Gilgamesh

Admin/ May 5, 2015/ Video Games

  Yes THAT Gilgamesh and not the one that was written many many years ago about a very very different character.  Whether he is clashing heroes on big bridges, running around with a multitude of weapons that may or may not belong to him, or making crude jokes about women who dress like men, He is certainly among my favorite

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The Giant Space Flea From Nowhere

Admin/ April 23, 2015/ Books, Video Games

  Anyone who has played a video game quickly pictured one of these bosses the moment they read the title of the blog post.  The Giant Space Flea from no where is normally a sign of poor game design where the creators knew they needed a boss fight as is normal in video games as you approach the end of

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Why I tend to favor Lancers over Heroes.

Admin/ April 13, 2015/ Books, Movies, Rants, Video Games

  This is a literary blog post about my writing style and also may explain a bit about the types of characters I prefer.  To get to the point at hand, the stereotypical idea of the Hero, especially the Chosen One, is a character type that I cannot stand. especially if the Hero is an idealist.  Perhaps it is a

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Why Pokemon Black and White is the Best Game in the Series

Admin/ April 7, 2015/ Video Games

  There are a whole lot of Pokemon games out there, and I have played an overwhelming majority of them.  Still Black and White has a special place in my heart and the game goes far above and beyond the rest of the series. Warning this blog post contains spoilers for this game.  Read at your own risk! Before I

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The Darkest Hour

Admin/ March 30, 2015/ Books, Movies, Rants, Video Games

  The Darkest Hour, a phrase overused for time eternity, and yet a phrase that I enjoy.  One that shapes my writing style greatly. You know these moments in fiction.  The time when the Villain looks like they may actually win (or does win in some cases changing the plot entirely) The moment where the trusted friend proves they were

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Cheesing Boss Fights

Admin/ March 24, 2015/ Video Games

  As I wrote in a prior blog post, I suffered greatly in Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword to master the control scheme and caused poor Link to get wrecked and taunted and Demon Lord Ghirahim blocked his and by proxy my attacks again and again. But that came to an end the other day.  For I had my rematch

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New Lessons from a Video Game that Defined my Childhood

Admin/ March 2, 2015/ Video Games

  There are three video games I played frequently as a child that could easily be described by this title, but of the three, one of them really stands out.  As a child, there were quite a few things I got out of the game that I will spend this post describing.  9/11 was still fresh in my mind and

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Questioning Video Game Hype and Hatred

Admin/ February 22, 2015/ Video Games

  As should be obvious by this post (if not by some of my other blog posts preceding this one) I play quite a bit of my leisure time (and sometimes not so leisure time as well) playing video games.  My latest project is setting up multiple endings in a series of games called Dragon Age so that when I

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