My Thoughts
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EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENTS
A mass extinction event is when species vanish much faster than they’re replaced. This is usually defined as about 75% of the world’s species being lost in a short period of geological time – less than 2.8 million years. I’d like to consider myself a pretty reasonable guy. Sure, I’ve made mistakes over the decades but I feel that I’ve learned lessons and how to overcome obstacles which make themselves known. This has been the most apparent with my video game collecting and how it has come and gone over the years. I wish I could say I kept my…
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A Lesson in Loyalty
I like to think I’m a very loyal person. This can be seen as a good quality in a person because it means you can be trusted. This can also be exploited in a person because the person or entity who has you by the balls can squeeze every ounce from you until there really is nothing left but a dried up husk. Why am I bringing this up? Mainly because I noticed that the last few games I wrote about were mainly played on the Personal Computer and I felt I needed to explain why. Let’s go back in…
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A Battlefield Life
For me the year was 2002, I was in my dorm room, away from my hometown for the first time. I had read on a message board or saw on IGN about a new game called Battlefield 1942 in which you could get in tanks, planes, or boats. If you didn’t want to go about this way you could just be plain ol’ infantry as one of a few classes. This was also a massive multiplayer game with around 50 or so players at a time! The objective of the game was to hold the flags and cause the enemies’…
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Why Did it Take so Damn Long?!
So, a bunch of little things happened in the time from Archon and Arkanoid and it involved some modern console gaming. Playing through Battlefield, Splinter Cell, a shit ton of Red Dead Redemption…twice, Just Cause 2, Dead Space and the Steam Sale going on now, I just got completely side tracked. I’m sorry, forgive me :C
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We’re All Assholes!
What defines the word “gamer”? A quick Google search brings up many definitions of the term such as; “those who spend much of their leisure time playing…different games.” or “One who plays a game, especially a role-playing or computer game.” Usually I won’t care about this connotation so much because I have been playing games since I was a little kid, but does that really mean I should be any more of a snob about it as say…someone who has been fishing all their life? There have been plenty of tipping points over the last couple of years as my…
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Cross Section: The Conduit
While crawling through forums and gaming websites, I always come upon the game that Wii proponents are messing themselves vigorously over: The Conduit. I too have been following this game quite closely but not with the same enthusiasm. Why I’m really following it is just to see how the legions of fanboys are saying that this is the game that will make people realize how awesome the Wii among other things. I have news for you fuckers, this game looks nothing more than shit we’ve had for the past 5 years. First off are the visuals. Everyone is saying how…
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Am I A Gamer If…
…I always choose a girl character to play? When I first started up Resident Evil 5 I was rather disappointed that, from the get go, I was unable to select Sheva [my new video game crush] to play as. Instead I had to pick stinky Chris Redfield and be unhappy. Luckily that changed when I did co-op, beat the game and unlocked her for my consumption at any time I wanted. This got me reflecting about every time the option is available to chose an avatar in a game, I either create a girl or pick the girl character [if…
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A Response To You: Simpler Times In Gaming
As I was browsing the daily news content around the world of video game journalism, I came upon a certain article written by Brian Langlois on the Kombo website about “Simpler Times in Gaming” and how the effects of making consoles, games and all of the components that make up the industry have had a profound effect on the complexity of the hobby. Well I simply believe that what this writer is arguing about is complete bullshit. Not only have the generations provided much more entertainment, they’ve provided better hardware, more immerse games, more control and, above all, better entertainment…
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Am I A Gamer If…
Ever since I first started gaming, I remember always setting it to the easiest difficulty during my first run. I’ve always felt ashamed by this because it tends to make me feel like I ruined the experience I was suppose to have with the game. There are plenty of reasons why I choose to go the n00b route and, while I may find the games easy in this way of life I pick, whenever I go to higher difficulties it totally makes me realize WHY I do it in the first place. The reason why I choose the novice setting,…
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Where Is The Love?
Last week, the game world’s greatest fighting franchise added another notch under its belt with the release of Street Fighter IV. I’m a little bit biased when it comes to this game as I’ve been playing it since I was a wee lad back in the early 90s. Going to arcades just to beat and get beaten on by people of all ages was what started my road to game competition and forced my hand to purchase this game. Now a week later, although I’m still playing it, I’m getting quite annoyed as to what people are saying is cheap…