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But the thing that really fascinates me about Lies of P is how much its central themes mirror what the game is. What's the difference between a human, and a puppet? What's the difference between the original, and what it inspires?

"Requiem is really great overall, fantastic at its best, but definitely plays it a little too safe in some ways."

Some thoughts on both Double Exposure, but also Life is Strange as a franchise.

The second half of MooseyMcMan's 2025 GOTY blog series on the site.

The first half of my 2025 GOTY blog. Nonetheless, a lot of ground is covered in just this one part.

The second half of my final installment of my Devil May Cry retrospective!

The first half of the final installment in my Devil May Cry retrospective!

Welcome to the fourth installment of my Devil May Cry retrospective! Haven't read the first three? Well, click the links below! Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4: Conflicted. Not quite so iconic a face off. Originally released in 2008, but re-released with a Special Edition much later in 2015, Devil May Cry 4 is a bit of an odd one. The first “next gen” DMC after the PS2 era, it was also the first...

If you missed it, here's a link to part one, covering Devil May Cry, and a brief history of my experience with the series as a whole. I was pleasantly surprised with how it held up, and well, now let's get to the sequel. Part 2: Sophomore Slump. Since Devil May Cry 2 was the only game in the franchise I hadn't played before, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. My biggest fear going into it w...

“ Devil May Cry is a franchise that stands on being cool. That’s what the franchise is, it’s about being cool.” - Hideaki Itsuno, director of Devil May Cry 2 through 5, in an article on IGN , looking back on the series. In April of 2025, Netflix released a new Devil May Cry animated series. Not actually the first such series based on everyone's favorite stylish devil hunting franchise, but I ha...

Thinking back on Death Stranding 1, and reading what I wrote in 2019 , I remember a game with some pretty interesting ideas, and the pieces of a compelling story...just put together wrong, and overshadowed by a lot of the bad sort of nonsense. I don't particularly recommend re-reading my spoiler blog from then, because as I literally say up front, it's more a stream of consciousness as I tried...

So, last time I wrote about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , I covered the first hour-ish of the story, a whole lot of mechanics, the art, the music, and of course Lune's feet. Don't worry, I don't have anything more to say about that, haha. Other than I am a bit disappointed by how blurry the mid-combat screenshots ended up being. I later had the realization that in lieu of a photo mode, I could...

I know that isn't proper French, believe me, haha. As a heads up, this is a very story focused game, and I ended up writing a fair amount about the opening hour-ish of the game. The original plan was to also include some quick thoughts about the game's ending(s), but...well you can guess what happened, so the major spoiler stuff will be coming in the near future. For this, outside that opening...

Quite a few hours into Blue Prince, I stumbled upon a room intended for creating architectural documents, and scale models to accompany them. It also contained a document about the documents themselves, and their history. Or, at least said history within the world of Blue Prince, specific to the fictional country of its setting. Detailing the color coding for these prints, whether they be Green...

As with Monster Hunter Wilds, this is game that I don't feel like I have my usual novella's worth of material to say about, but I still feel compelled to at least try. I've written so much about this series over the years, and at a point another one of these games is kind of just...another one of these games. So, what's there to write about? I already covered the nostalgia angle extensively las...

I don't know that I necessarily have a ton to say about Monster Hunter Wilds, but I do have some thoughts. Plus, writing gives me something to take my mind off...well, everything , but this is about Monster Hunter. Wilds! Or...Milds?? So, here's the thing, that I'm guessing anyone reading this knows what I'm getting at here, so I should keep the preamble about the hundreds of hours I put into W...

Ten years ago, in 2014, a certain survival horror game released. Directed by Shinji Mikami, at the then new Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within looked cool. Almost like it was somewhere between the more “campy” zombie fighting Resident Evil, and the more “cerebral” and “can't tell what is and isn't real” Silent Hill. I say never having played a Silent Hill, other than PT. Anyway, it looked neat in...

Before I begin in earnest, I want to say that the act of discovery is important not just to a lot of games, but especially this one. To me, a lot of the joy of Astro Bot is in seeing what it has next in store, whether it's a fun gimmick in a level, a power up, or one of the many cameos. So, to write about this game without going into that stuff would be hard, and I also don't want to spoiler ou...

Last year, in a year packed with so many high profile releases that I couldn't get to every one that I wanted to play (totally unlike this year where that's already happened and the year isn't even half over), Hi-Fi Rush was the game that I wanted to play most, but didn't. And it was entirely because it wasn't on the console I own, if I had a modern Xbox, or a gayming PC, I absolutely would hav...

Typically the sorts of games I write about are ones with a pretty clear beginning and end, so it's easy for me to know when I'm done with it. Thus if I want to write about it, when it's the time to do so. Even in the realm of ongoing games, Destiny 2 has campaigns with conclusions to them (also usually I don't really have enough to say about those for individual write-ups). I think technically...

So, Tears of the Kingdom has been a game that is both extremely easy for me to write about, but really hard for me to focus into a piece of writing I feel good about. Because it's a game that I think is truly special, and because of the breadth of things I have to say about it, the current plan is to do a three part “series” of blogs on it. This is Part 1, which focuses on if I think it manages...

On this, the second installment of a series that I did not conceptualize as a series until literally as I was posting the previous one and didn't have a good title for the blog, I'm writing about Severed Steel. Basically it's an excuse for me to write about games that aren't quite new releases, and where I get the feeling not as many people played as they should have. So, what is Severed Steel?...

Hey! I know I haven't been writing here all that much over the last year, but I am going to make an attempt to do so more often. And one way of doing that is (and surely announcing this won't bite me in the rear) a new "feature" I came up with on the fly, called "Moosey's (Not So?) Hidden Gems," where I'll try to highlight games that I quite like, but probably aren't as well known as I feel lik...

Quick Note: This was originally written as a single, very long blog, but for the sake of my readers' time, I split it into two. Where do I even begin with this one? The astronomical expectations before it released? Or how it was such a disastrous release that it led to unprecedented numbers of returns, and even Sony delisting the game from sale on PSN for months? Given that I think it's safe to...

For the first time since, I think Death Stranding, I've felt compelled to write not one, but two (2) blogs about the same game in short succession. In this case, however, I actually really like the lore and story of Elden Ring, as opposed to the Death Stranding one being about my trying to wrap my brain around the mess that was that game's story. So, as one might surmise, that means this is goi...

If ever there was a game that was so hyped up that it felt like it could never possibly live up to those expectations, it'd be Elden Ring, right? Announced a decade after the release of the game that set From Software down the path to its current status as one of the most renowned studios out there (Demon's Souls), and ultimately released eleven years after Dark Souls, it had a lot to live up t...

It's been so long now that I'm not even sure what got me into Pokémon in the first place, the game, or the anime. If I had to guess, I'd say I probably watched the anime first, which then led to me playing Pokémon Blue. Either way, there was a brief time in my life where I was obsessed with Pokémon. I played a ton of the game (I think it was also my first ever RPG), I watched the anime every ch...

Three years ago, Toby Fox basically stealth released the first chapter of the now episodic Deltarune...series? Or, technically singular game, considering Chapter 2 is just a free update, and not standalone. Now, Chapter 2 has released, and I got around to not just Chapter 2, but also replaying Chapter 1, just to refresh myself on the story, characters, world, etc. After playing both chapters, a...

Back in 2012, I played a little game called Dishonored. It wasn't the first game from Arkane Studios, but it was the first one I played (or at least the first game they were the lead on, apparently they helped on BioShock 2 to some capacity?). And I'd guess it's the game that put Arkane on the map for most people. While Dishonored certainly has its diehard fans, I can't really count myself amon...

Early in Miles Morales, on his way home, Miles comes across someone painting a mural on the side of a building. One of none other than everyone's favorite web-slinger, Spider-Man. The classic, original Spider-Man, with his bug eyes and bright red suit. Miles, still amidst his Spider-training, suggests adding the new Spider-Man too, and the painter replies with something to the effect of a dismi...

It only took seven (7) months, but I finally managed to get my hands onto that most coveted of items...a Sony® PlayStation™ 5. How did I achieve this, you ask? Was it the months of checking stores online for stock? The weeks of having the Target page for PS5 open every morning? Was it waiting in line at PlayStation Direct queues? Was it some sort of elaborate Fast and Furious heist, just with c...

I'm not really sure how to open this one. Like everyone else, when I read the news that Vinny, Brad, and Alex were leaving, I was shocked. I couldn't believe it, truly could not. And like so many others, I've just been overwhelmed with emotions the last few days. I've fought back tears, and choked up thinking about how much this website, and those three have been a part of my life for so long n...

Between the long blog I did last year after finishing it, and GOTY season with The Moosies, I've certainly written plenty about Persona 5 Royal. Enough that part of me didn't think I'd be writing about the Phantom Thieves again any time soon, yet here I am, having just finished the follow up and/or spinoff of Persona 5, Persona 5 Strikers. When a game surprised me as much as Royal did, and I gr...

Not counting The Moosies, the last time I sat down and wrote a blog about a game was...September. About that Avengers game. And even counting The Moosies, it's still been a couple months. On the whole I am glad I moved to only writing about games that really make me compelled to write about them, but part of me does miss the potpourri "here's everything I played over the last month, even if I o...

Now, you might be thinking that Avengers as a singular group, as a Brand® is enough of a thing now that Avengers doesn't really count as a crossover anymore. Seeing Cap and Thor together just feels like a common thing, and not so special like it did back when the first Avengers movie (not to be confused with Captain America: The First Avenger) released. But that's not what I mean. The crossover...

You read that right, folks, the day has finally come. After years of waiting for price cuts that didn't happen, years of not buying that Black Friday deal with the Switch at full price but at least it came with Mario Kart 8 bundled in (which I scoffed at because I already owned that game and the DLC on Wii U), I gave in and just bought a Switch. No special deal. No bundle. Just a Switch, a Pro...

I just spent the last month and a week or so of my life playing this game. 151 hours of in game time, at least according to the game itself. I suspect it might not count some of the time spent in menus, but I'm not entirely sure. And maybe it feels a little weird to open this with the time spent, but in so many ways this series is all about time, how we spend it, and amongst the myriad of jumbl...

