In my opinion, no company is sacred. A proven track record of good products is likely to attract me to a day one purchase but it only takes a single misstep to lose that trust. I’m not asking for spectacular games, just games that don’t make me regret paying full price. BioWare gets a lot [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Commentary'
The BioWare Effect
February 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
Tags:Baldur's Gate·Bioware·Dragon Age: Origins·Knights of the Old Republic·KoToR·Mass Effect 2
Take Two in the ditch
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Commentary, Gaming
So everytime I worry that I’m being too harsh about this recession, how it impacts my hobby in particular, I find a new piece of information that only helps reinforce my apparent pessimism. Take Two has announced more losses. Their new strategy is essentially “We’re going to be just like Activision and EA”, which is [...]
Tags:Take Two
The Year of Preeminence
December 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Commentary
Have the protagonists in gaming evolved into that of god-like power? 2009 may be remembered as the year of domination in gaming. In recent years there has been a shift in many popular titles where the main character seems human but in many ways display the powers of a god.
A little rant
December 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Commentary
By hitting control-option-command+8 in Mac OS-X, you can invert your screen colors (make them go negative). I’m sure there’s a reason why someone would want to do that, but I’m most certainly not that person. Nevertheless, the other day, I opened up my laptop only to find my colors have been inverted. Somehow, my two [...]
A grim time for gaming
November 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Commentary, Featured, Gaming
Most of the time I prefer to link to Bill Harris then the actual news article simply because his commentary is usually worth considering. However, while I agree with his points and encourage everyone to see what he has to say I have better things to do then reiterate what has already been said. Instead [...]
Tags:Activision·EA·Game Industry
The infamous Modern Warfare 2 airport shooting
November 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
Controversy can be good advertising. Although I have to give Infinity Ward some credit, when your game has been pre-ordered by everyone and their cat it’s not like you need cheap publicity to sell your game. While I tend to take a cynical view of business many times, this is one time when the facts as we know them seem to contradict the more jaded conclusions being jumped to.
I am, of course, talking about the already famous “No Russian” sequence in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Since the cat is already out of the bag and other websites have discussed this in detail I am going to give a spoiler warning here and move on.
Tags:Call of Duty·Modern Warfare 2·Violence and Video Games·xbox 360
On Why I Loathe Mario Kart Wii
October 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Commentary
Sailing along in first place and leading by almost half a leap on the group. The finish line is in site. Maybe a game distance of 20 feet. Blue shell. Red shell. Red shell. Green. Green. Red. Red. Hello 9th place. What just happened?
Tags:I took a knife and I uh...you know those Do Not Remove labels on matresses? I cut one of them off!·Mario Kart Wii
My Podcast Playlist, updated
July 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Commentary
I never meant to wait this long to update my podcast playlist, but my how the time has flown.
For reference, this was what my podcast playlist looked like a couple years ago. A lot can happen in that time. Three of those shows are no more, a few are a shell of their former selves [...]
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Over XBox Achieving
July 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Commentary
I understand there is a huge debate over the merits of Achievements on the XBox 360, and for the most part I think people tend to make a big deal out of nothing. Either people put way too much into getting them or they often feel too strongly about how worthless the concept is and [...]
Tags:Gamer Responsibility·Video-Games·xbox 360·xbox achievements
Trimming the Fat
March 11th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
As I mentioned before and I promise to go into detail later, I am no fan of Japanese RPG’s. Yet I am not alien to the format. Two of my favorite JRPG’s are MS Saga and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. The first game is essentially Final Fantasy: Gundam. The second game might [...]
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Tags:final fantasy XIII·Japan·JRPG