Category: Video Games
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The Henry Stickman Collection: If At First You Don’t Succeed, You’re Playing It Correctly
I’ve never really talked about them before, but I love flash games. They’re the perfect encapsulation of pure creativity. They didn’t have a big budget and they weren’t made to make money. They were made by people who just wanted to make fun games and put them on the internet. Put simply, they’re pure. Uncorrupt.…
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Uncharted 2: The One I Kinda Almost Liked
Hey. Almost is more than Uncharted 1 got. Upon booting up Uncharted 2, it became immediately clear that this one was a huge improvement over the first. For a while, I was actually enjoying myself! “This is it!” I said. “This is why people love this series!” But then I kept playing. My hatred for…
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Sarah Kerrigan: How Power Can Ruin a Character
I was thinking about doing every character in order of SC2 expansions. But Artanis is pretty boring and flat, so I’m not even gonna bother. Although I could do Zeratul… I’ll get back to all of you on that. Out of all the Starcraft characters, Kerrigan is the most important to the actual plot. Unfortunately,…
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Resident Evil 3 Remake: A Step Down
Holy shit, I am late to this one! Last year, the Resident Evil 2 remake took me completely by surprise, becoming one of my favorite games of that year. And this is coming from the guy that utterly despises horror games. So, after that pleasant surprise, I was chomping at the bit to get my…
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James Raynor: The Beating Heart of Starcraft
Man, remember when Blizzard made good games? That were well written? I’d forgotten that until I rediscovered my old copy of Starcraft 2, buried in my closet and thought “Eh, what the hell?” While I do enjoy the story of Starcraft, I can’t say the characters within it are all that complex or interesting. Mengsk…
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