Farming Simulator. Good chances are that anyone seeing that phrase on Giant Bomb is reminded of those old Quick Looks, the first of which is going to be a decade old this December. I feel old too. Perhaps because my introduction to the franchise was watching Ryan and Vinny horsing around, Farming Simulator is something that has long confounded me. Not so much that it exists, but that it exists...

I've never played the original Final Fantasy VII. Readers may remember XV was the first one I ever played , and the only other Final Fantasy thing I had experienced was seeing Spirits Within in the theater. I say all this up front to make it clear that aside from the most basic of information that became part of popular culture, I knew almost nothing about Final Fantasy VII before playing the R...

Eyes fly open, only seeing the lid of a sarcophagus, suspended above, and at your level, arms chained to an alter of some sort while zombified scientists meander closer. Chains broken, and zombies killed, you see holograms of people worshiping you , and one woman scheming, before once again donning the armor of the DOOM Slayer. Then you get the first piece of concrete context for DOOM 2016: Dr....

I was just a kid when I got my first pet. My first real pet, not counting some bunnies that my parents actually took care of, and I was really too young at the time to remember now. But this pet, a half Pekingese/half poodle I named Gizmo, I loved him more than anything else in the world. This cute little creature, who showed me nothing but love, and unbound kindness, it wasn't like anything el...

Long time readers will know that I've had a very on and off relationship with the Destiny franchise. I obsessively (not a word I use lightly) played Destiny 1 until I burned out hard after a couple months (culminating in my finishing the Vault of Glass and only getting a shader). I played the House of Wolves expansion, but stubbornly refused to play Taken King because I didn't want to also have...

So, I really intended to just write about the game part of Death Stranding. That was what compelled me, and that was what I felt I had interesting things to say about. Now, do I have interesting things to say about Death Stranding? Does Death Stranding itself have interesting things to say? I'm still not sure about either! But I kept trying to wrangle my thoughts around what happened in that ga...

I step out, and the desert stretches before me. Sand and rocks, undulating, going and going, eventually turning into grassy hills, rivers, more deserts, and far off, way in the distance, snowy mountains looming on the horizon. But I don't focus on that, I just pay attention to what's ahead of me. Take it slow down this hill, walk around these rocks, force myself through this river, one laboriou...

The Outer Worlds, the second in the "Outer W(x)lds" franchise released this year, after Outer Wilds is... Okay, sorry, I had to get at least one last of those jokes in. But I do think it's funny that, handful of MK 11 matches here and there aside, I went directly from Outer Wilds to The Outer Worlds. Wouldn't have happened if Outer Wilds released on PS4 at the same time as PC and Xbox One, so c...

Fighting games! It's a genre I've long enjoyed, but usually in the context of just playing through the single player content, whether that be a story, challenge modes, or what have you, and then if I'm lucky, playing a decent amount with friends, locally. At least that was the case when I was young. I had a small circle of friends, but we all loved playing stuff like SoulCalibur II, Smash Bros....

Expectations are a hell of a thing. As I sit here, the day after finishing Outer Wilds, trying to wrap my head around the game, and my thoughts, I just keep going back to one thing: How did everything I've read and heard about the game in the months between its initial release (only on PC and Xbox One) and my actually playing it impact my time with it? Did it really have that big of an impact,...

There is an atmosphere to Control. Not literally. It has a mood that soaks out of almost every pore, a mood that at once kept me with a feeling of unease, yet made it hard for me to stop playing, or thinking about Control. Control is a game about a space, and a space that feels as alien as it does pedestrian. Stark concrete that shifts and moves, plain walls that go up farther than the eye can...

There are a lot of things that I could write about Judgment, the latest game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the people best known for making the Yakuza games. I could ramble on comparing and contrasting it to the Yakuza games, I could spend paragraphs talking about all sorts of stuff, but I want to try to keep this one a bit shorter, and more focused than my usual fare. I really enjoyed Judgment, b...

These days most of what I write comes in the form of a monthly bigh post about a single game, or maybe a couple games, but it's been a bit since the last game I played that I felt like I could squeeze out that many words about. It's been a little over a month, but I realized I've played a decent number of games this year that I haven't written about at all, so here's a "rapid fire" (some of the...

First off, if you're worried about spoilers, there will be spoilers here. BUT, they'll be in the back half, and clearly contained within a marked and labeled SPOILER ZONE. Everything up to then I'll keep vague/about general game mechanics, or at most I would white out a boss's name. I've been a fan of From Software's work for a while now. Maybe not as long as the people who played Demon's Souls...

So, I played Anthem. Finished both the main story, and as of this writing, all the content in the game that isn't generic/infinitely repeating. Despite that, I have not hit the level cap. Though, I guess I didn't get all the collectibles, but I finished all the side mission lines (all three of them), did all the Strongholds, and I'm pretty sure I did about all the talking to NPCs that you can d...

It's that time of year again, when ghosts and ghouls, horrors and horribles, calamities and climate change wreak havoc and scare us all to our bones! (But seriously stay safe whether you're in sub-arctic temps in the US, surface of the sun temps in Australia, or whatever else wherever else). But, in honor of this scariest of months, or more likely due to complete chance, I played a couple of ca...

Red Dead Redemption II is, as you might have heard, a big game. I finished it, and while there is a part of me that would like to do a deep dive into every last thought I had about the game, I'm not going to subject you to that. Instead, here's something about the parts of the game that spoke to me the most, and I suspect will stick with me the longest. That said, there will be SPOILERS. If you...

It's been a couple months, and I'm back! I've been very busy working on a thing , which I may have more to say about at the end of this blog (assuming I don't get in trouble with the mods for shilling a thing), so keep reading to find out more! Regardless, I've been playing games, and I have words to say about them! Marvel's Spider-Man. Despite the fact that the box of the game only has the Mar...

When Prey's DLC, Mooncrash, was announced (and simultaneously released) at E3 this year, I was a bit skeptical. After all the teases about the moon, I was really excited for more Prey. I loved Prey last year, and as more time has passed, I only find myself thinking more fondly of it. But the thing I loved most about Prey was the universe, the lore, story, themes, characters, etc. Actually playi...

I know I usually try to be coy, or come up with clever names for these, but I figured I would just get to the point with this one. Especially after seeing so much praise for 6 (if anyone has a link to some actual criticism of the game (not just 4/5 reviews or fluff on "how good a dad" Kiryu is), let me know because I haven't seen any), I found myself profoundly disappointed. Especially because...

"All I remember is what I have lost." God of War III ends with Kratos having finally achieved his vengeance, and in doing so, seemingly destroyed the world, or at least Greece. At the time I found this ending, in which Kratos finally realizes that all he's done is destroy, and attempts to kill the one thing he hasn't yet, himself, to be fitting for the series. In the eight years since playing G...

Hello! Been kind of a while, huh? I've not posted anything here since my GOTY stuff, and I'm sorry about that. It's not because I haven't been playing games (though I've only played a couple of 2018 releases thus far), but more because my main writing focus has still been elsewhere. Not that I really have much to show for it yet, but someday. Someday. And in the meantime, here's some good old f...

Just a few days ago, the third and final episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm was released. And while everyone else is either writing up their game of the year lists, or not writing at all, I have found myself compelled to write about Before the Storm. There's going to be SPOILERS , for it and original Life is Strange, so here's your warning. Go play it, the first two episodes are fanta...

Hey! Been a...few months, hasn't it? I've still been playing the video games, just not writing about them. Been writing other stuff. What other stuff? Shush, you, don't worry about that. Anyway, even though there's a couple games in here that I probably could go and blabber on about forever, I'm "trying" to keep this relatively short, but as always, I wrote this before the rest of the blog, so...

I haven't written a ton of stuff so far this year, and when I have, it's been about the bigger games I've played. Breath of the Wild, Horizon, Prey, those sorts of games. Because I've neglected to write about the other games I've played this year, the ones I didn't really have expansive thoughts about, I'm writing about them all here. No deep dives, just shallow swims. That, and my hot take on...

Prey is a bit of an odd one. Even removed from the lineage of the Prey name (which I can only imagine was forced upon Arkane by a man in a suit from Bethesda), it's an odd one. Not on the surface, but the more time I spent with the game, the more something about it just felt...either off, or missing. I'm still not exactly sure. But I'll get to that later, once I get into the story spoilers. I d...

You ever keep meaning to do something, keep telling yourself you'll do it tomorrow, but then never actually get around to it? That was more or less me and Horizon Zero Dawn for a couple months. Or, more specifically, me and actually buying the game, not playing it. I'm not one of those people that buys a game and takes forever to actually...Okay, yes, I did that with The Witcher III's DLC, but...

Back in my younger days, I rented Ocarina of Time, as I did with many a game. For better or worse, the game didn't click with me then, and it wasn't until a decade or so later that I actually played the game to completion (after having finished several others in the series). But, back when I first tried the game, my big issue was that the game didn't have a jump button, and now, in 2017, The Le...

Been a bit since I wrote one of these, huh? Almost as if I kept you waiting- Yakuza 0. I love the giant cones in these games. They are apparently accurate to real Japan. My first impulse when writing this was to say that I'm a longtime fan of the series, but I remembered that's not exactly true. I jumped on with the series at Yakuza 3, which was the first PS3 one. Even then, not until I found i...

Not been as big of a gap between blogs this time, huh? Also I figured that I had enough to say about Mafia III to let that be its own thing. Mafia III. Plenty of gators, real and otherwise, in Mafia III. Mafia III is a bit of a tough one to write about, or at least start writing about. You know, it's always the beginning that's the hardest, for me at least. Before I get into discussing the actu...

So...it's been a while since the last one of these, huh? I certainly didn't intend that to be the case. At first it was just writer's block, which I tried to wait out. You know, sometimes it's better to just not write than to try to force it. But then, well, let's just say that anxiety over "current world events" sapped me of any will to write whatsoever for several weeks. Which is not to say t...

