I Suck at Games
August 10th, 2009 at 2:40pm

I’ve always considered myself fairly good at video games. I used to kick all my friends’ asses at multiplayer Armored Core on the Playstation, and I ruled the Street Fighter 2 machine with an iron fist. But recently, I’ve been sucking. And I’m not just talking about all the Street Fighter 4 players that are […]

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A Plethora of Gripes
July 8th, 2009 at 2:00pm

I’m sure it’s happened to all of us. You’ll be playing a game, and some minor bug or poorly-designed sequence in the game just drives you up the wall. I suppose this is unavoidable. But when I see the same issues time and again in different games, I can’t help but wonder if they couldn’t […]

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Scattered Thoughts on Game Difficulty
September 29th, 2008 at 6:47am

I’ve been playing games for a long time. As a kid, I played Pong at my next door neighbor’s house on his pong machine, before he ever got ColecoVision. I played Crazy Kong on the old arcade machine at the Cumberland Farms on Rt 69 where I used to buy Chocodiles. And I played the […]

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