My main concern—especially if this game stretches across multiple consoles–is how your progress throughout the game will be handled, including how save files will be transferred over. When I play FF7, I grind a lot in the first few hours so that by the time I’ve left Midgar, I have most of the limit breaks for the…

There’s not a bad Jim Croce song, but my favorite run is probably on “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim”: Operator, Time in a Bottle, and Rapid Roy.

I thought I read somewhere that he lives in a nondescript trailer park just outside of Paoli, but I could be wrong.

As someone who grew up a few miles from the home of the Cult of the Zeller™ boys, this gives me a tiny bit of joy.

I stayed away from video games this weekend. I picked up Star Wars: Battlefront last weekend and that’s pretty much going to keep me busy until after Christmas (when I’ll hopefully have a copy of Fallout 4).

No, this year it was all about clothes for work and a renewed interest in tabletop RPGs. DriveThruRPG had a deal…

11 year old me wanted a 2-D Star Wars fighting game that used similar sprites to the ones in the Super Star Wars games or even motion captured fighters like those in Mortal Kombat.

I always imagined that the Emperor would be the last boss and just straight up shoot force lightning everywhere.

11 year old me was pretty…

“Where’s Chop, and why are you not playing with him?” - Mrs. Fresh

There’s something experiential about the thrumming bass of the bios loading and the soothing, tinkling tones when the Playstation logo appears on the screen. It sounds like such a “kids these days just won’t appreciate it!” thing to say, but it’s the truth. That sense of wonderment, the actual exponential leap in…

I’m reminded of this 1990’s Central Park Anime classic. You’ll know it when you hear it. (Starts at 5:48 if the time stamp didn’t work.)

“It’ll feel better when it quits hurtin’.”

What we can all agree on is that he’s terrifying.

If only he were riding a moped.

We used to be the Pioneers. But according to Wikipedia:

This might be the only time I get to see my beloved Aces featured on Deadspin for something not embarrassing.

Along with what's been said here, it's also worth noting that athletes like this are often subject to strict dietary guidelines handed down from the training staff. So in addition to the closed cafeteria, it's highly likely that if he wanted to call Domino's and order something, he would have gotten massive amounts of…

This will be a very unpopular post. It'll probably be buried. But that's okay.

If you're thinking of heading out on Thanksgiving to go purchase new tech, clothes, whatever—please don't.

In years past I've been a massive proponent of Black Friday; I went shopping for years in the early morning hours, often on something…

This will be a very unpopular post. It'll probably be buried. But that's okay.

If you're thinking of heading out on…

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

It's probably the pinnacle of that 2D gameplay with sprite-based graphics, and with the increased processing power of the PS3 suffers none of the slowdown from the original. The game's also really well-balanced (until picking up Rings of Varda and the Crissaegrim, natch), and rewards…

This is true. But I should add a disclaimer: I'm a partial shill for them because I work for their parent company.

Skagens are just as sleek, cost way less, and have lifetime warranties.

This is infinitely more helpful than my own evaluation this afternoon, which focused mainly on which team had the cooler badge.