Hey there! I don't have a ton of things to say about these things, but I do have things to say. I know both Mafia III and Rise of the Tomb Raider are out now on a platform I own (that's more specifically for Tomb Raider and its year of Xbox/PC exclusivity), but I've yet to have a chance to get either of those. Might wait for a sale? Mafia III seems like kind of buggy at the moment, and even if...

Hey, you try thinking of something when the games you're writing about are Lords of the Fallen, The Battlefield 1 Beta, and Journey. And honestly, I don't really have a ton to say about any of them individually, but altogether I can probably scrape something together. Unless you're just sick of my blogs, given that this is the third one in as many weeks. Don't worry about that, there's no other...

You probably don't remember, but last year, in The Moosies, I had some predictions about the following year. One of them was that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided would be my Game of the Year 2016. Even then, that was based on basically nothing outside of the fact that I liked Human Revolution a lot, and had low or no expectations for a lot of the games this year that I ended up liking (The Witness, Ov...

In true fashion, it's been (a little over) a month since the last thing I wrote here. What can I say, it took me a long time to beat Yakuza 5, and the other things I'm here to write about were only in the last couple weeks. I have also started Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but given my penchant for ignoring the story and spending hours playing side quests, I'm still too early to write anything subs...

Hello! Time once again for my not so regularly unscheduled blog. This time I've written about Furi, The Talos Principle, Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, and of course, yet another Overwatch update. Furi I love this game's styyyyyyyyle. Furi, if you haven't heard of it, is one of this month's (well, July's, given that I'm squeezing this blog in so late in the month) free PlayStation Plus games. It'...

Usually I try to avoid memes, but I definitely came close to including "& Knuckles" in the title of this blog. Thankfully I didn't have any Sonic related games that I played, so I couldn't do that in good faith. And on that note! E3 2016. In lieu of shirtless Link, I opted for pyromaniac/explosion loving Link. Obviously I didn't attend E3, but I did consume all of the video content Giant Bomb d...

Gone Home. It only took several years, and it being free on PS+, but I finally played Gone Home. Playing a game that has been talked about as much as Gone Home was, years after the fact, was...I don't want to say interesting. Gone Home very clearly means a lot to a lot of people. And, having played it, I understand why. But for me? Honestly, I thought it was a little boring. Before I critique i...

Just a heads up, I'll be spoiling things in here, including the ending of the game, and other major plot points . I also begin this by discussing some early story stuff, so don't look beyond this dashing picture of Nathan Drake if you care about spoilers. But if you do care, take my word for it, this game is fantastic, and absolutely worth your time. This game looks sooooo good! Early in Unchar...

Two games in "this week's" blog. Or, a game and a beta, depending on how you look at it. I actually tried at least some of three of this month's PS+ games (all the ones on PS4), but two of them were so boring and forgettable that I deleted them very quickly, and I don't think I can even remember their names now. One of them was a racing game with some Level Lord little cars thing going on, and...

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. I am, in fact, putting up another blog only about a week after the last one. It's good to be writing more than once a month again. Probably won't last, of course, but still good. Anyway, enough preamble! Time to amble! (Pretty sure I've made that joke before.) Zombi. This game is pretty British. Zombi, perhaps better known as ZombiU, is an interesting game....

In true form, it's once again been over a month since the last time I wrote something on here. Part of me wants to get into the habit of writing more frequent, shorter posts, instead of monolithic monthly ones, but then I never get around to it. Doesn't help that most of what I've played in the last month has been games that I've played before. I still think Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight are...

As you may remember from last time, the recent release of the new Hitman led to me starting to play Hitman: Blood Money (PS3 version from the HD collection), as that's the fan favorite of the series. And as you probably have guessed, I have finished Hitman: Blood Money, and am here to convey my thoughts on the game to you, through the "magic" of the written word. But that's not actually where t...

Been a while since the last time I wrote something, huh? Exactly a month from when I posted my blog on The Witness...At least as of when I wrote this. I probably waited a couple days before actually posting it. But enough preamble! Rebel Galaxy. I really like this game's style. I like Rebel Galaxy a lot. It has some issues, but overall, it's the sort of game that feels like it was made just for...

And when I say " SPOILERS ," I mean more for the "story" side of the game than for the actual puzzles. The only puzzle related thing I intend to mention is the Challenge, and even then, I'm not going to give anything resembling a solution, just describing some aspects of it. Anyway, you've been warned, read at your own discretion. Also, I kinda did something different with this one from what I...

Aha! See, it WASN'T months before I wrote another blog! Only been a week, actually. I think. Unless I got distracted and this is posted later than I planned, and I forgot to edit this part out, which is totally something that I would do. As you likely guessed, I'm back to doing PS+ Catch Ups! As is always the case, I've not played every game that's been "free" on PS+. I still don't have a Vita,...

Hey, it's been a while, huh? Over two months since my last blog. But instead of dwelling on why or how that happened, I'm just going to jump straight into it. The Platinum Pain. This picture accurately shows how I felt after getting 100%. And by jump straight into it, I mean write about MGSV yet again, despite already having dedicated two entire (LENGTHY) blogs to it. But I think that I have en...

If you read my previous blog , you know I was planning on writing a spoiler filled blog about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. And, this is that blog! Be warned, I'll be discussing pretty much everything I think is worth discussing in the game, and that includes the ending! And a bunch of other moments, early and late game, that I feel everyone should experience for themselves. So, if you...

I hadn't really been thinking that I would have enough stuff to write about to get one last blog in before MGSV, but I did! Normally I would say that I don't have a ton to write about any one of these things, and that this'll be a shorter blog that normal, but I thought the same thing about MGS2 HD and MGS3 HD. So, no promises! All I will promise is that there will be words, and some pictures....

It finally returns, as I've finally done something toward replaying the MGS games I said I would! Though, as you can guess from the title, I've clearly deviated from the original plan. Which is no surprise, because I've basically said as much before. No PS1 MGS, and no Twin Snakes for me this year. Not because I don't think it's worth it, more because I only have so much time, and I don't want...

It's been a little bit since my last blog. I had intended to write something up about getting the new hard drive for my PS4, and my thoughts on the Borderlands The Handsome Collection, but...The stuff about the hard drive was basically just going to be me saying that having tons of extra space is rad, and that Sony still really needs to overhaul the PS4's interface. And, hey, I still like Borde...

So, as you may remember from the last blog I wrote, Arkham Origins was the only Batman game (of the recent Arkham arc (ARCham)), that I had not played. But no longer, for I have played it! And you know what? I really liked it. But, before I get any further, I'll give my usual, "I'm going to discuss some spoilers but it'll be whited out" notice. I will say that if you like the other Batman games...

I'm sorry for that title. That rises below even my usual low standards for blog titles. Anyway, I've played Arkham Knight, to completion (literally, I got 100%), and now I'm writing about it. Er, written about it, by the time you read it. I should say that while I'm not going into a deep analysis of the plot, I will be discussing some spoiler stuff (including the twist(s)), so be forewarned! I'...

I didn't really think about it until just now, but it took me over a month to actually finish this game. That's pretty rare for me, these days. Back when I was a kid, and only played games at my dad's house when I went there on weekends (after my parents split up), this was much less rare. But when you're unemployed, and can spend all day, every day, playing games, I get through games a lot fas...

As you may have guessed from the title, no, this is not my Witcher 3 blog. I'm still playing that game. Slowly but surely. Or, at least, I've started playing it again since the patch for the XP bug was put out. It's a really long game with a lot of stuff in it. I still haven't set foot in Skellige yet. I've done all the main story quests in the other areas leading up to that, and I've done all...

Last month, as you may remember, was kind of disappointing for me, in terms of the PS+ games. I mean, I try not to complain about "free" games that are a part of a service that I'd pay for anyway (given the amount of games I've been playing online the last few months), but it was not up to the usual level of quality that I've come to expect from PS+. Or, I guess that's still not being fair. I d...

As you may recall, I recently decided that I was going to play through all the main Metal Gear games this year, along with the GameCube remake of MGS1 (Twin Snakes), VR Missions on PS1, and REVENGEANCE, all in chronological (ish) order of release. So, I started where it all began, on the MSX. Or, at least as close as I can get to the MSX without paying what I'm sure is way too much money for an...

As is often the case with older games (Demon's Souls being almost six years old) that I only just get around to playing years after release, there is a bit of a story here. Or, at least, I should explain why it is that I've only just played Demon's Souls now, especially as someone who loves Dark Souls and Bloodborne (and I like Dark Souls II quite a bit too, but love would be too strong a word)...

I'm not gonna lie, this month was kind of a lean one in terms of the PS+ games. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, given that I still really like PS+ as a whole, and need it for playing games online anyway. Rough months are to be expected. But, I'm saying this upfront as a way of explaining why it's been so long since my last blog. At the very least, it's quite a bit longer than it has b...

In the time since I last played Bloodborne, I managed to get in a much greater variety of other games than I expected. Which is to say that Axiom Verge wasn't the only thing I played. I also managed to keep myself from diving back into Bloodborne for longer than I expected, but I'll probably be starting new game plus in that today. And if not (I do have things I need to get done, and might get...

I'm going to get this put of the way now: I have finished Bloodborne, and I fully intend to discuss SPOILER stuff. I'll try to remember to say SPOILER before that stuff, but really, if you intend to play the game, or are in the process of doing so, don't let me, of all people, spoil it for you. Go play it. Or play it when you have the chance. Then come back and read this, if you still want to....

It's that time of the month again, when I catch everyone up on most of this month's PlayStation Plus games! I say most because, as is usually the case, I didn't actually play all of them. Usually that's because there's a Vita only one that I can't play, but in this case it's because I forgot to download the PS3 version of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. I would actually like to try tha...

You know those moments in life where you go from feeling like your flying high and unstoppable to just crashing, burning, and feeling like there's no way out? No? Just me? Well, I know it's not just me, but you get the point. The last week has been rough for me. And it's not just going to magically get better over night. It's going to be rough for...months, maybe longer. I dunno. I also don't f...

