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Silent Hill 3: Not Quite as Good as SH2
Survival-horror is one of my favorite genres, and yet I don't like most of the survival-horror games that I play. It's a difficult genre to pull off, considering the entire point is to instill feelings...
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss Sucks Most of All
Given my history with theUnchartedseries, I wasn't expecting great things from Bend Studios'Uncharted: Golden Abyss for the PlayStation Vita. I'd grown weary of the series after playing all three of...
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Risen 3: Titan Lords Doesn't Suck
It's been over a decade since Piranha Bytes released a game worthy of praise and recognition. Gothic 3 was a bloated, broken mess that required extensive community patching to make it remotely...
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Impressions of Super Smash Bros 3DS
The Super Smash Bros series has been a longtime staple in my party gaming lineup, ever since the original was released for the Nintendo 64 back in 1999. Super Smash Bros: Melee was the one reason I...
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Five Nights At Freddy's is Overrated
It's Halloween, which means it's time for the obligatory horror game review. Tonight's game is Five Nights at Freddy's, the latest indie sensation to wet the pants of YouTube "let's players"...
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Deadly Premonition is Mind-Blowingly Awesome
You may have heard of Deadly Premonition, the open-world horror/thriller game from 2010 that proudly claims (on the back of the Director's Cut box, no less) to be "the most critically polarizing game...
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Board Game Review: The X-Files
In The X-Files, a board game by IDWGames and Kevin Wilson, one to four players take the role of FBI agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Walter Skinner, and Alex Krycek moving across the continental United...
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RAGE: Not Worth a Clever Review Headline
By now I'm sure you're all aware of the colossal "ho hum" that is RAGE, id Software's first (and only) game since Doom 3, which came out way back in 2004. Seven years later, in 2011, they released Rage...
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Arx Fatalis: Old School Game in a Modern Skin
Arx Fatalis is a first-person dungeon-crawling action-RPG from 2002 by Arkane Studios, the team who would later go on to develop Dark Messiah of Might and Magic in 2006 and Dishonored in 2012. Inspired...
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Morrowind Sucks, aka, Morrowind is Overrated
Like everyone else, I have fond, nostalgic memories of playing Morrowind back in the early 2000s, but I was never able to get into it properly. I put about 10-20 hours into it, then gave up and lost...
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System Shock 2: A Classic Masterpiece
System Shock 2. The grandfather and holy grail of FPS-RPGs. It was so monumental back in 1999 that it shaped many elements of game design that have become standard practice over the last 16 years....
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BioShock is Infinitely Better than System Shock 2
UPDATE: Click here to read the real article.I know I said at the end of my review of System Shock 2 that I would be following it up with an article "explaining precisely why BioShock doesn't live up to...
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System Shock 2 is Infinitely Better than BioShock
System Shock 2 and BioShock are essentially the exact same game, except one has a cyberpunk theme set in space, and the other has a steampunk theme set underwater. Both are first-person shooters with a...
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Holy Hell, Ziggurat is Pretty Cool
Ziggurat:(noun) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the...
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Impressions of Killing Floor 2: Early Access
The original Killing Floor is one of my most-played games of all time, second only to the Korean MMORPG Lineage 2, so I was naturally eager to get my hands on Killing Floor 2 as soon as possible....
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Board Game Review - Shadowrun: Crossfire
Shadowrun: Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building card game for 1-4 players. Set in the "fantasy meets cyberpunk" world of the Shadowrun tabletop role-playing game, players take the role of...
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Pillars of Eternity Review
I consider Obsidian Entertainment to be one of the best developers of modern role-playing games. That should come as little surprise, considering all of its founders were former leaders of Black Isle...
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Pillars of Eternity: The White March Pt.1 - Review
The White March - Part 1 is the first of at least two planned DLC-sized expansions for Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian Entertainment's recent isometric RPG. See my review of the base game here (short...
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The Talos Principle: Probably Worth Playing
What is the difference between a robot and a human being? If you put a person's brain in a mechanical suit, is he or she still a person? What if you replaced the brain with a computer that performed...
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Sucks
Halloween is right around the corner, which means it's time for another disappointing horror game that couldn't possibly live up to my high standards nor rouse any ounce of emotion from my cold,...
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