January 2012
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To a New Year~
Tonight, at midnight, we usher in 2012, a new year of possibilities and opportunities. Another year of gaming and playing will start. I have to say, I’m pretty psyched for it.
I had planned to make a post about my hopes for the year and for gaming’s future, but it’s been a busy week - yesterday, my niece turned four; today, my parent’s had their twentieth anniversary;...
December 2011
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“Looking back at it, we pushed the graphics rather than some of the other things...”
– Hideo Kojima talking to OPM about Metal Gear Solid 4 (via brogamer)
Clone Wars: is plagiarism killing creativity in... →
austinkleon:
Interesting article — games are tricky for copyright: you can protect the visual appearance and “assets” in games, such as graphics and characters, but you can’t really protect the gameplay or the mechanics, even though that’s really what makes a game feel like itself:
“The most important thing in a game to us, is the gameplay,” Ismail says. “In other words: the way you interact...
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A Tale of Twilight; a LoZ: Twilight Princess...
Tell a gamer that you don’t like Zelda, and the room will go quiet.
Almost all gamers, no matter what their preferred titles or genres, have at least played one Zelda game, and claimed to like it. Almost all of them know the basic story and characters. So being a gamer that’s not a fan of Zelda is, well, odd.
And that’s who I was for years – the gamer who didn’t like Zelda.
The first game I...
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Why Nathan Drake would make a fantastic homosexual →
beckz0rz:
A follow up to the last article I posted.
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So, given what people have said to me, it looks...
Cool, since I’ve kinda already started it, though maybe I should restart since its been a long time?
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white people in denial about blatant racism on...
talldarkbishoujo:
At the beginning of the current WoW expansion, monkeys were added to the classes of animals the Hunter class could tame and use for combat pets. I am not exaggerating when I say that I was putting in report tickets near daily, I saw so many Hunters running around with monkeys named after either famous black people or what they believed to be “black names” (“Laquisha”,...
Esoterica: Tell me racism is dead when... →
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strugglingtobeheard:
All you have to do is play Xbox with a black avatar or a “black voice” and hear the word nigger over 50 times in a week. My room mate plays xbox360 regularly and he is very good. He plays a lot of madden and first person shooters like halo and call of duty. But why is it…
(Warning: Children, and some adults, foul language will be...
The LoZ:TP review is finished~
A friend is looking it over for me, so I’ll probably post it sometime tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I’ve started Okami, Littlebigplanet 2, and Skylanders, so reviews about those games are on the way.
But on an LoZ note, I’m really into the series now and I wanna play another one, but I want y’alls opinion on which I should try:
- Ocarina of Time
- Majora’s Mask
- Minish...
Tell me racism is dead when...
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cleavagepriestess:
strugglingtobeheard:
All you have to do is play Xbox with a black avatar or a “black voice” and hear the word nigger over 50 times in a week. My room mate plays xbox360 regularly and he is very good. He plays a lot of madden and first person shooters like halo and call of duty. But why is it that, whenever he beats people, or sometimes...
Tell me racism is dead when...
cleavagepriestess:
strugglingtobeheard:
All you have to do is play Xbox with a black avatar or a “black voice” and hear the word nigger over 50 times in a week. My room mate plays xbox360 regularly and he is very good. He plays a lot of madden and first person shooters like halo and call of duty. But why is it that, whenever he beats people, or sometimes when he is just in a party with his...
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Tell me racism is dead when...
strugglingtobeheard:
All you have to do is play Xbox with a black avatar or a “black voice” and hear the word nigger over 50 times in a week. My room mate plays xbox360 regularly and he is very good. He plays a lot of madden and first person shooters like halo and call of duty. But why is it that, whenever he beats people, or sometimes when he is just in a party with his friends, they see his...
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Two Tales Games Make It In Famitsu's Top 20...
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Famitsu.com recently held a survey to determine the top video games that had tear-jerking scenarios. The results are now out, with two Tales of Series games making the top 20. The said games are Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Legendia. Abyss ranked 15th, while Legendia ranked at 16th together with four other memorable games such as Metal Gear Solid...
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My Brother Asks: "Should Soulcalibur stick with...
punctualdork:
Some of you have noticed that it’s been a while since my last entry in the ‘My Brother Asks’ series. The first to take note of this calamity was in-fact my brother Troy. In order to quell the panic and satisfy the raging mob at my doorstep, we’re going to take a look at one of my (and Troy’s) favorite fighting series: Soulcalibur. Why? Well, with Soulcalibur V coming out at the...
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So gender roles in gaming don't usually bother me...
c10ckw0rk0rang3:
Something I just realized about Dream Drop Distance REALLY bothers me
It’s about Sora and Riku taking their Mark of Mastery exams
” But Clock we knew this!”
Yeah but who is missing from that list of people who must
Kairi
Kairi by default and cannon is a keyblade master. In fact cannonly if we go by the rules of ” the Keyblade must be passed down from one user to another”...
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