That's right! If you weren't aware, then I'll let you know now: I went to PAX East this year. And, since I enjoy writing so much, I decided to write something up about my experience there. I wasn't there for the full three days, as my friends (who I've known for a very long time, and are both Giant Bomb fans) and I weren't fast enough to get three day passes, and decided upon getting Saturday a...

As I was about to write this intro, I was thinking there wasn't any thematic consistency with this blog, but then I realized that wasn't true at all! I'm writing about two short-ish things that I was able to play by getting codes to download them from friends. In this case The Last of Us Remastered from yummylee, and The Fall from Matlock Mat Paget...I don't remember what his GB user name is, a...

I haven't done a proper PS+ Catch Up in a while, and I'm sorry for that. Hasn't stopped me from writing about PS+ stuff. Well, really just The Swapper, but that was THE SWAPPER. You should play that game. Anyway, I'm still not completely caught up on everything PS+, and I don't know that I ever will, really. Not unless I feel the desire to play several PS3 ports of PS2 Hitman games. Which, I'm...

I'm doing something just slightly differently with this blog. Usually I try to write about two or three games in each blog, to make them nice and long. And because I never think I have enough to say about one game for it to exist as a standalone blog (which probably isn't true, but that's neither here nor there). But in this case, I think I have enough to say, even if the blog does end up being...

I had been hoping to get this blog written last week, but as is often the case, some of these games took longer to complete than I thought they would. Which, when you're like me and you have more time than you do money (thanks unemployment and still living with my dad), that's not a bad thing. Far from it, but that's neither here nor there. Super Mario Galaxy 2. I know I usually prefer to use i...

I gotta be honest with you, that's one of the worst blog titles I've ever come up with. You'd think that with PlayStation Now and Evolve as the things I want to write about that I'd be able to come up with something better, but apparently not. Maybe I'll think of something better whilst writing this blog. In which case the smart thing to do would be to write another intro, but I'm too far into...

This is something that I hadn't really thought about until recently, but I hadn't ever played any games from DICE (or Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment, which I only just learned when I was double checking to make sure they actually made Mirror's Edge). Well, unless playing the demo for the original Bad Company counts, but I don't think that does. Anyway, I went from zero to two recently...

First blog of the year, and what is it about? Yup, a smartphone. I've finally moved past the age of dumb phones and into the present. Or, at least, I'm still in the process of doing so. The phone arrived on Christmas Eve, and I've been using it for stuff since then. But it doesn't actually work as a phone yet. The process of getting that to go with the cell phone company has been more of a hass...

I tried for a while to come up with a good joke-y name for this blog, or some sort of word play, but in the end, I was just dragon my feet before actually starting to write it, so I gave up after an age and just started writing. Just answering in case you were inquiring as to why the title is so bland. Anyway, Dragon Age is one of those franchises that I was interested in for years, but never a...

I don't know what it is, but there's something about this time of year that always makes me feel depressed. More than usual, I mean. I don't know if it's because unpleasant things tend to happen this time of year, if it's just getting used to the cold and the snow again, or if it's all of the above. Last year was especially rough, what with my being hospitalized with Crohn's Disease related iss...

At this point I've run out of preambles for this feature, so I'm just getting into it. Actually, I should say that I already played (and wrote about) SteamWorld Dig on PS4, and I didn't play The Hungry Horde because it was Vita only. SteamWorldDig is a good game that I recommend, if you missed my previous blog about it. Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. This is one of those games where I ended up havi...

If you recall from last time, I had actually finished Bayonetta 2, but didn't want to write about it too much without going and replaying the first game. I've now done that, so I'm writing about it. Bayonetta 2 Bayonetta 2 is a tricky game to write about. Well, it's a tricky game for ME to write about. Because, as I've mentioned before in my blogs, I think I'm a better writer (about games) when...

It's that time of the month again! This (last month, I tried to write this yesterday but helping my mom with her car troubles got in the way) was a weird month for PS+. For one thing, #DRIVECLUB wasn't free, just like how it wasn't free at the launch of the PS4 last year. At least then they replaced it with something else (even if Contrast ended up being a bad game). And then there's the line u...

If you follow my even halfway closely, whether that be here, Twitter, etc, then you know that even in the best of times, I deal with depression pretty often. Not nearly as bad as some people, but still fairly bad. And as you probably noticed, these haven't exactly been the best of times on the internet as of late. I'm not even the hardest working moderator on Giant Bomb (not by a long shot), bu...

First up, I want to say that it took me a while to settle on a title for this. I couldn't really come up with anything good, and a part of me kept wanting to go with a "no man should have this much power" joke (partly because of what I want to discuss about this game). But I decided not to, because as a person that does not listen to "young people music," I associate that line with Giant Bomb,...

Despite what you may think, Destiny was NOT the only game I played in September! I actually managed to play most (but not all) of this month's PlayStation Plus titles as well! Why not all of them? Well, anything that's Vita only is unplayable to me, which is a bummer, because I totally would have played Joe Danger if the PS3 version was free. Well, it probably was at some point before I had PS+...

My original plan was to have a blog written last Tuesday, so it would have been about my first week with the game. I had been thinking that I might make it a weekly thing, check in every week, but clearly it's too late for that now. Now the plan is to write what I want to write now, and just check in with Destiny in other blogs that I write, at least so long as I'm still playing the game regula...

You know, I had really good intentions to keep blogging every week, like I had been. But then I sat down, tried to write something about the Miiverse, because I hadn't done anything else that week (aside from Mario Kart 8, which I've written more than enough about), and I just couldn't do it. I'm not gonna try to say that I have some super high quality level that I must reach for my blogs, beca...

If you remember, I recently wrote a blog about the games that I had been playing to catch up on all the free PlayStation Plus games I hadn't gotten around to playing. And now that we're almost done with August (geez, where does the time go?), I have another month's worth of PS+ games to write about. Well, excluding any that are Vita only, given that I don't have a Vita. Road Not Taken. This is...

In the not too distant past, Injustice: Gods Among Us was on sale for about $8 on PSN, so I bought it. Now I am writing about it. End preamble. Despite liking the last Mortal Kombat game quite a lot, I missed out on this game during its initial release. I also skipped out on the PS4 re-release with all the DLC at first, though that ended up being the version that I played. Not really any reason...

So, it's been two weeks now since I bought my shiny new Wii U. And while I certainly could wait longer before writing this blog, I feel like I've spent enough time with it to have enough to say about it, and the games I have for it. I'll start with the system itself. I knew the Wii U was going to be smaller than the current gen consoles, and the last gen consoles (not counting the Wii), but I w...

As you may already know, Destiny has already hooked me. I almost used the word "addiction" in the title of this blog, but then I figured that's in poor taste compared to people with actual addictions, so I didn't. I do have several people related to me (cousins and whatnot) that have dealt with and continue to deal with serious addiction issues, so maybe I'm slightly more sensitive to it that m...

I had been meaning to write this last week, before the Destiny Beta, but you know how these sorts of things tend to go. Anyway, the idea was that I had a whole bunch of PlayStation Plus games that I hadn't gotten around to playing, so I was going to play them all (to completion or otherwise), and write something about all of them. And I will do that, but don't be surprised if the bulk of this i...

Before I get into the meat of this blog, I think I should address my previous blog here. I was having a really bad day emotionally, and feeling really depressed. Not the first time it's happened (not by a long shot), and (unfortunately) it probably won't be the last time either, but these things happen. And while feeling so down and out, I wrote that blog, and put it on the site. I do also want...

I don't know why I'm writing this. It started with an idea that seemed good, but before I even wrote the first word, I started to question myself. "Why bother? Only a handful of people are going to read it, and they don't care. They might leave some supportive comments, but at the end of the day, they'll go on with their lives just the same as if they hadn't read it. It doesn't matter." That's...

I just want to say in advance that this blog was written in chunks, and it may feel a little disjointed at times. Just saying. Despite what I had been thinking mere days ago, I was able to finish Watch_Dogs within a month of its release! Or, rather, finish the story. I still have side stuff that I will probably do eventually (and time before one month after release), but never mind all that. Wa...

Okay, I know I always try to go for something "witty" in my blog titles, but I don't even know how that is what I came up with for this. I'm kinda tempted to wait until after I've played a bunch of Watch_Dogs before writing another blog, so I have more than one game to work with. But as tempted as I am, I think Transistor is due a blog dedicated to itself, because I think it deserves words writ...

It's been well over a month since the last time I blogged about video games. Not since the last time I blogged (though it's almost been a month since then), but that was a one time deal. I mean, I can only come out once, right? Anyway, as is often the case with me, I go through lengthy periods where I'm either not playing anything, or not playing anything deserving of more than a passing refere...

I beat inFAMOUS Second Son a few days ago, and earlier today I beat Dark Souls II. I was meaning to write up a blog about Second Son last week, but I never got around to it. By which I really mean that I started several times, but couldn't do it. Been running into that a lot lately. Start trying to write something, but then I just don't have it in me. Even now, this isn't "flowing" anywhere nea...

Oh, video games! You continue to be the sole ray of light in my dark and depressing life! Wait, that didn't come out right. Oh, video games! You continue to be the sole ray of darkness in my happy and wonderful life! Well, that one's just straight up false. How about I just skip the preamble and start ambling? (More like rambling! Zing! (Did I just zing myself?)) Anyway, I started playing Dark...

Today may be the release of Dark Souls II (which I have), but I've been playing other videos games too! And finishing them! But first, a message from our sponsors: You should buy my new electronic-book, Space Cops 5000. I know this probably won't convince you, so I won't dwell on it. Here's some links: US , UK , and it's available elsewhere too. Just search for Space Cops 5000 on Amazon. Okay,...

That's right! After, geez, over a year of work, I've finally finished Space Cops 5000. It's actually been close to two years since I first got the idea to write Space Cops 5000, but I was mid-way into writing my first book , and I don't like writing two books at once. That's biting off more than I can chew. One book at a time, though? Totally manageable, and also a lot of fun. Since I don't wan...

