“The casual gamers went away, the women went away. Everyone said ‘Oh, I’m not a gamer, because I don’t want to play with 27 different buttons.’ It was suicide, it wasn’t homicide.” – Bushnell on the death of arcades Can anyone else say “Hells yeah”?Continue readingBushnell Quote
If you follow the pen and paper RPG world at all, you would likely have heard that Dungeons and Dragons released their forth edition of the game system over this past weekend. The reviews have been fairly mixed and I wonder, do I actually want to bother? Even with mixed reviews and my own unease,…Continue readingTo 4e or Not to 4e….
Last night I realized that I never finished Zelda: Wind Waker and I got to think of why that was. I really loved the game for a lot of reasons. But in the end I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I started to realize that the issue laid in the fact that I…Continue readingLandmarks in Games
I could be just speaking to the choir, as a lot of people seem to be saying similar things. But the Wii really needs less party games. I appreciate the party games, I really do. A few have been really top quality games such as Rayman Raving Rabbids, and I actually am quite fond of…Continue readingWhat the Wii needs
While in a discussion last year with one of my professors, Kurt Squire, we got into a minor discussion about how it doesn’t necessarily pay off to be the innovator in any particular way. The example he used was largely Apple. The Apple computers have ALWAYS been far more innovative than the competition. They were…Continue readingInnovation vs. Immitation
Ok so due to this game having what may be the longest name in the history of games, I will be calling Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My Life As the King… Final Fantasy WiiWare (or FFWW). The original title so long in fact that if you tried to shorten it to acronym form it is…Continue readingFinal Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: WiiWare