Category Archives: Ramblings

Oct
29
2008

Sony is Making Me a Hater

I don’t really use my Playstation 3 the same way that I use my Xbox 360. My Xbox 360 is my console of choice; it has hardware upsampling, Microsoft absolutely nailed the community features, the online matchmaking and in-game friends list integration is consistent through almost every game, and the controller feels fantastic. It’s gotten [...]

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Mar
30
2008

Redesign

I wasn’t a huge fan of the last redesign that I forced upon this site, so the quick turnaround into the new one is primarily related to that.
Usually, when I redesign my site, I choose a theme and then overhaul the CSS/Formatting to fit my needs and, generally, to remove the fixed-width nature of most [...]

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Mar
27
2008

The Sims 3 Looks Rad

I absolutely love this “rise of the social single-player game” sort of mini-march I’m seeing occur in the industry right now with games like Spore, Fable 2, and Animal Crossing. With the announcement of The Sims 3 came a great deal of information about what EA Sims felt were the important parts of the Sims [...]

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Mar
19
2008

The Appeal of Real-Time Strategy Games

Video games are such a fantastic medium. I just finished playing through Gears of War cooperatively with a friend over Xbox Live and it was absolutely enjoyable, hilarious, and challenging as hell. As a child of the, uh, Manboy Generation? YouTube Generation? Whatever kind of generation I’m a part of, growing up with video games [...]

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Mar
14
2008

Annoying Things in Gaming

Following my cohort’s lead, I’m going to list some things or trends in video games which bug me in some way shape or form.

Poorly-Placed Checkpoints: In games which have a checkpoint save system, the checkpoints are occasionally very poorly laid out; when the player overcomes a particularly difficult/annoying puzzle or makes it through a rough [...]

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