Character creation systems are nice when they can provide a variety of different playstyles, but this specific application of them, as a “Choose Your Own Difficulty” slider, is one I’ve had a lot of fun with in the past. I remember turning CON all the way down to 1 in Fallout 3 and New Vegas whenever I wanted a…

Oh yeah. I was just joking about Geist. I doubt even Nintendo remembers that game. I don’t know how fanboy types feel about it, but I think Mimikyu would be a fantastic choice.

I published an article on the Mega Man series this week, so I picked up the Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 to celebrate. Consequently, I finished Mega Man 8 for the first time last night. That final boss is a crazy difficulty spike!! Otherwise I quite liked it - cool powers, lovely animation. Really makes you wish…

Just played the original Paper Mario about a year ago with the little one, and it seems a little bland gameplay and story-wise versus TTYD. Granted, he liked it, and we finished it (which I can’t say for Color Splash, which seemed to bore him.. I’m guessing the card gameplay frustrated him more than the story bored…

I suspect this weekend will involve some of Mario Tennis Aces for the demo weekend, akin to how I spent several hours with Overwatch last week, chased by The Witcher 3 as I continue to wade through the muck of Velen.

Knockout League: Onto the final three Grudge Match battles, at least one of which is gonna take me awhile. Currently working on the Iron Maiden, and it’s a fight that’s interestingly different from the others. Those were more about staying upright, and hers is more about beating the clock. Her body hook opening looks…

The hype/speculation cycles before Smash Bros. releases really are something special. I tend to try and shake off nostalgia when it comes to individual works (and yes, I’m aware of how huge of a pretentious ass that makes me sound), but I have really fond memories for this sort of thing, these frenzied collective…

I’ll be playing Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. It’s a GOTY contender for me, right up there with God of War and Monster Hunter World. They’ve basically made an Elder Scrolls game that plays like Baldur’s Gate, a wide-open game world filled with quests, monsters, and treasure. I have no idea how far into the main…

So, I’ve spent the last couple of gaming threads looking forwards to having the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, together with my Steam pre-order bonus of Ultra Street Fighter IV. Those both arrived on Tuesday, so naturally I’ve played maybe 20 minutes of the original Street Fighter. I’d forgotten that the…

Last weekend the boardgame club I am part of held a one-day public event inviting people to come and play our grandiose game collection, take part in competitions and so on. I volunteered at some point to run a couple of brief D&D sessions and I was pleasantly surprised to have the sign-up sheet half-full before we…

So this week has been equally divided by Fortnite and Overwatch. From playing exclusively single player games, I’ve grown to like (and in the case of Fortnite reeeealllly get into) multi-player games over the past few years. Battlefield 1 was great until I grew tired of it after a month. Overwatch definitely has the…

Nice write-up on Resident Evil HD. I played it for 4 or 5 hours and was too creeped out to continue. After 10 minutes, playing the game wasn’t too bad but it was the accumulated dread going into the next time I started the game up that ultimately froze me. I didn’t want to play anymore cause of how thoroughly…

That’s a really outstanding piece on Bruce Campbell. And I hope all your favorites and hopefuls for the new Smash Bros. game get revealed come E3. Me? I just want a new Radiata Stories or Valkyrie Profile 3, but I know the chance for either is incredibly slim. Doh well.

I’ve finished Resident Evil 0 HD and Resident Evil HD this past week, so now it’s time to zoom to the next wave of survival horror video game evolution with Resident Evil 4. Really looking forward to it! /cheer

It wants to be a serious but muddled story about exploitation, but it also wants to be a campy Resident Evil game, and Capcom isn’t great about welding the two).

Wait, this is your big embarrassing sentence?

“In 1986, Nintendo’s R&D1 studio, inspired by Ridley Scott’s classic Alien, released Metroid, a NES action game which soon became a classic in its own right.”

Having read your opinions on Other M in the last few WAYPTW? threads, I’m happy to hear that you’ve finally completed the Sisyphean labor of getting the article finished and playing the game. I’ve never played a Metroid game of any kind, and I have become somewhat intrigued by Other M thanks to you, but I don’t think…

Thanks for the support and the heads up on the potential virtues and vices of the later RE games. I am 100% looking forward the most to playing through Resident Evil 4 finally after all these years. No question, /cheer! Can’t wait to see how it refines the old RE formula, even if the later sequels have their new share…

It’s been a while, peeps, how is everyone doing? Work has been very busy and me deciding to block distracting sites at work has dramatically decreased my posting. (mix of wanting to work better, and break free from the funk I’m in)
But I managed to do some good work and circumvented the self-imposed block.

I’ve made some pretty good progress in Final Fantasy X, which took some interesting turns in terms of the plot, and fucking Seymour just. won’t. die. I mean how many incarnations can you whip out ...