#42: What is Needed to Evoke the Feeling of Horror?
Out of all the genres of video games, few a more fascinating than the survival horror genre. It is one of the few existing genres that has the express purpose of eliciting a specific emotion. Because of this, the genre has tougher standards and is...
#41: The RPG Cultural Divide: East Versus West
It is no secret that there is a huge cultural divide between Western and Eastern styles of video game development. Due to the way each region of the world developed on similar, yet fundamentally different, lines over the centuries, the games developed by each regions...
#40: Nostalgia and the Perception of the Game Industry
Many of the people who read the things that I write have been playing games for a very long time. We have together poured tons of hours into exploring worlds, meeting people, and doing amazing things otherwise impossible in our regular lives. When you reflect...
#39: Kickstarter and the Risks Behind It
Many of the people who watch the gaming industry look at the trends and patterns of it and foresee many problems plaguing it going forward. The stock prices and profit margins for the biggest publishers in the industry are doing very poorly. AAA gaming is...
#38: The RPG Genre: Back to the Drawing Board
Most people who read this regularly are aware of how much I love Role Playing Games. I love them for their emphasis on story and player interaction with the story through their mechanic. It is fun to play through these games and be truly immersed...
#37: Mass Effect 3: The Problem With its Multiplayer Microtransactions
By now, people are well aware of the many failings of the third Mass Effect game: It had Day 1, On-Disc DLC that seemed far too integrated with the game to be anything but an obvious cash grab, most of the game failed to acknowledge...
#36: Game Reviews and the Gaming Press: Why Do They Suck?
The gaming press is a pretty powerful entity in this industry. The consumers go to them for the latest in gaming news, including what is about to come out, what companies are partaking in less than consumer-friendly business practices, and other news a gamer might...
#35: What is Immersion and How Do We Achieve It?
Most of the people who play games agree that they are able to let us explore new and interesting worlds in ways that books or movies simply cannot, something I have discussed myself on several occasions. However, when we talk about this ability, the same...
#34: PC vs. Console, Which is Better?
I have been playing games for almost my entire life. Games are very much a huge focus of mine, which is why I love to write about them. One thing you learn when being a part of this sub-culture is that the people who populate...
#33: Character Analysis #2: Legion (Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3)
(Spoiler Alert for the Mass Effect franchise. If you are touchy about spoilers, avert your eyes and go back to watching porn.)Lately I have getting on my soapbox and writing about a fairly diverse set of topics and the list of said topics is far...
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