Accepting Growing Out of a Franchise

With yet another chapter closed on a franchise that I grew up with, specifically Kingdom Hearts, and another new generation of Pokémon, I’ve been thinking about my overall reaction to both games and the...

Zero Syndicate Nov 06

What If We Stopped Adding New Pokemon?

For the last 20 plus years I’ve been a loyal Pokemon fan. With a new Pokemon game around the corner I’m nostalgic to open that box again and begin anew. Since the wonder years of the original Gen1, and the fascination I had...

Zero Syndicate Mar 28

Designs in Bringing Up New Players

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Design decisions that promote cooperation in games. Division 2 is just over a couple weeks old at the time of writing and their scaling for cooperative play really seems to push away rather t...

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Zero Syndicate Feb 27

Lag Input: Xenoblade Chronicles

Recently I finally got around to finishing Xenoblade Chronicles, a JRPG that originally released on the Nintendo Wii and was later re-released alongside the New Nintendo 3DS. The game was well received, currently sitting at 92 on Metac...

Zero Syndicate Sep 22

Perhaps They Should've Delayed FFXV

(FFXV Spoiler Free) Yes, we’ve already had to wait practically a decade for this title to release in what was to be the Fabula Nova Crystallis series which didn’t exactly pan out. Nowadays “games as services” ar...

Zero Syndicate May 20

Destiny 2 Presentation Impressions

Despite not playing the game in over two years, Destiny has always been an oddity of a game to me. As I had written in a previous blog post, I left the game understanding that it wasn’t for me. As a solo player Destiny wasn&rsquo...

Zero Syndicate Apr 30

Looking Back On Destiny

I'm late on this subject and super procrastinated on posting it. This was written before the Destiny 2 premiere and that I'll have a follow up for later. I bring up this subject in response to the recent review of Desti...

Zero Syndicate Aug 11

The Astonishing Lack of Verbal Communication In Console Gaming

Online gaming has become synonymous with video games in general. Almost any game you can think of has an online feature of some sort. Some of the most popular games became that way because of their online multiplayer component. Halo for exa...

Zero Syndicate Jul 29

Lost Dimension - Review

Mysteries have always had a big place of intrigue for me. I love piecing together clues, solving puzzling scenarios, tracking down a prime suspect in both film and game. I've always tried reading between the lines in games that have a stor...