#videogames
#videogames
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Every week I will be showcasing one album and a video game that I feel everyone should check out in their spare time. Today, those two will be Sainthood by Tegan & Sara and Freedom Wars
By John (@Crono_Maniac)
The Games We Played is a year end round up of thoughts about games we spent time with.
When you put it into the context of the series as a whole, the original Legend of Zelda was something of an anomaly. From A Link to the Past onwards, the games were all interested in telling rich stories, full of intrigue, characters, mysteries, and climactic battles. The Hyrule in the first game feels almost barren in comparison. There aren’t really other characters or even a plot. It’s nothing but you, the monsters, and the mystery of the open wilderness.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Every week I will be showcasing one album and a video game that I feel everyone should check out in their spare time. Today, those two will be Vanishing Vision by INTERNET CLUB and Red Dead Redemption
by Omar (@siegarettes)
I love spaces. One of the most beautiful things about games is that they create spaces that can’t exist, then imbue them with a physicality through participatory friction. My favorite games lie in that illusion, in the intersection between the digital worlds in front of me and the physical contact of play. With Lumino City, State of Play has found another intersection, one between the digital and the real.
The Games We Played is a year end round up of thoughts about games we spent time with.
By Omar (@siegarettes)
When Harmonix makes something, I pay attention. Their contributions to the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises creates a veneer of commercialization, especially after the former franchise over saturated the market, but look closely and you’ll find a constantly refined craft and passion for both music and games. (A bit perfect for our focus here at clickbliss). These are the people who brought both a new Dance Central title and the beat influenced shoot-em-up A City Sleeps to us this year.
In that context, who else would be better to bring us a 2014 update to Disney's Fantasia? Despite my reservations about how successful a Kinect based Disney game could be, I found it worth at least worth paying attention to with Harmonix at the helm. Besides, I needed something to justify my Kinect purchase aside from Child of Eden and yelling at my squadmates in Mass Effect.
Of course, what really drew me in was the tracklist. Leading with pop hits like Lady Gaga’s “Applause” and Lorde’s “Royals”, moving to well known classical pieces from the Fantasia movies, it then spin offs to Queen, Depeche Mode, Kimbra, and…Jimi Hendrix?
The Games We Played is a year end round up of thoughts about games we spent time with.
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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 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: RJ (@rga_02)
To be honest, I’m not too fond of puzzle games. Sure I’ll play some Bejeweled here and there when I’m standing in line waiting to pay for my coffee, but I don’t go out of my way to play a puzzle game unlike other genres. Puzzle games just don’t click with me.