As you can see, I remain skilled at combining the names of different games together in an attempt to create a "clever" blog title. And for once, I think there's actually some thematic consistency between these games, even though it's kind of not obvious at all and I'd have to explain it. Aside from these both being games that I got "free" on PlayStation Plus. Anyway, I played the first Metro ga...

So, as you probably already know, Divekick is going to be getting a lot of changes soon. I won't recap them here, you can read them here . But, I, after reading some of these, and seeing some of them on the Divekick Esports hour (I missed the beginning), I have to say, I'm upset. Angry, even. Angry in a way that makes me disgusted with myself for being so upset over something dumb like Divekick...

Ah, video games. They refuse to go away, and I refuse to stop playing them, so here I am writing about video games! Once again! So, Outlast. As the "free" PlayStation 4 game of the month, I played it. I'm actually surprised by how I feel about this game, which is to say that I wound up kind of liking it. See, last year, when the game came out on PC, I ended up watching Patrick Klepek play, I th...

As nothing continues to happen in my life, aside from the odd visit to the hospital (you know, from my ongoing health issues), I've been CONTINUING to play video games! And now I'll end this meaningless preamble and actually get to the point. I've had Spelunky on the mind for quite a while now. In retrospect, I find it a little odd that Patrick happened to start his Spelunky videos a week befor...

In typical fashion it's been some time since the last time I wrote a blog, and blah blah blah, you know the drill. I've played some games, and done some other stuff, including going to the hospital again. I had an appointment yesterday, and have several more in the coming weeks. You know, relating to that abscess I had to have drained. The drain was taken out a while ago, but now I've got such...

Hey guys. Not really sure what brought this on, or how I decided to do this, but I figured I would write something up looking back on 2013 as a year. Not to talk about games, specifically. That's what The Moosies are for, and those are still a work in progress. I am making progress, I assure you. It's coming along well, but probably won't be up for a few days. 2013 has been a weird year. In ter...

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As my recovery has been speedier than I expected, I thought I would put up the nominees for this year's awards. I still don't have a concrete date for the actual awards, but I'd say within the next week is plausible. There aren't as many awards as in previous years, but hey, sometimes it's for the best to trim things back a bit. Anyway, here's the nominees! Wait, side note, all nominees are pre...

Hey guys. You may have noticed my absence from Giant Bomb and Twitter over the past few days, and the reason is that I was in the hospital. The short version of the story is that I had a lot of abdominal pain which has led to an abscess being drained. Actually, it's still draining, but slowly enough that I was allowed to go home, though a visiting nurse is going to have to come every day to emp...

Here I am, once again writing up a blog, and even despite my efforts to do these more often so that I'm not writing novel length blogs, I somehow have a ton of stuff to write about. I should have written this days ago like I planned, but hey, I was actually working on my next novel, so at least I have an excuse this time! Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag I know a lot of people complain about how...

About a week ago my PlayStation 4 arrived in the mail, and since I have nothing better to do with my life, I thought I would write up this here blog about it. I'll start with the things that I like about it. First off, I really love the look of the PS4. So much so that I find myself unplugging the USB cable in the morning (after charging the controller in the evening) so that the front of the m...

As you may have guessed, in the time since the last time I wrote up a blog, most of what I've been doing has been sitting on my butt and playing video games. And by video games, I mostly mean Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, which was yet another PlayStation Plus special. And now that I've beaten it (and played about an hour or so in new game plus), I decided to write this up about it. Dragon's Dog...

So, the other day I saw that Sleeping Dogs was on sale on PSN, bundled with the Nightmare in North Point DLC, so I bought it and downloaded it. And in the time since then, I put around 22-23 hours into the game and DLC, and rather than wait a month and a half and blog about a multitude of games, I decided to write a short one instead. Given that Giant Bomb (mostly Vinny ) covered just about eve...

Hey guys! It's been a while since the last time I actually wrote something up here, but that seems to happen a lot to me. Sometimes it's because I have nothing to write about, sometimes it's laziness, sometimes I was just too busy. This time, well, I won't go into the details, but the time since the last blog I wrote (over a month) has been...emotionally trying, let's say. No, nothing bad has h...

With Grand Theft Auto V coming out next week, and unofficially starting the autumn/winter video game rush (though not really given the time between it and the next big release, but shush to your logic), I figured I would write out a long blog covering the last of the video games that I've played over the summer but never got around to writing about, because of laziness. I might (and I stress mi...

As you probably know, last week was kind of crazy in terms of game releases. Along with the two games I'm writing about here, a Splinter Cell game came out, as did an XCOM game. Probably some other stuff too, but nothing that caught my attention. I'd like to play Splinter Cell: Blacklist at some point, but I just bought Saints Row IV and Divekick last week, and then today I bought a year of Pla...

No preamble, straight to the games! The Last of Us. I've kinda been putting off writing about The Last of Us because it is, in a lot of ways, kind of the biggest, and "most important" game released thus far this year (note, for future people, that I wrote this in the week before Games of the Year Saints Row IV and Divekick were released). I didn't play it right when it was released, but I certa...

Hey! Back again! I said I would be getting back to blogging much faster than before, AND THIS TIME I MEANT IT! So, earlier this year Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was free on Club Nintendo. Well, free if you had the points to redeem for Super Mario RPG, which I did. I had wanted to play it for years, and it had been the only Mario RPG game that I had not played (not counting the so...

The year was 2006. I was still in high school, and it was summer. I had purchased an Xbox 360, but didn't have much to play on it. Call of Duty 2 was a good game, as were the Original Xbox Halo games, but nothing got me excited that summer like a certain zombie game. Dead Rising. I bought it, and I played a ton of it. I knew going in that it was a game that required a lot of leveling, and resta...

In the grand scheme of things, I jumped on the Giant Bomb train fairly late. It wasn't until early 2010 that Giant Bomb became anything more than "That website made by the guy that GameSpot fired." What happened was that I was talking, over an instant messenger, about Jackie Chan Adventures, the Jackie Chan cartoon show. And, naturally, this friend of mine (who had been following the guys since...

It started like any other day. My dad went off to work somewhere doing something, and I stayed at home and did nothing. Like any good recent college graduate, I was unemployed and still living with my dad. It was the day that Microsoft was going to announce their new console, and I was as excited as an alligator being released from a New York apartment into the sewers. What Microsoft showed was...

As I continue to be unemployed, and have nothing going on (not counting the occasional odd job working with my dad), I've been able to get a good amount of video game playing in. And some other stuff too, but I'll get to that after the games. Now, if you read my previous blog, you may be wondering why this isn't about Alan Wake. Assuming that I am correct in remembering saying something about n...

VIDEO GAMES! I've been playing them. And by them, I mostly mean Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. I did manage to get some time with Dust 514 in (enough at least to say everything I want to say about it), and I started playing Alan Wake today (it's on sale, go buy it if you haven't). But I haven't beaten it yet, so I shan't speak of that yet. But I have spent a lot of time with Ni No Kuni....

Ever since the reveal of the MGSV trailer earlier this year, I've had a crazy desire for some Metal Gear action. At first I thought that reliving the stories of some of the games would satisfy this urge. So, I spent a Sunday afternoon watching a five and a half hour long video on YouTube that was all of the cutscenes and important Codec conversations in MGS2. But that didn't do it, so the follo...

Alrighty, so, this last weekend I went home, and despite very strong urges to do something stupid like download Amy for $2, or buy MGS: Peace Walker HD (which would be dumb because I already own that on PSP, but I'll get that eventually), I instead downloaded Guacamelee! And in between things like going to a funeral for a guy I never knew (who apparently looked like a Puerto Rican Abe Lincoln (...

Hey! I know it's been a while since the last time I wrote up a blog here on GB, (a month to the day, actually), but I'm back! Not that I ever left, I just hadn't been doing much in the way of playing video games. Last week I had no classes, and thus I went home and relaxed while crazy stuff happened around me. But more on (some of) that in a bit. Resident Evil 6. I finished Resident Evil 6. If...

On the most recent Friday before I wrote this blog, I found myself on a failed quest to buy boots that resulted in my being in the video game section of the local Target. Within the span of a few minutes, I decided not to buy Metal Gear Rising: REVENGEANCE, because I decided that $60 was too much to pay for such a short game when I have no source of income, and use my dad's money any time I buy...

Boy, it sure has been some time since the last blog I wrote here on GB, hasn't it? It's not that I haven't had anything to write about, it's more that I just never felt like writing. It's one of those things that you have to be in the right mood to do. And after a while I wound up back at college again, so I've been neglecting my blog here. But that changes today! By which I mean that I'm writi...

As promised, here are the nominees for my awards, right on schedule , despite what some may say (spreading lies, as they do). Unlike my last awards, these aren't sponsored, so you (the Giant Bomb user) won't have to deal with rampant advertising like last time. That also means I probably won't be embarking on any adventures with Doc Brown, but we'll see. Abraham Lincoln Award for Best Use of Fa...

The time has finally arrived! Working with Mr. Tannen on these awards has been...interesting, to say the least, but I can honestly say it was all worth it to bring these awardsto the internet on today, December 21st, 2012. Clearly this will be a date remembered only for these Biff Tannen (by which I really mean Back to the Future, but don't tell Biff) themed awards. I feel obligated to say that...

I know you all must be in so much suspense to see what the nominees are for these illustrious awards, but first, a message from my sponsors: "For all your gambling needs, Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise is the place for you! It's Biff-tastic!" Mr. Tannen wanted me to include a video advertisement, but I told him that was too much, and not a part of the agreement, so I did not do that, due to ex...

That's right, it's that time of year again! If you've been reading my nonsense for the last couple years , just skip the next paragraph whilst I get explaining. See, most random users on websites like Giant Bomb are content with doing a top ten list of their favorite games of the year. Well, that's not good enough for old MooseyMcMan. Instead, I created the Moosies; my own video game awards. Su...

Let me start this off by saying that I acknowledge that the chances of this theory being true are probably pretty slim. But, I haven't seen anyone else say this yet (not to say that no one else has, I haven't checked the entire internet). Thus, I thought I'd write this out as a blog on the very slim chance that any of this theory ends up being true. Also, spoilers for the MGS games. The only re...

