I loves me some regen potions, but when you need to recover a lot of health in a short amount of time healing mists are the next best thing after healing potions. Even fully upgraded they're not as good as straight up healing poitions, and their AoE is pitiful, but when you've already skulled your 12 potions and…

Update before throwing a one man slumber party:

I found a tank heavy party to be much more useful than a well balanced one as well. Mages are great for large battles against lots of smaller, weaker enemies, but against single massive targets they can be a bit of a liability. Every time I tried to bring a mage into a dragon fight I got clobbered. My party for every…

I'm normally not a completionist at all, but Bioware somehow always puts me in that place. I was in a panic in my last Mass Effect 2 run through when the Collector invasion of the Normandy triggered earlier than I expected, and I had to choose between saving my crew or completing every available mission pre-credits. I…

If there are more quests in it, I guess I'm prepared to swallow my contempt and actually talk to her. But I retain the right to fuck them up on purpose just to annoy her. Thanks for the heads up bud.

Hello all you shining stars, I love each and every one of you individually. This weekend, as last, I'll be playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, and I think it's going to be my last weekend with it. The final battle is squatting on the War Table like a big climactic frog, but I'm putting it off until I've done as much…

I think ashamed Austin Powers impersonators should replace sad clowns in black velvet paintings everywhere.

Man, people can keep their Smash Brothers and their Mario Go Karts, Zack and Wiki is the best thing I ever used my Wii for. Capcom needs to figure its shit out. Even if they're never going to give us another Zack and Wiki or Power Stone, can we at least get a shout out? Put Wang Tang in the next Marvel vs. Capcom, or…

Killer apps are probably going to become an outdated concept in the console market as cross-platform releases become more common. During the PS4/XB1 dueling banjos extravaganza it was revealed that Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts were all going cross-platform, presumably in an attempt to make back more…

This is actually a pretty good point. Like AJ said, a lot of weird and interesting crap comes out at the end of a console's life, but there's a similar (but shorter) period right at the beginning of a console's life that tends to be just as weird, when nobody is yet sure what a machine can or should do. Within the…

The Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog also gives us the absolute glory of the Bridge Zone theme, composed by none other than Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage fame.

I'm almost finished with Dragon Age: Inquisition on my shiny new PS4, and once I'm done I'll be playing Origins on the PS3 that I still keep plugged in right next to it. Especially now that backwards compatibility is falling out of fashion, having multiple generations of consoles all hooked up at once is probably…

Definitely Abra. Dood sleeps 18 hours a day and responds to danger by running away. Me as hell.

Woah now. Them's fightin' words.

Hello all you beautiful and perfect angels. This weekend, as last, I'll be playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. At the time of writing I'm about 75 hours deep and show no signs of stopping. I have actually advanced the plot fairly significantly since last weekend though, and that was a real trip, I tell ya.

That's actually a pretty solid idea. The Little Mermaid singalong sequences from Kingdom Hearts II come readily to mind.

What's weird is that other games have done the "open waters sailing" thing pretty well- Wind Waker and Assassin's Creed Black Flag both take place largely at sea, and the sailing in both of them is actually really fun. In Suikoden IV, though, the world map travel consists of pointing your boat in the right direction…

Lay a specific track on us and it'll probably make the finished playlist!

You're pretty close. I don't know if "speedrunning" is really the exact word for it, but it's as good a word as any. I think it was Chris Franklin (of Errant Signal) who said that ever since Sonic games started handing out grades in Sonic Adventure, they became less about whether you finished the stage and more about…

Holy shit look at that Cheetah's face. That guy's having a hell of a time.