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Surprises Hidden in the Eternal Darkness

1:13 PM on 05.13.2013 // knutaf's blog

It was long ago, feels like a dream, when did me a service only a true father can: he lent me his very own physical copy of more

Aaand Now I Want To Be an Archaeologist

8:16 PM on 12.01.2012 // knutaf's blog

You know, 2012 was a good year for me in gaming, especially for puzzle gaming--which I love. We started off the year with What else to say? This was an amazing journey for me and Lemeza. My bud... more

The Best Old Timey Trains Game You'll Play

12:19 PM on 10.26.2012 // knutaf's blog

I don't know what exactly I want to write about more

The Wreck-it/Fix-it Report

11:48 AM on 10.23.2012 // knutaf's blog

Surely some or hopefully all of you have seen the trailers for the upcoming (which was pretty good). But man, this looked pretty keen. One of these fancy new CG animated movies all about vide... more

The Tale of the Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge

4:50 PM on 10.10.2012 // garison's blog

With the month of October in full swing and Halloween just around the bend, I thought I'd remind the you guys about the old story of the cursed cartridge... *holds flashlight under face and gri... more

Conventions: PAX 2012 was a great, I say, a honkin' good time

2:44 PM on 09.17.2012 // knutaf's blog

This year was--I say--was a heck of a time, the best of times, even. I had a whole gaggle of fellas hanging around with me (good people, really good people, just a little kooky sometimes, if you ... more

Dark Souls and the "Style Over Substance" Mindset

12:14 PM on 07.20.2012 // knutaf's blog

It's no news to any of my friends that I'm severely addicted to at this point. I never could have predicted the way I became utterly gripped by it. Eventually, this largely became a matter of be... more

10 Factoids about knutaf

9:50 PM on 04.04.2012 // knutaf's blog

Do I bother? I feel like lots of people already know some thing or another about me by now. I feel like I talk about myself too much sometimes as it is. I get self conscious about that kind of th... more

Takedown Kickstarter has 41 hours left on the clock to raise $60,000.

1:50 AM on 03.31.2012 // The Sama's blog

Hi everyone, I know I've been very inactive here (as in not active at all), personal stuff's dragging me down. But I wanted to share this kickstarter for . I admit I don't know much about the pro... more

Journey Is About So Much More Than Travel

4:00 AM on 03.18.2012 // knutaf's blog

If you haven't played through I loved . It's probably the first thing I've ever played that made me just sink in and forget that I was even playing a game. more

Ezekiel 25:17 - a Dark Souls faith/dex PvP build

2:52 AM on 02.28.2012 // knutaf's blog

More ! Since it is almost the thing I've been playing for weeks, I guess it was only inevitable that I write another one of these, huh? If you've been watching at all, you'd have seen me crafti... more

Weapons in Dark Souls Aren't a Numbers Game (img heavy)

11:43 PM on 01.08.2012 // knutaf's blog

is an RPG, right? I have trouble describing its genre to people. It's kind of an adventure game. It has some stats. Your character has some stats. You "level up", and so on. Yeah, I guess it's a... more

Being a Jolly Good Fellow in Dark Souls Co-op

4:19 PM on 01.03.2012 // knutaf's blog

If you listen to me on it's no secret that I play a lot of . A lot of the time I spent in the game was in co-op play, or, as we like to say, JOLLY CO-OPERATION. I've played over 60 games of co-... more

URGENT: New Xbox LIVE terms of service, following in Sony's footsteps

9:38 PM on 12.06.2011 // The Sama's blog

Ok, I've been relatively internet-less for the past few weeks, so maybe I'm just missing something. But my search-fu has turned up nothing. I'm legitimately disappointed.. anyways... DAMN ... more

The Myth of the Hero

8:23 PM on 11.23.2011 // knutaf's blog

It's funny how stories get changed as they're passed down from generation to generation. We read tales of daring deeds, masterful heroics, incredible skill... but how much of that is real, and ho... more

I Seriously Cannot Shut Up About Dark Souls

11:49 AM on 11.09.2011 // knutaf's blog

The title says it all. . . I can't stop talking about this game. I can't stop thinking about this game. Even when I'm not talking about it, I'm thinking about it, so it's kind of like I have an i... more

The trials of indie development.