As you may or may not know, last week contained the second most sacred of American holidays, Thanksgiving (the first being Independence Day (both the movie and the actual holiday)). As such I went home for several days. And in between eating far too much food, discussing plots for Star Wars Episode 7 involving The Rock (both the actor and the "character" from wrestling), and making fun of Licen...

It's been a while since I've done much blogging. The last one I wrote was simply to promote the book I wrote, so I didn't feel right connecting it to the forums because it was technically an ad, but now I'm back to talk about video games! The last time I blogged about games was centered around The Walking Dead and Darksiders II. I have played Episode 4 of The Walking Dead, but all I have to say...

Well, self published at least. That's a lot easier than getting a publisher to approve of your book, but that's irrelevant now. After working on it for months, it's finally out there for people to read. "But what is this book?" Great question, theoretical question asking person! The title of it is "The Telluric Adventures: The Allegiance of Justice". And because I realize the name doesn't make...

Before I write anything meaningful, I'm going to say that I had a better/more sensible title that I didn't have enough room for. Does anyone know why blogs posts have such a low character limit for titles, but forum posts can have super long titles? Anyway, all of that is irrelevant, because I've been playing video games. A decent number since the last time I blogged (over a month ago), but I'm...

Okay, I'll be honest, I just came up with a title that has both of those game names in it, this really has nothing to do with them in any sort of crossover or anything (because that would be weird). So, I'll not beat around the bush and get straight to Crysis. But that's a weird way to transition into Crysis, because I found that a large percentage of my time with the game was spent hiding behi...

So, in my continuing quest to get as much out of the three months of PlayStation Plus that I bought, I've been continuing to play video games. And since I have nothing better to do (or at least nothing better that I want to do), I'm writing this here now. First things first, when last I wrote, I mentioned that I was excited to play Just cause 2. And play Just Cause 2 I did! The last I checked (...

It's been a while since I've wrote up a proper blog thing here on GB. I didn't really play much new stuff after Gears 3 for a while. I went back to Mass Effect 3, and S-Ranked it. As you probably know by now, that new ending DLC is out tomorrow, but I have low expectations for that actually addressing any of the issues I have with the game, and the fact that you apparently have to go through th...

Okay, worst probably isn't the right word. "My least favorite" would be more accurate, but hey, I have to have something "eye catching" to get people to read something about a game that came out last year and everyone already knows about. By now everyone knows what the Gears of War franchise is about, and probably knows about all the improvements the fine people at Epic Games made to stuff like...

Let me begin with my history with the Legend of Zelda series, so as to explain why I played this game to completion (for the first time) 12 years after its initial release, and am writing about it now (well, I'm writing about it because I have nothing else to write about on this blog). Ocarina of Time came out in 1998, and while I did not buy it, I rented it (because that was in the 90s when ev...

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: Enhanced Edition is an excellent game. If you don't have time to read a whole blog post (then why did you click on this in the first place?), then you an stop reading now, because you know my overall thoughts. But I'll expand on them nonetheless. The thing that I think is The Witcher 2's biggest strength, but also the source of the game's only "frustrating" mo...

It took quite some time, but yesterday I finally managed to beat Xenoblade Chronicles. How long did it take, you ask? A little over 80 hours of in-game time. So not the longest game I've ever played (I put around 120 hours into one play through of Fallout 3 (including most of the DLC) and a little over 100 into Skyrim), but for some reason Xenoblade just felt longer. Which leads me to my bigges...

Okay, so today I was watching the ARMA II: Day Z mod live Quick Look thing GB was doing, and I found it very intriguing. For those who don't know, it takes the base of ARMA II, which is an extremely realistic military shooter, and drops players in a giant environment with other players and AI controlled zombies. There isn't much in the way of supplies, and death comes quickly. But watching Vinn...

So, this last weekend I went home and started playing my copy of Xenoblade Chronicles. And, between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, I spent about 26 hours playing it. And while I certainly haven't played enough to judge the game as a whole (the estimations of it being a 100+ hour game seem totally accurate based on what I've played), I still have plenty I want to say about it. If you don...

I can't be the first person to think of this, right? The creator of Minecraft (a game I've never played and have little interest in playing) is making what sounds like a space sim, and one of the advertised features is seamlessly landing on planets. So, wouldn't it be crazy if those planets were taken from Minecraft servers? And that when you landed on them, you could buy/mine resources and the...

Let me start off with one thing: I love these games, and have been "obsessed" with them since the first one in 2007. I started playing Mass Effect 3 a few days ago. And, as a "rabid fanboy" of the series, I loved every minute of the game. Well, not every minute, because the scanning stuff was a little silly, and there were a few poorly designed bosses, but those things weren't nearly bad enough...

If you've been following what I say on the internet closely, then you may noticed that every once in a while I've mentioned a "Secret Project" that I've been working on. Well, Stage I of my "Secret Project" is complete, so I feel like it is finally time to reveal to the world what it is that has consumed so much of my free time over the last few months. So, here it is. My "Secret Project" is to...

So, this last weekend I went home, and as such, I goofed off and played some video games. I also watched what I think are the two greatest films of the 90s, Jurassic Park and The Matrix. I'd like to see someone try to argue against me on that. Anyway, I read online that Skyrim patch 1.4 was out, so I put the disc in my PS3, downloaded the patch, and started playing. And, I have to say, it drast...

Well, "Demo-palooza" is probably over-selling it a little, but when I went home this last weekend, I ended up playing through several demos for games, so I thought I'd write up something on them, because I know one, in particular, is something that most people did not play (well, I think so at least, I might be horribly wrong). But let me start at the beginning. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. N...

I recently put together a couple lists of games that I really like. I'll include a link for the top ten here , and other ones that didn't quite make the cut here . But, if you're lazy, you can read them all here. And, here, I'll put it in reverse order, so you won't instantly know what number 1 is. So, here are my "11" games that did not make the top ten. There are actually 12 of them. And when...

You can read it if you want. Or not. I don't care. Pac-Man Dot Eater A living being whose origin and motive are wrapped in mystery. It is an omnivorous life form that consumes anything in its path. No matter what happens, its smile never leaves its face. It is not known what it is thinking or what its motives are, but it is certainly heading towards the box. Mega Man Middle Aged Hero! Known as...

As you may or may not know, I have an...appreciation for the Resident Evil series. I started, like many people, with the "fourth" one, Resident Evil 4. I absolutely loved it, and to this day, it's one of my favorite games. Then, my curiosity peaked, I wanted to play some of the older ones. My time with the (then) recently released DS version of RE1 made me realize how bad (ie AMAZING) voice act...

"Major A's Mask, why, what's that, Moosey?" Great question, imaginary person! There's a story behind that! See, the other day, Nintendo said that until the end of January (2012), Club Nintendo is giving away codes to download the Nintendo "classic" (depending on who you ask) The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from WiiWare (or Virtual Console, or whatever they used to call it). I decided then an...

Video games! I've still been playing them, despite rumors to the contrary. What rumors you say? Well, I did a good job of quelling them. Anyway, I played Bayonetta, start to finish. It's an older game (two years, more or less), so I would go on too long, but I have a few main thoughts. 1. This game is crazy. I'm going to assume that, if at this point, you haven't played Bayonetta yet, then you...

Let me spin a yarn for you. The year is 2008. Fallout 3 is coming out, and I'm very excited for it. Now, I tend to favor the PS3 (for various reasons, one of which is that I like the controller better), so I was saddened to see that it was the inferior version. But no problem, I bought the 360 version, and had hundreds of hours with the game. Then, in 2010, New Vegas was about to be released. I...

So, as you may or may not remember, I set a bunch of goals for myself last year to accomplish in the realm of gaming. And, since the year ended, I can report on whether I succeeded or not. 100% LA Noire and 5 star every case. Progress: Completed! This one was fairly challenging. 5 Starring each case wasn't hard, but some of the other Trophies were. There was one for one of the DLC cases where I...

First of all, I want to thank everyone who read through the general comments yesterday, and especially those who commented. Lets me know my long ramblings are actually worth reading! In all seriousness though, as promised, here are my top ten games of the year, presented in descending order (10 to 1, in other words), and with commentary (though maybe a little less for some of the top games, bec...

As promised, here are the nominations for my year end awards. As with last year, there may or may not be a couple awards with only one nomination, but unlike last year, I don't really care enough to hide the one nomination. It's like revealing the winner early. Oh, and the nominees are listed in alphabetical order, so as to not show any bias to any nominees. And, of course, you can see what gam...

But what are "The Moosies" you ask? Well, it's what I do at the end of each year instead of simply putting together a list of my top ten favorite games. I go all out with my own awards, and it's about time for the Third Annual Moosies. If you want to know what The Moosies have been like in the past, you can read up on previous award descriptions here , see last year's nominations here , see the...

You ever have a game that, no matter how hard you tried, and no matter how many times you tried, you just couldn't beat it? Well, that happened to me back in 2003. There was this game, Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. And I absolutely loved it. It was engaging, and hilarious. And with my Gameboy Player, I was able to play the game on my TV, so my dad would watch, creating that many more memorie...

Remember the GTAV trailer? That was pretty cool. I kept meaning to write up something about that game, and what I hope it is and isn't, but I haven't had a chance to. Until...NOW! Things I want: One protagonist. There are a lot of rumors about this game having multiple protagonists. Because that is always a good thing. Remember how everyone loved it in MGS2? Or Halo 2? I fully admit that multip...

I had an eventful weekend. Friday and Saturday were great, and Sunday was pretty terrible. Let me start with the good stuff. Batman Arkham City. Since I went home for the weekend, I finally had a chance to play this year's Batman game. And, oh my Tesla, this game is incredible. Seriously. I could go into lengthy about everything that makes this game so awesome, but I think this is what best sum...

And I could not be happier! So, who else is super pumped? Or even moderately pumped? Or interested? Here is where I read the news, if you care. http://www.destructoid.com/yes-sega-announces-yakuza-dead-souls-for-us-in-2012-213044.phtml Edit: Also, I played the demo for the Japanese version of the game a while back, and I thought it was pretty fun. The gun controls are a little weird, but it was...

