The other day I started randomly thinking about this: What are the gold standards in the gaming industry? What games best define their own genre? This is what I set out to figure out.
Let’s go right away and define what “Gold Standard” means. It’s pretty simple. It has to be:
1. A game that defines the genre it’s in.
2. It has to be a high-quality game/series.
3. It still has to be fun to play.
4. Of course, it doesn’t need to be the BEST in the genre, but it has to be the one to have set most of the genre’s standards.
5. It has to be an older game, as much as possible.
So read on and see what are the Gold Standards in the gaming industry! Of course, if I’m missing a genre(there’s some I didn’t put in because I either could think of any 1 game that defined the genre, or that were too similar to another genre that I didn’t need to include them), or if you think about a game that I might not have thought about for any of the categories, be sure to comment! Read more…
A few nights ago, the Distant Worlds concert, which is a Final Fantasy music concert for those not in the know, played for the first time music from Final Fantasy XIV.
The first song is for one of the towns and the second one a battle song. Enjoy.
Distant Beliefs, from Final Fantasy XI was my favorite Final Fantasy song and I’m hoping to see a new favorite in XIII or XIV.
Unless you count the Monkey Island games, I’ve never played a Tim Schafer game. So I wasn’t completely sure of what I was going into when I started playing this.
The demo basically confirmed that I wanted to play this game, and I bought it at launch. It was a very bad representation of the game to be honest. It was fun, for sure, but would you really expect the game, after playing through an action/beat ‘em up demo, that the game is actually an RTS? Yeah, me neither. It’s not fully RTS, and has a bunch of other gameplay elements, but the most important parts of the games are large-scale battles between 2 armies where you must gather ressources and destroy the enemy’s base. Quite different than I was expecting.
So does this travel through the land of Heavy Metal live up to the huge hype, or is it just a wanabe? Read more…
After purchasing a Kodak ZX1 for myself a few weeks ago, I figured I’d try my hand at a Videogame playthrough/review thing for this site. I filmed myself playing a few games. I maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es!!!1 is one of them!
Ah Green Day. A band I grew up with and still love to this day… Kinda. Everything up to their “Warning” album ranged from good to awesome, “Warning” was okay, and then they screwed up with the release of “American Idiot”. An album hailed by critics and the average person as being incredible, but was no good at all. Not only the worst Green Day album (yes, even compared to Shenanigans), but a complete change of style from “punk-rock” to “pop-rock” to get more “popularity”.
I hoped that the crappiness was just a phase, and that their following album would actually not be a big piece of shit. So here comes 21st century breakdown… a title that pretty much means nothing!
SO I’ll start this up with a mini-retrospective of the band, basically just talk about their albums, and then I’ll review the new album itself.
Read on and see if Green Day are back to their former greatness, or if being popular is more important (for them). Read more…
Quick post here. It’s been about a month since one of the anime I mentioned a few months ago started airing. K-on! is aiming at the same audience that loved Suzumiya Haruhi no yuutsu and Lucky Star. Now I’m not gonna review anything here. Just sharing the awesome ending sequence with its song. Kudo to Kyoani on the animation style here. I really love it, it just feels fresh and stylish compared to what we’re seeing lately.
