Growing Up With Halo
14RunZ63iI8 I was thinking about some of my best gaming days, and I realized that the highlights of my gaming career was centered around Halo for a better part of my life. Before I get too d... more
14RunZ63iI8 I was thinking about some of my best gaming days, and I realized that the highlights of my gaming career was centered around Halo for a better part of my life. Before I get too d... more
Lets sit around the campfire and sing our campfire song: a bunch of my favorite people left the company I work for, so I have had drinks 3 out of the 5 days of the working week to 'celebrate' wi... more
I don't have a lot to say about the whole topic of Jessica Rabbit as a mage. While I am very interested in people of various groups represented and treated with respect, the brawler genre - where... more
is a pretty decent breakfast food with one major drawback: It isn’t bacon. I know that there are a lot of concerns with regular bacon, just to name a few: price, calories, not being kosher, ... more
So I have heard tales from faraway lands that people really like to recap what they have been playing on the cblogs, so I wanted to join in on this tradition, perhaps temporarily, and recount the... more
One of the defining elements of my favorite RPG franchise, , isn't just the supernatural-cyberpunk post-apocalypse it inhabits but also in how it approaches conflict. In main series entries - an... more
A while back, there was a post saying the next Thi4f was going to be streamlined, including such features as Thief-O-Vision, and everyone lost their mind. Not like when people lost their minds w... more
So from the title I suppose you can guess what I've been playing for the last two weeks. Guacamelee Thomas Was Alone Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Jet Set Radio (downloading ... more
Before you say anything: don't worry. It's still okay to be talking about Bioshock: Infinite. Bioshock has never been a series I find particularly impressive from a gameplay perspective. The... more
“They call me hadouken, because I’m down right fierce” The last run I did in Dark Souls was a self imposed challenge to use only the whip, and look like Simon Belmont. It was the culinary equiv... more
Gameplay reaction videos on YouTube always seem to bother me. Usually for scary games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Slender, people seem to really play up their fear. Then there are celeb... more
Tomorrow is the day Soul Hackers finally comes to America. Sixteen years ago it was released on the Sega Saturn and fourteen years ago it could have been a PSX game but noooooooo, Sony didn't... more
In the stealth game--your "Thief", your "Mark of the Ninja", your "Deus Ex: Human Revolution"--the ultimate challenge comes in the form of ghosting. As the name implies, the challenge to the play... more
While it may just be a fan effort, I think Zelda: Clockwork Empire is a mix of interesting ideas and flawed ones as well. Where it gets it right conceptually, it nails it but it also seems to und... more
"“Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.”" -Jake the Dog God. Damn. I don’t typically like to swear except in conversations with my friends, but goddamn... more
“And a word to the wise/when the fire dies/you think its over but its just begun” -Avenged Sevenfold Dark Souls 2 footage was released recently, so this seems like a good place for a longer imp... more
First, a list of the games in no particular order, games that all have something ephemeral in common for me: EarthBound Final Fantasy VII Castlevania: SOTN Super Metroid Thief II: The Metal Age ... more
“Have fun storming the castle.” “Do you think it will work?” “It would take a miracle” -Billy Crystal I watched the Megaman X Sequilitis again the other day, and because my mind has been 24... more
“Rules do not exist to bind you, they exist so you may know your freedoms” -. If you haven't played NieR, just don't even bother reading this blog. Not because I'll spoil it, I just don't want ... more
I haven't been around for various reasons, but when I saunter in once more, there's a familiar refrain droning on very much in the foreground. Something needs to be cleared up. It has become cle... more
-John Candy, Blues Brothers. I am not going to be one of those guys who goes on and on about how Dark Souls is super simple. If I was in a reviewers shoes, my first playthrough would have torn... more
Well, I hadn't planned to blog tonight, but a series of comments I made kinda set me on the course to doing so. Its very easy to be cynical about EA and in most cases I'd just like to see them cr... more
“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crispy, and go well with ketchup” WARNING - LONGBLAWG, DAWG. Hold on to ya butts. Especially you This playthrough has been a pretty cool... more
"Abyss Walk with Me" Good news everyone! As of today, Dark Souls has passed Borderlands 2 as my most played game (probably of ever). To commemorate this, I want to begin with a cool little ane... more
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you” I want to preface this with something. I have one major, MAJOR, problem with Dark Souls: The game is absolutely, way too go... more
I have proof! You can practically feel the dystopian hues in the image above as the pixels get more dense. Adam Jensen and Motoko Kusanagi would certainly see it. Maybe not so much Neo from Th... more
I ate that whole mother fucker, now my hole needs to evacuate it. I gots the hershey squirts yo, but I can't stop playing this awesome game on my badass PC because consoles are dead and my dad ... more
You know, I was complaining to my roommate that Spring was taking too long to get here and then I got a nice whiff of fresh pollen the other day. Now I can't stop sneezing. Spring pretty much alw... more
Well, I said I wasn't going to do Persona games in my little RPG adventure this year, but then I got that Vita, picked up Persona 4 Golden with it and now all the other Persona games went on sale... more