10:49 PM on 10.06.2011 // The Sama's blog

I briefly mentioned this on my last post, but I have entered the , a 'contest' to development and release a game (kind-of-from-scratch) in one month and earn at least one dollar - donations, sale... more

Why are we so mean to our NPCs?

10:06 PM on 09.30.2011 // The Sama's blog

So, I was just watching the footage for . From the comments, most people liked it more than me. The source of my burning rage was first every allied NPC's total lack of *actual* combat ability, a... more

In Defense of DLC: Map Packs

9:18 PM on 09.24.2011 // The Sama's blog

This is gonna be short and sweet. I can see the problems with DLC. The system definitely needs improvements. However, so many people throw giant tizzy fits and even the slightest hint of DLC, ... more

Moving on (also, baby bats in blankets!)

8:49 AM on 09.16.2011 // Nick Chester's blog

With nearly five years of some of the best times of my life under my belt, I can't seem remember a time when I wasn't on this crazy Destructoid train. So this is going to be weird to type: as t... more

Consistency and Plausibility in Demon's Souls

4:21 AM on 09.10.2011 // knutaf's blog

As the release of approaches, I've of course been trying to wrap up my playthrough. I'd started writing about my usual crazy exploits, but instead found myself gravitating towards this topic ... more

The PAX Prime 2011 Report by Knut

3:03 AM on 09.03.2011 // knutaf's blog

PAX was a glorious thing. I've been every year since 2005, and this was easily the best one I've ever had. You know what was different this year? The people. I met people this year, and they were... more

Improvements: Various Cbloggy Things

10:49 AM on 08.31.2011 // knutaf's blog

I won't mess around much. Straight to the meat. Since I asked about it in the panel: what's the best way to go about submitting pictures for that community picture rotating image in the upper l... more

The Road to Limbo

12:20 PM on 07.19.2011 // knutaf's blog

I recently finished reading . As I read and read, I saw post-apocalyptic in my head. With his descriptions of a grey, dark world, looters, cannibals, thieves, rapists, and so on, I ... more

Some quick thoughts on Digital Distribution

4:04 PM on 07.11.2011 // The Sama's blog

So, this last week has seen me spend almost $60 on steam sales. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. hasn't really grabbed me yet, but I think MNC and AI War have potential. I also bought 4 copies of Terraria; never h... more

Freedom: the Careful, Partial Restriction Thereof

12:51 PM on 07.07.2011 // knutaf's blog

Lately we've seen people talking about linear games, which are a type of restriction, and certain techniques that unshackle the player (say, from gravity). I'd like to pile on with a few ways i... more

Demon's Souls for n00bs: Risk and the Currency of Souls

11:03 AM on 07.01.2011 // knutaf's blog

No daring exploits from this time. This is actually leftovers from the last post that I uncharacteristically decided to split off into a new post instead of lengthening that one. As I played t... more

Demon's Souls for n00bs: Flamelurker, Adjudicator, and More

2:56 PM on 06.25.2011 // knutaf's blog

About a week more, and I still haven't given up on . In fact, maybe we're starting to reach a mutual understanding. I follow a kind of sine wave of pain/joy that goes something like this: - Grin... more

Demon's Souls for n00bs: the Tower Knight

10:13 AM on 06.17.2011 // knutaf's blog

Almost a year ago, I got and tried playing . A couple weeks later, I reluctantly moved it from my "now playing" list to my "on hold" list, since I got stuck. The game is punishingly difficult, ye... more

Sony is owning Microsoft - and why that's bad

8:21 PM on 06.06.2011 // The Sama's blog

Yeah, there, I said it, me an xbox fanboy too. But my preferred console maker has been, as of late, ignoring a crucial element of the video game... game... yeah, anyways, Sony is clearly looking ... more

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