As someone who typically steers clear of JRPGs, Final Fantasy always seems to have a knack for piquing my interest. XV looks much more open-world, and the combat seems more action-oriented that past entries in the franchise. I am intrigued. At the very least, they make some pretty games. Also, want to watch today’s comic […]
Wasteland 2, the spiritual successor to Fallout 1 and 2, which themselves were spiritual successors to Wasteland 1, finally came out this week. Bottom line? It’s great. A lot of really solid elements come together into a really nice post-apocalyptic package here. You can get a feel for the game by watching my video below. […]
I’ve wanted a new Road Rash for a long, long time now. I’ve finally gotten as close as I’m likely to ever get with Road Redemption. It just hit Steam under early access, and I gave it a spin for some initial impressions.
I play Metal Gear games for the gameplay. In all honesty, I have no fucking clue what’s going on in the story nowadays. It is one of the most convoluted franchise plots in video game history, and you need to be directly on top of that shit to keep it all sorted. I skipped a […]
I’ve wanted a new Road Rash for a long, long time now. I’ve finally gotten as close as I’m likely to ever get with Road Redemption. It just hit Steam under early access, and I gave it a spin for some initial impressions.
I have played a week’s worth of Destiny. I am not master of all things Guardian, but I think I get the gist of it. I enjoy the act of playing Destiny, let’s establish that right up front. If I sit down and fire up the PS4, I’m not upset if an hour or two […]
Started into Destiny last night. Mostly retreading ground I’d already seen in the alpha/beta tests. On the paper, Destiny almost seems like a game that shouldn’t hold my attention. And yet I found myself saying “one more mission”, or “let me just see what’s down this tunnel” quite a few times. While the guns aren’t […]
I thought that this article was an interesting reminder that the internet does not simply run on magic and porn, and puts the energy required to do something like download a game into some context. If you’re not interested in reading the study itself, which as expected is chock full of graphs and numbers and […]
I quit Wildstar a couple of months ago, despite really loving the game. I had a blast questing, PVPing, and crafting my way to level 50. Once I got there, though, it was time to start the attunement process for raiding. I’m no stranger to attunements, and a lot of MMOs have done them over […]
Apparently it’s a pretty common issue…
I’m generally on board with DLC. I know a lot of gamers like to villify the practice, cling to the notion that DLC is content they were entitled to get with their initial purchase, but whatever. If a game interests me, I’ll buy it. If it’s good, if I enjoyed playing it, I’m going to […]
So that wrap up ‘Best Served Cold.’ This one got away from me a little bit. I started the story with a two-week outline. About a week in, I got the idea for the new ending (Groff’s father being the reanimated guardian of the phylactery), and I felt it was a far more interesting. Plus, […]
If someone had told 2009 me that eventually I’d be getting not just one, but two spiritual sequels to Demon’s Souls, the little masochistic part of me that loves that game would have exploded. I am grateful, however, that Bloodborne’s aesthetic heads in at least a slightly different direction. Dark, wet, gritty, creepy and Victorian […]
My current website design is getting a little long in the tooth. I’d like to change things up, simplify a bit. I’m currently interviewing designers for the job, and thought I’d see if there were any readers who felt up to throwing their hat in the ring. This job is for Site Design only, backend […]
So this is the game that Bioware has been spamming my inbox about with teasers. Huh. I guess it looks neat… I’m always willing to give co-op games a chance, and I appreciate that it’s got a little something different going on with its setting. The trailer didn’t do it for me, but the gameplay […]
The folks over at SUMO sent me a copy of their newest chair to review. I was a little reluctant at first… the last thing my house needs is more SUMOs at this point. But when it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised. Behold, the Omni Reloaded. This is the first SUMO chair I’ve tested in […]