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 games that I have been playing these days, a...

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 when we saw Snake-O-Vision in a midnight scree...

“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 equivalent of a crepe - difficult to prepare, hard...

[Save State is my personal homage to the wonderful Memory Card series that used to be a feature on Destructoid! Want to be part of it? I am thinking about creating a group account for a rotating panel of writers (or whatever) to try and m...

"“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 guys. Spoilers for the series: This is the...

“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 impression than “sploosh”. It looks like they r...

“Have fun storming the castle.” “Do you think it will work?” “It would take a miracle” -Billy Crystal Wherein taterchimp learns that content creation is difficult I watched the Megaman X Sequilitis again the other day, and because my m...

“Rules do not exist to bind you, they exist so you may know your freedoms” -NieR. 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 to be associated with you. But seriously...

“Who wants an orange whip? Orange Whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips” -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 fir...

“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 one, for a lot of reasons, but mostly becaus...

"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 anecdote about why I love Dark Souls: As I ment...

“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 good. It is insane. I put about 200 hours int...

Confession TIme: I played the original Sniper Elite V2 about ¾ of the way through, then never finsihed it. I just kind of got burned out by the way that they designed the levels, and often had very, very limited checkpoints. However, I w...

I am happy to say that heated discussions on a website have contributed to critical thinking, instead of turning into ‘which side will say Hitler first?’, and I have had some time to refine my position on used games. When it comes to a sta...

It’s time for another written at night, poorly edited blog! Hooray! Today, I wanted to focus on how bored I am with work. I work with statistics, so naturally, I spent almost eight hours a day thinking about videogames, then I get to com...

Welcome, welcome faithful readers. Today, a patch for the just released NES Game Super Mario Bros was issued, and I have to say, there are numerous fixes listed. I don’t want to get too into the details, but it really seems like being a...

For part one, please refer to: http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/taterchimp/kris-builds-a-computer-part-1-3--241597.phtml Last time, on Kris builds a PC, I made the horrible decision to try and build a computer, despite having never done s...

I hear people all the time tell me the same old story: building a computer is both cheap and easy. To which I have typically responded with a resounding “so is your mother, but you don’t see my playing Crysis with her” (a good, but oddly ...

There is an old joke that Commadore was so bad at marketing, if they bought KFC they would name it “Warm Dead Bird”. Reflecting on this for a second, you see how big of a difference marketing can make. I wanted to delve a bit into the nam...

I have been playing an awful lot of Dark Souls. Probably too much. I have started praising the sun whenever we get a new hire at work, and I have been engaging in jolly cooperation with my coworkers. With the release of a PC edition, I d...

Oh man, you guys are not going to believe this. I went out to movie theatre, right? And at the front of the theatre I was going to, there was a guy checking my ticket! What the shit? Like I was just going to walk in without a ticket, th...

This game started as a thought experiment I had one day while I was bored out of my mind at work. The question started: How can you take a bad or annoying mechanic and turn it into a benefit? I think that you could come up with dozens of...

Again, I just don’t feel like sugar coating this rant. No pictures, moderate censoring (I’m such a nice guy), and pure, unadulterated hatred towards some of the comments this community has given. Please rate the following, on a scale of 1...

I feel kind of bad, honestly I do. I never write anything just to say hello, ask you guys how it’s going, instead I don’t do anything until a topic gets underneath my skin, and I have to put out a blog about it. I guess I might as well ge...

I've been hearing about this SOPA thing, and wanted to throw in my two cents. I started by trying to read the bill itself, but cannot pull myself through the legal jargon. So I decided to do what any former college student would do, and l...

Before I get into it, this is where I am coming from: I have a background in businessy things,and every once in a while, people post business things, either as a story, in the comments. Most of the time, these are harmless enough, but eve...

There's been a pretty big hubub over Metacritic and review scores lately. Many reviews seem 'off' compared to the game, and there are no shortages of people saying so in the comment section. Jim Sterling created two reviews for Final Fant...

Before I begin, I remember a lot of cblogs in the past that were mostly inspired by alcohol. I had a lot of fun reading these blogs for two reasons: first to see some of the amusing train wrecks that could happen, but second to get a windo...

I started playing through some newer games instead of going through my backlog, and I realized something: Half the games I was playing were sequels. I finished Bioshock 2, which is notable for not being as good as the original. The same ...

So recently there have been quite a few articles circulating around the interwebs about why sex in video games looks unrealistic, or games being viewed as art or similar to movies, relating specifically to how it just isn't there. I don't ...