Archive for the 'Video Games' Category

Something entirely different.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Here, I have done something entirely different than my normal kind of post.
Follow the link to my GooglePage to see exactly what.
Vagrant Story Screenshots - Part One
More like this coming soon!

Spore Gameplay Video - Google Video

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Spore Gameplay Video - Google Video
I’m sorry to degrade to link-blogging, but this video was just too damned awesome. Its a video of Will Wright playing his upcoming video game Spore. The whole thing is absoutely incredible and I wholeheartedly look forward to the game Spore now after watching it.
Its kind of an important thing […]

Cinematics and Story in Video Games.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I just read a little article that seemed interesting to me:
“Cinematic Gameplay Experience” Makes My Ass Twitch
The guy has some interesting points, but I think his thinking is a little old-fashioned. The idea that games are meant to be a strictly interactive media is quite plainly false.
I’ve never really enjoyed the “gameplay” in turn-based RPGs. […]

I’m ba-ack!

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I know, I know. Its been an obscene amount of time since the last update, but I don’t have any good reason.
I wrote some mini-essays for things. Please take those and forgive me for not updating:
GRIEFING
I just finished reading an issue of Escapist Magazine (www.theescapistmagazine.com) that dealt with the topic of griefers. The topic was […]