Tag: gaming
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My Predictions For The Game Awards + Fake Betting Odds
It’s time for one of my most unique blog posts, the fake betting awards post! I’ll admit it, I love to gamble on sports in my free time. I’ve always been jealous when I look at how awards shows like the Oscars have betting lines, but The Game Awards do not. So, I did something…
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The Five Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominations + My Thoughts on DLC As Game Of The Year
It’s here! We have finally reached Game of the Year season. As great as it is playing all of these awesome video games all year, debating and ranking them is almost as much fun. This is part one of my Game Awards content this week. Tune in later in the week for my famous (in…
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Metaphor: ReFantazio Review- A (Nearly) Unscathed Triumph
It’s tough to walk away from a good thing. I’ve been working at the same company for over 10 years now. I like my job. I think I’m good at it, and it generally takes pretty good care of me. But there have been many times that I wondered what it would be like to…
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My Official Predictions For Game Awards Nominees
It’s almost that time of the year! Game awards season is nearly upon us. As much as I love playing video games all year, discussing which ones are the best is dang near just as fun. It’s great to see different opinions and to see awesome video games get recognized. In recent years, the Game…
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Europa Review: A Few Hours of Respite From A Turbulent World
My wife gets so excited when it starts to rain on a dark summer night. She loves to open the windows and just soak in the peaceful sounds of the raindrops. Sometimes, she reads a book with that noise in the background. Sometimes, she just closes her eyes and takes it in. I operate a…
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Review- Sometimes I Prefer Diet Coke
As I’ve gotten older, something strange has happened. Something I couldn’t have imagined at all when I was a kid or a teen. There are many times when I’ll drink a diet pop (soda for you non-midwestern heathens) over a “regular” one. Regular pop can just feel overly filling and too sugary. Diet pop goes…
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Big Nerd Gaming’s Top 10 PS1 Games
Today’s post is the next one on my journey to releasing my top 50 games of all time. I find that it’s much easier to segment games off first, which is why I’m slowly ranking my top 10 games on each system before I release the full list. This has been a great feature when…
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My Ten Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics This Year (So Far)
One of my biggest “hot takes” is that game critics do a pretty good job overall. If you look at games that don’t have stupid, made-up controversies around them, the critic and consumer consensus is relatively in line for a lot of games. But of course, even for a game critic defender like me, disagreements…
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The Five Biggest Ways That Metaphor: ReFantazio Is Better Than Persona 5.
Let me preface this by saying that Persona 5 is likely one of my top 10 games of all time. I played it once when it first came out, and then played Persona 5 Royal when that was released. I hate replaying games, so it should tell you something that I played this 100 hour-ish…
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Why You Should Try To Play Metaphor: ReFantazio On Hard
I like to play on hard difficulty for a lot of games. I want to be tested. I want the intensity. I want to be forced into using everything a game has to offer and not get overly comfortable. I don’t want to just breeze through a game without even trying. But when it comes…
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