With one of the most anticipated games of the last decade launching in less than 24 hours, I’ve decided to examine my prospective class and share my thoughts. What class will I be rolling you ask? I suffered from cognitive dissonance for several days when posed with this question—do I want to employ [...]
I’d love to give a detailed history of my relationship with the MMO genre, but I feel that it’s not as great as I remember it to be. In a nutshell, I started back in 2001 with Everquest during the Shadows of Luclin expansion. I played through until Legacy of Ykesha. Moved onto Star Wars [...]
Remember that one game, you know, the one teeming with witty humor and callous robots? The one where you defied the laws of physics—or exploited them to your own advantage, however you’d like to look at it—by strategically placing traversable portals between points A and B? Ah yes, I believe it [...]
I’m not going to lie, but I went into this demo expecting the absolute worst. As hyped as the weeaboo community often gets for anything eastern, I’ve actually come to groan at the thought. The hyper androgynous, overly flamboyant, Jpop infused RPG market has become incredibly trite in my eyes. And I believe it is [...]
Dead Space notoriously depicted the next frontier as being rife with gruesome, post-apocalyptic zombies that seem to be enjoying sizable doses of meth-amphetamines. This eerie third-person shooter proved to be a worthy franchise, as it engendered horror and anxiety amongst players from start to finish. I recall numerous occasions cautiously peaking over [...]
The preamble of the video game era was encapsulated in brick like, 7 by 5 inch ROM cartridges. Fast-forward 35 years later and we find these same cartridges in vintage shops and on eBay, championed as glorified pieces of nostalgia that we constantly romanticize about. Gaming has enjoyed [...]
