Category: Console Games
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Skyrim Screenies
In case you want to see more of my adventures, including me blinding a bear:
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim First Impressions
I’m only maybe 5 or 6 hours into Skyrim, but I feel like I’ve seen and experienced enough to give you my first impressions. It’s a downright beautiful game, it set my detail level to ‘High’ based on my specs and it was just ridiculous how good it looks. I think there’s been an emphasis…
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Friday Finds – Remembering
It’s 11/11/11, a day I’m already tired of being reminded of as being ‘special’. The REAL reason it’s special is Veteran’s Day (or Rememberance Day for you folks north of me). My dad was in the Navy for 26 years, in Vietnam, in the Gulf during some tense times, all of that. I heard a ton…
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Vintage Gaming – River City Ransom
River City Ransom is one of those games that, if you’ve played it, you probably love it…but not a lot of people have played it. I came across it by chance at the video store once, played the heck out of it, but it took me forever to find a working copy. I finally did,…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
When I was a kid, I rented a ton of games for my various game systems as even then I really hated the idea of wasting what little money I had on a bad game. I also preferred renting the simpler action games rather than buying them, figuring something like Final Fantasy III, which took…
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Call for Contenders – Best Star Wars Game
Since it began all those years ago with Star Wars (A New Hope), Lucas’s universe has spawned dozens of computer and console games of widely varying quality. I’m very curious to see if we can come up with any sort of consensus of what the best Star Wars games are, and if one rises to…
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Old Game Tuesday – American McGee’s Alice
In honor of the release of the long-awaited sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, I thought I’d talk a bit about the original game, Alice. American McGee’s Alice (with American McGee, a former id Software employee as the designer) is a third-person shooter and platformer set years after Alice’s original adventures in Wonderland. If that seems familiar,…
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Old Game Tuesday – Lemmings
Ah, Lemmings. One of the best puzzle games of the early PC era (indeed, it was developed for the Amiga!), it’s also one of the hardest to describe. What are the lemmings, exactly? They just…walk? That’s the gist of it, really. You have to guide the lemmings, who don’t really resemble the animal of that…
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Vintage Gaming – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, another Koei game, actually I will cover the whole series of games, at least the ones I’ve played. Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are at their core turn based strategy games centered around the eponymous timeframe in Chinese history. You’ll remember that from my talk about Destiny of an Emperor. There have been…
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Vintage Gaming – Destiny of an Emperor
I’m showing my age again to some of you young bucks, but when I mention my favorite classic RPGs, this one probably elicits the most blank stares. Destiny of an Emperor was released by Capcom way back in 1990 for the NES, and was a fairly typical JRPG. There were a few key differences, and…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
I came to know Morrowind (I only figured out it was the third game in a series after the fact) through a friend. He had taken time out from Everquest to play a new single player RPG that I hadn’t heard of. I sat and watched for a while, and was intrigued. There were a…