So Capcom just confirmed Resident Evil 6, due to come out on November 20. Great! I’ve played each of the numbered Resident Evil games to completion and loved them all, even if I’ve found all the even-numbered games to be superior. I’m hoping that RE6 is also awesome. Not that it matters, but here’s a […]

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Although I’ve been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I’ve got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo.               Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part IX

Hello, Lungfishopolis! I almost forgot you were there. It’s been a while. Part of the reason I haven’t written is because I’ve felt that I have nothing interesting to say. But in the end, if it’s between a boring blog post and nothing at all, I suppose I should at least post something boring if […]

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10- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, Playstation 2, 2005) It pains me that I’ve placed another Resident Evil game higher than my beloved Resident Evil 2, and it further pains me that it really isn’t a survival horror game. But survival horror as a genre seems to be taking a backseat nowadays, and we’re left with […]

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13- Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico, Playstation 2, 2005) When I think of the bygone era of the Playstation 2 and all the amazing games it had to offer, Shadow of the Colossus is generally one of the first games to come to mind. Although the graphics are grainy by today’s standards, it still […]

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I’m a fan of survival horror games. It’s no secret that Resident Evil 2 is my personal holy grail of survival horror, but I also enjoyed Eternal Darkness, and even Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth had its moments. But as I’ve written before, survival horror as a genre is dying. In the […]

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I took an online survey recently about what kind of gamer I am. Turns out I’m a survivor/collector. I do remember specifically being asked a question about which of a number of options I’d most enjoy doing in a game and selecting “Fleeing from a terrifying enemy”. I totally admit to being a fan of […]

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Wikipedia defines survival horror as a game genre in which odds are stacked against the player so as to de-emphasize direct combat, and instead encourage the player to avoid enemies. This is generally done by limiting resources such as ammunition and healing items, and by making the player’s avatar relatively weak, as opposed to other […]

Read the rest of Where Has All the Survival Horror Gone?

Now that the end is in sight in terms of 2009’s video games, I thought I’d look back at all the games I played this year. I’ll definitely be playing Scribblenauts, Dragon Age: Origins, and Borderlands before the year’s over, and I may also be playing Uncharted 2 or Brutal Legend. But they’re all games that I’ll […]

Read the rest of 2009 – The Year in Review

I’ve been following Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s “Gaming Made Me” series for the past week or so now, and I’ve really enjoyed reading nostalgic tales from different people in the industry about which games most influenced them. The series has inspired me to go back and re-evaluate which games most inspired me as I grew up. […]

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