So, I was going to write an actual review for Shadows, and post it as a review and everything, but I decided not to because I changed my mind. Here are my thoughts! Graphics Shadows of the Damned (SotD, for short) isn't the best looking game, and features the classic, "Hey, you can tell this is an Unreal Engine game because you can see the textures load in," but that doesn't mean it's a bad loo...

So, as you may or mat not know, recently the Battlefield 3 demo was put up for download on various platforms. And since I was at home for my birthday (more on that later), I decided to download it and play it between playing Shadows of the Damned (more on that in another blog post). Anyway, I feel like I should point out that I played the PS3 version (because my PC can't handle modern games, an...

So, as you may or may not know, Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out today in the US. And since I was mad hyped for this game, I went out and bought it, and have played a couple hours. Here's my thoughts: Presentation Not to use cliched video-game terms, but this is kind of a mixed bag. The art direction is pretty awesome, and the world seems really well realized. But, the graphics don't always h...

GOALS! PROGRESS! READ THEM! AAAAAAEEEEEYAAAAA! 100% LA Noire and 5 star every case. Progress:DONE Upload at least one good LittleBigPlanet2 level. Progress: COMPLETED! Become skilled at Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Progress: Complete! Acquire a copy of ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman Progress: Finished! S-Rank Deadly Premonition Progress: Started it. Not as hard as I thought it'd be. Finish A...

With the 3DS Ambassador program under way for 3DS owners (hopefully, I don't have one so I don't know for sure), I got to thinking about the idea of an entity like Nintendo going out of its way to appease people for doing something like that. And eventually I got to thinking about Capcom, and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. In case you somehow don't know, Capcom announced a while back that later...

So, if you didn't know, my old Xbox broke a couple months ago. That was actually my second Xbox, my first having Red Ringed a few years ago. However, that one didn't Red Ring (I think something went wrong with the graphics dealy in it, or something), and it was well out of warranty, so I was out of luck. Recently, however, Best Buy had a halfway decent deal, so I bought one, the 250GB without K...

Gaming goals of the year Twenty Eleven GO! 100% LA Noire and 5 star every case. Progress: With the release of the last announced DLC case, I have completed this! But they said something to the effect of, "Yo, more is coming," so I'll be returning to LA at least once more (probably). Upload at least one good LittleBigPlanet2 level. Progress: Complete! Well, depending on your definition of "good....

So, as you may or may not know, one of my goals for this year was to make a LittleBigPlanet 2 level (and have it not be terrible). I'm just about done with it (aside from a few tweaks here and there), but I don't have a name. Now, the premise for the level is that you need to infiltrate this secret base on an island, and everything is crazy. Here's some ideas for the name that have been floatin...

YO! Been working on these goals. 100% LA Noire, and 5-Star every case. Progress: COMPLETED! AHAHAHAHA! Well, except for the Reefer Madness DLC, which isn't out yet, but the game says I have 100% completion, and I have literally all of the Trophies except for the Reefer Madness ones. But I bought that DLC pack thing, so I'll play that when it's out. I really hope it involves punching druggies in...

So, it's been a while since I've written anything significant here, so now I'm going to get everyone caught up on what's happened since the tornado. Not in terms of what's happened to the town, because everything's fine related to that. I mean in terms of games. So I'll start with all the stuff I've gotten off the PSN lately. And before I write about that, I should point out that I may have acc...

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So, if you've been keeping up with me (and there must be a few people out there with enough free time to be doing that), then you know that a while ago I came up with some "achievable" goals for my gaming this year. And here's another update. Also, I've added one at the beginning (with an asterisk too!). *100% LA Noire, and 5-Star every case. So, you may have read that I was kinda bummed by LA...

So, I finished LA Noire this morning. And I have to say, I felt kinda disappointed at the end of the game. And as stated above, there's going to be MAD spoilers here, so YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! Also, there may be Red Dead Redemption spoilers in there too, in case for whatever reason you haven't played that game. First off, let me get this out of the way: I have no complaints with the gameplay. The...

First off, I'd like to say that I got LA Noire today at KMart, where I got a $20 gaming coupon, and a free $20 game of my choice (I got Enslaved). So yeah, depending on the bargain bin in your local KMart (the pickings were pretty slim overall when I went), that's the place to get LA Noire this week (assuming you plan on buying another game in the near future). ANYWAY, I've played a couple hour...

So, a week ago I said I thought my Xbox was on the way out. In the mean time, I've been able to determine that it's not the wire that's broken, meaning it's something more substantial than that. Now the next step is to see if it's still within warranty (which I doubt). Then I'll wait until E3, and see if Microsoft drops the price to try and steal attention away from the Wii-2 and the NGP (and I...

So, I just came back from college a couple days ago, and was upset to hear that apparently during my absence, my stepbrother had been using my Xbox (that part I didn't mind, he knows what he's doing with the thing), and that after ten or so minutes of play, the colors get all messed up and shadows turn green and stuff. So, I turn the thing on, and sure enough, anything that's dark turns into a...

So...BioWare announced today that Mass Effect 3 isn't coming out this year...Which means that all of my goals related to Mass Effect 3 are, well, impossible to accomplish this year. So that means I won't be able to accomplish those goals, but hey, at least it's not my fault! Also, if everything goes correctly, I should be returning home tomorrow until the fall semester, which means I'll have to...

Before I get into my rant, gather round younglings and let ole' Uncle Moosey spin you a yarn... It all began a long, long time ago in a new and exciting land known as "America." The British decided to colonize this fertile new land and bleed it dry, just as it did with every other colony. And they did, and no one cared, for a while anyway... See, the people who lived here were an adventurous, f...

So, by now I'm sure you all know about how Nintendo is going to unveil its new console at E3 this year. And of course, rumors are flying around like...flies! And I've come up with my own theory about the name of the system, and some of the launch titles. First off, I think it's pretty clear that it's going to be The Dreamcast 2 (a joint effort with Sega, of course). Why? Well, the rumors seem t...

As you may or may not know, earlier this year I wrote about some gaming related goals I wanted to complete by the end of the year. It's been a while since I posted anything about it, so I figured I'd write up something. I also want to point out that I've decided to abandon (ie, give up on) a couple of them, and add a couple more. I will denote new ones with an asterisk. Play through the entire...

Without re-buying a game, I mean (curse you, blog title restrictions). Don't know what I'm talking about? Well, today Capcom has announced Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. It seems like it's a remix of Dead Rising 2, just with new weapons, new areas, new story stuff, and most importantly.... YOU PLAY AS FRANK WEST! And there's really only one word that can describe how I feel about that... FAN- T...

This isn't a blog so much as it is an easy way for me to catalog the crazy nonsense going on here in all one spot. Johnny V, Jeff Goldblum, Ice Cube, and Will Smith^2 Are: Micheal Crichton Presents: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4: Part II: Jurassic Time 2: Electric Boogaloo: The Movie: The Videogame: FES: The Jack Frost Experience: A SWERY Production: Featuring Zach, Sam Neill, Morgan Freeman, a...

So, yesterday I found out that a friend of mine who lives down the hall in my dorm building bought a 3DS (and several games). And he let me try it out! Here are my thoughts! Build Quality. Much like everything that Nintendo makes, the 3DS felt pretty solid. It was a lot smaller than I was thinking. I think that's just because I've spent more time using my sister's DSI XL than my DS Phat over th...

So, the other day I was at KMart, and I decided to look through the bargain bin of games there. And much to my surprise, I found a copy of Yakuza 3 there for $15. So, I bought it. Here are my thoughts after about 15 hours of play. The Good. Yakuza 3 is really fun to play. It's a lot like Shenmue (apparently it's made by many of the people who made Shenmue), just faster paced, and without all th...

Remember that I made a list of goals for this year? No? Well, here's how I'm going with it. Play through the entire Mass Effect trilogy. Progress: Not yet started, as the third one is still a long ways off. Buy a 3DS. Progress: Probably going to fail. Whilst I still think the 3DS is a great piece of technology, I don't think there are another games for it to justify a purchase. Upload at least...

So, if you've been keeping up with my status updates here on GB (and why wouldn't you?), you should know by now that I've finished ZHP. And here are my thoughts! Presentation The presentation here is pretty solid overall. Graphically the game isn't really anything special (it is a PSP game, after all), but it has a nice style. I do find the 2D sprites in 3D environments to be a little odd, but...

So, I was looking over my Achievements here on GB, because sometimes I find it funny to see when the last time was that I played certain games. And here's what I saw tonight: You will notice that it says the last time I played the game was Jan. 1...1753. Now, even going by the date of birth I claim in my bio on GB, I was not around in 1753. Xbox 360s were not around then. Burger King was not ar...

So, as you may or may not know, I acquired a copy of MvC3 Friday last week. And I spent a large chunk of the weekend playing it. Here's my thoughts (PS3 version, just so you know): Presentation Damn, this is a nice looking game. Capcom nailed the comic-book look of the game just about perfectly. Even better is that even at its craziest, the framerate never, EVER drops. Well, at least not when p...

So, I went to Target today, and got me a copy of MvC3. Unfortunately, they were out of the action figures that were supposed to come free with it. But whatever, like I was going to do anything with a lame 3.75 inch action figure. More to the point though, I BOUGHT MVC3 TODAY!!!! All I can say is that it has indeed take me for a ride. Actually, I can say more than that. It's super fun (more than...

As someone who is currently living on campus at a university, I end up using a lot of public restrooms. And quite often, people have written on the walls. Now, I'm sure you can imagine what most of the stuff is, but every once in a while I come across a few gems. For example: "Chrono Trigger is the best game ever." "This is the worst graffiti ever." "Like!" "But is the like for the OP or the gr...

In rememberance of the Guitar Hero series, some fine fellows over at Capcom (that Seth guy and some other guy whose name I couldn't really make out in the video) decided to film a round of MvC3 played with Guitar Hero controllers. And, oddly enough, it looks like they actually managed to play it fairly well. They were using simple mode, but they were still pulling off some fairly cool stuff. An...

