I sometimes get motion sickness from playing some first-person games. It turns out this is fairly common and for those of us who get it, it's because your body sees movement, but doesn't feel the movement so your brain assumes you've been poisoned and gets to work trying to counteract the poison. Since there's no…

Arrested Development is probably more about running jokes than non-running jokes. Perhaps the only moment I really loved in Season 4 was Tobias getting onto the "To Catch a Predator" set dressed like The Thing and announcing that he needed daddy needed a little help to "get his rocks off." The amount of set-up that…

Can't you say that about every video game company? Ubisoft releases a new Assassin's Creed every goddamn year. Yes, they just created a new IP in Watch Dogs, but there's not much to creating a new IP if it doesn't provide a new experience. Watch Dogs is essentially GTA with hacking and crappier driving. How many new…

The problem (and this is a major argument against video games as art), is that video games are after making as much money as possible at the expense of art. For example, in movies a company like Paramount will put out a big dumb action movie like Transformers and make hundreds of millions of dollars which will be…

Red Dead is the exception, and certainly not the rule, and that's what makes something like GTA V so frustrating. The game play is pretty great, but the story is cliched, the characters are awful, and the jokes are even worse. There's a lot of stuff in there that takes inspiration from something like The Sopranos, but…

God, I hope so. I looked at the 360, and thought anything I care about on this system, I can play on PS3, and everything else I just don't care about. There was a lot I didn't care about. To its credit, Sony did have games like Heavy Rain (which had a dumb ending, but I liked the game until then), and Journey - games…

They started to get Madden right with the ability to draw audibles on the screen, and then they changed it to a cartoon that nobody wanted. Meanwhile the Wii U's interface is perfect for Madden, but EA put out a gimpy version on their old engine, and when it didn't sell, they pulled support for the system and blamed…

The phrase that bugs me most is when people say "I've outgrown Nintendo. I want to play more mature stuff" because the "mature" games aren't mature by any sense of the word. If we're talking content, it's usually just excessive violence - it's games that just represent to today's 13-year-old boy what Van Damme or…

You mentioned "jump in gameplay," and that's exactly right. Nintendo dropped the ball. If the Wii would have offered 1:1 right out of the box (HD would have been a huge bonus too), then video games would be evolving in new directions. The problem was they had Wii Sports and almost nothing else, so what ended up…

I've got the Wii U, 3DS, and PS3, so I'm good to go on the Nintendo front. Should the day ever come where Nintendo ceases operations (not likely to be soon), my plan is to load up the virtual console on whichever console is their last, and just go through all Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc. games in order. By the time I…

If you go by Metacritic standards, it's in the upper 70s/low 80s depending on the system. In years past, that would seem like a worthwhile game, but these things cost $60 each, so for many, anything short of upper 80s is not worth the investment.

And until that time, I'll continue to play a back catalog of games on systems I already own. Maybe I'm getting old, but it seems like most new games are just shinier versions of the same things we've been playing since the PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation.

The best case scenario that I've read is that it's like Assassin's Creed where the groundwork was laid out for a good game, but the game itself isn't that good. This means Watch Dogs 2 will be great and 3 will absolutely suck. Also, Ubisoft will beat the franchise into the ground.

This just feels like a game with solid reviews right now because it's the only new thing to play on the new consoles, but will be retroactively hated in 6-12 months.

Actually the point of XB1 and PS4 are to have the exact same games, but with bigger explosions and more bullets. Then, as the old saying goes, "A camel is a horse designed by committee," we get a bunch of extra crap thought up by boardrooms full of executives who don't play video games. Examples include the ability to…

Of the two "next gens" I'd prefer Sony because they seem more willing to take a chance on the outside the box type games like Journey, Heavy Rain, etc. The thing is, Sony was hailed as a hero for allowing you to do stuff you've always done like trade games with your friends, sell and, and buy used. As of right now,…

It might not be a "dump truck full of ET cartridges" crash, but unless you like Nintendo's first party stuff (a valid selling point), there's no reason to buy a Wii U. Unless you really like Halo, there's no reason to buy a Xbox One over a PS4, and unless you really need Assassin's Creed to look a little shinier,…

If we're splitting hairs, Xbox hasn't caught up and they already slashed the price of the Xbox One by $100. It'll be interesting to see if Sony drops their price to undercut them. Keep in mind, Nintendo has shown a financial loss like 2 or 3 times in the history of the company and they have their handheld division…

By most accounts the current model isn't profitable either. The XBox division has yet to turn a profit for Microsoft. The company is still profitable, but stockholders can't be happy that the video game division drags them down. Sony's stock is considered junk because they bleed money with TVs, computers, and portable…

I wholeheartedly disagree. Play Super Mario World for ten minutes and tell me you don't get that music stuck in your head (or Super Mario Kart). I think A Link to the Past still has a great soundtrack. Final Fantasy III, Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero, etc. - a lot of what Nintendo was able to do with midi soundtracks…