I’m fine with making failure matter if it a) helps to ultimately improve the experience by giving you some insight or learnings that you can apply later and b) is done in a way that just seems patently unfair. Bloodborne (mostly) strikes the right balance. Most of the time when I die in that game, it’s either due to…

It’s not really a live sports event, but, when I was at Syracuse, a high school friend was having a Super Bowl party at their apartment at Penn State and he begged me to drive down. A combination of weather and laziness kept me at SU and a lame dorm party. I found out later that my buddy and his roommate hired two…

This calls for a montage...

Every time it happens, I am baffled why it’s not the very first thing an agent has brought up with a young athlete upon signing.

My buddy and I were almost late to my friend’s wedding watching cornhole.

This begs for a Jim Ross voiceover.

I was questioning what game to play next. Looks like I’ll be going back to NMS!

Having lived in Taiwan for almost two years in the early 2000s, it really doesn’t surprise me that he very quickly ran afoul of the Taiwanese population over what we view as fairly minor indiscretions. In my experience, while they’re outwardly welcoming, there’s an underlying current of mistrust which can quickly…

I was at the mall over the weekend and there was a kiosk selling a bunch of classic games. In addition to the cartridges, they also sold a console that looked and played exactly like the NES and was loaded with 300 games (most of which were Z level titles I’d never heard of). I’ll be curious if they’ll be next on the…

Possibly finishing God of War this weekend. I was really worried how this would turn out given how different it is from the first three, but it turned out to be a fantastic journey. I’m looking forward to seeing how things turn out at the end and how it sets up for the inevitable sequel. My one wish is that they would…

I actually wouldn’t mind having an enemy in there that you would mostly have to retreat from and can’t confront head on, especially early. One of my (many) issues with NMS is that there really isn’t much variety in the enemies or wildlife, nor is there a tremendous amount of danger in fighting them, which ends up…

FTFY

I know. It’s one of those games that I would love to get involved with, but there’s not a chance in hell I would be able to spend even 1% of the time I’d need to to really make an impact.

I like the red one, but the “white” one looks like the “before” picture in a detergent commercial.

It’s the same thing the fairweather fans out in LA did with their current Lebron jerseys.

This was the game that made me realized that level grinding was just not for me.

“Colt Cruise” sounds more like someone in Ron Jeremy 2018's story mode.

As one of the few writers left that I can tolerate, good luck Tim!

Their colleagues will pay tribute with the traditional 21 man bun salute.

I think I might be done with the Far Cry games for a while. There were some really cool moments in this last edition (the boss battles were definitely more entertaining than previous games), but they seem to have decided that, rather than have a strong main character like so many other A+ titles have, they’d go the…