When I'm on the internet, I usually try not to be a "grammar Nazi," as the kids like to call them. But there's one thing, that no matter how many times I see, it ALWAYS makes me angry. And what is this, you ask? Well, it's when people use the word "then" when they really mean "than." For example: Incorrect: I like this game more then that other game. Correct: I like this game more than that oth...

Because I know you all care so much about the goings-on of my life, here's an update on my progress toward accomplishing my gaming related goals for this year. Play through the entire Mass Effect trilogy. Progress: Not yet started, as the third one is still a long ways off. Buy a 3DS. Progress: Re-evaluating it. See, since the announcement of the "NGP," and the realization that there aren't any...

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So, I recently acquired a copy of ZHP, and started playing it. Here's my thoughts: Gameplay For such an odd sounding game, the gameplay is pretty straightforward. It's a dungeon crawler (or roguelike, if you want to be technical). It's turn based, which is nice, and there are a lot of penalties for dying, like losing all of your money and items. Stat boosts remain though, which is awesome, beca...

As I'm sure you heard whilst listening to the greatest podcast ever , someone named "Brett" emailed Jeff a poem. Well, I wrote it (yeah, my real name's Brett, deal with it), and I've decided that since Jeff didn't read it (and frankly, I didn't expect him to), I'm going to put it here, in its entirety. Please note that since I am not a poet, there is no rhyme scheme, or anything fancy like that...

I was on Amazon yesterday, to buy a book for school that none of the nearby bookstores had, and I decided that the best way to avoid paying $4 in shipping on a $6 book was to also buy a $30 game (you know, to get the total price over $25, and get free shipping). Thus, I also bought ZHP Unlosing Ranger vs. DarkDeath Evilman. Of course, it has yet to arrive, but Amazon is so speedy that it should...

Now, near the end of a year, normal people go and make all sorts of resolutions about the following year. But I decided to wait until near the end of January because...Well, I dunno. Who cares, here's what I hope to accomplish this year in the realm of video games. Play through the entire Mass Effect trilogy. I've already played through Mass Effects 1&2 more times than a sane person should, but...

You know, I'm not the world's biggest fighting game fan, but I have been known to enjoy them. I've put countless hours into games like Smash Bros and Soul Calibur II, but no fighting game has caught my interest since 2008 (when Soul Calibur IV and Brawl came out). Meanwhile, I've seen all sorts of videos and things for Marvel vs Capcom 3, and the game looks like it could be really fun. It's als...

Feeling kinda bored, so here's a bunch of games I'm looking forward to this year. You know, obligatory beginning of the year type o' thing. I just waited longer. Also, these aren't in any specific order, just writing them down as I think of them. Mass Effect 3 On the one hand, I'm a little worried about this game, since ME2 came last year, and based on a lot of comments made by EA over the cour...

Okay, so I've been playing Fallout New Vegas for a while now, and I'm getting on in the story stuff, and I've been trying to do stuff for the NCR along the way. But I think I may have backed myself into a corner. See, I'm at the part in For the Republic Part 2 where I'm supposed to "deal with" the Brotherhood of Steal. Now, of course I want to try and do this peacefully (as I did with the Great...

And the big day is finally upon us. The first of the new year, and more importantly, the day that I reveal the winner of the coveted Moosies Game of the Year award, which is a trophy so magnificent that earth cameras cannot capture its image (mainly because it doesn't exist). But what am I doing rambling here? I should be rambling about the game of the year! Which is... Now wait a minute and he...

These are the winners for the majority of my awards. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow to see my winner for game of the year. Abe Lincoln Award for Best Use of Facial Hair Red Dead Redemption : Guys didn't shave very often back in the days of the old west (or not so old west in RDR's case). And this is well represented here, with everything from John Marston's scruffy beard, to Irish's huge bear...

Quick note about the formatting here: There are no spoilers, I'm just using the spoiler dealies to keep this thing from being insanely long, because it was really long even without seven lines of nominees. Also, a couple only have one nominee, and aside from one specific award, these are based solely on games that I have actually played, so I can almost guarantee that there will be some game yo...

Most game-site-bloggers this time of year do some sort of lame post about one game that they think is the best of the year, or hastily throw together a least of their top ten games. Well, not me. See, I go all the way, and have my own awards. I did this last year on IGN, and since I have completely abandoned blogging there (because their redesign of the blogging stuff was absolutely terrible),...

As you may or may not know, I was recently having troubles with my PS3. After doing some research, and searching the area around where I live, I determined that since my PS3 was well out of warranty (I'd had it for over three years, and no extended warranty), there was only one place where I could possibly get it repaired. Trouble is, that place only replaces the laser, and I wasn't sure it was...

First, let me state that I have not yet played Brotherhood, so I have no clue what happens there storywise. There are a lot of people out there that want ACIII to be entirely Desmond outside of the Animus, or possibly papa-Desmond. I think that any time period new than the 1860s would break the Assassin's Creed gameplay. Why? Well, so far the AC games have been set in time periods where project...

Okay, so I was all excited because I had acquired a copy of Black Ops, and I was going to play it this weekend. I popped it into my PS3, played it for a couple hours (mostly campaign, but a little bit o'zombies), and for the most part all was fine. But then when I was exiting from Dead Ops Arcade back to the main menu, the game froze on me. So, I thought, "Glitchy game. Oh well, I'll just reboo...

You might think that I'd want to buy this game because I love me some quality Call of Duty campaign action. You might think it's because I like shooting me some Soviets/Viet Cong/Nazi zombies/whatever other enemies are in the game. Or maybe you think it's for the multiplayer. Well, if you thought any of that, you're wrong. It's because Zork is in the game. That's right, one of the most anticipa...

Chances are, you probably don't know what Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman is. And honestly, the game is so weird, I can't really think of a satisfactory way to describe it, aside from this video: Even after watching it, I'm not exactly sure what to say, other than that I want to play this game, even though I've never played a game in that genre. And apparently it was released this...

Ever notice that whenever people talk about Fable, it's usually either about how it didn't live up to some grandiose promise that Molyneux made, or about just not liking the game in general? Well, I have. And while I can understand the first one (I still don't see any trees growing in real time), I don't really get why so many people are always downing on Fable. First, let me explain my history...

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I took me forever to get the 25 followers for that Quest. And after that, it petered out. Just about nothing. Then, this week, I got about twenty or thirty something followers. My question is, why? I never post anything of any value. Are people that desperate for that follow X number of people Quest? (Actually, I was). Wait, why am I complaining? Go ahead people, keep on following!

As you could probably tell from my user name, I'm quite fond of the majestic moose. I'd go so far as to call it my favorite forest critter. So, when I started up 3D Dot Game Heroes, I decided to make my Hero look like a moose. And it came out better than I was expecting. Look for yourself: The pictures are a bit...bigger than I was expecting, and I'm far too lazy to downsize them. I also plan o...

Okay, so I was trying to unlock the weapons bag today in Deadly Premonition, which is supposed to increase the number of weapons I can carry. So, I went to the bar, and I bought the dart gun, and then I go to play it. Trouble is, about halfway into it, York's pulse meter (or whatever it's called) fills to the top, and then York can't aim to save his life, and it won't go back down. Now, what I...

The words classic and Cole in the same sentence made me think of something... Admittedly it's not my best work, but I was using Gimp instead of PhotoShop (because Gimp is free (legally so)), and I was using the mouse pad on my laptop. I was going to make a New Coke one too, but I couldn't find any good pictures of new Cole.

So, I was watching an old episode of Married...With Children this morning (for those who don't know, it was a sitcom that ran from the late 80s to mid 90s), and one thing that I found immensely funny was something that they probably never intended to be funny. See, they bought a computer on this episode, and they were bragging about its specs. See, the computer they bought had a 40 megabyte har...

I was playing Split Second the other day, and after completing the final elite race in Season Mode, I was surprised to see the game attempt some sort of story, and of course it was a twist cliff-hanger ending. Now, I don't really mind twist/cliffhanger endings, but why have the end of the game be the only bit with story? Up to that point, the only "story" was the premise for the game (it's a TV...

So, I've been playing Peace Walker quite a bit since I bought it yesterday (and I love it!), and I've noticed something. All of the products that were going to be in the game (like Doritos and Mountain Dew) have been replaced with generic items like "Tortilla Chips" and "Lime Soda". My question is, why was this stuff left out of the US version? I realize that most people don't think kindly of p...

Then will the third one be Scribblenauts 64? You know, because back in the day they would just add "Super" to the start of SNES games (Super Metroid comes to mind). And then on the N64, they just added 64 to the end, like Star Fox 64.

So, my grandmother came back from "Chicargo" (as she says it) the other day, and she brought back some t-shirts. Anyway, instead of getting something that I would actually like, she brought back a shirt with an Edison quote on it (which if you know anything about Tesla and Edison, they were mortal enemies). And I'm pretty sure you can tell which one I like (hint: it's Tesla). So obviously, I ca...

And boy, it sure is a slow paced game. I've been playing with a buddy of mine, and even though we spent 3-4 hours playing today, it doesn't really feel like we accomplished much (aside from finding shotgun ammo whilst fishing, even though we have yet to acquire a shotgun). We got to one spot where we had to wait until 15:00 for a town meeting to occur, so we showed up and figured we'd just wait...

Okay, this is now the fourth time I've had a big game spoiled on me. First, it was Killzone 2 (which wasn't too bad, because I didn't care all that much). Then, it was Uncharted 2. Then, it was Heavy Rain. Now Red Dead Redemption has been spoiled on me. I was just reading through the forums here on GiantBomb, trying to find tips for the challenges in the game (which are ridiculous, by the way),...

Today was not a good day. Because of some dust storm, half of UMass was out of power this evening, and that combined with a BBQ incident that involved too much fire caused the dining commons to not be opened. Thus, a couple of friends and I ordered pizzas from Domino's, which seemed like a good idea because we got two larges for $12.56 Anyway, they delivered the pizza, we ate it, and you know w...