a blog about video games from a guy stuck in the 90s
We all need to vent sometimes.
I’m a man who likes choices. I get tired of seeing the same thing day after day - while I hate change generally speaking, things that I use every single day can really use some freshening up sometimes. I sometimes like a change of scenery, in other words. Sometimes, a small change in my day-to-day …
Continue reading The Quandary with Owning Multiple Nintendo 3DS Consoles
It came and went - the seemingly out of left field Pokemon Direct, a mere week before E3, failed to deliver anything significant to the Switch. Well, I shouldn't say that, as Pokken Tournament is being ported. Ported, that is.With the addition of 5 new Pokemon and a presumed minor graphics improvement. By significant, I should …
Over on the Discord Channel I got to thinking out loud again, and I realized I was on to something in the form of a brief article. In essence, the Nintendo Switch, providing console-quality portable gaming, has started to spoil me. While I still manage to get some time in with the non-portable types, generally PC games, …
Those who have been reading this blog for some time may know how big of a Nintendo fan I am. While I've been a big supporter of a lot of the The Big N and what they've done over the years, they only recently re-entered my good graces. Over at PlayingWithThoughts, a recent article talked …
Continue reading The Big Break from the Big N: My Ten Year-Long Hiatus from Nintendo
Earlier this week, LimitedRunGames made several announcements regarding their upcoming releases. In case you're unaware, LimitedRunGames is a small operation that makes a single print run of indie games, or otherwise digital-only games, that are available for a very short period of time, never to be reprinted again. Hence, "Limited Run." They typically sell out …
Continue reading “More People Need to Play Ys”, and Other Things I Read In A Fortune Cookie Once
NOTHING! Nah, just kiddin'. The Switch has been getting the bulk of my posts recently, but if statistics mean anything, it's what people want to read about lately. And of course, as I've been spending a lot of time playing mine, I have no shortage of opinions on it. Because I realize I can sound very …
Continue reading What Do I DISLIKE About the Nintendo Switch?
I've had my fair share of bad relationships. The common theme between all of them is that they started out great. The beginning part to a romantic relationship is arguably the best part, everything is new and fresh and exciting - little innocuous quirks about each other only serve to inspire adoration, even becoming endearing qualities …
Earlier yesterday, the price that Nintendo will charge for the online component of the Switch was revealed, or at least in Japanese currency. The rough number for the US Dollar is presumed to be between $17-$26, depending on the exchange rate and whatever fluff Nintendo adds on top. This has been met with rejoice, anger, and the …
I grew up loving first-person shooters - your Quakes, your Unreal Tournaments, what have you. More recently, Quake Live was a literal blast from the past. Doom 2016 is an incredible callback to the generation of action-packed strafing and murdering everything around you with little to no regard for your own safety. Borderlands and Bioshock were nice breaks …
Continue reading Killzone Mercenary: I Can’t Do This Anymore
I bought Sonic Generations and thought it sucked. I rant about Sonic here.
Happy Monday, people. I wanted to kick off this week with a rather ranty piece about my newest love, the Playstation Vita, and talk about all the ways that Sony tried (and failed) to keep us apart. Source. It take all of 30 seconds to find all sorts of negativity regarding the Playstation Vita, and I've …
I'm not really a fan of negative headlines, since that's practically all you see these days, but I just wrapped up 30 minutes in World of Final Fantasy. I was able to find it in the PSN Store because I searched for it manually. I knew to do this because the Internet told me, otherwise I …
Continue reading I Played the World of Final Fantasy Demo, Then Canceled My Pre-Order
The world of game emulation has evolved over the past decade or so to provide near-flawless execution of classic hardware. As complex as hardware emulation actually is, to the normal user, the allure of being able to play all of their favorite childhood games, for free, is reason enough to download an emulator for their system of …
Following my 3 hour marathon completion of Pokemon Yellow of which I barely scraped by, I quickly switched gears back to Earthbound and decided I would wrap this one up next. Earthbound and Xenoblade Chronicles are so vastly different in terms of playstyle that I was having trouble bouncing back and fourth, and decided I would …
Continue reading Nearing the End of Earthbound! Some Thoughts on End-Game
In this article, I discuss the Nintendo 3DS Badge Arcade, and why I am quitting.
Lots of new games pride themselves on their long playtimes - but why do they seem to be putting us to work?
I've had a New 3dS XL for months now, and excluding the Virtual Console releases, have not played any games exclusive to the system. One of the first, if not the only, exclusives is none other than Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, a port of a Wii game by the same name (sans the '3D', obviously). What's kept …
I bought Story of Seasons a few months ago because I was convinced that I needed to get into a farming simulator, because sometimes I make impulsive decisions, because I am insane. After blowing through a couple long, story-oriented games (specifically, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon), I needed a break from that kind of intensity. Never having …
I picked up Earthbound on release day a few weeks back, thinking it would be like another amazing SNES RPG adventure that I'd become accustomed to. Now, I realize that this is a very quirky game, one based on Japan's view of the United States at the time, so I went into it pretty open …
Continue reading Earthbound Has Officially Made Me Feel Retarded
It was a chilly night on November 18th, back in 2006, where money was tight and time was in glorious abundance. Essentially the inverse of where I find myself in 2015, depending on paycheck proximity. I should clarify that it was slightly more chilly than normal, as I was sitting in a chair outside a Best Buy, …
Continue reading I’ve Just About Had it with Your Gimmicks, Nintendo
