Category: Takes
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The Biggest Things I Learned Through Video Games at Age 35
Today is my birthday. When you are a gaming blogger trying to do two posts a week, any opportunity for easy content needs to be capitalized on. I am going to use my birthday privilege to write an easy blog post talking about what I learned this year through the lens of video games. I’m…
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My Super Mega Huge Awesome Gaming Roundup: Ft. Dungeons of Hinterberg, Nier: Automata, Paper Mario: TTYD and More!
For the past few months, I’ve been fortunate to have had a whole lot to write about. It has been so consistent that I haven’t felt the need to write blog posts on any games that I’ve been in progress on. But it’s time for that to change. Over the past few months, I have…
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Optional Content Should Not Negatively Influence Review Scores
So often, when I read critiques of video games, open world ones in particular, the conversation quickly turns to bloat. People love to trash a game for having too many icons on the map unless that content is Cyberpunk 2077 levels of phenomenal. With games like Horizon, Assassin’s Creed, Final Fantasy XVI, or the recent…
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Video Games Couldn’t Save Me From Depression, But a Dog Did
When I was 20 years old, I was not doing well. Seemingly nothing in my life was going my way. I had dreamed of being a journalist my whole life, and I had come to the sudden realization that the plans I had made since I was 6 years old were not going to work.…
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Gaming Round up: Stellar Blade, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and Unicorn Overlord
It has been about a month since my last gaming round up. I continue to game hop maybe a bit too much, but there are just so many cool games to enjoy right now that it’s hard not to. Outside of shorter indie games and the upcoming Hellblade 2, there aren’t many big releases that…
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Microsoft Didn’t Just Shut Down Tango Gameworks. It May Have Ended AAA Risk Taking.
I wrote last week about how shocked I am that Death Stranding was ever made. In an era where development times and costs have ballooned, publishers seem more risk averse than ever when it comes to their biggest budget titles. While we have been lucky to have a lot of fantastic games in the last…
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I Can’t Believe Death Stranding Exists, and I’m So Glad It Does
When I play a truly great video game, I will occasionally stop and think to myself, “I can’t believe this game exists.” While I play a lot of great video games, there are some that are so masterful in their craft, I can’t help but take a few moments to be in awe of the…
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Gaming Round Up: Ultros, Unicorn Overlord, and Harold Halibut
I promised a list of my top 10 games with a Metacritic score of 76 or under today, but that project ended up being a bit more labor intensive than I anticipated, so that list will now be coming Tuesday. Instead, here is another gaming round up with some of the things I have new…
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PSA: 7/10s are Good Video Games
The tension in the air is palpable in the moments before a big video game is about to have its review embargo lifted. The review scores that drop will have giant implications for how a game is discussed for years to come. The general scale gamers seem to have when looking at reviews is as…
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Gaming Round Up: Stellar Blade, Sand Land, Unicorn Overlord, and Ultros
When Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth came out at the end of March, I became a bit of a mad man. For a little over 3 weeks, it was basically the only game I touched. This was from a mix of absolutely loving the game, really being invested in the story, and not wanting to get…
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