#editorials
#editorials
The Games We Played is a year end round up of thoughts about games we spent time with.
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RJ
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I swore to myself I would never touch a Pokémon game ever again since my experiences with Pokémon Y. It wasn’t a bad jRPG per say, but for once I felt that I was simply fatigued with the series that I hold dear to my heart. Then came Pokémon Omega Ruby.
By Kevin (@Prufesuroak)
The Sounds of 2014 is a year end round up of the albums that stuck with us this.
Annie Clark once said “I wanted to make a party record you could play at a funeral.“ in a press release, and this pretty much is the perfect description for her fourth solo album simple titled St. Vincent, released on February 24, 2014.
Upon first listening to it earlier this year I never made anything of it, I just saw it as just another St. Vincent album but looking at my most played songs from this year, I realized that a few songs from the album ranked pretty high on that list. It was always played but I never realized it. It was played enough to a point that I was oblivious to it being on. And then I realized that in a way the more I love a song the less I notice it.
By Omar (@siegarettes)
All screenshots taken using the in-game camera on the PS3 version.
There’s something hollow about Grand Theft Auto V. Upon reaching the story’s conclusion, I found myself left with a sense of dissatisfaction. Even before that I found myself dropping it out of my rotation due to its inane story plotting and thinly justified set pieces. It continually frustrated with prescriptive mission design that led you through interesting moments in uninteresting ways.
The core mechanics have been polished to their finest: the driving dropped the heavy handling of GTA IV for an appropriately Hollywood presentation. The cover system was tightened, with elements from the excellent Max Payne 3 added into the shooting. All of that only served to highlight how staid the moment to moment play of Grand Theft Auto has been. Rockstar provided a world whose structure and mechanics fell apart by themselves. It’s also undoubtedly provided one of the best realized digital worlds ever made.
by Omar (@siegarettes)
Spoilers for the early chapters of Wolfenstein follow. No seriously, I’ve warned you:
There’s a moment in Wolfenstein where BJ Blazkowicz struggles to get to grips with a modern coffee machine. It’s a short, humorous vignette that is interrupted by a Nazi officer questioning you. Afterward there is an abrupt and brief sex scene, which then match cuts the image of Anya’s exposed back to a scene where they plot to infiltrate a prison from a nearby hotel room. BJ narrates the scene leading up to the prison in gravelly tone that makes it feel like a movie trailer. A half hour later and you’re blowing off Nazi heads and limbs with dual-wielding shotguns.
by Omar (@siegarettes)
We here at Clickbliss have been a bit late jumping on the next-gen train. Speaking for myself, I’ve often found that new generations of hardware rarely hit their stride until at least a year into their life. Even now I don’t feel that developers have really made something that feels entirely impossible on the previous generation of hardware. With that said, due to a generous donation by Microsoft* the upcoming holidays I’ve decided to take the plunge regardless. We’ll be updating the site with some impressions of the games themselves, but for now here’s a run down of the hardware.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
I’m on a Musou break right now. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing like ravaging through battlefields as Lu Bu or Wang Yi that screams out fun, but I just got fatigued from the genre. But during this hiatus, I need something to fill in that void of senseless fun. I was about to purchase Call of Duty: Advance Warfare to fill in that void but then I saw that Earth Defense Force 4 (known out in the west as EDF 2025) was free on the Japanese PS+ selection, so why not?
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Yes I said it. Parasite Eve is better than your favorite horror game. Better than Fatal Frame II, Resident Evil 4, and REmake. No other horror game matches the masterpiece that is Parasite Eve.
By Omar (@siegarettes)
I am a filthy casual.
I’ve spent hours playing Match-3 and word games on my mobile devices. I have a soft spot for “walking simulators”, bought Yosumin! just to have a game for every letter of the alphabet, play visual novels, buy licensed trash and love the Wii. Just look at some of the games I own:
Bejeweled 3, Peggle, Insaniquarium, MySims Skyforce, TMNT Smash, Blastforce, Hakuoki, Dance Central 2,Tiny Wings, Zookeeper. I mean that’s some serious casual nonsense, yeah? At one point I even contemplated buying that Power Rangers Samurai DS game and that Emily Strange skating game.
My most played 3DS game is Animal Crossing. You could even say that’s the reason I bought a 3DS. So why is this guy running a site about videogames? And more importantly, why should you give a damn about these games?