You know what’s wrong with shooters today? We’re coddled. We die and immediately respawn to try again. Guns have iron sights and ammunition. We have cover to hide behind. Shots go through us. Doors don’t immediately murder our guy out of nowhere. Screw that noise. Let’s get back to basics. Let’s get to Blood. Here’s… Read More »
Dead Space 2 was my game of 2011. Given that, one could safely assume some high expectations for the third game in the series. And while Dead Space 3 generally delivers, some odd design choices and an atrocious DLC scheme make for a game that’s harder to recommend. Dead Space 3 continues the adventures of… Read More »
Hey, remember when the guys who made one of the larger sci-fi shooter franchises built a physics-based strategy war game with online play and leaderboards a full year before Starcraft existed? No? We should probably talk. Myth: The Fallen Lords was built by Bungie back when their shooter chops came from Marathon (we might talk… Read More »
The last console generation was a weird thing. Everyone was focused on having the best console, and by that I mean Sony was sitting on its pile of PS2 money and cackling while the Gamecube sold…ok? The Xbox struggled to not be a $300 Halo box. There were also a mountain of multi-platform releases, and… Read More »
Military-themed first person shooters that take place in the near future and involve left trigger and right trigger mechanics to aim and shoot, right? Remember how we’ve had like a thousand of those things this console generation? Hey, remember that decade when everything was a JRPG? No? Allow me to illuminate you, fictional conversation partner!… Read More »
There’s a lot of games that fly under the radar. It happens now when you gaze upon Steam’s thousands of offerings, and it happened in the past with games just because we didn’t know anything about them. In those terrifying days before the internet you just had to go off of the box art. Which… Read More »
I have an unhealthy amount of love for Free to Play games. It has something to do with my love for content. As has been discussed I’m approaching something like 300 PC games between Steam, Desura, and GoG. That I can get still more stuff for free is kind of amazing. So I wanted to… Read More »
I was busily skinning a tiger when I heard the approaching roar of a motor. Looking up, I saw a truck loaded with angry pirates barreling down the road, with every intention of filling me with holes. In the span of two seconds my character stood up, drew a lever-action shotgun, blew the driver’s head… Read More »
So between teaching, tutoring, podcasting and publishing a book, you haven’t heard from me in a while. Some of you might even be grateful for that. To you I give a hearty pffffbbbt. To the rest, I want to talk about some games. Nothing recent, because I’m pretty sure you’ve seen all the Black Ops… Read More »
So I’ve been playing Hybrid for a while now. To get the early party out of the way; Hybrid is great, and I want more people to play Hybrid. Still here? Fine, I guess I’ll review it. And stop playing for a while. SIGH. Hybrid is a third-person cover based shooter with a persistent online… Read More »
