Many people have written off their Wii as a dead console. Probably most of the people who haven’t are the ones playing Skyward Sword or the ones still stuck on Wii Sports. At our house, the Wii game that sees the most play is Super Mario Galaxy 2. From the beginning, I’ve played the whole […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part XI

This year, it’s not necessarily the sheer number of games that’s got me pinned down, it’s the fact that there are three big ones, and they’re all huge. I’m already 10% of the way into Batman: Arkham City, and I’m really enjoying it. They’ve integrated some of the fighting moves so well that I find […]

Read the rest of Autumn Gaming: The Heavyweights

Until the current console generation, I’d not gotten into the Zelda games. But when I tried out Twilight Princess, I fell in love. You’ll notice that when I listed my top five favorite games, Twilight Princess was number five. “So!”, I said, “This is what all the fuss is about. Zelda games are awesome! I […]

Read the rest of Wind Waker versus Twilight Princess – Fight!

This idea has been germinating in my mind since I got my first portable: The DS Lite. When I got my Android phone, I decided to write this article, but never got around to it. Now I have a PSP as well, and I feel like I’ve got a fairly well rounded take on the […]

Read the rest of Portable Games I’d love to See

I recently found myself with an entire weekend to myself. No spouse, no children, no chores. It’s a rarity. So what immediately sprang to mind? Video games. And as I reviewed the titles I might pick up, I realized that what I really wanted was a Zelda game. In the end, I bypassed Dead Space […]

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Now that I’ve reviewed my favorite 2010 games, it’s time to look at the games I’m most looking forward to in 2011. For me, I should probably include Starcraft 2 on that list, since it was on my last most-looked-forward-to list, and I still haven’t played it. But here are the unreleased games that I’m […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011

5- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD, Nintendo Wii, 2006) Despite the fact that it was originally designed as a Gamecube game, I loved Twilight Princess. The beautifully-crafted themed dungeons, the frequent story moment cutscenes, the varied gameplay, the mini-games, the music, I loved it all. And yet I never played Ocarina of […]

Read the rest of Top Fifty: 1-5

Today I continue my list of my top fifty games of all time. 35- Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Silicon Knights, Nintendo Gamecube, 2002) The Nintendo Wii plays GameCube games. When I got my Wii, the only GameCube game that I eagerly hunted down was this one, because I’d heard so much about it. It did […]

Read the rest of Top Fifty: 35-31

With the huge number of games that were released over the 2009 holiday season and the 2009 games that were pushed into early 2010, I’ve got a to-play list that’s just way too long. I’m currently spending a good bit of time replaying Trine on very hard difficulty, working towards those last few trophies. If […]

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In continuing my writing on a year-and-a-half-old Blogs of the Round Table topic, I come to the subject of gameplay variety. I wrote about this topic myself roughly a year before it came up on BoRT, but it may be time to revisit the subject. The two examples I like to look at for gameplay […]

Read the rest of Variations on a Theme, Part IV: Variety