That title is pretty much the summation of this entire article. Now before you start in on me, please understand that I am not speaking about the “quality” of any game. I am also not speaking to the price a game costs to make, which has obviously gone up. Nor am I about to tell you that you should pirate games; that is bad for the industry and illegal. And finally, I am not about to harp on about how every game should be free to play, because they should not. So what am...
If you’ve played StarDrive you know it’s a massive game with almost non-existent tool tips or tutorials. There’s a tutorial “manual” and tutorial videos found underneath the help section, but who wants to spend time reading and watching those when you could be playing your game? So I’ve put together some of the basics I’ve gathered while playing. Everything from speeding up time to how to use subspace projectors and launching...
Like many of my gaming counterparts Nintendo was the first console that I could truly call my own and is largely responsible for starting my love for video games. It is this very reason that it pains me to say that Wii U Is Dead and there might not be a way to resurrect it. For years the name Nintendo has been synonymous with gaming, it was the name that those outside of the gaming world seemed to use when referring to consoles as a whole and that kind of brand recognition...
Psychonauts is one of those ‘well loved, cult classic, OMG you haven’t played…’ games. This is not without good cause. Psychonauts has on overwhelming sense of charm that carries most of the game. Unfortunately it also has several glaring technical and design problems that make it a bit harder to tolerate today. Take for example a very simple thing, jumping. While it may have been perfectly fine in 2005, it is now the weakest part of the game. The problem...
I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember. When I was in elementary school I was subscribed to Nintendo Power. In middle school and high school it was Next-Generation. As an adult it was Game Informer. While I did visit IGN sporadically for reviews, I had never desired to listen to podcasts about gaming. For whatever reason I didn’t digest my gaming info through that medium. Little did I know, that the simple act of listening to a...
We’ve all had those rare and special games that have come along at just the right moments in our lives that have touched and impacted us in some incredible and profound way. A game that redefines your favorite genre, publisher, and who you are as a gamer. These games will always invoke some form of loyalty, for you will hear no ill talk of it, and will always support future related titles. For many it’s franchises like The Legend of Zelda, World of Warcraft, or Metal...
The Last of Us hasn’t been a game I’ve been eager to revisit from a single player perspective since I wrote my review. The campaign is dense and left me with a myriad of emotions. I’ve been chewing on how I feel about the way things ended and wrapped up with Joel and Ellie and have been listening to others on Twitter, podcasts and through reviews. There’s nothing good about the Last of Us in the way that it makes the player feel. It’s...
Halo 2 released almost nine years ago. Ten, next year. At the time of release it was one of the biggest multiplayer shooters of all time. Having sold more than 6.3 million copies, it is also the best-selling game for the original Xbox. And it’s time for a rerelease. With the coming release of the Xbox One and the ten years it’s been since the release of Halo 2, a large majority of players never experienced Halo 2’s online abilities, and without a rerelease...
Bungie has just recently released a boatload of new Destiny screenshots showing off what we saw during their E3 Presentation, I figured I’d take the time to break down what some of them are for the uninitiated. Clicking on any screenshot will give you the full-size HD version. – – – – – – This is a “Devil Walker” (commonly known as Spider Tank). It has a large cannon on top that fires high explosive rounds, and two small...
With the E3 dust settling, people are starting to take their stands on which console to buy, PS4 or Xbox One. Some love Xbox One, others PS4, and both sides have their reasons. Unfortunately most people just can not afford both at launch and so are forced to chose a side, even if they have no horse in this race. So what are we buying? Well I asked the team to tell me which system appealed to them the most and why. And, even though LevelSave is a family, families have...
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