread earlier today: I just thought I wrote a particularly adamant response, and so I decided to post it as a blog. I read the quote in the italics, and it just set me off for some reason. " Gamestop is a cancer to the brick and mortar game business. How can you defend against downloadable games when you have Gamestop being the posterboy for the physical game industry?...
The Wall Street Journal wrote an article in 2007 about a man who was more dedicated to his virtual wife in the game “Second Life” than his real wife, who was threatening him with separation. However, the man still claimed “the virtual marriage is only a game.” In this case, his virtual wife was a real woman somewhere else in our world, and she took their marriage very seriously. Now, in 2009, w...